22 September 2008

Breakfast: Two fired eggs, hash browns, two slices whole wheat toast with grape jeloy and coffee.

Lunch: A small bag of sugar coated donuts and after we got home, a couple of tablespoons ofr peanut butter and a can of DP.

Dinner: At Applebys,

• onion soup,
• salad with thousand island dressing,
• sirloin steak,
• baked potatoe,
• Nice desert of
  1. choclate cupcake,
  2. vinilla ice creamme and
  3. fudge syrup!

Pre-Bed Snack:

21 September

Breakfast: At the Saskatoon airport, cheese omlette, two slices of whole wheat toast, bacon and coffee.

Lunch: At the Calgery Canada airport: Roast beef samwhich, chips and two beers (both Molsom Canadian!)

Dinner: Chicken samwhich, salad and a Diet Coke.

20 September 2008

Breakfast: Two bacon (actual stipes of bacon ), fried egg (even looked like the eggs they were),. slices of cheddar cheese and coffee.

Lunch: Chicken wrap, salad and water plus coffee.

Dinner: A nice pice of steak, boiled little potatoes, salad and water.

Pre-Bed Snack: Two Molson Candian...

19 September 2008

Breakfast: Two bacon (real bacon), egg (a real fried egg that looked like a fried egg), cheddar cheese (clearly a thick slice of cheddar cheese) and two cups of coffee.

Lunch: Salad, chicken, choclate cheese cake and water.

Dinner: At the museum in Saskatoon, well baked buffalo, potatoe inside boiled dough and several other things and water.

Pre-Bed Snack: Two Molsom Canadian...

7 September 2008

Breakfast: English muffin with grape jelly, donut and coffee.

Lunch: At Olive Garden,

• "endless" spegethie bowl (actually a plate of spegethie with meat sauce and meatballs and a bowl of the same>,
• salad and
• two glasses of "diet coke".

Snack:We went to Sam's but I didn't eat any of the free food samples; lunch was simply too large and too soon and the thought of eatting anything made me feel ill...

Dinner: Two minute steak samwhichs and a (one) small bowl of tomatoe soup, a bottle of Michelob Lager.

leg cramps...

I made roast beef last night and it was quite good. Unfortunately, any fat with the beef stayed in the gravy. So, I didn't drink much with dinner and had a gin-n-tonic after dinner. I deliberately refused to drink much water for fear that my stomach would be too full.

One of the symptoms of diabetes I have is that too much liquids and a fatty dinner will result in barfing about an hour after going to bed. So, I abstain...

About an hour and a half after going to bed, I awoke with the beginnings of a leg cramp in my right leg. I sat up planning on walking to the main bathroom and peeing; by the time I stood up, my left leg was incredibly painful! I could barely get my flop-flips^* on and stumbled to the bathroom. There, it was simply too painful to do anything so I walked out to the kitchen. Then, for no apparent reason, I sat down on a living room chair and the cramps subsided immediately.

I went back to bed a couple of minutes later. My wife mentioned that maybe I was dehydrated and did I drink any water? I said no. (I typically don't drink water at night because it usually gives me a stuffed up nose.)

A couple of hours later, my right leg cramped and I did the put on slippers, go to the main bathroom to pee and went back to bed.

I had worked on hard on Wednesday and nearly as hard yesterday and I thought I'd walked/run too much on the treadmill. Maybe I did? However, the wikipedia page on noctural leg cramps said in part: "The precise cause of these cramps is unclear. Potential contributing factors are believed to include dehydration".

I guess they are right.

* I despise the phrase "flip-flops" as it is cutesy and "American"; the
correct name for these shoes is "zorrie" as they were invented in Okinawa and not Oklahoma!