20181214 - Friday - Xmas is coming - Fay Berry

20181214 – Friday – Xmas is coming

I haven’t posted in a week.

My trailer has been insulated and I have cleaned it out and remade the bed and taken out all the motley array of blankets and put in the new sheets and duna and I have also packed my old green duna in its storage bag.

Now all I have to do is pack my car with food and clothes and toiletries and I am ready to go on a short trip to try out the new insulation.

I would have gone today, to Port Elliott Showgrounds, but it is a cold and drizzly day and I think I would be better going on a sunny day.

So, instead, here I am at INC cafe, and so at last I am writing a new post.

This morning I weighed and I am 96 kg, my sugar levels were 10.3 so I took 20 units of Lantus and 20 of Novarapid.

I have been on my diet for over 2 months now, and I am very happy with my progress.

I feel thin and look thin, but above all I feel healthy.

I have had my bloods checked and so it is time for me to make an appointment with my doctor so that he can update all my records with my new data.

I have lost 4.5 kg overall since Oct 12th when I began my No-Carbs diet.

I now know what I can eat, and my diet consists mainly of, fish, eggs, chops, chicken, steak, occasional sausage, chorizo, avocado, tomato, celery, onion, cucumber, spinach leaves, carrot, dates, fruit and nuts, coconut water, almond water, oils (coconut and olive)

And that is pretty well it.

So when I go shopping I head straight to the fresh fruit and vegetables area and in 5 minutes most of my shopping is done.

The cost of my shopping this week was $120 and that included my food and a few other toiletries and extras.

When I go to Inc I take with me my little esky (really tiny) and pack in it a couple of eggs, or fish and an avo and tomatoe and a few leaves and maybe grapes and a date and maybe few nuts and I eat this and only buy a pot of green tea.

So I save a lot of money.

Which is reflected in my ability to buy a blouse or other garment over the internet.

I don’t always get it right.

This week I purchased a pear of black tights and the size turned out to be too small.

I didn’t sent them back. I decided that I would keep them for when I got much thinner and they fitted, whenever that may be.

But the time will come I am sure.

I have been trying to wean myself from watching Netflix because the films are mostly so trashy.

I watch them in the evening and I search and search for something decent but GOOD films are few and far between.

So I am trying to train myself to only watch studies or lectures on cd video.org and if I replaced my netflix watching with those I would be much better off and my scriptural knowledge would grow.

On Wednesday night at South Adelaide, it was the last night for the year, and we had been asked if anyone wanted to give a 10 minute talk on any subject arising out of the book of Luke.

I agreed to do it and I chose my subject to be “Animals in the Bible.”

Everyone wondered WHERE I could find animals in the Bible in the book of Luke.

But I did.

I completely plagiarised my material from Jim Ds work, slightly modified, to suit the occasion.

It met with mixed reaction, a number enjoyed it and learned something from it.

Some others couldn’t see the need for such in-depth and symbolic information.

I pointed out that some liked “milk” and some liked “meat” and both are catered for in the Bible.

I love that South Adelaide is small enough to permit this kind of evening.

It was my grandson’s 21st birthday on 13th!

How wonderful is that?

So Xmas is on its way.

This year I will probably go away for Xmas because my only daughter in Adelaide will not be here.