Sally sorry to hear about your bad week, and being run down and then ill. I'm impressed that you managed the exercise you did with all that going on!
Abeille, how are you feeling now as you recover? And are you used to the diet? I would find that change so hard. Are you cutting down on salt too?
Something that has been bothering me recently is some higher blood pressure readings. My blood pressure has always been normal, but recently I had top numbers of 151 and then 139. I'll get my doctor to check it out next time I go (these readings were from the personal trainer at the gym) but in the meantime I've been trying to cut down on salt, get myself back into lower fat dairy (like many people, I'd gone back to full fat the last few years) and have started taking magnesium.
In other news food has basically been an absolute bust, with a collapsed ceiling having me break out the comfort food (dark chocolate, cinnamon toast and even some icing mixture!) So of course my weight is up.
Here's a food related question. For those trying to reduce grain intake, how do you fill yourselves up? I have fewish carbs for breakfast some mornings, and not that much for lunch, but feel not at all full if I don't have a reasonable portion (at least a cup) for my evening meal. I try not to eat after 8pm, but I need to feel full before that.
I don't know how otherwise to fill my kids up either. Last night I made quinoa tabbouuli (not much quinoa in it) and Lamb koftas. I had wraps which DD8 could eat, but couldn't find any gluten free ones. My 2 coeliac daughters were making bowls of porridge to fill themselves up soon after, in addition to the PB on toast that DD13 (ie having a growth spurt) eats every night.
Exercisewise I managed 3 trips to the gym, 2 to go through a new programme, rode for an hour on Thursday and did a 5km parkrun on Sat. Mon was a public holiday, and I went for another hour bike ride with DD13 and an hour jog/walk with DD10. I've been working on keeping my daily steps up too, encouraged by the Stepathalon program we are doing at work.