February 21, 2008 All This, And Fiber Too??

I've gotten used to writing down everything I eat, and every bit of exercise. I'm having no problem with getting in enough water. I am almost always within the range for calories, fat, carbs, protein, and sodium. I've even got my gallon of pills spaced out through the day in a way that I can get them all in without too much difficulty. And now I find out that I'm not getting enough fiber??? How can this be? I am eating a healthy, balanced diet. 3 fruits and 4 or 5 veggies a day. Only whole grains. Umm, so how come I only come up with 24 grams, and I need 25 to35 grams a day? OK, so that's pretty close, but I figured I'd be right up there in the mid-range at least! Where the heck am I supposed to find this extra fiber? Eat tree bark? OK, so I could switch my breakfast jjuice to an actual breakfast fruit (which I'd actually thought of myself earlier today, and maybe I'll do just that). But what else can I possibly do? Take fiber supplements? YIKES! If I have to take another supplement I swear I will SCREAM!!!!!! Ya know, if I could eat wheat, this would be SOOOO much easier! All sorts of great high fiber wheat things out there to eat. I could have Kashi. Or bulghur, or even whole wheat couscous. All natural whole grain bread, anyone? But no, that's not an option.

Ok, enough of the whining. It was a pretty good day otherwise! I had my first iron infusion this afternoon, and someow my hemoglobin managed to jump from 9.5-10.5 even BEFORE the IV was hooked up! Hmmm, could this have anything to do with the way I'm eating and the fact that I am taking some homeopathic thing to increase iron absorption?? COOL! It's awesome to actually SEE results! I went to measure myself this morning and couldn't find the tape measure. I swear that's about the 3rd one that's disappeared around here! Guess I'll need to get a new one tomorrow so I can do it. I can actually see some difference when I look in the mirror now. It's pretty cool actually. Wait til spring comes and I'm out of my bulky clothes and back in capris and blouses and I can really see it! WooHoo!!

We are supposed to get 3 inches of snow tonite. I hope not. I hate snow. Plus, then the kids will be off from school and I'll have to drag them with me to PT, and that would NOT be a good thing! NO SNOW! NO SNOW! NO SNOW!