April 1

Nutrition

What a great day ... until dinner. I had a cage free egg with ww toast and butter for breakfast and homemade organic baked ziti for lunch with a banana and some yogurt as snacks at some point. There may be a correlation between this good eating and no hot flashes from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm! We had our regular 1/2 price wood grilled pizza last night. After the first bite I had my first sweaty hot flash. Somehow I ended up eating the entire plate sized pizza (pep and onions - thin thin crust). Another big hot flash then terrible gas, stomach pains, and quality time in the bathroom (ick - I prefer to do this at home!). Lessons learned - must eat healthy all day to reap the benefits!

Movement

I definitely feel better exercising in the morning. I lifted weights at the end of the day yesterday and was so exhausted that I got light headed and could not do more than 5 minutes of cardio afterwards. Back to working out in the morning. I should know better because I learned years ago that I am no good cognitively in the morning so best to do things physically! Abs and cardio at the gym followed by 2 mile walk around the neighborhood with neighbors.

Dissertation

Late Tuesday I emailed my advisor three components of my dissertation. We met today (via ichat - so handy when you live 2 hours from campus) and went through his feedback. All good ideas and not too many changes (insert smile). I also heard from a teacher in Buffalo willing to try out my six week intervention! This will give me great feedback on the lesson plans and also an opportunity to collect some data to try out my scoring criteria and refine the lessons. Now I must quickly get IRB to use data from these students.