I'm a little late this week
Blame it on the flu I caught
The fever's high, the outlook bleak.
For now I'm awake enough to write so here's the update on last week's steps:
average no per day : 9,131
highest no in a day : 13,156
no of >10k steps in a day : 2
Here's this week's link : the FLU
That bit about asking someone else to do your shopping?
BIKSS has been on personal shopper duty the last two days. I had enough food in my fridge (hurray for meal prep right?) to last me thru Wednesday evening and all of Thursday. And if I had to, I still have onion, carrot and potato soup as well as some pumpkin in the fridge - but I just wasn't feeling up to "wet" food. So I asked if he could pick up some char siew pau on the way back on Thursday night and drop it off in my fridge, so I could eat that on Friday.
I DO have emergency bread rolls in my freezer that I could eat with cheese if I really had to - as it is I pulled one out and had half of it - plain - on Thursday evening. Just didn't feel like eating, but tummy was getting a little queasy with all the meds.
I woke up this morning and found them in my fridge. Hurray.
I love that man. I also left very specific instructions NOT to come into the room and say hello or anything. Just dump it in the fridge and LEAVE. This house is a germy warzone.
So I ate my paus throughout the day today. The mouse is for size reference. I had one for brekkie, one for lunch and one for dinner.
And then I got BIKSS to buy more stuff for tomorrow and Sunday. The wonderful thing about Asia is that we have these "neighbourhood bakeries" that sell little buns filled with stuff - so people can pick them up along the way and eat them as they go. They're awesome for office workers on the way out in the morning, or for a quick bite in the afternoons as a kid is coming home from school. I don't know if they have it in the US or Europe, but it's definitely a thing in this region.
As I was looking on the web for pics I learned that they're called Chinese Bakeries in the US. So if any of you have been to one in a Chinatown nearby, you'll probably be familier with this sight:
from chicagofoodiesisters.blogspot.com |
We have them everywhere here. (Funny story, my bff was gonna meet me one day and she wasn't at the 7-11 where we'd agreed to meet. I texted to ask where she was - she said she was at the bakery. I told her to come back to the 7-11. She did. And then I said - do you realise there are 5 bakeries in this quadrangle? Just saying you're at the bakery tells me NOTHING about where you are. LOL)
Anyway, sometimes the food courts have them as well, they order them in from the bakeries and sell 'em at the drinks stall. Which is where BIKSS got my stash of breads for tomorrow from:
They come individually pouched in plastic bags
This is a sausage bun - was. Was a sausage bun. I ate it already.
And these ones are chicken-mushroom, tuna, and a "pizza" bun. Altho which one is which I don't quite know. From experience, the ones with the green flakes tend to be tuna. I'll know tomorrow.
[update: the triangular one on the top left was tuna and the green speckled one was chicken-mushroom :) As of now, they are both no more. Muahahaha. I have been eating every 2 hours - I take it to be a sign of recovery.]
I was in the kitchen when BIKSS arrived, I told him to wait while I hid in the room but the stubborn man walked in anyway. He said he'd stop breathing. HAHA. He dumped the stuff on my kitchen counter and zoomed back out. We had a short "thank you / love you / byeee" conversation that lasted all of 15 seconds and conducted over a span of not less than 5 meters between us.
As you can see the no-carb diet gets thrown out the window. At this point, bread is all I'm managing to put down my hatch. I am down 2 pounds since Wednesday. Hopefully the trend doesn't continue. It's a terribly unhealthy way to lose weight. Ugh.
Right then. I'm waning again. It's time to go to bed. Have a good weekend everybuddy.