Memo to me


Um, I was drinking that for a reason...

Phase 1 of the South Beach Diet is low-fat and as absolutely low-carb as you can get. No starches of course, and no sugars, including no fruit. So yours truly, who had been drinking 4 - 6 ozs. of cranberry juice (100%, not the cocktail stuff, that's mostly corn syrup) every morning for years, switched over to low-sodium V-8.

Even after the first couple - three weeks when you're allowed to ease into complex carbs and fruit, I kept drinking the V-8. Heaven knows I never get enough vegetables (according to the experts) and I'd become used to it.

This past weekend that decision came back to bite me in the butt. Literally. Got my first UTI in I-don't-know-how-long. Yeeee-owch. So first thing this morning I hauled myself down to the doc's to pee in the cup and a very sympathetic N-P wrote me a 'scrip for an antibiotic right then and there even though they hadn't tested the sample. Bless her. I warned her that she'd have no problem picking out my sample from the rest because I'd already started taking Uristat. It helps, but I just wish it didn't stain so badly...

I know I do better at both waking up and lasting until lunch if I keep the sugars out of my breakfast. So I guess I'll be having half a cup of cranberry juice with lunch from now on. To quote Eddie Murphy in Shrek, or Will Smith in Men in Black: "Because... Damn."

P.S. I'm afraid hitting the Y this morning was not high on my agenda. Pilates tomorrow will depend on how quickly the antibiotics work their magic.

Posted: Mon - March 19, 2007 at 05:38 PM   Home         | | View Technorati reactions

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