The storm has cleared...

So it turns out that my milk production was fine. I woke up at 6 a.m. in a soaked bra and t-shirt because I forgot to put in nursing pads. Also, V ate well and went back to bed. It either resolved because I drank a bunch yesterday or I was simply imagining things.

Also, for the record, I wasn't trying to cut back the cals crazylike. It only happened yesterday and the day before, which coincided with more exercise.

Anyway, woke up in a better mood, and am now voracious but it's hunger for real not crazy cravings.

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(I've decided to start posting my consumption here as well as at livestrong - easier for me to look back on here)

breakfast: JC fruit and granola mixed with yoplait light thich & creamy, coffee & 1T h&h
morning snack: sm. Gala apple, coffee & 1T h&h
exercise: 1/2 hr. very brisk walking

So I learned this morning that the regular tablespoon comes in your silverware set in fact measures the same as a "measuring" tablespoon. The regular tablespoon always looked much bigger to me, but I guess that's why it is called a "tablespoon." This came about because I am measuring everything and growing tired of using a measuring spoon with my coffee each a.m., just to put it in the sink and have no more clean measuring spoon. Incidentally, I also confirmed that I prefer more than a tablespoon of half-and half in my morning joe.

Also, first pumpi session at work was much more productive today - 4+ oz. vs. just under 2 oz. yesterday! So I must have been down on the fluid intake or maybe even the calories yesterday.

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Since my measuring experiment this morning, I have started doing this at the cafeteria at work. For example, I took a teaspoon and pumped 3 spoons of h&h into my coffee. Voila - 1T, and bonus: the people around me getting coffee think I'm a nut! I similarly measured my 1T of salad dressing at lunch.

lunch: JC turkey burger, 25 cooked baby carrots (from dining center; yes I counted them before I ate them; I think the may have had a bit of oil, so to be safe I'm saying 1 tsp.), small salad w/free veggies as well as 1T. crumbled bacon and 6 little green salad olives and 1T. Asian sesame dressing.

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Afternoon pump was good as well. Then another 30 min. v brisk walk.

I rounded out the walk with a stop at our in-house convenience store to find a snack and settled on a PowerBar Double Chocolate Crisp. I ate that for "dessert" after my tomato, black bean and corn (mostly tomato) salad snack at 3 pm. I think the PowerBar was 250 calories, but that part of the nutritional label got ripped so I'm not sure. At first I didn't think it was worth the calories, but I wasn't hungry for the rest of the afternoon, and was not hungry (and in fact felt satisfied) when I got home at 5 pm. However, they cost $2!!! That's crazy!

So, then I nurse V, and take V and H to grocery store while Pat mows and then goes to a weekly planning meeting for the St. Joan of Arc French Market festival. Come home, feed me and H.

Dinner: JC cashew chicken and 11 asparagus stalks w/1 tsp. olive oil, nectarine.

Then I nursed V, and while H watched Elmo Potty I created my own homemade derivation of tsatsiki in honor of my new Grecian-American blog pal Jennifer:

2 containers Fage 0% greek yogurt
1T. olive oil (who knows why; it seemed like the thing to do)
2 garlic cloves
sea salt
lemon juice
a bunch of cilantro leaves.

I blended it up, and it tastes great! It is pretty liquidy, so I put it in the fridge to see if it sets back up, in which case I'll use it as a veggie dip; otherwise it will be salad dressing...or, let's be honest, I'll drink it!

I have more food allocated to me, so I'll close out the evening with at leas a cup of coffee and 1T. h&h, and a Jenny lemon cake (Maybe more if I can!).

So now I'm typing up my day, and of course our internet connection has gone wobbly, so who knows when I'll be able to upload this. Meanwhile, V is screaming up a storm. She's lucky I don't keep any Benadryl in the house...