Tracking my stuff offline, I tend to do it better. Here, I think I’ll be using my blog to express my feelings through it all. So far, I have only had a headache on the nights of the weather. I tried the gluten (even extra large spaghetti and garlic bread!) No go. Sodium, no go too. I guess it really is just the weather? I will continue to watch, but now it’s time to take a more healthy role too.

I am thinking of joining weight watchers. I know that I probably won’t lose much a week, and that’s okay. It looks like the best way to get to know my food, and the pointsplus thing looks like it’ll keep it more scientific. The more scientific and the less personal something is for these things, the better I think I will do.

No significant headaches or anything out of the ordinary yet

Breakfast: Nothing

Lunch: 1 Chinese Rib.

–At this point, I doubt sodium is a culprit. I ate three chinese ribs the other day, and never gained any headache.

Supper: Will be having more chinese ribs if we don’t make it to the store.

Are my headaches only pressure of the outside related? Will continue to check. I bought a couple of books yesterday, cookbooks. One is for creating different kinds of salad, another one is about healthy breakfasts (something I need to work on), and another one is healthy food for kids. I hope these help me in the journey to being more healthy.

So, here is what I ate and what happened on April 23rd, 2013:

Weight and height: Unchanged. (Almost 5’4″, 197 pounds.)

Breakfast:
Chocolate Milk: 9:00 AM

Lunch:
Nothing
Supper:
Two Chinese Ribs (6:30 PM)
Pepsi: 6:30 PM

Bedtime: 2:01

Todays’ weather: It was cold all day. No headache.

The name is a pun from my books, but it’s true. Like I said in my last post, I want to start concentrating on my health. Particularly in three areas.
-Keeping it healthier (lowering risk for health issues, so this includes losing weight but not in an obsessive way.)
-Finding out what is causing my migraines
-Preventing major health problems in the future.

I don’t know any strategies yet, I have only started to dig into Doctor Brownstein. I think the first way to start is to catalogue what I eat, and migraines that happen during this time. I want to focus on getting my migraines down as far as possible, so I need to see what is causing it. I am not changing any of my current eating yet, or my current strategies yet. I want a record of everything I am doing without removing or changing anything first.

So, here is what I ate and what happened on April 22nd, 2013:

NOTE: My daughter always eats a decent meal, and better than me almost 100% of the time. Half of my problem is wanting to be able to save the good stuff for her, but I know that will have to change.

Weight and height: Unchanged. (Almost 5’4″, 197 pounds.)

Breakfast:
Pepsi: 8:00 AM

Lunch:
Three chopped up hot dogs and catsup (12:32 PM)

Supper:
We were going to go out, but daughter was incredibly fussy. Had to make do with something at home, but my husband wanted to cook something more fulfilling. Late, late supper.
Mac and Cheese: 8:00 PM
Chocolate Milk: 8:00 PM
Steak: 11:00 PM

Bedtime: 2:03

Todays’ weather: Cold with more cold. No headache.

Weather yesterday (since I didn’t start journal yesterday): The weather was warm (almost 90) then flew to cold (50′s) in a matter of hours. Yesterday it caused a large pressure headache. Resolved by going outside and standing in the cold until my head felt better. After three trips in and out, the pressure evened out and went away.
Pain: moderately severe. Occured fast and took two advil migraines.
Disappeared: Within 30 minutes.

Usually this site is just my journal. Many times I feel like I am just talking to myself, especially since I hardly ever have comments. But you have really surprised me. With the simple email support, not to mention comments, you have really cheered me up!:)

I won’t lose my site, but I’m not going to fully depend on it anymore. I need to write down things on paper as well as my site. If I don’t want to lose moments with my daughter and my life, then I better have it written in more than one spot.

I also really think I don’t want to go back to reviewing. I have a back and forth on this, but I personally think I just have too much baggage with it anymore. If I review, it will be on the site I bought a book on. And not just books, but everything else too. Reviewing is good, but I don’t want a blog about it anymore.

As you can tell, I contacted the artist who created the site and she helped me make that leap I was really going for:
Looks, Cooks, and Books: New Paths Untaken will simply be New Paths Untaken. Which I think, really fits this site better.

In the last two weeks I have been hacked/glitched, been in a car accident, and lost my trust in goodreads.

I no longer wish to work on this site. Not for a long time. I hope one day I get back my mojo, but I don’t even want to look at a book. It just reminds me of the past right now. If I do bring this site back, it may just be an independent entity about where to find books at more independent retailers fewer know about.

I will appear on Book Blogs Ning again when (or if) I am ready to come back. My plans right now are to…
1. Concentrate on my own writing.
2. Start writing in a journal the things that happen in life with my daughter.
3. Start keeping a cookbook.
4. I may (when I am ready) buy bookcontrollerz. Software that will let me organize my books without needing any blog. I will be in control and can fully export my work only if I choose to with a pro package. In the meantime, I will probably leave reviews for books I read at only the site I review them at.

Edit: I will still be running my author blog.

Another one bites the dust. I don’t quite know what happened, but a random post kept showing up where my sidebar should have been. But, it was more than that because the actual sidebars were on the very bottom of the site. If I trashed, or privatized the post on the side, another would replace it. It only did it for the front page and not the second.

I tried to find a solution because I didn’t want to LOSE MY REVIEWS AND MEMORIES! I have those memories, and those reviews are on other sites but this was just…rrr!

I even pulled into my genesis (my most powerful layout framework) and even it’s ‘no sidebars’ option still pulled up the post! I had tried several themes, and even tried different versions of wordpress but the problem remained. I couldn’t get rid of it without deleting all my posts. What good would that do? In my search, I could not find the solution.

So I pulled the plug. For now. The site will be back soon, but getting back up on this horse doesn’t make me feel so good if I have to start over. I always keep my latest saved backup and delete the last one. Apparently, I need to start keeping at least two or three of the freshest.

Don’t make my mistake. Keep at least 2-3 backups at different times! Because I doubt I will ever know what happened. I just know there was some kind of change in code that wasn’t wordpress and wasn’t the theme…