lindsay

I have been really good for the past few weeks about maintaining my caloric intake.  I’ve had only a few slip ups, more often than not unintentional.  But today was not one of those days.

Today I ate far more calories than I needed to.  But I did so mostly intentionally.
Tomorrow I’m donating blood.  This will be my 8th donation pushing me up to a total lifetime donation of ONE GALLON.  (I’m very excited.)

So for dinner I knew that I needed to get some red meat inside of me to up the iron count in my blood level so I don’t get turned away tomorrow.  (That would make me extremely sad.)  So, having had a long day and not wanting to cook anything, I ate a large, greasy cheeseburger.  And I don’t regret it.  That one delicious, albeit disgusting meal, contained 30% of my daily iron regiment.  I’ll probably eat some other form of red meat tomorrow for lunch.

Lately I have been avoiding most meat.  I’ve been good about eating some chicken and a lot of vegetarian food.  (Morningstar products and the like.)  And I’ve been really good about taking a daily multivitamin containing iron.  But these things aren’t really a substitute nor are they nearly as satisfying as a big piece of beef.

I thought that this is sort of a milestone for me and I deserve something very bad for me.
In moderation, of course.

I’m very excited to be donating tomorrow.  After tomorrow, in my lifetime, I will have saved between 24 and 32 people with my O- blood.

LMW