Wait, today or tomorrow? If I had seen this last night I’d be answering about today but since I saw it this morning, okay, I’ll answer for tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Monday but it’s a stat holiday here so no work. It’s Truth and Reconciliation Day, and I’m so happy it’s been recognized as a national holiday. I’m not going to delve into the importance of it, simply because I’m too ignorant yet on all the history and details.

I am trying to learn though. I’m reading books.

We wore our Orange Shirts on Friday but will wear them again tomorrow. I need to be the vehicle for Sid, to learn as much history as I can provide to him, on the history of Indigenous people in Canada. I feel it’s my responsibility as his mom.

I’d like to get outside and cut down my perennial flowers as it is that time of year. We’ve actually been extremely lucky. The weather has been insanely warm up until now. I think last night was our first frost and usually that happens in August.

I had wanted to plant some bulbs, tulips perhaps or maybe hydrangeas but this cold is kicking my ass and I’ve gotten behind on laundry and other house work that I would normally do by now on a weekend.

I started intermittent fasting last Wednesday so that’s also kicking my ass. As a lover of food…ughhh it’s so hard to stay away from it lol. My ‘eating window’ as they call it, is noon til 7 pm. And then I fast. So it’s been a shock to my body to NOT have my one piece of toast with pb and jelly around 6 am with coffee #2. That’s been my routine for probably almost 30 years. And then mid-morning I have Greek yogurt and granola. But right now, I have to skip the toast and eat my yogurt and granola at noon.

I can already tell that I’ve lost a couple of pounds. But just the kind of weight you lose when you get the flu or something, it jumps right back on as soon as your appetite picks up again. So it’s not anything permanent yet. My plan was to do this fasting thing for max 2 weeks. I don’t wanna lose mega weight, just some fluff, 8ish pounds. I googled this intermittent fasting and some is not good.

It messes with your hormones, can keep you from ovulating and god knows I don’t want that. And hopefully this isn’t TMI but I did wake up to Aunt Flow visiting this morning which is a tad early and I’m chalking that up to half starving myself for the last 5 days.

My beige flag is that I try something new in terms of what I do or don’t put in my mouth and as soon as I see like 1 or 2 pounds gone, I’m ready to start wearing tighter clothes and I feel like it’s made such a huge difference. Like I honestly am shocked when people don’t notice and point it out. 2 pounds lol.

So anyway, between this head cold kicking my butt and me starving myself and now my freaking period making an appearance, I’m ready to lose my mind. SOS.