Monday, April 8, 2013

Day 8

Man, I'm tired today.  Stayed up too late last night.  It was rough getting out of bed when my alarm went off.

Feeling encouraged that I made it one whole week.  I know that's not really a long time and I know that most people might think, "Oh, a week, no biggie."  But for me, a week is a long time to keep consistent with an eating routine.  Relying on God is the only thing that's getting me through.  I know I can't do this with my own power and self-control...mainly because I know I don't have any self-control.

Maybe it's taken me most of 32 years to be able to realize all of this, but better late than never, right?

Wondering how the workout will go today after the day off yesterday.  I'm looking forward to getting back to it!

Breakfast: Sweet potato hash that I forgot to add the spinach too.  I usually throw a little in at the end of reheating the hash to add some greenery to the meal but I clean forgot this morning.  Topped with two eggs and half an avocado on the side.  Not an award winning meal by any means, but it was quick and easy.



Workout: Insanity...well, I thought I'd feel a little more fresh after not working out yesterday but that was definitely not the case.  Cardiovascular wise I felt better than last week, less out of breath, heart not feeling like it'll beat out of my chest after 2 minutes.  But man, my muscles are not recovered.  They were screaming!

PWM: A quick egg salad before hitting the shower.  Oh, wait...my shower is currently out of commission due to a clogged drain (before you all start giving me advice please note that we do use a hair trap in the drain and it was draining just fine on Friday but wouldn't drain at all come Saturday morning) and the landlord tearing my bathroom apart.



Lunch: I made a salad of mixed greens, cucumber, tomato and onion topped with 2 homemade salmon cakes I pulled from the freezer and an avocado dressing I whipped up in the mini food processor (1/2 an avocado, some lemon juice, cayenne, paprika, garlic powder and olive oil) it was quite delicious.



Snacking: A green smoothie and some mango salad for the afternoon.  The green smoothie ended up huge so I saved the rest for another day.  It also was a little uh...not green, so I ended up adding more greens.  Not good when your green smoothie isn't actually green...




Dinner:  Served the girls dijon chicken, rosemary red potatoes and dilly carrots.  I made my own chicken (fajita seasoned) then threw that in with some sautéed onion and kale, made some rosemary sweet potatoes in the oven and the dilly carrots as a side.  The chicken was too spicy which made it a little hard to eat but the kale and onions with the fajita flavor were delicious.  I LOVED the rosemary sweet potatoes.  I cut the potato into a smallish dice, tossed in a bowl with chopped fresh rosemary, garlic powder, salt, pepper and olive oil.  Baked 425 until tender.  The rosemary really complemented the flavor and covered up a little of the natural sweetness that I don't really like.  I ended up not eating all of the chicken/kale mixture because I was full and my boss got home so I packed up and headed home.




My morning commute...
Thoughts:
My day started out sleepy which matched the weather perfectly...a nice, Seattle morning here in Chicago.

I'm still trying to figure out when I'm hungry and when I'm just bored or eating out of habit.  I know I'm snacking too much and maybe I could increase meal size a little, but at most meals I'm really full.  Hmmm...will continue to work on this.

I'm realizing how important sleep is.  I ended up taking a short (20 min) nap this afternoon because I literally couldn't keep my eyes open.  My fear is always that I won't be tired until late and repeat the whole cycle again tomorrow but I'm exhausted.  I definitely over did it this weekend with all the physical activity.  I decided that when I take the girls swimming tomorrow I'm going to catch up on reading instead of jumping in and doing my 1,500 yards like normal...plus, I'm getting my hairs did tomorrow so it'll be nice and straight-I'm not getting anywhere near that water!

I also don't think my water consumption is up where it should be.  I'm usually really good about that but for some reason it has dropped.  I've been using a new water bottle so I changed back to an older one hoping that might make a difference...who knows!

So, it ended up being 70 and amazingly sunny this afternoon.  Started the say with Seattle weather and ended with a true Chicago spring evening.

Tomorrow, focusing on more prayer time, drinking enough water and figuring out the snacking thing...

---------------------------------------------------Late Addition---------------------------------------------

Snacking: I've really gotta work on this snacking thing.  I held off as long as I could but I was hungry (at least I think I was) so I had a few almonds and some dried papaya with my tea while I was catching up on The Voice.  Which I love.


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