Catching up

After a couple days of consistently eating fast food, I finally shaped up. I bought a cucumber, tomato, carrots and baba gannouj and citrus green tea, which lasted for about 3 lunches at work. I'm finishing off the baba gannouj today which is on a sandwich with two slices of provolone, cucumbers and tomatoes. I also got more greek yogurt and an assortment of russet and sweet potatoes which cook quickly (microwave) and are delicious and healthy (with minimal add-ons, of course).
I rode HARD yesterday and although my legs are not sure my back is very muscle sore! I badly want to ride at the barn I tried out last night but I'm not sure if it will fit in my schedule. I felt so good afterwards I was pretty much dancing around the grocery. Okay, I was literally dancing around the grocery.

Lots of water with some slip ups here and there, but haven't had coffee since friday, and I have plenty of breakfast foods to keep me out of starbucks and kolache factory for at least a week!

I think getting back into a lesson program is going to be one of the best things for me. After yesterday I realized that in order to improve my balance and strengthen my core I need to work out more outside of riding, and I feel like I can follow through with that.

Woot!

Yesterday, I did pretty well. My self-esteem was circling the drain but for once, my motivation was stayed at a high. Fell off the wagon just the teensiest bit in the evening because snacking sounded so delightful, but here goes:

Breakfast was a Clif bar (favorite flavor, too— mint chocolate) and some organic coffee the local gas station in SA had on our way out of town at 6 AM., with a half-shot of vanilla syrup and some half and half for interest. I also had one bite of Richard's breakfast chicken, onion, green pepper, pico, and guacamole breakfast taco.

Snacked on organic dried cranberries (did you know that when you look at a package of Craisins, the first ingredient is sugar? Not cranberries. Sugar.) I'm sure these have plenty of sugar in them, but its definitely not the first ingredient, and it is at least evaporated cane sugar.

Our late lunch was half of a turkey-and-cheese sandwich on 15 grain bread, half a can of Healthy Request Tortilla Soup, and way more SunChips than I should've eaten. Plus a glass of lemonade and a raw green bell pepper.

Snacked again on SunChips. I blame really wanting to see the bag decompose.

Supper was the homemade Italian sausage my half-bro and niece gave us, sauteed with fresh onions and green bell pepper, seasoned, and covered with tomato sauces to simmer awhile, on top of whole wheat penne. I probably snacked too much on the penne beforehand and didn't eat everything in my bowl. (But Hop did.)

Dessert was two squares of the big bar of Belgian chocolate Richard buys for me and a small glass of 2% organic milk. And later, as a snack, I had a Diet Coke on ice and two slices of Rudy's BBQ turkey. Totally unnecessary, but we were watching a movie and it just sounded good.

Trail ran with Polly and the dogs. It was my first day in over a month to not wear my Vibrams for running—I gave myself a pretty ouchie stone bruise the other day when I pummeled my foot down on something I shouldn't have— and I found myself contorting my ankles and pounding on my knees. I ran again this morning and definitely missed the feeling of near-bare foot on concrete and rock instead of my (delightfully comfy and broken-in) trail running shoes. May give them one more day to get the ouch out of the ball of my foot and swap back ASAP.

Oh, and this morning is a breakfast of green tea with agave, my first attempt at steel cut oats with some Greek vanilla yogurt and dried blackcurrants.