Hey hey, blog-ay-ay..

Welp!

I didn't drastically lose ten pounds in two weeks, but I am doing decidedly better. Good choices are coming more easily. Having the house clean helps. I can't explain why, but it does. I'm more inclined to cook, maybe. Or eat here.

Today, Polly and I struck out at 7 for a 40 minute powerwalk in the wet air. I came home and sauteed some Idaho Gold potatoes in olive oil and scrambled eggs and put it all on whole wheat tortillas for breakfast. Coffee too, plus the requisite water.

Lunch was unexpected; my former boss took me out to Elaine's (Richard's restaurant) and I had the tortilla-crusted trout, one buttered roll, and some slices of watermelon and plum. And iced tea with lime. Yum.

Snack was a glass of 2% organic milk with Ovaltine. Super chocolatty, but it lasted me 'til well after six.

Dinner I just finished. I sauteed an entire zucchini, threw most of an old jar of Prego mushroom-y spaghetti sauce, and at the end threw in several huge handfuls of spinach to make the consistency really fibrous and yummy once it all boiled down. Ate that on top of whole wheat rotini, sprinkled some fresh Parmesan, and a plain slice of sprouted grain bread, toasted.

Right now after a few glasses of water, I'm enjoying a Diet Dr. Pepper (hey, it's been a little while since I've had one.. like since Monday, whoops) and thinking about the ice cream sandwich I have stashed away in the fridge for later.

I can't give up chocolate altogether. There's no point. I eat some version of it every day, but I think that's just The Way It Is. I was a little bad Monday - Tuesday, eating out twice (one time it was salad!) and frozen pizza (but Kashi!) and like an entire bag of edamame to myself on Tuesday.. And 1.5 glasses of wine. And two other drinks Monday. Whoops. Not willing to give that up altogether.

I feel better. I think my clothes are fitting somewhat okay. I went off of birth control pills —and onto condoms, which we are religious about, please note— and am interested to see what results that may yield in a month or two.

I think my baseline is getting better. Eventually I'd like to add more exercise, but just making sure I do SOMETHING 30 to 40 minutes three times a week is a nice change in consistency. I would like to run again.. It's just that I sort of hate running.. Hm!

Phew

My butt hurts from riding this morning. Which is good on the one hand; bad that just a month off of real riding has already begun to turn me into a limp mushroom.

Breakfast was a banana and a slice of sprouted grain with PB.

Lunch was a tuna sandwich with a tiny bit of mayo —tiny; I hate mayo really, but it helps the tuna out— and salt, pepper, and baby spinach. And four saltine crackers, and a Diet 7up.. And a handful of chocolate chips.

I have to fail at least once a day. Never have I ever (at my skinniest and fittest) skipped failing at some chocolate.

Also had a glass of red wine last night. Just one, and I don't feel guilty. This being in addition to fish tacos and chips, but whatever.

Stupid "no alcohol" plan.

Workout tonight.

"You may delay, but time will not." — B. Franklin

Leave it to Kara to bring this blog back up, whereas I have been eying its presence with disdain whenever I peek back into the Blogger world. But she's right— it was a good tool, and shouldn't be ignored.

The past week, as life has finally seemed to settle down and the threat of Road Trip Food (a.k.a, free-for-all garbage in a bag) is behind me, I've been able to make some much better choices.

Breakfasts have included occasionally two eggs, sunny-side-up, with sprouted grain flourless bread and salsa. Sometimes, like today, I just have Greek yogurt and granola or Kashi cereal— something with a lot of crunch. Other times, it's a slice of sprouted grain bread with peanut butter and a yogurt. (Been eating Wallaby Organic Lemon yogurt for awhile now.. Nomnom.)

Lunch today was Richard's doing (though I was pretty specific on what I wanted.) Scrambled eggs with spinach and tomatoes, a little bit of extra-sharp cheddar, and salsa in two whole-wheat tortillas. As "dessert" and a way to motivate me to go back to work, I drank a big cup of coffee with some chocolate Ovaltine powder (hey, vitamins, right?!) in it, and some organic milk. Also been eating a lot of soup.

Last night's dinner sounds completely random, but it is one of my FAVORITE things: what we call sweet potato "pillows," thick slices of sweet potato tossed in a bag with olive oil, thyme, sage, LOTS of black pepper, some cayenne pepper, and sea salt, and then baked at high heat. Plus a spinach salad with feta (I've found it's cheaper to buy the blocks instead of the crumbles, and it lasts longer.. and takes .2 seconds to crumble it) and tomato and balsamic vinaigrette, and.. call me weird.. but two veggie dogs with ketchup and mustard wrapped in wheat tortillas. I LOVE veggie dogs. Gross but true. Richard had a sausage link in his, but the same meal. He's been very open and happy to eat my rabbit food.

And most of all.. I drink every meal with a huge glass of water first. At least pint-glass sized, if not larger. Buying a Brita water pitcher has possibly been one of the best contributions to my well-being— part of the draw of drinking orange juice or apple juice or Italian soda (we have been stocking lemon and prickly pear flavors in our fridge; SO tasty) when I come in from the outdoors is that it's COOL, and easy, and fruity and nice. Now, having filtered water in a big pitcher that is constantly kept cold is one more reason I can't start chugging milk instead of water first. If I want something else, like juice, than I drink a glass of water first. A lot of times it curbs the desire to drink the juice in the first place, and if it doesn't, it means I drink the next thing for taste instead of thirst. Meaning I drink less. And then eat less down the line.

As for snacks.. a lot of natural applesauce (no sweetener,) crispbread with Laughing Cow light swiss and basil, tons of green tea— I find that the act of making tea with a little honey can substitute for my natural instinct to relax with some sort of food. That's not to say I don't still want to comfort-emotion eat, but the tea helps. I'm tempted to ask for a real tea set for my birthday so I can graduate from Tazo bags, but I'd probably screw it up.

I realize that I'm going to blow a lot of calories on going out with friends; even though I make "healthy" choices and avoid most meats and overprocessed things, I can still eat a lot of food in one sitting. But structuring the rest of my home meals accepting that fact is helping, and making me feel less like a lard.

As for working out, I've put no stipulation other than I need to do SOMETHING, at least 30 minutes of it, five times a week. Exercisetv.tv has 80-something free videos you can watch on the internet, and I've done a few of them in the evening when I don't have the motivation to power walk or go to the workout room and try P90X again. My job keeps me from being sedentary, but being in "working" shape is quite different from "work-out" shape. Yeah, I can throw saddles and lift buckets all damn day, but that doesn't mean I can run a marathon.

Finally.. I am reading (and this is hard to admit) Bob Green's "The Best Life Diet" book. And following it, in Phase I currently. (Still not totally sure I want to go without ANY alcohol for 2 months again.. I think I may count a weekly glass of wine as a health benefit instead of cheating.)

Basically what that entails is the following:

• Don't attempt to cut out foods altogether, unless they're just really terrible for you. (I'm pretty good, and I've been a pescetarian since May, and I don't really eat a lot of highly processed stuff.) (That said, I fully plan on eating a little bit of turkey at Thanksgiving, and when co-workers start hunting, I will happily be eating venison and other game again.)
  
• Identify your current physical activity level (there's some outlined in his book, or you can figure it out for yourself— I was surprised that I couldn't call myself more than a 1 [between 0 and 5] because when I started reading the book, I wasn't adhering to regular workouts even though my job was physical and I walk everywhere I can) and bump it up at least one level.
• Don't drink alcohol.
• 3 meals and at least one snack per day. Stop eating at least 2 hours before bed.
• Drink water when you eat.
• Take a multivitamin.
• Don't weigh yourself. (I don't anyway, except when I get on the Wii.)

After 4 weeks, you can either ramp it up to Phase II, or keep it at Phase I.

I don't care where my weight's at. My weight never gets that high, considering my height and build. I just want my clothes to fit better, and I want my endurance and core strength to get better.

Renewed energy

Breakfast / Clif bar, water.

Lunch / 2-egg salad with mustard and tiny bit of mayo, sage, salt, pepper. Small portion of SunChips. Moderate to large portion of black grapes. 2 squares of Belgian chocolate.

Post-run snack / water, banana, some organic crunchy PB.

Dinner / 3 pieces of fried chicken at Moni's, with potato wedges, ketchup, a light beer, a Dr. Pepper, and another Dr. Pepper with a shot of Jim Beam Black. Ahaha.

Nighttime / 2 Grasshopper cookies and a cup of blueberry green tea with honey.

Did our first short endurance ride with Bandit— lots of posting and two-pointing.

Ran / jogged/ walked with Dicky for about 40 minutes.

My new motivations:

1. Not fitting at all prettily into my formerly "loose" hiking shorts.
2. Dragging my going-on-16-year-old horse on a 25 mile ride in the fall. I'm just bigger than I need to be for him to carry my ass!

Best panicked-lunch EVER.

So I'm trying to get a bunch of stuff done in the office today, as I got here late after leaving at 6 to take Polly to San Antonio International. I hadn't made time for lunch until two, and panicked and ran into the house to snag something. Generally that would involve an energy bar and a banana, but today I was feeling mildly resourceful and chopped the top off of a green bell pepper, scooped the seeds out, chopped up two hard-boiled eggs, fired them in with a big squirt of mustard and a little squirt of mayo, doused them in lite salt, black pepper, and a pinch of sage, mashed it up, and bam! Egg salad in an edible bowl. Haha. Put some herb veggie chips, two huge strawberries, and a handful of blackberries on the plate. Out-freaking-standing.

By the way, breakfast was a grande dark cherry mocha from Starbucks (it was 6 AM; I crashed) and one of their egg-white-and-roasted-tomatoes-and-spinach-on-wheat-wrap breakfast things. Pretty good. I had two British biscuits and a piece of homemade wheat bread for a snack.

Setback!

So I sat down after work and a bareback ride with Polly to have a carefully planned snack of sliced grape tomatoes, multigrain crackers, and white cheddar with a glass of water. I quickly got bored of snacking, ate the rest of the Rudy's BBQ turkey in the fridge, the rest of the sheaf of crackers, and at least four more large slices of cheese. And every single tomato. And even a handful of pretzels, for good measure. And a cookie. So that counts as dinner. Probably times two.

Dangit.

Also, the downpour was a delightful excuse for me to not run.

Double dangit!

Tomorrow is just going to be a terribly long day. Up at 530 to get Polly to San Antonio, back here, work 'til 4, riding lessons, babysitting.. Blah. Then up early on Friday for a meeting, more riding lessons and a barn tour, work, and the Youth Empowerment Retreat.

Past 24 hours or so

Lunch yesterday was eaten out with Richard, who was on break from his new job. (YAY!) I had a baked potato, dry, with a small serving of Wendy's (yeah, yeah, fast food.. It's been awhile!) chili on top and a couple of crackers and a large water. Dinner was night was precluded by a snack of six of those terribly buttery Town House multigrain crackers and some white artisan cheddar cheese, and some pretzels, and an orange. Eep. And a diet Coke with lemon. But as for dinner, really this time, that, too, was a minor fail. Lots of yellow corn chips and fresh salsa from the Ingram store, then a mix of fajita materials (sans tortillas) with lettuce, tomato, a bit of cheese, tons of black beans, and a mix of chicken and beef fajita meat. And like ten Nilla Wafers out of the pot of banana pudding. (I don't care much for banana pudding.)

Oh, and 2.5 rather strong margaritas.

Whoopsies!

This morning, for breakfast, I ate another Clif Bar (chocolate chip) and drank a lot of water. Lunch was Taco Stand with my old (and favorite) boss— Mike's taco, which is a homemade-with-pure-joy flour tortilla with fajita chicken, onions, green bell pepper, tomatoes, pico de gallo, and guacamole. And a bottle of water. Snacked on a banana and two HEB mint chocolate cookies.

Craving some carbs, though. Like bad. Don't know if running is going to happen, but may ride this afternoon.. I did do quite a bit of cleaning at the barn.. Does that count? (Whine!)

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.

Conclusion

Ran the trails with Polly and the dogs. Ate a banana, a handful of South Beach mixed nuts, and some more water for lunch. Saving up 'cause we're going to stop in on my parents tonight and bring some tacos and have a drink and spend the night. :)

Edit, 948 PM--

Supper was Rudy's BBQ turkey. I skipped the bread and ate a couple of big handfuls of Sun Chips, baby greens salad with tomato, a little potato salad, and plenty of Rudy's sauce. Diet Coke and a slice of lime to drink.

Dessert was a small apple turnover with two scoops of ice cream, drizzled with honey and cinnamon.

And.. I did CRUNCHES. Legit ones. 40. Woot.

Holy balls, though. I can say it here. I have gotten heavy. When old pajamas are tight after a wash..

Flailing

I've taken special notice of my figure lately and it hasn't lent happy thoughts to my mind. I am a believer in the "beauty at any size" philosophy, and I agree with it and the confidence it can instill in people. The problem is that I'm not someone who wears my curves sexily or comfortably; I'm an outdoorswoman, I'm naturally more on the gangly side of things, and carrying extra weight is truly a hindrance to the activities I enjoy and the career I pursue.

I don't like feeling listless and deleting pictures off my camera because they make me sad about myself isn't something I've done in awhile.

Anyway.

This morning for breakfast I had about half a cup of black tea with a splash of 2% milk and honey and half of a boule (round, small loaf) of wheat bread I made this morning, with some Promise buttery spread stuff. I really haven't been hungry besides. Had a lot of water and spent about 25 minutes biking around. I may go see if Polly wants to jog.

Finishing up the night

Spent the afternoon grooming the oldest fogies-- Dixie, Prince, and Charlie Brown. Ate a chocolate-covered big pretzel stick and, later, a plate full of cucumber slices, celery sticks, some peanut butter, and raw broccoli for a snack. Then meandered over to Polly's, where she cooked a supper of steamed rice with chicken in teriyaki sauce and fresh broccoli and carrots. Very tasty; she never overcooks her veggies and errs on the side of raw, which is perfect to me. More nutrients and more snap.

If I were less lazy about preparing fresh veggies, I'd be in much better shape. Ought to try and work that in.

I may make some fresh wheat bread tonight as well.

Okay.. I'm feeling it now!

I was feeling strangely wired after laying down this lunch hour, so got up, put on some shorts and a tshirt and my Vibrams, and went for a nice 40 minute trail run / hike. I didn't have a ton of time as a couple of our Association office folks were coming out to do a training for me, but Hop and Georgia and I made pretty good pace and took a couple of stops to jam out to a particularly good iPod selection and snap a camera phone picture.

It was the first time in awhile (a) I've made the time to run and (b) I've had so much fun doing it! The initial uphill struggle always wears me down to a quick trudge, but once we started weaving around the hills and I got to accelerate through some turns and really stretch my toes out and grab some trail.. oye. It just felt grand, and very natural. Granted, I'm still terribly slow in the grand scheme of things, and my wind runs out much faster than my legs do, but the enjoyment is there with this particularly great weather. The difference with the VFFs really kicks in during the downhill. After leaving Mount Vesper, I took the rocky ridgeline trail down, which (when I'm in normal trail shoes, like my Salomons or something) generally means stopping, shimmying, grabbing a branch for support, etc. I'm terrible un-surefooted when headed downhill. But the Vibrams allow me to pitter-patter to the edge of a rock, grip, look forward and keep my movement going (though not always at a run, obviously) as I scampered down from boulder to trail to another boulder.

And then I hit a last stretch of paved road from the cabins to the river and then up to the office and our house and got moving about as fast as I could without truly pushing myself for speed. It was tiring and I practially collapsed into the house with my heart racing, but felt so good.

I just need to learn to hold on to that feeling!

After a shower, and some more work, I just ate my lunch of banana, Stonyfield Organic's probiotic vanilla yogurt, and half a handful of Kashi Go-Lean Crunch. (Thanks for leaving your box, Natalie. Hehe.)

Returning!

My last two days were somewhat of a mix of decent food choices (not low-calorie, necessarily, but relatively whole) and beverage-related celebrations of visiting friends and St. Patrick's Day. So from hummus and veg to screwdrivers and Blue Moon and chicken fajita and veggie tacos and dyed-extra-green margaritas.

This morning started out with a large Diet Coke and a Johnny's taco, which is egg, cheese, and lots and lots of pico de gallo. And a bite or two of Richard's cinnamon roll.

That's right. Two taco stand runs in two days. I've done worse.

Going to try and fit a run in today.

Also, that blog I linked to earlier.. Growing quickly tired of Kath Eating Real Food. I'm glad she's a self-assured seeming young woman, but..

Exhausted

Breakfast was potato and egg tacos with cheese and salsa, and a pear, and water, and a coffee.

Lunch was a lot of Allison's homemade mac and cheese, some halal fish nugget things (actually delicious), and a pile of raw broccoli and carrots and some couscous salad. Plus some orange punch and a boat load of water.

Snack— a package of those cheese-and-PB cracker things, sans preservatives and weird stuff. Gave one to do the dog, so that counts as cutting calories.

I helped cook dinner, or at least did some grillmastering with Richard, and then ate a good pile of that chicken plus nacho cheese, black olives, sour cream, salsa, and salad greens and broccoli over pita chips. (Different style of nachos that were halal.) And then had some magic bars. And then picked the chocolate off of a Klondike bar. And had several Arnold Palmers, easy on the lemonade.

As for exercise.. Just barn chores, four hours of riding without stirrups in the hills (so my thighs feel pretty fierce!) and bellowing commands. It was a good day, but this sure as hell will be a couple of exhausting weeks!

Saturday, continued

Lunch was at the local coffee shop in Ingram —pretty much the only one, Spirit Wind Java, but that's okay by me. The only trendy/cool-looking people I've met in Kerr County work there. I would consider Katie, who I met there for my veggie sandwich on wheat and blackberry iced tea, definitely on the cool spectrum of things. It was good. I seem to get so lucky in the way of friendships.

Dinner consisted of a couple of slices of Allison's amazing veggie pizza topped with parmesan, artichoke hearts, black olives, tomato, onion, and basil— camp food at CFA is sublime! And on the side cucumbers, carrots, and celery with Allison's homemade hummus, some strawberry punch and water, and five (five) servings of meringue with berries, kiwi, and grapes.

Exercise— well, I gardened in the morning and got my herbs and tomatoes going in their pots. After lunch and a plant seminar at the feed store, I grabbed the materials to build an 8x8 foot raised garden, including soil. So the rest of my afternoon was spent chucking fifteen 40 - 50 pound bags of compost, garden mix, and native soil out of the car, over the back fence, and spread out in the garden. That was work.

And after supper, Polly and her golden puppy, Remi, Hopalong, Georgia (the Boston Terrier we're puppysitting) and Atticus the Norwegian Forest Cat and I all went on a nice hour-long night hike.

So at the minute, I'm in a contented state of being sore and satiated. :} *burp*

Head start on the day!

Started off the morning with an organic probiotic vanilla yogurt and a Kashi bar. Going to go outside, away from the clutches of food.

This is me trying!

WORKOUT

Holy Jesus.
One legged squats.
Walking lunges (10 solid minutes).
And a shoulder workout.

I probably won't be able to walk tomorrow. Nikki gave me a protein pack and hopefully that will take away some of the pain.

This morning (I swear) is the last morning of Starbucks. Okay, maybe I'll splurge on COFFEE ONLY maybe once a week.
Lunch was Philadelphia roll with brown rice and low-sodium soy sauce.
A handful of pineapple, blackberries and strawberries.

Worked out, then had half of the protein drink thing and spent all evening at the dog park. Oscar laid down the entire way home and as soon as he got home he ate his dinner, drank some water and disappeared to go to bed.
When I got home I had a turkey and salami sandwich with honey mustard and sharp cheddar cheese, another handful of pineapple/blackberries/strawberries, and an experimental food that I bought thinking I'd hate it and suffer through...
IT WAS DELICIOUS.
Veggie Snax by Sunrise. They are tasty and crunchy totally something I can add to my "eat healthy" snack list.

I did pretty good at the grocery. I spent $100 and got a lot of healthier snacks (fruit, veggie snacks, nut & granola clusters, real fruit fruitsnacks, low-fat greek yogurt, and honey wheat pretzels). I also got milk (low-fat soy milk for cereal, and hazelnut soy creamer in an effort to spend less money buying coffee. I also got a coffee grinder.

I'm making steps in the right direction!!

Woe to my fat cells: Day 3/4 (Tues/Wed)

I won't even really go into specifics, and I did walk away with a purse full of free snack packs from various vendors, but here we go. So I can shuck the monkey on my back and go back to the Soyjoy bar and banana I brought for breakfast.

Tuesday. All day. Grazefest. Conference.
eggs
biscuit
hashbrown
coffee, cream/Splenda
gravy (? odd product)
chocolate Rice Krispie bar
Sweet Leaf organic mango green tea
Sweet Leaf organic sweet tea
strawberry-kiwi water drink (tasted of syrup)
2/3 turkey breaded product
1/2 wheat bun
small chicken biscuit thing (reminiscent of Chick-a-fil)
shortbread cookies
Capri Sun fruit juice
picked at a few (really bad) Sweet Potato fries, from LaBatt

Dinner. Buffet. Showed restraint. Kind of.
grilled, buttered veg (broccoli, carrots, squash, the like)
small helping of mashed potatoes sans gravy
pan-broiled tilapia (I think? it was a generic white fish)
big salad, no dressing, with some cold tortellini on top
small, small slivers of German choc cake, cheesecake, some other cake
coffee x 2
iced tea with splenda x 3


Wednesday.. I don't even remember. I'm not taking things seriously.

This doesn't bode well.

I did find a new blog to read today— Kath Eats. I'm going to do some reading, do some shopping, and come back.

I feel like I need to cut back on my social life and focus on what I'm putting into my mouth and what I'm doing with my feet.

My intro

Hola—

This is Mashley signing in. Kara was lovely enough to start our new blog attempt off, and I added a little color this evening. Hope it suits!

So my current situation. (I'm bracing myself using mint chocolate chip ice cream and some late-night courage.)

In the past six-plus months of young marriage, I've gained somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty-five pounds. I was about 125 in June. Do the math. This is not the end of the world (I'm having to convince myself, as I'm happier than I've been in my life in all other elements of my existence) but it has drastically affected my body TYPE. I've put weight on in a new and "exciting" way.. like a woman, not a kid. Meaning I suddenly have some serious hips and buttocks. (Up until this point in my life, I'm generally in the category of adequate-breasted awkward log shapes.) Which is FINE.. but last June, I was trying on things in a size 4/6. Many of those things I can still squeeze myself into, with much overhang and some covering outerwear. Alas, however: yesterday, I bought two pairs of crop pants at the Gap in a size 10. First pants I've bought in months. Granted, they're remotely baggy. But that's disheartening. My boobs are pretty slamming, though. And I do like my birth control, which I've been on for the longest stretch of my life thus far. Tradeoffs..

Anyway. I don't have any particular goals. (This is starting off well, huh?) I don't like setting number figures. It seems like whenever I'm trying to aim for a set of digits, I disappoint or make excuses. My greatest weight loss accomplishments have rolled around through (1) not obsessing over food, for the good or bad and (2) running or being overworked. I want to incorporate a concentrated physical activity into every day, and I want to limit the sugars and carbs I eat on a daily basis. This means I have to ignore most of what my unnaturally fit and secretly-hoping-he's-destined-for-a-metabolism-crash husband eats. Or, y'know, not eat as much.

Um so food log! That's right. Today I was a sloth. We woke up at 930 and stayed in bed, more or less, until 4. Netflix and breakfast-in-bed trays facilitated this. Also, it was raining.

But:

Brunch
2 eggs over easy
1/2 large white roll, sliced, buttered, and pan-toasted with basil
1/2 large Braeburn apple with honey and cinnamon
breakfast tea w/ splash organic milk & agave

Snacks
mint chocolate chip HEB ice cream(hehe)
Kashi Java Chocolate Chip chewy granola bar
Kashi oatmeal / chocolate chip cookies (oops)
honey-wheat pretzels
hummus
the remnants of Richard's orange soda
lots of taste-testing Shepherd's Pie

Supper
Richard's Shepherd's Pie (stew beef, peas, carrots, onions, gravy, mashed potato topping)
1 glass lemonade

Go Team Carbs!