Today is day 6 of the challenge, and i must say, today has definitely been challenging. It started with the refrigerator- it was not cold this morning. it was cool, but not cold. so of course, I, being the food monger than I am, spent a good 20-30 min trying to move the fridge, checking it up and down and moved food to the garage instead of eating breakfast, making my coffee, and packing a lunch. luckily, i moved all the important things to the garage and managed to throw something together really quickly. thank goodness for leftovers. The rest of the day seemed to progress in a similar fashion: one thing beginning with chaos, ending in a relative state of OK..... leading to another thing that began with chaos and ended OK...... ending with the ultimate test of fat metabolism to kick in.
I recently signed up for a week of unlimited yoga to test out a new studio. Today, I dared to challenge myself to back to back classes: slow flow, and the Ashtanga primary series. together, these classes are about 3 hours of yoga-- bending, folding, breathing, stretching, balancing, sweating, and finding myself within my mind. This is a great idea to me, however it fell at a critical time in my day! DINNER TIME! what is a yogi to do??? I decided to brave the classes without eating, and probably for the better. I have no idea how i would have completed the primary series (link to the craziness HERE .... srsly it's cray) if I had eaten before class. so of course, it meant that dinner would not happen til after class.
By the time I grabbed some groceries and got home, it was after 9, almot 9:30 and it had been...... 7.5 hours since i completed my lunch. can you believe that???? 7.5 hours. WTF. that blows my mind. how did it happen? I HAVE NO CLUE! but it did. and strangely enough, I was fairly OK after biking back home after 3 hours of yoga. In an act of desperation, I poured myself some almond milk from the new container i bought and one thing really struck me-- why was this milk so sweet? the brand was the same. the box was the same so i thought maybe they had changed something and surely enough, one of the ingredients was evaporated cane sugar. seriously, after not consuming any artificial sweetener and not adding ANY extra sugar and only relying on the sugars of my food, that extra added cane sugar was a punch in the taste buds. I was so torn. Do I pretend like the cane sugar doesn't exist in that milk? or do i go and buy another almond milk? I caved and bought another one. I realized that there's an "unsweetened" version that the first store didn't carry. so that sweet delicious carton of almond milk will have to wait. All in all, I am feeling less hungry between meals. The habit of wanting to snack is still hanging in there, looming over my head, and I guess I do have more energy.....
Anyway, here's the dinner I shamelessly whipped up while in starvation mode:
Tuna salad with avocado (like, literally)
3 ingredients: canned tuna, mayo, and avocado.
mash it all together. eat. haha. mayo is A-OK to eat because it's just whipped up egg whites and oil, so that was a life saver for me. (no picture..... i ate it way too fast... oops)
Inspired by the rediscovery of mayo, i decided to prepare lunch for tomorrow: a broccoli salad
Broccoli salad
Broccoli (lots of it), orange bell pepper, sundried tomatoes, raisins, carrots. Fried up some bacon and crumbled it in there to add some salt. and MAYO!!!! my life saver for the day. I'm not too sure what the deal is with bacon. if it's OK or not for the challenge. so to deal with that, i only put in a little and will have to research more tomorrow.
til next time, EAT WELL and BE WELL!!!
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