Yes Just Do It

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Yesterday was a pretty good day.  I kept things in check, got in a little brisk exercise and felt good while doing it and I tried (key word is tried) to go to bed at a correct hour.  I didn't fall asleep until after 11:00, but at least I get a foil star for trying to get it right.  Some times you just can't switch off the brain.

Other than being reluctant to get out of bed this morning until I had eight hours of sleep, feeling pretty good so far.

I spent a little while yesterday looking back through the past few months and I wrote down these exact words:  "Really, just read back through the last few months and what you're doing wrong jumps out!".  So much FAIL.  It is not rocket science.  To borrow a grossly overused commercial slogan, yes, I need to just do it.  Yesterday was not bad.  Add a little more vegetation, a bit more food at breakfast and some more exercise and it would have been excellent.  Do it.  Dummy.

Breakfast:  Oatmeal (soaked w/ 1 T wheat flour, 2 T buttermilk, water) with butter and a little whole milk, coffee.

I also noted while reading back that I do better when posting pictures of what I eat, so here's a thrilling picture of oatmeal:

Gruel.  No eggs.

There was a bit stronger flavor to this batch of oatmeal.  I can't say that I particularly mind it but it's a little different.  I suspect you get used to it.  I honestly have no idea if the soaking really does any good but it doesn't appear to hurt.  I was flipping through Nourishing Traditions last night while trying to come up with something new to try making this weekend (lots of options there) and something jumped out at me -- there was a blurb from Dr. Price's book about a couple islands off the Irish coast, and how a 20 year old girl from those islands had never seen a cow.  The diet of the isolated islanders consisted of oats and fish (iirc, my book is at home) -- so how if at all did they soak their oats?

You have to love nutrition, there are always puzzles to solve.

Lunch:  3 egg omelet (splash of milk) cooked in a pat of butter with ~ 2 oz CF pepperoni, a little frozen diced onion, jarred organic roasted red pepper and 2 slices Kraft jalapeno white cheddar cheese; 1 smallish organic avacado; coffee

I don't really have the perfect frying pan for omelets - I've been using a larger skillet this week which seems to work quite well in terms of size and cooking but it's not always easy to get the stuff out of the pan.  I probably should have just added the filling on the plate.  Oh well, live and learn, plating isn't super important when you're cooking for yourself.  Pic:

Eggs, poorly presented.  I give this plating an F minus

The combination of flavors was OK.  I wouldn't say five star but OK.  This was the first time I'd tried the CF pepperoni, it tasted a bit closer to salami to me but it was pretty good.

On a thoroughly unrelated note, the casual reader would probably be quite surprised to know that I really didn't drink coffee at all (< 3 cups/year average) prior to 2012.  Stupid soda habit.

Dinner:  Maybe dinner isn't the right descriptive term for this.  Let's try instead:

Part 1, before exercise --  ~ 2 oz CF cajun beef jerky:

I am 100% certain that beef jerky contains no eggs.

Part 2, after exercise -- 1 container Fage 2% plain yogurt with about 5 frozen strawberries defrosted:

Dairy product, close enough.

Exercise:  4.5 holes walking, total of 1.75 miles with a detour according to the pedometer.  I want to say I spent nearly an hour out there.

All in all felt quite good today.  Decent pep.  Shed a bit of excess water weight I suspect.  Took pictures of everything I ate except for the 2 sticks of Extra sf gum I chewed while walking.  Time to wind down and try again to fix the sleep schedule.