09/19/2010 17:27
Green Tea Morning
Yesterday was a fair success. "Fair" in the sense of a neighborhood festival with street vendors, funnel cakes, pronto pups, etc. The success comes from the lack of desire to eat any of it. That wasn't the plan going in. I was fairly certain I would eat a funnel cake because that is a food I only eat at the fair, and I go to the fair every couple of years. My plan was to check out all of the booths and hit the funnel cakes on the way out.
Well, there were so many more vendors and visitors this year, and the temperature was blazing hot. On the return side, I felt the jittery panic hit me all at once. The claustrophobic dizzy kind of panic. Too many people, no food in stomach, sun really hot..... Only instead of having subtle warning signals that suggest "get out now!", it hit me all at once and there wasn't a way out. We managed to work our way off the street and into the shade and grabbed a Coke.
At that point, I knew food wasn't going to happen. A smarter person would have eaten before they left the house and they might have even properly hydrated themselves! Not me... Nope. Subconciously, I was making sure my body would reject any idea of the funnel cake. Subconcious wins.
It was hours after that when I realized I was starving. I went with the easiest, cheapest option and made rotel dip with chips and fish sticks. Not the greatest on-plan day, but it really could have been much worse.
That brings me up to this morning. I'm fairly on plan so far. I'm sipping green tea (minus the fresh lemon bcause still too broke for groceries), and I had some oatmeal with raisins, cinnamon, a couple nuts, and a little agave nectar. Dare I say, it was..... GOOD?! I snagged the oatmeal and raisins from a Walgreens run yesterday. Got the green tea there, as well.
So here I am, blogging in the quiet of the morning, sipping my tea. Reminds me of when I would do this with coffee. I stopped drinking coffee about a year ago when I switched jobs, and now I don't have a lot of morning "down" time where I can do that, and on my days off, I choose to sleep in instead.
I've been mentally preparing myself to start exercising again. Right this second would be a good time to start up the Wii and do some fun stuff. That was what I mentally envisioned for this morning. Instead, I woke up with a problem in my calf that feels exactly like it did after a car accident several years ago. Any flexing or pointing or walking on my left leg is excruciatingly painful. I have no idea why. I wasn't in a wreck, and to the best of my memory, nobody wacked me in the calf with a baseball bat.
So.... no Wii today.
I will first work on stretching the muscle cramp and when R wakes up, I will try to walk it out on the treadmill. The treadmill was recently moved to the bedroom. Not sure how I feel about that. I exercise better in the morning and he sleeps through the morning. Time will tell.
