Good Sunday Morning!
I love Sunday mornings! I watched CBS Sunday Morning this morning while eating my raisin and walnut overnight oats. So good!
Yesterday I finally managed to get in a cardio workout! I did Petra Kolber’s Step Moves & New Grooves. So much fun. It was much harder than it used to be, but I’ll get there. My only annoyance was the fact that the music changed at times when all the combos were going together and the beat seemed to change with the music which totally messed me up since I haven’t done the dvd for a while and I am totally a music/beat girl when it comes to doing choreographed workouts. It is one of the reasons I cannot do most of the Biggest Loser’s dvds – the contestants have no sense of beat and none of them are in synch with each other or the music. It drives me batty!
I also did 3 segments of Tracey Staehle’s yoga dvd. Well, the prone series and I had some issues because I cannot hold downward for anywhere near as long as they can; nor can I add to downward dog by raising up my legs and doing all that stuff that requires a lot of strength that I don’t have yet. Instead, I just held the simple pose and when I couldn’t do it anymore I went into child’s pose. Interestingly (to me), I the series where you are stretching while on your back in which they offered modifications if you are not as flexible was much easier for me to do and I didn’t have to use all the modifications. What I surmise out of all of this is that I am much more flexible than strong. I need to work on my strength A LOT!
Proof that I worked out – me all sweaty and red-faced!
Lunch was a kale salad with goat cheese some homemade lime dressing and a tangerine.
Along with a veggie burger and soy nuggets.
Lunch didn’t keep me full for very long. I went shopping and was hungry by 4 (even though lunch was around noonish). When I got home I had leftover chili.
A kale salad with goat cheese, roasted peppers and a homemade lemon dressing I also had half a piece of naan.
Dessert was a bit later and consisted of persimmon. Trader Joe’s still has them and I bought two containers of them. I adore persimmons! I feel like I am eating candy when I eat them – they are that good.
And a chocolate covered nanner, which I am addicted to! Oh well! It is a much better addiction than ice-cream and a portion controlled addiction at that!
I was so hungry when I was shopping at Whole Foods that I told myself if I could find a holiday peppermint ice-cream I could buy it and some fudge to put on top. Unfortunately I could NOT find it – or is that fortunately?? I had a scoop of peppermint ice-cream with fudge after lunch this week and it was so amazingly good that I have been craving it ever since. Rather than make a trip to Jewel (where I knew I could find it), I went home. Surprisingly (well not so much anymore because I am learning this seems to happen more and more) when I got home and ate my salad and chili I was no longer craving the ice cream and the persimmon and nanner did the trick.
I really thought about baking some cookies or other holiday dessert this weekend, but I cannot. What I mean when I say ‘I cannot’, is that I have come to accept that sugar and I have a bad relationship. It is better for each of us if we do not see each other. It was a hard relationship to break and I’m still dealing with it. Sometimes sugar calls me on the train ride home and asks me to pick him up at the jewel when I get off the train. Sometimes sugar calls me on the way to the train and asks me to pick him up at jamba or the frozen yogurt place before I get on the train. Sugar knows he is more likely to get to me at jamba and frozen yogurt because he is covered in ‘healthyisms’. Seriously, have you ever seen how much sugar is a a ‘healthy’ jamba juice?? I am learning to control sugar and only pick him up for the occasional one night stand. If I take him home and make him into something he is not (i.e., a really good pan of something sugary and good) he has me going back for more and more, even when I know that if I do that I won’t feel good. For example, I made some creme de menthe bars a couple weekends ago. They were really good and really sweet and sugary. Even though I knew that if I had another one I would NOT feel good afterwards because I had more than my fair share already, I would continually go back to the fridge and get one and eat it. The way I cope with this – so I don’t eat the entire pan? I throw the same amount away as I eat! So sad! So sugar and I are no longer on good terms. I won’t bake something desserty unless I have someplace to take it. I will not read portions of blogs that give sugary recipes because I will then be tempted to make whatever sugary thing that blogger has made and has the good sense to eat him in moderation.
So, that’s why sugar and I had to break up. I am sure sugar will make it into my life the next week with Christmas and I am fine with that. Special occasions with special sugary treats that I see maybe once or twice a year are the exception. However, I do not take sugar home with me – he stays were I found him and we are both happier that way. 🙂
Also, no cooking this weekend. I am only going to be home until Wednesday, so I’ll use convenience meals until I get back next week.
Okay! Time for me to get some stuff done. I don’t have an ambitious day planned at all! A quick workout, some cleaning, some laundry and lots of reading! Did I mention I love Sundays!?
Make it a good one!
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