I don’t really have a whole lot to say. It’s been a lot of the same thing every day this week. Waking up early to bust out an early sweat session…eating healthy meals to stay on the TIU plan…powering through a work day…zooming off to yoga…cooking dinner…trying to chill out…falling asleep. B-O-R-I-N-G. 😦 Routine is usually what I fall into – be it eating or slogging through the day. There are so many demands on our every waking minute that you become immune to enjoying life.
I mean who can believe that it’s already February? I certainly can’t. I’ve got too much to do at work, for my family, for myself that sometimes I just turn inward. I retreat into myself – disengaging from everything on the inside while maintaining the outward appearance of full participation. Is that a protection mechanism? So I don’t completely drain myself? Maybe…who knows. Blah. That’s usually my statement whenever I don’t want to talk or can’t talk. 🙂
Anyhoo…who signed up to read a decompression session? Not me – so let’s move on to my favorite topic – EATING! For all those who think eating healthy is boring and hard – you’re right. HA! It can be both of those things if you don’t inject a level of creativity and planning into it. I do think that healthy eating requires a lot more prep work than not so healthy eating. That means figuring out what you are going to eat during the week because all that healthy food tends to go bad – certainly doesn’t have the shelf life of say Hamburger Helper. 😀 You also need to cut, pack and organize your healthy eats in an easy to see and grab way. The easier to grab – the more likely you will eat it. I’ve learned that the hard way (hard way being throwing out hundreds of dollars of veggies that went bad because I didn’t eat it fast enough – Boot!)
Enough blah blah blahing…. on to the pictorial – Wheee!
Tuesday breakfast. Oh yeah, I eat my pancake with my hands!
Tuesday snack was a juicy pear
Tuesday Lunch – Double wrapping it!
I forgot to take a photo of my super tasty smoothie I had before yoga. I followed a TIU recipe – Mango, Banana, Almond Milk, Coconut…whir it up and drink. 🙂
After yoga I whipped up a Mexican shrimp sauté and served it along with some lime cilantro rice. Of course I forgot to take a picture. More because for some reason we didn’t eat until 730pm…we’re usually done eating and kitchen cleaned by 7pm. Not sure what happened. So I was rushing all around and then rushed that food right down my piehole.
Wednesday’s eats were almost an exact duplicate…I think I’m falling into my rut. Ick. 😦 But it was still tasty – so whatever, right. 🙂
Wednesday Breakfast. What else but a giant ole pancake.
Wednesday Snack: Balls!
For snack I had another pear and 2 of these awesome Apricot-Date balls. Easy to make, although they are a little sticky to roll into balls. YUM YUM.
Wednesday Smoothie. Kiwi, berries and spinach.
No photo of lunch…that’s because I was running late to a conference call and had to shove my wrap into my mouth as quickly as I could. Not the best thing to do. Also had 2 Cuties along with my lunch. Sweet treat!
I was smart today and put some ribs in the crockpot for HunBun and the 12yo so that cooked all day and made the house smell SO GOOD! I put some rice in the rice pot so it’d be ready for them to eat before I got home from yoga since I had to run to CVS to pick up a prescription.
Wednesday Dinner. Chicken and Kale wrap
I may eat a couple Apricot-Date balls as a treat…or have a piece of the Black Bean Brownies I just made. Hmmmm. Which would you pick? 😀
See ya later
Cathy
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