Woo hoo! This week flew by for some reason. Can’t believe it is Saturday morning already and I’m loving it. I got up super early to take my dad and Liz to the airport, and I’m stayin’ up to enjoy a nice long morning! You may not know this about me: I like having a long morning when I get up early. I know I’m totally a night owl usually, but when I get up early I relish in the earliness.
I ran out of like every food I ate yesterday, mostly after I had my portion for the day. Must do some major restocking today!
Yesterday was quite standard fare in the a.m. and for lunch, but deviated in the p.m.
Breakfast in the a.m. was my ever popular steel cut oats, water, almond milk, raisins, Barney Butter, and cinnamon. Mmm, mmm, good. Notice anything different? I decided I needed to spice up the pic somehow…
That’s the little Mexican ladybug bobblehead that sits on my desk. She thought the oats smelled great, too 😉
The morning went pretty quickly with the work I was doing, and around 12:30 I was at a stopping point and decided to go for lunch. Chris was still in a meeting, so I ate at my desk while reading blogs. Same thing as yesterday, except I ran out of spinach and only had rainbow slaw as the veg in my wrap.
I was in a chatty mood with my office mate, Kristin, and that helped pass the time as I worked. I really did get a lot done, tho, even tho I was talking.Â
Hunger came knocking eventually, so I had a Clif Nectar Cherry Pomegranate bar. There was a tiny piece of nut shell in it! Eeeek! I cannot stress how much I love the simple goodness of these bars since they only have four ingredients, are moist, have nutty chunks, and are 2 full servings of fruit. They are very sticky, tho, so I always hold them with the wrapper.
After a little last minute frustration at work over an employee not doing her job, we headed home and I began preparing dinner. I’m totally scared to mention what Chris had to eat…let’s just say it was a stroganoff prepared with meat from Canada from an animal with antlers 😦 I had no interest in eating it, even tho it pretty much looked and smelled like beef. A client of his brought him the meat and we’ve had it frozen for awhile. I’m glad to have finally cooked it and be moving on.
My dinner, on the other hand, was vegetarian as it turns out. I had a Gardenburger Riblet and steamed broccoli sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. I guess it was more like a dinner snack since it was so lite on the cals. I knew I was going to work out and didn’t want to feel bogged down. Yummy! Must restock on those riblets!
How do you like your broccoli? Chris loves his steamed until it’s a mushy mess, and I like mine on the al dente side.
My workout was good, and thankfully the gym was not very busy. A girl was smoking on the doormat to the front entrance (!!! :shocked: ); apparently she doesn’t know the law is to stand at least 10 feet from the door. Anywho, when I got onto the floor the weights were anywhere but where they were supposed to be, so I spent awhile re-racking what others had scattered about. Did my good deed for the day 🙂
I then set into a decent upper body workout with mostly free weights. I’m lovin’ the additional muscle mass I see 😮 My body naturally has a tendency to grow large arm and shoulders, and have a relatively little mid section and hips, so I look kinda Popeye ish sometimes. He-he. At one point some creepy asshole was staring at me and smirking while I was doing seated rows. Ew.
I hit up the Abench, standing side bends, and the ab cruncher machine in an effort to firm up the mid section. I swear my stomach is fatter than it was! Ahhhhhhh! But I do feel smaller and leaner in general. Oh, the drama.Â
Cardio was about 50 minutes of intervals on the elliptical. I was on there when 9pm rolled around, so I watched about 1/2 an hour of Lipstick Jungle before heading home. Since when did Joe Bennett go broke?! Wish I had a DVR.
I hadto clean up the kitchen, but I was also getting very hungry. No more cottage cheese, fruit, yogurt….and then it struck me…cereal! Yay! I like eating cereal but don’t do it very often. I had Essential 10 with almond milk. I like the cereal in general, but some of the chai spice pieces almost get stuck in my throat each time I eat it. I may not go for a repeat on it once I’m done.
Chris was watching “Highlander” (I had never heard of this series before meeting him; have you seen/heard of it?), and I decided it was time to hit the hay. My sleep has been suffering a bit, and I knew I had to get up at 4 for the trip to the airport.Â
Check this out–like the dork I am I set my alarm for 4 pm instead of 4am, but woke up anyway at 3:30-ish b/c I had to pee so bad, and stayed in bed until it seemed like it was after 4. Low and behold it was 4:15, so I had to get my ass going.  I totally got lucky there. Now it is about 6:15am and I may disassemble the Christmas tree and do some other house stuff. Lovin’ my long morning already, even tho I’m dead tired.Â
Chris’ parents are coming over Monday night for our Christmas celebration, so expect to see/hear about a lot of cleaning and organizing this weekend. We’re having pizza (yeah, I know), so no major food prep of any sort, but I just feel like the house is totally dingy and cluttered again. It is strange…his parents’ house is a cluttered, dirty nightmare, but I still feel obligated to make my house look spic’n’span when they come over. Gotta set a good example, ya know? 😉Â
Tata! Talk to y’all later. Have a great Saturday 🙂
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