Run Away with Me

Day 34 - Saturday.  I woke with a deep restlessness this morning.  My husband had to work overtime, so my Saturday morning companion won't be home until after 11am.  I began to reach for my workout clothes and consider my morning workout, but instead chose to eat breakfast in my pjs and savor a cup of hot tea.  I don't just want to do a morning workout today.  I want to go into the woods and hike or kayak at the lake.  I need to be "not here" today, but "there" - somewhere out in nature, being active and completely in my body and not in my head.

Counting calories has been good for me, in my weight loss efforts.  I can feel it.  Knowing I can eat a quarter cup of whole, raw almonds for 170 calories makes me happy.  Not reaching for more almonds (or pistachios or walnuts or cashews) for the rest of the day wasn't too hard of an adjustment.  I did add in some popcorn to mix things up, turns out I just really enjoy crunchy food.  It is on my mental to-do list to cut up some carrots and celery and put in the nice containers I bought just for that purpose, to keep on hand in my fridge.  I make a great vegetable dip with plain Greek yogurt and light mayonnaise seasoned with some garlic powder and lots of dill.  But of course, I have to actually make it.

I have been lazy in my cooking efforts for a few days.  I am still eating healthy foods, but just very simple.  As pictured above, a cut up apple sprinkled with cinnamon was perfect for a mid-afternoon snack yesterday.  Fruit really is nature's fast food.  For dinner, I had half a bag of popcorn, 6 whole wheat Triscuits with a piece of mild cheddar cheese broken into 6 pieces and a cherry Greek yogurt.  I am not proud of this dinner, but there you have it.  Sometimes you just do what you can do (or make do with what you have).  When I woke in the middle of the night with my stomach growling from my poor (lazy) dinner choices, I told myself tomorrow will be better - I will make it to the grocery store to stock up on vegetables and salad fixings or eat out and shop on Sunday.

This is me in real life.  And me wanting to escape real life for the day.  Running away from home and into the woods...

Until next time...  Be well!
~Tracy

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Getting Back to Basics

Image
Day 37 - Tuesday.  There was a full moon last Friday, so the waning moon is still quite large and bright in the sky.  It is beautiful.... except when it is shining into my bedroom so brightly that it disrupts my sleep.  We recently took down our bedroom curtains to paint and the rods never made it back up yet.  Today it is at the top of my priority list when my husband gets home from work. I am an introvert.  I don't concentrate well when there is too much chaos or people in and out of my work space.  Right now my living room is full of teenage boy/man energy, as my son's friend spent the night and they sacked out on the couches.  I am wearing my headphones as I write, so I can listen to the sound of soothing water bubbling instead of hearing them and all of their sleep breathing. Yesterday everything took its toll on me and I climbed into my bed and put my eye mask and ear phones on, before pulling a pillow over my head and calling a time out.  I stayed there, falling in
Read more

Anxiety is Sneaky! (But Strive on Heedfully)

Image
Day 24 - "Strive on heedfully and be ever mindful to see the world as it truly exists, without envy, without judgment, without hatred... to do this, one must know oneself intimately to understand the source of happiness or unhappiness that exists within" .  - Siddartha/Budda. This was a quote given to me by a gentleman who came to pick up Chinese Food at the restaurant where I worked, when I was fifteen years old.  I never knew what made him express that to me.  I often wondered over the years if some angelic force whispered for him to share it with me.  I think I still have the original writing somewhere in a dusty box, but it doesn't matter because the words became etched to memory long ago. Yesterday, I had planned on attending that Gentle Yoga class that I raved about last week.  I was truly looking forward to it and then suddenly, 90 minutes before class would've started, I had this "episode".  It was as if someone pulled the battery out of my
Read more

Watermelon Icy

Image
Day 27 - Saturday.  This morning, after taking my daughter to get her sports physical for school, I took her bathing suit shopping.  She is 12.  That is stressful enough for a mom, but I decided maybe I should try a few two piece suits on myself, while we were there.  We left with a very cute bathing suit, age appropriate, bikini-style for my smiling daughter and a pack of gum to soothe myself from all of the trauma that occurred in my dressing room.  My husband later asked me about it and I said, "of this we shall not speak". So recently, I honestly can't remember if I saw this on facebook, read it somewhere or watched a video - I have the feeling someone was talking to me about it, but for some reason it is wiped clean from my memory.  So, if anyone knows who to give proper credit to for this idea, please post a comment and I will certainly do so! The directions for this watermelon icy are so easy and uses only one ingredient - watermelon.  It said to cut th
Read more