After 14 hours of work all day (Sports Night at school so I just stayed) and after hours with co-workers, I’m totally whipped. The good news is that my shin splints feel a ton better and I was able to participate and play with the kids tonight without pain. If the weather is nice this weekend I hope to get back out there with at least a jog.
Today I made a big personal realization about how food is almost always the focal point of ALL social gatherings. Granted this week has been an unusually social week, but in every occasion food was the central part of each meeting. Don’t get me wrong, breaking bread together is essential and eating is a necessity to all humans, but lets be honest folks, as Americans we go overboard. We think that more is better and at least in my house, we end up having to waste food because we buy so much and can’t even eat it all after parties…or better yet we (or at least I) shovel it in so as not to waste. And I’m not talking about organic greens…I’m referring to beautiful social food like chips and homemade guac, deviled eggs, beer, mimosas, pizza, bread and butter, éclairs, etc… I used to mindlessly eat in my more social and unaware days and had no idea how much calories and fat I was mindlessly taking in.
Today’s food journal:
Breakfast- Coffee with stevia and rice milk, 1 poppy seed bagel with butter (my once a month bagel splurge)
Lunch- Vegetarian Cobb Salad (greens, cabbage, carrot, hard boiled egg, avocado, grated mozzarella cheese, fake bacon, and chick peas with a honey dijon dressing) and an all natural iced tea from the health food store. Note: this salad was out of this world….I didn’t want it to end! Everything was super tasty, I’m for sure making this at home.
Snack- 1 chocolate chip cookie and 3 mini peanut butter cookies. Not a smart food choice but I was starving by about 4p and someone came around with cookies. Make sure I always have something healthy in my bag or my desk to aid me in weak moments
Dinner- Went out to dinner with co-workers during a work break. I actually boycotted the penne pasta cheese ecstacy dish at the last minute for something healthier and more creative. To start I had a good sized goat cheese and sunflower seed salad with spinach leaves and a balsamic dressing and as my main entre I had a 6 piece sushi roll (salmon, seaweed, cream cheese), margarita (as a splurge with my collaueges), and a few pieces of fried calamari. Opted out of another drink and the white bread…especially since I had a bagel this morning).
Snack- At about 10p I headed over to a co-workers house for a little after school party. The kitchen was decorated with amazing food. I knew that I couldn’t leave unscathed so I snacked a bit. I had a small cup of fruity punch with strawberries (there was some kind of alcohol in it but not sure what), a sliver of Mediterranean looking pizza (olives, artichokes, etc..), 3 mini bite sized cream puffs, 2 mini bite sized shrimp puffs, and a bite of a deviled egg. It was hard not going crazy because everything was homemade and fabulous.
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