Tough Decisions - Days 11 and 12

Day 11 - Bailed again! Stupid sore hip. Sheesh.

Day 12 - TKD Class (11 workouts in 12 days)

 Let's talk food, shall we?

I mentioned a few posts ago that I am working with the indomitable Georgie Fear on fixing up my nutrition, one habit at a time. Right now my challenge is to stop eating when I'm SATISFIED instead of when my plate is empty, or when the munchies go away, or when I've run out of time, or when I'm full. It's surprisingly difficult! Especially if eating is happening because of something other than physical hunger...which happens to me a lot. There, I said it.

But here's the cool thing: I am done with ridiculous crazy nutrition experiments that are designed to make you drop lots of weight really fast. Those programs, even if they do work over the short term, invite lots of messed up food behaviour later on when the experiment is done, and I am living proof that they are a recipe for disaster in the fat loss department. So this time I am out to conquer all the baggage surrounding food that has piled up in my brain over the years, and do it RIGHT so that it (the baggage AND the fat) doesn't come back.

Anyway, it's coming, but actually listening and responding to hunger cues is like trying to re-learn a language I haven't used since I was five years old. I'll keep you posted! But we're goin' back to working on getting some weight off 'cause there's stuff to train for!

Yesterday I had a tough decision to make: I had enough spinach left for EITHER a smoothie OR an egg white omelet. Since both of those are meals I consume daily, clearly one of them was going to have to go without greens: a catastrophic turn of events! Oh well, I thought - I am putting powdered greens and matcha in the smoothie so it'll be green anyway...

I started the omelet, which was to be lunch for at work. As it was cooking, I started throwing stuff into the magic bullet for the breakfast smoothie: raspberries, greens powder, matcha, chia seeds, almond butter, whey protein, almond milk, then it hit me.

I did have veggies for the omelet - I had broccoli and green beans in the freezer! Whoohoo, score! (I am easily pleased in the morning.) But the spinach was already cooked with garlic so I couldn't see scooping it into the smoothie. What if...no, that's gross.

Wait a second. Most people would already say this smoothie looks gross. I mean, it's GREY. I dumped the green beans and broccoli in with the raspberry/almond/banana concoction and buzzed it all together. And you know what? It was kind of okay.