Happy….. THURSDAY!!!
I love all you guys so much. You leave some of the best comments ever! I especially love the ones that make me giggle. Too fun.
So I think this post might be more on the serious side of things because I want to talk about some pretty cool/inspiring/motivating/serious stuff. If you’d prefer to not go down this rabbit hole with me, than simply don’t take the red pill and leave after reading about the muffin and awake tea I had for breakfast. No hard feelings.
A pretty simple little breakfast. Tazo awake tea with almond milk and a Udi’s GF Lemon Streusel muffin.
I’m obsessed with the Udi’s blueberry muffins.
I had the cinnamon rolls on Christmas and they were alright but not that great….
So I branched out and tried these Lemon muffins today and holy cannoli they’re amazing. So moist and doughy, just how I like ‘em.
On my 1/2 Marathon training agenda today……….
3 mile run and strength training.
I loved all your ideas on how to do weight training on days with longer runs. So here’s what I’ve decided to do. I’m going to do total body training on Mondays when my schedule calls for ‘stretching and strength training’ and on Thursdays when I have both the run and strength I’m going to focus on upper body and abs. HAHA! I totally kicked this dilemma’s bootay… with the help of y’all of course.
I’m hoping to use the Nike Training Club app. The Get Focused portion of the app has a list of categories that are 15 minute circuits that focus on a specific area of muscles. I can chose between 3 arm/shoulder circuits, 1 abs circuit and 2 back circuits. It’s perfect.
Now, if you took the red pill………….. here we go.
I started reading this book last night and I couldn’t put it down. No, I haven’t read the entire thing cover to cover but I’m pretty darn close.
I’d be lying if I told you I’m a completely healthy eater because I’m not. I’ve dieted every single day since my senior year in high school (7 years). From all the stresses of college, dieting, and a few other things that I like to keep pretty vague here on this blog I became a binge eater. It’s how I dealt with—well, with everything. I think when someone gets hurt like I did it’s easier to not feel anymore. I chose eating because I could cover up my sadness, hurt and depression with food. And after that I started using food to cover up all feelings because it was safer to just skip them all together. I’d eat to cover up happiness, sadness, stress, anxiety, frustration, exhaustion.
I deleted my food diary app last night.
I also deleted my various calorie database bookmarks on my computer.
I’ve known I needed to ‘heal’ from my emotional eating for a while and most of last year (2011) was geared toward me starting that process. I went through a phase of eating everything I wanted and not counting a single calorie, which turns out to be one of the stages leading toward becoming an Intuitive Eater. And I’ve started attempting to become more attune to when my body is hungry vs. when it’s full, which turns out to be another stage in the process.
I’m ready to just be normal. Dieting is so exhaustive and I’m tired of being preoccupied with it all the time. Last fall I started just being me, goofy, overly excited about little stuff, and ultimately trying to take my focus from how I looked compared to others to simply living a happy life. This turns out to be another stage. Here I’ve been becoming an Intuitive Eater for the last year and I didn’t even know it.
