The days just seem to be all running together now. Tomorrow is my son’s 21st birthday and it is cooking night. In honor of his birthday I have chosen to prepare the food for everyone. We are having salmon from vital choice seafood in Alaska. This is where we have chosen to buy our salmon as it is wild caught and flash frozen so it is as close to fresh as it can be. When you order it they ship it two-day express so it is still frozen when it arrives. We are also having raw lasagna (it’s all veggies and yummy), a salad, and pumpkin tarts. The pumpkin tarts are raw as well and made with a secret ingredient (Shannon knows now). I had assistance from Shannon with the tarts, the cheese, and the pesto today which was nice. I hope that Shannon also enjoyed her day as much as I did. My hope is that it is all yummy. Because raw food is best served shortly after preparation I will be preparing it tomorrow at my lunch hour. Friday will be a filled day.
The start of my day began with a swim at the Kaliseum. It was amazingly busy at the pool today, I had to share a lane which was troublesome for both of us in the lane. Trying not to complain, but it allows you only to swim one stroke so that you don’t run in to the person sharing your lane. The swim was still good for me just not as hard as I would have liked. Then up to the treadmill for 10 minutes then to the elliptical for 1/2 hour. The hardest part about today was going to the gym with the group. Last night my chiropractor informed me that I needed to give my knee a rest, so I was restricted to low impact. Swimming, elliptical, walking on the treadmill, absolutely no jogging or running. So as the whole group was together working out I was on the elliptical by myself. I jokingly said that there was this conspiracy out there to get me to work out by myself, now I think the universe is in on it also. Mel had said on Monday that we needed to kick in the cardio, I will be kickin it in all right just not the way I would like. I have to admit though I sweated more last night than on Monday because I was unable to push myself on the cement running do to the pain I felt in my knees.
We talked about things that were holding us back too. Food, not exercising, other choices that we make. R said it was her husband jokingly (he use to be a chef) that he cooks way to good and it is difficult to say no. S said it was the stress at work, a lot of changes and more hours. Shannon and I were talking about food earlier and she said it is so easy to just do what you always did, that the mind has not come around 100% yet. She said we just don’t think we just do, and she use to beat herself up after she chose without thinking. Now she said she starts to head in a poor direction and says hey wait no I don’t want that. My thing today was a snickers bar I went into the store to pick something up for today’s prep and there it was and I was hungry so I grabbed it. That quick, that easy, without even blinking an eye or thinking about it. Opened it up in the car took a bite and said that doesn’t even taste good. Did I stop? No I bought it, I was hungry I ate. Did it fill me up? No. I hope I will think differently next time now that there is a little different awareness.
Till tomorrow – here is to awareness.
Doc
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