Zombie Day

So I set my alarm for 4:30 am, thinking I would bike to work. Wrong! It was cold and dark, and kinda rainy from yesterday, also I was dead tired and hit the snooze button. So when I did get up I made myself a spinach, apple, raspberry, banana, and blueberry smoothie. I used half a banana and used the rest in my banana old-fashioned oatmeal, which also had cinnamon and bit of honey. I drove to work thank goodness!

When my sleep pattern gets messed up, so apparently does everything else. I rarely eat bread/toast, and I did 4 pieces in total while I was at work! Horrible! My intentions were originally good I had 1 piece of toast half with jam half with honey and my own granola bar with tea, as my snack. Then before my break was over I had another piece of toast, and a quarter of an apple with PB. This is where I become ashamed! Then a bunch of freshly baked muffins accidentally broke as we were putting them out for display, so of course I nibbled on those throughout the day. Probably about 2 in total..

Then somehow I figured, I still needed more food. I had our homemade hearty lentil and vegetable bean stew, which is very healthy, but I wasn't even hungry and of course, I had my 3rd and 4th pieces of bread! Dear lord this day was a failure. Then I felt crappy and bloated until 2pm when I got off work. At 2 before I left I made myself a simple banana, apple, and ice smoothie, to sort of refresh me.
PS: sorry for the bad pictures, I was in a rush taking them at work, because my co-workers think I am weird/anal for taking pictures of my food! haha

When I got home, I was so dead tired I could barely get out of the car. I went and read and dwelled over this day of overeating and wayyy too much carbs! But, it really is only one day, and I have to cut myself some slack, especially when I am overtired and not even thinking/functioning normally. So I am not eating anything for the rest of the day because I am still so full, and I really have probably eaten double my normal calorie intake. Tomorrow is a new day, and I don't want to let myself worry about today because I know then I will think "whatever, I already messed up."

Anyways, enough about food. I am so sore from yesterdays mini-muscle workout, my calves and pectorals hurt so much form the calve raises and push-ups. Even though I stretched and ate protein... Also my hamstrings really hurt from biking. Tomorrow morning I plan to have a smoothie for brekky and that's it and do some stretches and maybe do some shopping and packing, even though I don't move out until the 25th. Until then, Tata for now.
Tomorrow will be a much more respectable post, trust me.

First Day of Food Journal!

So I am so excited, I couldn't even wait until the end of the day to post.

For brekky I had a mug of my breakfast looseleaf tea. It has peppermint and green tea, my favourites.
Then I made myself a spinach, apple, banana, and blueberry smoothie. It worked out perfectly, not to sweet, but I still couldn't taste the spinach. I used about a handful and a bit of spinach, 1/3 of an apple(peeled), half a banana, and about 1 cup of blueberries. The consistency and amount it produced was really good two, especially considering this is only the 2nd green smoothie I have ever made. I had this with a small bowl of puffed quinoa cereal and plain unsweetened almond milk, with a few fresh blueberries from a local farmers market. I usually load my cereal with blueberries, but I already had plenty in the smoothie.
After this, I decided I wanted a little bit more so I took out a small granola bar from the freezer(part of the batch I made a few days ago) and had a half glass of plain unsweetened almond milk. The granola bars are just okay. The have old fashioned rolled oats, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, currants, dates, and cinnamon for spice. I used water to bind these and didn't add anything for sweetness besides the dried fruit.
Overall, I'd say this was a pretty good breakfast for day 1. Now I am off to do some calve raises, hamstring and glute exercises, as well as abdominal and oblique work. Plus push-ups. Unfortunately there is supposed to be a thunderstorm and rain later today, so I probably won't bike to work. I love rain and storms, but I wanted to get in some cardio. Oh well!

Before I biked to Cyclepath to get some fenders put on I had a snack of Mary's Organic Crackers and a nori sheet. These crackers are so good. They are wheat and gluten free, with no added oils or fats!

Getting fenders put on at Cyclepath took forever! I got home at about 1:45 and had to be at work at 3. I originally planned to have edamame beans, steamed broccoli, and brown rice. But due to the rush factor I made quinoa instead of rice. It was still really good, except for the fact that I had to scarf it down. Then at about 5:30 at work I had an organic mixed greens salad with currants and a rasberry vinagrette. The rasberry vinagrette I get from our local farmer's market(it's a local company).I felt pretty silly taking a picture of my salad at work! I don't know how this will work in the future. Otherwise day 1 went really well, I worked until 10 pm, however I accepted a 6am-2pm shift for tomorrow! That means I have to get up at 4:45am! I guess we'll see how that turns out.