Had a hard day today...emotionally I guess. Not even sure why. But I will say this- I wanted to eat a chili cheese dog, an old fashioned doghnut with chocolate icing, a hot fudge sundae. Yeah that's apparently my coping mechanism- food. Not new news but man it's gettin' old. So anyway I didn't eat any of those things, in fact it's almost 10 pm and I an still have 100 more calories before I hit 1200. Wow! So glad I wrote that! Because I already feel better.
OK so I thought I'd look for my picture before I started my exercise and right eating program, and one after a year and a half. It's about a 60 pound difference. AND THIS MAKES ME FEEL BETTER, TOO.
So here's a couple of pics of me and my love.
My dinner tonite was awesome. I had my own version of crab louie. I mean close to original...I just 8 ounces of crab, hard boiled egg whites (3 eggs worth), half an avacado, lettuce of course, and then the dressing was mayo and ketchup, but- 1 tablespoon low fat mayo & 1 tablespoon regular so only 71 calories. The whole thing was just a little over 400 calories. I will be honest and say I really miss have any french bread with it. Gonna have to look at the calories for french bread, but bread is always not so great on the calorie count. And letting myself have only 1200 a day- well french bread is probly going to have to wait a while. ha ha
Well I shoulda put this picture up by the one with me holding up the lobsters. Oh and by the way- we had a bunch of lobsters and OMG were they ever good!! That's one thing about Playa Ventura- the best and biggest lobsters ever...and for just a few pesos...and sometimes for free! If we had lived there longer Everardo would have started bringing them home so much I would have actually gotten tired of eating them! Wow right? But the fact is, in Ensenada I did get tired of eating crab. Ensenada is where I started my new way of eating and I ate mostly crab, chicken, and shrimp. The chicken and shrimp have stayed, but the crab season up here didn't open until a couple of weeks ago because of the toxicity, so now I'm craving it again! There's a place here called the fish peddler- they apparently have a boat, probably a couple of them, and they have a lot with a big tent and some refrigeration units. They're selling fresh crab, fish, scallops, etc. In Mexico we'd buy crab and then I'd divide it into 8 ounce bags and freeze it. Sam with shrimp. I know fresh is best, but since I froze it immediately, it all tasted.......well.......FABULOUS! So they will have fresh crab for another month of so I believe.
So I exercised this morning. My hike has become a hike and a run. I don't think I can run half of it yet, but I'm getting there. My first time was an hour and a half. Then I got it down to about an hour and 5 minutes. The last 2 days I've done 52 minutes. But tomorrow I think I'm going to dance my zumba because my legs are aching...my ankles, my shins...yeah will I become a runner? I don't know. But this morning a weird thing happened. I ran the last part of the trail, and I wasn't breathing hard anymore, I kinda noticed all of a sudden, like I could have just kept on running- in the zone I think it's called. Kinda cool.
Anyway this afternoon I went to Buddhism class and I actually understood more than I have in the previous classes and that was also kinda cool. So I started out this post saying I had a hard day...but those fleeting feelings of resentment were early this morning and went away pretty quick because (I think) I recognized them as resentment, and I know that does zero for me. So as I ran I said "let it go let it go let it go"....and "take from the belly fat take from the belly fat" ha ha ha yes I actually chant that when I run. Oh and when I got home, Everardo had fixed the used ab lounger thing I bought so now I've started working on that damn belly fat. I know I read all the time that you can't spot reduce, but the ab lounger thing I had in Ensenada (same type as now) did help. So I'm going for it. Everardo also got a weight bench and weights at a garage sale last weekend, so both things are set up on the patio in the backyard- crap I hope there's room for me to dance in the morning.
Ok this is a really short post but it's after 11pm and I gotta go to sleep. And writing is one of the ways I work thru things, and it worked! I saw today for how it was, and let go of the tiny portion where I got ticked off early this morning, over basically nothing. Feels good. I love my life. Viva.
Oh some Ukiah fun facts:
Ukiah is the county seat and largest city of Mendocino County, California, 16,000 people
Seat of the first county in America to ban the use of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in agriculture.
Home of the first Girls & Boys Buddhist High School in the nation. One of the few courses where you can see spawning steelhead and grazing wild turkeys while you play.
So here's a couple of pics of me and my love.
Well I shoulda put this picture up by the one with me holding up the lobsters. Oh and by the way- we had a bunch of lobsters and OMG were they ever good!! That's one thing about Playa Ventura- the best and biggest lobsters ever...and for just a few pesos...and sometimes for free! If we had lived there longer Everardo would have started bringing them home so much I would have actually gotten tired of eating them! Wow right? But the fact is, in Ensenada I did get tired of eating crab. Ensenada is where I started my new way of eating and I ate mostly crab, chicken, and shrimp. The chicken and shrimp have stayed, but the crab season up here didn't open until a couple of weeks ago because of the toxicity, so now I'm craving it again! There's a place here called the fish peddler- they apparently have a boat, probably a couple of them, and they have a lot with a big tent and some refrigeration units. They're selling fresh crab, fish, scallops, etc. In Mexico we'd buy crab and then I'd divide it into 8 ounce bags and freeze it. Sam with shrimp. I know fresh is best, but since I froze it immediately, it all tasted.......well.......FABULOUS! So they will have fresh crab for another month of so I believe.
So I exercised this morning. My hike has become a hike and a run. I don't think I can run half of it yet, but I'm getting there. My first time was an hour and a half. Then I got it down to about an hour and 5 minutes. The last 2 days I've done 52 minutes. But tomorrow I think I'm going to dance my zumba because my legs are aching...my ankles, my shins...yeah will I become a runner? I don't know. But this morning a weird thing happened. I ran the last part of the trail, and I wasn't breathing hard anymore, I kinda noticed all of a sudden, like I could have just kept on running- in the zone I think it's called. Kinda cool.
Anyway this afternoon I went to Buddhism class and I actually understood more than I have in the previous classes and that was also kinda cool. So I started out this post saying I had a hard day...but those fleeting feelings of resentment were early this morning and went away pretty quick because (I think) I recognized them as resentment, and I know that does zero for me. So as I ran I said "let it go let it go let it go"....and "take from the belly fat take from the belly fat" ha ha ha yes I actually chant that when I run. Oh and when I got home, Everardo had fixed the used ab lounger thing I bought so now I've started working on that damn belly fat. I know I read all the time that you can't spot reduce, but the ab lounger thing I had in Ensenada (same type as now) did help. So I'm going for it. Everardo also got a weight bench and weights at a garage sale last weekend, so both things are set up on the patio in the backyard- crap I hope there's room for me to dance in the morning.
Ok this is a really short post but it's after 11pm and I gotta go to sleep. And writing is one of the ways I work thru things, and it worked! I saw today for how it was, and let go of the tiny portion where I got ticked off early this morning, over basically nothing. Feels good. I love my life. Viva.
Oh some Ukiah fun facts:
Ukiah is the county seat and largest city of Mendocino County, California, 16,000 people
Seat of the first county in America to ban the use of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in agriculture.
Home of the first Girls & Boys Buddhist High School in the nation. One of the few courses where you can see spawning steelhead and grazing wild turkeys while you play.
