Well, I have not been as productive with my training as I had hoped. I’ve walked outside for 3 miles once during week 1 and once during week 2. I’ve also been doing Sri Sri yoga once per week as well. My body is sore most days and I KNOW that it wouldn’t be as sore IF I was to get moving more!
That is the goal of week 3: MOVE, more often!!!
SuperFoods: broccoli
Oven roasted broccoli with olive oil and garlic salt with parsley
Inspired from a recipe of Giada de Laurentiis. The bow-tie pasta was for my family, but I used the other ingredients to make a rice bowl for myself.
SuperFoods: brown rice, butternut squash, asparagus, olive oil
Broiled prawns and asparagus, with bow tie pasta and creamy butternut squash sauce
brown rice with butter, salt and pepper
asparagus
shrimp
butternut squash sauce
basil and Parmigiano-Reggiano
Deelish!
A typical lunch:
SuperFoods: some of the lettuce (spring mix), tomatoes, sea bass, olive oil
Spring mix salad with tomatoes, croutons and basil vinaigrette
Another rice bowl:
SuperFoods: brown rice, green beans, garlic, olive oil
garlic broiled shrimp and green beans and brown rice
March 15, 2019:
Ingredients: steel cut oatmeal, blueberries, bananas, cinnamon, nutmeg and honey
SuperFoods: oats, blueberries, cinnamon, honey
March 17, 2019 – breakfast on the go, in a container:
Ingredients: cottage cheese, blueberries, strawberries, cinnamon, nutmeg and honey
SuperFoods: blueberries, strawberries, cinnamon, honey
March 19, 2019 – pull-apart pineapple:
Ingredients: pineapple and cottage cheese with cinnamon, nutmeg and honey
SuperFoods: pineapple, cinnamon, honey
Snacks: platter of fruit and some fruit to take on the road
SuperFoods: apples, pears, oranges, grapes, almond butter, pineapples, strawberries
Deciding to begin reading this book right now, tonight, right before I remove my contact lenses and close my eyes for the night, was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
Recently I’ve been trying to work on shutting up the incessant chatter that goes on in my mind. It nags me about the smallest, most insignificant of things. It rambles on and on about the bigger situations that I must wade through in life and love and relationships.
It just talks and yaks and argues and debates with no one, or with itself…I’m really not sure who the hell it thinks it’s talking to in there.
All I know is that I want it to shut the hell up! I want quiet. I just want to think about absolutely nothing, or NOT think at all. And the very last thing that will assist me with that is this endless dialogue that goes on in my head about EVERYthing that I experience.
So, picking up this amazing book at this moment was perfect divine timing. That first chapter explained in wonderful detail what that voice is, who it’s talking to, why it’s talking so much and what it is so artistically and craftfully doing to aid in the creation of my life experiences.
I have a new found appreciation and respect for that voice now. It is telling a story…my story. And I am the observer, listening to it.
I don’t want it to shut up after all. I will simply be aware of it, listen to it and observe what it is creating for me: a customized and personalized life experience of the reality that is all around me.
I am ever so grateful for that voice now.
Looking forward to reading chapter 2 tomorrow night!
Brisk 3 mile walk.
In the cold.
Body is still sore.
That is all.
I completed my last 5k a year ago in March 2018. It’s time to do it again. I have not been working out for a couple of months now because of a sore Achilles tendon, so I have some work ahead of me.
With exactly 9 weeks to prepare for this 5k, I wrote down my plan. I’ll be doing combination walk/runs over these weeks, working my way up to running 3.1 miles nonstop. That is my goal.
I’ve completed 5ks in the past, but only ran one almost completely, minus about 30 seconds of walking up a hill towards the end. So now, my goal is to run nonstop.
My speed matters NOT. I just want to run the thing. No walking. No stopping.
I’m going to run it.
Progress post to come…
Where Is Hope Taking You? 