Day 1 of Eating Healthy and Not Drinking

Since I haven't had a crafternoon in, like, 3 years I decided to blog about getting started on my healthy eating habits in hopes it will help me stick to it.  I did South Beach a year or so ago and it was very effective.  Probably because I drink like an old fisherman and during the first 2 weeks you don't have alcohol.  So, I'm trying to eat healthy (relatively South Beachy) and to give up the drink. Also, we are exercising at the gym. So…

5:30am the alarm goes off.  Since Aldrian's alarm has not been set to the correct time since 2003 we rely on my alarm.  It is hard to fake that you don't hear the alarm when it is on your side of the bed.  I turn it off, yell at the dogs to "Lay Down!" "Lay Down Lay Down LaaaaayDooooown LayDownLayDownLayDown".  Aldrian gets up.  Why at any other time will he pretend to sleep like the dead but for the gym and skateboarding he jumps up like someone offered up cake for breakfast?  Mmmmm, caaaaake.  How am I going to survive this day?

Shoulders and Chest today.  My shoulders have been sore for 6 months.  I thought this was supposed to get easier.  I wake up when there are only 10 minutes left in the workout "Why am I so sweaty?  Oh, yeah, we're at the gym!" 

Breakfast is not bad.  An egg with spinach, onion and some garlic.  So tired.  Must remember to brush my teeth again because now my breath smells like a morgue.

Mondays in my company are useless for working, most especially after the holiday.  The workday begins with doing my manager's expenses which is always frustrating because you get to see how much your company is willing to spend on other people.  The website we are now forced to use is looping repeatedly and then kicking me out without saving my entries.  Normally this would annoy me to the point of mumbling creatively streamed curses and sending seething emails but I'm too damned tired and hungry.

String cheese is not a quesadilla.

Go for a walk with my coworker.  It is 85 degrees outside and I'm wearing jeans.  We are both sweating by the time we get back and I'm about to pass out from hunger.

Make a salad for lunch.  Try to top it with a Publix brand veggie burger which I (as usual) cook in the toaster.  Publix brand veggie burgers suck ass.  The burger gets stuck in the toaster.  When I try to get it out with tongs, two forks, a knife….and yes, I did unplug it first…the thing crumbles into the toaster.  Now I am starving but I have to clean out the toaster because everyone uses it to make toasted sandwiches.  I'm swearing under my breath now because the veggie burger is stuck everywhere and I'm about to eat the god damned toaster I'm so hungry.  I go over and eat a few bites of my salad hoping to appease The Savage Beast but it's not working.  I think the toaster is finally clean enough.  I get another annoying veggie burger and put it in the microwave for 20 seconds to thaw it out before I put it in the toaster over.  When I go to pull it out of the microwave it falls apart.  I put it in the toaster oven anyway.  Let's see….3 dials…I see "toast" let's go with that.  10 minutes!  Holy jesus I will die before this veggie burger is done.  I put the burger in and go to eat my salad.  Other people come in to the lunch room.  "What is burning?"  "Coworker, is that your bread burning?"  "I don't think so I put it on the lowest setting!"  It's my leftover veggie burger about to catch fire in the toaster where she unknowingly is trying to toast her bread.  I say nothing.  Finally the toaster oven is done and I eat my salad.

A salad is not a hamburger.

I never complete the expense reports because the system keeps going down.  Email IT and they say "I noticed mine's been going down too all day and it still is.  I'll tell someone".  Awesome. You do that.  HOW do these people still have a job??!!

Dinner is tilapia and Stephanie's blackbean/corn salad which I added buckwheat noodles to.  We love buckwheat noodles these days.  They are thin and cook very quickly.  Aldrian likes to cook which is great for me.  He has one piece of tilapia and I have two because I am feeling like my blood sugar is getting low.  Now he has tilapia for tomorrow and I have nothing.

At 7:30pm I'm starving and I want chocolate cake.  I forgot you could have yogurt on South Beach and didn't buy it at the grocery store on the way home.  Motherfucker.  I did buy almonds though.

Almonds are not chocolate cake.