This week’s dessert:
WB and I split an apple (is there a food/health/fitness blogger in the country who didn’t eat apples this week? 
) with a supersecret dipping sauce; the tea is all mine. (If you must know, the dipping sauce contains cinnamon, cloves, agave, nutritional yeast, and coconut oil, in that order. My nutrtional yeast cravings were out. of. control. But I swear you can’t taste it in there with the spicy spices.)
I hadn’t planned on dessert for the week, but I was starving after dinner! And I had so, so, so much energy…normally I’m falling asleep on the couch around 9:30 while WB watches TV or works, but the hours after 9:30 saw me doing two loads of laundry, packing my lunch, catching up on email, and reading several chapters without so much as a drooping eyelid.
My nearly-raw lunch served me well all week, though it was a leetle bit slimy by Thursday. (I’m looking at you, bean sprouts.)
Can you spot the unhealthy part of this lunch? Is it the crispy romaine? The tender but raw broccoli? The raw “stir-fry”? No! It’s the mouse and phone!
All wrapped up and no place to go…clearly, because I just eat at my desk every day. That is changing, because it makes me nuts.
We went out for an office birthday lunch on Friday. The menu had lots of great vegetarian options (the birthday boy chose it with me in mind ), but not much in the way of gluten-free options. I got a tasty mozzarella, spinach, red pepper and tomato sandwich minus the bread, which came with awesome potato salad.
I’m not a potato person, and I’m not usually a mayonnaise salad person. This place makes the creamiest, pickle-iest, dilliest potato salad you could ask for. I have loved it ever since I moved to this city, though I probably won’t miss it once I go. Why do I say all this? Perhaps it is a thinly veiled confession that I ate nearly that whole scoop of potato salad. I couldn’t finish the “sandwich” part, though, let alone the shot glass of dressing.
My nearly-raw food week was so delightful that I’m doing a very-slightly-modified repeat next week! How delightful was it? How about -703 on the inflammation scale according to nutritiondata.com….
Or, if you prefer, because it’s not quite 40/30/30 in the carb/protein/fat split, how about some amazingly high concentrations of vitamins and minerals?
It’s not perfect, but I’ll take it. Even if somehow my food only provided half of what NutritionData calculates, I’d be feeling pretty jazzed about it. And since the crazy-healthy food was so easy and successful, I’m planning to be fully back on the working-out bandwagon this week. I only ran once this week, though WB and I went for some substantial walks and I worked my tail off at yoga on Tuesday. I’m not going to broadcast my running plan in advance, though, because it seems that makes me too anxious about whether or not I’ll actually complete it