Archive for November, 2009

Uuuugh

19 November 2009 by Elizabeth in Fitness, Food

Not feeling so hot!  At first I thought I was gluten-ed somehow on Saturday, but if that’s the case I was sicker than I’ve been from that in a long, long time.  In fact, I was sick so long (and so very, very sick) that I am wondering if there was something amiss with the tasty raw treats from the farmers’ market.  The gluten-ed symptoms (likely caused by the cheater cheater salsa that had malted barley in the flavoring) wore off after a day or so, and I was left with…well, it wasn’t good.  I didn’t eat at all yesterday, and I missed three runs and a yoga class.  In fact, I had to leave work at lunch and come home to sleep.

On the bright(er) side:

toasts

This is what I will be eating today.  Udi’s whole grain bread, toasted, with a little bit of earth balance.

Without getting into gross details, I have to say that I don’t know how I used to live with gluten!  Before I knew I was allergic, I had zero energy.  When I was 25, I had to take a nap at lunch in order to make it through a day at my full-time office job, and I would still sleep 10-11 hours every night.  I’ve always needed to own pants in a wide range of sizes, because when I get “hit” my stomach balloons up 3 or 4 sizes in a matter of hours.  I’ve really been enjoying not feeling like this!

I did get in a three mile walk last night, though part of it was a trip to the grocery store for some stomach meds.  I never take things like that, but desperate times call for desperate measures, right?  (Or shallow times…my dress for next weekend’s events arrives today and I can’t wait to try it on…but my stomach needs to cooperate!)  And I did some weights this morning – more on that later.

I am off to the office, toast in hand.

Blogfast in bed

16 November 2009 by Elizabeth in Food, Running

These long recap posts are stifling! :)   Especially since life continues to go on around them.  So, I am back for a regular Monday, and on schedule to be back in the saddle.

Breakfast:

gm-today

(Don’t act like you don’t know what that is.)

almond-milk

(Except you don’t know the cool part – I made my own almond milk!  Well, almond “mylk” from an Ani Phyo recipe.  More on that when I’m not trying to make it to work on time for freakin’ once.)

gm-dha

The green monster comes with a sidekick now – vegetarian DHA!  I have so much to say about that that I’ll save it for another post.

Lunch:

Raw veggie burgers!  Adapted from another Ani Phyo recipe.  Easy as pie, but much tastier.

burger-raw

Served on a romaine “bun” with avocado, radish sprouts, and a little bit of ketchup.

sprout-lid

Accompanied by raisins, almonds, and an apple (not pictured).  It’s like I’m five years old, but healthier.

POTM! POTM!

It is a month of acronyms for me.  NaNoWriMo, POTM, a never-ever-ending list of SharePoint code words (not really, but they sound more fun when I act like someone intentionally made the software difficult to get along with), and emails from my high school regarding my upcoming reunion (eek), full of acronyms because the school’s name is so embarrassingly long that everything we do must be abbreviated (MBA for short).  (No, that’s not code for ‘I’m going back to grad school,’ because I’m not. Yet.)

So I’ve been trying to POTM (Pile On The Miles), but my pile is a bit smaller than I had anticipated – I’ve only been averaging about 10 miles per week.  Matters weren’t helped by the fact that on my first run after my half marathon I FELL ON MY FACE at about, oh, mile 0.3 of a four mile run.  I finished that run, knees and lip bleeding all the while, mostly because I was meeting WB at the farmer’s market at the end of my run and had no way to get in touch with him.

I’ve been cramming in most of my miles on my lunch break, but it is still in the 80′s here much of the time (seriously now, it is NOVEMBER), so I’ve been looking forward to mornings like this one where I actually make it out of bed without an hour or so of snoozing.  I spent some quality time with the treadmill – just 1.2 miles, but it was my fastest 1.2 treadmill miles all year (and worth “missing” an extra 20 minutes of sleep to crawl into workout gear and stumble downstairs to the gym).

Off to work!  It’s pouring rain right now (and I don’t really want to leave my bed and my smoothie to go out and wait for the bus), but I’m hoping that will clear up so I can pile on some more lunchtime miles.  Happy Monday!!