It's Monday morning. Not my favorite time, but the sun is shining and I have piles to do today. A trademark registration to file, a complaint to finish answering, a letter to write to a client. I also should really mow the yard; I haven't done that in awhile, and it's a meadow out there, probably complete with wildlife. It's the letter and the complaint response that will take up most of my day. But I think I'll go for a walk first and get that done so that it doesn't get lost in the day.
I didn't sleep well last night; it was hot in my bedroom. Even with an outside temp in the 60s, that room gets warm. So I watched Mr. Brooks on the TV/VCR/DVD that hangs from the wall at the foot of my bed.
For breakfast (which I'm eating on time, now) I'm having a container of Activia (which is 70 calories). I'm also having two scrambled eggs and one slice of italian sourdough bread with 1 tbsp of peanut butter and a pat of butter.
I went for my walk. It's lovely down by the Mohawk River; the rowers were out, the river was blue, and the walk was quiet and comfortable. I walked back and forth along Riverside Park four times, for 6,326 steps. Took about 45 minutes. I'm sleepy now. Taking a nap for an hour will help that and freshen me up for getting my work done.
Damn, I'm hungry after eating those two eggs. The bread/peanut butter takes the edge off that. My mother used to tell me that eggs "stick to your ribs," meaning that you don't get hungry after eating eggs, but that isn't true; eggs make me hungrier, at least in the short term. Eggs, you see, have no fiber, nothing to fill my stomach. Just excellent protein, which is fine, but I can't (at this moment; this may change) eat eggs by themselves and expect to not be hungry afterward.
It's now 2 p.m., which is after my lunchtime. I forgot to eat at noon again, but I did take another (short) walk instead of the nap. So far today I'm up to 8,116 steps. Isn't 15,000 steps/day the goal for a fit person? I'm more than halfway there.
Lunch was a peanut butter sandwich on sourdough italian with 2 pats of butter, a plum and a can of diet ginger ale. I'm eating up the fattening-est (is that a word?) food as I start in with the walking regime. This is mostly because I have neither veggies nor money at this moment.
Tess and I went to BJ's to get food and paper towels tonight. $126 later, I have some chicken thighs, a lot of Activia yogurt, a bag of baby spinach, bleu cheese, and Tess has sausage, celery, and cranberry juice. We also have paper towels, aspirin and cat food — the damn cats eat better than we do based on the cost of their food — geez!!.
We went to Friendly's for dinner before BJs. It IS possible to eat healthy in Friendly's; you just have to order their salads and not order their ice cream or other dinner entrées. Make sure to tell them to put the dressing on the side, and that you want grilled, not crispy, chicken in the salad. Et voila! One healthy meal.
Of course, Friendly's isn't the only restaurant that needs to have its salad dressing curtailed; most of them slobber the stuff all over the salad, turning a perfectly good salad into caloric hell. I dip the leaves gently into the side-bound dressing and savor the flavor without guilt-tripping over the calories.
I had the apple-walnut-bleu cheese salad, which was quite tasty for a $10 meal that includes diet Coke and ice cream (I did not have the ice cream). I was hungry when we walked into the restaurant. Tess had a BBQ chicken sandwich. I wasn't even tempted. But I'm hungry now. Yes, I plan to eat a dish of ice cream tonight. Lite Mint Chocolate Chip. From Stewart's. Later.
Later came and I did indeed have a delightful dish of Lite Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream from Stewart's. It was delicious. I do love mint. And chocolate. I was hungry when I ate it, and am still a bit hungry but I'm going to bed now before I do any more damage.
Tomorrow is another day.
Oh, I walked 10,667 steps today. Not half bad for someone as sedentery as am I. I'll try to get up to 15,000 by the end of this week.
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