Happines is a healthy gut.

Never is a healthy gut more appreciated than after a bout with a bug.  This was definitely a full twelve-round fight but I am happy to report the final victor: me.  Like I mentioned previously, something got me late Saturday evening making Sunday just plain miserable.  With serious fortune on my side, I felt good enough to start my new job this Monday, but I was not at my best.  By Wednesday I had lost a total of 4.5 lbs. and I was getting very dehydrated, with the chapped lips and cracked cuticles to show for it.  But now it's been a full week and I'm back in the game, reconstituting my innards and eating like a human being instead of an anemic sparrow.

I abandoned my food journal for most of the week since it was more important I ate at all vs. what I chose to eat.  But today I'm so happy to have my appetite back that with vigor and enthusiasm I am chowing my way through the day.  So far (and from memory as my food journal is still non-gratis), I have consumed: 2 banana/walnut pancakes, numerous cups of tea with real sugar and soy creamer, rye toast, rice crackers, another banana, jelly beans, an apple and I am right this very second eyeballing a piece of Christmas chocolate.  But starting tomorrow, I resume journaling, thoughtful food choices and exercise.  Yes.  Exercise.  ~sigh~

I will typically exercise in the evening since there's just never enough time to squeeze it in in the morning, but my choice would be to workout in the morning, for sure.  It sets the tone for the day, gets the furnace burning, not to mention gets it out of the way.  But I no longer have that time argument; my new commute is a scant 1/2 hour and I don't have to report to the office until a luxurious 8:30AM.  What's my excuse now?  No, really, any ideas?  Anybody??

I went grocery shopping this morning and with a tummy full of pancakes, I was making it a point to pay attention to my non-hunger-driven food choices.  They were all very vegan.  As such I didn't buy myself eggs, cheese or yogurt.  I fully believe this is the way I'm meant to eat, as difficult as it could be to keep a balanced meal plan.  So when Hubby announced a few hours ago "I think I want steak tonight for dinner" I jumped right on board.  "Ooh!  That sounds good!".  Wait... what?  I'm not even going to pursue that one.  I'm so scattered right now, maybe I shouldn't be blogging today at all.  Ack!

But with all seriousness (and only for a minute), tomorrow I'm back on track.  I'll be putting together an exercise routine for next week, planning my lunches the nights before, logging my food, logging my points, taking pix, taking names and kicking @ss. 

And to mark my triumphant return to the human realm, I gave myself bangs.  I think they make me look a liiiiittle younger.  Maybe.  Or they make me look like a 50 year old woman desperately trying to look younger.  ~snork~