Today started poorly with an odd smoothie Incident, right out of the gate.
Breakfast started innocently enough, with a clean blender and a fridge full of fruit.
1 banana
1 cup of watermelon
1 orange
1 cup of blueberries
and...
a pear.
I love pears, but this guy was bad news- really fibrous. My first glass of smoothie was ok; I mean, drinkable but sort of stringy, and chunky where it wasn't stringy and not delicious. The blueberry skins were all flakey and pulpy and it was just terrible.
When I went back for the rest to top my glass up, it had totally gelatinized in the bottom of the blender into accidental pudding. I had to eat it with a spoon. I guess it was the cool temperatures in my kitchen with the pear pulp...so strange. Not at ALL what I wanted for breakfast!
Well, you win some and you lose some.
Knowing that there would be dessert at dinner, I was abstemious with my fats today and only had 10 almonds for a mid morning snack...well, that and two bananas. How could I forget about the bananas?
Lunch was a coconut water, a pear, an apple and some of the best organic dried apricots I have ever eaten.
If you think you know dried apricots, those leathery orange chewy beasts that come in trail mix, you don't. Trust me. Splurge, treat yourself to some organic ones. (If you like apricots, that is.)
The first thing you notice is that they are a totally different colour. Instead of a uniform orange, they are a dark, rich mottled brown. They are all different shapes and sizes...just as if they came from real fruit! Imagine! And the *smell*, oh my goodness. Like rich fruitcake and apricot brandy all rolled up into one. Heady! And instead of being tough and chewy, the skins puncture pleasingly with the first bite, releasing the sweet, succulent rich interior onto your palette. It tastes like sunshine and melts like warm fruity butter.
So heady, in fact, that I may have eaten at least 15 of them during the course of the day. I might have a problem. Do they make a 12 step programme for dried fruit? I might need one. Ever had a dried strawberry? My point exactly. Om nom.
As a result of all this dried fruit, my carbs for the day were sufficiently jacked (along with my calories) that I could wrestle dinner AND a piece of pie and come in at 80/15/5 for my percentages. Waaay low in protein still, especially since I worked out today.
OH, the strangest thing happened when I was working out! As a lark, I thought I'd see how many crunches I could do before my abs started to cramp. Normally I do sets of 50 at a time, and my abs start to get a little crampy around 35-40. But, not this time. I hit 50 without even trying, so I thought I'd just keep going until my abs cramped up.
I hit 120 before I got bored counting and just stopped- but I felt like I could go on forever. My muscles just didn't get oxygen starved. Crazy. I just poked them now and they're not sore at all. It's like I never did it. I'll try again tomorrow and report back.
Speaking of cramping muscles, I am getting some intestinal cramps from all those apricots. Learn from my weakness! Don't overdue the dried apricots.
Dinner was a spontaneous delight of Boston lettuce Mexi-wraps with guacamole, pico de gallo (home made!) yellow pepper, cilantro and cucumber. I had two. Also more DESSERT, holy jumpin' that apple cinnamon pie thinger is good.
Our random pico de gallo was:
1 onion
1 pint cherry tomatoes
pinch salt
pinch pepper
splash lime juice
1/2 cup cilantro
1 teeny hot red pepper
1 habanero
1/4 cup pickled jalapenos with jar sauce
pulsed in the food processor until tiny chunks.
WARNING: PRETTY SPICY!! It was so good I was eating it with a spoon. I miss spicy food.
I was a little sluggish getting up first thing, but once I'd showered and smoothied and walked the dog and puttered around I was on line enough to get a good workout in. I'm still feeling the effects of no caffeine, I'm guessing. I'm getting tired pretty easily in the evening. No headaches or anything today though, although my back is still a little stiff. I weighed myself this morning and I was still 170.2.
But, seriously, try the apricots.
the gelatinization is from the blueberries.you can use this to your advantage to make the *best*,and simplest blueberry tarts i have ever made- crust from the finely ground meal left over from making your own nut milk (save it in the freezer until you have enough.it goes off quickly) mixed with some raw agave and ground flax, pressed into the tins and set in the dehydrator, and raw blueberries pureed in the blender.skins and all, just pour it into the tart shells, and let sit until they gel.about an hourish.or you can do a full sized pie, the bluegoo will hold it's shape if you cut out a single slice. make sure you have some friends around because if you don't, you'll eat the whole thing.
ReplyDeletewow, this sounds amazing! I'll have to try this. :D
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