Thanks to my dog, who is clearly an expert in sleep deprivation torture, I got a broken nights sleep last night so I was super groggy when I got up this morning. Fussy is the technical term, if you're keeping track. I again wasn't hungry, but maybe that's just how my body works. I always think that if I'm eating the proper amount, I should wake up after not eating anything for 7 hours and be starving, shouldn't I?
...Stupid body.
This super smoothie for breakfast fixed me right up though.
The Smoothtalkin' Red Head.
2 large carrots
1/3 cup ginger root
1 tangelo
1 cup blueberries
3/4 cup strawberry halves.
om nom.
Midmorning snack at work was a crazy juicy pear,
and Lunch was a banana, some more apricots (I'm an addict! Help!) and a double dose of those delicious sugar snap peas. AND RAW HUMMUS.
Holy moly guys, my local health food store stocks locally made sprouted chickpea raw hummus that is insanely good. It comes in wee little tubs and is pretty pricey, but I looked into making my own (after all, hummus is the Food Of My People-vegans, that is.) but I didn't have the wherewithal to sprout my own chickpeas this week. Problem SOLVED. What a powerhouse of goodness chickpeas are! And I only ate half the tub (1 serving) and was perfectly happy to save the rest until tomorrow. It was garlicky and nutty and chickpea-y and delish.
The chickpeas stood me in good stead through an extended mani/pedi/bitch session with my hilarious Vietnamese salon girls and most of the way home. Biking, however, made me super hungry.
Dinner Smoothie to the rescue!
I'm often fairly impatient when I'm hungry, so these dinner smoothies really come to the rescue. Minimal prep and cleanup, instant gratification. I had a massive sadface that we ran out of spinach yesterday, so I had to improvise. But it wasn't the same. Sadface.
1 banana
1 cup almond milk
1/2 cup halved strawberries
1 cup parsley
1 cup boston lettuce
1 cup broccoli.
Yep. Broccoli Smoothie, it has come to this. If nothing else, I know that if I ever get all my teeth knocked out I won't be without tasty food in liquid form.
I'm not sure if I'm done eating for today...Johnny's making magic in the kitchen and there could be good things happening.
However, as it stands, this is what I've eaten today! Chicks with Peas.
I weighed myself this morning, again before my Morning Constitutional and I was still 168.8. Which is weird because I feel like I look leaner. Maybe with all the extended walks I've been burning fat and putting on ze muscles? Only time will tell.
