My Grandparents Eat like Birds

I’m moving to California tomorrow.

I’m moving in with my grandparents who I’ve rarely talked to in the last 20 years.  This should be interesting right? In fact, I talked to them on the phone yesterday for the first time in probably 15 years.  That’s really no exaggeration.  They asked me if a roll-away bed or an air mattress would be better.  They asked me what I ate and if I was a vegetarian.  I told them what I’ve been eating and they said “Oh! Well you’ll fit in here nicely!”

I’m sure I’ll have no problem losing weight living with them, they honestly eat like birds, but really so do I.  I feel like I eat a lot but my stomach has become tiny.  My stepdad says that I hardly eat anything.  That’s not exactly true, I eat all day, they’re just small meals packed with protein, carbs and healthy fats. I drink so much water that it actually becomes hard to get all of my dietary needs in (I get so full!)

I’m excited to go workout on the beach, to eat as healthy as I can and just enjoy the sunshine.  I’m happy to be doing this for myself.  To find myself.

On a side note I worked out today for the first time in 6 days.  I just didn’t get the time, ugh.  It would have been a great workout if I hadn’t eaten breakfast so close to it.  My stomach starting aching and I had to stop running after 10 minutes, but then continued intervals.  I still did a 5k under 40 minutes, so that’s something to be proud of.

Please pray for me! Pray for the people in Missouri whose towns were just destroyed by tornadoes (and that this doesn’t happen while I’m there and that if there’s some way for me to help, to guide me).

Luckily I like birds and am happy to eat like one.

One Small Triumph at a Time

A friend of mine visited me today and we made a trip to Target (the only store open past 5pm in the town, I swear).  I don’t have money to spend, but I thought it might be fun to try some stuff on.  So I got the dreaded jean and a couple of cute dresses, took a deep breath to ready myself for disappointment.

The jeans? 1 size smaller than what I have been wearing (well in woman’s sizes, so really 2 sizes smaller).  I tried them on an to my surprise they fit!!!  One dress would have looked much better had my *ahem* chest was a bit smaller.  And the other one was cute.  It definitely made me feel a little better about myself since this week has been full of me failing to make it to the gym.

This week has been difficult and I’m just trying to make it through!  Tomorrow is my last day of work, which is good because I may have gotten a customer fired (though I don’t really understand why) and I had a breakdown.  So, enough of that place that gives out loans, but I won’t mention. I keep telling myself “you can make it through anything, you will survive”.  I’m excited for my future, but I have to just live for today.

I didn’t get any portable snack suggestions!!!! I was serious about that!

My Bananas!

I don’t like bananas in anything.  Which is ironic because the one thing that I make deliciously 100% of the time is  banana bread,  and I don’t really eat it.

So, naturally I mushed up half of a banana and put it into my oats this morning. I added some dried cranberries, flaxseed (of course) and a squeeze of agave nectar .  I ate it, but I wouldn’t recommend it.  Unless you absolutely love bananas.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been known to say that they are God’s perfect food, but that’s on their own. (Or with a tablespoon of peanut butter!)

Anyway, I think that sun disappeared from Michigan and has made me much less motivated to do any sort of physical activity.  Including packing my things for CA.  Having to work at 2pm is not good or my workout routine.  So, like Lindsay commented on a previous post, I’ll be bringing my workout clothes to work and going straight to the gym afterward!

If you want to know from whence my wonderful title came from watch this: http://www.makingfiends.com/fiend02.htm . Very appropriate for this kind of a day; get in a little chuckle.