Day 291

It's only another day before the weekend and I'm looking forward to meeting with L.  Today I expected to feel a bit off due to last night's Tabata but I felt great.  I'm thinking that's good and bad.  Even though I'm giving a greater effort to the exercises I'm still not working completely to my possible potential.  Admittedly I'm still suffering from the hearing loss and even though there's no pain, it's just very annoying and I'm very conscious of it.  So I think it's taking my attention away a bit. This isn't an excuse to not work hard but it's a possibility and something I am needing to address.  The medicine I'm taking will hopefully start helping soon, I hope. 

This Sunday's visit to Lake Padden will be another attempt to run.  I will do the routine I set up on the previous visit where I will run for 30-40sec and then walk for a bit and the run again.  We'll see if I can sustain it a bit more this time.  Alrighty here's the food for today:

Breakfast: New meat to go along with the egg, ham.  This is a chunk of ham not a formed slice of ham.  So a bit different and a bit different tasting.  Had the usual suspects along with the egg and ham, skinny bun, avocado, and tomato.  Banana and 20oz of cold water.

1st snack: Apple Pie Larabar

Lunch: Again the two small tortillas with the pulled pork and quinoa mixture and salsa as condiment.  Also added some roasted peppers to the mix, quite delish.

2nd snack: Nothing again feel rushed even though it's the same amount of time as the morning snack time allows.  Really am planning on going back to yogurt in the morning and Larabar in the afternoon.

Dinner: A bit of a smorgasbord, finished off the chips but no salsa.  Then had a Greek yogurt and almonds with some of the chia seeds I picked up.  These babies are supposed to have an abundance of Omega-3.  The good stuff!  The yogurt and almonds are an experiment by me to try and cut down on porking out at dinner.  I go to the gym after work every night and then come home and seem to over eat.  So this will be the experiment for the next month.  I was planning on starting this with the beginning of Feb but because I got sick I pushed it back.  The penicillin didn't like the stuff in yogurt so I didn't want to defeat either one of them.  I was satisfied with the yogurt and I think the almonds (crunchy) and chia seeds were mouth satisfying.  Something I've been thinking about.  It's like when a person quits smoking one of the things that seems to work for some people is a toothpick.  There's a tactile sensation that possibly mimics the cigarette and thus satisfies the brain.  So the combo of the crunch of the almonds and the taste of the yogurt mixed with chia seeds makes the brain feel like it's getting a full meal.  Or at least that's what I tell myself in so much psycho babel. I will continue to try to figure a way out of eating a full meal every night when I probably don't need it.  This is the plan.