I’ve lost
count of the number of blogs I’ve started then stopped after a few months
(apart from EdiblePosts which is still trudging along with a lonely post
every month or so). Started because I really just wanted to write. Stopped
because I had too-high expectations of how often I would write and internal
conflicts on what I should write about. So the remedy is to simply write about
what pleases me. That generally revolves around food, fitness, travel and all
the hobbies that are baubles that hold my attention for a brief period of time
(or quite a long time if they’re especially shiny).
I’ll be the first to admit I’m a master of nothing, but an experimenter in plenty of different fields. Which is what makes life fun to me.
One such
example, after reading a few of Michael Pollan’s and Mark Bittman’s books on
eating and cooking, my newest experiment is to eat vegan before dinner, then
eat without food-group restrictions for dinner. I’m on Day 2, and the
experiment is somewhat contaminated already by a lapse in vegan-ness in
breakfast for Day 2.
To be
honest though, breakfast was still vegetarian (eggs) and M cooked it for me I
have no reason to complain at all. So far though, my ‘as according to plan’ meals
have been looking like this:
Breakfast:
oats in flaxmilk with berries, nuts and flaxseed + a vegan protein powder and
greens smoothie
Lunch:
massive salad with vegetables, grapes, and beans
Dinner: a
meaty stew (as a nod to the cooling autumn weather)
All
supplemented of course by a steady supply of coffee and (new!) teas. Tea shops
are my candy store. Farmers Markets are too, but that’s a different story.
I’ll be travelling for work for 2 days starting tomorrow though, so I’ll keep on track with both food and workouts as much as is sensible. Life is a balancing game of good nutrition, movement and managing stress though, so I refuse to let myself be stressed out if I ‘slip-up’ in any way.