trying to stay on track

Yes.  I've said it a million times.  I apologize.  But I'm tired.  I'm not getting enough sleep.  So I'm grumpy.  When I'm grumpy going for a run usually makes me feel better.  Except my body is too tired to have a good run.  So that makes me more grumpy.  And when I'm really grumpy I want to eat.  In particular I want to eat crap.  It isn't working out so well for me.

Damn vicious cycle.

I managed to sneak in 3 workouts this past week.  A 2.5 mile run, a 3.75 mile run and a level one workout on the 30 Day Shred.  So decent I guess.  My eating was great for a couple of days, and then it wasn't.  Stupid freaking chocolate sucks me in every time.  My other issue is that I haven't come up with a lot of options that fit in to what I deem my new acceptable food items, so I hadn't been eating enough.  And then I was just getting hungry.

Failure to plan is planning to fail.  (The interwebs seem to disagree on who actually said that.  But it wasn't me.  My weights teacher in college always said it, but you know.)

So yeah.  I've still got a lot of work to do.  Mostly in the food department.  I really think once we can iron out the sleeping situation a little, and when we start going back to the gym, the workouts will start to fall back into place.  Obviously I can't guarantee that, but before Elsie was born going to the gym was one of the highlights of my day.  It was an hour I could focus on me while doing something incredibly positive for myself.  It felt great.  So I'm hoping we can get back into that routine, at least four days out of the week.

But back to the food.  I've been doing lots and lots of thinking about what approach I want to take with food, how much I want to limit, what will work for our family.  As I've mentioned I don't think a lifestyle that completely cuts any food groups will pan out in the long run.  Unfortunately a lot of my success rests on how much I can get the rest of my family to go along, and telling them not to eat certain things at all ever again just isn't going to work.  They simply won't get on board.  Plus I feel like I'd be cheating all the time here and there because I LOVE food.  I really really do.  And the thought of never having some of my favorites again doesn't work for me.

So I'm trying to find a minute or two to tear through websites and blogs, looking for recipes and ideas on clean eating, as well as dairy free items since I'm trying to cut back on that more and more since it seems to have helped Elsie.  Please please please if you have any favorite recipes, snack ideas, or website suggestions that fit the bill of real food and clean eating (and bonus if it is dairy free!) pass them my way.  Especially if they are simple.  I'll take all the help I can get right now.

Hopefully that wasn't too much of a mess to read.  And hopefully I can stop saying I want to do all this, and really start doing it.

 

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