Dealing with a tough day
I feel pretty good about how I handled yesterday. I didn’t eat enough calories, again (less than 1200), but I only had two and a half hours sleep the night before. Normally, I’d load up on caffeine and sugar, but I listened to my stomach and not my tired brain.
I’m working towards eating smaller meals more often. What I really like about the food diary at MyFitnessPal is that there are 6 “buckets” for entering meals, rather than just a single list or a breakfast-lunch-dinner breakdown. This is helping me think in 3-hour blocks of time, making sure I get a couple hundred calories every couple hours. I’m also working toward getting my carbs in prior to 6 pm, so this tool is helping me with the mental shift required.
Between the exhaustion and a rainstorm, there was no walking yesterday. I had to pick up the little one from dance on my way home from work, so I stopped at the grocery store and picked up a ready-made chicken caesar salad, swapped the creamy dressing for a fat-free balsamic vinaigrette, and grabbed a pack of protein drinks. Ate in the car while waiting for the class to end. Then it was home and in bed by 8 p.m.
