Today was a very good day. Despite being sleepy this morning and barely winning the battle to stay awake on the drive into work, I've been pretty perky today.
I'm getting pretty excited about our vacation in September. Derek and I are going to Myrtle Beach for a week! Excluding our honeymoon, it's the first real vacation we've taken together since like 2011 when we took a week off together and spent half of it in Atlantic City. We did take a road trip to Cape May, NJ for a few days in March of this year for our anniversary, but it was so cold (and off-season) that we couldn't do much, and we ended up cutting the trip short because we were in the path of a big ol' snowstorm.
So, I'm really excited about this. Derek has never been, and I haven't been in a VERY long time.. somewhere around a decade ago, when we went for a sorority conference thingie (oh man, I am so old... how was that a DECADE ago!?)
Anyway, I'm a planner by nature, especially when I'm excited, so today when I had a little free time I started researching restaurants, naturally. Our plan for the week is to essentially be off-plan. We've made a deal with ourselves that we're not going to go absolutely batshit crazy with our food choices, but we're not going to stress about whether everything is "on plan", and we are going to enjoy foods we want to eat. We don't travel much, and we want to try some new things while we're in a new place. We want to allow ourselves to drink a little bit (and I do mean a little bit -- I'm not really much of a drinker anyway but I have medications to consider) and basically, just not have the words "paleo", "plan", "compliant" or "coconut oil" ever enter our minds, lol.
I found a decent list of restaurants to try, including a breakfast place that sounds like it is to DIE for (seriously, we want to go now!), and all of the restaurants we picked are places we couldn't go around here, and have at least a few menu items we can't get here.
That being said, I do fully realize that after over a month of clean eating, our bodies will not be able to handle the massive influx of shit food that it will be introduced to, so I will try to temper our selections at least a little bit. We are planning to bring some healthy snacks with us to nosh on between meals, and for me, at least, I am not going back to drinking soda. I will allow myself a coffee (with creamer and sugar/substitute), perhaps, but only because I know I can live without coffee. Soda is a slippery fucking slope. So otherwise, just water. And perhaps a daiquiri or three. ;)
Anyway, forget all that nonsense for now. Today was a good day. I hope tomorrow is a good day. We will be having construction going on in our office tomorrow starting at 8:00am, and it is happening literally like 20 feet away from my desk. Our boss gave us the option of teleworking, but I have a meeting in the morning that I can't miss. I'm expecting to end tomorrow with a splitting headache. But hopefully I'll be happy in the meantime!
What I Ate:
Breakfast: two hardboiled eggs, carrots, nuts. (Was going to eat an orange but it wasn't...good.)
Lunch: two hot dogs with a little mustard, a couple of pickles, cucumbers, more carrots, and a nectarine.
Dinner: Derek made this recipe we found on Nom Nom Paleo for Asian chicken thighs. It involved some kind of weird marinade that looked funny but the ingredients sounded okay, so I let him go for it. The recipe said to cook it in the oven but Derek wanted to grill them, and I think maybe they were a little too grilled, heh. The flavor just wasn't my favorite, and the charred bits didn't help. I think I'm just weird, because Derek really enjoyed them, though. So anyway, I had one of these thighs and a handful of cut up bell pepper strips. And some nuts.
How I Feel:
Aside from being sleepy, I feel great. I'm in a great mood, I'm feeling pretty motivated, and overall, just... good. My "innards" have felt pretty good today, which is wonderful, and I'm feeling optimistic about the next couple weeks. Hooray!
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