Last night I ate mixed veggies in a yellow coconut curry, with rice, salad and a deep-fried veggie spring roll that let loose all my inhibitions.  I use fancy plates, I know.

For breakfast I ate a banana with some peanut butter on it.

Somehow, this inner seal on the peanut butter made my day.  I'm a sucker for thoughtful marketing gimmicks, dammit!  Whatever; little touches go far.  Kudos to Kraft for capitalizing on my pre-route anxiety during the busiest week of the year.  KUDOS. <-- I stole the all-capitals thing from Michelle.

Had a busy day of North Van adventures.  I didn't bring any food or water with me today.  Right now I'm zonked.  Wiped.  Ready for bed.

On my way home, I picked up a veggie burrito.

That's it.

Oh, and a dear in #309 left me a Christmas card with a Tim Horton's gift certificate inside.  I know I said to Michael that her thinking of the lowly postie, 'makes me want to cry,' but what you may not know is that I actually did cry a little about it.  Why?  I don't know... maybe because I like people and I'm exhausted  and have no energy available to repress emotion or something.  Goodnight.

For dinner last night, I chose sweet potatoes and avocado.  It's a pleasing combination of colours, tastes and textures.  I think I've mentioned that before.  Anyway, here's some bonus materal pictured above -- some of my notes I was taking on Power Reading while listening to Brian Tracy audio books, haaa.

I tried to go to bed early last night (earlier than the usual 3 am).  I was zonked by 10 so I went to bed... and lay awake until 2 am.  Awesome.

Breakfast: a hardboiled egg and a chocolate chip cookie.  Not the best choice, but it's what I had in the house.

Today we did some exercising in the rain!  Sea wall = pwned.  And the preceding sentence captures just how cool I felt while running and texting.

Post-run smoothie: a banana and strawberries.  My phone is happily drying and recharging.  I love my life.  I don't love running.

Wednesday: A salad.

 

I baked a lot of cookies again.

 

Wednesday pre-exercise snack: another salad.

 

Thursday dinner: Macaroni with broccoli and tomato/avocado hard-boiled egg.

Too tired to write a proper post. Posting photos is way easier.  I also cleaned out some of the clothes in my closet and the papers in my private notebooks.  Refreshing yet dusty.

This morning I turned on the oven, removed a frozen pizza from the freezer, then made a salad (fresh spring mix, tomatoes, avocado and cucumber) and decided I didn't actually NEED to eat an entire pizza.  Maybe tomorrow.  So, I returned the pizza to the freezer and hardboiled 3 eggs instead.

For lunch, I shared a Jonny-O burrito and KTB tacos @ Budgies Burritos.  It was the tastiest burrito I've had in a long time; two hipster thumbs-up.  I took a photo of the meal and then accidentally deleted it.

Dinner: 2 smoothies of banana, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries.

[I Baked a Pile of Cookies.]

Bake-a-thon SUCCESS

Yesterday I had some exercise in the lightly falling snow, then ate two eggs and some lettuce.

I enjoyed my afternoon of baking with Michelle and her alter ego, Splits Girl.

 We ate all of the things in the above photo.  For a revealing storyboard of the event's unfolding, please see Michelle's post here.

Here's the veggie pizza I ate single-handedly.

 

My blueberry-strawberry-banana smoothie, post-pour.  Basil says hello.

 

Today's smoothie.  I added raspberries to the usual strawberry-banana-blueberry concoction, then a handful of spring salad mix as an afterthought.  I have a big tub of salad to finish by the end of the week in as many ways as possible.

The banana is bruised thanks to an earlier dance session that featured lots of jumping, twirling, and throwing the banana behind my back ~ 100 times (I caught it most of the time).

Was it yesterday that I ate the pizza for breakfast?  Yes.  At some point during the day I ate 2 poached eggs with green peas and avocado.  Later, a grapefruit... And then I had another whole pizza for dinner -- the mushroom-garlic combo that I like to save for nights on which I'm doing social things.

Today for breakfast: a grapefruit...a smoothie with banana and frozen berries (strawberries and blueberries) with 2 chard leaves and the remaining spoonful of cacao.  Cashews for snack, another grapefruit; curried vegetables with rice from Thai Away Home at noon.  I think that's it.

Then exercise!  In the cold!  8 km of it.

And I'm pleased that Danny won last night.  (Biggest Loser talk.)

A Pizza and Redemption and Religious Imagery

For breakfast, a wood-fired oven flat-crusted vegetarian pizza.  The whole thing.

And a grapefruit.

 

These are the fruits (vegetables) of my garden plot.  There is so much growing in my plot that I haven't yet harvested - a thick row of mizuna, oxheart carrots, and two rows of this beautifully green, nutrient-rich swiss chard. This is the perfect growing season for chard.  Too bad I pulled all the kale -- it would be enjoying this weather, too.

I used to steam my chard and kale, then pour some flax seed oil and sprinkle a couple tablespoons of nutritional yeast on top.  SO GOOD.  Now, I simply shove a leaf or two between a sandwich's innards to supercharge my subway sandwich, for example; that or I let the chard wilt in the fridge when I forget about it for two weeks.

Food and exercise.  From my experience, exercise is way more important to how I feel; if I eat really well but sit around all day, I'm not going to be feeling like my wonderful self.  But if I eat crappy foods, and then persist through the cramps that crappy food often gives me when I'm running around, I'll feel better afterward.  Ideally, eating good foods AND being active is best.  Wow, shocker!  Eating living foods is great and I feel lively, but the activity part of my lifestyle conditions my cells to best use all the fuel I'm giving them.  Yep.  I say this as though I've stumbled upon some secret -- breathing deeply and oxygenating my body via food and exercise is good for me -- but really, I'm just justifying those times when I eat food that starves my body of oxygen.

 

Spaghetti Gamberetti and Focaccia Bread

A modest nine laps in the chilly dark last night, followed by an opposite-of-modest amount of spaghetti gamberetti with focaccia bread and a green salad on the side.

Today, I ate organic refried beans with green chilies, some sweet potatoes, tomatoes, cauliflower, and a banana or two.  (Not all at once.)

Another beautiful day of sun and painting pictures in the air with my breath.