Monday, April 25, 2011

Food for thought

More tempting foods.
Fish, we all know about it.  This is Talapia with herbs. Easy to prepare, it was very good.  Accompanied by some...


delicious organic zuccini. Very little added to these, just have a great flavor by themselves (once my taste-buds changed).  And these were really good too:




Mushrooms, not sure how these were made, but they really brought good flavors to the fish and the zuccini.

I was desperate for a snack; the lady at the cash register was laughing at me (she was from a cultural background different from my own) for taking a picture of my snack, she was almost cheering me on.  Did she know I was a freakshow with an eating disorder?  Probably not.
Skipped the yokes.

In real training news; I got in some sustained high heart-rate training this past weekend! This was the first stank-nasty day of the year; 100% humidity on Sunday. I think Ride Sally Ride will be the first race that I can be ready for.  Seriously, I mean it :-)

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Been some (food) changes 'round here: 5 pics

Lighter is always easier. Waist size is directly correlated with risks for cardiovascular heart disease. You can never be too thin or rich.
The theme for this blog for 2011 was going to be "Taking a year off." The reason for that idea was that I now work more than 60 hour weeks (mornings, nights, weekends). The stress is real and the lack of control that I have over my schedule is, well, very frustrating.
Whatever the challenges may be, I do, in fact, have a coping mechanism.
First of all, this is what the office life offers:
That is cake plus candy.  And there are also some delicious goodies in that foil package (i'm only guessing, I didn't go near it). This is what we all face in office life- sedentary emotional overeaters who want to share their misery with the world via extra fat calories.
So what I decided to do, in all of my brilliance, is to find a way to ride (riding to work with heavy heavy bag, at least 5 hours per week) and eat that promotes fitness. Let's discuss eating.  Here is a new lunch (pardon the cashews, they are banned for now).

This is an expensive option from Whole Foods salad bar, I think it was more than $10.  How heavy is broccoli anyways?  The foundation of my new "stress-coping-control-response" is breakfast.  Here is a photo from this morning, which has been the same since April 10th.

Coffee with no dairy or sugar, egg whites with Chervil (?) and ground up garlic sea salt and one plain piece of whole-grain toast.  Here is a typical lunch (actual photo from my lunch... is this weird?).
What you see here is boat-load of veggies (celery sticks, cherry tomatoes, carrots- all eaten first) over a bed of healthy tuna (add olive oil, capers, fresh lemon juice, capers, and other herbs).  And of course I do not eat any of this sh*t, at all:

Could you really do a whole blog entry based on pictures of things you eat and things you don't eat? 
I just did.