Choices

In the morning, I planned to start house cleaning after lunch, so I’ll have an extra time to relax and catch up “FlashForward” on abc.com. However, after lunch instead start off the cleaning, I watched FlashForward, on and off falling asleep. It wasn’t because the show was boring, but after eating lunch, sitting in front of your computer, in this nice sunny and breezy day, anyone would doze off. I almost wanted to skip cleaning and pile up everything for tomorrow.

I have 2 choices: slack off today and be very packed tomorrow or do some today, leave some for tomorrow so I’ll have sometime to relax on both days. I picked the 2nd choice and glad I did. I asked my brother to help out cleaning so he did downstairs, I did upstairs. Everything was done before 3 pm!

So to reward myself I cut up the last remaining papaya and washed some grapes. Also I remembered that I only had a bit of cottage cheese left and an unopened low fat plain yogurt in the fridge. I wasn’t too hungry or anything but I just wanted to have a little bit of something before I go out to Lucille’s BBQ Smokehouse later for dinner with my friends.

cottage cheese, yogurt, kashi and cherrios

fruits!

I have 2 choices: don’t eat anything and binge later on, or have a little bit of something and be good later. I picked the second one.

I have about 1 1/2 hour before meeting my friends later. I checked up Lucille’s BBQ menu on their website and not much stuff really interest me. This dinner is to celebrate 2 of my friends birthday in May. And of course we have to cover their tabs and everything will be divided evenly, regardless who ordered what. I am not a big fan of steak but also I don’t want to just order salad because I’ll be look stupid enough and it won’t worth my money. Why would I order something that’s almost the same price as the main dish while in the end I still have to pay other people’s dish, which most likely will be steak dish! Heck, I decided to order some steak dish, eat a bit of it and pack the rest. Not to mention they’ll have a birthday cake.

 

The ego

Who wants to get up at 4:30 am on Saturday? Nobody..LOL..including me! But my workout ego overcame it, dragged my ass off from the bed and got ready. Seriously this round 2 of my semi P90X workout seems more intense than the first one. At least for the first round, I still get some more sleep over weekends. But now I only have 1 day during weekday to sleep in until 6:30 am. Hopefully I won’t got burned out too quickly.

Beach workout was pretty good today. I could jog alternating with running in between and added one or two sprints, mostly to catch up with my husband. Again, it’s my ego not wanting to be fall behind from him. Especially he doesn’t workout every single day like me. That got me even more.

On the way back, I was super hungry so I snacked on my first sample from Larabar®, Larabar® Peanut Butter and Jelly!



My thought? LOVE IT! Not too sweet, has a little tangy taste into it and pretty filling! Plus no chemical ingredients in there, just straight forward peanuts, dates, unsweetened cherries and salt. See that unsweetened cherries? That explains where that tart taste came from Plus no added sugar! The sweetness came from the dates! Wonderful stuff.

Of course I still needed a real breakfast food so after I got home and shower I made this bowl of oatmeal! This time it turned out creamier than the previous two. Topped with 1/2 not quite ripe banana, a bit of peanut butter and pieces of whole wheat pita bread left over from my husband’s breakfast, I’m in heaven! Also cooked them in plain soymilk instead of water. Yummy!

thick and creamy oatmeal!

Speaking of which, I wonder what do cook for lunch? My husband had to go help his brother so there would be only my brother and I. On the way back from the beach, I bought salmon, smelt fish and shrimps. Hm…

UPDATE

boiled spinach, baked acorn squash and soft tofu (eaten with organic ketchup)

these are yummy!

baked smelt fish. These are so tiny! I should make more. I only ate 1 and brother finished the rest