Sluggish

Today has been really blah. I'm in the office on my own today so doing work has been a struggle. I feel like I've been totally unproductive today and hate it! I'm also feeling realllly sluggish. Despite getting in bed on the earlier side (before 12 AM -- yes that's early for me) I pressed the snooze button a record amount of times. I got to work about a half hour late and proceeded to just sit here for most of the day. I didn't get a chance to work out yesterday and instead overdosed on cheese at a pot luck for my friend Cara's birthday. I think this might be contributing to my sluggish-ness.

Despite the effects, the potluck was delicious as usual. I made little tomato-mozzarella bites but forgot to take a picture. We also had bruschetta, cheese and crackers, baked ziti, a cous-cous salad, pear and gorgonzola flat bread pizzas, and chocolate covered strawberries. Everything was so awesome but I deffffinitely overdid it on the cheese last night.

This morning I woke up with hopes to have a pretty healthy day. I'm going out to dinner tonight with TKO and my roommate so I wanted breakfast and lunch to at least be nutiritous. For breakfast I had a mixture of peanut butter, pumpkin butter and dark chocolate peanut butter on whole wheat bread with a banana. This looks gross but it was sooo good.

I snacked on some veggies and hummus mid-day.


And lunch was an un-pictured salad of spinach, tomatoes and edamame + 2 hard boiled egg whites and grapes. I also had some chocolate covered almonds for a little sweetness.

I went to the mall today before lunch and ended up getting sucked into the food court. Every part of me wanted to ditch the salad I bought for lunch and buy ANYTHING else instead. I waited on multiple lines about to order french fries, mac n' cheese, a chocolate croissant (what??) etc. and always ended up turning around before paying. I realized that I just wanted to buy anything so settled on getting hard boiled eggs and a little container of chocolate covered almonds from Au Bon Pain. I took a deep breath, paid for it and hightailed it back to my office. I don't know why sometimes food is still such a big deal for me. I know I'm going out to dinner later, there was no reason I needed to have something so indulgent for lunch too. Luckily I love hard boiled eggs so buying them was a little treat and made me feel better. Sometimes I just wish every food choice didn't feel so damn dramatic.

On another note, thanks to my recent interest in Crossfit (which at the moment I'm too afraid/cheap to try), I've been doing lots of research about the Paleo way of eating. This started simply because of my interest in nutrition but I'm starting to get really curious about it. I'm considering doing a 1-week Paleo challenge or something really just to see how I feel. The sluggishness I've been feeling this morning isn't unique to today -- it's been there for a while. Despite eating pretty healthy and working out 3-5 days per week I'm still lacking energy. I don't drink coffee and I'm curious if my decreased diet coke consumption has had an effect (that's the only place I occasionally would get caffeine from). Following the Paleo diet would take A LOT of preparation, but I know I can commit to it for a week. I'm gonna give it a bit more thought and see how I feel.