It Starts With Food - Day 3

This morning I was able to get out of bed again with out feeling too sluggish.  I did have to take about 5 minutes to get adjusted to the light and I think I looked like a zombie walking into my wife in the bathroom.

This morning started off feeling pretty hectic when trying to decide the lunch for my wife.  Breakfast and lunch made and ready in 20 minutes.  It felt like a marathon but thinking back on it now it actually isn't bad at all.  We are just a lazy society.  Myself included.  Were breaking habits here.  Keep telling yourself that until you buy into it.

Her breakfast included 3 eggs, green onion, kale, tomato, s&p, scrambled in a bit of olive oil.  Her lunch I was actually pretty excited about.  Chunks of chicken breast sauteed with garlic, mushrooms, cashews, and olive oil.  With a side of steamed green beans.  Smelled fantastic even at 7:30 am.

All of this was done in 20 minutes.  20 MINUTES?  So much better than grabbing a pop-tart and running on nothing all morning. Anyways moving along to me.

I had some phone calls and work was hectic so I was unable to get to breakfast until almost 9:30.   I decided to try the brown eggs that we bought.  What is the difference?  Do they taste different?  Will I like them?  Who knows?  I'm in a trial mood so lets go for it.

Cracked those bad boys into a bowl and whipped up an omelet of broccoli, mushrooms, tomato, green onion, garlic, cilantro.  Topped that with some leftover guacamole from the other night and a few pieces of that cantaloupe I cut up last night.

I am feeling pretty good but I think my body is getting used to the even larger increase of veggies as my back is hurting slightly.  There is also the excitement that I had a great interview last night and the company would like for me to prepare a presentation and come back on Friday.  I haven't been this excited and optimistic in a while.  My boss is on board with me doing whatever is best for myself and I have my ever loving and supportive wife who has the excitement of her new job starting in the next few weeks.  Needless  to say this is a very exciting time of change in the McKenna household.

Time to go fix a cup of tea and get back to work.....

Now back from a long commercial break, or from working on pulling a file that wont come because the system isn't configured to work with Mac's.  Grrr.  Anyways....LUNCH!

Today I decided to use number two of the leftover avocados that I bought last weekend.  (Maybe I should have started with one or two! oops! I'm sure my brilliant wife would have suggested that.  I learned!) So I sliced up a whole avocado and topped with diced tomato, diced onions, cilantro, black olives, lime juice, olive oil, s&p and let that sit in the fridge for about 20 minutes.  I also heated up some of the leftover ground turkey and kale curry bites from yesterdays lunch and tossed some cantaloupe on my plate. .  Man, I have been missing out with the avocados.  I don't know why I had such an aversion to them?  Maybe I have just grown up?

I've got a craving for something other than water.   I need  something other than water.  I am sure it is the sugar craving sneaking up but I am craving flavor.  I may blend up some fruit in the Vitamix and make a smoothie or add to some sparkling water.  I also have this nagging itch for pizza, warm crusty bread fresh from the over dipped in olive oil and spices!  OK, STOP!!!!

I've read that 7-9 days is where the cravings stop.  That is only 4-6 more days!

Well about 2:30 hit and even with te excitement, I broke down and made a small pot of coffee.  Usually I press a cup or two but as my father-in-law had just been here a week ago, the pot was still not back in storage.  So I tried some of this ground coffee/chickory root from Cafè Du Mondè that I picked up a few months back on a trip to New Orleans.  It's good.  It's dark.  It's different!  Good still but I added a splash of almond milk to give it the creaminess.  Now instead of my nap at 5, I should be ready to plow through and make this presentation ready for Friday morning.  Did I mention that getting feedback from my wife is gonna be major awesomeness?  She has a way with words!  We're a killer team!

What a productive night.  Cara got home and we discussed our days and appts.  We then talked about the home buying process making sure that we were both on the same page and came to the agreement that we are ready to start interviewing realtors.  We discussed the finances and such that we would be getting into and the possible timeline, apt lease extension and such. Now we were both ready to sit and veg, though I had this presentation to work on so we made dinner.  I made a cast iron steak, guac salad (same as lunch, though half this time),some broccoli and a sliced mushroom in the pan with the steak, with a side of cantaloupe.

Now it was time for me to work and for the misses to, ahem, fall asleep for the night.  After all, it has been a long and exciting couple of past weeks. .So I worked on this presentation making it more than it is and harder then it is until about 1:30 am.  Still incomplete, feeling slightly defeated.  God will work it out.  There is nothing more that I can stress about or do for it besides putting it into a presentation and giving my best.

So for the night I am done.  I will go rest and I will finish it tomorrow.  Another day.