I was supposed to do strength training, cardio and take a walk to town today, but I didn’t do any of it. We spent the WHOLE afternoon at our new insurance agency. 
I just sat there for hours and hours to the point that they were offering us coffee and cake lol. What a long, daunting process and we didn’t even make it to the DMV, which is coming tomorrow. Bureaucracy, BLAH! 
It was 5:00PM by the time we got out of there, I was HUNGRY, whiny, and tired from lack of sleep. I decided to take the day off from exercise, I just couldn’t do it today. On top of feeling tired, I feel tummy sick on and off; nauseas, head hurts, etc. Ugh. I think I have a sinus infection, I used to get them every other day when I was a teenager and in my early 20′s. They got so much better after we quit smoking 2 years ago, but now the past 2 days my head is throbbing. 
I’m a mess at the moment LOL.
My BodyBugg results 6/30/08:
Went to sleep at 9:00AM
BodyBugg reset at 12:00AM
Woke up at 12:30PM
8:03PM: 1855 calories burned
11:04PM: 2171 calories burned
End of day: 2249 calories burned
2 minutes of physical activity lol. I was a sloth today! That’s ok, I need the rest. 
After the insurance company, we went to our credit union and then we went for ice cream. I was soo hungry and the ice cream was good, but my stomach didn’t like it very much. My stomach didn’t like anything today!
I got my Zevia delivery today. 
I was so excited and then I tried it. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so, what does this one say?
AWFUL!!!! I was already feeling queasy and it made my stomach feel even worse. I can tolerate a diet soda once in a blue moon, though I never really liked them that much. Well, this tastes DISGUSTING! Maybe if you REALLY like the taste of diet soda you would like this as a more “natural” replacement, but I nearly gagged. I kid you not! First we tried the Cola flavor and it just tasted really watered down, like very little cola flavor and a VERY strong aftertaste that tastes just like regular diet soda yuckiness to me. I decided to give the root beer flavor the benefit of the doubt and I was even more disappointed by it. It didn’t even taste like root beer, it was just gross. They both reminded me of carbonated cough syrup. Not that I’ve ever had carbonated cough syrup, but I imagine that’s what it would taste like. YUCK! Now I have 2 cases of it that I’ll never even open, much less drink. I can’t even pretend to like it or tolerate it like I would with diet Coke or diet Pepsi. It’s very weak in flavor and the bland flavor it does have gave me an aftertaste that made me want to drown the taste out of my mouth with one of my husband’s REAL Coca Colas LOL. I should really try things before I order industrial sized cases of it. 
Big waste of money! *sigh* But like I said, if you’re a die-hard diet soda drinker, you might like it. Not for me. H2O 4ever!! haha
I had a roast beef sandwich after we had ice cream. I didn’t track any of it, but that’s ok too. Today was just one of those days.
I did track dinner though:
2oz whole wheat spaghetti (210 cal) with turkey sauce and a side salad with 2 TBSP Bolthouse Farms blue cheese yogurt dressing (70 cal) for just 740 calories. It made enough to split into 2 smaller meals if your appetite is smaller than mine.
I started with the sauce: 2 teaspoons olive oil (80 cal), 1 minced garlic clove (5 cal), 60g diced red onions (30 cal), 40g diced green bell pepper (10 cal) and 4oz ground turkey breast (120 cal) in a nonstick pan. When the turkey was cooked, I added in 1 cup Hunt’s no salt added tomato sauce (80 cal), 100g canned no salt added mushrooms (30 cal) and dried oregano.
I made my salad while the sauce simmered and the pasta boiled. I drained the pasta, plated it and then poured the very thick meat sauce over it. I added 2 TBSP pecorino romano cheese (40 cal) on it before I ate it. FABULOUS! I really loved it, but I still wasn’t feeling well, so it didn’t taste as good as it usually would have. Maybe my taste buds are on the fritz from having a sinus infection? Not sure.
I think I might take a few days off from exercising and just chill out for the next few days. If I feel up to it, I’ll take a walk or something. I’m doing very well staying low on my sodium and I feel a bit better, but I am still retaining more water than usual. Maybe it’s the humidity or who knows. There’s so many things that have been different in the past few weeks, so I really need to just let my body adjust to it all and not stress out about it all. I promised myself that I was going to take it easy this week and that’s what I’m going to do. 
I really miss planning a menu though LOL! I was having withdrawals when I was making dinner. SOOO many ideas were popping into my head and I was calculating the calories, thinking about different combinations and old favorites. Maybe I’ll go ahead and make a menu tomorrow. Planning menus is so much fun to me, I genuinely enjoy it. How deranged am I? 
lol! Free days and “easy days” are fun too, but something about planning and creating a menu gives me some sort of satisfaction. It’s like artwork to me I guess. Did I mention I’m a MAJOR nerd? That should convince anyone that wasn’t a believer before now lol.
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