The morning after the day before

No - the title doesn't mean I gave up 18+ years of sobriety yesterday in order to tie one on. It refers to something more benign, thank goodness.

I've posted about being a morning person before, and it seems to only continue, seeping into my very bone marrow with each passing day and beyond. Everything in my mind is percolating at high speed in the mornings - right through early afternoon. But from about 4 p.m. on, it's a slow and steady decline of mind, body and spirit. I'm old, people, and my inate biorhythms have changed. I continually see how I need to adjust my patterns to best be a productive and perky member of society.

"What the hell is she rambling about NOW", you ask? It's the fact that the absolute hardest part of photographing my food and and posting the pictures is posting them in the evenings after dinner. Here's a description of yesterday late afternoon - I came home from work, walked the dog, had a snack that I dutifully recorded for posterity with the camera, turned on Oprah and promptly fell asleep until 6:30, when I heard the Mister rummaging in the kitchen presumably for dinner. About a 2 hour nap, for Pete's sake.

I dragged myself resentfully off the couch and got my own stuffed pepper leftovers along with the fresh salad and asparagus Tom made, took the picture of the plate (or so I thought), then ate dinner and within another hour was back asleep! Before I nodded off for the second time I kept thinking I needed to get on the computer and do the whole picture post thing, but every cell in the body resisted. So I'm going to do the posting this morning, and also say that I'm doing that from now on (through Friday, which is my initial committment for the pictures). It just works better for me that way. I have no idea why I was so tired yesterday other than the fact that I accomplished the Herculean task of staying up 'til 11 to watch the Lois Wilson movie Sunday night (with a little help from Starbucks). To think I used to be a total night crawler. I'd probably be a little concerned about this change in my sleep patterns were it not for the fact that all my baby boomer friends are experiencing the same thing!

As I just got the pics into my work computer, I see I don't have the dinner picture. I swore I took it, but it isn't there, though my snack after dinner is. Go figure. Breakfast was an orange, a cup of Go Lean in a Snoopy Christmas cup with 1 ounce of 1% milk, and an HB egg - 280 calories. Didn't eat until 11 because I just wasn't hungry. I know! How odd is that??

Lunch at 1:30 was a good size salad with a few green olives, cut up tomatoes, cucumber and carrots, and packet of tuna and one Tbs. of salad dsg - 290 calories.

My after work snack was a Chobani yogurt, peach flavor - 140 calories


The unphotographed dinner was 2 stuffed pepper halves, 10 spears of asparagus, a large salad with avocado and a Tbsp of dsg - around 500 calories. Great dinner and filling enough to put me right back to sleep!
Dessert was a Vitamuffin chocolate muffin top - 100 calories. I came within a millisecond of having a second one, but didn't! A real victory for this gal!

Calorie total for the day was approximately 1310. Again a little lower than I'm going for. I suspect I'd have eaten something else had not fallen back to sleep around 8. Since I got no formal exercise yesterday, it's just as well.

My exercise has definitely been light for the last week - mainly dog walks and a couple dogless ones that were MUCH more prductive and aerobic, but not enough mileage. I need to get back on track with it, hitting the gym after work. Can't do it today because of a late meeting about a client, and tomorrow a manicure. Hmmm, not a good pattern, but I'll get back to it. That is never the hardest part of the healthy life style for me.

On another subject, some of you were reading last year when I was going through a series of 3 thyroid biopsies over 9 months because I have a lot of nodules. It all turned out fine - finally - but it was nerve wracking during the process. It finally ended with the Endocrinologist letting me know that the nodule in question was FINE, and that she'd follow me once a year. Well, yesterday I had a message reminding me that my appointment is May 5, next Wednesday. Siiiigh...I know there is nothing to worry about, but it'll be a long morning during which time the doc herself will do an ultrasound to survey the landscape of my neck and it'll just make me nervous. It's a whole week away, so a little soon to get cranked up yet, but I'm not looking forward to it. One good thing, I love the doctor and I know she likes me. She told me last year that I'm very "grounded". Huh?? But she's mine forever because of that. I didn't tell her my grounding was due in large part to regular attendance at AA meetings!

Have a good day dear blogger buddies!