Today was a good day. Not great, but good.
This morning Tim ate his first breakfast cookie! He has been complaining that his normal breakfasts (either a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios or a peanut butter sandwich) don’t hold him over until lunch. I made it my mission to make him a filling breakfast that tasted good too! The verdict? He thought it took too long to eat (he’s a slow eater generally). I asked him if it was delicious, and his response was, “Well, you’re a healthy eater, so it’s delicious for you, but maybe not delicious for normal people, like steak, and bacon are.”
So, I’ll take that as a mixed review. I tried. I think I am going to start packing him a morning snack instead. 
I think I need a bigger lunch box.
Same lunch as yesterday, with the last sweet wheat Western Bagel instead of the corn muffin.
I can’t get enough of clementines lately. I ate 3 today and might have another before bed! They’re so tiny, but they take a long time to eat. Andplusalso they’re pretty.
I have successfully polished off one of the two bags of spinach so far this week. Success!
Unfortunately, the volume trick didn’t work for me today. I was hangry. Around 3 o’clock, I had a Clif Mountain Mix Mojo bar. I looove these things—salty and sweet, with nuts and raisins and seeds and chocolate chips and pretzels…yum.
But, yeah. Didn’t hold me. I feel like a bottomless pit today!
My stomach felt like it was eating itself by the time I got to the gym, but today was just 3 miles so I powered through anyway. Since I had some lung trouble yesterday, I took my inhaler before I ran and oh my gosh, what a difference! This was an AWESOME run. I pushed my speed and it felt great. I really think sometimes I’m being a little too conservative with my pace and I need to crank it up a bit. I did:
- 0-0.5 miles at 6.1 mph
- 0.5-1.0 miles at 6.2 mph
- 1.0-1.5 miles at 6.3 mph
- 1.5-2.0 miles at 6.4 mph
- 2.0-2.33 miles at 6.5 mph
- 2.33-2.66 miles at 6.6 mph
- 2.66-2.9 miles at 6.7 mph
- 2.9-3.0 miles at 7.0 mph
Final total? 3.0 miles in 28:15. Boo. Yah. I felt like I could keep going, too!
Anyway, we just ate dinner (burger on a sammich thin and brown rice) and I already feel hangry again. Guess it’s just one of those hollow leg days!
I’m off to prepare a rant-y post for tomorrow. Get excited, because I am one angry bear!
What do you do on bottomless pit days? Feed it or fight it?
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wow – great run! I normally try to fight it….but that ends up making me super cranky and gives me a headache, so I ultimately end up feeding it
I eat on bottomless pit days. Your body is hungry, so feed it.
But, on emotional eating days I try to fight it. *Try is the key word there.
Great job on the negative splits!!
I usually feed the bottomless pit, but only after I’ve assessed whether I’m actually hungry of just feel like munching on something.
I try to fill the hunger with other things first – water or another cup of coffee. If I find I am just famished, I go ahead and feed it. I can’t keep things at work or I would eat them even when I’m not hungry – so my go to back up is pretzels from the vending machine. Usually I find if I’m really hungry during the day I can off set it at night and eat less. But there are those days where I could just keep going and going and going. On those days I always look at what I choose to fill the pit – and feel good that it is at least healthier than what I would have ate in the past!
Looking forward to the rant
I’m having a bottomless pit day myself! If I’m 100% certain it’s physical hunger (and not wanting to eat out of boredom or stress or something like that) then I go ahead and eat more. The idea of being ravenously hungry and NOT eating sounds like complete torture to me!
AH! I had 3 days in a row like that last week! I didn’t feed it until the 3rd day, and it felt great to be ‘full.’ I haven’t had those feelings since! Sometimes we just need a complete refill! ha.
I hate the days when you feel hungry no matter what you eat. They frustrate me to no end.
FEED IT. I am just not physically capable of putting off hunger. Not only do I become a giant bitch, but I get really weak and dizzy. I think I’m sensitive to my blood sugar levels or something. Besides, hungry days are usually followed by not-so-hungry days, so it evens out
Awesome run!! I am liking that treadmill workout, I may steal it
Um, yeah. Yesterday was a bottomless pit day for me. I tried to balance out satisfying my appetite with trying to ignore it. It didn’t work so well.
I loveee those Cliff Mojo bars, they are yummy!