After all of my planning yesterday, I ended up a) not going for a walk after all and b) making popcorn for dinner instead of something nutritious. I also bought a pint of eggnog and though I said I'd "allow" myself to have one pint this year, I'm not digging it as much as I thought I would. Could be the brand. No matter though, I said I'd allow myself ONE PINT and I'm going to just let myself have this indulgence. The popcorn, however, is already pretty close to being tossed in the trash. I just CANNOT control myself.....and that annoys me more than any of you will ever know.. This batch I made last night didn't even end up being a) all that good, nor b) satisfying. I think I'm over popcorn.

I also ended up adding on a frozen banana treat to my day yesterday. This was my last frozen portion of banana from the freezer and I decided that I will not be allowing myself to buy any more. Not at least between now and my leaving to go back to work in about a month. Yes, I know, it's not ice cream. Yes, I realize it could be ice cream. It still adds up though and in the end just never seems worth it. I take a frozen banana out of the freezer and allow it to thaw a bit (maybe for 15 minutes?), then I mash it up, add about a tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa powder and a splash of vanilla extract and mix it up. Lately I've been adding sliced almond. I'll keep this treat in mind for the boats.

I was just telling a friend while chatting this afternoon that I still have yet to put together a list of what all I have in the house so I can use it all up before I leave to go back to work. I have a lot of meat in the freezer that will end up being tossed if I don't use it. My neighbors are vegetarians and it's all repackaged so I wouldn't feel right giving it to anyone else. I'll have my work cut out for me figuring out how to not need to supplement it much more than with what I already have on hand. I have a bunch of frozen veggies and other things I can use to get meals out of everything. I might just have to be slightly inventive. That's the project for this afternoon. To lay it all out and plan.

Today, around noon, I got my butt off the couch and went out for a walk. I'm 5 days into the recovery from the removal from this cyst so I decided that I JUST SIMPLY CANNOT sit around anymore. I have to move. I have to keep this momentum going if I want to succeed when I get back to work and when I'm traveling through this month. I have to get into a routine again. I feel like I've been sitting on the couch for over a week. Wait, I think I have been! Yikes!! No wonder I feel so squishy. Even just a 45 minute walk wore me out, though that could be the drugs. I will say though that my left Achille's is still tight from that hike on Thanksgiving. Weird. I've been resting, a lot.

Breakfast was good and tame today. An egg, two slices of bacon and what was left of an avocado (about 1/4 of one). The eggnog I put in my coffee was a bonus that I won't be doing again. I LOVE EGGNOG and I love eggnog latte's, but this was NOWHERE NEAR what an eggnog latte tastes like. I'll just drink the rest in a glass, just the way I like it ;)

***This is where I stopped writing my blog yesterday because I decided instead of cooking up what I had already had marinating in the fridge, that I'd eat popcorn (cooked on the stove w/oil, mind you) with the rest of the eggnog carton for dinner.

I broke up with popcorn. That relationship is now officially OVER. The rest of that bag (pretty much still a full bag of kernels) went into the trash and I boxed up the micro-air popper to give away to SalVal (yes, I cleaned it first). Since I had finished that carton of eggnog, that's it for THAT for the year, maybe forever. I don't know if that moment in time when I was writing about putting eggnog in my coffee and saying I just wanted to finish the rest of it straight-up caused me to just drink the rest of the carton, or maybe my brain was just thinking that if I drank the rest yesterday that then it would be gone and I wouldn't have to worry about logging it any other days. I looked at the ingredient list as I was pouring the last cup. Wow! No wonder I was feeling cranky and sleepy and wanted so much more (sugar, grains, etc) after drinking it. No wonder it's so scrummy. It's all sugar!

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That's all that was missing from yesterday's blog but by the time I finished eating/drinking I just wanted to go to bed. I had suddenly been craving Chinese food (rice, wheat, sugar) and didn't want to find myself jumping in my car to run to Panda for take out. I was in bed by 9pm.