She's a brick... HOUSE...

(I know... duplicate title, but I like it... so get over it!)

It was GORGEOUS today. Sunny, blue sky, 80 degrees, and fan-freakin-tastic for the mood. My brick workout was an 8 mile ride and about 1.5 mile run. I had wanted to go 2 miles on the run today, but it didnt' happen, the extra distance on the ride killed my still recovering legs and they weren't happy about having to carry my giggly butt for even the mile and a half that I made them do. Oh well. The problem I'm having now is that ever since I got inside after the workout, I have been dizzy. I've eaten, had LOTS of water (going on 50 oz right now) and yet the dizzyness just is NOT passing, and it's really starting to piss me off.

Oh, and I finally got a new swimsuit... and it doesn't bag in the ass, and that makes me happy. Hubby said I looked good in it, and then he smacked my butt... he's cute that way! ;)

In other news, today is the FINAL DAY of the B, B and Lee 2 week clean eating challenge!!! We only lost one participant along the way and everyone has been doing SO well!!! I truly believe that challenges are learning experiences, and so I'm trying to line out what I've been learning these last two weeks.

Well... ok, here's the bigest thing I learned - Freakin' Processed Sugar is in EVERYTHING!!! If it isn't just "sugar" it's high fructose corn syrup, evaporated cane juice, sucrose, fructose, blah blah blah blah and on and on and on. If you don't want refined sugar in your diet you pretty much have to make 90% of your food from scratch. Not that this is a bad thing, but man... when you're a busy full time mom and full time professional and home maker and just want to be able to not have to spend an hour making every meal... you're just about SOL (shit outta luck) if you don't want the processed white crap in your food.

What else did I learn? Well... I learned I can live without caffeine even in really stressfull situations, but that I really do miss and love the taste of coffee and I am not sure its somthing I want to give up for ever.

Also, there is a whole grain alternative for just about anything that is made from white flour... which I find to be very cool.

My PMS cravings are not necessarily chocolate based, they are primarily sugar based and I just tend to feed them with chocolate... which I didn't this time... which is kinda cool.

And I learned that I want to keep eating this way. Its not hard, I am ok with being a little more lenient with the alcohol and caffeine, and I can easily get by with having the whites once a week or less (special occasions and such)... so that's what I'm going to do. Is this the dawning of a brave new world? Ha! I think my penchant for the grandiose is gonna bite me in the big fat butt one of these days! :)

Posted by Lexy at April 25, 2004 07:15 PM