I slept well last night. Sleeping in is sometimes difficult because I'm trained to be up at 4:30am. I've tried to sleep in before, only to wake up at 6am, get up and just accept that I'll be going back for a nap a little later. Sleeping in seems to be not as difficult these days. It's certainly because of my drastically improved sleep quality. Quality, not quantity. Yeah, that's a another discussion.
I had a location broadcast from a grocery store today. It was pretty routine. This broadcast coincides with an annual event in Newkirk, Oklahoma called Charlie Adams Day. A local BBQ competition team phoned the station earlier in the week, promising to bring me BBQ today. I spent a little bit of time stressing about this--not because I feared eating it, not at all. It's BBQ--the calorie values are horrible and the sauces typically have a lot of sugar. I obviously wasn't going to eat it. My plan was to leave the plate of whatever they might bring in the break room of this store and let their employees devour. I was actually going over in my head how I would decline if they asked me to try their BBQ on the spot. The likelihood of this is pretty high considering they were in a BBQ cookoff competition at the day's downtown festivities.
It was all worry for nothing. The plate of BBQ never showed. I was relieved. How crazy does that sound? I was relieved when the free plate of award winning BBQ didn't show up like expected. That's interesting. Again, wasn't the food--it was the possible confrontational aspect if they requested I try their food right then and there. What was I going to say? I guess a simple "no, thank you." would work. Or as Life Coach Gerri always reminds me, "No is a complete sentence."
I left my broadcast feeling a little lighter on my feet. I headed home to do some multi-tasking...Laundry, cooking and working out needed to happen at the same time. I made it that way. I prepared lunch, threw in the laundry--put lunch in a foil pouch, then tossed it in the oven on 325 while I left for the YMCA elliptical.
Great workout!! I was walking out of the Y when my friend Jon in Wisconsin called. I had a wonderful conversation with Jon for probably 15-20 minutes on my hands free as I drove, arrived home, transferred laundry from the washer to the dryer, grabbed lunch from oven, cut up some cantaloupe, weighed everything I needed to weigh, entered everything in MFP, snapped the photo--tweeted the tweet and washed a few dishes! All of this while carrying on a good conversation. Multi-tasking for sure.
I made the trip over to Heather's to enjoy dinner and a rented movie. Heather cooked chicken taco chili and it was amazing. Perfect amount of spice!! She even went a step further and calculated the crock pot of calories--and divided it by the number of servings to give me a fairly accurate post for MFP and Twitter. She is absolutely one of a kind! I'm so lucky. The dinner was exceptional and the movie "The Other Woman" was hilarious.
We watched the new documentary "Fed Up" Thursday evening. If you've watched the trailer, you have a great idea about what it's all about. Sugar and sugar's link to obesity in America. One of the craziest things in this documentary was a Cola executive claiming his soda product was just as healthy as water. It was also sad. Fed Up features a lot of obese and even morbidly obese children. The school lunch program was discussed. I didn't know these things: Pizza is considered a vegetable because it has tomato sauce, french fries are also on the list of veggies. This means my favorite lunch from high school--pizza and fries from the ala cart line was actually just me eating two different veggies! Yeah, right. I had planned on a big review, but I don't have the energy tonight. I do recommend you find it and see for yourself.
My tweets today:
Coffee, my fav. beverage in the entire world. Dark roast, preferably. Creamed & flavored, but sugar free! 30CX2=60c pic.twitter.com/Xdh24gKT0t
— Sean Anderson (@SeanAAnderson) September 13, 2014
Mozzarella cheese omelet (2whl-2whts-2slices mozz), cantaloupe (286g). 371 cal. pic.twitter.com/E2LudclWCq
— Sean Anderson (@SeanAAnderson) September 13, 2014
Elliptical workout is about to commence. #saturdaysweat pic.twitter.com/VVF0RDUrib
— Sean Anderson (@SeanAAnderson) September 13, 2014
Baked tilapia w/yellow peppers & onions, guac (sr crm-1/2 srv, avocado-86g), tostado flat, cantaloupe (266g). 521 cal pic.twitter.com/LdPZX2NnpB
— Sean Anderson (@SeanAAnderson) September 13, 2014
Chicken taco chili! From Heather's Kitchen. GG all nat chips. Aged white cheddar, sour cream. 537 cal. pic.twitter.com/fBEyf6hCCp
— Sean Anderson (@SeanAAnderson) September 13, 2014
More please. So incredibly good! 144 cal. pic.twitter.com/wvKHB3sEWH
— Sean Anderson (@SeanAAnderson) September 13, 2014
Apples after dark. 1/2 Fuji apple. Not pictured: 1/5 serving fresh ground nat. peanut butter. #lastfoodofday 82 cal. pic.twitter.com/Z1anqDg0oL
— Sean Anderson (@SeanAAnderson) September 14, 2014
I really enjoyed the cantaloupe today!
Thank you for reading and your support,
Strength,
Sean
