Good morning! I thought it would be good to hop back on the What I Ate Wednesday train today. I took an unintentional break from it for a couple of weeks, and knowing a lot of you enjoy reading them, I will make sure to play along every so often.
Below you will see an entire day of my unfiltered eats. In no way do I change what I eat just for the sake of documenting it. I don’t ever count my calories, but I do take into account how much activity I am planning on doing that day and plan my meals and snacks accordingly.
Yesterday turned out to be a rest day for me. I had training and then ran outside in the cold on Monday, and I will be going to my last training class as soon as I publish this post! I woke up feeling very out of it with a terrible cough (thanks, Scott), so I took that as a sign to rest and pulled out a good half hour of stretching and foam rolling instead.
Here’s what the rest of my Tuesday looked like!
What I Ate Wednesday Tuesday
Breakfast started with my latest (warm) go-to.
Organic scrambled eggs, Al Fresco chicken sausage links, and cherry apple butter spread on wheat toast.
That kept me full while I stayed glued to the computer until about 11 a.m.
I was hungry, but settled on eating a couple of clementines as a snack instead.
I just love those little cuties.
Still not satisfied, I got out a serving of strawberry Greek yogurt and topped it with hemp heart seeds. I really like the added texture!
(I also refilled that mason jar of water continuously throughout the day.)
My appetite was raging by 1 p.m., so I dug into the fridge and found plenty of my vegetable pasta salad from the weekend for lunch.
I kept trucking along on the computer and didn’t stop for hours. It’s crazy how I can blink and then entire afternoon passes by.
I took a break around 5:30 p.m. to take Roadie for a walk down to the mailbox and back. It’s only about a quarter mile each way, but with temperatures in the teens and aggressive winds, that fifteen minute walk seemed dramatically longer.
We got back inside and unthawed for a bit before I started dinner. Scott requested some kind of pasta as he often does. He wasn’t going to be home for a couple more hours, so I started with the sauce and let it simmer. I also brought out the corn chips and salsa to snack on and tie me over for a while. (I know, shocking.) (Not really.)
First, all the veggies…
Then marinara sauce, chicken and spices.
Scott ended up being a lot later than expected, so I made myself a dinner plate and kept his warm for him to enjoy later.
Gluten free spaghetti with marinara sauce, pulled chicken, spinach, green peppers, onions, tomatoes, and topped in Parmesan cheese.
Still feeling under the weather, I drew myself a hot bath, got into some sweats, and called it a night. I can’t remember the last time I even went upstairs and climbed into bed before 11 p.m. It was really nice!
Scott and I chatted for a while when he made it home from an event, but I was more than content in my warm and comfy bed. No dessert this time!
All right. I’ve got to get going. I’ll be back later this afternoon and hope you all have a wonderful Hump Day!
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So there you have another full day of eats!
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Question of the Morning
When is the last time you listened to your body and took an unintentional “rest” day?
![[in our elementary school era] 🚌😭
Skyler did great walking into KINDERGARTEN with a big smile on his face this morning. I, however, was a bit of a mess on our walk home. 🥹
It’s wild how fast these 5 years with him have gone … 7 since we moved to NYC and into our apartment, dreaming of the day our kids would someday go to the *awesome* school right down our block. 🏫
That day is today, and I still don’t believe it — feeling allll of the emotions and thanking God for placing us here and for being able to trust His timing through the journey. 🫶🏼 #hbshinnyc
SO proud of you, SK - you are going to rock your first year at your “big boy school” - WE LOVE YOU !! 🩵👑](https://lifeinleggings.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
I’m sorry to hear your under the weather at the moment. These colder temperatures can take such a toll on some people. Hopefully you’ll start feeling better before the holidays begin next week. xox
That is how I usually plan my rest days! Instead of picking certain days of the week to take off from working out I will go by feel and it I’m not up to it I know I need a time out.
I take unscheduled rest days if I’m not feeling it. I think it’s important to listen to your body.
I bet it feels worse to be sick when it’s super cold outside too, right? I hope you feel better. As an instructor, there are many times I have to teach a class when sick because I can’t find a sub, which I HATE to do. But otherwise, I try to take rest days if I’m not well. Hope you get better soon!
Ha, yup. Extremely cold weather usually always gives me a cold! I think it’s just the change in seasons. I’ll survive! 😉 Oh man, teaching without a full voice or when you don’t feel very good is so hard. I give you props for pushing through!
I’ve taken more rest days from running than I can count recently. I’ve still been lifting, because I genuinely want to, but if my body has zero desire to do a certain exercise then I always listen! Our bodies definitely know better than our minds some days.
That’s a good thing. I always recommend listening to your body and judging your activity level afterwards. Missing a workout here and there isn’t going to hurt anything, and a rest day is mostly likely just what the doctor ordered. 😉
Hope you’re feeling better! That pasta { the one you had for lunch } looks so good!!
Thank you, it really was! Now if I just had something to do with the rest of the leftovers… 😉
Mmm that veggie pasta salad looks yummy! I hope you feel better soon!
Thanks! Already feeling more like myself today!
I feel like the cold wind, rain and snow wears out my body sooner so I have been taking more rests than usual. I love it because that means more sofa cuddling time! 🙂
I also love having some crunchy texture in my yoghurt!
It really does! I feel like I literally live in sweatshirts half the time. Oh well, at least I’m comfy 😉
Last weekend, we were forced into a rest weekend. Brisbane hosted the G20, and our town completely shut down. Nothing was really open, and no one was really around. We both talked about on Sunday night how much we really enjoyed having a weekend doing nothing. http://www.eatallovertheworld.weebly.com
Every now and then those are the BEST kind of weekends. 😉
Sorry that you are fighting a cold and hope you get better soon! I can’t believe it is already so cold there! I’m way impressed that you even go outside when it’s in the teens! It’s in the high 50s here and I hate having to leave my warm bed! I have hemp hearts in my pantry but haven’t used them yet- great idea adding them to yogurt though!
i forgot how much i love clementines! they are the perfect snack!!!
Hope you’re feeling better buddy! I’ve just come back from a quick American trip and had intentions of using that as a rest time, but I ended up walking a tonne so this week…rest week. That pasta looks insane and adding pulled chicken? Delicious.