Carb fest

Ick, I feel a bit gross tonight. I’ve overeaten, haven’t exercised and just feel blah . Mostly likely because veggies and fruit haven’t passed my lips today…

It seems like I’m on this up and down path at the moment here in Hong Kong. Some days I eat well and feel great and others I just over do it and feel like crap. The up and down is well… getting me down a bit. I feel like I need to regroup and refocus and get some balance across the board. I think part of this stems from the fact that I don’t have a race on the horizon (and thus a purpose to train) and I’m not in a regular running routine. I just need some consistency… so I’ll be striving for this in the coming weeks.

Anyway, enough ramblings. Just some thoughts on where I’m at…

So we got our sleepy selves up to Dragon-I to meet friends for a Dim Sum brunch. Here are some shots of our selections. We ordered lots! But there were 6 of us and it was all quite delicious.

I had a taste of pretty much everything and was reasonably full when I left. But I ate a bit too much fried stuff that I normally wouldn’t have and had that icky aftertaste in my mouth all afternoon.

Made a new furry friend – meet Lulu. Our friends were babysitting Lulu (for their friends) this weekend. What a cutie! Lulu was so well behaved and sat patiently under the table all through our brunch.

After brunch we bought some cool new furniture pieces from Homeless. A new TV bench and a sideboard type thing. They are being delivered tomorrow so we are pretty excited!

In the afternoon I felt like something sweet and had a cranberry and walnut mini fruit loaf from a little bakery on Wellington Street. 

Twas lovely!

And dinner was more carbs. We had some fresh pasta in the fridge which I made up with a jar of Barilla pasta sauce. Cheats pasta but seriously tasty. Just a small bowl for me with some sharp parmesan on top. 

Finished off with a bowl of Fage and some applesauce and honey.

So, back to my opening thoughts. I am thinking that part of this unbalanced feeling I am experiencing is also due to sugar. I feel like my sweet tooth has just ratcheted up a few levels over the past few months. I am definitely eating more sugar than I did, say at the end of last year, before we went on holiday. And you know what, the more sugar I eat, the more I seem to want it. I seem to crave sweet breakfasts and snacks (dried fruit, fro-yo) all the time lately and once I have eaten something savoury I usually want something sweet to counter the savoury taste. You know what I mean? This didn’t really used to happen to me. SOOOOO – what am I going to do about this? Well starting tomorrow I’m going to try to cut back on the sugar. I’m going to go back to plain cereal during the week and save oats and oatbran for the weekends. I may also introduce some egg white fluffy’s for breakfast too. Also, I’m going to try going back to more fruit and veggie based snacks (eg. carrots and hummus) rather than relying on muesli bars all the time. I used to eat a lot of cottage cheese as a snack back in Oz but I can’t get any good cottage cheese over here so that isn’t an option. I’ll do some research on some more interesting savoury snacks.

Again, that’s enough rambling for tonight. Catch you in the morn.