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Good eating is good training

Just finished up a fantastic lunch of lemon butter chicken with peas.  I had my usual egg whites with bacon and gouda cheese for breakfast but to aid my stomach healing, I had a small Greek yogurt with honey before I left the house.  Eggs and I have a very tumultuous relationship going back to Thanksgiving of 1998, when I got food poisoning.  It wasn’t the eggs that made me sick but it was the last thing I ate, hence being scarred for the better part of the last 13 years, dumb but the mind is very powerful thing to have a fight with.  I have tried many times eat eggs.  Usually they are smothered in green chile, like any good New Mexican, and I can get them down the first time but the second time is a no-go.  At the beginning of this year when I wanted to do a practice weight cut, I realized I had no choice but to eat eggs as granola or oatmeal weren’t going to help in weight loss.  Also after further research, they really aren’t the best for breakfast unless you workout before breakfast.  They are best utilized by all bodies, as a post workout meal.  This information only encourages me to eat cereal for dinner though.  Back to the eggs: I started by using egg whites and adding in turkey bacon and covering it in gooey gouda cheese.  It worked out pretty well, but the cheese had to be there.  And in learning from my mistake of last week, I still can’t handle the yellow’s.  I have since become averse to Turkey bacon as its basically like lunch meat, but probably more processed to fit into that shape and those colors.  If I could cook a turkey every week for sandwiches, that would be fantastic, but back to my reality of limited time and lack of sleep, I’m stuck with deli meat.  And deli meat grosses me out.  I have never seen a turkey that was formed into a perfectly round shape and have decided that it’s just far too processed for me and adding to my deli meat aversion is now turkey bacon.  So despite my distaste for pork, I have decided it’s better than overly processed meat.  Strange logic but the name of this blog is As I See It, it’s all in how I see it through my lens, it doesn’t have to make sense to you.   

 

So after a full nights rest, eating a great lunch and my stomach appearing to be back to normal, I’m looking forward to the results I’ll get from my training this week.  Also, despite a little bit of bump with our location for our business, we are making progress towards finding a spot which eases my stress a bit and gets me pretty excited.  My next post will be about my struggles with sugar and a recent decision I have made towards dealing with my kryptonite, as my friend Greg so aptly stated.      

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