Good Morning!

Mom messaged last night that since I spent part of Sunday crawling around under her furniture to help her find her Fitbit, she was offering to take me to dinner. So I had sashimi and a glass of prosecco and she had tempura dinner and prosecco. I also came home and ate an almond flour muffin. Shark week, I'm eyeing you.

Today, 1.43 on the treadmill, bf was 1 muffin, 4 oz Fage whole, 2 tsps chia, 2 tsps ground flax, 10 blueberries, 1 tsp sf vanilla. This was a big breakfast!

Lunch is 1 svg frittata in a lc tortilla, with celery. Snack is 1/4 cup pumpkin seed-cashew blend & 1/5 ES dark chocolate. Dinner is taco soup.

On the agenda is: online office hours, and plans to make the egg roll in a bowl before the broccoli slaw goes off. Datura workout, and then some crafting (I have a weaving project, a knitting project, and an embroidery project all "in progress," so getting any further work done is good). It feels like today would be a good day for attempting an earlier bed time.

Extinction Burst

Wanted to eat in excess tonight, and some of that has happened-- I had an extra half cup of pumpkin seeds and an extra muffin after dinner.  With calorie dense foods, that's a ton.  But I did this- I drew the line there, addressed factors (fatigue, my menstrual cycle, whether the muffins might be a trigger food), and then: made my lunch, set up the tea pot and travel mug for tomorrow, made my breakfast yogurt for tomorrow, and made another bottle of water.  Lastly, I put the remaining muffins in the freezer.  I hate waste, but I also can't chow in excess if they're rock hard, and it has to be a deliberate choice to get one out.  I don't own a microwave. 

Extinction bursts are hard for me, and it's usually a sign I've been letting carb creep happen.  This time I'm not sure it's that, but more the temptation to creep, combined with cycle and really good muffins (too good = I want too many).  But, dude, fighting against your primitive brain‽  Hard!

Now, I plan to take in my usual Tuesday show while on the treadmill.  It only "undoes" excess in the same way that "catching up on sleep" works, which is sort of but not really the way you want it to work.  But, it will give me a sense of equilibrium.