I don’t know if anyone out there is like me, but I find fall is usually my time to being new transformations. I always feel like searching out a new beginning. Be it a new hobby, or a way I’d like to change a habit into something more positive.
So far this month we’ve done really well cutting back on our alcohol consumption. We tend to put weight on very easily with alcohol of any kind, breads, pastas, sugar, baked goods etc. All of our other healthy habits are being cancelled out by this habitual beverage. We’ve been limiting ourselves to a few pints once a week and we are feeling better for it. Dorian is running again at the gym. I have started to walk to work everyday rather than bike which sounds less productive but I assure you it is a good move for me. When I bike, I tend to coast and look at all the beautiful old homes. When I walk, I am walking to the beat of music and usually suck in my gut (for some reason). I really enjoy walking and its what used to keep me in shape for years and years. In fact, my whole career I’ve walked to work and its only when I’m not does my weight really balloon (very recently). My awesome friend Alisha and I are going to get our yoga groove back on again next week. I love yoga. Love it. Its just such a pain in the ass getting there. No matter how I chalk it up, it takes me an hour to get there either by bus, bike or walk. So an hours class ends up eating 3 hours of my evening. See my dilemma?
Speaking of new routines, making Dorian’s lunches has ended up being really fun. He still enjoys seafood regularly so its either salmon sammichs or a refried beans wrap. I’ve been following suit and attempting to make mine as well. I am sick (literally) with the food in the market and am hard pressed to find anything vegan, healthy and not soul crushingly expensive. And Dorian is actually eating a great deal more than he used to at this new job. Personally I think its because he is working so much harder. I include with his sammich a piece of local or organic fruit (if we’re lucky both categories), a Vega bar, a raw food cookie and an extra smoothie. I am still making epic smoothies every morning. Its root season here in Ontario so its been a beet – blueberry – banana smoothie mornings. Kinda progressing into strawberries again since the everbearing bushes are still going strong. The market offers picked daily strawberries and I have been going full throttle with my addiction to them.
Really the most fun is that the dogs are now into the smoothies with us. Our old blind boy, Zinger, is unfortunately a recycler. Yes… he eats what he poops. Now in the morning he has his breakfast, rushes outside to relieve himself and rushes back in. He sits on his mat and drools, waiting for his smoothie. I’ve been making a little extra in the morning and give each of the furbabies about a 1/4-1/2 cup. Zinger LOVES wheatgrass, so I bought some freeze dried and have been adding it in. I am such a proud Momma, especially when everyone calls him a veggie dog (even though its not quite true).
Nana and Grampa shared their mighty potato haul with us this weekend. So tonight’s dinner will be roasted beets, brussel sprouts, potatoes and peppers (from our garden!) and of course MUSHROOMS. Interestingly, no dinner seems complete without them. I only wish I had of picked up carrots to accompany all of this. Can’t wait for the fall apples soon!!!
Enjoy your dinner tonight, I know I will 🙂
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