Stood up and screamed WEEKEND

It's Monday morning and i should be getting ready for work but I figure I have 10-15 minutes and I would do a quick review to see if I met my desires for the weekend.   In fact, it was a great weekend.  I feel relaxed and rejuvenated ready to go tame the lions at work.  My only regrets are that there was not more exercise, less alcohol and better food....but it had been a hell of a week and I really needed to relax.  Is it bad good food and alcohol = relax? -- probably but I am not ready to solve that problem yet.

To recap - Friday night was gorgeous walked around town and had a fabulous dinner.  Saturday an interesting "run" and then walking around Newburyport enjoying the libations of several nice bars and restaurants.  Sunday was another beautiful day where we spent many hours with the dog at the park an outdoor brunch ...more time at the dog park and dinner with my older son.   I also managed to get some reading and writing done.  All in all...enjoyable, relaxing and restorative. It felt like a weekend.

Stew mentioned nutrition to me - which is I know is a huge problem for me and one of the reasons I struggle so on my runs.  I went to bed thinking about it and managed to have a dream where I was working on some potato advertising jingle.  I do love the potato...fried, mashed, whipped...you name it I love it.   I eat a lot of empty calories and then push my body to do something with no fuel.   No surprise it is a struggle.  My Guy can eat and drink and then go for a 15 mile run...my body rejects this completely.   Maybe it is my thyroid issues, maybe it is my age, maybe because I am a girl, but I will not be successful until I learn to eat better.

I struggle with what to eat and when and still have a lot of emotional things tied up in food like I deserve to eat because I had a bad week.  Friends of mine are doing a vegan gluten free cleanse...which sounds like a whole lot of hell to me.  I get it thought - if you want the body to run well you give it really clean food - just like an engine so the valves do not get all junked up.  There has to be a middle between drinking and splurging and vegan gluten free, but either way it is hard for me to figure out what it is.