Peer Pressure
I almost forgot how unhealthy relationships can be.
I woke up this morning with a solid plan. Wake up. Work. Work. Yoga with the man (who has decided he wants his blog nickname to be Achilles–I’m still deciding how I feel about that), then home for more work.
Unfortunately, my plans were sidelined. He was hungry when we met and wanted dinner. I tried to note that eating before yoga is a bad idea, but he was hungry, so I ordered some sorbet and mostly just swirled it around while he ate a salad. After the salad was completed he agreed with me that eating before yoga was a bad idea, and we decided that mayhap yoga would be something I do on my own for now on…and why don’t we go see Sherlock Holmes.
My workout today was non-existant, and the dinner of grilled chicken and salad I was planning on was replaced by mango sorbet and movie theatre pretzel nuggets.
I sort forgot about this aspect of relationships–the eating negotiations. Something to work on, definitely. I don’t know that I’ve ever mastered it in my previous relationships, but I’m determined to get the hang of it this time.
Breakfast
Smoothie w/banana, frozen strawberries, soy milk and protein powder
Lunch
Yup, I’m still eating that vegetable soup!
Whole wheat pita & hummus
Snacks
Clementine
Larabar
Dinner
Mango Sorbet
and some pretzel nuggets (not pictured)
Kim
related post
I forget–have you posted your vegetable soup recipe before?
It took me a long time to figure out the eating thing when I first moved in with Matt. I had to digest (pardon the pun) the fact that it was OK for us to eat at different times, and eat different things.
Sounds like you two are having fun though
Kim and Achilles sittin’ in a tree…
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Kimberly Rae Miller Reply:
January 26th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
My vegetable soup recipe is nothing more than a bag of frozen veggies, a box of vegetable broth, and a can of diced tomatoes, seasoning to taste and a crockpot. I did write about it once on Elastic Waist once upon a time, here’s a link to the post with some variation to the one I made recently: http://thekimarchives.com/2008/10/20/destitution_diet_week_5_crockp/. I consider soup making a lazy day activity.
I must remember that the men I date read my blog. Achilles just apologized for ruining my plans. He’s cute, even if I am still iffy on his nickname of choice.
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Hahaha! You forgot that the men you date read your blog! That made me laugh because I was just wondering how they responded to it. I feel that I am lucky because Curtis is pretty good about making sure I stay happy and he knows that when I miss a workout I am not usually happy so, he knows that he should never, ever suggest that I miss a workout. Sometimes, when I feel pressured or like I’m letting someone down I’ll offer to skip the workout and he will say “No, no, no…. you get in your workout and THEN we’ll go.” because when I’m not happy, I’m not exactly fun to be around. Sometimes being a tempermental freak has it’s advantages.
It was nice that Achilles apologized though. Perhaps you just need to set some ground rules so that there isn’t any confusion in the future?
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Thanks for the soup link, Kim
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