Hello Week 9!

On to Week 9 in Lean Eating, where we focus on getting 5 servings of vegetables in daily.  The great news is that I've tried to eat some form of vegetable with every meal for a while now.  I just have to eat MORE.

My appetite has been down this week because I've been under considerable stress at work.  I'm managing but I'm sad and the workouts have been a wonderful distraction to helping me feel stronger than I think I am most days.

I'm still working on getting the red and yellow foods out of the house.  The great news here is that I've done a good job of keeping red foods out of the house.  You won't find Ben & Jerry's or chocolate in the house because they are trigger foods for me.  I also stay away from Kettle cooked chips.  It's nice to know these things now.

In addition to it being a rough time, I had my first LE injury this week.  I was in a rush to do my workout on Wednesday and was holding 2 five pound dumbbells in one hand to do my single-arm bench presses.  I'm aware that rushing while working out is a NoGo.  And I paid for it.  One of the dumbbell's slipped and wonked me on the forehead.  I thought, "Okay, I'll have a goose egg.  It's 5 lbs after all.  I'll ice it.  No big deal."  Wrong.

I have black eyes, two of them, for the first time ever in my life.  And the thing to know about black eyes...is that they get worse before they get better.  So this is the mild picture of me.

I wish I were more confident and not as shallow.  But working with two black eyes when your job is to talk to people and having people look at you funny gets old really quickly.  But I've been able to say, "well, you know..I do tend to beast out when I work out" and chuckle about it.

So here's to more veggies and week 9!