Good morning! So happy it's the weekend, big sigh of relief - this week was exhausting with being sick and working and going out with friends when I admittedly should've stayed home. Last night I went to yoga and ran some intervals after work and it felt amazing, so I think I'm finally getting over this bug. I had my good friend's birthday party last night, which was a bar crawl, and it was 3 degrees out - perfect time for not drinking! But I held strong and just drank water instead - and yes, I was that annoying healthy person who brought coconut water to the bar because I'm not drinking and I had just worked out. Oh well. I was trying to be subtle about not drinking and had sparkling water with lime in a small glass so it looked like a vodka soda - kind of ridiculous, but people were SO adamant that I have "just one drink." My good friends are pretty respectful of what I'm doing but weirdly it's the acquaintances who are just, drink! drink! drink! I don't know why they care if I drink or not, it's such a strange phenomenon. I remember back in school when they made it seem like everyone was going to pressure you to smoke cigarettes or do drugs - no one has ever in my life pressured me to do either of those, but drinking is another story. I'm learning that the first 15 minutes in the bar/party are the hardest, because the natural inclination is to get a drink to begin socializing, but after you get water and settle in it's fine - I can be just as fun and energetic without alcohol, it's more about the people and the atmosphere than the drinks.
Anyway! I feel really good today and I'm so glad I didn't do what I would usually do in that scenario - have a few drinks and then stop somewhere on the way home and get junk food and wake up slightly hungover and not feel up to doing anything til noon. I already feel a lot lighter and more clear-headed and on track.
Side note - I did make yesterday my treat day and have some gelato. I read something about not calling it a cheat day, but a treat day - no food guilt, enjoy your food! My coworker's three-year-old son was in the office for the day and they went to Eataly and brought me gelato - Eataly has this amazing, authentic, expensive gelato I would never buy on my own - so I had a little pixie-size cup. You can't say no to an adorable three-year-old bringing you fancy gelato! He also asked me to marry him and I had to say no to that, so I didn't want to let him down too hard about everything. I was also amazed to look it up and see that it's only 160 calories per serving, way less than ice cream - not that I'm counting calories carefully but good to know, not so much! I think one treat a week is my goal, I want to enjoy life and not feel like I'm torturing myself restricting everything.
Friday 2/20
Sleep 8
Walk 3.4, yoga class, intervals 20 min
Lemon water, 3 green teas, 1 oolong tea, 1 coffee
'Wichcraft salad with tuna and fennel, mini tomato soup
Chocolate/vanilla gelato cup
Leftover brussels sprouts and turkey slices, from a ziplock bag while walking to bar (mmm delicious dinner on the go!)
Coconut water
About 7 glasses of water (I seem to compulsively drink water when I'm avoiding alcohol, so hyrdated!)
Piece of chicken when I got home and 2 Brazil nuts