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Monday - Day 10

“Monday, Monday” … “ just another manic Monday“, OH YES!!!

It took me quite awhile to fall asleep last night. Because we get up so early we try to be in bed by 9p most nights, 9:30p at the latest, especially when the alarm goes off at 4:30a. But for no known reason, falling asleep easily on a Sunday night has its challenges. I’ve read that “Sunday insomnia” is a real thing when a person still is in the workforce. We find that our bodies function differently during work days than when off for weekends. Temperature also plays a role. Even with AC, our upstairs bedroom does not cool enough to a comfortable temperature… and we just replaced our AC and furnace in July! Anyway, I would venture to say that it was closer to 11p, but I finally fell asleep (The best thing for me at night is a cup of warm raw milk with nutmeg, or Golden milk, an Indian preparation of ginger, turmeric and other spices in cow’s milk, but I can’t have that right now. I did drink 2T of organic tart cherry concentrate. Tart cherry has melatonin in it).  There is a correlation between getting 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night and maintaining a healthy weight, healing (of mind and body) along with daytime productivity, especially in older adults.

Even though some foods were prepped this weekend for the week, having two breakfasts prepared at same time, in the same space, is also more chaotic. We did not get out of the house until just a few minutes after 7a, so even our walk was cut short.

Once again I double batched  a smoothie to keep things simple. While I drank them both, I will never prepare them quite like that again. The combination was way too sharp. Each serving was equivalent to:

Breakfast:  2T SP Complete, 2T Whey Pro, 1 cup watercress, 1T fresh ginger, 1 cup frozen pineapple., 1 cup hemp milk.

I also had a microwaved sweet potato topped with a tablespoon of Kerry Gold butter and cardamom.

Lunch: beet/carrot/ginger salad over arugula. For protein I had a 1/2 cup of the leftover lentil Dahl.

Lunch salad and green smoothie 

Dinner had been mostly prepared yesterday. I roasted eggplant, yellow squash, zucchini, tomatoes and made a ratatouille. I had not gotten around to roast in the onions, so I sautéed them after arriving home from work and added the vegetables to fish. Bill‘s portion he added chicken, and I stirred in nutritional yeast in mine. I also finished up the okra and cabbage from Saturday nights dinner.

Ratatouille with nutritional yeast

I may add some nutritional information later, but the day was extremely tiring and I am ready to put this to sleep. So … good night and sleep tight 🛌 

 “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food” ~Hippocrates 

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