Blog 14:
Well, I am REALLY tired right now. I think the only reason I am functioning at the moment is because my teams won both the ice hockey and ball hockey playoff games! I actually felt pretty good during the first bit of the hockey game in terms of energy, which is very surprisingly considering my diet for the day (which I will get to). However, the energy reserves quickly diminished by the mid-way point of the game and were not well replenished for the ball hockey game. Here is my diet for the day: cereal and a side of vanilla yogourt, lunch was paid for by my guest for an event I was running (totally unexpected–I was very thankful), and although I didnt eat an actual dinner, I did eat desserts and fingers foods in three locations (at the event I ran, at a meeting, and at a banquet). Those finger foods don’t exactly prepare you well for a go-go day like today (although Im glad I was able to munch on at least a few veggies). And by the way, the banquet was all crackers/cheese, desserts and chips (not healthy)–but hard to complain when it was free! However, upon thinking about that a bit, therein lies a problem; if you are ‘stocking up’ on unhealthy food like I was out of necessity (in other words, with an attitude of ‘this is free I better take advantage of it because I won’t be eating, or won’t be eating much otherwise’), you are not going to be making healthy food choices. Eating desserts and chips is not a bad thing in moderation, but when forced to eat more to simply stave-off hunger and save money, you are NOT doing your body any favours to say the least! Tomorrow I am going to a blood donor clinic so, unlike the last time I did this in high school, I better make sure I have a good breakfast and lunch beforehand so that I don’t faint…haha. Although, that will mean that dinner will suffer…c’est la vie I guess!
