I arrived home from work last night and was greeted by a little present. It was a gift that I had left for myself, and, since leaving it in the morning, I had completely forgotten about it. The present was… a mess.
That morning, I was making a mad dash to get out the door. With my work bag in one hand and my gym bag in the other, I decided at the last minute to grab a box of raisins from the cupboard as part of my breakfast. I opened the cupboard, grabbed a box, and as I removed it, the corner caught a jar of Spike, my favorite non-sodium all-purpose seasoning mix, and brought it crashing to the counter. Crap.
“No time to clean it,” I told myself. “I’ll do it tonight.” Believe me, it was the last thing I wanted to do when I came home from a long week from work, but cleaning it up wasn’t a big deal – even though that glass travelled far. Now I’m out of Spike. I’ll add it to the grocery list.
That wasn’t the only unplanned food-related incident of the day. The pile of shattered glass must’ve knocked me off my game, because I also forgot to grab my lunch, which I had packed the night before, to bring to work. And I didn’t realize it until about 1pm, when I returned to my desk, starving, after being away from it for a while.
This was the first time since I started this job, over a month ago, that I’ve forgotten to bring my lunch. I’m sure it’ll happen again – I’m human, after all – and now I have a Plan B.
There’s a Subway less than a half mile from my office. That didn’t surprise me so much, just because there’s not many places in all of Los Angeles where there isn’t a Subway within a half mile, but I decided I would run there and back. And I don’t mean ‘run’ in a colloquial sense. I ran there. And ran back. I stopped at crosswalks (something I don’t do when I’m running for exercise; in those instances, I run in place), but for most of the rest of it, I ran.
At Subway, I picked up a foot-long Black Forest ham on wheat, with all the veggies and a little fat-free honey mustard. No cheese.
I don’t remember the calorie count exactly (and I’m too lazy to look it up online), but it was under 600 calories, according to store signage. Now the $5 footlong jingle is stuck in my head: “Five… five dollar… five dollar footloooong!”
After work, it was off to the gym, where I warmed up with some inclined walking on the treadmill for 6 minutes (speed: 4.0, incline: increasing every minute to 15.0). Then, 43 minutes of weightlifting – chest presses, hack squats, rows, leg extensions, flys, shoulder presses, shrugs, and something I’m forgetting. All that, plus the midday run to Subway and back, adds up to a nice workout.
Plus, that lunch I had forgotten (salad with veggies and tuna; 1/2 a pita bread; strawberries and blueberries with plain Greek yogurt) made for a fine dinner.
Keep it up, David!
Thumbs up, David!
Way to make a healthy unplanned lunch choice . . . it’s one thing to plan a lunch . . . even to plan a bought lunch, but it’s the unplanned meal out that I find can be a problem.
Funny you should mention that there seems to be a SUBWAY every 1/2 mile in LA . . . I noticed when I was out there last year that there seems to be one on every other corner, but then I just counted the number where I live and we have 8 for just over 90,000 people!!!!!
Keep up the healthy choice,
Bev
Spike? never heard of that, I use Mrs. Dash for my sesoning, I’ll have to check my grocery store for some spike to try it out.
Nice choices there. You are really lucky David, here in Germany, they don’t yet have any special dressing, like fat free honey mustard, which I would love by the way. Enjoy the rest of your day.
Proud of you, as usual: Love that you didn’t let hunger derail your Healthy choices. ^_^