I used to care & please tell me…

I’ve actually been the opposite since working from home! I shower in the morning, although I used to love evening showers! But working from home I can work out in the morning easier and shower after. Agree that washing off the day is so nice though.

Breakfast has been smoothies or cereal lately. But those potatoes and eggs look amazing! Need to try.

Dries out the skin and my skin is already insanely dry!

I love that idea of taking a shower at night- I might start doing that! I tend to take shorter hot showers. Our four of July was spent taking care of our sick kiddos. I did get to go on two beautiful hikes though! My favorite breakfast lately is oatmeal with almond butter, raspberries, and a little bit of vanilla protein powder.

I’m usually an evening shower person! As HOT as I can take it and I would prefer long if I have the time. I’m rushed in the mornings and would rather sleep in than take extra time to shower!
I used to eat the exact same breakfast every day (yogurt and fruit) but now I switch it up. Bagels, smoothies, PB toast, eggs and toast… whatever! this morning I had a mishmash – a few leftover sausages, a leftover hash brown and the remnants of Allie’s cereal. Hah!
Have a fabulous day

Good morning!! I love long showers, but don’t often have time for them. Temperature depends completely on the season – hot in the winter (even though I know it’s bad for my skin), warm in the summer with some blasts of cool/cold at the end.
Something I learned recently about myself is that I fall asleep much better when I use the sleep music on Headspace. Staying asleep is another story, but if I play the music through the night (instead of just to fall asleep), it sometimes helps me get back to sleep too. You would think sleep is the easiest thing in the world, but it gets trickier as you get older – no fair!
Breakfast lately has been post-workout protein shakes, cereal and/or all the fruit. The watermelon has been great this year!!
My easy runs are pretty much the same pace, though sometimes I need to remind myself it’s an easy run and slow down a bit, especially if it’s a long, easy run.
Have a beautiful Wednesday, Janae!

That necklace is the sweetest!
I haven’t walked around a mall in so long. Even way before the pandemic. But thinking about pretzel bites… I may end up there this week. Ha ha
I do love to take long showers, but rarely do I have time. I prefer hot showers too, but after reading that it dries out your skin, and probably hair, I may not be doing hot showers all the time.
I so wish I was better at running my easy runs easy! I start out telling myself to just run easy, and then I don’t. I used to be able to, but somehow my mind is “making” me run fast. I need to figure that out.
Thank goodness someone came by to help Andrew! And I’m glad he’s ok too.
Have a good day Janae ?

I will add those potatoes to my list. Right now I have something similar–just generic grocery store brand chopped red potatoes with onions for roasting–and I have found that if I roast a couple handfuls of them early in the week, then I have a really good substitution for croutons on my salad for the rest of the week (the texture doesn’t have the satisfying crunch of a good crouton, but the way the potatoes make me feel and the flavor partnered with my protein of the day and the juxtaposition of the lettuce crunch and soft potatoes works well for me). BUT–I will need to try these, especially with the peppers and onions in the mix!

Something I learned about myself–it’s actually an area I really need to grow in so I can be successful in my promoted leadership role–is this: generally, when I am frustrated after a meeting, when I try to explain to someone where my frustration is and strategize how to work around it, it can come across sounding bratty, like “I didn’t get my way.” But the thing is, it never is. A consistent pattern i have noticed is that when I feel a frustration rise inside me and then stick around for a while, it’s because I feel incredibly unheard. I’m generally a strong communicator–direct and exact–but something happens in group situations and I can often be quiet, and instead of asserting my views, I tend to wait for an opening. I need to work on lessening any frustration, and I need to learn to more clearly articulate what’s going on for me, and I need to learn different ways of making myself heard.

Not all things we learn about ourselves are great, right? Sometimes what’s great is that what we learn about ourselves helps us focus ways we can and need to grow to really rise up to our potential in meaningful ways.

OK breakfast. With getting back to early morning strength training (I have developed the habit in a general way, now it’s time to refine and to get more consistent and intentional so this new habit has a positive impact), this has become my breakfast a few times a week:
a piece of sesame ezekial bread, toasted with maybe 1/2 pat of butter melted on top
scrambled eggs (not fancy–liquid eggs–but generally 1 egg + 2 egg whites) with maybe a tsp or so of shredded cheddar mixed in
a few dashes of hot sauce
a handful of baby arugula

Not fancy, but it keeps me feeling satisfied for a few hours.

And right now I just finished a carnitas quesadilla from chipotle for my lunch. And I ate every last bit of it, because YUMMMMMM!!!!

Long hot showers in the evening for me! I am so used to showering at night that getting into bed without showering first just doesn’t feel right. I don’t usually shower in the morning though..

Breakfast = baked oats with blueberries and vanilla protein powder! It’s winter here in Australia and I love this warm cosy breakfast.

Easy runs—> months ago my coach told me to focus on low HR and just change my watch so that it doesn’t show the pace field for easy runs. It’s been such a game changer!