Monday, June 16, 2014

I forced my body to eat a sausage egg and cheese this morning against its will

I don’t feel great about it. I am also trying not to beat myself up either.

What’s fascinating is that I kind of talked myself into “deserving” it for a variety of reasons – I am not running today so I can take a break, It’s to “finish off” the weekend (whatever that means), I want to check in with the neighborhood and hang at the place where I bought it for a bit, I will eat a salad for lunch and dinner so breakfast can be a bit unhealthy. They seem almost silly to type now.

As I was walking back to my car with the piping hot breakfast sandwich in my hands, I asked my body if it wanted to eat this. It said no. I didn't listen to my body.

I am reading Twyla Tharpe’s book: “The Creative Habit.” She talks about artists taking a certain perspective to show people their world. Some people are very close in, writing lots of detail others take a long view (e.g., historical fiction). I notice that my mind jumps from one to the other very quickly and finds the best place to make a case for why I should make my body do something.

So, now, my body is digesting the food I made it eat. It has not rebelled or anything, by my stomach feels full (too full) and the grease seems to have left a residue on my hands and it feels like the grease will come out in my sweat. I am planning to eat salad for lunch and I did drink a smoothie this morning, so there is some fuel in there, but I just overwhelmed the fuel with grease.


I’ll keep breathing, and listening. 

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