"Today, I will try to feed myself when I am hungry.
Today, I will try to be attentive to how foods taste and make me feel.
Today, I will try to choose foods that I like and that make me feel good.
Today, I will try to honor my body's signals of fullness.
Today, I will try to find an enjoyable way to move my body.
Today, i will try to look kindly at my body and to treat it with love and respect"
-Live Well Pledge
Today we took my coworker out to lunch for his birthday (that was this past week). He just started a 28 day (different challenge) cleanse - eating (in phases) only raw food at the moment. So we went to a Vegan restaurant in town called Blossoming Lotus.
Even though I'm far from vegan (there's just no way I could abandon cheese) and I just can't wrap my head around the idea of "nut-cheese". I still had a yummy lunch; the Southwest Bowl - brown rice, spicy butternut & black bean chili, steamed greens topped with avocado ranch, roasted pepper sour cream, scallions and cilantro. 
While I felt (very) out of place and the lunch was good, a friend put it best when she said "a plate of fried chicken and mashed potatoes covered in country gravy wouldn't be sitting as well right about now".I came back to work and have done one quick lap of stairs (a figure eight basically) - down one, up another two (don't ask how that works).
I plan on another few of those laps as the afternoon goes. (But I'm trying to be productive at work at the same time). :)
Long before I started "volumizing" my meals, and when my lunch spot was the food court....the after affects were so "blah" feeling: sluggish, sleepy, etc. All those carbs just do things to your frame of mind and your metabolism! Now that I'm limiting my carbs/portions, and trying to volumize with fresh items, I actually have more stamina and feel more like myself!
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