day 55: i'm back! and sleeping.

hello, friends! it feels like 100 days since i've written. so let's get back on track here.

(and by let's, i mean, i will.)

i made a schedule for myself this week. it involves something that's very new to me: sleep! last night was a minor catastrophe since i was still cooking (poor planning) when i was supposed to be in bed and then couldn't fall asleep, but i'm confident that some melatonin will do the trick tonight. plus a really long day.

my weekend was lovely and involved a minor-major hermitage for a day and a half. and by hermitage i mean i barely left the apartment, besides the 10k, my voice lesson and an apartment viewing. but yesterday i left for almost the whole day, went to the farmer's market, got sunburned at the beach with friends (yay raccoon eyes) and went to happy hour. wonderful. even though it was probably awful for my waistline, but whatever! i biked there!

rowing this morning was really wonderful, despite rowing bow. i hate rowing bow because it feels like bow seat gets the brunt of any unbalancing of the boat which, in novice, happens constantly. so either my oar was 6 feet under the water or 10 feet above it (this is a gross exaggeration, of course). but i started to get better at feathering, did some backing (rowing backwards to help turn the boat where you push the oar...perfection) and wore my heart rate monitor, which was great except that i forgot to turn off the running setting...so it didn't really track my activity all that well. my bad.

also, i'm trying to eat more regularly this week. which means i spent too much money on food, by about $15. bummer. but what are you gonna do when you have to eat a bazillion calories a day. (weird, the webform didn't say "bazillion" wasn't a word....)

**update**
realized i had a sewing class i thought i'd never signed up for and just put in my calendar...so i went this evening and it was really fun! but as a consequence i didn't cook real dinner for the week, and i'm pushing my run to tomorrow (which would otherwise be an "off" day). this making sleep a priority thing is confusing.

food (cal, fat, protein, carbohydrates, s)
omlette: 275c, 16f, 14p, 20b, 0s
toast: 70c, 1f, 3p, 11b, 2s
homemade chicken "fried" rice: 450c, 24f, 26.5p, 41b, 2s
chips: 140c, 7f, 2p, 18b, 0s
4 tbsp salsa: 20c, 0f, 0p, 4b, 0s
2 hardboiled eggs: 125c, 8f, 12p, 0b, 0s
greek yogurt: 150c, 0f, 14p, 22b, 21s
sandwich bread: 140c, 2f, 3p, 11b, 2s
1 tbsp peanut butter: 94c, 8f, 4p, 3b, 1.5s
1 tbsp jam: 30c, 0f, 0p, 8b, 7s
2 stuffed tomatos: 400c, 30f, 28p, 25b, ?s
total: 1894c, 98f, 120.5p, 163b, 35.5s

46.6% fat, 25.4% protein, 34.4% carbs, 7.4% simple carbs

so...less fat, more carbs. which will happen.

sleep
6.5 hours, but i was in bed for almost 8. i'm getting better.

exercise
rowing: estimating about 200c since i messed up my heart rate monitor for the workout.

net: 1694c.