Breakfasts of Champions
Mar. 3rd, 2011 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessToday I am supposed to be doing my approximately tri-weekly lemonade cleanse, but since yesterday was Farm Fresh To You delivery day I can't just not eat my fresh produce. Today will be just fruits and veggies, I think, which is probably just as good for detoxifying. I might even go all raw, but it's cold enough today that I might need hot food. Tomorrow I'll roast a chicken for Shabbos, though - I've got extra bread for stuffing, even, and celery to hand, and I need to make room in my freezer for some more confit and stewing chickens.
Three weeks may be too short of a cycle for my breakfast schedule, though. Having a detailed plan of what to eat every day for breakfast is slightly nuts, but I kind of need it. I wake up either so hungry that I can't think about what to eat, or just not thinking about food at all, and if I do forget to eat the rest of the day is not good for anything but trying to recover some normal equilibrium. I don't even remember to make coffee unless I put it on my To-Do list as a recurring task, until the caffeine withdrawal headache hits in the afternoon when it's too late to have any without messing up my sleep for the night. DH was great at channeling his habit-energy into the coffee-making ritual, and he could always be counted on to at least decide what he wanted for breakfast if not fixing it for us (which he did often enough, as well). Lacking that, I have a schedule of sixteen different breakfasts plus three cleansing fast days to make the decisions for me. On days like today when I decide to diverge, no harm done as long as I replace the planned meal with, well, anything. I've thought of a couple more I could add (like cold cereal, duh, how'd I miss that?), and I could eat out more than once in the cycle - gotta keep those breakfast-serving restaurants in business!
Three weeks may be too short of a cycle for my breakfast schedule, though. Having a detailed plan of what to eat every day for breakfast is slightly nuts, but I kind of need it. I wake up either so hungry that I can't think about what to eat, or just not thinking about food at all, and if I do forget to eat the rest of the day is not good for anything but trying to recover some normal equilibrium. I don't even remember to make coffee unless I put it on my To-Do list as a recurring task, until the caffeine withdrawal headache hits in the afternoon when it's too late to have any without messing up my sleep for the night. DH was great at channeling his habit-energy into the coffee-making ritual, and he could always be counted on to at least decide what he wanted for breakfast if not fixing it for us (which he did often enough, as well). Lacking that, I have a schedule of sixteen different breakfasts plus three cleansing fast days to make the decisions for me. On days like today when I decide to diverge, no harm done as long as I replace the planned meal with, well, anything. I've thought of a couple more I could add (like cold cereal, duh, how'd I miss that?), and I could eat out more than once in the cycle - gotta keep those breakfast-serving restaurants in business!