better than most

This is Sara. Today was a better day than most. And Holy-Ass-Whoping-Wonderfulness at the gym today!

I took a cycling class with Annie. It wasn't spinning, it was more like mountain biking...and pretty well had my butt handed to me. It was great. I love a good solid hour of hard core push. Its then that I realize just how much aggression I have inside. And not the aggression you might think of, I don't walk around feeling like I want to punch people. I just like to be driven that way, I respond to it physically.

That of course left me exhausted and exhilerated. No joke about the anti-depressive effects. I don't think I am depressed but I could feel the mental "pick me up" instantly.

I also felt raging hunger, so I ate pasta leftovers from last night and celebrated the kick off with a friend for a cocktail. All in all though I don't think that I am cosuming enough calories. I think I probably consumed 6 to 8 hundred today, 1000 max. All I had to eat was an organic vege whole wheat pot pie, a handful of pretzels, a couple cups of coffee, that pasta and a weak vodka cran. That is fine now and then if I am not working out but not going to be good to burn energy at the rate that I burned it tonight. I will more likely pass out.

I drank 2 liters of water today. Not too bad, most of it I consume at night. Oh, and I forgot to mention that I took a box of Stevia packets to work to substitute the sugar I put in my coffee. If you don't know about Stevia you should look it up. No neuro-toxins like Egual, Sweet and Low, etc. Those suckers are true blue poison. Stevia is from a plant and pulverized. Make sure you use the "non-bitter" type, and yeah its a little different than sugar, but not much. Watch the quantity though: one half a little packet is as sweet to me as 3 teaspoons of regular cane sugar!

And now I am ready to sleep like a baby...and wake up limping tomorrow. That kind of sore is a good feeling.