Every 26 Days
Every 26 days I feel down and out and kind of blue. I get really frustrated and overwhelmed with life and I get all sad and morose. Today was that day. I hate day 26. So does my husband. I went for a walk this afternoon though and I’ve been in a better mood since then. Thank goodness!
Lucy dancing around with my underwear on her head helped too:
Don’t worry-it was clean!
For lunch I made a big salad with the leftovers from Friday night. A bed of spinach with steak, brussel sprouts, mushrooms, quinoa, pear, and goat cheese. Dressed with Annie’s Goddess dressing with some balsamic.
After lunch I went to Trader’s to shop for the week. I normally go to Whole Foods but I knew that I wanted pizza tonight and I didn’t feel like making my own dough. Trader’s has great dough so I decided to do my shopping there. I hate that all the produce and meat is from so far away. Their products are too. I ended up spending about $60 MORE than I normally spend at Whole Foods and it was for food that left a HUGE carbon footprint. If that’s not a fail, I don’t know what is. I was feeling pretty sorry for myself and I ate an entire Trader Joe’s dark chocolate bar. A smaller 290 calorie one but still. I woofed it down before I could take it’s picture.
Before my walk I had some yogurt with Galaxy Granola-love this stuff!
After my walk I normally eat a Larabar but decided to skip it because of the chocolate mishap 🙂
When we got home, I made pizza. Vegan for me.
A more traditional pepperoni (turkey), cheese, pepper, and mushroom for Shaun and Lu:
I ate this:
Plus one more piece. It was really good.
While I was preparing it Lu munched on garbanzo beans (she LOVED those), peppers, and tomatoes. At dinner, she didn’t like the mushrooms or pepperoni but liked everything else. After dinner I gave her her first Oreo. We have some leftover from Shaun’s Oreo Pie at Thanksgiving and this book I’m reading says to not make any food taboo. So I gave her an Oreo. She HATED it. She took one bite, spit it out and asked for her normal cookie. Which is so healthy many say it’s not a cookie 😉 No refined sugars, all organic, no milk or soy, and whole wheat. We’ll see if this sticks.
Before bed every night we spell her name to her. It’s on her wall and we say “L-U-C-Y Lucy!” We do it 2-3 times before she gets rocked. Tonight she was saying “SUE SEE!” when we were saying Lucy. 
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it is really every 26 days or is that just an approximation? Are you on birth control? When I was on birth control I would get depressed out of no where for no reason. Like can’t pull myself out of bed depressed out of the blue. I finally realized it was my birth control (yasmin) messing with me. I don’t what it was but I have no felt like that since I stopped taking birth control.
i had the same problem yesterday with my food shopping! i wanted whole foods and ended up at harris teeter, spent more money for poorer quality food. meh. lesson learned on my end. pizza looks delish and lucy is a hoot!
holy cow, that pizza looks amazing! such pretty colors… 🙂
I’ve ever had those day 26 problems. I consider the people around me to be very, very blessed. 😉
Amber-I’m super regular and my period is every 26 days 🙁 I don’t use any hormone birth control-I use paragard which is a copper IUD. Hormones don’t mix well with me. PMS has been REALLY bad since having Lu 🙁
Andrea-Seriously. Whole Foods it is 🙂
Lauren-you are one lucky lady!
Oh my gosh what a gorgeous salad! I am starting to pack a lot of salads for lunch to bring to work, and I’m always looking for ideas. Kind of an odd question – but how do you sprinkle the goat cheese? Do you cut it into chunks first? or do you crumble by hand?
Jul-I’ve done both. It really depends on the cheese. Some is more crumbly and others you have to cut up.
ohh like that kind of 26 days! haha I totally didn’t get it!!!
CHELS!! How can you say that about #26!!?!
I can’t believe you still have Oreos left over from Thanksgiving! They would have been gone the day after in this house LOL 🙂
OMG Lucy is a crack up! Brings me to laugh out loud belly laughs!
Sorry to hear about the moods, hope you feel better soon <3
chelsea — my old OB/GYN who was AWESOME but then moved to practice in some third world country recommended this prescription to beat PMS:
calcium (1000mg total)
extra vitamin e (40 mg total, i think)
extra water (as much as you can take, really)
extra exercise.
i do that and then tend to keep in mind that i’m only really upset because my body wants me to be and that i’m actually ok, and that seems to help. i’ve ALWAYS had evil PMS, and this is the only thing that seems to help. good luck!