Baby greens, carrots, tomato, avocado, hummus toast, etc.
Allow me to paint you a visual.
First of all, we still don’t have Internet. That is why this is happening.
This, of course, is me sitting in the middle of our swankass clubhouse (is it a clubhouse? I don’t know… office?) wearing a decade-old Furman sweatshirt (hood UP, like a boss… or a terrorist), massive lobby TV turned from ESPN to Bravo (duh), shoes off, feet up, free Internet BLAZIN’.
The only other people in here are a guy and a girl sipping wine at the bar. I mean, they haven’t said anything to me yet but I get the feeling they are really happy I popped in. You know? Sometimes you can just feel that connection with strangers. Whatever, man.
Kale, avocado, burger, hummus.
ANYWAY. Today was fun. I worked. Ate. Yoga’d. Hung out with this little gem:
I wear many a hat at Y2 Yoga–teacher, manager, marketer, bringer of treats, babysitter extraordinaire.
A construction lift crashed through the ceiling of a place nearby, bursting a water main and setting off fire alarms at every suite in the complex.
It was so loud and such a disaster and quite abrasive. And all the while the diehard yogis in Tanner’s class were all:
"Whatever, man."
The alarms went off through that class and Adam’s and nobody even skipped a beat. Om shanti, right?
That was the most exciting part of my day. The second most exciting part was eating.
Last night Mitch and I kicked off our first Sunday Soup Night with minestrone so tonight I had leftovers and hummus toast and tofu fingers with homemade honey mustard.
Yeah, boy.
YEAH
Putting together playlists and sequences for this week’s classes and then promptly passing out. This is my new existence. I am the lamest person on the planet.
You need to come manage the gym I teach at, I plugged in the speakers and the music was BLARING. I could not get the volume down. Disaster.
Sounds a lot like my life – work, yoga (or really, playtime in the sun that never shines in Seattle), food, bed. Repeat. BUT I thrive on routine and am so so so so happy to have normalcy in my life once again.
Question – when you went veg/vegan did you notice any weight gain? A reliance on grains? I’m struggling to fit in protein because it’s not a conscious thing for me, and my body seems to be getting a bit squishier. Any suggestions would be muy helpful!
interesting. i do have a theory that if i ate meat i’d probably be 10 pounds lighter… i have no science to back this.
i haven’t noticed a weight gain–quite the opposite when i’m strictly vegan versus vegetarian–but i do have this sneaking suspicion that i’d eat less in general if i ate animals. not worth it to me.
i’d say just make sure you’re getting all the essential amino acids. animal proteins are complete, meaning they contain all the essential amino acids in one source. plant proteins are incomplete because they don’t have all nine amino acids in one source. no big, really. all it means is we have to eat a variety of foods to cover all our bases. people used to think you had to combine vegetarian proteins (like beans + rice) in one meal to get the complete protein, but if you just eat it all throughout the day you’re good.
here’s a video response i did addressing questions about protein in general that may be helpful: http://www.sweettaterblog.com/2011/08/02/sweet-tater-talks-protein/
awesome tater, you rock
I think my new favorite song (“Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons) would be an awesome yoga song. Check it out!
will do, thanks!
Just curious, but is your yoga studio fine with you posting photos from classes? To be honest, I might be a little self conscious if I thought someone might be tweeting photos from a class I was in.
I’m sorry, did you say you have a bar in your apartment building? I’m confused and also considering relocating to North Carolina.