From the Files of “Should Have Been Obvious”…

I am feeling all tired and run down, and I couldn’t figure out why. And y’all know that I have recently begun tracking my eats on FitDay. Well, as much as I have fought this whole track-what-you-eat thing, there might be an upside to getting around to doing it. It seems I am consistently missing the mark on iron, selenium, and zinc. I eat 2-3 cups of spinach a day, so I never would have thought that getting iron would be a problem. There is a chance that I am anemic.

The three minerals that I lack are all easy to get if you eat meat. Well, I really don’t eat much meat at all. So, I am going to find a supplement to help me cover these nutrients and see if my energy returns.

I did make it all the way through my workout (37/200) yesterday. At about the 30 minute mark I thought I would quit at 45, but then I got a second wind and made it to the end of the hour.

Oh, and I ate cereal for breakfast instead of the typical diet shake. It was nice to chew my food instead of drinking it. Odd for me, because I am typically nauseous when I wake up and tend to have a hard time choking down food – thus the liquid meals even when I am not “dieting.” There’s a whole shrinky dink session in that one statement – how wonderful life must be if I wake up nauseous every day in anticipation of what I will face. Yeah, I am making some changes so that won’t be the case – but tiny little baby steps at a time.