Ok, not quite starving, but I’m a little hungry.  Things were going rather well, I thought.  Until yoga.

Miss Dietitian has recommended that we get in about three hundred calories worth of exercise every day.  No problem, I thought.  I’ll go hiking up to Mulholland from the house, I’ll walk a mile at the Sherman Oaks park, and I’ll go to yoga.

Yesterday, I did my jaunt at the park.  No problem.

Today, I decided to get those kinks out with yoga. 

I wasn’t ready. 

Yoga had never been so hard.  The downward facing dog was killing me.  I got a little light-headed with bridge and wheel (though I was never good at those in gymnastics either), and when all was said and done after an hour and a half — I was starving to death.

Ok, not starving, but hungrier than I wanted to be.  I got home, had a shake, and was still hungry.  Had a lot of water, and was still vaguely hungry.

I’ve had all my shakes/meals for the day . . . and I’m okay . . . right now.

But it’s barely eight o’clock, and I’m out of activities for the day.

Normally, after exhausting job postings and networking, I spend my day sourcing fresh ingredients and preparing food.  A recent article in one of my cooking magazines mentioned that fifty or sixty years ago, a woman (c’mon you know it was a woman) spent about two to four hours preparing family meals and most of that was spent on dinner.

Adam expressed shock — he couldn’t imagine spending that much time on meals.  I, could, of course, because I did.

I made breakfast from scratch be it muffins, pancakes or crepes with fresh fruit filling.  Admittedly with food processors and blenders, that does go fast.  Then for dinner, we’ve always had a full meal, with fresh vegetables, or meat that had to be de-boned or prepared just so.  And we’re not even going to mention the fact that I make bread from scratch most weeks.

My routine has been to do all the food prep while watching Oprah, then start cooking about an hour before Adam comes home.  Not to mention decanting wine, and possibly preparing some kind of fruit dessert from scratch.

So, without all that food shopping at the farmer’s market, and whatever specialty store I was visiting that day, I have A LOT of time on my hands.

Not to say there aren’t some home improvement projects I could actually finish.  So today, I attempted to finish a change in light switches — though I ran out of three-way light switches before I was done.   I’m six short, can you believe it?  Do Americans need to be able to turn off every light from every room without walking more than a few feet?  But I digress . . . .

I also read a book, and walked the dogs, and played around on the computer.

Now tomorrow, that’s another story.  Hopefully, I wont be too hungry or too bored.

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