Happy Boxing Day to the Canadian readers out there!

I don’t think Boxing Day is considered a holiday in the States?  How about in Europe? 

I’m not doing any shopping today – I value my limbs too much to risk getting stampeded by shoppers looking for bargains.

To start off this post, I present my family’s Christmas tree.  Look carefully.  Is there something odd about it?

Do you see the brown thing that looks like road kill, tucked daintily in the branches?

It’s a toy for one of the dogs.  Lovely, eh?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Eat

One of the best parts about Christmas is, of course, the eating.  If I read one more fitness article that tells me to avoid the fatty dips and instead, eat raw vegetables, I will curl up and die.  Christmas comes once a year!  Eat up, enjoy it, and get back on the healthy eating train when it’s over. 

No need to feel guilty about mom’s delicious turkey dinner. :)  Bring on seconds!

Christmas Eve morning started with some poinsettia oat bran.

Lunch was Christmas tree turkey sandwich + veggies + hummus.

Snacks were GF-SF cookies, GF-SF cookies + GF-SF cookies.  Woah.

After a Christmas Eve church service, we came home for a spread of appies.  This was only the beginning.  More plates surfaced later with more delicious eats, but I was way too busy eating.

Apparently, my sister and dad like to fist bump before eating.  Forget grace.

Mom made an awesome Christmas morning breakfast.  It’s tradition that Christmas breakfast usually goes wrong – a new recipe flops, something burns, an explosion happens.  Not this year!  Just all around good stuff.

I got special GF SF waffle sticks made from a Maggy B mix.  The rest of the fam ate normal ones.

Waffles piled high with fruit + yogurt + SF GF maple syrup + fruit salad + Rudolph tea.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

The rest of Santa Day eats are, oddly, not here.  Why?  Because I was busy chatting away with my 80 year-old Oma’s boyfriend to take pictures of my turkey dinner.  No, I’m not kidding.  She really does have a boyfriend, and he’s a cute little old guy. 

I’m not sure what it means that my elderly Oma has a boyfriend and neither my sisters or I do – but good for Oma!  The two of them kept us laughing.

Turkey leftovers will surely make an appearance.

Gluttony ensued all day yesterday and I ate some wheat and some brown sugar and paid ten-fold for that booboo.  Today, I’m back to eating simple stuff that has no mysterious ingredients.

Boxing Day breakfast looks similar to yesterday’s but wasn’t nearly as good.  I used an old GF frozen waffle and topped it with plain yogurt + fruit + sliced almonds + SF GF syrup.

When I eat stuff I shouldn’t, I get exhausted.  I slept over 12 hours last night and feel like I could have a nap.

Do any other non-wheat/no cane sugar eaters experience this???

I Move

Wednesday – I moved from Ottawa to Kitchener!  Ha!  A six hour car ride got me home.  :)  No exercise.

Thursday – treadmill time.  A nice 30 minutes on the treadmill in the basement.

Friday – more treadmill.  Again, just downstairs.  How convenient is it to have cardio equipment at home?!  I feel like exercise on Christmas Day is kind of lame, but I felt the need to get moving.

Saturday – not sure what’s on for today.  Maybe the treadmill, or I might take one of the dogs for a walk.  That’s probably more likely.

I’m off to… continue sitting in my pyjamas and soaking up all that is Christmas holidays.

Hope you’re enjoying whatever you may be celebrating – Christmas, Kwanza, Hanukkah, or just a weekend.

Adi

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