Troublesome Tuesday

Well I woke up today.. half heartedly.. and put on my gym clothes. Grabbed a clif bar and hit the road. I. Felt. Miserable. I made it to the gym and instantly wondered why I was about to do this to my body. My body didn't want to work out. It wanted sleep. In mass amounts at that. I basically just coasted on an elliptical for about 20 minutes and decided to stop being cruel to myself. I hit the showers and made my way in to work. I just kept feeling worse and worse until eventually I thought I was going to fall asleep right at my desk. At that point I ended up going home.

Once I got home I slept for 4.5 hours. It was glorious! I am normally a terrible nap taker but today it was just so right. After the nap I got up and felt a bit better. I grabbed my school book and made my way to the gym to climb some mad stairs and learn about metabolism. I found this chapter to be one of the most fascinating so far. Ironically, it is also the shortest chapter I have come across so far.. no coincidence there. No, but really, it was interesting to figure out what stores your body retains energy from and what it prefers to use.

I got home and had some din. Then Lauren and I walked to Rita's to get Italian ice with the pup. The cold felt miraculous on my throat. I got chocolate chip cookie dough flavored ice with vanilla custard. Mmmmmm :)

To finish off the night I decided I needed to get my bake on. Again. I've been all about it recently. I forgot that it calms me. The idea sparked when I looked at these two, beautiful, ripe bananas that the wonderful Tom brought me today. He likes his bananas more on the green side so these were just going to go to waste at his house. I put on a little Mat Kearney and got lost in my bliss. I made banana bread muffins. Which is just individual servings of banana bread, portion control at its finest. If I don't do this I will sit down and eat a whole loaf because it's just so darn good. So moist. So delicious. Especially when slightly warm <3

Here's the recipe;

Ingredients:1 cup raw sugar
1 tablespoon butter (regular or nondairy)
1 cup mashed overripe bananas (2 or 3)
1 egg
1 teaspoon real vanilla extract
1 cup oat flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350° F. Combine all of the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
2. Line a muffin tin (be sure to spray the liners with cooking spray) and divide the batter evenly. Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown and firm to the touch.
3. Allow to cool and then serve. Save extras in an air tight container :)

Today started out a little rough but shaped up to be a pretty solid day. I'm off tomorrow so hopefully I will fully catch up on my rest. I'm getting my hairs cut and hanging with Bayli too :) Yeeee. Happy thoughts y'all, adios!