June 5

I had a very rare day off, so I went on a slightly longer run (5 miles) with sprints. I was tired. Then I showered and ate a banana with soy yogurt, soy milk, oats, and yummy coconut granola. And then I ate more granola with generic brand smacks. And more soy milk. I was lazy for a while, then rode my bike into Hannover, walked around, wrote letters, shopped (ugh), and drank and Eiskaffee. shhhh it's not a dessert. But really there was basically no ice cream in there. I got 1 bite. And there wasn't even milk in the coffee. Plus Rachel and I decided we get one small treat a day. Which is all fine and dandy except then I was in the Kaufhof and even though I said I wouldn't, I couldn't resist the Lindt truffles. I had 3, but I didn't eat vegetables so it evens out right? I rode home and Florian was the only one in the kitchen. I'm bad at making awkward conversation, especially in German, and there weren't really any veggies in the fridge and I wasn't super hungry so I just went back to my room and ate an apple and chai powder mix I got today. Don't worry I drank it with water.  I ended up going into the backyard and doing some of the tough mudder bootcamp workout. It was hard! I also climbed a rope which was way harder than it should be (how on earth did I ever do this with no legs?!?). And now I'm going to bed too late again, surprise!

June 4

I woke up early but didn't do anything. I had 1/2 banana, peanut butter, yogurt and oats for breakfast, and then laid in my bed and watched a movie. I love kindergarten, I actually have free time again! The twins go till 12 now! Eventually I got out of bed and did a pretty intense yoga sesh, then ate leftovers from Friday. Rice, lettuce, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, zucchini, guacamole, salsa/sour cream dip, and carrots. There was strawberry sauce with a dollop of yogurt for dessert, which was just cooked strawberries with a little sugar so it doesn't count under our "sweets" points. And soy yogurt.

Rachel and I went shopping so I could finally buy some delicious coconut müsli! And a whole bunch of other things that were actually on the list. I had a coffee with soy milk and a little more of the strawberry stuff, then played with the kids outside in the sun (sun!!!!). It turns out I can do a backflip on their tiny trampoline.

I bathed the girls while Rachel cut up veggies and mad another dip, and there were leftover rolls from the Hofladen so I had one of those with hummus and this yummy arugula pesto fresh cheese (kind of like cream cheese) and veggies. And I had to try a taste of the other cheeses too... and the stomach ache came. It wasn't as bad as usual though. I had a glass of apple juice after dinner, then went for a walk up Benther Berg and around. It's nice being out till 9pm and the sun hasn't even gone under the horizon yet! The weather was perfect walking weather too.

June 3

Every once in a while I get out of my compaining-about-German-food rut, and actually eat pretty healthily. I had toast with pb and 1/2 banana for breakfast, then ran to the playground and did some pull ups and monkey bars and stuff. I did 5! Which was a little surprising, since I haven't really been doing them. I was supposed to do yoga too, but the internet wasn't working...

Gritta made bakes potatoes with quark sauce for lunch, which wasn't really healthy or unhealthy but it wasn't a ton of food so I didn't get overly full. I also had a coffee with milk in the afternoon.

Rachel and I drove with the twins to take the other girls to ballet, then I walked with the twins to a playground. I split an apple with Greta, then Rachel picked up Henny and Johanna and met us there. We stayed there until every kid had cried at least once, then went back and cut up a bunch of veggies for dinner. I made another sour cream/yogurt dip and snuck veggies in there. The kids didn't eat this one, but whatever. And I had also bought hummus, so I had 2 pieces of bread with that instead of lots of cheese. We don't actually really have cheese, so it wasn't like I was tempted by some delicious looking camembert or whatever, but I can't help but notice when I don't eat dairy at night I don't get a stomach ache...

The past week wasn't great (surprise!) but I felt pretty good today! And I didn't eat any sweets, which seems to be rare these days.

May 31

Oh man, I ate so much today! I took pictures of all my actual meals too, instead of writing it down. Except when I was snacking all afternoon and evening on the chips and dip and stuff I was preparing for the kids. And I definitely ate Philippa's chocolate pudding she never got around to. She won't notice, right? Rachel and I had to work tonight so we planned a taco/cocktail night and Max came over. We watched What Women Want on TV starting an hour in.

apple, yogurt, oats

potatoes, käse spätzle, carrots and peas, tomato sauce. plus more spätzle and veggies

pudding and vanilla sauce. I definitely had more than this. and with whipped cream...

coffee with soy milk. and vanilla sauce...

SNACKS. so many. guac and sour cream sauce

kids nachos and quessadillas that I ate some of the leftovers of

vegetarian taco salad and home strawberry daquiri! basically a smoothie with rum