Well, today, beach week turned into only beach weekend as hurricane Debby arrived to join us. She had us dragging our feet while trying to accept the fact we needed to leave, binge watching The Weather Channel, and then with inward groaning hurriedly packing up the car as the rain started to intensify.
Breakfast was a deliciously ripe nectarine with oatmeal and soy milk and a drizzle of honey. My own “peaches and cream”. We were still in the non-acceptance faze as we drank coffee and stared at the clouds gathering.
Lunch was in the car as we tried to battle the outer bands of Hurricane Debby up the eastern SC coast. I had thrown in our groceries from the beach house and dug out a package of blueberries and a package of edamame. Oreos were being eaten in the backseat, so I had a few of these as well to help calm the nerves.
Dinner was at Mexican with a fancy mocktail to ease the pain of a missed beach week with friends and family and a bowl of black beans, rice, lettuce, and tomato. Followed by a walk to “walk it all off” as my husband says… I think he means the food, but the time in nature helped me walk off a bit of my blues as well.
It wasn’t a perfect healthy diet day, but because it was a super stressful day, it could’ve been worse. Just like this beach week was not perfect, but it could’ve also been much worse: we are all safe and home and Sammy Dog got a long walk .
Stressful days are the death of healthy choices for me. But you prevailed! I know Sammy was happy to have you home too.