Stress

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I have had a stressfull week. I have had meetings and things I needed to do. Now my anxiety is high and I`m tired. Tired is not the right word. I`m more on the other end of that word. I haven`t gone running much this week instead I have taken long walks to clear my mind. Kajsa is great when I`m feeling like this because it`s easier to take walks with her than to do it on my own.

I have to think about how I feel. I can`t have too much to do. If I try to do too much my anxiety will get out of hand. It`s important to be kind to yourself. When you don`t feel like doing something you don`t have to then don`t. That`s something that`s been hard for me to do. I have always wanted to be there for others and because of that I have forgotten

about my own feelings. I`m much better at saying no these days.

Already made

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I like watching cooking shows on tv. Masterchef the England version is my favourite show. The judges are great because they are sympathetic and nice. When the contestants don`t do that good the judges don`t make them feel bad. There are other Masterchef versions where the judges are horrible.

There are talkshows where there are cooking segments. I like them too. One thing that strikes me when I watch them is that the stoves don`t seem to do what they should. You never see the food getting cooked. When they shoot something that`s supposed to be cooking there`s nothing going on. No bubbles in the so called boiling water or the butter in a frying pan sizzling away. There are food there but nothing happens.

Often the cooks say that things are already made. They make a dish and instead of completing it they pull out something that`s “already made”. I know that certain things takes too long to cook and to be able to show how the dish should look Before the program ends they need to make some things ahead of the show. I don`t know if that is the actual reason though. What if the stoves in some of these shows are just props and the only way of having a dish to show is to have something already made. I don`t know.

Cake crumbs

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I felt like baking coconut cakes and I did. They were fine fresh out of the oven but when I tried to get them off the baking paper they became crumbs. It doesn`t even resemble a cake now! Haha, it`s like there`s been a cake car crash. I don`t know what I did wrong. I couldn`t take them off the baking paper right away because they were to fragile. When I did the bottom of the cake got stuck on the paper and they got ruined.

I was making dinner when I tried to take them off the paper and when it didn`t work I began eating the crumbs. I thought that because I can`t serve them I might as well eat them myself. They were tasty. I almost ate them all. I thought I would write down the recepy if anyone like to make them. I don`t know how to make them not stick.

50 gr butter

2 eggs

1,5 dl sugar

5-6 dl coconut flakes

Oven: 175 C

Melt the butter and let it cool. Whisk the eggs and sugar.

Add the butter and coconut flakes. Use a spoon and make piles of the mixture on a baking paper. I made 18 cakes.

Bake for 12 minutes in the middle of the oven.

 

Fast food

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I write fast food and I mean food that takes little time to make. This was fast food. It`s not the healthiest food but I think you could treat yourself to it from time to time. I like bacon and french fries together and that`s what it is. It`s bacon and french fries along with peppers and tomatoes. I cook it in the oven.

In the oven tin there`s eggs mixed with milk, salt and pepper and I cook it at the bottom of the oven. The french fries are cooked in the middle of the oven.

Flexing

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I like to exercise and I like to go all in. I want to be exhausted after workouts and to be sore the day after. All of you that workout know what I mean. To be sore is to make progress. I have despite this started to enjoy doing stretches which is the opposite of soreness. I think it helps when it comes to the workout itself.

Today I only did flexibility stretches for my workout. I find that it helps building my strength. When I train hard I get the soreness that makes me unable to workout the way I want to. It`s  like my body tells me that it needs to rest. I always stretch after training but only for a short while. To do a whole stretch routine is very helpful in the healing process. I have more energy when I workout the days after a thorough stretch routine.

 

Food

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I think food should be easy to make. I love slow cooked meals but not to do them. They take a long time to make. Often when I make dinner I`m starving and to then cook for hours is not for me. I know most slow cooked meal you put in the oven and then it cooks itself so to speak. You often don`t have to touch it until it comes out of the oven. The only thing is that I`m never home long enough to do that. I would never leave the house and have food in the oven which I would have to do if I wanted something slow cooked.

The food I made today I cooked in the oven but it was fast cooking. It was more than delicious if I might say so (modest I know). It doesn`t look good in the pictures however it was. I had some bolognese sauce I had made and I put it in the corner of an oven tin with some cheese on top.

In the rest of the tin I put peppers, thinly sliced potatoes and brussel sprouts. I added some cream and salt and pepper. I put it in the middle of the oven at 200 C for 50 minutes.

I like to cook the whole dinner in one tin.

Doing

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Kajsa has done this today.

She has eaten.

She has been on the sofa and kept track on mommy working out.

She has hoped she would get some of our food in the kitchen.

She has been on the sofa.

She has slept.

She has cleaned herself.

It`s hard being a dog. Lots to do and too little time to do it.

Healthy

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When you exercise it`s important to feed your body with the right nutrition to make it recover well. I know that protein and carbs are good but I wonder what to actually eat. Eggs are high in protein and oatmeal is a great source of carbs but should you eat boiled eggs and oatmeal porridge to recover after you`ve exercised?

I have been drinking protein and carb shakes after training for a while and I think it works well. I have to write “think” because I`m not convinced it does. I watched a tv show where they tried this theory that shakes are good recovery nutrition and I don`t know what to think. In one of the tests they had a man working out on one leg only and then he drank some protein shake. They took a sample of his muscle tissue, after drinking the shake, in both legs and it showed that the protein actually went to the muscles in both his legs. His trained leg got most of the protein though. Another test had a group of people divided into two groups. One group drank protein shakes after exercising and the other was given a drink that wasn`t enriched. No one was told which group they belonged to. The test showed that both groups achieved the same result of their training regardless to what they drank. All right, one test showed that protein shakes get absorbed by muscles but then another says that it doesn`t make any difference if you drink them.

That`s why I don`t know what to think.

Cutest

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Kajsa are getting some things for christmas like minced beef wrapped in paper. She doesn`t care about what she gets but I want to give her some christmas feeling. When we open our gifts I want her to be part of that. She is easy to satisfy when it comes to gifts. She would be happy to get a piece of paper.

I`m also thinking about getting her the pink sweater in the picture. She doesn`t need it but I`m doing it because I know she will look cute in it. I know dog clothes often ( except for some breeds that needs them ) are for the owners. Kajsa is fine with not wearing anything but when I found this sweater my heart melted. I can imagine us on our walks and her wearing that stylish pink thing.