{"id":11355,"date":"2010-06-14T15:48:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2010-06-14T15:48:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T19:48:14","slug":"belly-blahs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/06\/belly-blahs\/","title":{"rendered":"Belly Blahs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bunny_06-14-10.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11356\" title=\"Lounging bunny \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bunny_06-14-10-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bunny_06-14-10-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bunny_06-14-10.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>What a week in terms of temperature! WHEW! It&#8217;s been a hot and humid one for sure and we&#8217;ve also been having our fair share of thunderstorms as well.\u00a0 So much so that Scott hasn&#8217;t had a chance to mow in a very long time.\u00a0 With all the rain, our grass has now reached outback mode.\u00a0 Our neighbors love us I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>When it&#8217;s not raining, it&#8217;s hot.\u00a0 Really hot! This is one of the bunnies who frequents our backyard and nibbles on the fallen birdseed that I put out.\u00a0 He was stretched out as far as he could go and was panting away like crazy yesterday.\u00a0 It might have been cooler underground for him!<\/p>\n<p>In the morning and early afternoon yesterday, I was having a bit of an off day with my belly.\u00a0 I did my long run yesterday and went out without taking any water with me.\u00a0 Dumb! I do not recommend doing this.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t even occur to me to take water along.\u00a0 I had to make a pit stop back home so I grabbed some water then but it wasn&#8217;t nearly enough.<\/p>\n<p>I realize now that I became dehydrated.\u00a0 Not to the point where I was light headed or anything drastic, but my stomach really didn&#8217;t want anything to eat.\u00a0 Naturally I didn&#8217;t realize this until after I ate some yogurt and granola which my stomach immediately let me know it was not happy.\u00a0 When it was time to make Sunday Breakfast, I had no idea what to make.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t hungry but knew that I had to eat.\u00a0 I also needed to make breakfast for Scott, therefore I had to come up with something.\u00a0 I decided on omelettes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_omelette.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11359\" title=\"Veggie omelette\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_omelette-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_omelette-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_omelette.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I made huge omelettes for each of us and mine was loaded down with veggies.\u00a0 It was a combo of eggs and egg whites along with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red onion<\/li>\n<li>Green pepper<\/li>\n<li>Carrot and Parsnip<\/li>\n<li>Spinach<\/li>\n<li>Swiss cheese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I only put a quarter of it on my plate because I really didn&#8217;t want much to eat at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_breakfast.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11357\" title=\"Sunday Breakfast \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_breakfast-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_breakfast-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_breakfast.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Along with some OJ, Ezek English Muffins with a smidge of butter, and in the middle was a pear and cherries.\u00a0 I barely touched the omelette as it was not going down well.\u00a0 I focused on the juice, fruit, and muffin.\u00a0 I was able to get those things down easily and it didn&#8217;t feel heavy on my stomach.<\/p>\n<p>After breakfast, I laid down for a short bit as my bod was totally exhausted.\u00a0 I read and am almost done with my book.\u00a0 Finally! I feel like I&#8217;ve been reading it forever. :p\u00a0 Scott and I spent the rest of the day playing some Lego Star Wars.\u00a0 So far it&#8217;s just alright.\u00a0 I played Lego Batman first and that game is awesome! Lego Stars Wars seems lacking and there&#8217;s also a time delay making light saber fighting not so fun.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually it was time for supper and my appetite returned! I made sure to drink as much water as I could throughout the day to get myself rehydrated again.\u00a0 It was late so I made one of my favorite go-to meals that is easy and only dirties one pot!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_dinner.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11358\" title=\"Risotto \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_dinner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_dinner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/OHC-06-13-10_dinner.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Risotto!\u00a0 This risotto had:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Onions<\/li>\n<li>Green Peppers<\/li>\n<li>Carrot<\/li>\n<li>Banana Peppers (fresh, not jarred)<\/li>\n<li>Spinach<\/li>\n<li>Fresh chopped tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>Shrimp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dusted with a bit of parm and asiago on top.\u00a0 Very yummy!\u00a0 Totally comforting as well.\u00a0 I love risotto!\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have a ton of it as I was still taking it easy on the belly but it had all the great components of a nice recovery meal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carbs<\/li>\n<li>Fat<\/li>\n<li>Protein<\/li>\n<li>Veggies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perfect!<\/p>\n<p>I forgot to take a picture of the dessert I munched on later which was a slice of blueberry bread I made a while back.\u00a0 This is why I freeze stuff, because I have access to it when I need it.\u00a0 Pull out and reheat, dessert done! <img src='\/images\/smile.gif' alt=':)' \/>\u00a0 Scott and I settled in for our now Sunday ritual of Holmes on Homes only to find out that the 10pm show isn&#8217;t on at the moment! Instead it&#8217;s Design Star which let&#8217;s be honest, is not as good as Holmes.\u00a0 I was really put off! We watched Lewis Black&#8217;s latest special instead and well, it wasn&#8217;t funny.\u00a0 Then we tried watching a new cartoon on Cartoon Network called The Neighbors from Hell.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t so great either.\u00a0 After striking out so many times, I called it a night and went to bed!<\/p>\n<p><em>This post is part of <a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/05\/homespun-sundays\/\" target=\"_blank\">Homespun Sundays<\/a>. Want to join? Let me know! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a week in terms of temperature! WHEW! It&#8217;s been a hot and humid one for sure and we&#8217;ve also been having our fair share of thunderstorms as well.\u00a0 So much so that Scott hasn&#8217;t had a chance to mow in a very long time.\u00a0 With all the rain, our grass has now reached outback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2X9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}