Tuesday, February 23, 2010
ktiker rulez
we had lunch today at Panera, and Kate took photos of our food...perhaps she'll post them later on her radical blog!
look at me blogging!
I've been a very bad blogger. if any of my few readers are still with me here, I really owe you some good work. thanks for checking in on me!
so, what have I been up to lately? believe it or not, I have actually taken lots of food photos over the last week. what I haven't done is work out...eeps.
but, like all good non-doers, I have been actively making PLANS. plan 1) do daily yoga (difficulty rating = HARD); plan 2) eat like a yogi (difficulty rating = kind of hard); plan 3) continue running asap (difficulty rating = easy to go to the gym when I'm not hacking up a lung, but HARD to actually RUN); plan 4) do more blogging (difficulty rating = easy, but I have to actually do it, and HARD if I want it to be engaging).
but really, all joking aside, I think I've been eating in a much healthier manner lately. what that means for me is less reliance on take-out (HARD because John LOVES to buy prepared food), and paying strict attention to portion control. I had a couple of friends over last night, and they were discussing exercise versus eating. both would like to lose some weight, but love to eat (hey, who hasn't been right there with them? I'm there now!). so, what they both decided was that they would add exercise into their lives, but not alter their eating habits significantly. I would so love a plan like that to work for me, but it SO DOES NOT work for me. no, I must add exercise into my life AND significantly alter the way I eat in order to lose weight. and so I remind myself: NOT eating one bagel with cream cheese is EASIER than eating it and trying to work it off by running 5 miles. ok, I did celebrate Laura's birthday by eating one bagel (no cream cheese).
my mantra is this: if I want to teach yoga someday, I must first get all yoga-ish.
it's been a very oatmealy kind of week. on sunday, I cooked a banana into my oatmeal: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
yesterday I had a salad for lunch. yes, there were croutons on it, and yes, even a few chow mein noodles made their way into my container (I love those things), but it was still healthy! and let me say this: goat cheese + pickled beets = very tasty (OK, fine, there were a few pepperoni slices in there too, but I was just helping Kate out by taking her overflow - it's not polite to put something back into a salad bar).
yesterday, I had a purple spinach smoothie for breakfast, but I had to hurry this morning, so it was oatmeal from the cafeteria. I added some blueberries and pineapple in to liven things up a bit. holy moly, that pineapple was SOUR.
we've been having meatloaf for dinner, I've been making either spinach, or broccoli as a side.
so, what have I been up to lately? believe it or not, I have actually taken lots of food photos over the last week. what I haven't done is work out...eeps.
but, like all good non-doers, I have been actively making PLANS. plan 1) do daily yoga (difficulty rating = HARD); plan 2) eat like a yogi (difficulty rating = kind of hard); plan 3) continue running asap (difficulty rating = easy to go to the gym when I'm not hacking up a lung, but HARD to actually RUN); plan 4) do more blogging (difficulty rating = easy, but I have to actually do it, and HARD if I want it to be engaging).
but really, all joking aside, I think I've been eating in a much healthier manner lately. what that means for me is less reliance on take-out (HARD because John LOVES to buy prepared food), and paying strict attention to portion control. I had a couple of friends over last night, and they were discussing exercise versus eating. both would like to lose some weight, but love to eat (hey, who hasn't been right there with them? I'm there now!). so, what they both decided was that they would add exercise into their lives, but not alter their eating habits significantly. I would so love a plan like that to work for me, but it SO DOES NOT work for me. no, I must add exercise into my life AND significantly alter the way I eat in order to lose weight. and so I remind myself: NOT eating one bagel with cream cheese is EASIER than eating it and trying to work it off by running 5 miles. ok, I did celebrate Laura's birthday by eating one bagel (no cream cheese).
my mantra is this: if I want to teach yoga someday, I must first get all yoga-ish.
it's been a very oatmealy kind of week. on sunday, I cooked a banana into my oatmeal: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
yesterday I had a salad for lunch. yes, there were croutons on it, and yes, even a few chow mein noodles made their way into my container (I love those things), but it was still healthy! and let me say this: goat cheese + pickled beets = very tasty (OK, fine, there were a few pepperoni slices in there too, but I was just helping Kate out by taking her overflow - it's not polite to put something back into a salad bar).
yesterday, I had a purple spinach smoothie for breakfast, but I had to hurry this morning, so it was oatmeal from the cafeteria. I added some blueberries and pineapple in to liven things up a bit. holy moly, that pineapple was SOUR.
we've been having meatloaf for dinner, I've been making either spinach, or broccoli as a side.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
aaaiiiiiiiieeeeee!
just look at all those red faces...I was baaaaad during the snowstorm. barely moved, played with Henry, drank too much gin (only one night!), had fun though! boy, am I going to be hurting at the gym today. what happens when one is so bad for six days in a row?
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
snow way
it's a snow day, but sadly, that doesn't absolve us adults of having to participate in our reguarly scheduled work day. boo.
I'm stealing some time away from work, from my husband, and from my son to sit alone in our green guest-bedroom and blog. there are three windows in front of me, set into a beautiful, cherry-finished, wood-paneled, bay window (OK, so I have no idea what kind of wood that really is), and it is framing a lovely picture of snow falling onto snow-laden tree branches and city roof-tops. am I sure I want to move? sigh. who knows what'll happen with that anyway, we're kind of arguing with our realtor over concessions we don't want to make to the prospective buyers re: our home inspection. selling homes suck, but real estate agents suck even more. next time I have to sell a house, I have a plan. it involves zero real estate agents. ha! take that, you sheisters (sp?).
I had a Dunkin Donuts egg white flatbread sandwich for breakfast. we tried to go to our yummy Sulimay's diner, but no one was able to make it in to open it. dd is across the street, so that's where we went. lunch was an unhealthy 5 or 6 corn chips (from a restaurant, so they were that crazy decadent kind), left over meat from my dinner burrito of last night, and a little bit of tortilla...I'm feeling full, but unhealthy : ( maybe this is why the pounds are not melting off of me and I'm not running like the wind?
I don't know what I expected of the Julie and Julia movie, but everyone seemed to love it, so I was disappointed, of course. the Julia story was cute, and I love Stanley Tucci, Meryl Streep was awesome, etc. I just didn't think the Julie side of the story was fleshed out very well. I never really cared much, or even knew much about the Julie character.
I've just started reading her original blog, however, and it's excellent. she's a really good writer, and I can see how addictive it must have been to follow her during the original project. I haven't read the book (either one), but imagine that they're quite good. I think the movie must suffer from the fact that it's never easy to get the interior dialogue of a character out there, onto the screen.
I hope that I get some kind of exercise in today...mabye a push-ups, sit-ups session, if nothing else.
I'm stealing some time away from work, from my husband, and from my son to sit alone in our green guest-bedroom and blog. there are three windows in front of me, set into a beautiful, cherry-finished, wood-paneled, bay window (OK, so I have no idea what kind of wood that really is), and it is framing a lovely picture of snow falling onto snow-laden tree branches and city roof-tops. am I sure I want to move? sigh. who knows what'll happen with that anyway, we're kind of arguing with our realtor over concessions we don't want to make to the prospective buyers re: our home inspection. selling homes suck, but real estate agents suck even more. next time I have to sell a house, I have a plan. it involves zero real estate agents. ha! take that, you sheisters (sp?).
I had a Dunkin Donuts egg white flatbread sandwich for breakfast. we tried to go to our yummy Sulimay's diner, but no one was able to make it in to open it. dd is across the street, so that's where we went. lunch was an unhealthy 5 or 6 corn chips (from a restaurant, so they were that crazy decadent kind), left over meat from my dinner burrito of last night, and a little bit of tortilla...I'm feeling full, but unhealthy : ( maybe this is why the pounds are not melting off of me and I'm not running like the wind?
I don't know what I expected of the Julie and Julia movie, but everyone seemed to love it, so I was disappointed, of course. the Julia story was cute, and I love Stanley Tucci, Meryl Streep was awesome, etc. I just didn't think the Julie side of the story was fleshed out very well. I never really cared much, or even knew much about the Julie character.
I've just started reading her original blog, however, and it's excellent. she's a really good writer, and I can see how addictive it must have been to follow her during the original project. I haven't read the book (either one), but imagine that they're quite good. I think the movie must suffer from the fact that it's never easy to get the interior dialogue of a character out there, onto the screen.
I hope that I get some kind of exercise in today...mabye a push-ups, sit-ups session, if nothing else.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
the last of everything I ate today
so lunch turned into a whirlwind expedition due to the insanity of a certain person in my life who thinks that it is acceptable behavior to not read emails, to be completely disorganized, and to just be LATE to whatever...
I ate a dressingless salad, a crabcake, and two pieces of bread at Maggiano's.
this is not the salad I ate, but I wasn't bold enough to take a photo, and besides, I sort of forgot to bring my phone to lunch, so I couldn't even if I wanted to.
John surprised me with a burrito from Chipotle. I ate it in the car, as he drove me home from work. it's in a bowl because technically, it's not a burrito, just burrito filling, just the way I like it (sometimes).
I ran a whole 18 minutes in a row today. ugh, I totally suck! 18 minutes, 6mph, 1.0 incline...and I was sucking air for fear of death. I'd like this to get at least a little bit easier so I don't have to feel so crappy about myself! boo-hoo and wah wah : )
we're watching Julie and Julia. it makes me have to say that besides being a yoga teacher, I'd also love to write a book that gets turned into a movie. right? who doesn't want to do that?!
I ate a dressingless salad, a crabcake, and two pieces of bread at Maggiano's.
this is not the salad I ate, but I wasn't bold enough to take a photo, and besides, I sort of forgot to bring my phone to lunch, so I couldn't even if I wanted to.
John surprised me with a burrito from Chipotle. I ate it in the car, as he drove me home from work. it's in a bowl because technically, it's not a burrito, just burrito filling, just the way I like it (sometimes).
I ran a whole 18 minutes in a row today. ugh, I totally suck! 18 minutes, 6mph, 1.0 incline...and I was sucking air for fear of death. I'd like this to get at least a little bit easier so I don't have to feel so crappy about myself! boo-hoo and wah wah : )
we're watching Julie and Julia. it makes me have to say that besides being a yoga teacher, I'd also love to write a book that gets turned into a movie. right? who doesn't want to do that?!
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