Today I really didn't want to go to the gym - I've been kind of sucking, since I missed my Wednesday workout. I made it for HIIT on Thursday (plus yoga sculpt class), then skipped weights again on Friday, didn't do anything yesterday, and today it was a struggle. But I put on my gym clothes (this almost always works to get me there, especially if I put them on and go somewhere near the gym). And I got there, and sat down on a bike next to a guy I would describe as kind of fat and fairly out of shape. But he was plugging along and I felt like we were pushing each other. I definitely kicked some ass (not his, my own). I had good music going, and I brought stuff to read, and the time flew by. I was sad when the fat guy got up and left halfway thru my workout - I felt like we had a sweaty gym chemistry.
So, this week is another week of challenges. WV trip on Thursday night! I'm missing yoga sculpt again, and I have few illusions about working out or eating right while I'm in WV. But I'm going to bring my stuff and maybe I can at least get in a jog around town with one or two of my ladies. And I'm packing lots of fruits and veggies - road trip snacks shopping will happen soon, and will definitely include things like carrots, apples, maybe some high-fiber crackers or something - whatever I can find that will fill me up and be reasonably healthy.
Eating today was also reasonably good - eating yesterday was unequivocally horrific. I'm blaming the PMS monster for making me purchase and eat a shitload of chocolate as well as half a pound of scrambled tofu and various other things that wouldn't be so bad in isolation but since it was a whole day of binge-o-rama, it was very very bad.
OK, time to pop my roasted cauliflower and veggie loaf out of the oven. I love Sunday dinner!
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
Day 48: Go Sox
Well, I slept in till 8 this morning, which means I did not make it to my early morning weights workout - I have to be at school by 9:40 for journal crap that's going to take most of the day. Then I've got my rescheduled doctor's appointment (yay birth control) and I'm heading over to the health food store to pick up some nutritional yeast for experiments in faux cheese making, and for pesto tonight.
So it's not looking like I'll make it over there today, but I'm thinking tomorrow I can do both Wednesday's lower body workout and today's upper body workout. And then I'll come home and sleep for a year. This weekend I need to get it together and catch up in all my classes before I go to WV and get behind all over again. Today I'm going to conquer international law, tomorrow admin, Sunday copyright. Or something like that...
Not much else to say. I've eaten some bad stuff this week, including chocolate last night after stuffing myself on delicious wonderful soba noodles. Bad bad bad. But at least I didn't drink - it was hard, but K was hungover and I was determined. So, no drinking.
Today's plan
m1: kashi go-lean crunch, froz blueberries
m2: sandwich, carrots
m3: almonds, apple or pear
m4: soy protein shake
m5: spaghetti squash with artichoke pesto & veggies, tempeh
m6: unsure, probably 2 beers in a bar watching the Red Sox
workout: if time stops for a couple hours I'll make it to the gym, otherwise putting it off til tomorrow
So it's not looking like I'll make it over there today, but I'm thinking tomorrow I can do both Wednesday's lower body workout and today's upper body workout. And then I'll come home and sleep for a year. This weekend I need to get it together and catch up in all my classes before I go to WV and get behind all over again. Today I'm going to conquer international law, tomorrow admin, Sunday copyright. Or something like that...
Not much else to say. I've eaten some bad stuff this week, including chocolate last night after stuffing myself on delicious wonderful soba noodles. Bad bad bad. But at least I didn't drink - it was hard, but K was hungover and I was determined. So, no drinking.
Today's plan
m1: kashi go-lean crunch, froz blueberries
m2: sandwich, carrots
m3: almonds, apple or pear
m4: soy protein shake
m5: spaghetti squash with artichoke pesto & veggies, tempeh
m6: unsure, probably 2 beers in a bar watching the Red Sox
workout: if time stops for a couple hours I'll make it to the gym, otherwise putting it off til tomorrow
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Day 47: WTF?
Well, I didn't make it to the gym yesterday for my weights stuff. And then I didn't get up and go early this morning, for no particular reason except it was dark and I didn't feel like it.
Come on! What is my problem!?
I guess the problem is that I am feeling crappy this week. I'm tired, I've had a sore throat, I'm just really worn down. I fell asleep yesterday afternoon and missed a class. My hardest class, where I have no freaking clue what is going on. I should probably be doing the reading and going more. It's just like civ pro all over again, but I'd like to pull it together while I have the chance and not get a crappy grade like I did in civ pro. Oy.
Today's the end of my week, more or less, and I'm bummed out probably because it's also the middle of PMS-o-rama, which always brings me down. Oh and at the law firm dinner last night, which I forgot about until the last minute, I ate a big pile of cheese, and then was in ridiculous pain, and now I'm all farty. Gross.
Plan for today - try and hold it together, lady! I have my first yoga sculpt class today, so I'm going to do some cardio after that - ideally HIIT, but if my limbs are falling off it'll probably be more in the LISS category. And then tomorrow, I guess I'll do yesterday's workout, since it's not good to go all week without doing lower body.
Goddamn! I wasn't going to miss any workouts this week! And I wasn't going to drink, but I only had one and a half (huge) glasses of white wine last night. Why am I such a failure?! Why is my life so hard?! Why do I have to be so ridiculously dramatic and exclamatory all the time!?!?!?!?!
Today's menu:
m1: kashi go-lean crunch w/frozen blueberries
m2: pear, almonds
m3: sandwich, carrots
m4: protein shake
m5: soba w/tofu and asparagus (really this time)
m6: soba w/tofu and asparagus
workout: yoga sculpt, followed by cardio
Come on! What is my problem!?
I guess the problem is that I am feeling crappy this week. I'm tired, I've had a sore throat, I'm just really worn down. I fell asleep yesterday afternoon and missed a class. My hardest class, where I have no freaking clue what is going on. I should probably be doing the reading and going more. It's just like civ pro all over again, but I'd like to pull it together while I have the chance and not get a crappy grade like I did in civ pro. Oy.
Today's the end of my week, more or less, and I'm bummed out probably because it's also the middle of PMS-o-rama, which always brings me down. Oh and at the law firm dinner last night, which I forgot about until the last minute, I ate a big pile of cheese, and then was in ridiculous pain, and now I'm all farty. Gross.
Plan for today - try and hold it together, lady! I have my first yoga sculpt class today, so I'm going to do some cardio after that - ideally HIIT, but if my limbs are falling off it'll probably be more in the LISS category. And then tomorrow, I guess I'll do yesterday's workout, since it's not good to go all week without doing lower body.
Goddamn! I wasn't going to miss any workouts this week! And I wasn't going to drink, but I only had one and a half (huge) glasses of white wine last night. Why am I such a failure?! Why is my life so hard?! Why do I have to be so ridiculously dramatic and exclamatory all the time!?!?!?!?!
Today's menu:
m1: kashi go-lean crunch w/frozen blueberries
m2: pear, almonds
m3: sandwich, carrots
m4: protein shake
m5: soba w/tofu and asparagus (really this time)
m6: soba w/tofu and asparagus
workout: yoga sculpt, followed by cardio
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Day 46: Damn Doctor
I missed my UBWO this morning because I had a doctor's appt (annual thing to get my birth control renewed) at 9:20 am. I didn't get up until 7:15, at which point it just seemed like I wouldn't have time to work out, shower and get over there in time. But when I went over there, they told me I signed up for the wrong appointment and would have to come back. Ugggh. In the real world of grownups, you don't sign up for your doctor's appointment online and have them not know what you're there for when you show up. You call and talk to someone who asks you why the hell you are in. Jesus H. So, I will go back on Friday, and I'll do my workout in the tiny window of time this afternoon between my last class and the law firm dinner I'm going to.
Somehow it seems as though diet & exercise only get under control when EVERYTHING ELSE is totally out of control. I'm kind of flailing around not doing what I need to do for school and job stuff. I guess I always feel this way on Wednesday mornings though since Tuesdays leave me so exhausted and I have no time at the end of the day to do anything productive. I got home at 10:30 last night, talked to K on the phone for a few minutes then collapsed into bed.
Today, I'm on track with eating, I'll get my workout in somehow (damn it!) and I must, must, must do laundry. I'm down to the last of the most hated gym clothes, and tomorrow I'll be doing HIIT naked if I don't manage to wash some stuff. Not sure when it'll happen, but I guess it means I better haul ass back from my dinner, since the laundry room closes at 10:30. Why does everyone have to conspire to make my life so hard?!
This weekend: so productive. I'm not drinking, so that means I'd better be reading. I must catch up in my classes, since my super intense 3 weeks seminar starts next Monday. So, I will be hiding in my room and/or the library starting around 3 pm Friday, until about 9 am Monday.
Somehow it seems as though diet & exercise only get under control when EVERYTHING ELSE is totally out of control. I'm kind of flailing around not doing what I need to do for school and job stuff. I guess I always feel this way on Wednesday mornings though since Tuesdays leave me so exhausted and I have no time at the end of the day to do anything productive. I got home at 10:30 last night, talked to K on the phone for a few minutes then collapsed into bed.
Today, I'm on track with eating, I'll get my workout in somehow (damn it!) and I must, must, must do laundry. I'm down to the last of the most hated gym clothes, and tomorrow I'll be doing HIIT naked if I don't manage to wash some stuff. Not sure when it'll happen, but I guess it means I better haul ass back from my dinner, since the laundry room closes at 10:30. Why does everyone have to conspire to make my life so hard?!
This weekend: so productive. I'm not drinking, so that means I'd better be reading. I must catch up in my classes, since my super intense 3 weeks seminar starts next Monday. So, I will be hiding in my room and/or the library starting around 3 pm Friday, until about 9 am Monday.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Day 45: This time, with feeling
I stayed up too late last night fantasizing about food! I was on menupages.com doing research for a big anniversary dinner (my parents' 30th, next month), and drooling all over my computer. But I managed to get up reasonably early and got to the gym around 7 to do HIIT and LISS. It was not easy. I was tired, everything hurt, all my favorite workout clothes are dirty, etc. Quick, somebody call the waaaaahmbulance.
But I did it, and I've been bringing reading to do during LISS so it doesn't drag on - it's productive time, certainly more productive than if I just went home and read Perez Hilton instead, which is my usual time-suck early in the morning.
Meals today have also been right on so far, since I've been out of the apartment for just about all of them. Next up I'm about to cook up some couscous with tofu and zucchini, doused with a bit of soy sauce and just a few black sesame seeds. I'll have half for M5 here and then drag the rest along to my evening activities and have M6 around 8 pm. Tuesdays are an easy day for food, since I am not in my apartment like, at all.
And the scale was back down today. I think I'm going to make my Friday goal of getting to 1 lb lower than my lowest weight. Well, I shouldn't say that now since I'm coming up on my period so I may be a bloated whale by Friday. But maybe I will still meet my goal next week of another 1-2 lb lower than the Friday goal, before my big West Virginia trip (yaaaay). I'm so, so stoked to go see my best friends from college, one of whom I haven't seen in well over a year. Eating well, and especially eating vegan, is going to be hard or impossible, but I'm going to pack a lot of fruit and veggies, and just do the best I can, which of course is all you can do in this life. I just need to try not to eat my weight in biscuits and I should be ok. And not come home with cartons of cheap, cheap cigarettes. Ieee.
But I did it, and I've been bringing reading to do during LISS so it doesn't drag on - it's productive time, certainly more productive than if I just went home and read Perez Hilton instead, which is my usual time-suck early in the morning.
Meals today have also been right on so far, since I've been out of the apartment for just about all of them. Next up I'm about to cook up some couscous with tofu and zucchini, doused with a bit of soy sauce and just a few black sesame seeds. I'll have half for M5 here and then drag the rest along to my evening activities and have M6 around 8 pm. Tuesdays are an easy day for food, since I am not in my apartment like, at all.
And the scale was back down today. I think I'm going to make my Friday goal of getting to 1 lb lower than my lowest weight. Well, I shouldn't say that now since I'm coming up on my period so I may be a bloated whale by Friday. But maybe I will still meet my goal next week of another 1-2 lb lower than the Friday goal, before my big West Virginia trip (yaaaay). I'm so, so stoked to go see my best friends from college, one of whom I haven't seen in well over a year. Eating well, and especially eating vegan, is going to be hard or impossible, but I'm going to pack a lot of fruit and veggies, and just do the best I can, which of course is all you can do in this life. I just need to try not to eat my weight in biscuits and I should be ok. And not come home with cartons of cheap, cheap cigarettes. Ieee.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Hungry or Stressed?
The eating plan I'm doing now doesn't involve eating-only-until-full or eating mindfully, necessarily. It should involve those things in a way, but generally I'm on the 6 meals a day body-builder style plan to fight insulin resistance and keep energy high all day. Is it working? I don't know - sometimes I get very hungry and I justify having a snack. I generally have a 100-200 calorie window where I can throw in something extra, or switch out one meal for another when I get too lazy to cook what's on Plan A.
Today I felt super hungry for a lot of the day, and when I finally came home, I sat in front of the tv and devoured a whole bell pepper, a bunch of carrot sticks, and of course a bunch of hummus. The veggies and hummus (or even better - chips and hummus) get me every damn time. I don't know how I managed to resist it in the first few weeks I was doing this. Actually, I do - I was never home. I packed all my meals and had them somewhere other than my apartment. It's only in the apartment that I'm stuffing my face with delicious creamy hummus.
Also, it is getting cold. I have spent a lot of "homework time" paging thru all my cookbooks to find delicious soup recipes that I want to try. I think that maybe in the next few months Sunday will be soup night. And then I could have delicious homemade soup in the fridge or freezer to have again later. Delish!
Today I felt super hungry for a lot of the day, and when I finally came home, I sat in front of the tv and devoured a whole bell pepper, a bunch of carrot sticks, and of course a bunch of hummus. The veggies and hummus (or even better - chips and hummus) get me every damn time. I don't know how I managed to resist it in the first few weeks I was doing this. Actually, I do - I was never home. I packed all my meals and had them somewhere other than my apartment. It's only in the apartment that I'm stuffing my face with delicious creamy hummus.
Also, it is getting cold. I have spent a lot of "homework time" paging thru all my cookbooks to find delicious soup recipes that I want to try. I think that maybe in the next few months Sunday will be soup night. And then I could have delicious homemade soup in the fridge or freezer to have again later. Delish!
Day 44: Not bad
Well, yesterday was a relative success - or, really, a total success since I did my workout, ate all my planned meals, and went to bed almost on time. The less successful part is getting school work done. You win some, you lose some.
And then this morning I got up early(ish) and went to the gym around 7:15, for the first time in probably 2 weeks. I didn't get there in time to do LISS, but I banged out a very respectable UBWO, then hustled home to shower and have breakfast, which is where I am right now.
I read all of Skinny Bitch yesterday, and I must say, it has nothing to do with becoming a skinny bitch and everything to do with eating an organic, vegan diet. And says as much, on the very last page. I just kept waiting for the chapter that would be "oh, also, limit your calories." They advise that you just have a big plate of fruit for breakfast and a veggie salad for lunch, but then in their little menu plan all the breakfasts and lunches are made of tofu and bread, or something like that.
My goal for this week is to get back down my lowest (recent) weight by Friday, to be achieved by the resolutions I made yesterday - not drinking, not missing any workouts and eating loads of good veggies. Before I leave for West Virginia next week I'd really like to be seeing a new low. I just have to put my head down and work - on school stuff, on exercise, on sticking to the diet plan. Just push through.
Plan
workout: UBWO
m1: kashi, frozen blueberries
m2: apple, almonds
m3: hummus & veggie sandwich, carrots
m4: soy protein shake
m5: sweet potato, cauliflower and tempeh (steamed and doused with salsa)
m6: same as m5
And then this morning I got up early(ish) and went to the gym around 7:15, for the first time in probably 2 weeks. I didn't get there in time to do LISS, but I banged out a very respectable UBWO, then hustled home to shower and have breakfast, which is where I am right now.
I read all of Skinny Bitch yesterday, and I must say, it has nothing to do with becoming a skinny bitch and everything to do with eating an organic, vegan diet. And says as much, on the very last page. I just kept waiting for the chapter that would be "oh, also, limit your calories." They advise that you just have a big plate of fruit for breakfast and a veggie salad for lunch, but then in their little menu plan all the breakfasts and lunches are made of tofu and bread, or something like that.
My goal for this week is to get back down my lowest (recent) weight by Friday, to be achieved by the resolutions I made yesterday - not drinking, not missing any workouts and eating loads of good veggies. Before I leave for West Virginia next week I'd really like to be seeing a new low. I just have to put my head down and work - on school stuff, on exercise, on sticking to the diet plan. Just push through.
Plan
workout: UBWO
m1: kashi, frozen blueberries
m2: apple, almonds
m3: hummus & veggie sandwich, carrots
m4: soy protein shake
m5: sweet potato, cauliflower and tempeh (steamed and doused with salsa)
m6: same as m5
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