Too many balls, but I’m keeping them up there!
No sooner than I had posted…..
Hub is working on a very big painting job this week, with a very tight deadline of “before we leave town on Friday”. Yesterday he put out the 911, and after work the boy and I went over to paint. Yep, my 11 year old can roll walls like a pro. We rolled primer on the walls while hub worked on trim. Tonight we are going over to roll the paint. Does painting count as cardio?
Here’s a recap of yesterday:
B: yogurt with ¼ c oats, 1/8 c granola, and a couple of chopped walnut halves. Omelet with 1 egg + 3 whites.
S: ½ c cottage cheese with berries and a couple of walnut halves chopped
L: salad with (heated up refried beans & extra lean ground beef), topped with guacamole and salsa for the dressing. It was all homemade, so very healthy. I crumbled a couple of baked taco chips on top.
S: string cheese. My orange was moldy, so I got some peanut butter crackers from the vending machine.
D: subway 6 inch club with mustard & loads of veggies.
S: sugar free fat free blue bunny ice cream bar.
Exercise yesterday was walking for 90 minutes, with some running thrown in during the morning outing.
That’s about all I know. Looks like there won’t be any more trips to the gym this week, but I am walking 1 hour at lunch every day so that’s helping.
Have a great day!
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
How I’m moving & what I’m eating
Thanks for the comment Sue – and you are right. Family, work, blah blah all play into our fitness. But I’d gotten to the point where I never came here to write about what I’m doing for my health, and I want to get back to that.
And another blogger introduced me to those D^% buffalo pretzels, so its only fair I share the love! :-)
I am walk/running in the morning, walking at lunch, lifting weights, and doing HIIT. My goals are AM – 4 times per week, lunch – 5 times, weights – 3 (but I’ve been getting only 2), and 3 for HIIT, but averaging 2. So, doing pretty good. I just need to make a little more effort to get to the gym and up my intensity a bit.
Food has gotten off kilter, but I’m back on board with my 5 small meals (and one after dinner snack). Last night that snack was a sugar free popsicle and half a cup of lowfat chocolate milk. A typical breakfast for me might be a 1 egg + 3 whites omelet with a bit of cheese and a small bowl of oatmeal. Meal 2 is ½ c cottage cheese and berries, with some crushed nuts for fat. Lunch is often a salad with tuna or chicken, some type of bean, olives, a bit of sunflower seeds, and lf dressing. Dinner varies a lot, but I am trying to buy plenty of veggies from the farmer’s market. I need to keep my after dinner snack small – too much food keeps me awake at night. Maybe a pudding or lowcal ice cream bar. It’s not a balanced meal (I’m working on that!), but we eat dinner early so I typically need something around 8.
Well, that’s what I’m doing. I’m also reading Tom Venuto’s ebook “Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle” – a good read!
Take care.
Thanks for the comment Sue – and you are right. Family, work, blah blah all play into our fitness. But I’d gotten to the point where I never came here to write about what I’m doing for my health, and I want to get back to that.
And another blogger introduced me to those D^% buffalo pretzels, so its only fair I share the love! :-)
I am walk/running in the morning, walking at lunch, lifting weights, and doing HIIT. My goals are AM – 4 times per week, lunch – 5 times, weights – 3 (but I’ve been getting only 2), and 3 for HIIT, but averaging 2. So, doing pretty good. I just need to make a little more effort to get to the gym and up my intensity a bit.
Food has gotten off kilter, but I’m back on board with my 5 small meals (and one after dinner snack). Last night that snack was a sugar free popsicle and half a cup of lowfat chocolate milk. A typical breakfast for me might be a 1 egg + 3 whites omelet with a bit of cheese and a small bowl of oatmeal. Meal 2 is ½ c cottage cheese and berries, with some crushed nuts for fat. Lunch is often a salad with tuna or chicken, some type of bean, olives, a bit of sunflower seeds, and lf dressing. Dinner varies a lot, but I am trying to buy plenty of veggies from the farmer’s market. I need to keep my after dinner snack small – too much food keeps me awake at night. Maybe a pudding or lowcal ice cream bar. It’s not a balanced meal (I’m working on that!), but we eat dinner early so I typically need something around 8.
Well, that’s what I’m doing. I’m also reading Tom Venuto’s ebook “Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle” – a good read!
Take care.
Lift well, Eat less, Walk fast, Live long
Listening to my meditation CD last night helped. So did exercise, healthy food, and a good night’s sleep.
As I was out this morning doing my walk/run, I realized that this blog has gotten pretty far from what it’s supposedly about: fitness. That’s not too surprising – that realization was followed by a second: my life has gotten pretty far from that focus as well.
I’m bringing this blog back to its roots. And while I haven’t given up on fitness, I want to make my health a higher priority. Watching my MIL slowly and painfully kill herself with the processed, packaged, modified, fake food product stuff she consumes as the mainstay of her diet has made me realize that I value my health, I enjoy “real” food, and I love pushing my body to its limits.
You can expect to see more here about what I’m eating, what I’m doing in the gym, and whether the birds were awake yet when I got up to walk (they weren’t this morning). You are welcome to come along, if there is still anyone still reading this thing! And even if there isn’t, well, its here to help me after all.
Listening to my meditation CD last night helped. So did exercise, healthy food, and a good night’s sleep.
As I was out this morning doing my walk/run, I realized that this blog has gotten pretty far from what it’s supposedly about: fitness. That’s not too surprising – that realization was followed by a second: my life has gotten pretty far from that focus as well.
I’m bringing this blog back to its roots. And while I haven’t given up on fitness, I want to make my health a higher priority. Watching my MIL slowly and painfully kill herself with the processed, packaged, modified, fake food product stuff she consumes as the mainstay of her diet has made me realize that I value my health, I enjoy “real” food, and I love pushing my body to its limits.
You can expect to see more here about what I’m eating, what I’m doing in the gym, and whether the birds were awake yet when I got up to walk (they weren’t this morning). You are welcome to come along, if there is still anyone still reading this thing! And even if there isn’t, well, its here to help me after all.
Monday, April 24, 2006
I’ll post an update later – this is a long rant about why my MIL is driving us all insane
Words that describe my MIL: lazy, ineffectual, pathetic, needy, demanding. You get the idea. This is a woman that expects us to take care of her, while she refuses to lift a pinky to help herself.
MIL was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes – a direct result of being obese I’m sure. She’s supposed to keep a food diary for her doctor, so the doctor can make sure her dosage of medicine is correct. Yeah, right. She complains that my mom is frequently gone in the evenings out with friends so she has nothing to eat, and is eating nothing but oatmeal. Yep, she can’t even open a can of tuna to make herself a sandwich – she’d rather risk her health so she can complain. Why is my mom responsible for her food???? Yesterday she ate a bowl of oatmeal and 3 Lean Cuisines. Now there’s a healthy diet!
And let’s not forget the creamer of course. She uses a half gallon of liquid creamer in her coffee per week. That’s 550 calories per day in creamer. She’s supposed to be on a 1500 calorie per day diet. Hoo!
She reads her books on diabetes but doesn’t follow the diet. Hell, I wrote her out a food plan but she insists on consuming nothing but “non-food” – she won’t eat fruit, shuns vegetables. And even her oatmeal is the packets of instant flavored junk. Gah.
And she totally mooches off my mom. For example, for my birthday dinner my mom paid for her meal (she never has money). Do you think she even thanked my mom??? Of course not. She lives in my mom’s house, doesn’t clean up after herself (other than a dab here & there), uses my mom’s laundry detergent etc, and then says things like “I’m so hungry. I’d have a bowl of cereal but I’m out of milk”, hinting for my mom to give her some of hers. Yet she’s been saying for a month she needs to go down & renew her food stamps, but hasn’t been bothered to do it. She’s rather mooch off my mom (except my mom isn’t letting her!).
MIL sleeps 12 – 16 hours a day, and when she’s up all she does is drink coffee & smoke. My mom had to leave a note taped to the mirror in the hall bathroom reminding this woman not to put paper towels down the toilet. I have 16 boxes of her quilting fabric in my dining room so she can work on her quilts – except she hasn’t made any real pogress on that in the past 3 months. She supposedly had a couple that were nearly finished she could just quickly assemble to sell (she desperately needs the money), but she hasn’t. It’s one lame excuse after the other.
She has no money. No job. No other family member will take her in at this point. So now we are the only thing between this woman and the street, and she’s such a selfish bi*&^% that she isn’t even the least bit thankful or thoughtful.
I feel better. Thanks for listening. :-)
Words that describe my MIL: lazy, ineffectual, pathetic, needy, demanding. You get the idea. This is a woman that expects us to take care of her, while she refuses to lift a pinky to help herself.
MIL was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes – a direct result of being obese I’m sure. She’s supposed to keep a food diary for her doctor, so the doctor can make sure her dosage of medicine is correct. Yeah, right. She complains that my mom is frequently gone in the evenings out with friends so she has nothing to eat, and is eating nothing but oatmeal. Yep, she can’t even open a can of tuna to make herself a sandwich – she’d rather risk her health so she can complain. Why is my mom responsible for her food???? Yesterday she ate a bowl of oatmeal and 3 Lean Cuisines. Now there’s a healthy diet!
And let’s not forget the creamer of course. She uses a half gallon of liquid creamer in her coffee per week. That’s 550 calories per day in creamer. She’s supposed to be on a 1500 calorie per day diet. Hoo!
She reads her books on diabetes but doesn’t follow the diet. Hell, I wrote her out a food plan but she insists on consuming nothing but “non-food” – she won’t eat fruit, shuns vegetables. And even her oatmeal is the packets of instant flavored junk. Gah.
And she totally mooches off my mom. For example, for my birthday dinner my mom paid for her meal (she never has money). Do you think she even thanked my mom??? Of course not. She lives in my mom’s house, doesn’t clean up after herself (other than a dab here & there), uses my mom’s laundry detergent etc, and then says things like “I’m so hungry. I’d have a bowl of cereal but I’m out of milk”, hinting for my mom to give her some of hers. Yet she’s been saying for a month she needs to go down & renew her food stamps, but hasn’t been bothered to do it. She’s rather mooch off my mom (except my mom isn’t letting her!).
MIL sleeps 12 – 16 hours a day, and when she’s up all she does is drink coffee & smoke. My mom had to leave a note taped to the mirror in the hall bathroom reminding this woman not to put paper towels down the toilet. I have 16 boxes of her quilting fabric in my dining room so she can work on her quilts – except she hasn’t made any real pogress on that in the past 3 months. She supposedly had a couple that were nearly finished she could just quickly assemble to sell (she desperately needs the money), but she hasn’t. It’s one lame excuse after the other.
She has no money. No job. No other family member will take her in at this point. So now we are the only thing between this woman and the street, and she’s such a selfish bi*&^% that she isn’t even the least bit thankful or thoughtful.
I feel better. Thanks for listening. :-)
Friday, April 21, 2006
I’ve been here before.
The past week has been filled with lame excuses, overeating, and generally feeling physically bad and emotionally guilty. Why am I here again? I feel like someone lost in the woods, who comes to the realization that they are walking in circles.
I put a call in to my doctor regarding my Welbutrin. I think I may either need a different medicine or a different dose. I felt like it was working for a while, but it doesn’t seem to be any more. Or maybe my perception is skewed?
I guess its no surprise that I didn’t get on the scale this morning. I had to shop for capris last night (I needed more warm weather work bottoms), and that felt like enough punishment for one week.
Besides still trying to get the house & yard squared away from being on vacation, I think part of the issue this week has been my MIL. She isn’t managing her life very well – not paying bills (or knowing where they are), not remembering appointment times, etc. Hub wanted to talk to her therapist to make sure the lady understood just how dysfunctional Mil is right now, and he probably also needed to let her know just how dishonest MIL is when discussing the past. Anyway, MIL threw a big fit about it and didn’t want him talking to her and was really acting like a goob, even though hub really was trying to help. So until 4 pm on my birthday, I wasn’t sure whether I would need to uninvite MIL from coming out to eat with us because of that situation.
In the end, hub did talk to the therapist and MIL had told her she wasn’t managing things well. He didn’t get a chance to talk about his mother’s dishonesty though. Which is a pretty major thing – she is completely off base in her portrayal of family relationships & events. I guess it’s a bit of a moot point – she owes over $200 at their office, and can’t come back until her account is current. Which will likely be never – she stills owes my mom half the money my mom loaned her for her glasses. I wish this woman weren’t in our lives. Sigh.
This weekend is going to be about getting my house tidied, de-stressing myself, and just generally getting my self back on track. I think I’ll rent a funny movie while I’m at it. Any suggestions?
The past week has been filled with lame excuses, overeating, and generally feeling physically bad and emotionally guilty. Why am I here again? I feel like someone lost in the woods, who comes to the realization that they are walking in circles.
I put a call in to my doctor regarding my Welbutrin. I think I may either need a different medicine or a different dose. I felt like it was working for a while, but it doesn’t seem to be any more. Or maybe my perception is skewed?
I guess its no surprise that I didn’t get on the scale this morning. I had to shop for capris last night (I needed more warm weather work bottoms), and that felt like enough punishment for one week.
Besides still trying to get the house & yard squared away from being on vacation, I think part of the issue this week has been my MIL. She isn’t managing her life very well – not paying bills (or knowing where they are), not remembering appointment times, etc. Hub wanted to talk to her therapist to make sure the lady understood just how dysfunctional Mil is right now, and he probably also needed to let her know just how dishonest MIL is when discussing the past. Anyway, MIL threw a big fit about it and didn’t want him talking to her and was really acting like a goob, even though hub really was trying to help. So until 4 pm on my birthday, I wasn’t sure whether I would need to uninvite MIL from coming out to eat with us because of that situation.
In the end, hub did talk to the therapist and MIL had told her she wasn’t managing things well. He didn’t get a chance to talk about his mother’s dishonesty though. Which is a pretty major thing – she is completely off base in her portrayal of family relationships & events. I guess it’s a bit of a moot point – she owes over $200 at their office, and can’t come back until her account is current. Which will likely be never – she stills owes my mom half the money my mom loaned her for her glasses. I wish this woman weren’t in our lives. Sigh.
This weekend is going to be about getting my house tidied, de-stressing myself, and just generally getting my self back on track. I think I’ll rent a funny movie while I’m at it. Any suggestions?
Thursday, April 20, 2006
To weigh or not to weigh?
Thanks for the birthday wishes - I had a great day. We did teambuilding at work - we hung siding at a Habitat house, had a nice lunch, & went to see "Scary Movie 4". Then I went out with my family & got some nice gifts and a (small thankfully!) ice cream cake from Coldstone Creamery.
I am terrified of the scale - I feel like an elephant. So, do I face reality or keep working at it & take a peek next week? Sigh.
I have to tell you guys - Edisto is so great. Not terribly commercial, very nice beach with lots of shells, and just very gorgeous. Our house was not so great unfortunately. It should have been ideal - huge porches with ocean views. But it was an older home and hadn't been well maintained. The company gave us a discount and were very nice about it - I think they didn't realize how bad some things had gotten over the winter. But we are already making plans to go back next year! I went there every year with my grandparents as a child, so its great to be able to share that with my son.
We won't be able to go to Ga. this weekend. :-( For one, we have a lot of stuff to do at home (oil change, lawn mowing, blah blah), and for 2 the boy was going to be with his granddad, but he (grandpa!) had a stent put in yesterday, so the boy may not be going up there this weekend.
Well, back to the salt mine.
Blogger won't upload pics right now, but I have some!
Thanks for the birthday wishes - I had a great day. We did teambuilding at work - we hung siding at a Habitat house, had a nice lunch, & went to see "Scary Movie 4". Then I went out with my family & got some nice gifts and a (small thankfully!) ice cream cake from Coldstone Creamery.
I am terrified of the scale - I feel like an elephant. So, do I face reality or keep working at it & take a peek next week? Sigh.
I have to tell you guys - Edisto is so great. Not terribly commercial, very nice beach with lots of shells, and just very gorgeous. Our house was not so great unfortunately. It should have been ideal - huge porches with ocean views. But it was an older home and hadn't been well maintained. The company gave us a discount and were very nice about it - I think they didn't realize how bad some things had gotten over the winter. But we are already making plans to go back next year! I went there every year with my grandparents as a child, so its great to be able to share that with my son.
We won't be able to go to Ga. this weekend. :-( For one, we have a lot of stuff to do at home (oil change, lawn mowing, blah blah), and for 2 the boy was going to be with his granddad, but he (grandpa!) had a stent put in yesterday, so the boy may not be going up there this weekend.
Well, back to the salt mine.
Blogger won't upload pics right now, but I have some!
Monday, April 17, 2006
T minus 2 days, and counting.
1) Wednesday I am turning 40. I’m not sure how I feel about this. 30 was no big deal – I was the single parent of a 14 month old, going to grad school full time and working 2 or 3 jobs. I didn’t have time to even think about it. This one is a bigger deal. Most days I feel between 28 and 32. But 40? No way.
2) What was up with that finish of the Paris-Roubaix? I haven’t looked at any cycling news, I just watched what I tivo-ed. Bruneel didn’t seem a bit upset about his boys getting disqualified. I think they went through that train intersection on purpose, knowing they’d get disqualified, just to screw with Boonen. Fifth place in a race he thought he’d win? That’s gotta be a blow to the confidence. I think that’s why they did what they did. Besides, if they had all waited for the train, he likely would’ve beaten them in any case.
3) The beach was good. I’ll post more details later in the week. The weather was amazing, I found some gorgeous shells, we rode our bikes every day on a beautiful path…. Now here I am, back at reality! Ouch!
1) Wednesday I am turning 40. I’m not sure how I feel about this. 30 was no big deal – I was the single parent of a 14 month old, going to grad school full time and working 2 or 3 jobs. I didn’t have time to even think about it. This one is a bigger deal. Most days I feel between 28 and 32. But 40? No way.
2) What was up with that finish of the Paris-Roubaix? I haven’t looked at any cycling news, I just watched what I tivo-ed. Bruneel didn’t seem a bit upset about his boys getting disqualified. I think they went through that train intersection on purpose, knowing they’d get disqualified, just to screw with Boonen. Fifth place in a race he thought he’d win? That’s gotta be a blow to the confidence. I think that’s why they did what they did. Besides, if they had all waited for the train, he likely would’ve beaten them in any case.
3) The beach was good. I’ll post more details later in the week. The weather was amazing, I found some gorgeous shells, we rode our bikes every day on a beautiful path…. Now here I am, back at reality! Ouch!
Thursday, April 06, 2006
It’s the Tour baby! (The Tour de Georgia, that is)
Thanks for the get well wishes – yes, I am feeling better. I got loads of sleep last night, and I know that helped. Also, I managed to eat a bit better yesterday – I’m sure that helped also.
I was on OLN’s web site today, trying to decide whether to order live streaming of the Giro (if they get enough takers will they show more on tv?), and I saw the Tour de Georgia. On a whim I checked out their web site. Turns out the Saturday stage is up in the Ga. Mountains – not too far from where my grandparents used to live and not too far from us. I’m going!!!! I’ll be there on the mountainside, doing my best imitation of a Basque fan(atic), with my face painted T-Mobile pink. Envy me!!! And I will post pics.
Gotta run!
Thanks for the get well wishes – yes, I am feeling better. I got loads of sleep last night, and I know that helped. Also, I managed to eat a bit better yesterday – I’m sure that helped also.
I was on OLN’s web site today, trying to decide whether to order live streaming of the Giro (if they get enough takers will they show more on tv?), and I saw the Tour de Georgia. On a whim I checked out their web site. Turns out the Saturday stage is up in the Ga. Mountains – not too far from where my grandparents used to live and not too far from us. I’m going!!!! I’ll be there on the mountainside, doing my best imitation of a Basque fan(atic), with my face painted T-Mobile pink. Envy me!!! And I will post pics.
Gotta run!
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
A little secret about me
How many times have you been checking out the reader letters at bodybuilder.com or Velo News or in the latest issue of Runner’s World and read something that goes a little like this “I have a question about training while sick. While doing a (12 mile recovery run, 50 mile ride, lower body workout) I coughed up a lung. To make matters worse, then I tripped over it and broke my left leg! I have a (20 mile run, hundred mile ride, power lifting competition) this weekend. Is Saturday too early to get back into it, or should I wait until Sunday?”
This is so not me. If I am sick, I immediately curl up in my chair with a book, munching on crackers or something, until fully healed up. I even walk slow lest I inhibit my recovery. I’ve been fighting a cold since Saturday, so that means 4 days of no exercise and not so great eating. I dread getting on the scale Friday. I am probably the only person in America who thinks they’ll lose weight on vacation, but that’s what I’m hoping for next week. Sigh. On the plus side, I can tell you that "Bag of Bones" by Stephen King is one terrific ghost story!
That’s why I’ve been so quiet – too busy irrigating my sinuses with salt water and rubbing Neosporin over the rawness that is my nose to take time to post. This week is pretty much shot from an exercise perspective – I sure am glad I have those exercise bands for next week! I’ll try to do better food-wise, even though its hard when all I want to do is comfort myself by stuffing my belly. I hate being sick.
How many times have you been checking out the reader letters at bodybuilder.com or Velo News or in the latest issue of Runner’s World and read something that goes a little like this “I have a question about training while sick. While doing a (12 mile recovery run, 50 mile ride, lower body workout) I coughed up a lung. To make matters worse, then I tripped over it and broke my left leg! I have a (20 mile run, hundred mile ride, power lifting competition) this weekend. Is Saturday too early to get back into it, or should I wait until Sunday?”
This is so not me. If I am sick, I immediately curl up in my chair with a book, munching on crackers or something, until fully healed up. I even walk slow lest I inhibit my recovery. I’ve been fighting a cold since Saturday, so that means 4 days of no exercise and not so great eating. I dread getting on the scale Friday. I am probably the only person in America who thinks they’ll lose weight on vacation, but that’s what I’m hoping for next week. Sigh. On the plus side, I can tell you that "Bag of Bones" by Stephen King is one terrific ghost story!
That’s why I’ve been so quiet – too busy irrigating my sinuses with salt water and rubbing Neosporin over the rawness that is my nose to take time to post. This week is pretty much shot from an exercise perspective – I sure am glad I have those exercise bands for next week! I’ll try to do better food-wise, even though its hard when all I want to do is comfort myself by stuffing my belly. I hate being sick.
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