Oops...forgot!

Forgot to hold myself accountable for what I ate yesterday. I did exactly as I had planned until after dinner. I made biscotti for a co-worker and ended up eating about 3 pieces and a spoonful of dough. Augh.

Finding Time to Workout

I had a very interesting conversation with a friend last night about finding the time to workout. As many of you may know, I have tried to do my workouts in the morning. But I'm just not a morning person. I hate getting up. HATE IT. And then in the evening, well, although my intentions are usually good, most of the time it pans out to nothing.

Why is that?

We made a very startling discovery during out discussion. On the weekdays, I really only have the potential to get about 3 hours of down time. I get up in the morning with just enough time to get ready for work and get out the door. I'm at work all day, and to be honest, I rarely actually even take a lunch away from my desk. Then I commute home and can plan to be there around seven sometime. Depending if I have errands or chores to get done, how much time does that really leave me to just relax? Do nothing? Enjoy just having time before I go to bed and do it all over again? Not much. I've been that gym girl who works out 5 days a week. Spends an hour lifting and then another 45 minutes doing cardio. Who gets home in just enough time to shower, eat something and go to bed. Right now, I'm finding it very difficult to be her.

And we also decided that there is an on and off switch. We get up, we go to work, we think about all the things we are going to do later in the day and it all seems very attainable. But then something tends to happen between the time I leave the office and the time I get home. The switch that was "on" all day and had me moving and going and planning, seems to get switched to "off". Thus, making it suddenly really hard to fulfill all those plans I had just hours ago. When I get home, I realize I have a choice. I can stay "on" and keep moving and shaking or I can shut off and just relax. And unfortunately, right now I seem to like being off.

So, how do you find that balance? How do you fit in workouts (and everything else that goes with it like getting there, showering, etc) and yet still have time to just unwind? I can't seem to do it...or more likely, I don't seem to want to figure out how to do it. What do you do? How do you find the time?

H2O

I'm going to make a daily goal: Drink my freakin' water! I do generally drink a decent amount of water throughout the day, but probably only about half of what they actually recommend. The problem is that once I finish off the bottle, I'm too lazy to go refill it. Lame excuse, I know. Well, this week I've invested in a huge mug to get me in the habit of refilling. I'm on my second mug-full already! Woo Hoo!

Furthmore, I think my diet is slipping. The scale seems to have frozen and after 2 straight weeks of seeing a steady decline, this is a bit of a shock to my system! :) So, to give me just a little accountability, I'm going to post what I've eaten so far and whay I plan to eat later. I'll compare it to reality tomorrow!

Breakfast: Medium non-fat mocha at local cafe. Seriously, I'm usually not one to skip breakfast, but this morning got a little rushed!
Snack: Fiber One bar...yummy
Lunch: Amy's Mattar Paneer frozen dinner
Snack: Banana
Dinner: I'm thinking eggsalad in a whole wheat pita and a little salad on the side
Snack: Maybe a string cheese

And if I could somehow manage to actually get a little exercise in, my day would be complete!

Sabotage Sundays

I keep sabotaging myself on Sunday nights! Remember last week when I ate a bag of gourmet popcorn & went to Cold Stone?! Well, this week it was a huge piece of stuffed pizza at 9pm on Sunday night! What am I doing?

I did good all week long and then I blow it right before the weigh in on Monday! So, I refused to get on the scale yesterday :) I knew it would be up, but it wouldn't really be the right weight. Today I did weigh in and while it was still a bit higher than where it had been all last week, it was still showing a loss. That is much more acceptable!

This week has got to include more exercise. That is totally what was lacking last week. I got a very inspirational (slightly taunting) text from a friend this morning about getting the job done. He has lost 30 pounds in the past 7 months when he didn't even think it was possible to lose that much. He was trying to get it through my head that anything is possible. And I know it is. I need to have faith!!

Holy Thai Crunch Salad!

I've been promising my department (okay, me plus one) that we'd have lunch out on the house...well, on the company. So, today, as it was raining cats and dogs, we actually ventured out to do it! We ended up at the California Pizza Kitchen around the corner cuz, well, one umbrella between the two of us wasn't gonna get us too far!
I ordered my usual Thai Crunch Salad, minus the chicken (I'm a vegetarian) and avocado (I just don't like the stuff). OH YUM. I love this salad! I was very close to ordering the Margherita pizza, but then I mentally kicked myself in the bootie for even considering ordering myself an entire pizza. Like I could actually have that much self control!
I managed to eat just over half at lunch and pack up the rest. I'm now munching on that other half at my desk. It's not exactly crunchy anymore, but oh well. I'm loving it!

I feel skinny

And unfortunately, that isn't good!

Why, you ask?

Because once that belly gets to feeling a little flat and the pants start feeling a little loose, it becomse so much easier to say, hey, what's just one more cookie?! Yes, it always goes down like this for me. I start to feel better and like I'm making progress and therefore become more lax about my diet and activity. It's a bitter, vicious cycle :)

So, how am I going to break it? That is a good question! I guess I need to first throw all my jeans in the dryer and shrink them a size! :) I think that's a good start. Nothing like a tight pair of pants cutting into your waist to make you feel great! Beyond that, I think I better just make more of an attempt to get outside and moving while this weather is good. Temps here went from 90's this weekend to high 60s/low 70s this week. As long as Gustav doesn't drop too much rain on us, I'll be in good shape!

On a different note, the bunny had to be rushed to the vet again yesterday. I'm totally drained by this whole ordeal. I just want my healthy, happy bunny back! 2 more weeks until her next check up, assuming there aren't anymore emergencies. My poor baby!

I survived the weekend

Actually, I had done an excellent job of watching what I ate all weekend...until last night, that is!

After making good choices all weekend, I ended it with some caramel & cheese popcorn that I got in a goodie bag as a fundraiser I had attended Saturday night and then some ice cream at Cold Stone. In my defense, I got the smallest size and didn't finish it. Okay, I left about 3 bites :)

All of this watching my diet resulted in a 1.5 pound loss! Yay! Now, I just gotta keep it up!