health blah-g
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threadwalkerMy self-empowering phrase this week:
I have been the daughter that my parents raised me to be. I am evolving into the person that I want to be.
I'm solo-mom this week. Hubby is out of town on business this week. boo... I had to sleep alone last night. I was sleepless and dozed off in front of the computer. boo! New plan tonight - fall asleep in bed and avoid crick in neck and back.
BUT... the house is already looking cleaner. As I suspected, when I don't have someone following me around and back-filling my cleaning activities, the effects last much longer. Too bad he's not out for 2 weeks... the garage would fall under my powers of organization and purging. muh-ha-ha!
I spent a lot of time pondering how to NOT lose ground on fitness and health this week since obviously I can't take off in the eve to work out. I had the weekend to percolate. Part of the challenge is that I also have to be super time-efficient and work around kid-schedule as well as the newly established grueling work meeting schedule. It sort of would appear the cards are stacked against me. but... I have a plan.
Nutrition: easy. I pre-packaged all the elements of my lunch and they sit stacked and sorted in fridge. yay. very organized. 5 baggies of carrots, 5 baggies of various fruit, 5 baggies of grape tomatoes, 5 containers of spinach salad, etc. I just throw the right combo of stuff in my lunch bag at night and grab it in morning. (why didn't I do this sooner? what a dork!)
Tonight - crock pot dinners for the rest of the week. (got busy with laundry last night, so no time for cooking)
Fitness:
Monday I went to gym 10:30 so I could be back in time for lunch-time meeting. It was an "abbreviated" work out, but I did it. (25 min cardio; 1 set each biceps, triceps, let ext, leg curl, lats). yay. I felt really empowered and woken up by it, too!!
Tuesday, Wed, Thurs, Fri:
8:15 mtgs, lunch mtgs, and 5pm mtgs. In addition to all the other meetings in between. There is no flexibility for coming in late or leaving early or doing something at lunch. This requires planning.
Tuesday: All day is practically booked with meetings, etc. Therefore, take kids with me to gym after work and use gym kid-care. (fingers crossed - never used it before). (I hope it's not too crowded)
Wed: All day is practically booked with meetings, etc. Therefore, take kids with me to gym after work and use gym kid-care. (fingers crossed - never used it before).
Thursday: do another "pre lunch" work out. Take my 12:30 meeting stuff with me and go straight to "that" building after work out. Go directly to meeting without going back to office. Saves time.
Hubby home sometime on Thursday. Probably jet-lagged.
Friday - We are going to Beltane after work - no time for evening work out. but there's a block in mid-morning to work out again.
Well, it looks like they really mean to have these lunch-time meetings from now until mid-June on every Tuesday and Thursday. I keep hoping it's some sort of hoax. It's not. Therefore, to help myself, I'm going to be journaling my nutrition journey as a tool to help me make it through this.
My challenge: I love baked goods. Bread is my cocaine. Cookies are my crack. I can do a loaf of french bread in one sitting ... with or without butter. cookies? hell yeah! Bring it and milk is optional... Plus, "free" adds a whole new level of delight to any of these carby treats.
Today the lunch fairy brought: personal pizzas, big bowl of fruit, oversized cookies, beverages.
I brought and ate: spinach salad tossed with (1/2 cup) home made orzo salad (WW = approx 4 pts); 1 cup sliced red bell pepper and yellow bell pepper dipped in 2 tbs low cal salsa (WW = less than 1 pt); 1/4 cup edamame (WW = 1 pt); diet coke and water to drink.
yay me!!! I was sufficiently satisfied that I didn't feel hunger when I was done. In fact, I probably should have held off on the edamame, but I like to eat protein at lunch. It's just one of those things I do. I heated the orzo in the microwave first and then tossed it on spinach. The salad got to sit for 20 min before I went to meeting, so salad was nice and warm. Lots of flavor that way.
I might have weakened and had a cookie. I was thinking about that this morning and was wondering how I was going to resist the cookies while part of me was trying to rationalize a cookie into my landscape.. what harm is one cookie? asked the voice. Then I flashed on the fact that this is going to happen every Tuesday and Thursday for 6+ weeks. One oversized cookie 2x a week for 6 weeks... All I had to do was remind myself how hard it was to get this far and cookie temptation vanished in a puff of paranoia from fear of what it would do to me both mentally and physically. And, spiritually... I made a life style change and it is a choice I made and embrace. I don't want a string of mental failures dogging me and making me feel bad about myself. No cookie is worth that sensation of "can't do". Boy, those cookies sure are full of subterfuge and guile. humph. I almost took the first step down that slippery slope.
When faced with the lunches, I wasn't even tempted. I stared at those cookies and said (to myself), "No Way! You are not worth it." And I remained untempted even with everyone around me munching on them.
I feel GREAT! I feel so happy in my commitment to myself. I will need to remind myself of this before the meeting on Thursday.
I have been the daughter that my parents raised me to be. I am evolving into the person that I want to be.
I'm solo-mom this week. Hubby is out of town on business this week. boo... I had to sleep alone last night. I was sleepless and dozed off in front of the computer. boo! New plan tonight - fall asleep in bed and avoid crick in neck and back.
BUT... the house is already looking cleaner. As I suspected, when I don't have someone following me around and back-filling my cleaning activities, the effects last much longer. Too bad he's not out for 2 weeks... the garage would fall under my powers of organization and purging. muh-ha-ha!
I spent a lot of time pondering how to NOT lose ground on fitness and health this week since obviously I can't take off in the eve to work out. I had the weekend to percolate. Part of the challenge is that I also have to be super time-efficient and work around kid-schedule as well as the newly established grueling work meeting schedule. It sort of would appear the cards are stacked against me. but... I have a plan.
Nutrition: easy. I pre-packaged all the elements of my lunch and they sit stacked and sorted in fridge. yay. very organized. 5 baggies of carrots, 5 baggies of various fruit, 5 baggies of grape tomatoes, 5 containers of spinach salad, etc. I just throw the right combo of stuff in my lunch bag at night and grab it in morning. (why didn't I do this sooner? what a dork!)
Tonight - crock pot dinners for the rest of the week. (got busy with laundry last night, so no time for cooking)
Fitness:
Monday I went to gym 10:30 so I could be back in time for lunch-time meeting. It was an "abbreviated" work out, but I did it. (25 min cardio; 1 set each biceps, triceps, let ext, leg curl, lats). yay. I felt really empowered and woken up by it, too!!
Tuesday, Wed, Thurs, Fri:
8:15 mtgs, lunch mtgs, and 5pm mtgs. In addition to all the other meetings in between. There is no flexibility for coming in late or leaving early or doing something at lunch. This requires planning.
Tuesday: All day is practically booked with meetings, etc. Therefore, take kids with me to gym after work and use gym kid-care. (fingers crossed - never used it before). (I hope it's not too crowded)
Wed: All day is practically booked with meetings, etc. Therefore, take kids with me to gym after work and use gym kid-care. (fingers crossed - never used it before).
Thursday: do another "pre lunch" work out. Take my 12:30 meeting stuff with me and go straight to "that" building after work out. Go directly to meeting without going back to office. Saves time.
Hubby home sometime on Thursday. Probably jet-lagged.
Friday - We are going to Beltane after work - no time for evening work out. but there's a block in mid-morning to work out again.
Well, it looks like they really mean to have these lunch-time meetings from now until mid-June on every Tuesday and Thursday. I keep hoping it's some sort of hoax. It's not. Therefore, to help myself, I'm going to be journaling my nutrition journey as a tool to help me make it through this.
My challenge: I love baked goods. Bread is my cocaine. Cookies are my crack. I can do a loaf of french bread in one sitting ... with or without butter. cookies? hell yeah! Bring it and milk is optional... Plus, "free" adds a whole new level of delight to any of these carby treats.
Today the lunch fairy brought: personal pizzas, big bowl of fruit, oversized cookies, beverages.
I brought and ate: spinach salad tossed with (1/2 cup) home made orzo salad (WW = approx 4 pts); 1 cup sliced red bell pepper and yellow bell pepper dipped in 2 tbs low cal salsa (WW = less than 1 pt); 1/4 cup edamame (WW = 1 pt); diet coke and water to drink.
yay me!!! I was sufficiently satisfied that I didn't feel hunger when I was done. In fact, I probably should have held off on the edamame, but I like to eat protein at lunch. It's just one of those things I do. I heated the orzo in the microwave first and then tossed it on spinach. The salad got to sit for 20 min before I went to meeting, so salad was nice and warm. Lots of flavor that way.
I might have weakened and had a cookie. I was thinking about that this morning and was wondering how I was going to resist the cookies while part of me was trying to rationalize a cookie into my landscape.. what harm is one cookie? asked the voice. Then I flashed on the fact that this is going to happen every Tuesday and Thursday for 6+ weeks. One oversized cookie 2x a week for 6 weeks... All I had to do was remind myself how hard it was to get this far and cookie temptation vanished in a puff of paranoia from fear of what it would do to me both mentally and physically. And, spiritually... I made a life style change and it is a choice I made and embrace. I don't want a string of mental failures dogging me and making me feel bad about myself. No cookie is worth that sensation of "can't do". Boy, those cookies sure are full of subterfuge and guile. humph. I almost took the first step down that slippery slope.
When faced with the lunches, I wasn't even tempted. I stared at those cookies and said (to myself), "No Way! You are not worth it." And I remained untempted even with everyone around me munching on them.
I feel GREAT! I feel so happy in my commitment to myself. I will need to remind myself of this before the meeting on Thursday.
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No truer words!!!
Date: 2007-05-01 11:12 pm (UTC)Can I get a witness on dat, sistah!
Back-filling!
I love it!