Ok well

Yesterday:
Breakfast: strawberries, banana, yogurt

Later breakfast: sweet potato hash with soft boiled egg

Lunch: chocolate chili (mmm!)

Dinner: fish taco salad with fried cod.  It was good, but we had to eat way too fast because I got home from my ppd late (it took 3 hrs!) and then we were seeing Ghostbusters at the movie theater, so I didn't get to enjoy it as much as I would have liked.  Also had strawberries and raspberries

Exercise: HIIT 2, walked 2.5 miles round trip to get PPD

Try try again

Breakfast for yesterday:

Banana with almond butter, kale salad with egg and delicata squash

Lunch: leftover shephard's pie

Dinner: leftover chicken with lemon terragon sauce, roasted acorn squash with maple syrup

Snacks: nuts, a little apple cider

Exercise: C25K week 2 day 1, HIIT 1

Still off the wagon

Sunday
Breakfast: more kringle
Lunch: sweet potato hash with eggs and bacon
Dinner: roast chicken with lemon sauce, brussels with bacon
Dessert: the last of the kringle

Off the wagon

Ate crappy as soon as whole 30 was done.  Well, I lasted almost 48 hrs.  Then I had some pastry on Fri night.  Then yesterday was a disaster.  New gameplan is 2 cheat days a month, PLUS cheat when on vacation.  Also, going to keep with c25k 3 days a week, PLUS, gotta do HIIT 3 days a week.  Phew!

Day 30

Breakfast: casserole

Lunch: chicken soup, banana and apple with almond butter

Dinner: leftover beef curry with zoodles

Exercise: none

Summary: I lost weight.  Dunno how much because the scale is in storage.  Going to keep going and not just eat whatever I want because I'm done like last time

Day 29

Breakfast: sausage, soft boiled eggs, last of the remaining hash

Lunch: chicken soup, apple, almond butter

Dinner: beef curry with zoodles

Snack: juice

Day 28

Breakfast: leftover sweet potato has, 2 soft boiled eggs

Lunch: cashews, beet juice, apple with almond butter

Dinner: salmon with guac, fried plantains, strawberries, raspberries

Snack: apple cider

Exercise: HIIT 1

Day 27

Breakfast: leftover hash with 2 soft boiled eggs

Lunch: nuts, banana with almond butter

Dinner: leftover chicken thigh, larabar, leftover delicata squash

Exercise: none

Day 26

Breakfast: potatoes and eggs (went to a restaurant with Kathleen, couldn't really have much)

Lunch: pumpkin larabar, banana

Dinner: last of the short rib, leftover delicata squash, pistachios

Snack: banana with almond butter

Exercise: basically none

Day 25

Breakfast: sweet potato hash with 2 eggs.  4 pieces of bacon

Lunch: TJs sweet apple chicken sausage, applesauce, banana with almond butter

Dinner: leftover braised beef, sweet potato mash

Exercise: none

Day 24

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, 1/4 avocado, salsa, sliced turkey lunch meat (2 pieces)

Lunch: chicken soup, homemade applesauce, nuts

Dinner: Asian chicken thighs, applesauce

Snacks: beet juice

Exercise: HIIT 1

Day 23

Breakfast: casserole

Lunch: pumpkin larabar, grapes

Dinner: kale pistachio salad with soft boiled egg, sardines

Snack: lots of nuts


Exercise: walked 10,000+ steps

Day 22

Breakfast: casserole, banana with almond butter

Lunch: blueberry muffin larabar

Dinner: leftovers (braised beef, sweet potatoe mash, brussel sprouts)

Exercise: HIIT day 2, walked 10,000+ steps

Day 21

Breakfast: soft boiled eggs with left over potatoes (from Oktoberfest), banana with almond butter

Lunch: Chicken chili verde with 1/4 avocado, raspberries

Dinner: braised short ribs, mashed sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts, strawberries

Exercise: HIIT day 1 from combat, walk with Scott

Day 20

Breakfast: leftover hash, 2 soft boiled eggs

Lunch:  went to the Mall and saw the Darcy wet shirt and then saw Philip Glass performing so no formal lunch.  Had 1/3 of a blueberry muffin larabar when walking around.  Had an apple with almond butter and some cashews when we got home

Dinner: at Rachel's.  She made chicken tortilla soup.  All it had was a little chicken, a few tomatoes, a little cilantro, a few mushrooms, and a lot of lime juice.  Then there were some strawberries.  I was hungry after.

Late night snack after coming home: almond butter, tomatoes

Exercise: walked 10,000 steps around the Mall

Day 19

Breakfast: sweet potato hash, 2 baked eggs, hot sauce

Lunch: chicken chili verde with 1/4 avocado, grapes

Dinner: OCTOBERFEST!  I ate pork belly, homemade applesauce, sauerkraut, potatoes, applesauce
Other people ate pretzel roll, root beer, and a german chocolate brownie thing from Wegmans that looked so so so good

Day 18

Breakfast:
soft boiled egg, 2 apple chicken sausage links, delicata squash

Lunch:
leftover kale salad, delicata squash, soft boiled egg

Dinner:
roasted green chicken (breast and leg)
sweet potato mash.  wasn't very good

Snack: grapes, cashews, raspberries

Day 17

Still in NY, went home today

Breakfast (Hu Village): 

sweet potato mash with sauteed greens on top and a fried egg

Lunch (on bus)

cashews, pistachios, blueberry larabar

Dinner:

kale pistachio salad with soft boiled egg, sardines, and delicata squash

Snack: 

blueberry muffin larabar

Exercise: walked about 4 miles

Day 15, 16

Day 15

Breakfast: sweet apple chicken sausage from Wegmans (SO GOOD), apple, soft boiled egg, mustard

Lunch: cashews, pizza casserole, raspberries

Dinner: kale with braised beef and avocado

Exercise: none.  Was doing paperwork for hospital credentialing all day.  Barf

Day 16: going to NYC

Breakfast: sweet apple chicken sausage, apple

Lunch (Luke's Lobster): Salad with arugula, lobster tail, blueberries, sunflower seeds, and lemon juice

Dinner (Dig Inn)
Lemon herb chicken with sweet potatoes and carrots with pesto

Snack: blueberry larabar

Exercise: walked like 5 miles

Day 14

Breakfast: eggs and salsa

Lunch: cashews, spaghetti squash casserole

Dinner: salmon with mango avocado salsa, fried plantain

Exercise: none

Day 13

Breakfast:
2 soft boiled eggs, salsa, 1/3 avocado

Lunch: banana, raspberry, almond butter

Dinner: leftover ribs, sweet potato fries, chicken chili verde, 1/4 avocado

Snack: 1/2 blueberry muffin larabar, apple cider

Exercise: walked probably 3 miles

Day 12

Breakfast:
sweet potato hash, 2 eggs, 3 bacon

Lunch:
pistachios, banana, beet juice

Dinner:
ribs, sweet potato fries, strawberries

Feelings: kind of a bad day

Day 11

Breakfast:
casserole

Lunch: finished off the stew and the coconut chicken
Banana with almond butter

Dinner: mahi mahi with guac

Day 10

Breakfast:
apple, almond butter
soft boiled eggs x 2 with veggies from chicken pot

Lunch: beef stew

Dinner:
leftover coconut lemongrass chicken with zuchini
brussel sprouts

Exercise: none really.  I have a cold

Day 9

Breakfast: breakfast casserole
Lunch: stew, banana
Dinner: lemongrass coconut chicken over zuchini noodles, brussel sprouts

Excercise: I got 10,000 steps in walking around Georgetown

Day 8

Breakfast: casserole

Lunch: stew

Dinner: taco salad and tostones

Sore throat today.  Ugh.

Day 7

Breakfast: soft boiled egg with kale salad

Lunch: a pear, breakfast casserole, some stew

Dinner: leftover braised beef and sweet potato mash

We saw the new Saturday's Warrior last night.  Todd is amazing

Days 3-6

Stuck on it.  Ate only Whole30 foods.  Too lazy to write what I ate all the days so I'll just do yesterday.


Breakfast: didn't eat
Lunch: leftover kale salad with hard boiled egg, a bunch of pistachios and cashews (so good)
Dinner: rosemary braised beef with sweet potato mash and asparagus.  So good.  Oh man.  Had friends over.  Everyone else had pumpkin roll from Wegmans but I held strong.
Snack: went over to friend's house to watch Emmys.  They had all kinds of junk food.  I brought guac and red pepper strips and stuck to that

Feeling sleepy today.

Day 1 and 2 redux

Ahhh!  How has it been 6 days since I started???  Especially when on Saturday, Sunday and Monday I failed.

Sat:
Breakfast: Sweet potato hash
Lunch: Went to Felicity's kid's baptism.  Went to their house after.  Had chicken salad on croissants, chocolate cake, and ice cream.
Dinner: Had people over.  Fed them coconut lemongrass chicken, which was fine, but then also mochi and chocolate babka cake.  Oops

Sun:
Breakfast: leftover babka
Dinner: went to friend's.  Had Italian beef rolls.  Then had Reese's mini cheesecakes for dessert.

Mon:
Breakfast: finished off the babka.  Frosted mini wheats
Lunch: I forget
Dinner: Leftover lemongrass chicken

Tues: (Day 1 again)
Breakfast: none
Lunch: beef taco salad
Dinner: kale steak salad

Wed: (Day 2 again)
Breakfast: leftover kale salad with 2 soft boiled eggs
Lunch: none
Dinner: chicken pot

Feelings: Ugh, I feel like I've been doing this FOREVER, but I've only just begun.  Again.  And I think I may cheat because there is good food in DC and I'm leaving so I should eat it before I go.  But I want to be skinny.  I walked 5 miles on Monday and messed up my foot again, so I haven't left the house the past 2 days.  Fail.  I ordered stiff shoes so maybe when they come they will fix everything?

Whole30-2 Day 1

Breakfast: 2 fried eggs, banana
Lunch: Zuchini and turkey chili
Dinner: taco salad with guac, pickled onions

Exercise: does sitting on my couch all day count?

Respawn

So I didn't really do anything since my last blog.  I sort of ran a couple times, but didn't finish C25K (on the last week).  On July 4th I tried to do it, but it is hot as balls and I only ran about 10 minutes before I had to walk.  Also, I've been eating crap and thus feeling like crap.  I have this summer off though to respawn.

So I started to workout more this week.  I ran (sort of, as mentioned) on Monday the 4th, then I did 30 minutes of Combat, then walked like 4 miles to the fireworks (round trip).  Tuesday I was feeling it.  No run.  Did 30 minutes of Combat (the strength one) which I failed at.  Walked to the grocery store twice (oops, I thought I had bought potatoes last week).  Now today, I "ran" C25K day 1, but even failed at that.  It is so hot outside I was feeling lightheaded, and I don't think I had enough water in me, so that was a problem.  Ended up walking 3 miles ish.  Then did 45 minute Combat and 20 minutes of stretching.  Ate frosted flakes for breakfast (so bad but so good) but then lunch had my healthy stew.  But then chocolate.  Dinner will be shallot chicken and fruit.

Goals:
Sleep as much as possible
Eat mostly whole foods-save treats for special occasions, Whole30 during Sept
Exercise by running 4x a week, doing Combat 5 times a week while near somewhere I have access to a DVD player, stretch 6 days a week, lots of walking!
Drink lots of water

Weight: 139 lbs (I don't have a scale this summer, so we will see how things are looking come October!)

Physician, heal thyself

I don't take care of myself.  Like, at all.  Now that Scott's gone, I just eat cereal and sit around.  I need to take better care of myself.

Weight: 140.0 lbs

Feelings: abdominal cramping pain (gluten and milk aren't great for me I found out)

Goal for the week: Finish C25k (I'm on week 8 day 3).  Wake up at 6am every day.  Make more food and not just eat cereal every meal

"Ok poop, you're not the boss of me!"

I have been off my routine for a while.  I went to a conference in San Diego week before last, which I ran once at but not again, and then I didn't run since because my job in Maryland fell through and I was kind of sad.  Whatever, I got over it. I finally went running tonight.  Things were going ok until the last 5 minutes, when I thought I was going to crap my pants.  This was C25K week 7 day 2 and I really wanted to stick with it (I had run 20 min straight already!) so I kept telling my poop that it wasn't in charge.  It worked!

I guess the moral of the story is that there may be crap that is trying to ruin my current life goals, but I can't let it boss me around.

Day 1 & 2 and Goalsssssssssssss

SUNDAY

Breakfast:
3 scrambled eggs, guac, 1/2 tomato

Lunch: cashews

Dinner: Spare ribs, sweet potato mash, grapes

Exercise: 30 minute walk

MONDAY

Breakfast: chia pudding with almond milk, 1 banana, 2 hard boiled eggs

Lunch: orange, chicken soup with veggies

Dinner: leftover spare ribs, strawberries, raspberries, 1 piece chocolate, grapes

Snacks: nachos, fried calamari.  Happy hour for one of our nurse's last day

Exercise: C25K week 6 day 2, walk home from work (1.7 miles)

Feelings: oops, I didn't do this today


FOOD GOALS THIS SUMMER/FALL

May: eat whole30.  May be hard while in San Diego, but eat as healthy as possible.  Can go out to eat when with Scott maybe

June: continue whole30 while Scott is away.  Can go out to eat a couple of weekends maybe

July: paleo except birthday, Norway may be tough

Aug: paleo-will be tough when in Utah, but goal to keep with it 80%

Sept: paleo 100%

Oct: formal whole 30

FITNESS GOALS THIS SUMMER/FALL

May: finish C25K (goal done May 22).  Start combat when home from San Diego (should be done right when going to Norway)

June: work on running speed.  Run every day not on call

July: increase running to 4 mi.  Run 5x week before Norway, 3 x week while in Norway. Finish combat

August: increase running to 5 mi.  Run 5x week except during Grand canyon. Continue running while in Utah.  Restart Combat

Sept: run 3x week once work starts.

Oct: run 3x week. Some other form of exercise all other days except when on call

Day -2

Gonna start again.  May 1st.  Barf.  But seriously it made me feel much better.  I only ran 1 time this week because I am kind of depressed.  I hate my job.

Day 46-7/44-5/Reintroduction day 13-4

4/20:
Breakfast: someone brought breakfast casserole
Lunch: last of the chicken chili verde, 1/4 avocado
Dinner: pizza casserole
Snack: a bunch of caramel corn and some waffli  (not compliant)

Exercise: ice skating and C25K week 4 day 3


4/21:
Breakfast: mushroom frittata
Lunch: leftover pizza casserole
Dinner: TJ's beef bulkogi, will roast up some sort of veggie
Snack: banana, almond butter.  Some werther's originals (not compliant, obv)

Exercise: plan week 5 day 1 tonight... we'll see.

Feelings: so sleepy.  Woke up at 3 and couldn't get back to sleep until 5:30.  Blah

Day 45/43/Reintroduction day 12

Wasn't feeling great today.  Didn't eat well.  Like 100% carbs.  I'm also up 3 lbs again

Breakfast: Quaker oat squares.  2 bowls

Lunch: orange.  2 lemon ricotta cookies

Dinner: leftover sweet potato. 2 waffli

Exercise: none

Feelings: Intestines are ROUGH.  Really need to go back on whole 30.  Plan for tomorrow's meals:

Breakfast: mushroom frittata
Lunch: chicken chili verde, 1/4 avocado, orange
Dinner: pizza/spag squash casserole
Snack: Larabar if I need it

My goal is to Whole30 until I leave for the AUA on May 5.  That's 15 days.  Then in San Diego, eat salads/fresh fish-still keep it light.  Then May/June Scott will be gone and I just need to stick with the program during the week.  On weekends we can maybe eat something off plan.  Like one little thing.  Then move in July-need to stay on the program until Norway-I can eat a little bit of fun stuff in Norway, but it's so expensive I think we just need to bring a bunch of food with us anyway.  So, basically I have 3 mo before Norway to eat well/get in shape, then 1 mo after before I start work.  Let's see how this goes...

Day 44/42/Reintroduction day 11

This is for yesterday

Breakfast: almond chia pud with banana

Lunch: chicken chili verde, 1/4 avocado. 

Dinner: roast chicken, roasted sweet potato

Snack: a million cookies

Exercise: none

Feelings: FAIL.  Also, I felt like a bomb was in my belly this morning.  My gut still hasn't recovered.  

Day 43/41/Reintroduction day 10

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with smoked salmon

Lunch: leftover drumsticks 2, ranch dressing (meal not compliant)

Dinner: beef tacos, guac

Snack: chia pudding, chocolate (not compliant)

Exercise 1 hr walk

Feelings: going to re-start whole30 tomorrow.  Will probably cheat with a lemon tart this week at some point.  We have some food goals to eat at before we move:

Melt
Skillet
The Pearl
Schmidt's
Brown Bag (we have a free sandwich coming)
Katzinger's

Days 40-42/38-40/Reintroduction day 7-9

So April 14th was birthday celebrations.  Went way off track.

Breakfast: 2 eggs, 2 bacon.
Lunch: chicken chili verde, orange, lemon larabar
Dinner: cobb salad, 1/2 piece sourdough bread.  1/2 piece amazing reese's pie. 1/2 bowl ice cream.  Birthdays, so ok.

Exercise: C25K week 4 day 2

April 15th things are starting to get out of hand

Breakfast: banana, almond butter
Lunch: chicken chili verde, orange, lemon larabar
Dinner: homemade beef tacos (no shell), tostones
Snack: chocolate chip cookie

Exercise: walked to work and back

April 16th:

Breakfast: lemon larabar (waiting in line for record store day)
Lunch: 2 pieces of hot chicken takeover with ranch dressing, 1.5 quarters of waffle
Dinner:
Snack: 2 pieces chocolate, yogurt, orange, strawberries

Exercise: 30 min ice skating

Feelings: overall, felt sick from the fried chicken. I can't do that anymore.  Really tired after running on the 14th-like, REALLY tired.  Today I just feel like I need to recommit because I've been eating whatever, and though it's low in calories, I don't feel as good as I did because of the sugar

Day 39/37/Reintroduction day 6

Breakfast: chia almond milk pudding with banana

Lunch: chicken chili verde, orange

Dinner: 2 chicken thighs

Snack: lemon larabar, peanut butter, yogurt with raspberries, hershey kiss

Exercise: ice skating class, C25K week 4 day 1

Feelings: I had a good run today!  My legs are sore.  A lady in my ward started Whole30 because of me and she is loving it, so I invited her and her husband to dinner Fri and now I wish I didn't socializing is hard.  Also, what's a good side for tacos when you can't eat beans or corn?

Day 38/36/Reintroduction day 5

Breakfast: leftover mushroom frittata

Lunch: chicken chili verde with 1/4 avocado, orange.  Hard boiled egg

Dinner: asian chicken thighs (2) with asparagus.  The skin is amazing

Snack: it was staff appreciation day at work, so I got an ice cream sundae.  I guess I'm officially off this whole30 thing now

Exercise: C25K week 3 day 3, 30 min of boxing video (week 1 day 1)

Feelings: kind of bloated, I'm not gonna lie.  Sleepy (I was at work from 10pm to 2am last night).  The sundae wasn't that great-I should just eat my healthy food; it's better.

Day 37/35/Reintroduction day 4

Breakfast: chia almond pudding, banana

Lunch: chicken salad sandwich sans bread (free applicant lunch) potato chips, after dinner mint

Dinner: braised short ribs, mashed sweet potatoes

Snacks: peanut butter M&Ms, orange

Exercise: none

Feelings: anger.  I hate being a dr.  8:45pm and on my 4th ER patient of the night.  Barf

Day 36/34/Reintroduction day 4

Reintroduced dairy today.  A LOT of dairy

Breakfast: mushroom fritatta

Lunch: a lot of cashews, pineapple, orange, yogurt, strawberries

Dinner: free food at Martini's for fellow applicant day.  Had the scallops with ricotta polenta, saffron sauce.  Creme brulee for dessert (first dessert in over a month.  It was good!)

Exercise: none.  Oops

Feelings: I feel like there's a bomb in my stomach waiting to go off.  Not in a good way

Day 35/33/Reintroduction day 3

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, 1/2 avocado, salsa

Lunch: a million cashews, 1/2 lemon larabar

Dinner: TJ's chili lime burger with sweet potato fries, guac, fry sauce

Snacks: pineapple.  1/2 TJ's chocolate peanut butter reese's type thing (it was free, and DELICIOUS-first chocolate in 35 days!)

Exercise: C25k week 3 day 2, 1 hr ice skating

Feelings: pretty good!  I have to finish a paper this weekend and it is STRESSFUL.  My legs were a little achey after everything.  Also, I bought YOGURT at TJ's yesterday-that will be my first dairy in 34 days when I try it!!!

Day 34/32/Reintroduction day 2

Breakfast: leftover asparagus/mushroom frittata

Lunch: meatball soup, orange

Dinner: chipotle salad with chicken.  Guac, chips! (First grains in over 30 days)

Exercise: nothing. oops

Feelings: didn't sleep much last night on call.  So sleepy.  Stomach was crampy last night a couple hours after the peanut butter...

Day 33/31/Reintroduction day 1

Welp, I finished!  I weighed myself this morning and weighed 136 lbs, so I lost 8 lbs in 30 days.  Not bad!  I also feel a lot better generally.  I plan to stick with this kind of diet for the most part.  I want to be healthier by not eating much sugar and exercising more.

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with 1/2 avocado and salsa

Lunch: meatball soup, 1 banana with almond butter

Dinner: fried cod tacos in lettuce wraps, guac.

Snack: a bunch of cashews, apple, PEANUT BUTTER

Yeah I ate peanut butter today.  Skippy's to be precise.  And it was DELICIOUS.  I probably should not eat it very often because it is so good.  And has added sugar.  And I panicked a little about that but then got over it by my 3rd spoonful.

Exercise: none really

Feelings: As above.  My new goals in life are to be happy and healthy and I think this way of eating is helping.  I want to keep on it. :)

Day 32/30

LAST DAY!  What?  CRAZY.

Breakfast: chia pudding almond milk with banana in it.  It was especially good today.  Hard boiled egg

Lunch: meatball soup.  Apple with almond milk

Dinner: Leftover spaghetti squash pizza casserole

Snack: berries, cashews

Exercise: ice skating class, C25K week 3 day 1

Feelings: I felt a bit rough GI wise last night after I posted.  Too much cabbage in the chicken pot I think.  Today I feel better.  I'm a little nervous for this to be over-I mean, I want to eat all the chocolate and cake and everything, but I also don't want to.  This has been good.  Tomorrow I'll weigh in and see how I am doing.  I feel like my skin cleared up on my arms and legs a bit (less bumpy).  I still am getting zits though.  My energy overall is better.  I feel like I lost weight and my arms are more toned.  Not a ton though-maybe down to my normalish weight (10 lbs less than I have been for the past 2 years).  We'll see though!  Mostly going to stick with my diet tomorrow.  Going to try some peanut butter maybe and see how that goes (though I packed almond butter in my lunch already.  Oops!)

Day 29/27

Breakfast: sweet potato hash, 2 fried eggs, cashews

Lunch: some leftover roast beef from last week, banana, almond butter

Dinner: chicken pot

Snack: cashews, raspberries

Exercise: 45 min walk with Scott

Feelings: I have to write this paper, and I really really don't want to.  I hate writing papers.

Day 31/29

Ack, this is almost over!  Stressful!

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, 1/2 avocado, salsa

Lunch: meatball soup, orange

Dinner: leftover chicken in the pot. So good.  MMM

Snack: cashews, banana, almond butter

Exercise: basically nothing.  fail

Feelings: I'm sad today.  I'm worried about what job to take because I really like Austin, but Maryland will work the best.  Plus it's only 4 days a week.  That has to be good, right?

Day 30/28

I'd have been done if not for that bowl of cereal.  Womp womp

Breakfast: banana, almond butter, hard boiled egg

Lunch: meatball soup, orange

Dinner: spaghetti squash pizza casserole

Snacks: a billion cashews

Exercise: none really.  Oops

Feelings: eh.  I really wanted a donut

Day 28/26

Breakfast: mushroom and asparagus frittata.  Not great.  Pineapple

Lunch: leftover chicken leg, guac.  1/2 cashew cookie larabar.  Oh man, that thing is GOOD

Dinner: NY strip steak, herb butter, sweet potato fries

Snacks: raspberries, almond butter, chia pudding

Exercise: C25K week 2 day 3.  Ice skated for about 50 minutes

Feelings.  I got sleepy.  I feel fat today.  I really wanted to eat junk food today because I'm sick of not being able to eat anything.  ARGH

Day 27/25

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with guac and salsa

Lunch: meatball soup, apple, almond butter

Dinner: red curry with red peppers, shrimp, pineapple

Snack: a bunch of almonds

Exercise: walked home from work.  1.7 mi

Feelings: I woke up at 3:30am and had bad cramps and couldn't go back to sleep until 5.  So now I'm sleepy

Day 26/24

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with salsa and homemade guac

Lunch: meatball soup, banana, almond butter

Dinner: chicken legs (3), guac and peppers, asparagus

Snack: hard boiled egg, nuts, chia pud (small)

Exercise: C25K week 2 day 2

Feelings: sleepy this afternoon, but not as chronically tired as I used to be.  It's that time of the month again, which is lame

Day 25/23

Breakfast: hard boiled egg, banana and almond butter

Lunch: borsht, orange

Dinner: hard boiled egg, apple with almond butter, nuts

Snack: almond milk chia pudding

Exercise: 40 min ice skating class, C25K Week 2 Day 1

Feelings: pretty good. A little sore from the run.  My work is the worst

Day 24/22

Breakfast: leftover mushroom frittata

Lunch: borsht, orange

Dinner: lemon ginger meatballs, leftover mashed sweet potatoes, asparagus

Snack: banana and almond butter

Exercise: Walked to and from work, 3 miles ish

Feelings: one of the people I work with got fired today, so that made me really want chocolate for some reason

Day 23/21

Breakfast: almond chia pudding with 1/2 banana

Lunch: borsht, orange

Dinner: carmelized shallot chicken, sweet potato mash, brussel sprouts

Snacks: almonds, almond butter, 1 banana

Exercise: C25K week 1 day 3

Feelings: I ate too much chicken.  So full.  I didn't want to run, but I did, so that's good.

Day 22/20

Breakfast: fast Sunday

Lunch: same

Dinner: prime rib roast (fat so delicious), sweet potato mash, asparagus

Snack: almond butter and apples

Exercise: 45 minute walk.  It was nice out

Feelings: kind of gluttonous due to the fatty prime rib, but it was Easter, so...

Day 21/19

Oops, fell asleep last night before blogging.

Breakfast: grapefruit, some cashews

Lunch: mushroom and caramelized onion frittata, strawberries

Dinner: mahi mahi, guac, asparagus

Snack: hmmm, more cashews I think?

Exercise: did C25K W1D2, walked a mile and back to the grocery store

Feelings: sleepy again.  I need to start better sleep habits.  Plan was to go to bed at 10:30 each night and wake up at 6:30am, but that didn't even work out today, so...

Day 20/18

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with guac and salsa

Lunch: borsht, orange

Dinner: Italian sausage, banana with almond butter, small amount of leftover hash (we were eating dinner with other people and I didn't know if there'd be food I could eat)
At the people's house: some tomatoes, guac salad thingy, pork loin

Exercise: walked to and from work

Feelings: feeling good today.

Day 19/17

Breakfast: leftover sweet potato hash with 1 egg

Lunch: borsht, orange

Dinner: leftover beef tacos with guac, pineapple

Snacks: apple, nuts

Exercised: walked to the grocery store and back, maybe 1 mile

Feelings: feel fat today, but I'm not as tired as always I think

Day 18/16

Breakfast: chia pud with banana.  So good

Lunch: borsht, orange, a bunch of walnuts and almonds

Dinner: 2 Trader Joe's chicken Italian sausages

Exercise: ice skating class x 30 min, C25K week 1 day 1

Feelings: Running was hard but felt good.  I feel less skinny this week than last

Day 17/15

Breakfast: leftover mushroom frittata.  It is so good.  MMMM

Lunch: borsht, orange, apple

Dinner: leftover roast chicken, asparagus, and sweet potato mash. Berries

Exercise: walked to/from work. 3.8 miles

Feelings: eh, ok.  On call tonight, so not excited about that.  Got invited to a dinner party on Friday where I told them not to be offended if I go and don't eat anything.  I'll be eating dinner before that, I can guarantee!

Day 16/14

Breakfast: overnight oats with homemade almond milk, apples, banana

Lunch: Borsht, orange, larabar

Dinner: braised beef tacos without shells, guac, berries

Exercise: none really.  I really wanted to go running

Feelings: I need to stop making soups featuring cabbage.  The abdominal pain...

Day 15/13

Breakfast: sweet potato/red pepper/sausage hash with 2 eggs

Lunch: apple and almond butter

Dinner: roasted chicken with roasted asparagus and sweet potato mash that basically tastes like pie

Exercise: none.  Oops

Feelings: a little sleepier today.  Not craving sugar as much I think.  I don't want to work tomorrow.

Day 14/12

Breakfast: mmmm mushroom and caramelized onion frittata.  Smoked salmon.  I'm getting better at cooking

Lunch: I took a nap, so I had a late snack of apples and almond butter and an orange

Dinner: grilled mahi mahi with guac and baked asparagus, and guac,  raspberries

Exercise: walked a little today

Feelings: pretty good

Day 13/11

Oops, forgot to post yesterday.

Breakfast: didn't wake up in time to make anything useful-had apple with almond butter, and a hard boiled egg at work

Lunch: soup, 1/4 avocado, orange

Dinner: salad with balsamic vinegar and cracklin chicken.  Homemade guac

Snack: cashews

Exercise: walked to and from work.

Feelings: I feel skinnier!

Day 12/10

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, raspberries, a few cashews until I realized they were roasted in rice oil.  (And a couple after.  Oops)

Lunch: orange, tortilla soup with 1/4 avocado

Dinner; red curry with shrimp, red peppers, and fresh pineapple over bok choy.  A bunch of pineapple

Snack: fresh strawberries and raspberries.  Some walnuts and almonds

Exercise: walked probably 4.5 miles

Feelings: sleepy.  My eyes were really puffy.  Scott says he thinks my moods have been more stable, so there's that.

Day 11/9

Breakfast: chia pudding with homemade almond milk, bananas and apples

Lunch: tortilla soup, 1/4 avocado

Dinner: last of the veggies from the chicken in the pot, TJs italian sausage

Exercise: ice skating class x 1 hr.  It was fun!!!

Feelings: annoyed at myself-I got some grocery shopping done after class and got 10 lbs of chicken thigs for 5 bucks, but then when I was trimming them getting them ready to freeze I sliced my finger.  Ow.  Feeling a little skinnier.  Really want to check the scale.  Like, real bad.

Day 10/8

Breakfast: leftover sweet potato/red pepper/onion hash with 2 baked eggs

Lunch: tortilla soup, 1/4 avocado, orange

Dinner: leftover veggies from chicken pot, TJ's chicken italian sausage (yum!) brown mustard, banana, strawberries, blackberries

Exercise: walked to and from work, went on a walk tonight because it was nice out.  Probably 4ish miles total

Feelings: was really tired earlier today.  My right eye is really bothering me-watering for a few days but now has goopy stuff making me worried it's infected.  Feeling better after my evening walk overall.  My skin has gotten a lot more smooth

Day 9/7

Breakfast: chia pudding with homemade almond milk, apples, walnuts (didn't love the walnuts)

Lunch: tortilla soup with quarter of avocado and leftover pork from last week.  Was better than I thought.  Orange

Dinner: leftover chicken pot veggies (chicken gone).  Some broiled cod with lemon and thyme to try and make it meld with the chicken pot veggies, but it didn't work, so tomorrow I'm just going to have a piece of italian sausage with the remaining veggies

Snack: banana after dinner.  Carb loading at the end of the day!  Probably not the best idea

Exercise: none really.  Oops.

Feeling: so so so sleepy.  Maybe it's the daylight savings time switch?  I'm seriously exhausted.  I got home, fixed dinner, finished a book, and now am going to watch  movie and most likely fall asleep.  It's 8:15pm.

Day 8/6

Breakfast: breakfast hash with sweet potatoes, onion, red pepper, rosemary, and 2 eggs
Lunch: leftover chicken pot, strawberries
Dinner: apples, bananas, almond butter

Exercise: Walked maybe 2 miles

Feelings: eh, ok in the morning, got tired in the afternoon, then annoyed because I had to prep food for tomorrow rather than taking a nap.  All I do these days is cook.  Sad because Scott left for DC.

Day 7/5

Breakfast: omlette with caramelized peppers and onions, salsa
Lunch: orange, leftover chili, strawberries
Dinner: roasted chicken pot with cabbage, carrots

Exercise: went on a walk with Scott, maybe 1.5 miles

Feelings: took a nap.  Less tired than yesterday.  Felt skinnier today.  Really wanted cereal.  I noticed my cramps have been less than usual.

Day 6/4

Breakfast: nuts
Lunch: Chili, orange
Dinner; Lemon Larabar.  SO GOOD. MMMMMMMMMM.  And leftover stuffed red pepper and guac.  The guac is now gone and I have no reason to lvie

Exercise: walked to/from work.  3 miles

Feelings: so tired.  Just so so tired.  zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Day 5/3

Breakfast: Didn't feel like eating.  Had some almonds and walnuts and an orange

Lunch: leftover chili again

Dinner: Red peppers stuffed with a sweet potato/spinach/onion/pork/enchilada sauce concoction and some fresh made guacamole.  The guac was so good

Snack: more walnuts

Exercise: I did Scott's exercises for his PT and I did 30 minute cardio from Les Mills Combat

Feelings: so tired.  Kind of blah overall.  I was really sluggish with exercising, but that's probably more do the fact I'm carrying around 10 lbs more than my norm (though this has been my norm for the past 2 years).

Day 4/2

Didn't post yesterday because Scott needed the computer

Breakfast: Homemade egg salad with homemade may.  It was good but really rich.  Also, I didn't feel like eating.  Blood orange.

Lunch: Leftover chili.  Good.  I didn't feel like eating.

Snack: apple with almond butter.  The only thing I wanted to eat all day

Dinner: Leftover pork taco salad.  Good.  Didn't feel like eating.  Got annoyed because I had to spend another hr prepping dinner for the next day.  I feel like all I do is work and go to the kitchen and prep food.


Exercise: Walked home from work.  It had been nice out but by the time I left work it was cloudy and gross.  Blah.

Feelings: I had this dream that Scott's boss found out I did my political internship 13 years ago and decided I needed a celebratory party and they had tables and tables of food I couldn't eat.  It was sad.  For some reason Scott's sister was there and knew about the whole30 so she at least could empathize a bit.  I feel cranky and don't feel like eating anything besides fruit.  LIke, I just want an enormous pineapple.  I got on Amazon and ordered some lemon Larabars because apparently they are compliant, but then I read their thing and saw they said don't eat them a lot because your body thinks they're candy bars.  And then I dreamed of making chocolate almond chia seed pudding and again, read on their thing that although all that stuff is compliant, it's technically against the program.  Ugh.  Going to make almond milk this weekend to eat over berries for breakfast because I'm already sick of eggs.

Day 3/Day1

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs with some spinach and tomatoes in it.  Salsa on top
Lunch: Chili (homemade.  It was good)
Dinner: Pork taco salad.  That pork was amazing!

Exercise: walked to and from work, about 3.5 miles

Feelings: I already know I'm going to get sick of eggs.  Grrr.  My uterus hurts, but at least it's not my head.  I should drink more water because that pork was REALLY salty

Food for tomorrow: Made egg salad for breakfast since I have conference in the morning so I won't have a ton of time to eat.  Leftovers for lunch and dinner.  We have a lot of pork.

Day 2

I ate some cheerios tonight so I guess I'm on day 0 again.

Breakfast: coconut milk with chia seeds

Lunch: 2 hard boiled eggs, tuna salad with lettuce, blood orange

Snack: apple, almond butter

Dinner: cheerios/milk






How I felt: migraine this afternoon.  AAAAH.  Intestines felt rough after cereal/milk, but it is that time of the month

Day 1

Had a late afternoon snack:
Tuna salad with avocado, hot sauce, lime juice
Apple with almond butter
Almonds
Hard boiled egg

Dinner:
Asparagus
Meatballs

Made some awesome homemade bread for Scott to eat with the meatball sauce but I couldn't have any.  Also, couldn't have the Parmesan on the meatballs or asparagus which was annoying.
Made homemade ice cream because we have a ton of milk and it's going to go bad.  Chocolate peanut butter.  None of which I can have.  Going to give it to the home teachers.  I always eat dessert on Sundays and am craving it.

Weight: 144
How I feel: headache.  Want chocolate.  This is already annoying.


Food for tomorrow: prepped coconut milk chia pudding with apple and walnut for breakfast.  Tuna and eggs for lunch.  Orange for lunch.  Plan for dinner was going to be to cook up some pork for a taco salad, but didn't go buy the pork yesterday, so I have no idea what dinner will be.  I guess eggs.

Whole30

Sorta started whole30 but end up eating leftover pizza from the best place in Columbus, and then I figured I'd eat some peanut butter and chocolate since I already failed anyway.

Today I ate:
Breakfast: 2 eggs with redpeppers, 1/2 avocado, 1 blood orange
Lunch: 1 leftover piece sausage fennel pizza and 1 piece margaretia pizza.  piece of cheese.  Some peanut butter.  Handful of walnuts.  2 pieces of dove chocolate.  chocolate green drink because we have SO MUCH MILK
Dinner: red curry with bok choy, pineapple, red peppers.  2 pieces dove chocolate.  1 piece toblerone

So I guess first whole30 is tomorrow.
Menu plan:
Breakfast/Lunch: Fast Sunday
Dinner: meatballs and grilled asparagus and salad.  Scott gets homemade bread

I stopped running

First Nathan had roseola. Then I had this weird sore throat thing (which I'm still trying to get over). It's been 2 weeks. I might as well just start over. I am such a failure. 

Not running

I've just been sitting.  I'm starting a low carb diet later this week, so that should be interesting

Week 2 day 3

Done!

Week 2 day 2

Finished this yesterday. Yay!! Kind of sore, though, but probably not from running. I was reaching for paprika in the cabinet above the stove but kept pushing it back further. So I got on the counter but still couldn't reach it. I hopped a little bit (while on the counter), grabbed the paprika, then started a rough descent to the floor. I'm such a dork. I should have just gotten a chair. 

Week 2 day 1

I did it! It was hard! Ran at 5.5. Yay! I weigh 140 now, which means I've gained 10 lbs since September. Whoops. 

Week 1 day 3

Yay! I did it! Ran at 5.5. Then Jen said she wanted to ride the bikes so we were on them for 20 minutes. Then we did some arm weights on the torture device machines. I'm kind of sore!

Week 1 day 2

Not bad, but Nathan wouldn't let me leave the kids area. Finally l, Jen came and dragged me out. Ran at 5.5, which isn't bad for me!

Week 1 Day 1 for real

So last time wasn't real because Nathan wouldn't stop crying and the kids club lady had to come get me and I got all distracted. I'm really out of shape. 

Week 1 day 1

I joined the gym. I'm there now. Let's see how long this lasts. I'm a lot jigglier than I was before Nathan. Very strange feeling...jiggling that much. Nathan not a fan of the kids area. Not sure if will continue. Might have just be fat and jiggly. 

Thinking

I'm thinking about joining a gym. 

Jan is the worst month

I went running once last month.  Or was that nov.  Ugh.  Gotta start again.  143.2 lbs today.  Started some spreadsheet where I will weigh myself daily

C25K Day -2

I still haven't started C25K. I'm such a failure. Maybe we can start in Pittsburgh! Or maybe we can just eat a lot...