for this week.
Monday
food - cereal breakfast, no CTC (cinnamon toast crunch!), lunch - pita afternoon snack - banana, carrots and snap peas. Yogurt if needed. supper - not decided. maybe I'll have the salad I packed for lunch (girlfriend called for lunch)
workout - treadmill. Just 20 minutes hard intervals.
chores - groceries, help hubby organize the basement and plan walls. Laundry
Tuesday
food - cereal breakfast (NO CTC!), lunch - salad, grapes. snack - yogurts, grapes, apple, carrots. supper - chicken breast and veggies. no carb.
workout - go to the gym! take a class? Spin? check schedule
chores - pay "tuition" for step teaching. Decide if I'm doing Sculpt teaching as well. more laundry.
Wednesday
food - breakfast smoothie. lunch - leftover chicken. apple. snack - yogurt, fruit and veggies. supper - packed sandwich. evening snack - minimal crackers and cheese. veggies and hummus x lots. no brownie. (at a girlfriend's house, I know the menu).
workout - gym workout. class if schedule provides.
chores - go to girl's meeting. Organize a "splurge club" or "ladies group" with friends for the year.
Thursday
food - breakfast cereal. Lunch - salad. grapes. snack - yogurt, veggies. supper - kabobs. frozen veggies.
workout - 30 minutes treadmill intervals.
chores - kitchen and living room cleaning while watching tv?
Friday
food - breakfast toast. Lunch - leftovers. apple. snack - yogurt, veggies, grapes. supper - undetermined.
workout - try the gym.
chores - laundry, wash bathroom shower curtain. probably veg in front of tv.
Weekend - chores. send off thesis. Send off EIT stuff. Send off insurance forms. Book hair appointment, facial, massage, physio etc. Vacuum, general house cleaning.
I think that's all I've got for now.
Monday, February 9, 2009
A big update
Such a busy long weekend for me to recap! Get ready for a long one!
Thursday night my brothers came over and helped adjust the satellite dish. And yes folks, we got tv. Hurray! So didn't do the cleaning and packing, until 9:00 when they left. Too busy playing with the PVR! And watching shows I didn't have access to! Like 30 Rock. It IS funny! I had no idea.
Anyway, so hubby still didn't let me know what he anticipated for the weekend. So I tried not to overpack. And I succeeded. I underpacked. Oh well. I can wear the same thing 2 days in a row. House got completly cleaned too. Our plane didn't leave until noon on friday. So friday mornign was changing linens and one last clean and pack.
Got a friend to drop us off at the airport. Waiting for a plane (especially before a trip) always feels soooo long. Plus with the whole liquids thing I get freaked out and extra extra thirsty but feel like I can't get anything since I can't bring it through security (and I'm too dumb to realize I can buy something on the other side). I have mini panic attacks about the thirsty thing. Dumb.
Anyway, the flight was nice and short, just an hour. Then we took a cab downtown to our hotel ($36, not too bad) and got to check in early. We just hung out in the room for 2 hours before our massage. Hubby is like that, just wants to wait and flip channels. BORING. but I dealt with it. read some magazines. explored the hotel without him. I should have brought my laptop, they did have a business center with computers and internet that we could use for free, but I still felt naked without google. How was I supposed to find anything?! I didn't even write down what airline our flights were on, because it was in my email. I either need to bring my laptop from now on, or get a blackberry or iTouch. I'm so dependant.
So massage was good. It was my girl's first day at the spa (she'd done it before, but just new there) and I think was nervous in front of the other girl. So her bedside manner and pre-massage stuff was a little weird, but once we got into it it was fine. Hubby had a sore back they were trying to workout, I just relaxed. the best part was the face massage. It was more like just a couple pressure points, but it worked so well. Who knew how tense your eyebrows are?
Anyway, so we got showered and changed after and went to the Keg to use our gift certificate (present from SIL for all the work we did at her wedding). So we had goat cheese appetizer, and I had a big margarita (we were walking) and then the steaks. very good. Even better because it was free!
So on our walk back we stopped at a Mac's and picked up some snacks for breakfast and the room and just went back and didn't really do much. I don't even remember a discussion about are we going to go out or what.
Saturday morning I got up early and just watched tv. A lot of house flip shows. Good stuff. Gave us ideas (we could SO do that, if only we knew what the housing market was going to be like. We're in a very strange place right here, house prices were shooting up, then the US housing problems came and everyone here felt like, well shouldn't we be having a problem too? but prices still are going up...) Anyway, figured out the c-train thing and headed to the game early (hubby wanted to see everything).
That was really fun. I dont' like hockey, and Calgary sucked. but the doing new things and eating hotdogs and nachos for $20 and seeing all the jerseys and little kids be excited. it was like going to the fair. The last 5 minutes of the game were exciting since we were only down 1. We got to see 2 fights (which I hated, I think it's so stupid), realized we knew one of the players (sorta, through a friend) and had lots of chances to win stuff (they were giving away player's jerseys that day). It was cool. Plus I took lots of pictures.
Then on the way home we stopped at a mall (TD center or something) and just wandered around a bit. Bought some books. I got a really good one and I'm going to be a millionaire because of it (and the book was only $7). Automatic Millionaire (by the guy who wrote Smart Women Finish Rich and all those books). I just have to convince hubby to let me be in charge of our money, not him. If only I could get him to read...
I think that's all the shopping we did there. We were feeling fairly low class to be at this mall. Everyone was walking around in suits and pencil skirts and stuff.
That's when everything broke bad. Hubby and I had a big fight. It was coming for awhile. Started about where to eat. He wanted chinese and then basically made me figure it out (which is what it felt like at least), I didn't really care where we ate so we just set out walking somewhere and then somehow everything was bad and I was crying on the street and he was mad because I wanted everythign planned and he liked to just not do anything (I kept asking, so what are we going to do tonight and he didn't say anything, because he didn't want to do anything. Which would be ok, but I wanted him to say, "stay in the room and veg" because then I could plan accordingly.) Anyway, we had our big fight but we out in the streets downtown and I didn't bring my room key so I had to stick with him anyway. So once we were into the silent treatment aftermath part of our fight, we found the Spaghetti Factory and ate there. I completely lost my appetite though so I had the side salad and then 1 bite of my lasagna. (good thing we had a fridge in the room). It was a very awkward supper. I texted through it, (we had issues with our puppysitters, they all fell through so we had to arrange to have new ones and substitute ones and part times ones, ugh).
We did make up and I think somethings are worked out that needed to be. (we were also fighting about the basement how I don't like anything he does etc.) all our fights were topics of course, and the issue was communication. We need to talk more BEFORE things happen so we can be on the same page for them. If I knew he wanted to hang out in the room all weekend I wouldn't be upset when that's what we did and he wouldn't be upset because I kept asking him what the plan was. If we agreed how we were going to lay out the basement and what finishes and blah blah blah we were going to use before we did it, then we'd both know what the other person was thinking and wanting etc. So hopefully we can remember that and put it into practice.
Anyway, so we had 3 hours of really big suck on our trip. oh well, we fight every trip we ever go on.
So then Sunday morning, I got up early, went to the gym. Was going to go for breakfast but I thought I'd feel like an idiot by myself, so I ate half my leftover lasagna in the room. Read my book, watched tv. waited for hubby to feel motivated enough to get out of bed so we could check out. We left our bags with the hotel and took the c-train to the chinook center mall (THANKS LAINEY!!!) where we felt much more comfortable instantly. We are such suburbanites. This place had a Zellers. We could breathe again. haha.
So hubby went off to sportchek and bought 10 jerseys which were on sale for buddies on his hockey team. I went off to Sephora and Shoppers and bought tons of makeup (and got free stuff, if you need any Elizabeth Arden stuff, go hit up shoppers for a free gift!). I didn't look closely at Sephora and now I'm kicking myself. I bought a primer but didn't realize the seal had been broken and wasn't full. Do you think I can return this to the online store or something? hmm...
Anyway, I also went to Lululemon and found a shirt on SALE. Seriously. I bought a tank for $24. It's a size 6, which gives me a bit of armpit bulge, but it can be a midpoint goal shirt for me. (last october I'd fit a 6). That and I found a black sweater/shrug/something also for cheap at just like Siren's or something like that. And that's all I bought.
So we head back to the hotel, pick up our bags, were going to take the train closer to the airport so the cab would be cheaper, but realized we didn't really have time for that. Manage to rearrange all our luggage (yes really 10 hockey jerseys) so we fit on the plane. Almost miss it while grabbing a bagel for supper (missed the first boarding call and all we heard was the final boarding call for our flight, eek!). Finally get home around 9:00 last night. I missed Daisy tons and I also wanted to see if my PVR worked (and it did somewhat, also broke a bit. Same thing this morning, some channels aren't coming in, not sure what the problem is). Anyway, I also organized all my make-up. I have too much. Especially considering I only wear a mineral powder, eyeliner, and mascara every day. I've got blushes and eyeshadows and all kinds of pencils and lipsticks and so on that I never use. I've already sorted out the stuff, I really never use and that's in a give away bag. (colors that look bad on me, stuff I just don't wear ever). Then I sorted out unopened packages that I'll put in the garage sale this spring. Again, bad colors or something. Then I sorted my every day things into one container in the bathroom, made a travel set of everything for going home. Put another travel/miniature set in the purse. Then put some special occassion stuff in another container and put that in the bathroom (in the back of the drawer). All the other special occassion, fun for a makeover or something (like all these random colors of eyeshadow) I put in a train case in my bedroom.
Anybody have an opinion on this? I wear basically the same couple colors of eyeshadow (when I wear it) sort of plum colors, some pinkish browns. Varying the intensity dependant on the occassion. I've also got greens, greys, brown browns, tans, shimmery pales, etc etc. I never wear this stuff, but totally could. But I guess I just dress for my eyes, colors that look good with green, and neutral/natural looking (like I can do smokey eye, but not in like metallic or green, but my neutrally shade). When do I wear the interesting colors. I wear these ones because I think they make me look prettiest. Should I change it up and match my outfits more or something?
Anyway, so that was my weekend. Eating wasn't good. But I watched a few Bulging Brides and stuff like that. One in particular basically had my starting stats. (granted she ate horribly currently and never worked out), in 6 weeks she lost 10 lbs and 2 inches off everywhere. (exactly what I want to do.) And she could do it in 6 weeks. I can eat like that and workout like that. I dunno, it sort of fired me up. Plus I've got a new goal lululemon top, my step training right away and really seeing the countdown to sis's wedding looming. Plus I'm super unhappy with how I look right now. I'm going backwards. So ready to be serious now.
Thursday night my brothers came over and helped adjust the satellite dish. And yes folks, we got tv. Hurray! So didn't do the cleaning and packing, until 9:00 when they left. Too busy playing with the PVR! And watching shows I didn't have access to! Like 30 Rock. It IS funny! I had no idea.
Anyway, so hubby still didn't let me know what he anticipated for the weekend. So I tried not to overpack. And I succeeded. I underpacked. Oh well. I can wear the same thing 2 days in a row. House got completly cleaned too. Our plane didn't leave until noon on friday. So friday mornign was changing linens and one last clean and pack.
Got a friend to drop us off at the airport. Waiting for a plane (especially before a trip) always feels soooo long. Plus with the whole liquids thing I get freaked out and extra extra thirsty but feel like I can't get anything since I can't bring it through security (and I'm too dumb to realize I can buy something on the other side). I have mini panic attacks about the thirsty thing. Dumb.
Anyway, the flight was nice and short, just an hour. Then we took a cab downtown to our hotel ($36, not too bad) and got to check in early. We just hung out in the room for 2 hours before our massage. Hubby is like that, just wants to wait and flip channels. BORING. but I dealt with it. read some magazines. explored the hotel without him. I should have brought my laptop, they did have a business center with computers and internet that we could use for free, but I still felt naked without google. How was I supposed to find anything?! I didn't even write down what airline our flights were on, because it was in my email. I either need to bring my laptop from now on, or get a blackberry or iTouch. I'm so dependant.
So massage was good. It was my girl's first day at the spa (she'd done it before, but just new there) and I think was nervous in front of the other girl. So her bedside manner and pre-massage stuff was a little weird, but once we got into it it was fine. Hubby had a sore back they were trying to workout, I just relaxed. the best part was the face massage. It was more like just a couple pressure points, but it worked so well. Who knew how tense your eyebrows are?
Anyway, so we got showered and changed after and went to the Keg to use our gift certificate (present from SIL for all the work we did at her wedding). So we had goat cheese appetizer, and I had a big margarita (we were walking) and then the steaks. very good. Even better because it was free!
So on our walk back we stopped at a Mac's and picked up some snacks for breakfast and the room and just went back and didn't really do much. I don't even remember a discussion about are we going to go out or what.
Saturday morning I got up early and just watched tv. A lot of house flip shows. Good stuff. Gave us ideas (we could SO do that, if only we knew what the housing market was going to be like. We're in a very strange place right here, house prices were shooting up, then the US housing problems came and everyone here felt like, well shouldn't we be having a problem too? but prices still are going up...) Anyway, figured out the c-train thing and headed to the game early (hubby wanted to see everything).
That was really fun. I dont' like hockey, and Calgary sucked. but the doing new things and eating hotdogs and nachos for $20 and seeing all the jerseys and little kids be excited. it was like going to the fair. The last 5 minutes of the game were exciting since we were only down 1. We got to see 2 fights (which I hated, I think it's so stupid), realized we knew one of the players (sorta, through a friend) and had lots of chances to win stuff (they were giving away player's jerseys that day). It was cool. Plus I took lots of pictures.
Then on the way home we stopped at a mall (TD center or something) and just wandered around a bit. Bought some books. I got a really good one and I'm going to be a millionaire because of it (and the book was only $7). Automatic Millionaire (by the guy who wrote Smart Women Finish Rich and all those books). I just have to convince hubby to let me be in charge of our money, not him. If only I could get him to read...
I think that's all the shopping we did there. We were feeling fairly low class to be at this mall. Everyone was walking around in suits and pencil skirts and stuff.
That's when everything broke bad. Hubby and I had a big fight. It was coming for awhile. Started about where to eat. He wanted chinese and then basically made me figure it out (which is what it felt like at least), I didn't really care where we ate so we just set out walking somewhere and then somehow everything was bad and I was crying on the street and he was mad because I wanted everythign planned and he liked to just not do anything (I kept asking, so what are we going to do tonight and he didn't say anything, because he didn't want to do anything. Which would be ok, but I wanted him to say, "stay in the room and veg" because then I could plan accordingly.) Anyway, we had our big fight but we out in the streets downtown and I didn't bring my room key so I had to stick with him anyway. So once we were into the silent treatment aftermath part of our fight, we found the Spaghetti Factory and ate there. I completely lost my appetite though so I had the side salad and then 1 bite of my lasagna. (good thing we had a fridge in the room). It was a very awkward supper. I texted through it, (we had issues with our puppysitters, they all fell through so we had to arrange to have new ones and substitute ones and part times ones, ugh).
We did make up and I think somethings are worked out that needed to be. (we were also fighting about the basement how I don't like anything he does etc.) all our fights were topics of course, and the issue was communication. We need to talk more BEFORE things happen so we can be on the same page for them. If I knew he wanted to hang out in the room all weekend I wouldn't be upset when that's what we did and he wouldn't be upset because I kept asking him what the plan was. If we agreed how we were going to lay out the basement and what finishes and blah blah blah we were going to use before we did it, then we'd both know what the other person was thinking and wanting etc. So hopefully we can remember that and put it into practice.
Anyway, so we had 3 hours of really big suck on our trip. oh well, we fight every trip we ever go on.
So then Sunday morning, I got up early, went to the gym. Was going to go for breakfast but I thought I'd feel like an idiot by myself, so I ate half my leftover lasagna in the room. Read my book, watched tv. waited for hubby to feel motivated enough to get out of bed so we could check out. We left our bags with the hotel and took the c-train to the chinook center mall (THANKS LAINEY!!!) where we felt much more comfortable instantly. We are such suburbanites. This place had a Zellers. We could breathe again. haha.
So hubby went off to sportchek and bought 10 jerseys which were on sale for buddies on his hockey team. I went off to Sephora and Shoppers and bought tons of makeup (and got free stuff, if you need any Elizabeth Arden stuff, go hit up shoppers for a free gift!). I didn't look closely at Sephora and now I'm kicking myself. I bought a primer but didn't realize the seal had been broken and wasn't full. Do you think I can return this to the online store or something? hmm...
Anyway, I also went to Lululemon and found a shirt on SALE. Seriously. I bought a tank for $24. It's a size 6, which gives me a bit of armpit bulge, but it can be a midpoint goal shirt for me. (last october I'd fit a 6). That and I found a black sweater/shrug/something also for cheap at just like Siren's or something like that. And that's all I bought.
So we head back to the hotel, pick up our bags, were going to take the train closer to the airport so the cab would be cheaper, but realized we didn't really have time for that. Manage to rearrange all our luggage (yes really 10 hockey jerseys) so we fit on the plane. Almost miss it while grabbing a bagel for supper (missed the first boarding call and all we heard was the final boarding call for our flight, eek!). Finally get home around 9:00 last night. I missed Daisy tons and I also wanted to see if my PVR worked (and it did somewhat, also broke a bit. Same thing this morning, some channels aren't coming in, not sure what the problem is). Anyway, I also organized all my make-up. I have too much. Especially considering I only wear a mineral powder, eyeliner, and mascara every day. I've got blushes and eyeshadows and all kinds of pencils and lipsticks and so on that I never use. I've already sorted out the stuff, I really never use and that's in a give away bag. (colors that look bad on me, stuff I just don't wear ever). Then I sorted out unopened packages that I'll put in the garage sale this spring. Again, bad colors or something. Then I sorted my every day things into one container in the bathroom, made a travel set of everything for going home. Put another travel/miniature set in the purse. Then put some special occassion stuff in another container and put that in the bathroom (in the back of the drawer). All the other special occassion, fun for a makeover or something (like all these random colors of eyeshadow) I put in a train case in my bedroom.
Anybody have an opinion on this? I wear basically the same couple colors of eyeshadow (when I wear it) sort of plum colors, some pinkish browns. Varying the intensity dependant on the occassion. I've also got greens, greys, brown browns, tans, shimmery pales, etc etc. I never wear this stuff, but totally could. But I guess I just dress for my eyes, colors that look good with green, and neutral/natural looking (like I can do smokey eye, but not in like metallic or green, but my neutrally shade). When do I wear the interesting colors. I wear these ones because I think they make me look prettiest. Should I change it up and match my outfits more or something?
Anyway, so that was my weekend. Eating wasn't good. But I watched a few Bulging Brides and stuff like that. One in particular basically had my starting stats. (granted she ate horribly currently and never worked out), in 6 weeks she lost 10 lbs and 2 inches off everywhere. (exactly what I want to do.) And she could do it in 6 weeks. I can eat like that and workout like that. I dunno, it sort of fired me up. Plus I've got a new goal lululemon top, my step training right away and really seeing the countdown to sis's wedding looming. Plus I'm super unhappy with how I look right now. I'm going backwards. So ready to be serious now.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
strange appetite
So now here it is lunch time, and I'm usually counting the minutes to lunch, and i'm not all that hungry. Except I am at the same time. My stomach is growling and ready to eat, but my mind isn't really. It's usually the other way around. I eat when my brain tells me it's time (either cause I'm bored, or it's time to eat or I know it will taste good or something). But now it's my stomach. and I don't feel like listening to it. odd odd odd. I will. I'll go heat up my food right now.
What am I eating? THis really good concoction I made up. I had cooked chicken breast I reheated. I was planning on making some kind of noodle bowl with shredded cabbage, because I happen to have a lot right now. But then saw the recipe I was going to use was for sweet and sour noodle bowl. Didn't sound good. So instead I sort of made up a recipe for a teriyaki noodle bowl. But then forgot the cabbage. duh. But it's still really good. I used bok choy for the first time ever. Just adds to the restaurant flavour. quickly steamed that with some onions, snap peas, a bit of green pepper (add the cabbage here!) some oyster sauce and some soya sauce. I also cooked some bean vermicelli in chicken stock and then mixed it in with the chicken breast shredded up. Yum! A bit too salty though. I gotta start getting low sodium stuff. Chicken broth and soy sauce was too much.
Hubby said it needed more vegetables. Neither of us could believe that.
On my way home I stopped at the grocery store to grab a few treats for the trip. Lemon Luna bars were on sale so I bought 4 of them. I've never had one before. Hopefully they're good.
tonight my little brothers are coming over to help point our satellite dish. They're tall so they'll be able to reach from the top of the ladder. I told them I'd cook for them if they tried. So I'm just thawing out burgers. That and a salad should be lots. Then we're also going to try and watch Lost from yesterday. It's so much more fun to watch with somebody else, they might remember things you don't and you can freak out at the same things (CHARLES WHITMORE WAS A SOLDIER ON THE ISLAND?!?!). Should be fun.
Then tomorrow we're off. We get in to Calgary around 1:00, I booked us a couple's massage at 4:00. So we'll probably just hang out at the hotel until then. Hubby didn't want to make any plans at all, just see what he felt like doing. (that so doesn't work for me, what am I supposed to pack? Are we going out? staying in? shopping? walking? touristing?) I'm hoping we can go to a movie since we've got gift certificates. Maybe the Keg if there's one down town (another gift certificate). If he wants to just hang out in the hotel room and watch tv that's ok too. (since I haven't had tv in almost a month it will be like a treat). Or I might ditch him and go make-up shopping. Cat's concealer post had me written all over it. (maybe find a Sephora? We don't have that here). Maybe I can even find weird grocery things we don't have in SK. Like ezeckial bread. (any Calgarian's know 'bout this one?)
Ok, so today is my friday. Hope you guys have a good weekend! I know I will!
What am I eating? THis really good concoction I made up. I had cooked chicken breast I reheated. I was planning on making some kind of noodle bowl with shredded cabbage, because I happen to have a lot right now. But then saw the recipe I was going to use was for sweet and sour noodle bowl. Didn't sound good. So instead I sort of made up a recipe for a teriyaki noodle bowl. But then forgot the cabbage. duh. But it's still really good. I used bok choy for the first time ever. Just adds to the restaurant flavour. quickly steamed that with some onions, snap peas, a bit of green pepper (add the cabbage here!) some oyster sauce and some soya sauce. I also cooked some bean vermicelli in chicken stock and then mixed it in with the chicken breast shredded up. Yum! A bit too salty though. I gotta start getting low sodium stuff. Chicken broth and soy sauce was too much.
Hubby said it needed more vegetables. Neither of us could believe that.
On my way home I stopped at the grocery store to grab a few treats for the trip. Lemon Luna bars were on sale so I bought 4 of them. I've never had one before. Hopefully they're good.
tonight my little brothers are coming over to help point our satellite dish. They're tall so they'll be able to reach from the top of the ladder. I told them I'd cook for them if they tried. So I'm just thawing out burgers. That and a salad should be lots. Then we're also going to try and watch Lost from yesterday. It's so much more fun to watch with somebody else, they might remember things you don't and you can freak out at the same things (CHARLES WHITMORE WAS A SOLDIER ON THE ISLAND?!?!). Should be fun.
Then tomorrow we're off. We get in to Calgary around 1:00, I booked us a couple's massage at 4:00. So we'll probably just hang out at the hotel until then. Hubby didn't want to make any plans at all, just see what he felt like doing. (that so doesn't work for me, what am I supposed to pack? Are we going out? staying in? shopping? walking? touristing?) I'm hoping we can go to a movie since we've got gift certificates. Maybe the Keg if there's one down town (another gift certificate). If he wants to just hang out in the hotel room and watch tv that's ok too. (since I haven't had tv in almost a month it will be like a treat). Or I might ditch him and go make-up shopping. Cat's concealer post had me written all over it. (maybe find a Sephora? We don't have that here). Maybe I can even find weird grocery things we don't have in SK. Like ezeckial bread. (any Calgarian's know 'bout this one?)
Ok, so today is my friday. Hope you guys have a good weekend! I know I will!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
I didn't eat supper
I like putting in headline like titles. it's funny.
Yeah, I didn't eat supper yesterday. I also didn't go to step like I was supposed to (well planned to). Well, what important thing did I do instead of EATING? nothing. I just wasn't hungry.
So I found that shoe sale yesterday, then immediately ran to my sister's house (in my car...) because I have no fashion sense and needed a second opinion. Got her 3 pairs of shoes, I got like 7 I think. CRAZY! total cost $150. The last pair of shoes I bought were $150 (they were my runners). I think that averages out well.
anyway, I was having some trouble with the Spring shoes website. It ate my order. So I had to reorder everything (I hadn't paid yet.) Anyway, so with all that, I ended up being late for the step class so I just didn't go. I went to the grocery store, bought a ton of chicken.
I accidentally bought the bone in chicken. I'd never done that before, so I had a hard time de-boning. Didn't know what to do. I think I wasted some meat. Oh well. I cooked up a few chicken breasts so I could have them for salads and recipes this week. Anyway. cooked it up. But it didn't seem appetizing to me. I really wasn't hungry. I was sort of upset that I missed the class and I was upset that hubby gave up on setting the satellite dish. So since I had no plans, I decided to try tuning the dish (anybody do this? got any good tips?). So I read the manual, grabbed a flashlight, put on my warm clothes, and climbed on the roof.
It was hard. Turns out I'm a little scared of heights. Hubby could reach the dish from the top of the ladder, I couldn't. So I boosted myself onto the roof. Tried to adjust it to the proper angles. But I couldn't hear the signal from the tv inside. (hubby wasn't home yet). So I climbed down off the roof (which was much scarier than getting up there) and went back inside.
I still wasn't too hungry, but was going to run on the treadmill. So I had an oatmeal-to-go bar and a glass of milk. that was my supper. Then I ran on the treadmill, hard. I did 2:1 intervals for a full 30 minutes (more like 32, I had to finish a song). I did 2 minutes, 0 incline, 6.0 to 6.5 miles/hr, then did 1 minute at incline 3, 7.0 miles/hr. I loaded up the MP3 player with new tunes that pumped me though it. I never do a full 30 minutes of intervals. Usually 20 minutes. So I was really happy with my workout.
Then I came upstairs, played with my puppies. Daisy (my dog) is a big bully. It's funny, I got each of them a big dog bone to chew on. As soon as Daisy hears Taz chewing, she drops her bone, and decides she wants Taz's. So poor Taz submits, then goes to Daisy's bone, no wait, Daisy wants that one too! So Taz comes and snuggles with me, Daisy gets jealous and jumps on my lap and pushes Taz out of the way. Mostly she just wants Taz to be miserable or something, actually wants Taz to wrestle with her and be more interested in her. Daisy also steals all the food, or treats or whatever. So I spent a few minutes sticking up for Taz.
Anyway, then I worked on that darn thesis again for a little bit and went to bed. Woke up, fairly hungry. Not as hungry as I thought I should be. But again, no time for breakfast because I have to deal with 2 dogs. So I make myself a hot chocolate, and grab another oatmeal-to-go bar. I hope I'm out of those soon, I love them and find every excuse to eat them. 200 calories isn't great!
Anyway, tonight I've got step. And gotta clean the house. We're gone on the weekend and SIL and BIL are going to stay at our house. Plus I have to pack for my weekend (remember this is the weekend we're going to see a Flames game!)
Yeah, I didn't eat supper yesterday. I also didn't go to step like I was supposed to (well planned to). Well, what important thing did I do instead of EATING? nothing. I just wasn't hungry.
So I found that shoe sale yesterday, then immediately ran to my sister's house (in my car...) because I have no fashion sense and needed a second opinion. Got her 3 pairs of shoes, I got like 7 I think. CRAZY! total cost $150. The last pair of shoes I bought were $150 (they were my runners). I think that averages out well.
anyway, I was having some trouble with the Spring shoes website. It ate my order. So I had to reorder everything (I hadn't paid yet.) Anyway, so with all that, I ended up being late for the step class so I just didn't go. I went to the grocery store, bought a ton of chicken.
I accidentally bought the bone in chicken. I'd never done that before, so I had a hard time de-boning. Didn't know what to do. I think I wasted some meat. Oh well. I cooked up a few chicken breasts so I could have them for salads and recipes this week. Anyway. cooked it up. But it didn't seem appetizing to me. I really wasn't hungry. I was sort of upset that I missed the class and I was upset that hubby gave up on setting the satellite dish. So since I had no plans, I decided to try tuning the dish (anybody do this? got any good tips?). So I read the manual, grabbed a flashlight, put on my warm clothes, and climbed on the roof.
It was hard. Turns out I'm a little scared of heights. Hubby could reach the dish from the top of the ladder, I couldn't. So I boosted myself onto the roof. Tried to adjust it to the proper angles. But I couldn't hear the signal from the tv inside. (hubby wasn't home yet). So I climbed down off the roof (which was much scarier than getting up there) and went back inside.
I still wasn't too hungry, but was going to run on the treadmill. So I had an oatmeal-to-go bar and a glass of milk. that was my supper. Then I ran on the treadmill, hard. I did 2:1 intervals for a full 30 minutes (more like 32, I had to finish a song). I did 2 minutes, 0 incline, 6.0 to 6.5 miles/hr, then did 1 minute at incline 3, 7.0 miles/hr. I loaded up the MP3 player with new tunes that pumped me though it. I never do a full 30 minutes of intervals. Usually 20 minutes. So I was really happy with my workout.
Then I came upstairs, played with my puppies. Daisy (my dog) is a big bully. It's funny, I got each of them a big dog bone to chew on. As soon as Daisy hears Taz chewing, she drops her bone, and decides she wants Taz's. So poor Taz submits, then goes to Daisy's bone, no wait, Daisy wants that one too! So Taz comes and snuggles with me, Daisy gets jealous and jumps on my lap and pushes Taz out of the way. Mostly she just wants Taz to be miserable or something, actually wants Taz to wrestle with her and be more interested in her. Daisy also steals all the food, or treats or whatever. So I spent a few minutes sticking up for Taz.
Anyway, then I worked on that darn thesis again for a little bit and went to bed. Woke up, fairly hungry. Not as hungry as I thought I should be. But again, no time for breakfast because I have to deal with 2 dogs. So I make myself a hot chocolate, and grab another oatmeal-to-go bar. I hope I'm out of those soon, I love them and find every excuse to eat them. 200 calories isn't great!
Anyway, tonight I've got step. And gotta clean the house. We're gone on the weekend and SIL and BIL are going to stay at our house. Plus I have to pack for my weekend (remember this is the weekend we're going to see a Flames game!)
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
OMG SHOE SALE!!!
Attention Canadians!!! Do you like shoes? Do you like 50% off shoes (or more?). Go to Spring and buy buy buy! (but don't buy the ones I want if there's only 1 pair left!) I'm probably shopping for the rest of the day and I'm not even a shoe girl!!!
want a workout? Build a basement
So I helped hubby last night before my exercise class. He had bought a bundle of 2x4s that were sitting in our driveway and had to go to the basement (a bundle is 50, I think they're 8 feet long). Wiki says that each weighs about 10 lbs. (I could only carry in 3 at a time, 4 was like juggling and I would run into things and they'd fall all over. My macho sexy hubby can carry 10 at a time - well so he says) I carried all of these in to my house and then down to the basement. That's 500 lbs! (right?) and that's like 15 trips up and down my stairs with them. My legs were sore before I even went to class. No not sore, tired.
Supper I had spaghetti. And I kept my serving so small. 1 big fork full out of the pot (like 1/3 of what you'd get in a lean cuisine frozen entree or something. Had it with some ground elk and canned pasta sauce. Finished eating that and I had the big nasty ball feeling in my stomach. Though it was much less than when I eat more. Not exactly sure what that means. I'm not allergic to pasta, I eat my homemade frozen lunches of spiral pasta and veggies and pesto with no pain. And I eat tomato sauce and elk meat in other things with no problems. Could there be a difference between spaghetti and other pasta? I guess my spaghetti was whole grain. Very confusing. But whatever the cause, I now accept that I get that feeling if I eat it. So I bet I don't eat it much any more. (which is alright, because I'm not the biggest fan anyway).
Any scientists out there? Can you explain the conservation of mass with respect to weight loss? Was thinking of this today (NERD ALERT!) and I think you must have to pee it out and sweat it out. Your body is like a furnace, burning food for energy, and in a furnace the wood fuel mass turns into smoke and soot and vapour right? So even though it's hard to imagine the whole mass of the log (minus the coals that don't burn) is equal to the mass of the smoke and ash though the volume is a whole lot different. Same thing with our bodies too I guess (volume being different...) I'm such a geek.
Tonight I'm going to that step class with my 2 weeks free at the one gym. Oh, I should say, yesterday in sculpt I used 10lb weights intead of 8 lbs like I usually do. HUGE difference. Particularly in squats, also some arms. Felt good though. Nice to push myself. Anyway, extra step class tonight. Maybe some other gym things too. But I've got stuff to do around the house tonight as well. Plus deal with those darn puppies (who didn't let us sleep again last night.)
Supper I had spaghetti. And I kept my serving so small. 1 big fork full out of the pot (like 1/3 of what you'd get in a lean cuisine frozen entree or something. Had it with some ground elk and canned pasta sauce. Finished eating that and I had the big nasty ball feeling in my stomach. Though it was much less than when I eat more. Not exactly sure what that means. I'm not allergic to pasta, I eat my homemade frozen lunches of spiral pasta and veggies and pesto with no pain. And I eat tomato sauce and elk meat in other things with no problems. Could there be a difference between spaghetti and other pasta? I guess my spaghetti was whole grain. Very confusing. But whatever the cause, I now accept that I get that feeling if I eat it. So I bet I don't eat it much any more. (which is alright, because I'm not the biggest fan anyway).
Any scientists out there? Can you explain the conservation of mass with respect to weight loss? Was thinking of this today (NERD ALERT!) and I think you must have to pee it out and sweat it out. Your body is like a furnace, burning food for energy, and in a furnace the wood fuel mass turns into smoke and soot and vapour right? So even though it's hard to imagine the whole mass of the log (minus the coals that don't burn) is equal to the mass of the smoke and ash though the volume is a whole lot different. Same thing with our bodies too I guess (volume being different...) I'm such a geek.
Tonight I'm going to that step class with my 2 weeks free at the one gym. Oh, I should say, yesterday in sculpt I used 10lb weights intead of 8 lbs like I usually do. HUGE difference. Particularly in squats, also some arms. Felt good though. Nice to push myself. Anyway, extra step class tonight. Maybe some other gym things too. But I've got stuff to do around the house tonight as well. Plus deal with those darn puppies (who didn't let us sleep again last night.)
Monday, February 2, 2009
flavoured drinks made me fat?!?
So I came to a realization (I'm going to say a while ago, but I never wanted to admit to it until now). I've been drinking more and more crystal light and green tea and other calorie free drinks that were not plain water. And my weight has been creeping up and up. I think there's a link there.
I've read articles explaining how drinking sweet drinks, even though they have no calories, can make you fat, because your body responds funny to them. (I don't really understand the science so I won't fake it, something about, your body doesn't know it's fake sugar, and it also makes you crave more sweets).
So I'm finally admitting it might be a problem and going back to my 1-2/day. (I was up to like 5 water bottles full of green tea/crystal lights per day, no water). I still like the 1/day in the morning (I don't drink coffee but want something to sip on the way to work). I put some benefibre in there and get a few extra g of fibre to help the old ticker, plus I like to think it keeps me a bit more full so I last longer before I need that morning snack.
So there, I'm doing that.
Edit - anonymous's comments made me laugh. I know it's not these 0 calorie drink that are packing on the pounds! I guess it sounds like that's what I think. I know it's not. But I do think it's contributing, both to my sweet tooth, and to my sense of "treats". It used to be a flavoured water was a "treat", now it's the regular, so I need a cookie for a treat. Ya know? Plus I think it makes me want to eat more and changes my tastes. So water it is.
This weekend I didn't eat great, didn't eat horrible. It was carbarific though. Lots of bowls of cereal and muffins and toast (seems like a lot of breakfasts).
I didn't do much. Finished most of my thesis edits. Was waiting for an email I got this morning, so should be able to finish completely today or tomorrow and send it off again.
Did a weight workout friday night. And interval running on Sunday. Nothing saturday. that's ok.
Didn't get a good sleep. We're puppy sitting SILs dog while they're in Vegas for the week. He's a good dog, but didn't like some of our house rules (like bed time, and no barking outside at 11:00 at night, and stay sleeping in the kennel quietly until we let you out in the morning).
Anyway, strength workout tonight. Pasta for supper (really gonna watch serving size, eat seriously appetizer amount, doing an experiment. I think I don't react well to pasta, no matter how much I eat, my tummy hurts. So gonna make sure I'm not just overeating.)
I've read articles explaining how drinking sweet drinks, even though they have no calories, can make you fat, because your body responds funny to them. (I don't really understand the science so I won't fake it, something about, your body doesn't know it's fake sugar, and it also makes you crave more sweets).
So I'm finally admitting it might be a problem and going back to my 1-2/day. (I was up to like 5 water bottles full of green tea/crystal lights per day, no water). I still like the 1/day in the morning (I don't drink coffee but want something to sip on the way to work). I put some benefibre in there and get a few extra g of fibre to help the old ticker, plus I like to think it keeps me a bit more full so I last longer before I need that morning snack.
So there, I'm doing that.
Edit - anonymous's comments made me laugh. I know it's not these 0 calorie drink that are packing on the pounds! I guess it sounds like that's what I think. I know it's not. But I do think it's contributing, both to my sweet tooth, and to my sense of "treats". It used to be a flavoured water was a "treat", now it's the regular, so I need a cookie for a treat. Ya know? Plus I think it makes me want to eat more and changes my tastes. So water it is.
This weekend I didn't eat great, didn't eat horrible. It was carbarific though. Lots of bowls of cereal and muffins and toast (seems like a lot of breakfasts).
I didn't do much. Finished most of my thesis edits. Was waiting for an email I got this morning, so should be able to finish completely today or tomorrow and send it off again.
Did a weight workout friday night. And interval running on Sunday. Nothing saturday. that's ok.
Didn't get a good sleep. We're puppy sitting SILs dog while they're in Vegas for the week. He's a good dog, but didn't like some of our house rules (like bed time, and no barking outside at 11:00 at night, and stay sleeping in the kennel quietly until we let you out in the morning).
Anyway, strength workout tonight. Pasta for supper (really gonna watch serving size, eat seriously appetizer amount, doing an experiment. I think I don't react well to pasta, no matter how much I eat, my tummy hurts. So gonna make sure I'm not just overeating.)
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