February 8th, 2010
I’m a huge freaking slacker, shocker. And I forgot to do my measurements this morning, so this week’s will be up tomorrow (like you care, all 2 of you). I lost a whole .6 pounds which brings my January total weight loss to 5.8 pounds. Pretty good for not even trying to lose weight. When I take measurements I do my calf, thigh, hips, waist, chest, and arm, and I there hasn’t been a huge difference so far. This is probably because January was riddled with injury and illness and I didn’t exactly get to work out. My calves stayed the same, I lost .75″ off my thigh, .5″ off my hips, .5″ off my waist, gained .75″ on my chest (john is happy), and lost .25″ on my upper arm. Body fat percentage went from 27.80% to 25%. Overall, not too bad for just giving up booze and beef. I started the Couch to 5K last week and I just finished week 2 day 1 today, and I’m wiped. I’ve also been eating a lot of salads recently thanks to discovering a vinaigrette recipe that I just want to pour on everything.
You know how you hear about how exercise makes you feel better and releases all kinds of endorphins and blahbleeblah? I always think it’s a load of horseshit until I start working out, and then I remember how much better I feel. I spent most of January in a horrible funk for various reasons, and then last week John convinced me to go out for a run (okay, it was week one of c25k, so it was more like a walk with some light jogging here and there) and I’m so glad he did. I came home and immediately felt better and the rest of the week was much more bearable than the previous four had been.
Posted in healthy, mmm | 1 Comment »
January 26th, 2010
I had a glass of wine last night and another tonight and it’s so good. And I haven’t injured myself or felt sick at all today, so I guess it’s working hahaha. I also broke down and had some pig, too. Last Friday for lunch we went to this fabulous taco stand along the highway that looks completely sketchy but is SOOOO good and I had the chorizo burrito and died and went to heaven. I loves me some good chorizo! And then tonight I made spam musubi. Pig is a magical animal.
Posted in food, healthy, my life | No Comments »
January 25th, 2010
So I finally get to feeling well enough to start working out (no stomach issues, no bumps or bruises, cold almost gone), and what happens? I bash my toe into a chair like a bumbling fool and now it’s all black, blue, and purple and half of my foot is swollen. I can still wiggle it so I don’t think it’s broken, but it hurts like a mofo. I thought I was going to throw up it hurt so bad when it happened. And of course Catie is right there so I mostly held my tongue except for the initial burst of “motherfucker!!” and then just sat on the floor almost in tears saying “ow ow ow ow ow!!!!” She gets all curious and comes over “uh oh! uh oh! uh oh! ouchie?” she then offered to kiss it, so that helped. Anyway, there will be no running/shredding for a few days. Seeing as how all of this month’s health problems started as soon as I gave up drinking, I may need to have a beer tonight to see if that improves things. I was going to try to go 30 days sans booze, but at the rate I’m going I don’t think I’ll make it another 5 days without breaking my arm or something. I guess Guinness really is good for you after all.
No notable changes for Monday Morning Measurements seeing as how I haven’t been able to work out or anything. Overall inches stayed exactly the same, even though I lost .75 on my hips and gained .75 between my chest and calves. Weight is down .4 and body fat is up to 24.6.
Posted in healthy, my life | No Comments »
January 21st, 2010
yippee, I just got my period. so on the bright side, no more crazy pms eating spree. On the dark side, cramps from hell on top of the freaking exhaustion, coughing, stuffy head, congestion, cold misery. Fuck me to tears.
It’s weeks like this that make me wish it was 1998 again and I was living by myself in my teeny tiny studio apartment in Venice. I could call in sick and just take a few days holed up in bed with HBO and a blanket and chicken soup and recover and not have to talk to anyone or take care of anyone.
Posted in my life | No Comments »
January 21st, 2010
The past 8 days have been a freaking beating. I had the food poisoning last week, and finally recovered from that, only to be facing down yet ANOTHER freaking cold, and this one is easily the worst one I’ve had this season. And as an added bonus, Catie has the same cold so we’re both miserable, and I got a whole 5 hours of sleep last night. She’s been home from school the past two days and I’m about to lose my freaking mind. I haven’t had any energy to cook or clean, I’ve had no time to job-hunt, and whenever she’s napping all of my energy goes into sitting on the couch watching tv or checking email. In theory, I should “sleep when she sleeps”. Yeah, that’s a great idea in theory, but in practice, not so much. I actually tried it today, the sleeping when she sleeps. She went down for a nap at 1 and I layed down at 1:05. I finally stopped coughing and was about to fall asleep when she woke up coughing at 1:55. Great. Short nap + groggy mommy = a fantastic afternoon at the homestead. I totally snapped at John, too. He takes a break from work to come out and sit on the couch and watch tv with us for a few minutes and I’m all “either take over so I can sleep or go work. I’m on no sleep and I’m about to lose it”. Awesome wife-ing right there.
He’s a good hubster/daddy though, and took off work at 4 to take over so that I could take a shot of NyQuil and get some sleep. I woke up starving around 10:30 so I had some food, took some more NyQuil, and now I’m off for more sleep.
No food/workout updates because I’m a big pile of coughing misery over here.
Posted in my life | No Comments »
January 18th, 2010
Not a whole lot changed this week, and it appears that the food poisoning and the pms gorging kind of canceled each other out. I gained .25″ on my hips and boobs (thanks, pms!) and lost a half inch on my waist (thanks, food poisoning!). My weight stayed exactly the same, and my body fat went down to 24.4%. Thrilling.
Posted in healthy, mmm | No Comments »
January 17th, 2010
The past few days have been out of control. Yesterday I had three cokes (and I hadn’t had soda since Dec. 31), all I could think about was ice cream and oreos. And I don’t even like oreos that much. Grossman was kind enough to go to the store and get me some today and I sat here with a huge bowl of ice cream and about 15 oreos watching Buffy like some sad lonely crazy cat lady. A few days ago a ransacked the pantry looking for any kind of cake mix because I NEEDED it, dammit! Luckily, I found an ancient, battered box and made some molten lava cupcake thingies before I killed someone. I can’t wait to weigh myself on Monday morning to see the damage I’ve done. Of course, I did have food poisoning earlier this week so I probably lost a little bit and therefore haven’t really gained all that much. Guess we’ll see.
In other news, I’m now on day 17 of no booze, and since my resolution was only for two weeks I totally rocked it! I’ve also been beef and pork free for 17 days (much to Grossman’s chagrin, ha! j/k), but I’m still eating chicken. But that’s two resolutions that I’ve totally kept and it’s not even February yet. And I wanted to do the no booze/no meat thing because I thought that would make me feel healthier or some shit, but so far the past 17 days have been a fucking beating. First there was the whole falling like an asshole thing for a couple of days (the skin on my knee is finally scabbed over and itching like a mofo), and then there was the food poisoning, and NOW I have a freaking cold AGAIN. I sound like Kathleen Turner and I’ve got a wicked sinus headache and I can’t stop coughing. I’m fairly certain that I felt a lot better back when I was a drunk carnivore.
Posted in healthy, my life | No Comments »
January 11th, 2010
I found my tape measure last week, so this morning starts week #2 of “Monday Morning Measurements”. Catie helped and would like you to know that her belly is a round little ball of 19.5″. There was much tickling and wiggling involved, so that may or may not be entirely accurate.
Anyway, back to my favorite topic: me! ha! Over the past week of healthy eating, no boozing, only water and tea-drinking, I’ve lost a total of 1.25″ overall (mostly from my hips and thighs), my body fat went from 27.8% to 25.1%, and I lost 4.8 pounds. I’m not trying to lose weight though, so I’m not really all that excited about that number. Especially since it’s due to what I like to call the Biggest Loser Effect. You know what I mean… how every season of Biggest Loser there’s a HUGE weight loss during week 1? Yeah, that’s because the contestants finally stopped eating 5 large pizzas washed down with a gallon of coke on a daily basis and drank water and ate vegetables for a solid week for the first time in years. So, I’m attributing my weight loss to the fact that I stopped treating my body like a cesspool and fully expect to gain it back once I start working out and building muscle.
Posted in healthy, mmm | No Comments »
January 10th, 2010
I’ve yet to start any of the working out stuff, primarily because I’m black and blue. I’ve fallen more times in the last 10 days of sobriety than I ever did when I was a drunk. Seriously, this week has been ridiculous. I’ve twisted my knee/ankle twice, fallen up the stairs, fallen down the stairs, and fallen off of a chair (granted, that last one was an accident waiting to happen because I was standing on a wheely office chair to reach something on a shelf).
I’ve been doing well with the “one new recipe a week” thing. This week I made onion bread, a new version of butternut squash soup, spinach onion & parmesan soup, and french garlic soup (a twist on french onion). I’ve cut back on meat consumption and we’ve gone primarily vegetarian with some chicken thrown in. I’m on day 10 of no booze, no soda, and no coffee; I haven’t given up caffeine completely, I’m just having green tea instead.
I’ve also got my office unpacked and organized, and my closet is almost done as well. Once that’s done I’ll be ready to start painting and I’ve already got some color ideas in my head.
Posted in food, resolutions | No Comments »
January 6th, 2010
no. no no no. NO!! no. no. no. NO NO NO NO NO NO noooooo!!! NOOOOOOOO!!! No. no. no. no. NO! NONONONONONONONO!! no. NO! no. nonono. NOOOOOOOOOO!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »