January 2009
63 posts
ugh
went in to work. stress continued. no b-fast. no lunch. ate a bowl of cereal before hitting the gym for an hour. 6 miles between machines!
dinner = comfort food for super stressful day. chicken nachos (half the plate) and a swirl from the mont.
yes, i hate me too.
i need a schedule! we’ve been out of work since monday afternoon, so the prolonged weekend feeling is dangerous! ...
how to save calories:
have super stressful work situation erupt while you’re at home, icebound. the stress will render you absolutely hungerless and probably burn some calories to boot.
remember when i had a job?
The Bacon Explosion - Take Bacon. Add Sausage.... →
i didn’t eat this last night, but i did escape to chili’s, because it was the only restaurant open. i maybe had a beer, a few chips with salsa, and one quarter of a burger, no fries. i still feel like shit, though.
snackalicious
not sure what’s up for dinner yet, so i’m having breakfast at 5.50pm. 1 cup of organic raisin bran with 1% organic milk. just to tide me over for a bit.
Hello, amorous congress stick.
Ice Day Lunch: pierogies with onions and peppers.
put a pot of water on to boil, remove frozen pierogies from freezer or backyard
thinly slice half of one yellow onion
thinly slice half of one yellow and one red pepper
saute peppers and onions in a tiny bit of olive oil until soft and browned
drop the pierogies into the bioling, salted water, let cook for about five minutes or so
drain the...
this isn't working
i’m still too chubby. faster! faster! i suppose i gave myself an easy start, but i need to ramp it up now that february is looming. i’m drinking detox tea with lemon at the moment and plan to eat minimally for the day, since it’s a winter wonderland out there and i clearly won’t be expending much energy unless i can get a little action. zing! but seriously, last night...
idignantgestion
something is making me queasy. too much cheese? i dunno. my natural, but probably harmful remedy is hot lemon water. hope i feel better soon.
ugh. i ate too much. as per usual.
today i hightailed it home after the ice man cometh to the OKC. it took me 1.5 hours to go about 17 miles. by the time i got home, i was fucking ravenous. fortunately, the bf made a load of whole wheat yesterday, so i sliced some up and made a snow day (ice in this case) lunch of grilled cheese and tomato soup. preservative free, small slices of bread with natural cheese and scallions grilled...
i hate myself and other stories
so, yesterday morning (sunday), the bf and a friend and i decided to hit up some brunch. there aren’t a lot of good choices in norman, so being the 65 year olds in training that we are, we went to cracker barrell. FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST! what is wrong with me? i won’t even tell you what i ate, because it’s too shameful. i’m typing this with my eyes closed out of...
oh, hey, i didn't see you standing there.
hey gym,
yeah, i meant to call you this weekend, but things were just crazy! yeah, i had a lot to do what with miss america, the sag awards, sitting listlessly on my couch and consuming enough calories to satiate pre-surgery starr jones. so, i’ll call you this week. promise! i mean it this time. well, i mean, i’ll text or leave a FB wall post or something. be in touch soon. ...
the new cookbooks are in! →
i need to eat more veggies. dousing them in olive oil seems to be the best bet for me. hopefully, i can learn a thing or two from this book.
Saturday and such.
Yesterday was ok. Went out for lunch (gasp) somewhere I do enjoy, but I ate half of my portion and ordered water. This turns out to be quite money saving. I gave the leftovers to the BF, so I had no temptation of chowing down on them later. No snacks all day because I just wasn’t hungry. Dinner was made by the BF, pizza blanca with homemade crust and ricotta with a bit of garlic infused...
new plan!
if i must go out to eat, and i must, then go to places i don’t really like! then i don’t eat much! that was the inadvertant plan friday night, and it worked. well done, me.
foody food
Breakfast was low fat vanilla yogurt with low fat granola.
Lunch was at the Caf today. I hit up the salad bar and had a little piece of the veggie calzone. Thankfully it was heavy on peppers and olives and light on cheese.
Still no DC.
i maybe might have eaten a little bit of this... →
lunch today
yeah, so, we had lunch meetings, which meant ordering sandwiches. but i got a salad! and i didn’t even eat it all! also, i had a little yogurt+granola snack mid morning. no dc. sparkling water only. kudos, me.
Behind.
lunch yesterday = fresh rolls from vietnamese place.
dinner = chipotle chicken sandwich from panera. 2/3 of it. i swear!
water only, no dc.
oh, also one gin and tonic.
i am ashamed
to admit what i’m about to consume for dinner. at 9.19pm. it’s this thing my mom always used to make, because she grew up poor, and then was poor, so i grew up poor. anyway, it’s called tomatoes and spaghetti. elbo macaroni (wheat, in my case) with a can of tomato sauce. yup. seriously. and some butter, smart butter in my case. and s&p. it’s filling. maybe if...
i visited the snacketeria today
for a post lunch pick me up, i had bear naked fit granola with stonyfield farms organic lowfat vanilla yogurt - about enough to fill half a coffee cup.
predinner consisted of organic no sugar added apple sauce. mmm.
MLK Monday
And then there was Monday. Lunch was eaten out with my dad and the BF. I can’t even utter the words, but they are cheeseburger and fries. But no diet coke. Also, the small versions of those thing. But, no gym this afternoon. Yay me! Dinner was leftover pasta from last night (spaghetti with marinara - both homemade at Victoria’s). I am a slobby lump of a person. Even my ears...
Holiday weekend continued.
Saturday night I made shrimp pasta = shrimp sauteed in olive oil with garlic and red pepper flakes, make pasta, reserve cooking liquid, mix shrimp and pasta together along with S&P, parsley and lemon juice. I ate one bowl full. Too much. Mostly because I’d toasted the BF’s bread with smoked mozz for a little appetizer. STUPID! But it gets worse. Because then I went out and...
Good Health FAIL!
I have good intentions, I do. But then I crap out. I crap out like Jeremy Piven. I crap out like the Sooners in a BCS bowl. I just plain crap out.
This weekend, I did a few things that were smart(ish), then the rest of the time I fucked up all of the previous weeks’ half-assed attempts at not being a lard ass anymore.
Sabado.
Today, so far, I’ve had some seltzer water and a bowl of organic raisin bran. I’m currently at the laundromat waiting for the wash cycle to finish. This morning, I finally tackled the closet that haunts my dreams. Ever since I was a little (skinny) kid, I’ve hated to put my clothes away. Sure, I’ll wash them. I enjoy folding sometimes. But I will simply not put things...
Friday was yesterday.
b-fast = 0
lunch = baked potato with too much crap on it to be good for me.
dinner = taco nite! but i tried to take it easy. ate some fat free refrieds and a bit of avocado.
no liquor, no dc.
40 minutes on treadmill at gym.
Let's talk about lunch, baby.
Actually, let’s not. Also, let’s not talk about the gym because I didn’t go. And let’s certainly not mention the whole wheat Annie’s mac and cheese I ate for dinner (w/organic milk).
Let’s talk about how I’m still Diet Coke free.
Let’s not talk about how it’s only January 15.
turdsday
egg in a hole.
one piece honey flax whole wheat bread, cut cener out with mouth of jar, lightly smart butter light butter one side, drop in preheated pan. crack eggland’s best egg into hole. let cook until you can flip, flip and let cook another minute or so. sprinkle egg w/s&p. dig in. runny yolk and grilled bread goodness. i decided it was ok since the bread has fiber, the...
Yoga Schoga
Tonight, Shain and I went to yoga. It was a nice change from my self created “work outs” at the Y that consist of me walking/running and lifting an errant weight or two every now and then. Yes, I should get a trainer. I know this.
When I lived in Northampton, MA, there was a bikram yoga studio that was pretty sweet. I thought that every place would have one, but turns out...
Mmm... Hendricks Gin...
Shain bought me a bottle for Christmas. Last night, after hitting the gym with both of my parents, SIDEBAR: yes, I went to the gym with my parents last night. Over a year ago, my dad had a close call with super high blood pressure and all of the other things that come with an aging Oklahoma heart. He had to take it easy for a bit, but now he’s been poring over Dr. Oz and all...
Back in the saddle again...
no b-fast, forgot.
lunch = turkey chili with a dash of grated cheese. with pesticides. ew.
snack = applesauce.
drink = water.
Cheese - it's grosser than you think. →
Say it ain’t so.
What the? What? No! It goes in the hole in your...
I put a lot in the hole in my face tonight. After hauling ass to the gym after work (had to work around the OU basketball schedule if I wanted my mom to go) and actually breaking a sweat, the BF and I talked ourselves into going to our favorite Indian restaurant in Norman, Himalayas. Seriously, go there. We are halfway done with our punch card. Right, so two plates later, I hate myself. The...
snacketeria, here i come
so, i went to the university cafeteria for lunch in spite of bringing my healthy, homemade turkey chili for lunch. i replaced that good decision with turkey on wheat with mustard, lettuce and my nemesis, cheese. i also had a half bowl of cereal with skim milk. and iced tea. not too bad. no snacks today and only water to drink. also, i tried to stand up and do squattish type movements...
Guess who just called me?
Dave, from the Cleveland County YMCA. You see, in spite of paying the same membership as the super snazzy gym across town where all of the sorostitutes in training go to run off the calories of the sugar free gum they ate last week, the Y has some serious drawbacks. The most dreadful is the severe lack of channels to watch while busting ones ass on a cardio machine thing. HGTV, Discovery,...
And we're back
to granola and yogurt for b-fast. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Oh for fucks sake.
DInner = total crap.
The BF and I are both tired and irritable. He’s working from home and I’m already dreading work tomorrow, although, there’s really nothing to dread except I have to put on clothes that are not pajamas for a few (consecutive) hours. In the meantime, we cannot decide what to eat for dinner. Shrimp with garlic, red pepper flakes and lemon? The leftover...
And now it's Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
I woke up feeling all gnarled up from the excesses of the weekend. Had to pop some tums it was so bad. Perhaps this is a good thing and I’ll remember it next time I stuff my face and pretend I’ve forgotten what my limbs are for.
In the meantime, the BF made pizza dough, so we had a 2pm lunch of cheese pizza (olive oil instead of sauce, homemade pizza dough, smoked mozz with...
Everybody's working for the weekend. Except me. ...
Saturday morning we headed to a high school debate tournament where we would be judging. Don’t ask. They are notorious for shiteous food, and I should’ve brough my own. But I am dumb, so you know. We take a break and sneak out to Starfucks. I get tea and the lowfat blueberry coffee cake crap, but don’t eat all of it. Lunch is a taco bar. I eat a handful of chips with...
Everybody's working for the weekend. Except me.
So… about that. I was doing really well! For like four days. Although I have still had no soda of any kind, I did take a serious detour on the road to healthville this weekend. I blame my mother. I took Friday off because I needed to leave town to visit my friend in Tulsa for the weekend. I thought I’d brighten my mother’s day, which is usually marred by the actions of...
same song, second verse or whatever
Fiberone bar for breakfast. About to heat up a microwaveable sweet potato for lunch. The plan is to walk/run two miles at the work gym later this afternoon since I’ll eat while I work. I get an unpaid hour daily…
wagon + me = fall off of.
not entirely. but i didn’t go to the gym today. i think that stupid lean cuiscrap made me sick. i had a headache that parked itself behind my eyes all afternoon. all i could do when i got home from work was watch scrubs, which was on abc. i wasn’t sure if i’d totally lost it or not, but turns out, it’s back and has changed networks. so right, i didn’t go. i...