A Changing Lifestyle: January 2013

Monday, January 7, 2013

Meals and Workout 1/7

Meals of today:

Breakfast

Nonfat Chai Tea Latte with no water from Starbucks.

finally back in the swing of things now that work is starting :)

Lunch

1 slice of artichoke pizza from Artisan Pizza Kitchen.

Dinner (Cinco de Mayo- my weakness)

1 soft beef taco
A couple handfuls of tortilla chips

But hey, I didn't get queso ;)

2 8 oz. margaritas on the rocks

Workout of the Day:

oops again..... maybe the more I blog "oops" the more I'll feel bad about it.. I really need to work on this part.

Sooo..not my best day

Meals and Workout 1/6

Meals of today:

Breakfast

Didn't really have a breakfast. First day that I missed breakfast since I started trying to be healthy :/

Lunch

1/2 of an Italian sub from Harris Teeter

It wasn't very good though so I don't recommend it.

Dinner (at Shula's with the DTH peeps!)

1/2 of a NY Strip Steak
Seasonal veggies
Some spinach artichoke dip with the yummiest chips

Workout of the Day:

Ran the 2 mile loop around my house in Chapel Hill
3 reps of my standard arm workout including arm curls and something over the back of my head that I don't know the name of

Sunday, January 6, 2013

I have this weird love-hate relationship with grocery shopping and I'm not too sure what to do with it. I love just strolling up and down the aisles and finding fun, new things to make/eat but then I accidentally end up spending like $500 and that is no bueno. I also have a really bad habit of going grocery shopping while I'm hungry. Isn't that breaking the #1 cardinal rule of grocery shopping? I think so.

As I was moving back into my house today, I realized that there are NO groceries here. Our Brita filter wasn't even full. But, I didn't go grocery shopping at all. Why? Because I am procrastinating. I hope to find a bunch of recipes that all use relatively similar ingredients so that I can just buy those but not eat the same thing for 7 days in a row. Thoughts? They are welcomed.

Tonight is our work dinner/party, so I get a free meal and lots of fun! I am looking forward to getting back into the swing of things and having to be at work each day really makes it feel like the beginning of the semester.

Happy Sunday, and go Skins! Hail!!

Meals and Workout 1/5

Meals of today:

Breakfast

Scrambled eggs: 1 egg, 1 egg white

Handful of blueberries

Lunch

1/2 Salmon BLT+A sandwich from GCC. (Bacon, lettuce, tomato, AVOCADO)
Fresh fruit cup

Dinner (Engagement party for my fabulous friend and her fiance)

Hot dog without the bun and mustard
Barbecue Lays
A slice of chocolate cake
Not the healthiest meal, but I tried!!

Workout of the Day:

I didn't get a chance to workout today with all my packing to go back to school, the drive to school, and then the drive to/from Cary. Weak excuse, I know....

Friday, January 4, 2013

Back to Work!

Welp, looks like I forgot to keep up with my blog posts over the holidays! That's alright though because I maintained a (relatively) healthy lifestyle even though I wasn't blogging. Yesterday, I went skiing with two of my absolute most favorite people in the entire world for about 6 hours. Lightly skiing for 6 hours = 2109 calories burned. WIN.

I have been trying to keep up with some form of exercise every day, whether I'm at the club or just running in my neighborhood. I downloaded this cool app that will play music off your iPhone/iPod that keeps up with the pace that you are running. The only thing is if I start to slow down, so does my music, which I try to use as a motivator. But, there are up/down arrows on the app that you can use to raise the pace, just like on a treadmill. If that's not working for you or you are on a treadmill where your phone sits still, you can just listen to the "Classic Rock Power Workout" Pandora station. It plays the best pump up rocker jams.

As for eating, this is always the most difficult part for me. I would love to be able to just workout every day and have that be the magical solution to all my health and weight concerns. Unfortunately, that's not how it works. My friend introduced me to a new app that I have been using to track my meals using calorie counting. I have done this before and when I keep up with it, it really works! PLUS, it's free which is a bonus over WeightWatchers. You just plug in all the food you ate for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. You also plug in your exercise, which it has divided into cardiovascular and strength, and track your water intake. Any exercise is negative calories taken out of your daily allowance to lose x amount of pounds each week. My favorite part of this is that at the end of the day, you "Complete This Entry" and it tells you how long it would take for you to reach your goal weight if every day was like that day.

Even though I wasn't blogging through the holidays, I was avidly taking pictures on my fabulous iPhone camera so you folks can at least see the meals I was proud of (or thought looked pretty on the plate).