so a few minutes ago as i was refilling my water glass at work i was thinking about my coworker delorise. she had sauntered down the hall earlier complaining about how tired she has been lately and i realized that even though i literally do NOTHING almost all day long at work, i have actually been pretty alert throughout the whole day. not tired at all (for the most part). i have decided this is due to my healthier eating habits and for lack of anything else to do, i figured i'd brag.
did you know that greek yogurt has just a few more calories than regular, but more than twice the fiber? and that 1 heart-healthy serving of oatmeal can be ready in the microwave in less than 2 minutes? how bout that the comissary sells steamfresh bags of mixed vegetables for $1.25. i'm eating one now for lunch, which will fill me up for a good 3 hrs, and it has about 210 calories.
i've been really trying to get in my servings of fruits, vegetables and dairy each day, and going a bit easier on the grains. all my grains are whole grains, but that doesnt give me leave to have an entire week's worth of grains each day... amazingly enough.
i weighed myself a couple days ago, and even with the pre-monthly visitor bloatage, i was still down a couple pounds since last time, which was post christmas carnage. and since body image is always a battle for everyone, i have decided that my waist is getting smaller, even if i am imagining it, and that my stomach, which has long been considered my nemisis, isnt all that bad. now my thighs could use some work, but at least that battle isnt as extreme. so overall, i'm feeling good!
next week i will begin the exercise assault and i'm pretty excited about it. this is the first time i have done so well with healthy eating and by already seeing results, i am exponentially encouraged to see MORE results through exercise. in the grand scheme of things, i dont have "that much" to lose, i just need to beat my own laziness and get it going - which isnt too bad of a battle after all.
and for the record, the "Farmer's Blend of cauliflower florets, sugar snap peas, julienne carrots and dried cranberries lightly tossed in a butter sauce" is DELICIOUS!! :)
Thursday, January 13, 2011
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Monday, January 3, 2011
horay for 2011
so i saw that many of the blogs i follow had been recently updated and, although i dont have much to say and have absolutely no pictures to post, i thought i'd go ahead and give it a whirl anyway.
the last couple of weeks have been pretty awesome. i can't believe christmas has come and gone already, but it sure has. going into the holidays, i was pretty miserable and funky with the deployment looming over us, but as that was taken away from us at the last second, charles and i were both left with a feeling of extreme disorientation and did a bit of frantic scrambling to resurrect some christmas spirit afterall. he spent the week of christmas with his family, who did an AWESOME job of cheering him up. seriously, they came through for him better than i could have ever imagined. when i finally joined him back home, i found him happy and calm, more so than i've seen him in a long time. with that attitude, we were able to plow through the usual christmas weekend events with relative peace and truely had a wonderful time.
out new year celebration was pretty low key. we had a few friends over for snacks and they all had returned home by 11:30 or so, leaving us to sit on the couch in the dark snuggled under a blanket with the dog to watch the ball drop on tv together. it was perfect. i still can't believe how my attitude towards this year has changed so much in the last few weeks, but WOW. it's going to be a great year, one of the best. i just know it!
charles is still off work and his ear surgery will take place this wednesday. he is a bit nervous, as there are a number of scary complications possible. plus, we don't really know what it will be like afterwards. we're expecting vertigo and almost complete hearing loss in his right ear for the next 6 months. admittedly, the ear surgery is more pressing on an immediate level, he has also been reminded a time or two that he should use this time off work to persue medical assistance in the fertility department also. he assures me that once his surgery is done, he will work on that, but right now he only wants to worry about one at a time. of course that's completely fair, i'm just antsy.
he started work on the guest room downstairs. he scraped the popcorn off the ceiling and plans to seal it today. with any luck, we could be painting within a couple of weeks! i think the possibility of a baby this year has lit a fire under his butt with the home renovations. we can't renovate the designated nursery room until we renovate the guest room so that we have a place to put the crap that currently lives in the nursery room.
i'm still really struggling with my laziness, and especially after how much candy and party food and just JUNKola i have eaten in the last couple of weeks, i am feeling really fat and sluggish. i had intended to somewhat clear out the crap room with my elliptical machine in it this weekend, but most of that is christmas stuff and afgans and sewing stuff from grandma kelly's house. i dont know where to put a lot of it. i think i need to do a major house purge.
it has just occurred to me that i have typed a bit of a novel with absolutely no point other than updating a couple people on the lameness that is my life. it's almost like a one-sided conversation! bla/
the last couple of weeks have been pretty awesome. i can't believe christmas has come and gone already, but it sure has. going into the holidays, i was pretty miserable and funky with the deployment looming over us, but as that was taken away from us at the last second, charles and i were both left with a feeling of extreme disorientation and did a bit of frantic scrambling to resurrect some christmas spirit afterall. he spent the week of christmas with his family, who did an AWESOME job of cheering him up. seriously, they came through for him better than i could have ever imagined. when i finally joined him back home, i found him happy and calm, more so than i've seen him in a long time. with that attitude, we were able to plow through the usual christmas weekend events with relative peace and truely had a wonderful time.
out new year celebration was pretty low key. we had a few friends over for snacks and they all had returned home by 11:30 or so, leaving us to sit on the couch in the dark snuggled under a blanket with the dog to watch the ball drop on tv together. it was perfect. i still can't believe how my attitude towards this year has changed so much in the last few weeks, but WOW. it's going to be a great year, one of the best. i just know it!
charles is still off work and his ear surgery will take place this wednesday. he is a bit nervous, as there are a number of scary complications possible. plus, we don't really know what it will be like afterwards. we're expecting vertigo and almost complete hearing loss in his right ear for the next 6 months. admittedly, the ear surgery is more pressing on an immediate level, he has also been reminded a time or two that he should use this time off work to persue medical assistance in the fertility department also. he assures me that once his surgery is done, he will work on that, but right now he only wants to worry about one at a time. of course that's completely fair, i'm just antsy.
he started work on the guest room downstairs. he scraped the popcorn off the ceiling and plans to seal it today. with any luck, we could be painting within a couple of weeks! i think the possibility of a baby this year has lit a fire under his butt with the home renovations. we can't renovate the designated nursery room until we renovate the guest room so that we have a place to put the crap that currently lives in the nursery room.
i'm still really struggling with my laziness, and especially after how much candy and party food and just JUNKola i have eaten in the last couple of weeks, i am feeling really fat and sluggish. i had intended to somewhat clear out the crap room with my elliptical machine in it this weekend, but most of that is christmas stuff and afgans and sewing stuff from grandma kelly's house. i dont know where to put a lot of it. i think i need to do a major house purge.
it has just occurred to me that i have typed a bit of a novel with absolutely no point other than updating a couple people on the lameness that is my life. it's almost like a one-sided conversation! bla/
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