My last post was all about how normal things were going to continue and how I was going to figure out routines. I lied. Horribly. But not through any fault of my own.
A week ago yesterday I was laid off from my job. Yup. I'm unemployed! In some ways, this is a very very good thing. I am now free to spend all my time seeking the work I want to do and taking care of myself. I no longer have the tiredness/ constantly busy to contend with in terms of me eating right and exercising. Plus, I'm a lot happier, since I get to do the things I want to do all day. Yes, this includes job hunting.
Job hunting in this case doesn't suck because I actually very much know what I want and am quite qualified to do it at the entry level. I have also been given the opportunity through my mother and a few other random people to do some consulting work while I look for a job. So, while I may be unemployed and it's a little bit scary, I have a lot of opportunities ahead of me and i am not worried.
It helps that for the moment I am funded. I have severance pay through the end of March, and I have applied for unemployment (which will still be enough for rent and food).With that, I will remain afloat until at least June, by which point I should have found work.
Now, back to this whole Undoing College stuff that I now have time to address unabashedly.
My goals to start:
1) One exercise type activity a day, whether it's a little walking, some lifting, a yoga class or some blogilates, one thing a day. My activity today was a walk to downtown to get a new keyboard for my iPad (my laptop is currently on a healing trip to the Apple repair guys, and will hopefully return with a new logic board and no problems whatsoever).
2) Eat breakfast as soon as I can after getting up. It's just good practice because it gets my metabolism rolling, and when I'm trying to get my body to a better place, that's just a good idea.
3) Eat as clean as possible. I'm not very good at this because I love cheese, but I can make sure that 3/4 of the meals I make, whether they are for myself or for the whole household, are clean eating. Occasionally mac and cheese is just going to happen, but if I make an effort to plan the big meals as clean ones, all will be well in my eating world.
I am not going to get back into calorie counting just yet, as I said I was going to in my last post. When I am at home, I really don't eat very much. I have one big meal a day and the rest of the time is just little snacks. Unless I start having real trouble losing the weight, I am just going to eat as clean as possible and stop when I'm not hungry anymore. I think I should be alright.
Anyway, as of my last weigh-in I have already lost a little bit, so hopefully the progress will continue!
More as there is more! Planning on going to Yoga a bunch next week (I found a place that offers 30 days of unlimited for $30!).
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Friday, March 1, 2013
Thursday, June 28, 2012
On the bright side, breakfast!
As you all have probably figured out by now, I don't post when I haven't done anything. And really, I haven't.
The running didn't happen again. I was never presented with a timely opportunity. It bothers me, especially because I bought the game ZOMBIES. RUN! for my phone and I just plain old haven't had the chance to use it. I am trying to figure out ways to get myself to go out and run, or walk for exercise (rather than just to get someplace) or even do yoga. And I've been having a really hard time finding the time... or more like the motivation when it actually comes around that I have some free time.
I decided yesterday that I am going to do SOMETHING tonight. I discovered two things relatively close to me: a yoga studio in Hayward that has regular classes at 7:15 and a sweet introductory offer (as well as a yoga bootcamp, which I may want to try), and also that there are a couple parks within 5-10 minute drive of my apartment. I think that, generally speaking, I will be more inclined to exercise if I have someone there doing it with me,and I'm going to have a much easier time convincing Jon to come walk around the lake with me while playing ZOMBIES! than I will convincing him to come to a yoga class. So, I will try to convince him to come with me tonight to The park to go on a walk/ run / saunter. If he cannot be convinced (or his legs hurt from work) I will either go by myself or I will go to yoga at 715. Sort of nervous about doing that by myself.
In addition to all this...attempts at exercise, my diet has been changing around constantly. I discovered about a month and a half ago that I have become somewhat lactose intolerant. It's not violent, but it is uncomfortable, and so I have been attempting to rid my diet of lactose. Here is where you should be saying "whaaaat? but Kiersten you love cheese!" And it's true, I freaking love cheese. This is entirely why I can't go vegan, or even get rid of lactose completely. So, what I've been doing is drinking almond milk (which is delicious) and taking a pro-biotic lactase pill once a day when I eat dairy. It amounts to most days. It has helped. Even so, I have cut back on dairy generally speaking. When I think about my lunches, I find myself calculating 3 different ingredient possibilities: dairy, sugar and carbs. It's pretty much impossible to avoid all 3 unless you get a salad, and the last salad I had wasn't very tasty, and totally turned me off to the whole thing. Not good. So what I have been eating has been a series of burritos, japanese, chinese and lasagna, mixed in with low calorie but high carb frozen meals from Safeway. That's lunch. [On the very bright side, there's a Chipotle opening a block away from my work some time this summer, yay!]
Dinner and breakfast are different stories. Dinner is, for the most part, still pretty low carb. I make the chicken and zucchini bake at least once a week, and have at least one night where I don't eat much other than grapes and cheese. There are of course, also many nights where I just microwave frozen cheese ravioli from Costco (easy AND delicious) and cover it in marinara sauce of questionable sugar content. I mean, it's delicious and theoretically healthy (sometimes I add veggies too), but it's a complete failure if I'm trying to rid myself of sugar, carbs and dairy, since it has all three.
Breakfast! I have actually started eating it. Last week I purchased some oatmeal (a whole grain!) and Jon bought me some whole wheat bagels. I figure, on a scale of 1 to clif bar, they're about a 5. Plus I like them better. I eat the oatmeal soaked in cold almond milk. I cannot describe the creamy deliciousness, you should try it. I of course, put cream cheese on the bagels. duh.
This past weekend, before Pride, I made cream cheese crepes. There's a recipe in the YUM pins on my pinterest. They were good! Sort of hard to flip, but good! I recommend them.
Related to that, I got a blender! It blends things! Like smoothies and other smooth delicious things. I am excited!
IN CONCLUSION: I have been bad, but simultaneously good in weird ways. I'm trying to fix it and find some consistency. I have achieved breakfast! I will achieve exercise! Then I will battle lunch and achieve it too.
The running didn't happen again. I was never presented with a timely opportunity. It bothers me, especially because I bought the game ZOMBIES. RUN! for my phone and I just plain old haven't had the chance to use it. I am trying to figure out ways to get myself to go out and run, or walk for exercise (rather than just to get someplace) or even do yoga. And I've been having a really hard time finding the time... or more like the motivation when it actually comes around that I have some free time.
I decided yesterday that I am going to do SOMETHING tonight. I discovered two things relatively close to me: a yoga studio in Hayward that has regular classes at 7:15 and a sweet introductory offer (as well as a yoga bootcamp, which I may want to try), and also that there are a couple parks within 5-10 minute drive of my apartment. I think that, generally speaking, I will be more inclined to exercise if I have someone there doing it with me,and I'm going to have a much easier time convincing Jon to come walk around the lake with me while playing ZOMBIES! than I will convincing him to come to a yoga class. So, I will try to convince him to come with me tonight to The park to go on a walk/ run / saunter. If he cannot be convinced (or his legs hurt from work) I will either go by myself or I will go to yoga at 715. Sort of nervous about doing that by myself.
In addition to all this...attempts at exercise, my diet has been changing around constantly. I discovered about a month and a half ago that I have become somewhat lactose intolerant. It's not violent, but it is uncomfortable, and so I have been attempting to rid my diet of lactose. Here is where you should be saying "whaaaat? but Kiersten you love cheese!" And it's true, I freaking love cheese. This is entirely why I can't go vegan, or even get rid of lactose completely. So, what I've been doing is drinking almond milk (which is delicious) and taking a pro-biotic lactase pill once a day when I eat dairy. It amounts to most days. It has helped. Even so, I have cut back on dairy generally speaking. When I think about my lunches, I find myself calculating 3 different ingredient possibilities: dairy, sugar and carbs. It's pretty much impossible to avoid all 3 unless you get a salad, and the last salad I had wasn't very tasty, and totally turned me off to the whole thing. Not good. So what I have been eating has been a series of burritos, japanese, chinese and lasagna, mixed in with low calorie but high carb frozen meals from Safeway. That's lunch. [On the very bright side, there's a Chipotle opening a block away from my work some time this summer, yay!]
Dinner and breakfast are different stories. Dinner is, for the most part, still pretty low carb. I make the chicken and zucchini bake at least once a week, and have at least one night where I don't eat much other than grapes and cheese. There are of course, also many nights where I just microwave frozen cheese ravioli from Costco (easy AND delicious) and cover it in marinara sauce of questionable sugar content. I mean, it's delicious and theoretically healthy (sometimes I add veggies too), but it's a complete failure if I'm trying to rid myself of sugar, carbs and dairy, since it has all three.
Breakfast! I have actually started eating it. Last week I purchased some oatmeal (a whole grain!) and Jon bought me some whole wheat bagels. I figure, on a scale of 1 to clif bar, they're about a 5. Plus I like them better. I eat the oatmeal soaked in cold almond milk. I cannot describe the creamy deliciousness, you should try it. I of course, put cream cheese on the bagels. duh.
This past weekend, before Pride, I made cream cheese crepes. There's a recipe in the YUM pins on my pinterest. They were good! Sort of hard to flip, but good! I recommend them.
Related to that, I got a blender! It blends things! Like smoothies and other smooth delicious things. I am excited!
IN CONCLUSION: I have been bad, but simultaneously good in weird ways. I'm trying to fix it and find some consistency. I have achieved breakfast! I will achieve exercise! Then I will battle lunch and achieve it too.
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