to blog or not to blog!
06 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
in GRE, Me, Nutrition, Random Thoughts
I have been doing a lot of thinking since my last blog post in July, debating on giving up the blog or not. Basically, I came to the conclusion to continue blogging but with lower expectations. The original purpose of this blog was help keep my focus on healthy living and journeys I take. I wanted to include all meals and healthy decision, but with a full time job, family and 2 kids, I don’t have the time to blog many times through out the day.
My focus will still be the same, but I’m not going to put pressure on my self if I don’t get a chance to blog. My life seemed easier to handle, with all it’s little surprises that came along the way, during the months I stayed up on my blog.
That being said, I am still striving to be healthy and focus on running. As my focus on eating healthy has turned away from counting calories to eating what’s best for my body, I have gained a few pounds, but feel better now then I did when I was losing weight. It took some time to adjust my diet to what my body really needs and to stabilize my weight within a healthy range. And I am still a work in progress.
I really enjoy learning about nutrition and can’t wait to start a masters program. My GRE’s are scheduled for October 15th and I am aiming to only take them once so I can start applying to grad school.
Breakfast: 2 farm fresh, hormone free eggs and a slice of tomato on thinly sliced rye bread
Mid morning snack: Coffee with a scoop of Amazing meal and a fresh apple.
On a roll
22 Apr 2010 Leave a Comment
in 60 Day Shed/Yoga, BFL Exercise Challange, GRE, Nutrition Tags: 60 Day Shed/Yoga, BFL Exercise, dinner, lunch, snack, walking
Day two of taking pictures of everything I ate. It’s not so hard to do, but does hold you accountable for what you eat and makes me want to be more creative with my meals.
I started the day with 4:30am wake up and decided to try out a 20 minute yoga flow from yogadownload.com. I have been reading about this site from other blogs, but was hesitant to try it. Basically, what you get is an mp3 audio file that talks you through the poses and a guide that can be printed out that visually shows you the poses. I am used to watching a video to demonstrate, so I though it may be difficult to follow along. But, I really enjoyed it and was very easy to follow and to stay focused especially since I didn’t have to keep looking at the TV. I look forward to doing more in the future and they fit perfectly for my morning workouts. They do have longer flows for those interested but the 20min ones are free. 
Breakfast – egg sandwich made with 2 slices whole wheat (Trader Joe’s) sour dough bread, 1 egg, 2 slices of tomato with a touch of strawberries on the side.
Second Breakfast – Thursday’s are my GRE class days so DP and I like to go to breakfast so we actually get to spend time together. Normally I would not have eaten breakfast yet but since my increase in appetite I was in need of some food. We went to a favorite local place – Elmo’s Diner
I had a bowl of fruit with a side of cottage cheese, half a cup of coffee, and a couple bites of rye toast.
I wasn’t hungry enough to finish the fruit so I saved it for a mid morning snack with some almonds.
Lunch – I have a stash of food at work and since it was getting low, I didn’t have many options. So I enjoyed a sandwich with almond butter and flax-seed bread with an orange on the side.
After Lunch I enjoyed a nice 1.5 mile walk to the campus gym, completed another lower body BFL workout and then walked the 1.5 mile back to my office. A nice way to relieve some stress. I did the same lower body work out as Tuesday but added the adductor and abductor machines. (just felt like my workout wasn’t complete for the day)
Lower Body:
Quad
- leg extension – 12@25lbs, 10@37.5lbs, 8@50lbs, 6@62.5lbs, 12@50lbs, 12@50lbs
Calf
- Angled calf – 12@62.5lbs, 10@75lbs, 8@87.5lbs, 6@100lbs, 12@87.5lbs, 12@87.5lbs
Hamstring
- Leg curls: 12@10lbs, 10@20lbs, 8@30lbs, 6@40lbs, 12@30lbs, 12@30lbs
Abs
- 12@75lbs, 10@87.5lbs, 8@100lbs, 6@112.5lbs, 12@100lbs, 12@87.5lbs
Lower back
- 12@87.5lbs, 10@100lbs, 8@112.5lbs, 6@125lbs, 12@112.5lbs, 12@112.5lbs
Adductor
- 12@62.5lbs, 10@75lbs, 8@87.5lbs, 6@100lbs, 12@87.5lbs, 12@87.5lbs
Abductor
- – 12@62.5lbs, 10@75lbs, 8@87.5lbs, 6@100lbs, 12@87.5lbs, 12@87.5lbs
Afternoon snack / Dinner – Whole foods salad bar – everything is always so tasty but expensive. I had a nice mixture of foods and even tried Kale for the first time.
I also picked up some dark chocolate covered almonds to enjoy later during my GRE class. (I actually ate about 10 of these, I love dark chocolate )
