I put garlic and chili powder on everything.
Well, not my oatmeal.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Planning ahead.
This week’s workouts…
Sunday – Piloxing and Zumba
Monday – Circuit at home, one of these perhaps. Focus on extra abs.
Tuesday – Rest
Wednesday – 30 of cardio and yoga
Thursday – Circuit training or rest
Friday – Some type of class and add in some leg training.
Saturday – Wildcard!
Right now my workouts feel like a giant wildcard. No order. No routine. I’ve been trying to follow a plan and stick with it but I’ve really only been able to stick with being active. I’ve been picking around Jamie Eason’s LiveFit 12-week trainer. I’ll run bits and pieces of the couch-to-5k program. Ultimately, I’m listening to my bod and trying not to strain my achy joints. This in turn keeps me from getting bored on the step mill.
On a hilarious and serious note, I was gifted with a shake weight for my birthday. I don’t know that it will truly tone my arms with the promised “dynamic inertia” but I totally feel a burn while shaking. The best thing about it is the reflective/mirror tape on the end.
Sunday – Piloxing and Zumba
Monday – Circuit at home, one of these perhaps. Focus on extra abs.
Tuesday – Rest
Wednesday – 30 of cardio and yoga
Thursday – Circuit training or rest
Friday – Some type of class and add in some leg training.
Saturday – Wildcard!
Right now my workouts feel like a giant wildcard. No order. No routine. I’ve been trying to follow a plan and stick with it but I’ve really only been able to stick with being active. I’ve been picking around Jamie Eason’s LiveFit 12-week trainer. I’ll run bits and pieces of the couch-to-5k program. Ultimately, I’m listening to my bod and trying not to strain my achy joints. This in turn keeps me from getting bored on the step mill.
On a hilarious and serious note, I was gifted with a shake weight for my birthday. I don’t know that it will truly tone my arms with the promised “dynamic inertia” but I totally feel a burn while shaking. The best thing about it is the reflective/mirror tape on the end.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Date Night!!!
So my love is going away next week and I’m working the days leading up to his departure so we decided to go on a special date night last night! We went to the waterfront in New Bedford not expecting too much. Some areas aren’t that great… What we found was a quaint, artsy downtown area and had a fabulous dining experience at the Waterfront Grille.
Being vegan and dating an omnivore, going out to dinner can sometimes be more trouble than it is worth. If we go to a vegetarian restaurant, my love’s palate isn’t truly on the same page as mine, so it is usually pizza or some other “safe” food for him. If we go to a restaurant with meat, one hundred questions later and a lot of apprehension, it is a salad, pasta, or cheese-less pizza for me. Although going out is more about the company than anything else, I really want to eat something I’m not going to cook at home. I want to be impressed and I don’t want my company to be left behind.
When deciding where to eat, I knew I wanted some veggie sushi. This is usually safe choice for us both – I get my sushi, he gets something he really enjoys. But still having only one or two options can get boring. To my surprise, Waterfront Grille had a vegetarian section to their menu with a make it vegan option. !!!! I was so excited. My sushi ideas turned from ordering a boat of sweet potato maki to having my maki as an appetizer and having an actual entrée from their vegetarian menu. Service was great, atmosphere wonderful. Can’t wait to go back when it is warmer and sit on the deck. Also can’t wait to explore New Bedford’s cobblestone streets.
After happy, full bellies, we went to see American Reunion. In a way, I feel like I grew up with those movies. When the first two came out, I was graduating high school and then coming back to home life after college. Then it was wedding season during American Wedding. Fun times!
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The big three oh.
I’m thirty now. Depressing thirty. Another decade down the tubes, one more closer to our demise. Now if reading women’s magazines, I must consult articles regarding the “over thirty” group of women. I have to stock up on a different category of anti-aging creams and make up. Do I have a different body type now? Can I still shop at Forever 21? I don’t have a home of my own. I don’t have a graduate degree, although I’ve been in school long enough to have a Dr. in front of my name. I don’t have a Mrs. in front of my name either. No children. No tales of backpacking across Europe for a year in my twenties. I am just another tired old gal carrying around broken dreams and failed attempts to fit into this mold of an adult in this American dream…
Or am I?
People are really interested in how one feels about turning thirty. I feel great.
Turning thirty means a time for me to reap what I’ve sowed. I worked my ass off in my twenties, in all aspects of the term “work.” I went to school and worked towards a degree I thought I wanted. I worked up to a career I thought I wanted. I left that career realizing I needed to work on more than work and school. I moved. I worked on my health and having fun. Then I got sick. I realized my soul needed work too. Through working on my soul and my body through yoga and mindfulness, I was able to heal. I went back to school to work towards something I knew would satisfy me mind, body, heart, and soul. Then I realized I needed to work on my heart. Once I was able to let go of all the negativity and truly open myself to what I deserved, only then I could be ready for what was to come. My heart was heavy in other aspects of society and there are so many things I’d like to stand up and fight for, but I started with one. I work everyday since I made that decision and fight with my fork. I still had school and work. I worked and studied and studied to work. When that day finally came, about two months before my thirtieth birthday, the day I finally felt free, I cried.
Sure, I still have to “work” but everything I did in my twenties set me up for an amazing journey in my thirties. No, an amazing journey for the rest of my life. So yes, I still have to go to work, I still must challenge myself mentally, physically, and emotionally, I still have to mind my health, I still have to put the efforts in my relationships, I still feel overwhelmed, and I still have to clean the house. But turning thirty? There is nothing I cannot face.
Or am I?
People are really interested in how one feels about turning thirty. I feel great.
Turning thirty means a time for me to reap what I’ve sowed. I worked my ass off in my twenties, in all aspects of the term “work.” I went to school and worked towards a degree I thought I wanted. I worked up to a career I thought I wanted. I left that career realizing I needed to work on more than work and school. I moved. I worked on my health and having fun. Then I got sick. I realized my soul needed work too. Through working on my soul and my body through yoga and mindfulness, I was able to heal. I went back to school to work towards something I knew would satisfy me mind, body, heart, and soul. Then I realized I needed to work on my heart. Once I was able to let go of all the negativity and truly open myself to what I deserved, only then I could be ready for what was to come. My heart was heavy in other aspects of society and there are so many things I’d like to stand up and fight for, but I started with one. I work everyday since I made that decision and fight with my fork. I still had school and work. I worked and studied and studied to work. When that day finally came, about two months before my thirtieth birthday, the day I finally felt free, I cried.
Sure, I still have to “work” but everything I did in my twenties set me up for an amazing journey in my thirties. No, an amazing journey for the rest of my life. So yes, I still have to go to work, I still must challenge myself mentally, physically, and emotionally, I still have to mind my health, I still have to put the efforts in my relationships, I still feel overwhelmed, and I still have to clean the house. But turning thirty? There is nothing I cannot face.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Jumping.
I don't jump well. But I'm trying. I think its mostly my gimp knee.
Yesterday I did this workout...
It isn't too difficult but I walked/ran 3 miles before hand. I wasn't jumping very well the first part. Part two I hated everything and said every curse word in the book. My sister was coaching me from the couch, "Butt down! Push it! Come on! 10 seconds!" That helped.
I always feel good when I've completed the workout. It is hard to get mad at Zuzana, she seems so nice and she is pushing herself through the workout too. But during the workout, that is another story.
The fresh air yesterday was glorious!!! My skin felt great and my lungs felt clean and as if they were expanding more. Maybe it is my choice of profession that makes me particular observant of air reaching the ends of the bronchial tree...
Now I have to figure out which workout to do today.
Ugh.
Yesterday I did this workout...
It isn't too difficult but I walked/ran 3 miles before hand. I wasn't jumping very well the first part. Part two I hated everything and said every curse word in the book. My sister was coaching me from the couch, "Butt down! Push it! Come on! 10 seconds!" That helped.
I always feel good when I've completed the workout. It is hard to get mad at Zuzana, she seems so nice and she is pushing herself through the workout too. But during the workout, that is another story.
The fresh air yesterday was glorious!!! My skin felt great and my lungs felt clean and as if they were expanding more. Maybe it is my choice of profession that makes me particular observant of air reaching the ends of the bronchial tree...
Now I have to figure out which workout to do today.
Ugh.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Motivation.
This music video is my motivation for today.
The theatre geek/director in me does not believe JLo's words for a second. You can feel how awkward she feels singing the lyrics. She def does not want to have "party people" especially "in the club." Pitbull on the other hand, I believe him. But it is a great pump you up song for a workout and her body is amazing. DANCE PARTY!
Time to sweat!
What are you doing to get off your duff today?
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Challenge?
Oh those.
So February, I attempted a salad a day challenge. I succeeded for a little over a week and had unique salads - not just your lettuce, carrots, toms, cukes, and house dressing. I was ready to continue on when I got some advice from my massage therapist, who is well versed in Chinese medicine. "No more salad. Your small intestine cannot handle it." I didn't even tell her I was vegetarian/vegan, never mind any mention of my salad challenge! Oh and I have IBD. She was right. I was actually uncomfortable in the belly. She was scarily right about so many things by just reading my meridian lines. And now she moved and I won't be able to see her again. I only get to spoil myself with such trips to massage therapists around Christmas & my birthday cause I beg for gift certificates, but now I DON'T KNOW WHO TO SEE! Basically I was receiving an acupressure treatment. I really think there is so much behind eastern medicine.
Well this was about challenges initially. Now it has become about my needs. But I guess these challenges are for my needs too.
MARCH, I was thinking I could make this some sort of Motivational March 30 day challenge. It will go into April, as there are not 46 days in March. I am a better person when I workout and school really turned the fitness portion of my life upside down. I found BodyRock.TV through other healthy living blogs and initially I was scared. But I'm a tough broad so I've been doing some of these home workouts, and now I'm going to challenge myself to do them 5 days a week, for 30 days.
Other fitness thingys and goals? Yoga - I've dropped the ball. But that actually worked out to my advantage. I'll tell ya why some other day. I've been logging miles, but I haven't updated on the side there. I'm going to run outside tomorrow for the first time this year!!! So excited.
Sorry this is boring but I'll leave you with a sexy Zuzana video. This workout kicked my butt. I couldn't finish it the first time I tried it, but today = success!
So February, I attempted a salad a day challenge. I succeeded for a little over a week and had unique salads - not just your lettuce, carrots, toms, cukes, and house dressing. I was ready to continue on when I got some advice from my massage therapist, who is well versed in Chinese medicine. "No more salad. Your small intestine cannot handle it." I didn't even tell her I was vegetarian/vegan, never mind any mention of my salad challenge! Oh and I have IBD. She was right. I was actually uncomfortable in the belly. She was scarily right about so many things by just reading my meridian lines. And now she moved and I won't be able to see her again. I only get to spoil myself with such trips to massage therapists around Christmas & my birthday cause I beg for gift certificates, but now I DON'T KNOW WHO TO SEE! Basically I was receiving an acupressure treatment. I really think there is so much behind eastern medicine.
Well this was about challenges initially. Now it has become about my needs. But I guess these challenges are for my needs too.
MARCH, I was thinking I could make this some sort of Motivational March 30 day challenge. It will go into April, as there are not 46 days in March. I am a better person when I workout and school really turned the fitness portion of my life upside down. I found BodyRock.TV through other healthy living blogs and initially I was scared. But I'm a tough broad so I've been doing some of these home workouts, and now I'm going to challenge myself to do them 5 days a week, for 30 days.
Other fitness thingys and goals? Yoga - I've dropped the ball. But that actually worked out to my advantage. I'll tell ya why some other day. I've been logging miles, but I haven't updated on the side there. I'm going to run outside tomorrow for the first time this year!!! So excited.
Sorry this is boring but I'll leave you with a sexy Zuzana video. This workout kicked my butt. I couldn't finish it the first time I tried it, but today = success!
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