Little Earthquakes

Productivity

I give myself a 50% for the week.  I can do better, but I'm not going to beat myself up for that.

The good news?  Stuck to the dinner plan every day but Thursday, when we ordered pizza.  That was my husbands cooking night.

I didn't work out this week.  Not once.  

I ate a lot of junk food.  Nighttime.  Munchies.  I have got to find something better to do with my time at night.

Yesterday I started painting my bathroom, a chocolate brown, hoping to get the vanity and trim. painted white this week as well.  

Meals for the week:

Monday: spicy mongolian beef, steamed basmati rice, veggie (still have all of the ingredients)

Tuesday: chicken, baked potato, steamed veggies

Wednesday: (soccer night) tacos

Thursday: spaghetti, salad

Friday: chicken burgers, salad

Exercise plan: two good workouts in

Also work on coming up with a schedule and strategy regarding night time snacking.

On a side note, I live right outside of Vancouver, BC.

I am especially proud to be Canadian right now.

Go Team Canada!

Planning

Objective...not to eat out as much.  This will be hard as I have two outings, but at least it's a start.

Monday: Steak fajitas

Tuesday: Chicken burgers and veggies for the kids and hubby, I'll be having a dinner meeting and will make a healthy choice and not my favorite, the Legendary Platter, from White Spot.

Wednesday: chicken, roasted potatos, steamed veggies

Thursday: spicy mongolian beef, basmati rice, steamed frozen veggies (I need to remember to marinate the steak thursday...this is a new recipe made with flank steak that I haven't tried before.)

Friday: Sticky chicky, tortellini with alfredo, big salad.  We live in Vancouver and this is opening ceremonies night for the 2010 olympics.  We are going to have a big dinner with the best chicken wings ever, and some other appies.  The tortellini/alfredo is mainly for the rest of the family.  I don't eat a whole lot of it.

Saturday: repeat of chicken burgers for the kids.  We have a date!  Going out to eat!

The Munchies

Why am I hungry?

What am I hungry for?  What am I covering up?

My life is fabulous.  I am generally a happy, positive person.  Yet, if that were 100% true, I wouldn't be sitting here at my current weight, living my current sedentary lifestyle, filled with screens.

Hours and hours of screens.

Hubby and I went out for lunch today.  I had a delicious teriyaki rice bowl (and a lemoncello lemon drop martini...yum) then I didn't eat dinner, and while I normally do and then I'm just in a snacky mood, but tonight because I didn't eat dinner that was the last time I ate, 9 hours ago.  So I'm genuinely hungry. 

And afraid to go into the kitchen.

How to Begin?

How to start a blog?

When you are starting a blog to focus on your journey to a healthier, happier, you, how do you start it? By listing everything you hate about your current lifestyle (exhaustion, lethargic, self conscious, to name a few), or do you go all deep as to why you are the way you are, some long hidden childhood trauma that led you to overeating 25 years later? Do you confess to the world that you just really *lo-ho-hove* food, and combine that with poor metabolism you have a recipe for type 2 Diabetes.

I guess the route I'll choose is to go positive, and talk about what I'd like to accomplish on this blog.

1. Learn more about myself, and not be afraid to share it

2. Love myself, flaws included

3. Teach by example in teaching my children the above, especially my daughter.

4. Treat my body with respect. It gave me beautiful children. It got me this far in life. It is my temple. At least, I'm going to try to remember this when there is NOT a tray of Christmas treats nearby. And the cigarettes and vino aren't helping.

5. Exercise. I used to be a bad ass. I could run faster, jump higher, than just about anyone. I want to be a bad ass again.

6. While I could sprint, I was never a distance runner. I want to run a 5k this year.

7. I want to cook more, eat out less. Eat more fruits and veggies, try new recipes.  Less processed foods, find out where our food is coming from.  

8. Doing active things with the fam would be fun. I think we could all get into geocaching, hiking, things like that.

9. Move more. Turn off the tv. Listen to some bitchen tunes.  Dance.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.  ~Kurt Vonnegut