I'll get some photos up tonight. My SodaStream is here. It actually came last night, but I am using a camera from work for blogging for now, and I actually was having some issues figuring the camera out. It's a 12.2 megapixels so clarity should be just fine. When I first started using the camera it was taking pics about as good of quality as my cell phone. Which 12.2 definately should not be like that. I also some how turned on the flash and tried resetting back to factory settings but still the flash was there so the pics were bad when I first started playing with it and only got worse with the flash. I couldn't tell the watermelon from the strawberries in some pictures. Now I know why some times I go to a restaurant and the menu pics are so horrible. That's kind of how my pictures were looking. But I found how to change the settings now, got the flash turned off, and now the quality is very good. Now I just need to find the cords and I'll get the pics uploaded tonight so you can see.
I do have 1 gripe about the camera. It's a GE, A1251 model. The factory settings are not ideal. So if you are pullig the camera out and taking pics for the first time, the quality isn't the best. Also, it's not very easy to find how to change the quality. I also found there were 2 things you have to change in order to change the quality. Both I stumbled upon. The camera was already set to best quality but then there was something else I had to change. I'm still not sure what it is exactly as the symbol didn't really mean much to me. Was an eye and then a 3 next to it. I changed it to 10 and the quality is immensely better. There is a menu botton and all sorts of settings. But the way you change some settings is not thru menu where all the other settings are.
The fruit in my fruit salad this morning wasn't very good so I'm going to turn it into a smoothie. The assortment isn't what I'm normally used to either. I don't normally get papaya/guava/mangoes in mine. I'm not actually sure the difference between them. I have 2 of the 3 in my fruit salad today. I still think mangoes make a much better smoothie than they do by themselves. My smoothie this morning is 1 whole banana, some orange juice (I'm at work and don't have any other way to sweeten so fruit juice it is) and then slices of pear, watermellon, oranges, and papaya/guava/mango.
There is a kitchenaid at work so I can make smoothies at work. It's really nice, I wish I could make them at home, but for now it will have to do.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Starting statistics
I still need to measure my arms, etc. Soon as I do that I will update this post. For now, here is where I am starting at. Not good, but at least I have a starting point. Looking forward to the end point but 1 day at a time I always say.
188.6 pounds
44.8% body fat
29.5 bmi
Not great. But it can only get better from here.
Today wasn't a great start for me. Coffee for breakfast and I didn't get me a journal this weekend to log my eating. I will get that this morning and hopfully my SodaStream will be here and I can get started tomorrow. I did bring some bananas to work and I will be using the blender here at work to whip up some smoothies, etc.
I had thought about starting last week, but last week was far too hectic to really dig in. I did finally get to the grocery store on Sunday and stocked up on healthy food for a change. So that's a good start. And while Monday has not been my better days, I did know what I was getting myself into when I went to bed late last night. Tonight will be much better. Even though we still have game night I will make sure we are getting to bed sooner. I thought it would just work itself out on it's own but it hasn't.
I'm not blaming or making excuses. Life happens. The reason for the disrupted sleep is that hubby hasn't been feeling well for about a month now. Since he isn't resting very well it means I'm also not getting well rested. It's both a worry a worry of not knowing what this might be, and just not feeling well so sleep is often not perfect. I blame myself, I thought maybe if he got some extra rest it would only help his body to repair itself. Unfortunately that trick only works on me. I read my body very well. When I notice the first sign of getting sick it's lots of bed rest for me. I learned this early on, if I can get a lot of OJ and sleep when I first get sick it never gets very bad for me. When I don't my illness lingers for a very long time. It never gets bad, but it just lingers for weeks or months until I finally have to intervene with an antibiotic. At that point the illness is well rested in my body so me getting more sleep won't help. The other thing that happens if I don't get enough rest so that my body can kick it, is it will become very bad. This only happens if it's sinus related or bronchial related. I'm prone to sinus infections and bronchitis. Those will both flare up really severely if I don't follow my normal regime. Anyhow, to make a long story short this doesn't work for hubby and all that a nap during the day does for him is cause him to want to stay up late. I've learned my lesson and that won't happen again.
188.6 pounds
44.8% body fat
29.5 bmi
Not great. But it can only get better from here.
Today wasn't a great start for me. Coffee for breakfast and I didn't get me a journal this weekend to log my eating. I will get that this morning and hopfully my SodaStream will be here and I can get started tomorrow. I did bring some bananas to work and I will be using the blender here at work to whip up some smoothies, etc.
I had thought about starting last week, but last week was far too hectic to really dig in. I did finally get to the grocery store on Sunday and stocked up on healthy food for a change. So that's a good start. And while Monday has not been my better days, I did know what I was getting myself into when I went to bed late last night. Tonight will be much better. Even though we still have game night I will make sure we are getting to bed sooner. I thought it would just work itself out on it's own but it hasn't.
I'm not blaming or making excuses. Life happens. The reason for the disrupted sleep is that hubby hasn't been feeling well for about a month now. Since he isn't resting very well it means I'm also not getting well rested. It's both a worry a worry of not knowing what this might be, and just not feeling well so sleep is often not perfect. I blame myself, I thought maybe if he got some extra rest it would only help his body to repair itself. Unfortunately that trick only works on me. I read my body very well. When I notice the first sign of getting sick it's lots of bed rest for me. I learned this early on, if I can get a lot of OJ and sleep when I first get sick it never gets very bad for me. When I don't my illness lingers for a very long time. It never gets bad, but it just lingers for weeks or months until I finally have to intervene with an antibiotic. At that point the illness is well rested in my body so me getting more sleep won't help. The other thing that happens if I don't get enough rest so that my body can kick it, is it will become very bad. This only happens if it's sinus related or bronchial related. I'm prone to sinus infections and bronchitis. Those will both flare up really severely if I don't follow my normal regime. Anyhow, to make a long story short this doesn't work for hubby and all that a nap during the day does for him is cause him to want to stay up late. I've learned my lesson and that won't happen again.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Looking forward to getting my sodastream
So I thought I would try and pass the time and found some really cool ideas for what else I can make into soda with My SodaStream! I'm really looking forward to making some fruit juice spritzers. I'm a child of the 80's and I can remember when there was selzer water in every flavor imaginable. I might be the only one that remembers, but if not that's cool. From time to time I buy too much fruit and it has to be frozen. Berries are great for this and I think they would make for some great soda's. I came across some really great video's, the following is one of them:
Job search
Well, we are in the process of job searching. At least hubby is. He's had a couple interviews a few months ago that didn't turn into anything, and 2 recent that he's really hoping work out. Also another place he really wants to work for is finally lifting their hiring freeze. It's not been lifted and they have had the freeze for a long time, so we shall see how that will turn out. Hopefully that works out as well.
That will affect where we end up living. I may end up working from home depending how long of a commute we end up having. Now that he has passed the bar it opens up a lot of jobs for him. There were a lot of positions that require admission into the bar in order to even apply.
We shall see how that turns out.
That will affect where we end up living. I may end up working from home depending how long of a commute we end up having. Now that he has passed the bar it opens up a lot of jobs for him. There were a lot of positions that require admission into the bar in order to even apply.
We shall see how that turns out.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Looking forward to getting My SodaStream
Most of the regular soda in the house has been drunk, so looking forward to getting my SodaStream this weekend or early next week. Doing well on my eating plan so far. I do need to get to the grocery store this weekend.
Exercise is another thing entirely. Problem is not getting enough sleep. I already know if I try to hit the gym on little to no sleep that I won't have much success. Which is really a bummer. I've been wanting to go but we are going to sleep every night this week at 12pm or 1am. And that isn't any good for anyone. I'm usually up around 7:30 which means I'm already struggling at work to stay awake or wake up in the first place.
There is really only 1 solution to this problem. Next week I am going to commit to getting 7 hours of sleep every day so that I can get my workout in. What this means is there may be days I don't get up until after 8am. Means I'm going to have to anticipate being late to work some days during the week but I can't not work out.
Today was a good day for eating. I still need to get a journal and start getting up some pics of what I've been eating. I'll get that info added. But today was coffee for breakfast. I know I shouldn't but I got like no sleep last night, and I ended up coming home and crashing for a nap for a couple hours. Lunch was much better. I had a roasted red pepper/tomato/mozzarella sandwich. with a pickle and chips. I did eat the pickle but not the chips. I will pawn off the chips on hubby. And then dinner was chinese food. Not the greatest, but it wasn't breaded (scallops and shrimp hunan style). For dessert I had some Amy's organic chocolate cake (just a smidge) and then I helped finish off hubby's ice cream.
Ok, so today wasn't good, at all. Good grief, come to think of it this week hasn't been very good. Oh well. I'll get to the grocery store this weekend so I end up with actual food to eat. And then I'll do good this week coming up.
Exercise is another thing entirely. Problem is not getting enough sleep. I already know if I try to hit the gym on little to no sleep that I won't have much success. Which is really a bummer. I've been wanting to go but we are going to sleep every night this week at 12pm or 1am. And that isn't any good for anyone. I'm usually up around 7:30 which means I'm already struggling at work to stay awake or wake up in the first place.
There is really only 1 solution to this problem. Next week I am going to commit to getting 7 hours of sleep every day so that I can get my workout in. What this means is there may be days I don't get up until after 8am. Means I'm going to have to anticipate being late to work some days during the week but I can't not work out.
Today was a good day for eating. I still need to get a journal and start getting up some pics of what I've been eating. I'll get that info added. But today was coffee for breakfast. I know I shouldn't but I got like no sleep last night, and I ended up coming home and crashing for a nap for a couple hours. Lunch was much better. I had a roasted red pepper/tomato/mozzarella sandwich. with a pickle and chips. I did eat the pickle but not the chips. I will pawn off the chips on hubby. And then dinner was chinese food. Not the greatest, but it wasn't breaded (scallops and shrimp hunan style). For dessert I had some Amy's organic chocolate cake (just a smidge) and then I helped finish off hubby's ice cream.
Ok, so today wasn't good, at all. Good grief, come to think of it this week hasn't been very good. Oh well. I'll get to the grocery store this weekend so I end up with actual food to eat. And then I'll do good this week coming up.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Swedish pancakes
I love em, but apparently I can't make them for the life of me. I used the box mix and a regular grill pan. Got a good small shape, and brown on the one side. But flipping was another story entirely. I tried a LOT of non stick spray but all they did was stick to everything. Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but maybe I'll remember and YouTube next time I attempt them. I don't really like really thick pancakes.
One thing I do really really like are the pancake mixes from Target. I know it's going to sound really odd that my favorite mix would be Target, but it's true. So far I have had the apple strudel and the apple caramel. Both are really good, very similar but very good. I highly recommend both. I have the raspberry chocolate one, but I haven't made that one yet. I'll update this post soon as I have more info.
I also need to find a better way to be keeping track of what I am eating every day. I need to start keeping a journal because I am eating all over the place and not having a good way to update what I'm doing as well. I'll get a journal to log everything this weekend and this Monday I will do much better about getting my food journal to you.
This week has been a bad week from an emotional perspective. Hubby has been sick for a few months now. They ran some blood work and a CT scan and they can tell there are vitamin deficiencies as a result of whatever is wrong, and they know something is wrong, they just don't have any idea what that might be. Nothing showed up in the bloodwork or catscan. That is both good and bad. It means that they have been able to rule out some things that it can't be, but it still leave some scary options of what it could still be. Trying not to think about that bridge until we come to it as George Wallace would say. He has another appointment in a week and hopefully we will know more.
Good news is in all the other chaos. Tomorrow is going to be a very exciting day. He has another phone interview. And bar results come out. Once he gets bar results and they will be great I just know it, it will open up a lot of doors as to what he can start applying for. Once those results come out he will be able to start applying for some jobs. I think he still has the admissions part to endure, and I need to find out what the time frame is on that, but tomorrow should be a really exciting day in any event.
One thing I do really really like are the pancake mixes from Target. I know it's going to sound really odd that my favorite mix would be Target, but it's true. So far I have had the apple strudel and the apple caramel. Both are really good, very similar but very good. I highly recommend both. I have the raspberry chocolate one, but I haven't made that one yet. I'll update this post soon as I have more info.
I also need to find a better way to be keeping track of what I am eating every day. I need to start keeping a journal because I am eating all over the place and not having a good way to update what I'm doing as well. I'll get a journal to log everything this weekend and this Monday I will do much better about getting my food journal to you.
This week has been a bad week from an emotional perspective. Hubby has been sick for a few months now. They ran some blood work and a CT scan and they can tell there are vitamin deficiencies as a result of whatever is wrong, and they know something is wrong, they just don't have any idea what that might be. Nothing showed up in the bloodwork or catscan. That is both good and bad. It means that they have been able to rule out some things that it can't be, but it still leave some scary options of what it could still be. Trying not to think about that bridge until we come to it as George Wallace would say. He has another appointment in a week and hopefully we will know more.
Good news is in all the other chaos. Tomorrow is going to be a very exciting day. He has another phone interview. And bar results come out. Once he gets bar results and they will be great I just know it, it will open up a lot of doors as to what he can start applying for. Once those results come out he will be able to start applying for some jobs. I think he still has the admissions part to endure, and I need to find out what the time frame is on that, but tomorrow should be a really exciting day in any event.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Coffee for breakfast
Ok, this morning I was bad. Not healthy by any stretch of the imagination. I had coffee for breakfast. I got a rasberry white mocha from Starbucks. There is 5 shots of syrup in a large coffee there, I like 1/2 & 1/2 rasberry and white mocha. I usually end up with 6 shots somehow. I don't really want THAT much sugar in my life, just the normal amount. 6 shots is a bit much. I actually would prefer if they can't figure out 2.5 shots of rasberry and 2.5 shots of white mocha that they just do 2 shots of each. Trust me, that is SO much better than an extra shot.
I digress. Anyhow, sadly breakfast was not great. We have our finance committee meetings every 3rd Tuesday of the month. I'm in early these days so getting a healthy breakfast these mornings is hard. I was up at 5:30 today and to bed my usual 11pm, so I don't think real well in the mornings on a good day. I usually don't wake until 10am. So 5:30 - 10 is a long time to not really be fully awake yet. So sadly for awhile I will probably end up having coffee for breakfast these days. Since it's only 1 day a month that I have the slip up, I'm okay with that. I just have to know that is my only day each month that I can let slip up. Lunch today will be much better. I'm in the mood for a hearty salad to make up for breakfast. Only an hour until most places open. Since I didn't get a pastry with my coffee and breakfast litterally was JUST coffee, I'm going to have an early lunch. I feel midly hungry already but nothing too bad just yet.
I digress. Anyhow, sadly breakfast was not great. We have our finance committee meetings every 3rd Tuesday of the month. I'm in early these days so getting a healthy breakfast these mornings is hard. I was up at 5:30 today and to bed my usual 11pm, so I don't think real well in the mornings on a good day. I usually don't wake until 10am. So 5:30 - 10 is a long time to not really be fully awake yet. So sadly for awhile I will probably end up having coffee for breakfast these days. Since it's only 1 day a month that I have the slip up, I'm okay with that. I just have to know that is my only day each month that I can let slip up. Lunch today will be much better. I'm in the mood for a hearty salad to make up for breakfast. Only an hour until most places open. Since I didn't get a pastry with my coffee and breakfast litterally was JUST coffee, I'm going to have an early lunch. I feel midly hungry already but nothing too bad just yet.
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