Game night

Breakfast: 3 frozen waffles, with syrup with last of Kefir yogurt.
Snack: 3 chocolates (oops, I actually had 5 chocolates yesterday but I forgot) with water
Lunch: 2 hard boiled eggs with salt, water
Snack: 1 bottle of coke
Dinner: salad with romaine, iceberg, red bell pepper, and onion with sesame seed dressing, mashed potatoes, rice with gravy, pork ribs with a dry rub that I made up myself.


The dry rub was very salty. I used Kosher salt, white pepper, turmeric, cumin, coriander, thai curry powder, and garam masala. Next time, I will leave out the cumin and use less salt. From the drippings, I made a little gravy with milk and butter.


Today, I sat around and did nothing for a long time. Then I did my laundry, dropped off my dry-cleaning, and called Mom & Dad. I made dinner and I made enough for everyone. So Laura invited her friend Jeff over. After dinner, we played a game called Carcassone, which is named after a town in France, where Laura happened to live for 5 months. It is the oldest walled city in Europe and was used in movies like Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. It's a fun game, kind of like Risk but easier. I won one round.


No exercise to speak of, but I did walk from the laundrymat to the dry cleaners which was about 20 minutes total.

Sorry, I missed yesterday.

Yesterday was interminably long.
Breakfast: 1 Egg McMuffin, 1 hash brown, orange juice
Snack: 1 bottle of coke
No lunch:
Dinner: 1 salad with shrimp, squash, hearts of palm, tomatoes and dressing, coke, cup of mushroom bisque, with bread and butter. I really didn't like the salad.

The reason that I didn't have lunch is because I only gave myself one break while at work yesterday. And I was at work from 8 am to 10 pm.

Yes, I'm crazy.

Today was less long.
Breakfast: fruit salad with melon, strawberry and pineapple, provided at company meeting, decaf coffee with cream and Splenda
Snack: Bagel with cream cheese, 2 hard boiled eggs, apple juice
Lunch: Chipotle burrito (same as before) with coke.
Dinner: shrimp with beans and rice, 1 beer, and water
I actually had a lot of water today. And I left work a little early.

Thankfully, I have tomorrow off.

They didn't believe that I minored in Chemistry.

Ooooooooohhhh. Today was bad.

Breakfast: 3 swigs of kefir yogurt before work, water. 2 donuts at work, small coffee with cream and splenda, 1 glass of crystal light ice tea. (provided for the manager planning meeting)

Lunch: 2 pieces of sbarro sausage pizza, 1 bottle of coke, 2 glasses of lemonade. (provided for the manager planning meeting also)

(the manager planning meeting was a lot of sitting.)

Dinner: TGIFridays sirloin steak with mashed potatoes and wild mushroom gravy, 2 blue moon beers, 2 glasses of water, and a chocolate peanut butter cheesecake. (necessary after the manager planning meeting)

But I got to hang with Jessica and Kati, so that was fun.

Linda owes me lunch.

Ack! I forgot that I had a piece of gingerbread for breakfast on Saturday morning. Maybe that's why I was so hungry. Got my metabolism going.

Today
Breakfast: 3 frozen waffles with syrup (no butter), water, 4 swigs (or thereabouts) of Kefir yogurt; 2 slices cheddar cheese

Then I got called to work. One of my employees called out and we were too busy to be down a person. Not to mention, two people can't do it alone anyway. The worst of it is that I missed the volleyball game. Man, it was busy at work!

Lunch: plain croissant, bottle of coke

Dinner: Chipotle burrito - tortilla, rice, black beans, bell pepper, onions, fresh tomato salsa, steak, sour cream, cheese, guacamole, and lettuce; 1 bottle beer

I love Chipotle. But I swear the service almost sent me thru the roof after the day I had. I think maybe the beer calmed me down a little.

Snack: three pcs Dove chocolate, water

Are the makers of Dove chocolate the same people who make Dove soap?

Loopy

Breakfast: A couple of swigs of Kefir yogurt; a ham & cheese croissant; small coffee with half and half and Splenda.

Today I taught 4 kids how to tie their shoes. It was exhausting. And really, mothers shouldn't try to help.

Lunch: (McDonalds) cheeseburger, small fries, apple dippers with caramel, large coke.

My roommate came to see me at work and was completely blown away by how awesome we are.

Snack: bottle of water

I ended up staying at work until 8 pm. OMG, my feet hurt. And while I didn't technically walk around the mall, 10 straight hours of selling shoes (not to mention the hour and a half of teaching kids to tie their shoes) has to count for exercise.

Dinner: a can of Ravioli, water.

I'm beat. I'm going to bed.

Bloccori

Ok, so today, I didn't get to eat until about 1:45 pm. I know, I know. I should eat breakfast. Well, normally I'm able to get away and get a coffee and muffin around 10 or 11, but my opener was late this morning and it was busy in my dept. So I didn't go. I normally can't go to lunch until about 2, but I switched my lunch with hers and went a whole 15 minutes early (whoopee.) I wasn't actually that hungry but I kept zoning out and couldn't concentrate. When I finally went to lunch, I couldn't stop yawning. I almost took a nap in the food court. I don't know why; I got a lot of sleep yesterday and last night. I'm guessing it's just that afternoon siesta feeling. But it's 9:30 pm now and I just want to go to bed. Maybe my body is trying to regenerate and I need massive amounts of sleep. Maybe I'm eating something that's making me sluggish. Here's today's diet:

Breakfast: We covered this - NONE. (Oh no, wait, I had 2 slugs of the Kefir yogurt before leaving for work.)

Lunch: Salad with carrots and orange bell pepper, 1 slice cheddar cheese, about 2 tbsp of dressing (which I packed myself - very proud of this); 1 small meatball sub with provolone cheese (bought this in the food court - not so proud of this). 1 20 oz. bottle of regular coke, 1 large M&M cookie.

Snack: 1 bottle of water; 1 pc of snickers candy stolen from Audrey's candy bowl. Another 20 oz. bottle of coke for the car ride home.

Dinner: 1 serving of beef & broccoli (about 1 1/4 cups) stir fry (homemade) with rice (about 3/4 cup), 2 glasses of water. Used up the frozen broccoli that no one seems to remember buying. Made enough for all the roommates.

So I guess I haven't exercised this week. But on the verge of falling asleep in the food court, I consider myself lucky that I made it back to work after lunch. I will have one more glass of water before going to bed (verrrrry soon) and I will try to take that walk at lunch tomorrow.

Enh, we'll see.

You'll feel a slight pressure.

Ok, so Jen wanted me to do the Self Challenge and I signed up for it and then ...

I didn't check in for like 2 weeks. So today I finally check in and ...

it's so slow. And there's so much stuff on it, I can't be sure what it wants me to do. I gather that the point it that it will tell me to do stuff every day and I should do it. Also, I can record each day what I ate and any exercise that I did. There's like a little blog section but ...

I already have a blog. So what I will do is ...

use this blog to share that stuff with you. I will update it each day so that Jen can make sure that I'm doing it. Honestly, I just keep forgetting to check in with the other website each day. I want to have better habits and exercise more. I really do. In fact, I just had a regular check-up with my doctor and (aside from a quasi-confirmation that the other doctors are idiots) her recommendation is that I need more exercise. Also, I have low good cholesterol and I can fix this with exercise and a diet rich with Omega-3-or-4-or-5-or-something. So ...

My goal is ...

Increased exercise: at least 2 30-minute workouts a week. I know this isn't a lot but it's doable and can be upgraded later. I can achieve this goal by walking during my lunch break at work when the weather is cold. Just walking around the mall. The great thing about this is one of the other managers wants to do it with me. She kinda has a goal of more exercise as well. So hopefully, we can hold the other accountable. When the weather warms up, hopefully I can go back to walking along the river and maybe increasing it to 3 or 4 times a week. Also I plan to reintroduce salmon into my diet. I've been kinda off salmon every since moving back from Japan (can you blame me?) I happened to have bought an AMAZING grill pan at Ikea (during the birthday weekend) and it would be awesome for salmon. It would be salmawesome. So if you have any good salmon recipes, please share.

To start it off:
Thursday, Mar 4
Breakfast:

• 1 1/2 bowls of Capn Crunch cereal with 2% milk

Lunch

• Fried Egg sandwich with 1 slice cheddar cheese, 1 egg, on 2 slices whole wheat bread.

Etc.

• 2 glasses of water so far.
• a couple of swigs of my Kefir yogurt

No exercise yet, but I am going to clean the bathroom, do laundry and go to karaoke! Exhausting.

UPDATED! Didn't do laundry but I did clean my bathroom AND my room. Oh, and we went to karaoke.

Snack

• another bowl of Cap'n Crunch
• 2 slices of cheddar cheese

Dinner

• 5 pieces of tuna nigiri sushi
• 6 pieces of salmon maki
• 1 pc shrimp tempura
• 2 pc sweet potato tempura
• 1 pc broccoli tempura
• 1 beer
• 1 coke (laced with rum so that we could sneak it into the karaoke place)
• 1 bite of Jillian's Snickers bar