NYCC is fast approaching and that means a TON of walking. I’ve scaled back to walking and desk peddler workouts in anticipation of that. NYCC is the only time of year where I get more than 10k steps a day multiple days in a row. I’m already tired I can feel it.
My food hasn’t changed up much, but I’m enjoying varying my protein and vegetables. This is a boring entry… Really, nothing of note to report. Stay safe out there, I guess? See ya’ll after the con!
Just to spare my joints, I’m taking some long walking days. It’s decent cardio and I can catch up on shows everyone keeps telling me I HAVE to watch (I’m working my way through Supernatural) and my never-ending Watch Later list on YouTube. I may even start writing on the walking days on the treadmill because it’s much easier to squeeze in a few words here and there when I’m not intensely running. Maybe some reading as well since I’m caught up with my ARCs but behind on my other reading.
I’m still doing good when it comes to fruit and prepping different lunches for some variety. Dinner had to be smaller since the medication is doing its job and I had some delicious little tomatoes I had to use up. My latest discovery has been Spicy Pink Salt with Crushed Red Chili Pepper. This shit is AMAZING on the fish and the cracked out tuna salad I made for dinner. I have to be careful with it because I’m not supposed to be eating too much salt anyway and the spice isn’t fooling around but wow. I hope they don’t discontinue this anytime soon because I’m gonna stock up.
If anyone works with children in any way, you know the one thing they are guaranteed to share with you is their germs. As a result, I am awaiting the inevitable since my child is sick and has no issue coughing directly on me (the little shit). I do feel more run down, so no running. I’m walking instead to keep moving and if I succumb, I can recover quickly.
I think I’ve been doing pretty good with my eating. Even if I have something like that chocolate rum cake my friend gave me, I’m still active and taking my supplements. A little treat here and there won’t kill me. I’ve been on a basalmic vinegar kick instead of lemon juice or red wine vinegar, but hey, variety is good. Makes sure I don’t get bored. I do look forward to getting back to my running and maybe some biking once in a while. Having the desk bike in my room and not using it is bothering me.
My feet felt sore so, I decided on a walking workout today. I get a bump in my heart rate, hit my daily step goal, and saved energy for tomorrow. It may not be as intense but, I felt good about it.
I think it was the PMS talking, but I was so hungry today. Even after eating the above, I stuffed my face with some Cheez-its. That salad was so good, though! I left the avocado soaking in lemon juice overnight and not a centimeter was brown. It may look weird in the picture, but that’s because I added olive oil before adding it to the salad. And since Tajin was on sale, I sprinkled that on top. While I did slice up the other veggies, I was lazy and went for the precut onions that were also on sale. Sometimes, I just can’t be bothered and take a shortcut.
I had to go to the post office to mail some of the stuff I’d sold on eBay and I got lucky as there was no line. I got back with plenty of time to eat my chili for lunch. There was also a party at work for someone who’s retiring and oof, I ate waaaaayy too much. But it was fine, I skipped dinner since I was so full. Aside for the walk, I moved around plenty during the day and did some stretching for my hip pain (which is really helping). Even though I’m still not running, I still feel like this was a decent day overall. I didn’t take pictrures of what I ate because it was mostly random stuff aside for repeating the chili.
Going out to take a walk is starting to become routine when I’m off. I like not spending the entire day in the house and I’m slowly looking more alive. I think it’s also helping my mood, overall. I feel like I accomplished something in my day.
I have also made it a point not to sleep in too much and actually make breakfast. This had the unintended side effect of me not being hungry until dinner, where I made oven baked wings and made fried rice from the left over rice from yesterday. I managed to get the wings super crispy and juicy and I think it’s because I was able to marinate them for a couple hours; prepping in a way that isn’t as easy when I have to go to work. I guess I need to work on my time management in the future.
I took a nice long walk to the store today. It was gorgeous out, I needed to pick up a few things from the store, so I left the car at home and hoofed it. Completely worth it and it felt so good to get out of the house. I can already tell my skin is finally losing that pasty ‘librarian who is always indoors’ tone.Â
The problem? I ended up needing to put on the air conditioner. All I can think of whenever I turn that thing on for the first time in the year is how big my electric bill will be (have mercy on me and check out my books). As the weather heats up, I know taking a walk outside won’t be as comfortable as it is now (unless I go very early in the morning). The treadmill and desk bike are gathering dust so, I’ll switch to those when it gets really hot.
One of the things I grabbed at the store is more of that pre-prepped chicken from Trader Joes for my salads. Yes, that is a lot of cheese. No, I don’t care what you think. If in the end I’m still around 1000 calories (remember, I’m on Saxenda so, my calories are kept lower than a normal diet) and I’ve had some decent activity during my day, Imma eat some damn cheese.
This was my main meal for the day, other than snacking. I’m gonna try and be more diligent on peal prep on my non-work days. Work days, I’m super prepared; I can fill in my food diary first thing in the morning because I already know what the rest of the day will be. When I’m off, it’s chaos. We’ll see how that goes in the future.
I decided to take a lunch walk today and it’s not quite the weather to go outside without a sweater. Not that I want it to be super hot; I loathe the heat. By the time I was done, I’d warmed up pretty good and I managed to score some veggies on sale.
For lunch I gave these garlic noodles a try. They were not good. They were overly sweet yet somehow tasteless at the same time. It’s a shame but I ended up tossing it without finishing it all.
For dinner, I was craving a chicken Caesar salad. I used the grilled lemon pepper chicken from Trader Joe’s that comes already cooked and it was so good. Much better than the noodles. Combined, it was a high salt day, but I am a very hydrated person so I didn’t bloat too much. I was even able to get the cheese for this on sale! Hey, I’m broke so, I’ll take whatever savings I can get.
Since my child just cannot drink water from a filtered pitcher, I hadda go get them some seltzer on my lunch break. It’s interesting that it only counted ten minutes of walking time despite it being a 20 minute walk but I’m sure it’s based on heart rate or something.
Since I was on that mission, I wouldn’t have time for cooking lunch so, I packed a roast beef sandwich. I went a little heavy on the red onion but it was really good. I put some lemon pepper Mrs. Dash in there to make things more interesting. For dinner, I finished off that baked ziti I’d bought yesterday. Felt like a carb heavy day but I hit over 4k steps. Tomorrow, I’ll go for more cardio and try to remember to do some bodyweight workouts.
I had a random craving for some carbs and cheese so I went to the store on my lunch break to get some crushed tomatoes and mozzarella for dinner. Luckily for me, both items were on sale. A shame I didn’t have any cabernet to add to the sauce but this wasn’t a simmer for an hour type of evening. This was a get that food cooked in 30 minutes so I can go up to my office and write kind of day.
It was enough to satisfy my craving but it reminded me that I should batch cook some sauce at some point. And balanced out with a salad for lunch, I had a good caloric day! Even with nibbling on those homemade chips I made.
Those are addicting for me, now.