Sunday, January 3, 2010

Ready for bed; but first a little entertainment


The house is mostly clean and I’m ready for bed!  It’s been quite a long day…working out, cleaning.  It doesn’t sound like much, but I cleaned quite a bit! 

I also started shredding some junk mail – holy cow!  I get so much junk mail in a week…unfortunately it had piled up for a few months, so I was doing quite a bit “winter cleaning”.  But it’s all done now and I feel refreshed that it’s all gone and my house is clean :)

To wind down my evening, I’m currently watching “Worst Cooks in America” on Food Network.  It’s actually kinda funny to see all these horrible cooks try to make a meal.  Friends and family have nominated these people as the worst cooks in America and Chefs Anne Burrell and Beau McMillan have chosen the worst cooks out of 24 people (after the cooks have made a meal that best represents their cooking) to be on the opposing team.  Burrell and McMillan are competing against each other and will teach these bad cooks to cook like a chef in a competition that will last 10 weeks.  The finalists will prepare a three course meal which will be judged by a panel of food judges that think their food is made by Burrell and McMillan; the winning cook will win $25,000.  Not bad, eh?

In this first episode they’re supposed to re-create a dish that chefs Anne Burrell and Beau McMillan have shown them how to do. It must look and taste exactly as the chefs have made it.  I feel bad for these cooks because it really looks like they’re trying and some of them just aren’t getting it.  One of them even uses the utensils and places them on the plate “strategically” to cover up the food that even she thinks is bad.  Gosh that’s awful.  No one should EVER do that.

Well kids, it’s been fun.  Now off to bed I go for an exciting workweek.

Welcome to Sunday


KashiToday’s breakfast was unexpectedly really good.  I served myself a cup of Kashi’s Honey Almond Flax, 1/2 cup of 1% milk and about 1/4 cup of blueberries.  So filling!

I remember a long time ago I turned my nose away from Kashi after trying one of their cereals (I don’t remember which one now) because it tasted funny and weird.

But I was at Target the other day and saw this and decided to try it and decided it’s pretty good.  It reminds me of sweet granola, but not super sweet.  It got me through today’s workout session – 1 hour of Yoga and 1 hour of aerobics.

I’m a bit tired from this week’s workout – Thursday, Saturday and today.  But I’m determined to get to my last two pounds to reach my goal weight.  Last night was the best and longest sleep I’ve gotten in such a long time.  I slept for 14.5 hours!  I was supposed to take a nap at 5:30 and instead woke up around 8 a.m. this morning.  Hooray for sleep!  I felt so refreshed when I woke up this morning (even though I was still a bit sore from all those workouts…Stairmaster, elliptical, weight training and Yoga.

Now it’s time to finish cleaning up the house and get ready for another workweek.  Oh to be on vacation again!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

I feel good…


j0337325hahaha, now I have that song in my head!  Thanks James Brown! I have to say that it’s such a great song for how I’m feeling right now.  I worked out earlier today and I still have that post-workout high.  It’s such a great feeling  - I LOVE IT!  It’s like having a caffeine high (after a great cup o’ joe) minus an empty cup, a small headache afterwards and the price of shelling  out some dough for coffee. :) 

Today’s workout consisted of an intense Stairmaster session for 30 minutes, elliptical for 30 minutes and 30 minutes of weight training.  I feel like I had a great workout today.  Yay me!  I’m off to a great start on my way to achieving my new year’s goals.

After my workout I spent some down time reading at Barnes and Noble.  I love that place!  I could spend hours upon hours at B&N.  It was a perfect ending to a great workout.  I’m looking forward to some Yoga tomorrow :)

Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy New Year!!


Happy 2010!!

happy-new-year I'm really looking forward to this year because... 1) I've nearly reached my goal weight and am looking forward to maintaining it 2) I'm going to a fun first trip to Vegas 3) I'll be spending Christmas in Walt Disney World! Hurray!

Looking back at the blog about my new year's resolutions, I have to confess that I haven't started them quite yet. What was I thinking?! I didn't realize it was a bad time to start mainly because I was out visiting family and doing lots of traveling for a week. Then came the holidays, and this past week was pretty busy. But since the new year is here, I will be sure to accomplish those.

In addition to the resolutions I've made to continue working out and toning, and cooking two new recipes a month, I've added two more resolutions:

- Practice Yoga at least once a week at the gym
- Blog more :)

I've realized that I've really been enjoying the yoga sessions I've attended. The last one I went to, I was really sore from working out (the previous day I began some strength training and my body was screaming bloody murder the day after), and I had a few things on my mind that I was stressing about. But I've realized that Yoga has really helped me to get rid of those stresses temporarily and get them out of my system; and the other thing is that after the session, my body feels much more relaxed and happy because it's like an entire hour of stretching - at least that's how I'm kind of looking at it now. So I'm excited about going to Yoga :).

I've come to the conclusion that just like eating and breathing, I need to exercise. It needs to come second nature. Otherwise if I don't, I'll become an unhappy person and perhaps revert back to my unhealthy old self. But at least I now know the tools that will keep me healthy and living longer.

I've also noticed that I've kind of neglected the blogging...I really do think I should blog more than once a month. I don't do this blog justice, so I'll make it a point to blog as often as I can.

But enough of the negativity. I'm looking forward to a great new year with new beginnings. I really hope 2010 treats all of us well.

Merry Christmas!


I feel thoroughly exhausted today! I'm glad that I only had to get a few Christmas presents this year. I bought one more present today at Kohl's and holy moly! The lines were unbearably long (probably about 15 minute wait). I've not normally been a last minute shopper. I like to get things in early so that I'm not staying up till Midnight or later wrapping presents. All I can say is thank goodness for gift bags and tissue paper!

Anyway, I'm really blessed with great family and friends. Hope you have a memorable Christmas!
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