Monday, September 24th was the 50th anniversary of my debut on this planet. I started this post but ran out of time to finish it on “the day,” and we’ve been busy every day since then. Things are starting to slow down again as we near the end of our stay. It’s really the point of this trip, but when I first started talking about it, Mom was still with us, and I visualized the whole thing with “hope Mom is feeling up to air travel then” as she’d had some problems following her last few trips. So she’s not…
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Chicken Soup Recipe You Can Make at Home 1 tablespoons olive oil 1 whole chicken, breasts removed and reserved 2 onions 2 quarts boiling water Salt 2 bay leaves 1 large carrot 1 celery stalk 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves Ground pepper Time for some chicken soup. The slight sore throat I had last weekend has gone, but left behind a runny nose, a cough, and sneezy sniffles. Meh. This particular recipe is one we've made before – this time we made matzo balls to go along…
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Here's the story on this image, which I took with the cameraphone, naturally, a week or so ago. This is one of the motivational posters dotted about the health club at work. At least in the women's locker room, the images are mostly of fit, strong, healthy looking women. The poster above is directly across from where my locker usually is, and I was spending a lot of time looking at it and pondering the message. This is not the picture of health I want to emulate. Strong, yes. Stick-figure thin and disturbingly skeletal, no. Via: Flickr Title: 02-01-07_1453.jpg…
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Breakfast: banana, coffeeSnack: noneLunch: 60 cal yogurt drink, 240 cal Oatmeal walnut Clif energy bar, yet another banana As you can see, it's a gnarly bar. Dinner: Penne Crodola from Babaluci. Some added Parmesan. Kind of a lot, really. It's been a long day.
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January 30 Each dawn is a new beginning. Breakfast: small bowl of muesli and dried cranberries, milk Snack: Energy Rx juice drink product whatchamajigger. Hey, it’s mango juice AND caffeine! I read the ingredients! Lunch: Slimfast, granola bar, 1 piece string cheese (I hate how the cafeteria closes before I can even get there) Dinner: Shrimp fried rice (veggies and egg also, leftovers for lunch tomorrow) Workout: 25 minutes on recumbent bike at lunch I didn’t work out yesterday at all – still too sore from my last session with the trainer. I did, however, get in and ride a…
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I’m at the end of my third week of the 6-week fitness deal I got through work,and it’s quite evident that it’s starting to pay off. I’ve lost a few pounds, but more importantly, I’ve gained muscle mass, or at least muscle tone. Last week’s tally: I was somewhat slack at the beginning of the week, especially when I missed my original personal trainer session. But I picked up and got in Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday morning, had a trainer session that day, and yesterday morning. Plus, today David and I got in to Bally’s, and I did a…
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I missed my session with the personal trainer at the workplace healthclub this morning! For some reason, even though it was on my online calendar, I had it in my head that it was an evening appointment, not a morning one. Well, crap. I emailed my apologies to my trainer, Natalie. She’s a good kid. Very young, very small, very eager to get several women fit. Each one of us nearly twice her size. Most of the others in my group missed the last nutrition meeting due to schedule constraints – tomorrow I have to remember to have a meeting…
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Losing Weight–Start By Counting Calories Tucked away in the registry's database is information about the weight-control behaviors of more than 3,000 American adults who have lost an average of 60 pounds and have kept it off for an average of six years. How do they do it? These successful weight losers report four common behaviors, says Wing. They eat a low-calorie, low-fat diet, they monitor themselves by weighing in frequently, they are very physically active, and they eat breakfast. Eating breakfast every day is contrary to the typical pattern for the average overweight person who is trying to diet, says…
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Made it to the end of the first week in the 6-week “quick start” fitness program more or less in one piece. The way this will work is that I’ll go as much as possible during the work week at the “office” health club, and then hope to hit Bally’s once during the weekend. I still need to get to the health club early enough to allow me a 45 minute workout with a 30 minute shower-and-change, but wasn’t able to carve out that much time as yet. Still, I managed to get 25 minutes at least, 4 times this…
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Did 10 minutes on the elliptical at 150bpm for an average speed of 3.5-4 mph to warm up, then did some upper-body work with weights for 20 minutes. All was noted on my personal training sheet and filed.