Friday, November 13, 2009

Just Been SUPER slammed this week.

With school and stuff. And this weekend is going to be super crazy too, as I'll be spending it in the bottom of a quarry.

I feel good, but to be honest, I really do sleep better after an hour with Tony.

Well, here is to starting up again where I left off on Monday!

(No pilates, no yoga this week!) :(

Monday, November 9, 2009

This Must Be Harvet Time For Blog Giveaways!

Chocolate Covered Katie is giving away a covetable spiralizer or magic bullet... AND participating in a fundraiser called Operation Chocolate Covered Kindness.

Click around her (awesome) website to help her raise some funds! :D

She also is making me want to make little cashew fudge babies.

In exercise-related news, I did Arms and Shoulder instead of what was actually scheduled... but it's still the third week of my last phase. I'm so excited!

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Wow.

I just realized, tomorrow starts my second to last active week of (this round of) p90X.

Holy Crap!

Oh, and I DID do KenPo on Saturday!

To bed with me.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Ice Cream

I'd never call myself a vegan, but between my personal taste in "daily meals" (I like them lite, filling, and in huge portions), finances (low), aversion to cooking meat (high), and allergy to dairy (much lamented), love of vegetable and fruit (much enjoyed), and (embarrassingly moderate) distrust of the FDA's ability/willingness to regulate meat, I pretty much eat that way by default.

Like many people who actually are legitimately vegan, I don't find that I miss a lot. Sometimes I go in for cheese, but for the most part it doesn't occur to me to crave them, because it hurts me.

All that being said, I still went in for a scoop of vanilla ice cream with "bumble berry pie" at the Blues Traveler concert. I escaped unscathed, but I do sorta miss vanilla ice cream as a counterpoint to apple pie.

...but soy based vanilla ice creams tend not to do it for me. Maybe it's just my neurosis, but soy ice creams have sort of a waxy, oily, thing going on, which I do not love. It's forgivable in some flavors -like chocolate- but vanilla takes a hit.

So when Gena at Choosing Raw had a post about vegan, coconut-based ice cream in NYC.... AND a Ice-Cream give away, you know I was all about it.

Everyone go check it out.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Phase Three, Day Twelve

I've been working out, but I've been having motivation problems. Exercise really helps my mood, but push-ups are the absolute last thing I want to do when I'm overwhelmed (school) or sad (family stuff)

Yesterday I did Back & Biceps almost entirely with the 10lb weight. That's progress! But at the same time I felt a little silly... if I could do it with 8lbs of COURSE I can do it with just 2lbs more! I think I'll stick with 10lbs for the rest of the week and then switch the weight out to 15lbs. Then I can start exercises with 15lbs and drop down to eight as I need it. I'm satisfied with that. I also did pilates. That class is really starting to annoy me with stupid assignments. Now I have to track all my calories for the week, right after I got into the habit of not doing that!

Today I'm supposed to do Core Synergistics. I really sorta don't want to. :-/ Next time I do this program, I'm definitely switching something out for that!

PS: That lady up top is the opposite of how I feel right now. But I like her and her 90's style so up she went. There is good news in my life though... I'm sleeping better and waking up before my 7am alarm!

UPDATE: Well, I couldn't face up to Core Synergistics today, so I did Legs and Back instead!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Day I Couldn't Care Less

Woke up on the right side of the bed... but been super grumpy since then.

Did my yoga.

Off to SCUBA. Till 11pm. I just want to get into bed with the Notorious EMP. I don't want to do anything else.

Ugh.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Phase Three, Day Nine

Gimped through KenPo today... my energy was fine but I was mentally out of it.

Ate really a lot of sugar, but 90% of it was in date, apple, and agave nectar form...

Finally took my yoga class!

Now busy at work looking at jobs to finance my so-called future life, or no special presents from the Notorious EMP for me!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Trouble Soup!

Just to catch up, I did whatever it was I was supposed to do Friday, KenPo on Saturday, slept in on Sunday... and then... felt oddly sick.

I'm not sure why. Sometimes on the weekends I feel a little woozy, and I've been attributing this to that I'm not usually on my regular sleep/wake/eat schedule. Last night, this culminated in my being in bed by 8-ish, with a plastic bag next to me in case I had to puke. Sorry for the overshare. That was weird.

This morning I didn't feel much better, so I decided to just play it safe and stay in. I did do the Chest, Shoulders and Triceps video, which was really really hard. I took it easy, with lots of breaks and got through it ok, though my arms feel pretty "bloated" all-ready.

Should I have been P90X-ing while under the weather? I don't know. I don't think it would make me any ill-er, though I definitely was suffering from something.

Blah.

Also, my wishlist of material possessions:

1) A bathrobe
2) warm slippers
3) a spiralizer