SUGAR!

i'm pretty sure i ate more sugar today than i have all month put together. my friend kathy is a baking wizard, and she brought us a mound of treats. it was all absolutely delightful, and i don't even feel a bit of guilt. c'mon ... it's Christmas!

fitness: end of week 2

did you see mike's blog? where he was dreading getting on the scale this week, but then he found out he'd lost 4 pounds? my story is kinda like that ...

this past week was less than healthy. i really thought i did okay over pizzafest weekend. i only had a piece or two each time. and then a piece late sunday night. and three pieces (plus the leftover fried appetizer) for dinner on monday. and a piece for lunch tuesday, and a piece (the last piece) for dinner last night ... yeah, i did a pre-weigh in last night and was pretty mad at myself. but then you've heard that you always weigh the least first thing in the morning, right? i don't know how that happens, but it seems that you weigh more as the day goes on. anyway, when i weighed in this morning, i'd lost .6 pounds this week. sad (i mean, it's not even a full pound), but i'll take it. :)

now if only i had some eggs in the house to make a yummy breakfast ...

candy cane pie

have you tried baker's square's candy cane pie? it's got a chocolate crust, a layer of chocolate truffle goodness, a layer of peppermint silk, another layer of chocolate truffle goodness, and a layer of whipped cream. it is the best pie they make. tonight i ate a piece of candy cane pie. and it was delicious. but i can honestly say, i didn't want a second piece. and when my mom asked if i wanted to take a piece home with me for tomorrow? it didn't bother me at all to say no. it was really, really good. but not good enough to jeopardize wednesday's weigh in. :)

speaking of which, i need to go grocery shopping so i don't end up eating nothing but leftover pizza for the next three days.

pizza fest

well, the pizza fest turned out well. i had a couple of pieces of thin crust last night - veggies, no meat. and tonight i had one piece of stuffed pizza with spinach. not too shabby. :) and they were both quite tasty.

now if you'll excuse me, i have an appletini waiting for me as we toast beth's 30th birthday. :)

fitness: end of week 1

this week reminded me that i dislike my scale. it's a digital deal that's also supposed to measure body fat - although that part has never worked. when i step onto it the weight bounces around a bunch and then it errors and turns off. it usually takes two or three tries before it settles on a weight. because of that i also tend to distrust it a little. but i weighed myself twice this morning and got the same number both times. i'm down about 5 pounds. yay. :)

fitness: weekend 1

i was fairly lax with my foods this weekend. saturday night was game night, and i enjoyed way more spinich dip than i should have. on the flip side, i didn't eat nearly as many sweets as i wanted to ... so it could have been worse. :)

i went clothes shopping yesterday, and i think i solved the mystery of the jeans. i took two pairs into the dressing room with me. one was the size i was currently wearing, the other was the next size up. again, the size i was currently wearing simply would not fit. so i compared them to the ones i had worn into the store - they're about 4" smaller in the waist! granted, the pair i wore into the store is about a year old, and they may have stretched with me some. but 4"? i really don't think that's possible. i'm thinking they changed the way they size their jeans. how cruel.

fitness: day 4

today was a little carb-heavy. in general everything i ate was healthy ... except for the chips at lunch. i look at the salsa and think, that can't be bad! it's just vegetables! but the vehicle to get those vegetables into my mouth? stupid, tasty deep-fried tortilla chips.

and now it's 11:30 and my stomach's starting to get hungry. if i eat now, i need to stay up for a couple more hours to give my body a chance to digest it & use the calories. i think i'll just go to bed slightly hungry instead. maybe drink a glass of water first. yes, that sounds smarter.

and i've decided against the ice cream dessert for tomorrow. there are already at least four desserts being taken ... and i don't need to make something i don't want to eat. i'm thinking maybe some fresh vegetables or a pasta salad or a veggie pizza?

fitness: day 3

i ran out the door without eating breakfast this morning. bad move. i knew it was a bad move when i made. but i wanted to get to work as early as possible. of course, since i didn't go to bed until about 1:30 this morning ... "as early as possible" ended up being 9:15. but whatever. the point of this story is that i skipped breakfast. well, mostly at least. i did eat a couple of tablespoons of peanutbutter directly out of the jar as i was assembling my lunch. so that's better than nothing i suppose.

but anyway, about two hours into my day i was hungry. so i made the best vending machine decision i could: i bought a bag of mini pretzels. did you know that one bag of mini pretzels is three carb servings? three. how crazy is that?

i was glad when lunchtime rolled around and i got some real food in my system. and despite joe's best efforts, i didn't eat any potato chips or chocolate chip cookies. so there.

and learning that the new office refrigerator has an ice maker? fabulous. i do drink more water when it's cold. and speaking of water, i'm going to go curl up with a glass now. and maybe head to bed early. getting enough sleep is probably important to that whole health thing, right?

fitness: day 2

i weighed in this morning. i figure the catchy sound of Weigh-In Wednesdays might remind me to do it on a weekly basis. i don't weigh as much as i feared i might. but for those of you who knew me three years ago when i lost about 50 pounds, i've gained all of that back. plus 2.6 more. that officially puts me at the heaviest i've ever been. i don't quite understand it - i mean, i'm still wearing a smaller size than before i lost & regained the weight. but i guess it comes back in different places & whatever, right? anyway, my plan is to make a cute li'l graph showing how this month affects my weight. since i don't weigh in again until next wednesday, i'm planning to procrastinate on making the actual graph.

today at work i snacked on dry-roasted sunflower seeds instead of doritos. and i had freshly steamed veggies with my lunch. i made fish tacos tonight, and i used the not-quite-empty oreo package as my garbage bowl. so those are out of the question now.

at this exact moment, i'm not hungry at all, but i still wish i had a box of cheez-its or something in the house. it's all emotional, but i still want it.

and i realized this afternoon that i've committed myself to a pizza fest next weekend. friday is beth's birthday dinner at sanfratello's, and saturday i'm going to giordano's with my bunco gals. hmmm. do you think if i eat really healthy until then i'll feel like i earned it? :)

and i was planning to take an ice cream dessert to game night this saturday, but maybe i should think of something healthier. healthy & summery. the theme is "summer in december" ... any ideas?

fitness blogging

so here's my plan. in the mornings, i'll blog on the remaining NaBloPoMo topics. in the evenings, i'll blog about any & all attempts to be healthier. i figure if my evening plans are to eat dinner & then blog about being healthier ... chances are i'll be a bit inspired to not eat an entire bag of potato chips as i sit in front of the tv. seems smart, right?

my biggest healthy decision (relating to physical health, at least) was saying no to those little peanutbutter cups. they were basic reese's peanutbutter cups. i passed on them because they were milk chocolate, not dark chocolate. i definitely prefer my chocolate dark. this led me to decide to give up milk chocolate all together this month. granted, i can simply use dark chocolate in my own baking (i usually do anyway), but it kept me from buying a snickers bar around 3:30 this afternoon. so that has to count for something.

in terms of emotional health, i left the office at lunch today. i needed to run to the bank & pay my rent. to my surprise, it was GORGEOUS out! 57 degrees and so sunny. i drove to the bank with my sunroof open, jonathan coulton playing loudly ... amazing what 15 minutes in the sun can do for a girl's disposition!

post nablo

so technically NaBloPoMo has ended. i posted every day in November, and Omor still has a few topics left to give. so a few of us are going to continue posting on a topic each day until they're gone. i've also agreed to do fitness-related posting through the month of december. part of me thinks i shouldn't even start because i'll never finish. and part of me needs to start because then maybe i will finish. i mean, i certainly can't finish if i don't start, right?

i know i went shopping for jeans this weekend and the size that should fit me did not. that was frustrating. i'm in need of another pair of jeans, so i'll end up buying a larger size ... but man, i hate that. i mean, i was trying on the exact same size as the pair i wore to work today. meh.

i also know i just heard something fall & break ... i should go check that out, eh? :)