Wednesday boredom

Nothing exciting to say this evening. I feel like nothing was accomplished though I did some organizing and tossed a bunch of things out. I drank my water and had a Body by Vi shake for lunch. Dinner was uneventful as I was super lazy. I forgot to blog last night because I was busy. I came upstairs and did the usual routine of shower and hop in bed. I fell asleep before I could turn on my tablet. I think I fell asleep around 8:30 which is rare for me. I guess I was pretty tired. I woke up about midnight with a serious coughing fit. I ended up running to the bathroom to puke. Tonight I brought in the trash can just in case.

Not much else to talk about. Well I feel fat today, so maybe PMS time in near.

What a Waste of a Good Day

Today I had an appointment with an oral surgeon about my jaw and a tooth that may need to be extracted. It was an all day venture because it was in Alameda and I had never been there before. I personally feel it was a complete waste of my time and money. I lost money and time to be told nothing about my jaw (main reason I was there) and that "If you have a toothbrush and floss, you don't need dental insurance." What??? Crazy talk, right? Well, at least I think so.

Worst part of the day. I did not have enough water today. No where near a gallon and I can feel the difference. I also ate McDonald's, Samantha and I had the 20 piece nugget meals. I couldn't eat all of mine. I am surprised as I love their fries. I had a few sips of my soda and tossed it, ate half my medium fries and 6 of my 10 nuggets. I later fed my leftovers to some seagulls. Besides the fast food, I have not eaten anything else. I did buy some water while I was out and had plenty of water at home. Just not enough. My only exercise for today was walking a little bit of yoga. Once I am done with this post I will meditate before I go to bed. Space tomorrow I will be better as I will be buying two gallons of water for work.

Today I started something new called personal push goals. I got the idea from a Facebook friend named Diva Val. I have chosen four goals for February; working out for 30 minutes, drink one gallon of water, meditate 15 minutes and, blog daily. I think it will be a great way to keep up on small goals I want to accomplish. Also, I feel it will be a way for me to have personal accountability of my actions.

I said I was going to share some links with you today. I am not going to explain each one as I am still looking through them and deciding what I will use from each.

30dayfitnesschallenges.

Neilarey.com/

For some reason when I try to add links on my tablet, they get messed up. Grrr

Well I'm off to bed. Good night

Hello February 2015

Hello hello. My first day of the water challenge went well. Unfortunately I lost cost after 60oz. I do believe I made it to a gallon. I feel like it. My body is weighed down by it and I peed a lot today. I have noticed when I drink large amounts of water I lose interest in food. I only had two plain ham sandwiches today and that's it. I had no desire to make myself anything to eat nor was I really hungry. I only ate the second sandwich because I was making one for my kids and I needed to eat.

I weigh 165.  I still need to measure myself. I did take photos of myself but will not share those until the end of the month. I can't even explain the horror, embarrassment, and amount of tears that happened during and after the pictures were taken. My eyes are closed in them because I could not bare to look at myself. I am disgusted and horrified that I allowed others to see me in less than jeans and a oversized T-shirt. I feel like shit. The disgust and embarrassment is more of a motivation than my health right now.

I have some links I want to share with you next time.  I hope you will like them.

Saturday Night Boredom

It's Saturday night, woohoo! Congrats on making it through the first month of 2015.

I'm sitting on my little old love seat watching Bones and Numb3rs. I should be in San Francisco having a great time with the Walker Stalker Convention, but no. Oh well, life goes on.  I'm feeling better today. My cough isn't choking me. I finally have some energy but I'm sitting my butt. I think it's safe to restart my fitness challenge tomorrow. Perfect for the beginning of the month. I will be doing a water challenge with my fitness challenge. This water challenge is for me to drink 1gallon of water a day. I need to drink approximately 80 ounces a day at the moment and I am at about 60 ounces. So it seems I need to step up my game on water drinking. Dropping soda from my daily habit will help for sure.

Though my water challenge is supposed to be only a month, I'm hoping to keep it up. The same with soda removal. My goal is to reduce or remove processed foods (mostly sugar). Junk food and bread are my best friend. I am an emotional eater. Stressed, bored, or depressed, food is how I cope. This is a habit I hope to break.

Well I'm tired and its my bed time. Good night.

Well That Didn't Get Far.

I'm sick. So sick that I'm coughing till I can't breathe. Throat itching and feels like it burning. I dry heave and gag a lot, not to mention I just realized how old i am getting when I just about peed myself coughing. Say what??? Yup, I've hit that darn age where pee will become an issue; no matter how much I keep up on my kegel exercises. Gonna have to speak to the doctor about that.

Since I am sick and have no desire to function, I am postponing my fitness challenge. This cough I have is a workout; it exhausts me. During this time I will do research and share some ideas with you. Until then I will rest and just babble on about nothing. I'm good at that.

I'm off to sleep... Hopefully

The Fitness Challenge.

I am horrible at fitness challenges. Anything where I have to give up carbs and other yummy garbage food makes me cry. I have to do this, if I dont, I will live a short painful life. I can't have that. I enjoy life too much to kill myself with food. I love food too much to kill myself with food.

The challenge:
90 days of healthy eating, meal replacements, detox/fasting and 30-90 minutes of exercise a day. What does that mean for me? Giving up soda, bread, and candy? Not really. The first week I will give up most sugars and carbs. But, I'm not giving up bread or ginger ale. I may switch to tonic water and add fruit or juice to it. I need to learn to not overindulge when eating. Moderation is key and learning to stay within my limits. If not, the food will have to go permanently.

This is week 1- detox from garbage foods.
Breakfast- Body by Vi smoothie with fresh fruit and almond milk.
Lunch- Salad and a rice cake with peanut butter and banana
Dinner- Open faced tuna sandwich with tomato on whole wheat bread, Chicken fajitas, Pork chops with brown rice and steamed veggies
Drinks- Water with lemon or cucumber and tea with honey
Fitness- Walking at least 30 minutes and light exercise till my foot feels better.

I'll try to post as often as I can about my progress. Sadly I did not measure myself today. I did however weigh in at 165.

I will leave it here for now and tell you more in my next post. It's such a pain typing on a darn tablet.

Not so sure about Lent this year

Lent is coming up and I have no idea what I could give up. I am thinking of not participating in Lent this year. I decided to Google ideas of what I could do. There are only a hand full of websites that share ideas for Lent. I picked out my favorites, though I'm not sure about a few.

1. Utensils - use your hands or utensils foreign to you (e.g. chop sticks) 
2. Hot water - take only cold showers 
3. Your Bed or a bedding item (e.g. pillow(s) or blanket(s)) 
4. Pants - wear skirts, shorts, or dresses
5. A half hours sleep - Yes, wake up or go to bed a half hour early 
6. The snooze button - depending on how long you snooze for, this might be the same as number 5. 
7. App(s) - clear your phone/tablet of any apps for 40 days or maybe just one.
8. Selfies - goes well with number 7
9. Texting - call, email, write a letter, send a card, or go see people in person. OMG, you might actually have to talk to people. 
10. Swearing - I tried this one once, I didn't make it to the end. 
11. Shopping - this one is sorta on my list. I am claiming 2015 an un-consumption year. No buying anything unless it is absolutely necessary. 
12. Procrastination - this one probably should be on my list. 
13. Wear the same 4 outfits throughout Lent - this one sounds hard for someone who works in the corporate world. I would probably do 5 - 3 work, 1 gym, and 1 casual. Then 1 day a week would be nudist day.  Wait, does gym clothes count as an outfit? 
14. Work or school - I'm not sure about this one, but my last day at work just happens to be the first day of Lent. 

My kids think soda and junk food should be our choices this year, but I do those every year. I'm thinking numbers 6, 11, and 12 would be good choices . I would do 4 and/or 13 if I knew where my job situation was. I'll have to think about whether it is best to skip Lent or suck it up and go for it. 

What are you giving up? 

Ideas from Christianity Today, LifeTeen.com, and Catholicvote.org