Well, that did it. Thursday night and I am flat out of my weekly "extra point" cushion. Want to know how to exhaust your points in 2 days? Here's how! Recital desserts, rum drinks, wine, giant lunch at DeLessio's, solid pasta dinner at friend's house, Smitten ice cream, and cookies for dessert while re-watching HP7.1. I mean, I could be overestimating in how much oil was used in everything (and now that I'm thinking about it, I probably am. What I recording would be a LOT of oil), but I think I'm underestimating on the amount of salad dressing I used and the value of the pasta sauce, so it all balanced out. Scariest part? I actually went to the gym today, and even with gym points, I'm still sunk. What I'm saying is I feel very well fed.
AND now it's time to get back in order. Maybe put some vegetables in my house? Shopping, perhaps? These would be good things. Man, I procrastinate on basic life sustenance like no one else I know.
OH WAIT! I had an Odwalla Superfoods drink after the gym. I just remembered this. Guess I'm over on points. Or does that count as pure fruits and veggies, so it's nothing? Am I over on points for the week, but not in that bad of a way because they were healthy-ish points? There isn't really any added sugar in that. It contains wheat grass and whatever "spirulina" is for crying out loud. I have to think a smoothie like that is not what's contributing to my overall jiggle.
(As far as I can tell wheat grass will turn you into a superhero if you consume it in large, properly freshly juiced quantities. I really have no idea what wheat grass does or why wheat grass should be better than any other kind of grass, because it all really looks the same to me. At the mini cafe at my gym they literally have a mini wheat grass lawn that lives near the juicer. The healthy barista cuts off chunks with scissors, feeds it through the juicer, and the "dry" discards come out through the front of the juicer...it's disgusting. Apparently it will save your life or something, but it looks really nasty and unappetizing.)
I am just chock full of tangents right now which probably means it's time for bed. So, getting back on track starts tomorrow, because I am so close to below 200 I can taste it, and it tastes like mini-chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches. Not sure why, but there you have it :) Good night, world.
Oh hey a post! It's been a while...
WHOA it's been forever since I've posted (forever reads as "2 weeks"). Sorry about that. School is OUT, life is EASY, I'm woefully UNEMPLOYED and have been trying to work on that. I'm staying in San Fran for the summer to get my audition things in order and while working with my teacher is great, the job market is less so. That and I have an opera I'm doing and cross country trips for family and weddings and so on, so my schedule is just lousy. I'm just hoping to find a lovely employer who will overlook all that. :)
As for "weight loss" it's still going pretty well. I think some of it is going well by luck because my tracking track record has not been so strong as of late. Here's how this seems to go recently: I track fairly consistently through the weekend, when something will happen like a party (parties) or drinks or delicious recital receptions, and somehow I will end the weekend with all of my weekly extra points gone. Fine, not a big deal. But THEN come Monday and Tuesday I just...don't track. Because in my head, if I'm going to go over, I'm going to go over no matter what. I just do the best I can on Monday and Tuesday since I know I don't have much of a points net. And then Wednesday, WOOSH! All reset and I start tracking again.
This is not a good thing. This is a slippery slope that will lead to me just not tracking at all. I know this. And I'd like to stay on the tracking thing, it's working really well for me, but it gets hard when I'm eating things that aren't prepackaged or that I didn't prepare or that come from a delicious recital reception. I just don't KNOW how many points they are, so I'm estimating anyway, so is what I'm writing down at all helpful or accurate? My main gripe with this whole tracking thing.
I've gotten better at "listening to my body", which sounds SOOOO San Francisco of me, but here's what I mean. If I'm hungry, I can eat something. If I'm craving something really specific I try to pin point what that is rather than eat around it. Also, if I'm not hungry, I don't eat. This seems stupidly obvious, but here's what I used to do. Even if I came back from some party where I ate my weight in snacky food, I still felt obligated to eat a "real" dinner. I felt like I needed protein or something. I don't know what my thinking is, but I would make sure that I had "dinner" even though I had eaten plenty of food and didn't really even want dinner. So now, I just eat until I'm full. That might not be the most balanced diet, dinner might end up being a cupcake (like it was on Easter), but if I'm not hungry I don't see the reason to force-feed myself more calories in search of a "balanced" diet. Sometimes it's just not that balanced, but it all balances out in the end. Right? Let's hope so.
In other news, I can't seem to get my arms to change size and this bothers me. I took my measurements today, and my waist and hips like to keep melting down (yay!) but my arms are just as stupidly flabby as ever. I don't know what to do with them. I guess they're just slow to catch up? Late for the shrinking party? Eventually they'll go down? I do some arm exercises when I'm at the gym, yet still, flab. Sigh.
And speaking of gym, I actually have been pretty bad about going. Once I'm not at school every day, I just want to stay in my house and do the stuff I've neglected here (cleaning, organizing, reading the "Sookie Stackhouse" books...). I did a nice run/walk around my neighborhood which was both freezing and largely uphill, but satisfying. So in conclusion, the gym needs to come back into my life. And this was a very long post, so maybe just pretend that for the past 2 weeks I had a bunch of small posts. It all works out.
As for "weight loss" it's still going pretty well. I think some of it is going well by luck because my tracking track record has not been so strong as of late. Here's how this seems to go recently: I track fairly consistently through the weekend, when something will happen like a party (parties) or drinks or delicious recital receptions, and somehow I will end the weekend with all of my weekly extra points gone. Fine, not a big deal. But THEN come Monday and Tuesday I just...don't track. Because in my head, if I'm going to go over, I'm going to go over no matter what. I just do the best I can on Monday and Tuesday since I know I don't have much of a points net. And then Wednesday, WOOSH! All reset and I start tracking again.
This is not a good thing. This is a slippery slope that will lead to me just not tracking at all. I know this. And I'd like to stay on the tracking thing, it's working really well for me, but it gets hard when I'm eating things that aren't prepackaged or that I didn't prepare or that come from a delicious recital reception. I just don't KNOW how many points they are, so I'm estimating anyway, so is what I'm writing down at all helpful or accurate? My main gripe with this whole tracking thing.
I've gotten better at "listening to my body", which sounds SOOOO San Francisco of me, but here's what I mean. If I'm hungry, I can eat something. If I'm craving something really specific I try to pin point what that is rather than eat around it. Also, if I'm not hungry, I don't eat. This seems stupidly obvious, but here's what I used to do. Even if I came back from some party where I ate my weight in snacky food, I still felt obligated to eat a "real" dinner. I felt like I needed protein or something. I don't know what my thinking is, but I would make sure that I had "dinner" even though I had eaten plenty of food and didn't really even want dinner. So now, I just eat until I'm full. That might not be the most balanced diet, dinner might end up being a cupcake (like it was on Easter), but if I'm not hungry I don't see the reason to force-feed myself more calories in search of a "balanced" diet. Sometimes it's just not that balanced, but it all balances out in the end. Right? Let's hope so.
In other news, I can't seem to get my arms to change size and this bothers me. I took my measurements today, and my waist and hips like to keep melting down (yay!) but my arms are just as stupidly flabby as ever. I don't know what to do with them. I guess they're just slow to catch up? Late for the shrinking party? Eventually they'll go down? I do some arm exercises when I'm at the gym, yet still, flab. Sigh.
And speaking of gym, I actually have been pretty bad about going. Once I'm not at school every day, I just want to stay in my house and do the stuff I've neglected here (cleaning, organizing, reading the "Sookie Stackhouse" books...). I did a nice run/walk around my neighborhood which was both freezing and largely uphill, but satisfying. So in conclusion, the gym needs to come back into my life. And this was a very long post, so maybe just pretend that for the past 2 weeks I had a bunch of small posts. It all works out.
Look
School's almost over. Everything will be great after next Wednesday when I have juries. But now I've got this stupid paper to write so I'm going to do that rather than worry about blog postings. Which I'm pretty lame at already. So bye.
Lost again this week. Horrah. Bye, paper time.
Lost again this week. Horrah. Bye, paper time.
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