dum ditty dum August 11, 2008

ditty dum dum dum… it’s gotta be a good day if i’m humming or singing ANYTHING, yikes. while my pictures upload to photobucket i’d like to muse about how much i’m enjoying the olympics and how much i do not enjoy having to miss the action while sitting in the office all day without a television. i have the prime time events set to record but i can’t be doing that every night or i’ll have no space left on my dvr! it might be necessary to clean it out and record the olympics though because i’m working out EVERYDAY this week in the evenings. tonight is spin, tomorrow bootcamp, wednesday hopefully yoga but if not spin again, thursday yoga, friday a new class kinda like bootcamp called bodyfit and saturday jazzercise, yoga AND swimming. sunday doesn’t count.

that explains why i got snack-happy yesterday (sunday) and also too lazy to take pictures. i can’t help it if i’m hormonal and craving lots of salty and spicy food. though i did way too good for a sunday night dinner with a grilled vegetable salad and NO dessert! not even i could believe it. we went to cpk and i usually order a pizza but clearly, i’m trying to avoid cheese these days so i went with that salad because i couldn’t resist the combination of vegetables. i cheated a little by having 1 piece of my mom’s pizza and 1 piece of my sister’s (cheese and all) and two crusts from my brother’s. i stuck to water and wasn’t tempted by the bread at all so i thought i did a good job, considering the alternative (eating an entire pizza by myself).

snackage May 29, 2008

since i ate lunch so early today i have been snacking since then, about 396 calories worth according to myfitnesspal.com. i took pictures of the granola bar and the cereal but i snuck a tablespoon of almond butter without taking its pic. photobucket is on the fritz right now otherwise i would post said pictures. i’ll try again later, i just really wanted to post up about my snacks before i tackle my second workout. i’ll probably grill a turkey cutlet for dinner. i can’t wait to go to sleep tonight, i am about ready to tear my eyeballs out. i swear it’s like i rinsed them in milk or something. i hope i can make it through jazzercise. sorry for the stream of consciousness without any visuals.
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pre and post workout May 23, 2008

about half an hour before class started i had these raisins

which is another food that has eluded me until now (see peanut butter) but i read somewhere that they make a great pre-workout snack and i was sold. these are also organic of the newman’s own variety. i’m pretty sure that’s what makes them taste better than the raisins i remember from my youth. myfitnesspal puts a quarter cup of these at 130 calories.

after working up a sweat at jazzercise for an hour (burning approximately 354 calories), i came straight home so i could eat (natch) and even forgot to stop to deposit my paycheck! i ate first, then ran out before the bank closed. hungry girl must eat before she finds herself at paradise bakery ordering a chocolate chip cookie.

it was a quarter cup of cashews and three turkey rolls with one string cheese divided up and rolled into the center of each slice for a grand total of 320 very satisfying calories. too many for a post-workout snack though, next time maybe only two tablespoons of cashews and two turkey rolls. i need a little wiggle room for dinner calories.

the jazzercise instructor always congratulates us for going to class on friday afternoons. like i have something better to do at 430 pm on a friday, psh. besides, this weather is not conducive to going outdoors. it feels like christmas out there. you know, rainy and cold (in the 60s, brrr)! luckily the sun is supposed to come out this weekend. i need to catch up on my tan so i’ll be looking forward to the sun reappearing after this awkward and random hiatus.