Oh, spring cleaning. It always has the power to make me vaguely ashamed that I didn’t do a better job cleaning during, well, the entire rest of the year.
But emptying, cleaning, and reorganizing your closets, thoroughly scrubbing your sinks, and moving furniture to vacuum all the accumulated dust and pollen does have another benefit [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Riding lawnmowers and maid service: another way to rack up excess pounds?
Posted in simple ideas, spring on April 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hits and misses
Posted in diet, recipe, recipe review on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I enjoy trying new recipes. If I had my way, that’s what I would do for a living. But since there’s not a lot of positions available for a self-trained cook/recipe-tester, I guess I’ll have to finish my ConLaw reading…
This weekend, I tried two different recipes: an Apple-Ginger Oat Bran muffin from an old issue [...]
Emergency rooms, migraines and distractions all around
Posted in starting over on April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When life is going well, obstacles inevitably pop up. This week has been a failure as far as working out goes; I slept in every morning only to find my efforts to work out in the evening fruitless. First, I had to meet my roommate for grocery shopping. Then, a classmate and [...]
If the way to hell is paved with good intentions, what about the road to health?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I think the answer to that one is patience. Patience and perseverance. Patience, perseverance, and surprise. Surprise and fear…wait, that’s a Monty Python sketch!
I recorded a loss this week…and then I held my drink tickets for the Gala in my hand and thought, “Well, I need to get my money’s worth, right?” [...]
Stalling out
Posted in Uncategorized on April 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This last week has reinforced to me how important it is that I learn to wakeup earlier and work out. I slept in, then promised myself that I would work out later in the day. Of course, life intervened: finishing my reading and review took longer than expected, which meant arriving at home [...]
Finding healthy, easy-to-transport lunches
Posted in diet on April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the keys to weight loss is avoiding unplanned meals, especially those in restaurants. Being a student living on loans, it’s especially important to me to avoid spending money. I almost always bring my lunch to school.
My favorite lunch foods:
1. Any cold pasta or grain salad (i.e. Quinoa Caprese)2. Sandwich fillings [...]
Venti he go? Coffee secrets of a savvy Seattle girl
Posted in diet on April 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Someone told me that once you start living a healthier lifestyle, it’s like noticing a new kind of car: suddenly, you see people doing unhealthy things (or that particular model of car) EVERYWHERE.
One of the first things I did back in the size 16 days was to switch to nonfat milk when ordering lattes and [...]
A so-so kind of day
Posted in exercise on April 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Evenings are such a minefield. I respond well to schedules and being busy. Being at home with nothing to do but chores, I tend to nosh mindlessly. But tonight, I stopped before too much damage was done.
Again, I couldn’t manage to rouse myself to get up for more than a twenty-minute yoga [...]
I am NOT a morning person
Posted in exercise on April 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today was another attempt and another miss at getting up early to exercise. After dragging myself home after a very long day, I spent most of my evening doing more research and reading, not noticing how quickly the time was going by. Now I’m irritated at myself for not working out today.
There [...]
Habit-breaking, habit-forming
Posted in diet, exercise on April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of my goals this year is to become a morning exerciser. This quarter, this has been made more challenging with 9am classes. If I want to work out, shower, eat breakfast, and catch the bus in time to make it to the law school with a bit of breathing room, I either have [...]
