Meat?

For some reason lately, I'm not into meat and animal products .

So I decided to search for some veggie blogs (and had some help from Leanna)

This is what I have found:

Eat, Live, Run
It is informative and interesting. I also admire anyone who runs.

Kath Eats Real Food
More great recipes, and I have to say, I love her philosphy. She cooks real food. I'm just not into dieting, but need to figure out a way to live healthy forever. I'm trying very hard to make health, stress managment, fitness and slenderness a lifestyle

I'm not sure if slenderness is a word - but I have little bones - and I'd like that to be obvious when I look in the mirror.

I really do like looking around for blogs. I'm so impressed by so many of them!

Stress, Hunger and Allergies

I'm feeling sort of bad that Spring is pissing me off. It is beautiful out, the flowers smell fantastic and my allergy medicine has not yet kicked in.

My friend Leanna swears by accupuncture for these sort of issues. One of these days I am going to go to accupuncture, I've even picked out a location, The Lane Center, it is convenient and highly recommended. For now I am waiting for the allergy drugs to kick in.

I haven't had allergies like this in years and years. I even hit up several clerks and probation officers for advil today in court, because I thought my head might explode (and this was indoors...very indoors...after zyrtec, some nose spray and a sudafed (the real kind)).

I digress. How does this relate to my state of eating? I tend to want to 'cure' headaches - and I have a few remedies: caffeine, water, food and advil. I also take whatever remedy is first available. Today, it was candy (small hard lemon ones) from the clerk. Then sudafed. Then advil. Then slowly I felt human again.

Then, the other thing is that I found myself stressing out a choice one of my clients has to make. I was taking on the client's stress. I realize this, and am working on it. I did not put myself in the situation that he did (and given the circumstances of the case, I can say with reasonable certainty, I never will).

So, I left court - after going from 8:45 to 1:15 with no food or drink. Needless to say I was hungry and exhausted. I met some people for lunch at a healthy eating place! I had a smoothie, and a brown rice wrap.

Then I found that I wanted some candy. I didn't have any. I did have a coke zero (still had a bit of a headache) and a a banana in the afternoon.

Then I went out and had margaritas and mexican with some other women defense attorneys. I stopped eating when I was full! Thanks Stacey for giving me some of the tools to be aware.

Oh and the cleaning lady asked me if I had lost weight (I haven't, but it was nice to hear).

Oh and the husband's efforts to quit smoking are going well. He is definitely going to gain weight. He is very very hungry. I don't care what he eats as long as he quits smoking - he's trying very hard and I am very proud of him! Now, for me to have some self control!

Ten minutes down, 170 to go

I walked for ten minutes around the block. It was the last thing I felt like doing. I could have gone around more but frankly it was 8 p.m. and I was ready for dinner.

My brown pants are not going to fit any better after that - but at least I went out for a little while.

My goal for tomorrow is to get up early and go for a walk...for any length of time...to help myself keep getting into a habit. Hopefully it will be fore 50 minutes or so.

Goals for the week

To make myself accountable:

• 180 minutes of cardio (includes walking)
• strength training twice
• write down or log what I eat so I can see what I am eating
• water, water, water

Mini-steps and revamping my GOALS

I have decided that although my leather pants from Florence circa 2001 are my ultimate goal, I need some mini-motivation. So my first mini-step is my brown suit pants, that fit but are snug and I would rather not wear them because my bottom would make J-Lo jealous.

I have not even tried on the leather pants (but I promise a picture soon).

My next goal after the brown suit pants, are my navy suit pants (which are only slightly tighter).

Then I'll have to think of something else.

For now, it's skirt suits and pantyhose to stuff it all in!

Letter to women at Parties

Recently, Leanna, my very prompt friend, of Beets, Butter and Mountaintops fame wrote a great post about women and networking events.

To read her letter click here. I was at that networking event where Pilates was on TV. I of course always believe myself to be starving, and/or on the verge of a last meal, so I may have thought some of the things the women said, but I ate anyway.

I always eat. You never know when the world is going to run out of food. Seriously, I have very little self control when it comes to food. I like it. It tastes good. I have to say, that I always think it is weird that so many people don't eat at social events. I always feel like a pig. (yes, Stacey, this is yet another judgement.) It doesn't stop me from eating. People may be thinking 'she really doesn't need that fourth mini-pizza thingy because her pants are going to bust open', yet I eat anyway.

I may think about what other people think, but then I generally do what I want...especially when it comes to food. Now I am trying to think about whether or not I am hungry, and whether or not what I am eating is healthy and filling.

It's a process. I'm learning. I could have eaten the entire bag of 100 calorie cookies...but I didn't.

Quitting smoking is not fun

At least that is what I figure. The husband is quitting smoking. I am very happy about this, he seems committed. I wish I could stick him on an island for a few days while he goes through the withdrawal.

Today is day 3 with no cigarette. I am happy that tomorrow is Monday. I feel bad for his coworkers. He's a teeny tiny bit cranky. I have left him playing the newest version of Grand Theft Auto. It is keeping him focused. Poor guy. I am actually very proud of him.

On another note, I'm not sure his taste buds will improve with this lack of nicotine thing...last night we were at Amy and Dave's and he had a cookie and found it to taste very strong, since I am generally a good wife, I dutifully finished his cookie.

Things I did this weekend that I am happy about:

• Got golf clubs
• Got some cute golf outfits
• Got some pink golf balls and tees
• Spent time with the husband looking at golf balls
• Hung out with Dave and Amy, always a fun time
• Found out that golf club boxes are an excellent play thing for kitties
• Went food shopping while STARVED...bought some things that weren't so good for me
• Got up early today...but slept in yesterday until 9.
• Tried wordpress.
• went to some open houses and thought about putting our condo on the market
• laundry
• spent time with the kitties

Things I did not do:

• Any significant work
• Set up a blog on wordpress although I tried and hopefully will make more of a breakthrough later on tonight
• walk
• run
• yoga
• weights
• pay all my bills
• go to T-ball (I do not play T-ball for the record, but my cute little nephew does)

Also, as of yet I have not made any lunches for the week. It was a rainy weekend and it was kind of nice not to do anything. It also showed me that I really need to get up and at 'em in the morning if I want to get exercising done....Sunday nights are a hard time to find motivation.

As I have been writing this Grand Theft Auto IV is playing. The graphics are unbelievable.