Finally Friday!

I weighed 118 pounds in January of 2000. 118 pounds. The funny thing is that was not my lowest weight as an adult. I think that that was up from 112. That was the year I got diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. One doctor I went to (the first) told me that I had iritable bowel syndome and I should be happy because I was so nice and slender (I was probably around 122-125 down from a 137). I cried on the way home. I was sick and I knew it. So eventually I found a great doctor, and have since switched to a different great doctor, and all is well.

I met my husband right around when my weight was normalizing and I was getting healthy...and by the summer of 2001 I was at a good healthy fighting weight! I just kept on going. I wasn't exercising as much due to getting a 'real job'.

When I took the bar exam, I was rigid about self-care. I would study for certain periods of time, eat, exercise and make sure that I took a mental break from studying by spending time with pretty much anyone who wasn't studying for the bar. What happened?

That's the question that I am starting to answer.

Today, I was ok. I had to have a blood test that required fasting so I skipped my morning walk and breakfast and had a dunkin donuts coffee, a raisin bran muffin, water, then had a banana, some california rolls, an apple, microwave popcorn and then out of boredom...a snickers egg.

The best part, I don't even like snickers. They are edible, but generally I do not like nuts in my dessert and snickers is no exception.

Google Blogger

I should say that I am still trying to figure out this google blogger thing. I REALLY want to be able to categorize my posts. I want some to be about what I did, and some to be about what I ate and exercised. I don't think EVERYONE wants to know what I ate and when I exercised (unless it involves a fun story about falling or something very very yummy).

So today so far, so good. Well. So far so okay. I got up went to my breakfast meeting (ate a flax fig waffle on the way...actually 2 flax fig waffles) and then got there and had coffee with milk. Then we were out of milk and so I had some light cream.
Then I saw the scones and thought that 8 a.m. was as good a time as any to have breakfast number 2.

I stopped for coffee on my way to the office (a medium with skim milk because I am trying to cut down on caffeine).

I then had a banana.

THEN was the dessert. I arrived in my office to an email from the office manager -"there is a yummy dessert upstairs, and it has whipped cream, and it is too big for the refrigerator so please eat". (FYI - we have a dorm size fridge) So after my banana I decided to taste it. It looked yummy, chocolate, then whipped cream, then strawberries.

I tasted it and thought it had gone very very very bad. I threw it away.
I then ate my lunch at an appropriate lunch eating time (like 12:02).
Then I saw the office manager eating the dessert. She said it was yummy. I thought maybe the banana screwed with my taste buds. I tried it again after a discussion with our law clerk. He said it tasted like there was booze in it. Oh RUM! That's the taste. So I had some again. There was a LOT of rum in it. I thought maybe it would make me drunk, but alas it didn't.

I then had an orange.

Then I was going to meet my friend for drinks. We met. But no drinks for Jess. I forgot my I.D. and the bartender wouldn't serve me alcohol. It happens sometimes. So I had a diet pepsi. Calorie crisis averted!

Fenway Franks

Last night my husband and I went to the Sox/Angels game. It was a nice night, too bad the Sox didn't play better. One thing about Fenway, is that there is a LOT of food. I did see one sign that said "healthy options" with an arrow. I'm not sure what the healthy options were...peanuts? Anyway, I think I did pretty well. I had a frank and a beer and some peanuts. My husband did okay too, he had two franks, three beers and some peanuts.

I should also add that after the game, we walked from Fenway to JP Licks in the Back Bay (it was VERY crowded) and he had a sundae and I had a frozen yogurt cone. We then walked back to Park Street and took the T home.

That's walking right?

So I walked twice yesterday, once in the morning (for a half an hour around my neighborhood) and then last night for about 40 minutes. I also did some triceps and some push ups.

I'm still not quite sure how I'm going to set this up - if my posts are going to be about things I do and about what I eat and how I exercise and try to keep myself sane?

First of all, I'm not, and never was the tree-hugging type. I feel like I've been living my life on fast forward. Stress and anxiety has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember (can you say Type "A"). I have worked hard to get where I am, and I like where I am. One of the things that I have wanted to do and am trying to do is to live healthier. What does that mean? It means, taking care of myself, listening to my body and most of all - eating healthy and trying to use natural products. I'm not the vegan or vegetarian type. I'm the woman who honks at you as you drive to work. I'm the woman who runs into CVS for nylons because mine got a run on the way to work. I need more balance in my life. So I'm going to document it. Maybe I'll learn something.