I am a Christmas Elf!

Today I took my grandma to San Jose to go shopping for Christmas. It was so crowded, I cant believe we decided to go so close to D-Day!

But to make a long story short we found everything we needed and then some. And we had our normal splurge of Panda Express for lunch. I was actually very good and had a Panda Bowl with steamed veggies and eggplant tofu! I am so proud of myself and it was surprisingly filling. Veggies do that to you, water content and high fiber always makes you full.

I need to get my pilates for the day done and it is already 10:22. ahh!

 

Namaste

Today I was completely adventurous! First I took the food journal off my page! YAY, applause, clapping and screaming fans everywhere! Why? Well I have been having very un-healthy thoughts lately, like ED thoughts, and I decided to do a lot of research and create an account on caloriecount.com, which is an About.com affiliate.

I really like the sight. It lets you dictate a calorie intake goal for the day and then you can log all the food you consume. Plus the food database is huge, and if it doesnt have something you ate, you can add it manually including all its nutritional info, not just the calories. Then it has an activity tracker with tons of activities. It tells you based on your height and weight and age etc. how many calories you need to consume in a day to maintain and then cross references it to how many you need to burn. It is so cool. I am completely stoked!

So what did I do today, I did 40 minutes of yoga. This site got me all motivated and I have decided to try to do some sort of activity every day. Today was yoga, I feel so good and relaxed now.

The sight caloriecount.com is so cool, it had the hatha yoga that I did and it said that if you do an hour it burns 180 calories. I only did 40 minutes and it wasnt too hard. Hello, every little bit helps.  

Oh, and caloriecount wanted a goal for when I want to lose my 25 pounds by. Which I so never thought of before. So I decided on my birthday, July 3rd. That gives me 6 months to get it done.

I have chosen to eat 1200 calories a day which would get the 25lbs lost in around 3 to 4 months, but I am accounting for some bad days and I want to have a free day every week. This way I don’t feel too deprived. I want this to become a way of life now that I am no longer an athlete and burning an average of 600 calories a day.

But anyways back to my yoga.  I am so happy I started doing it again. It was rather challenging since I am still sickly and very stuffy. The whole control your breathing thing is a little hard while coughing and trying  to breath through congestion. But I sucked on a cough drop for about half of it and was using my super cook CamelBak water bottle. Save the earth, use re-usable.  Well I’m off to shower before basketball practice and I have to go out to Best Buy to do a little recon work on my moms Netbook Christmas present.

 

Stepping Back & Noticing

This morning I woke up to find myself still sickly. I really wanted to wake up to feeling better and having proof that I am on the back-end of this whole viral plague situation. But after truly looking at the situation objectively and with an unbiased eye, I must conclude that I am just as sick as I was yesterday.

The good news is that I have finally decided between a simple cold and a sinus infection. It’s a head cold which is much better than a sinus infection because it requires no doctors visits or antibiotics.

So suffering from a headache and eye pain, stuffy-ness, coughing and chapped lips I have nestled myself with my computer and camera on the couch in front of the TV.

I don’t really like to talk about my “food afflictions” on this page, I keep another page to talk about my daily trials, so that people who don’t want to read about it don’t have to. But last night I came up with something new to try to lose the weight and I am trying it out today. I want to write about it here.

I decided to monitor my calories, I practically count everything I eat already so this is not that big of an undertaking. A year of Weight Watchers combined with another year or so of calorie counting does that to you. It is surprising how it becomes second nature.  But I did some research online and found out that for my height and weight and the desire to lose 25 pounds I need to consume between 1100 and 120o calories a day. I feel like now that I have a cap on my calories I will binge a lot less. Then I also decided that I can do fine not eating all day, but it will eventually lead to me over eating due to deprivation. So I am trying to eat many small meals throughout the day. I don’t get weird if I don’t eat any actual meals, i.e. breakfast, lunch or dinner. I often eat something like crackers and cheese for dinner or something that is considered a snack or side dish in place of my meal.

So with implementing this new concept I actually made myself breakfast… first in a while. I made some instant oats with vanilla flavored almond milk. I added some walnuts, dates and cranberries. It was amazing. I wont put the calories on here and will post it on my journal page, but it was a good investment of calories.

I am feeling surprisingly good about this new food outlook and adventure. Oh and cn I say how happy I am with my HP Mini Netbook?! Its fabulous, and since I am an ex-mac that is saying something. The only thing I don’t like about it is the Windows 7 Starter. I am asking for the upgrade to full Windows 7 for Christmas, we will see if Santa is good to me this year.

My cold medicine is kicking in and making me sleepy, im off for a nap.