I've been a bona fide Coach Potato for years now. I love to watch tv on my days off and sometimes in the evenings after work. I DVR (record) shows that I love during the week and watch them over the weekend. It's my way of relaxing after a long day of work. I grew up watching a lot of tv and movies with my family. I'm a homebody at heart I tell ya!
I wish I was more active growing up. Now I that I really want to lose weight, I have to change almost 30 years of being a coach potato. I know being this way has helped in gaining all of this weight. It has been hard for me to transition in more exercise to be honest with you. I know if I really want to lose weight I need to get moving! I have 2 dogs that I should walk at least once a day, and I don't even do that. They are always excited when my sister and I do take them for a walk. Fortunately they run around the house and play with each other a lot, but that's no excuse not to walk them!
It doesn't help that my family are all the same way too. We are all homebodies at heart unfortunately. I know I need to do something about it and not let this hinder my journey. I wish we had room to put our treadmill in our living room instead of where it currently is (in our patio). I need to make more of an effort to go on it and to take my dogs for walks. I know if I at least walk half an hour a day it will help me out (along with eating healthier). I need to have my brain and body actually work together and become in sync. Arghh! I'm so frustrated with myself right now!!!
I love going to Trader Joe's (www.traderjoes.com)! I went there this morning to buy some groceries. I love how most of the food there either is organic and/or uses natural ingredients (no high fructose corn syrup or partially hydrogenated oil). Normally when I go there I usually go gaga for all their snacks and desserts. I did pretty good today. I mainly bought healthy food like salad greens, bagged spinach, lowfat organic yogurt and cheese, sliced almonds, and whole wheat english muffins and crackers.
I only bought 2 things that I would consider indulgent for me. They were blue potato chips (so yummy!!!) and mini mint ice cream mouthfuls (my new favorite dessert! LOVE IT!!!). They're essentially mini ice cream sandwiches. I love mint and ice cream. Together = yum yum yum! They are 170 calories and 6g fat for two of them, but I can eat just one to be satisfied. Portion control at its finest!
I think I'm going to make a bbq chicken salad with leftover rotisserie chicken from costco for dinner. Lots of veggies and protein with a little bbq sauce and lowfat parmesan ranch dressing mixed in. Sounds so yummy!
I've been trying to figure out what kind of diet I want to go on (WW, South Beach, Best Life Diet, etc.). I started reading The Low GI Diet Revolution this week while riding the train to and from work.
Like Bob Greene's The Best Life Diet, it is very informative. It talks about why it's good to eat healthy and how losing weight (especially in your midsection) helps prevent getting heart disease and diabetes later on. I'm 2/3 of the way done already and haven't been bored by it. I think I will start it on Monday. :0)
I've been pretty stressed out lately and haven't tried as hard as I did while my sister was on vacation (I plead the 5th as to why...). I need to not let the ongoing distractions get the best of me because it is not worth it in the end. I need to think about myself, first and foremost, instead of thinking of others first and stop thinking about the kind of people I'm constantly surrounded by (unfortunately). I'm hoping the constant annoyance will one day be gone from my life (wishful thinking). *sigh*
I can't wait until it's Friday. The week hasn't gone fast enough. I've been so busy at work this week that it's helped time go by faster but it hasn't gone fast enough apparently. Hopefully tomorrow will go by quickly so Friday will be here already. Just 2 more days to go...
I've never really been much of a morning person. I'm more of a night owl TBH. I've always been able to (some way, some how) wake up in the morning considering this to take a shower and get ready for work. Lately though, I haven't been able to wake up until 10-15 minutes later than I normally do (today wasn't any different) which makes me rush and almost get late trying to get out of the house in time. This is what happens when I am so sleep deprived I don't even want to wake up early. I can totally hear my loud alarm clock go off and still hit the snooze each time to get a few more minutes of sleep. I went to bed at 1030 last night but couldn't fall asleep right off the bat. I need to turn my mind off before I go to bed. I have too much on my mind unfortunately. :0(
I have read several articles stating that not getting enough sleep makes you gain weight. Take it from me, it's true since I'm living it right now. I need to seriously start going to bed early now because I'm not as young as I used to be where I could sleep for a couple of hours and function the next day. Now I need at least 7-8 hours of sleep to really function at work. All those years of lack of sleep are now definitely coming back to haunt me. I'm not a spring chicken anymore that's for sure! lol Time for me to get more sleep. I know my mind and body will thank me for it! :0)
My sister was lucky to find a [Nintendo] Wii Fit last Friday (considering it has been selling out everywhere since it first came out back at the end of May). She set it up in the living room today and tried it out. She said it was so much fun! I can't wait to try it out myself!
I woke up this morning to the sound of one of my dogs whining. It was a little after 830am (lovely...NOT! lol). They usually want attention after a certain hour, and today wasn't anything different lol. Since my sister fed them the rest of their food last night, I had to cook their food this morning. See, my dogs don't eat the normal dry kibble and wet food in a can. I stopped feeding that to them awhile back especially when the whole tainted pet food tragedy happened. The funny thing about it is I think they eat healthier than me!
The concoction I made up for them consists of lean ground turkey and mixed veggies like carrots and peas. I cook the turkey first and add the veggies right when it's almost cooked through. I usually add some rice to the mixture and wha-la! The boys dog food. :0) It's much healthier and organic than what is in commerical dog food, and I know what's going into their bellies. My dogs love to eat anything too from fruits, veggies, even junk food (I know but they don't get it that often). I'm still trying to figure out what other nutrients I need to give them (since I don't think what I make is completely full of the nutrients they need), and I give them hard dog biscuits to help clean their teeth to substitute the dry kibble (which the vet said they "needed" to have).
Now why is it my dogs eat healthier than me? Grant it, we usually make the same thing every time for them (although my mom does make variations to it and switches it up a little from time to time). I should use them as an example and follow suit! If they eat healthy for the most part, I can do it too! DUH!!! lol :0P
Side note: I didn't make my mom a cake yesterday. She was asleep most of the day and I was kind of lazy too (which is probably better for my waistline in the end lol). She told me before she left last night that maybe we could make something with our peaches instead like a cobbler or a crisp. I looked up some recipes online last night but will look some more this morning. Maybe I can find one that is healthy and yummy all at the same time!
We're not going to do anything too special to celebrate today since she is going out with one of her friends later to Cache Creek (an Indian casino). Normally we would go out to eat at a nice restaurant to celebrate. All my mom wants is to eat some Vietnamese food before she goes out. Nothing special. My mom has always been very simple and easy to please. One of the many things I love about her! At least the Vietnamese food my sister is buying is pretty healthy. Vermicielli noodles with barbeque chicken and salad. YUM!!! I'll probably cook her something tomorrow for lunch or dinner (she won't be home until tomorrow too lol).
Instead of buying a cake for her, I've decided to bake one for her. She wants it with chocolate and raspberries (yum!). I'm going to use my new bundt pan that I just bought from Williams-Sonoma. It's a giant cupcake! Now ain't that simply adorable?!?!!
(pic shows it as an ice cream cake.)
Time to bake her cake before she wakes up from her nap.
My mom spoke to one of my cousins in the Philippines while she was speaking to my aunt. My cousin asked her if she wanted to be one of the sponsors (aka godmother) during his wedding which means my mom will need to go there some time next year. The wedding date isn't set as of yet. What a great reason to go back! :0) I haven't been there in 17 years! CRAZY! Every time I think of my cousins there, I think of them as still being small (when they really aren't lol). I've been wanting to go back there for some time now, and now that I have a good reason to go, I know I need to step it up and get serious about losing weight. I don't really want my family (mom's side) to see me looking this way. YUCK! Hopefully he'll get married next summer or fall so I have a good year to lose some major weight lol. I also need to get my passport in order so I can leave the country (mine has been expired for like 2 years now...so bad!).
I'm really excited to go! It's been way too long since I've been there, and so much has changed. I need to save money, save vacation time, and lose lots of weight from now until whenever the wedding date will be.
I'm in such a bad mood right now. All I can say is that I'm glad I'm not at work at the moment, and I'm also glad that tomorrow is Friday. The weekend couldn't come any sooner! All I want to say at the moment is WORK SUCKS!!! Not only am I grumpy, I'm tired (but not really sleepy or else I would so be asleep already), I'm hot (it was pretty warm again today and the house retained the heat), and I'm chewing some sugar-free gum to prevent me from raiding the kitchen right now. (I am an emotional eater...). I think I might do a little retail therapy (although I know I shouldn't) after work tomorrow to momentarily forget my frustrations. I'm going to try to just do some window shopping but I want to buy some summer sandals. We'll see...
I need drink some ice cold water now to cool me down because if I don't cool down by the time I go to bed, I won't be able to fall asleep (I can't sleep when my feet are really hot which they are at the moment). Ice anyone?
CRAZY! Every time I think of my cousins there, I think of them as still being small (when they really aren't lol). I've been wanting to go back there for some time now, and now that I have a good reason to go, I know I need to step it up and get serious about losing weight. I don't really want my family (mom's side) to see me looking this way. YUCK! 
Hopefully he'll get married next summer or fall so I have a good year to lose some major weight lol. I also need to get my passport in order so I can leave the country (mine has been expired for like 2 years now...so bad!).