So starting this challenge during an incredibly stressful weekend is probably not the best idea-- but I'm doing it anyway. Both yesterday and today I got part of my primary goals (primary goals are food, exercise, sleep and journaling) but was far from perfect. Yesterday I did make it to the gym for some cardio and I got a TON of sleep-- Thursday night I went to bed at 11 and I ended up sleeping until 10:30 yesterday morning! I was exhausted! Sleeping in so late yesterday made it hard to go to sleep last night though-- I was awake until 1! I think I got up around 8:30 today so I got not quite 8 hours of sleep (7.5 is good enough though). I think I need to aim for more than 7 and less than 9.
Yesterday was a very stressful day: lots of little dumb things went wrong like I broke a lightbulb when I knocked a lamp over and got shattered glass all over the carpet and we do not have a vacuum (it died), I called Cal State LA because checking my application status online they said my application was "incomplete." I kept getting forwarded to different people and being put on hold before I finally determined they had put my transcripts in a file of people that haven't applied yet (since I requested transcripts before I submitted my application). They couldn't match them up on their own? Surely this happens all the time! So then I called Bastyr and found out one of my letters of recommendation hasn't submitted hers yet even though it was due Thursday (she called the school and they said it would be ok for her to send it next week but she never told ME she was doing that!) All this on top of trying to study for the most difficult anatomy exam yet-- one which I am missing lecture notes for half the lectures because I missed one for being sick and one because of snow. I can do it, but it's more work than in the past because I have to rely more on the textbook. I gave in to stress eating and cravings yesterday and ate several handfuls of cereal from the box. Oh Bree!
Today was better food-wise, but I didn't have time to go to the gym. We celebrated M.'s birthday today with his family. I actually was
really happy because we had lunch at his grandma's house and I brought a big salad and dressing so I'd have something to eat. I clearly have had a good influence on Grams-- there have been meals where there was not a single vegetable. This time she made baked eggplant with tomatoes (which was actually really good!), asparagus (over done, but it's the thought that counts), yams (well, they had marsmallows on them, but still) and carrot and celery sticks (there was also chicken, bread and cake but I didn't eat any of that). I was really happy she had made such an effort with the veggies! M. made himself sick on cake and ice cream (again!). I guess he feels like he doesn't get that stuff very often so he fills up on it when he can (he also had very little to eat while he was in Reno so I think he was also starving). Then he feels sick later. My goal this summer is to try and get him committed to doing 6-8 weeks of all ETL food and see how he feels. I need to have time to plan for this because I would need to plan foods that have enough calories that he will get full but not so high calorie that he won't be able to eat enough. I just don't have time or energy now.
My calories today were within range (1569) though on the high side (I'm aiming for 1400-1600).
Today's food was:
1) strawberry, blueberry, banana, pineapple smoothie (too much pineapple-- irritated my tongue)
2) salad: spring mix, kidney beans, apple, green onion, avocado and orange creamsicle dressing
3) salad again and chocolate cherry ice cream
I shouldn't have put avocado in the salad-- I forgot I was making dressing with cashews, but I think it turned out okay. It was sure yummy anyway!
So I'd give yesterday a C grade and today a B+. I'm definitely improving-- I can still pull my average up-- I will be so glad when this last exam is over!
My nutrition textbook for next quarter just came in the mail-- I'm dying to crack it open and see what nutritional fallacies or not are in there, but I'm distracted enough playing on the internet-- I need to get focused on studying!
So starting this challenge during an incredibly stressful weekend is probably not the best idea-- but I'm doing it anyway. Both yesterday and today I got part of my primary goals (primary goals are food, exercise, sleep and journaling) but was far from perfect. Yesterday I did make it to the gym for some cardio and I got a TON of sleep-- Thursday night I went to bed at 11 and I ended up sleeping until 10:30 yesterday morning! I was exhausted! Sleeping in so late yesterday made it hard to go to sleep last night though-- I was awake until 1! I think I got up around 8:30 today so I got not quite 8 hours of sleep (7.5 is good enough though). I think I need to aim for more than 7 and less than 9.
Yesterday was a very stressful day: lots of little dumb things went wrong like I broke a lightbulb when I knocked a lamp over and got shattered glass all over the carpet and we do not have a vacuum (it died), I called Cal State LA because checking my application status online they said my application was "incomplete." I kept getting forwarded to different people and being put on hold before I finally determined they had put my transcripts in a file of people that haven't applied yet (since I requested transcripts before I submitted my application). They couldn't match them up on their own? Surely this happens all the time! So then I called Bastyr and found out one of my letters of recommendation hasn't submitted hers yet even though it was due Thursday (she called the school and they said it would be ok for her to send it next week but she never told ME she was doing that!) All this on top of trying to study for the most difficult anatomy exam yet-- one which I am missing lecture notes for half the lectures because I missed one for being sick and one because of snow. I can do it, but it's more work than in the past because I have to rely more on the textbook. I gave in to stress eating and cravings yesterday and ate several handfuls of cereal from the box. Oh Bree!
Today was better food-wise, but I didn't have time to go to the gym. We celebrated M.'s birthday today with his family. I actually was really happy because we had lunch at his grandma's house and I brought a big salad and dressing so I'd have something to eat. I clearly have had a good influence on Grams-- there have been meals where there was not a single vegetable. This time she made baked eggplant with tomatoes (which was actually really good!), asparagus (over done, but it's the thought that counts), yams (well, they had marsmallows on them, but still) and carrot and celery sticks (there was also chicken, bread and cake but I didn't eat any of that). I was really happy she had made such an effort with the veggies! M. made himself sick on cake and ice cream (again!). I guess he feels like he doesn't get that stuff very often so he fills up on it when he can (he also had very little to eat while he was in Reno so I think he was also starving). Then he feels sick later. My goal this summer is to try and get him committed to doing 6-8 weeks of all ETL food and see how he feels. I need to have time to plan for this because I would need to plan foods that have enough calories that he will get full but not so high calorie that he won't be able to eat enough. I just don't have time or energy now.
My calories today were within range (1569) though on the high side (I'm aiming for 1400-1600).
Today's food was:
1) strawberry, blueberry, banana, pineapple smoothie (too much pineapple-- irritated my tongue)
2) salad: spring mix, kidney beans, apple, green onion, avocado and orange creamsicle dressing
3) salad again and chocolate cherry ice cream
I shouldn't have put avocado in the salad-- I forgot I was making dressing with cashews, but I think it turned out okay. It was sure yummy anyway!
So I'd give yesterday a C grade and today a B+. I'm definitely improving-- I can still pull my average up-- I will be so glad when this last exam is over!
My nutrition textbook for next quarter just came in the mail-- I'm dying to crack it open and see what nutritional fallacies or not are in there, but I'm distracted enough playing on the internet-- I need to get focused on studying!