Addicted to Watermelon

I'm hooked. Last week I pretty much devoured an entire 14lb seedless watermelon by myself.

I'm onto #2 today!

My first variety was a normal one. This one is a sugarbaby and I like it better than the last. It's not gonna last long. I've already eaten about 1/3.

Don't judge.

What's YOUR favorite fruit? Leave it in the comments!

I've not been avoiding this, really

I really am not avoiding doing this, it's just been so busy for us and I'm sorry, but more things are important to me than working out. Like sleeping a reasonable amount of time, service, studying and FWN and making sure my fam has clean clothes to wear and clean dishes to eat off of.

So I'm counting this as a fail. But I'm not sad. I'll think of something else to do!

0 days to go!

Rest of life to live!

Day 23

Day 23. Tuesday.

Work got pushed to Thursday. I took Zane to work at 4:30 am and then fell back asleep until later. We went out to breakfast together (it feels like so long ago because it was a very busy day.) I had a vegetarian omelet. I went to the laundromat and target *see bleach blog* and then took groceries from Jewel over to Zane's work where we made turkey and avocado sandwiches and watched a Chicago Code episode. I am four episodes behind Zane and I'm trying to catch up. After he got off we went to the gym and I got to see the beginning of the Biggest Loser. Walked for 35 minutes on the stairs and then we came home and vegged out a bit. Poor Zane was pooped, at least I got to take a nap from 5 to 7. But I'm tired too so I'm going to bed!

17 days to go! It's so close!

Day 22

Day 22

Monday

Yes, I know I've missed almost an entire week. I feel it. Not that I haven't worked out, but last week was so busy and it culminated in an extremely busy weekend and I just couldn't find time to log each and everything I ate each day, and all my workouts.

So instead of trying to catch up on the days I missed (which would be soooo boring anyways because I can't remember half of it) I'm just gonna start with today!

Meeting day. I woke up and had a blueberry bagel with cream cheese *thanks Zane!* and Dunkin Donuts coffee. I then worked out using a vid I found on Netflix. It was a full body tone up by SELF magazine. It was called 'bikini body' or something like that. I didn't do it all but I did some of it. I then had a fudgesicle and lots of water. Dinner was scrambled eggs and salsa with some dabs of cream cheese mixed in for creaminess. I also sauteed up some escarole (first time!) and it turned out pretty good. Garlicky with some pepper and lemon. Yum. I saved most of it for later.

Photo above is of some delicious chocolates that Dane and Brandi gave us when they stayed with us last weekend. They were yummy and very polite. Each one said Merci to me before I ate it!

18 days to go!

Days 13, 14, 15, 16

Heehee. Whoops.

Day 13
Saturday. We showed our friends from NY our Chicago Stuffed Pizza. It was delicious and fun with friends.

Day 14
Sunday. In the city, yummy Indian food and Tamales. YUM.

Day 15
Monday. Meeting day. Smoothie for breakfast. Busy.

Day 16
Tuesday. Work day. Pizza, indian food, greek salad, workout, ice cream. You can see how I felt about working out at 9:30 pm.

I feel bad that I didn't work out for four days. But it was CO visit. And we had company. So there.

24 Days to go!

Days 11 and 12

So busy and tired.
Day 11
This day was spent at home working on the house because we had friends staying over this weekend. I don't remember anything. Oh, I made pasta sauce with mushrooms and ground turkey and crushed tomatoes and it was good.
Day 12
Bagel for breakfast, work on the house more, grapes, soy mocha, Des Plaines, pasta, strawberries, decaf coffee, sandies cookies. Friends made it in ok. More on that on zandme later. Very very busy.

28 Days to go!

Days 9 and 10

Day 9... let's see if I remember. Breakfast of a smoothie. Lunch of Indian food (fresh Aardvo -which is actually called Handvo- and olive oil, and spicy potato sabzi.) No time to eat dinner before meeting, only a string cheese and you know what that means . . . Taco Bell after the meeting! YAY! NOT! Oh well. Also, I didn't got to the gym yesterday.

Day 10

Service all day today. No breakfast-no time. Lunch at Pita House. (just remembered I left my doggie bag in the car. I'm so sad) Had a salad and part of a falafel sandwich. Three kinds of Indian sweet at Rama-bhen's, including my favorite: Kaju-pista! (cashew-pistachio sweet) Satish-bhai had just got back from India on Sunday and he brought the sweets with him, so they were very fresh. Then a tall iced decaf soy raspberry latte after service, and then two leftover tacos after the gym and a mango.

I wimped out at the gym today but I used my new purple bottle. Does that count? I climbed up the Sky Tower at least, but I couldn't do all my intervals. Only three 1:20 intervals on a "2" and three on a "10" in between them and then I finished out the rest of the 20 minutes on a "3". It actually took me 22 minutes but I did all 64 stories. Now, how am I going to get down from this thing?

30 Days to go!

Day 8

Day 8

It's an early night for me tonight. We don't have to go anywhere tonight because it's CO week. We'll see how tomorrow goes.

Zane and I got up late so we had an early lunch on our way to drop him off at work. We were on our way to Jimmy John's but passed Serino's Deli on our way and in honor of Paula we went there instead. It was really different inside since I'd been there last. I think I went with Paula right after it had opened 3 or more years ago, so it makes sense that there'd be a lot different. Like there were chairs and tables and pictures on the walls! It was pretty bare last time. I had a veggie sub and baked bbq chips and Zane had a slice of sausage pizza.

We ate fish and pasta for dinner and then went to the gym again. Both of us did intervals on the stairs for 20 minutes. Usually I will do 1:20 at a "2" and then 1:20 at an "8" and repeat it 6 times but today I did my fast interval at a "10" and I was proud of myself. I don't know what the "10" means but it's harder than an "8" at least.

There was once this Biggest Loser episode I saw where the contestants had to climb the stairs up the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, the Sky Tower in Auckland, NZ . It was 1027 steps. It was a challenge for them and it has since become a challenge for me to try "climb the Sky Tower" everytime I am on the stairs at the gym. One floor is 16 steps on the stairmaster I use (I counted) and that is 64 floors. It takes me about 20 minutes, like today I did that many exactly by the time I was done with my intervals. Just thought I'd share, it's kinda neat. It makes my workouts fun when I imagine I am actually in New Zealand climbing up the Sky Tower.

After my workout I bought a Luna bar in the gym cafe and a bottle of water and now, folks, I'm going to bed (semi) early!

32 Days to go!

Day 7

Day 7

One week into it! What? Who would-a thought? By the way, I am still so sore from Zane's workout on day 5. It's mostly my abs, since I hadn't worked on them in forever. Zane says that the first time is the worst and that after my next ab workout it won't hurt very much... at least not if I do it soon and don't wait forever.

Had a smoothie for breakfast and used up the last of my frozen mango. (BUT that's ok because we bought a carton of 12 mangoes from a vendor on Kedzie! So I just cut up half of them and stuck them in the freezer for more smoothie fun.) Had a bagel from a bhen we met near Devon and then part of Zane's sandwich and a cookie after service. Before dinner had a string cheese and grapes, and a frozen fudge bar.

Went to the gym and worked on my biceps and triceps. Hopefully I won't be very sore because 1) this is the second time I've worked them out since I started, 2) I stretched afterwards and 3) I did hot/cold/hot/cold on them in the shower right afterwards. Zane learned that trick in a fitness magazine and it works! What ever muscles you work out, in the shower afterwards you put the water on them as cold as you can stand for 30 seconds, then as hot as you can stand 2 minutes. Repeat. Do it like 4 or 5 times. What happens is when it's cold your blood vessels contract, but when it's hot they expand and flush out the stuff in your muscles that makes you sore. (Lactic acid?) I also ran on the treadmill for a while. It was weird, I actually felt like a brisk run! I did intervals of 2 min running and 1:30 walking for 20 minutes total.

After the gym I ate an orange at home. :)

33 Days to go!