Showing posts with label Month End. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Month End. Show all posts

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Eats, Yoga and Month End Summary

Sorry for the lack of blogging last night. I didn’t get much of a chance and since I knew I’d be off today I just figured I try to blog twice today. This might be a long one so bear with me please.

Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s food:

Lunch was leftover salad…

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I have no idea how I ended up with such a crappy picture (apparently I just wasn’t paying attention).

Some Kashi crackers and pb…

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And of course the standard yogurt cup…

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Last night Jaime and I went to my first yoga class at Breathing Space. Long Slow Deep. It was fantastic. I really like the atmosphere, instructor and the class size. There was only 7 of us in the class which meant that the instructor could go around give each person some individual attention. It was hard, sweaty and gave me a great stretch. I woke up feeling sore this morning which I think is a sign of a great class. I’m trying now to convince Matt to attend the class with me next week. He’s never done yoga in a class before (just at home with me) so we’ll see :)

On my way home I stopped at subway and picked up a sub. Turkey on cheesy bread again. Since Matt had a work dinner last night and I was still thinking about my sub from the day before I figured it would be a perfect time to grab another one.

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Even though I was off this today I volunteered to drive Matt to work so I could run a couple of errands and hit the gym later.

The morning started with this…

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I also did some banking and stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few things. They included:

Vitamuffins…

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Sabra Hummus…

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The blog world has been raving about this lately so I can’t wait to crack it open and give it a try.

And Orange Mango Liberte Yogurt…

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I haven’t tried this flavour yet so I’m really looking forward to it.

And some Bert’s Bees Lip Balm…

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I haven’t tried this kind yet but I love bees wax lip balm so I’ll see how much I like it.

After I got home and decided to make some oats. I followed the same recipe from last time and this time my toppings were 1/2 a banana (since I forgot to add it into the pot), a splash of UCAB and a scoopful of White Chocolate Wonderful pb.

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This combo was fantastic. I’m already thinking about other combinations I can make while I’m off.

I was suppose to spend the morning finished any last minute marking and started report cards but I ended up working on a couple of other things that needed to get done. This probably means that I won’t make it to the gym later but last least I got quite a bit accomplished today.

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Month End Summary

So when Jaime posted last month about her activity calendar I knew I wanted to start something similar. The difference is that I also wanted to see how my healthy eating was going compared to unhealthy eating.

Here are my results…

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Breakdown:

  • Apples are for healthy eating days at home
  • Hearts are for healthy eating (not at home)
  • Ice-cream is for unhealthy eating
  • Bees are exercise stickers

Results:

  • 9 out of 31 days were unhealthy dinners
  • 20 out of 31 days I was able to get in some exercise

Conclusion:

  • Overall I think I did pretty well. I’d like to only have about half that much of unhealthy eat days – average once a week instead of twice.
  • I think I did pretty well on the exercise. I averaged 5 days/week so I guess I can’t complain about that.
  • I think there are quite a few days that were just yoga so I’d like to have a more regular schedule for weights and cardio

Goals:

  • To decrease my unhealthy eating down to just once a week
  • To continue with C25K (3 times a week)
  • Weight lift 3 times per week
  • Try to get a little other cardio in a week (twice maybe?)
  • Get to yoga at least once a week (maybe twice)

I know those are pretty hefty goals but we’ll see how it goes for this month and re-evaluate again at the end of April.

I know this was a really long post and thanks for reading. I promise to keep it short and sweet tonight.

~ Katie :)