New blog address:
www.findinmyinnerathlete.blogspot.com

Wednesday

http://findinmyinnerathlete.blogspot.com/2012/01/wednesday.html

Tuesday Eats

http://findinmyinnerathlete.blogspot.com/2012/01/tuesday-eats.html

2012 goals

http://findinmyinnerathlete.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-goals.html

Monday

New Blog entry-- http://findinmyinnerathlete.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-had-appointment-to-get-my-side-mirror.html

Small Resolutions

http://findinmyinnerathlete.blogspot.com/2012/01/taken-from-httpwww.html

New Year~~ New Blog post on Findinmyinnerathlete

I posted a new blog entry on my new blog....
http://findinmyinnerathlete.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-year-new-blog.html

New Year- New blog~~
I've been throwing around starting a different blog, one with a more "health/fitness" status. I wasn't sure I wanted to use Wordpress or Blogger, but decided to stick with Blogger. I just wasn't able to transfer my old blog posts. But, with this being a "New Year-New blog," it's out with the old, and in with the new fresh start! I know I don't have a lot of subscriber's, but if you do happen to subscribe to me, please follow my other blog!
www.findinmyinnerathlete.blogspot.com

Food Diary

Well, this is my first attempt at taking pictures of everything I ate today. I didn't get my dinner photographed, so Google images will have to suffice.  I am so unbelievably tired right now. It took me quite awhile to fall asleep last night, and then I woke up really early.  I was excited that the Fitbit I ordered, got here today, and after a couple hours of fooling with it, I finally got it to work. Now hopefully I can figure out all the ins and outs of it and "syncing" it.  It was an $100 investment for me, so I really hope that it'll be worth it! It tracks activity, sleep, stairs, blood pressure, glucose (I think), and I think you can have it track other things too. 

Breakfast pre-workout                                    Post workout (60 min spinning class)

Lunch- TJ's Lentil soup, clementines, and Fage yogurt

  

Vitamuffin banana nut for dessert

 

 Snack-- I didn't get a picture taken of it, but I had coffee and a Luna Coconut chocolate bar-- definitely need to work on having less caffeine...

Dinner- TJ Quinoa with mixed veggies

 

Broccoli and cauliflower with TJ hummus

more mixed fruit from Whole Foods

Another Vitamuffin for dessert

After dinner snack...

Keep On Keeping On

This would be what a really big bird (of all things) can do to a car when the bird (hawk/vulture?) is too concerned with the roadkill on the road, and gets a low take off... (My car was just paid off in November, so it's bit disheartening to see this!) I had somewhat of an adventuresome drive-- with almost hitting a flattened cardboard box blowing out of the pickup in front of me, and hitting a big tumbleweed, even before I hit the bird!

I'm going to come out of my Christmas break by the skin of my teeth I believe, with the abuse I've been doing to my body. I have been eating absolutely horribly the last 2 weeks (well, the last several weeks/months have not been entirely good either), and it will be another 2 days before I'm able to get back to somewhat normalcy. I haven't been able to exercise the last 3 days due to traveling, and it's absolutely killing me that I'm not able to--- which seems kind of funny to me. I think maybe in the past, I wouldn't have really cared. My motivation has been lacking lately, and I've made the choice not to work out. Now when I'm not able to work out and I actually want to, seems a bit funny. With the stress of the holidays, I've been eating like a bottomless pit (and not entirely healthy), so that's part of the reason why I know not working out is so not good for me right now. I haven't been able to choose as much of what I eat with traveling, and not having the choices I normally have with food has been taxing on me.

I really would like to start taking pictures of what I eat, to be more accountable, but I suppose I'm a bit self-conscious about letting other people see that I'm taking a picture of what I'm eating. I ordered a Fit Bit , which I'm really excited about-- it will help with tracking calories, weight, and exercising. Hopefully, it doesn't become just another "fad" for me, and not get used.

I've never been really good at setting and attaining goals, partially b/c I've always struggled with having consistency in my life. I used to make New Years resolutions, but stopped a couple of years ago. They were always broken within a couple of weeks. I know that I need to be more specific than just "lose weight," in my goal, but at this point that's all that I can really think of. I want to be able to run another 5K, and also have balance/moderation in my eating. I guess I'm still working out the specifics.