Filed under: Cooking, Nails | Tags: Cooking, Day 4, Food, Nails, Other
It’s still all snowy outside, so another snowbound day!
Nails: Today went well. 
Cooking: I made two egg sammiches today, one for me and one for Rosie. She was impressed with the GF english muffins. She said that had I not told her, she wouldn’t have been able to tell. I’ve been pretty impressed with everything Kinnikinnick makes.
Filed under: Cleaning | Tags: Cleaning, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Other
Week 1 went fairly well. Unfortunately I am not yet at the “maintenance” stage. So far I have gone through a lot of stuff to clean it out, and I got rid of a lot of stuff, which always feels awesome. The closet in the guest room is starting to empty out, finally. I only did two loads of dishes, which is kind of silly, but it’s better than nothing.
My bathroom is currently a disaster area. I’m trying to clean out things I won’t use. It’s much harder than it seems like it should be! I may need to have someone come over and help me go through each item and say “Yes I use this” or “No I will never use this” to get this figured out! My goal for this week is to get the bathroom done, then clean it top to bottom, and clean the kitchen top to bottom. Wish me luck!
Filed under: Girly Pushups, Running, Situps | Tags: Day 4, Exercise, Girly Pushups, Running, Situps
It looks like WordPress ate my first posting of Day 4. 
I hope I didn’t say anything too brilliant! I’ll repost the stats, and that’s all I’ve got.
Running: 30 minutes of medium effort walking.
Situps: Rest day.
Girly Pushups: Rest day.
Here was today’s plan:
Breakfast: Dried Figs, Grapefruit, Raspberries, Flaxseeds
Lunch: Wild Rice, Spinach
Dinner: Amaranth
Snack: Apricots, Pistachios, Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds
Once again, I did not eat all of this. These next 4 days the focus will definitely be preparing the food the night before and then eating all of it.
Today I am writing the entry as I go throughout my day so that I can keep a record of what I’m eating.
I went grocery shopping after work, and that was HARD. The cereal aisle made me want to cry. I finally found something I could have: Rice Chex. It has to be the brand name, I can’t even have the knock-off Rice Squares. I was so happy; I bought two boxes. Mandee called while I was there and cheered me up, so I didn’t have a complete meltdown in Cash Wise. Thanks, Mandee!
The head of the natural foods section was there when I reached that section, and we chatted a bit about various products I was looking for. She said they’re changing suppliers in about 6 weeks and they might be able to get some hemp ice cream in, which would be awesome. Even the rice ice cream has soy in it, so I currently can’t have any. She also said they might be able to get in some Sunshine Burgers which have just 5 ingredients, all of which I can eat: Ground raw sun-flower seeds, Brown rice, Carrots, Herbs, Sea Salt. Also, they taste super awesome. Hemp Ice Cream and a Sunshine Burger are what I had when I went to VG Burgers with Rosie this summer, and it was heavenly. I suppose it could just be easier to move to Boulder and go back there. I’ll work on that, too.
I returned home with a fair amount of fresh produce: a variety of potatoes, carrots apples oranges and a citrus juicer (it’s juice time!), sugar-snap peas, bananas, and a bag of salad mix; a bunch of frozen veggies: green beans, baby brussel sprouts, one of Jen’s Immunity Blends, some sort of winter squash mush, oven-bake potato-wedges, hash browns, and probably more that I’m not remembering at the moment; and some shelf-type items: a loaf of bread that I can eat, two boxes of Rice Chex, two different varieties of quinoa, a rice cereal that looks like Malt-o-Meal, a larabar (the only one without walnuts is the cherry pie one!), some Veggie Crisp chips, some egg-replacer, ground flax, and a few cans of carbonated juice.
After the cereal aisle it was a lot better, but it still wasn’t easy. A lot of the gluten-free stuff has egg in it, which is frustrating.
Here’s what I ate today:
Organic lemonade (not the best, but it’s sweetened with organic dehydrated cane juice solids and colored with turmeric), instant oatmeal (I’m using this up and then will switch to the normal kind once this is gone), Vegetable soup (veggies and lima beans! My mom and I made this when I was in Bismarck over Christmas break), raisins, Rice Chex and Hemp Milk. I don’t think I ate enough. Today was a hard day.
Biking has continued on the stationary, flossing is continuing every evening, and waking has continued at 7:00AM every morning.
Filed under: Flossing, Nails, Sleep | Tags: Day 4, Flossing, Nails, Other, Sleep
Nails: I need more lotion, my bottle is nearly empty already. The gloves I’ve been wearing seem to make my hands really dry.
Flossing: Morning again.
Sleep: Did not succeed at waking at 7:00AM, but did wake up at 8:00AM, so not too bad. I had a snow day at work, so I felt like I should have been sleeping in.
Biking: I got my new bike computer for my stationary so I can see a more reasonable display of how fast and how “far” I’m biking. I set it up and tested it out. It had me going at 10-15mph when the other one was telling me 40-60mph. Too bad I’m not that fast!
I have a basket on the front of my bike. I told my mom that I got this, and her response was, “And your little dog, too!” Today, Mandee and I were biking and she looked over at me and said something along the lines of, “You’re sitting up really straight. You kind of look like the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz.” I replied, “And your little dog, too!” I spent the rest of the bike ride occasionally humming, “doot do doot dooo doooooo dooo.”
We went to Scheels today to exchange my gloves and get me a coat and some goggles. All of this was accomplished, and I also got a skull-cap and a Camelbak water bottle that will fit in my bottle cage. I am such a sucker for Camelbaks. It’s 2.1 miles to Scheels (and back, obviously) and it felt like nothing compared to my first journey to Barnes & Noble just two days ago. It’s amazing how quickly I’m getting accustomed to this.
