The mind is the enemy

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Back to the gym today! Things are looking up. Today I used my new app again but picked a simple session, six intervals of 3 minutes moderate + 1 minute hard. Totalled up to 2.4 miles in 25 minutes. I liked this one a lot, I was able to turn off the display on the treadmill and just wait for instructions. After that disastrous workout a couple days ago I'm glad I picked something I could handle this time around.

This isn't a shocker, but with a couple of weeks of bad eating and no exercise my general anxiety levels were getting a little tough to handle. But it's gotten MUCH better this week!
 
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This isn't a shocker, but with a couple of weeks of bad eating and no exercise my general anxiety levels were getting a little tough to handle. But it's gotten MUCH better this week!
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I usually find the same too, but it still amazes me that I can forget this. My mood is really affected by what I eat & how much I exercise.
BTW- I'm glad I don't love potatoes. Since I was advised to cut my sodium I find potatoes almost inedible. Now....if the doctor had said cut down my wine, I would probably be at least 3kg lighter!
 
Blech, anxiety is not my friend. And I notice it gets worse when I eat more sugar, too, so sometimes I don´t understand why I eat half the stuff I eat. Good job on the workout, exercise keeps it together when all else falls apart.
 
Gosh, time flies, doesn't it?? Since I last posted I've had two ski weekends and I am currently exhausted. The first weekend was with nine coworkers, and the second was with G and his parents. I am still a beginner skiier, but I took a private lesson yesterday and was very pleased with my progress.

Food has been awful lately. I'm not sure what happened last week but things got ugly. The theme of the week was pizza. We got pizza with my co-workers, G happened to have planned deep dish pizza for Sunday without my knowledge, my Friday catered lunch was pizza, we ordered flatbreads at the bar after work on Thursday...I am so over pizza.

The good news is that our weather is expected to be above freezing for much of the week. Walks at lunch and early mornings are easy in those temps, for sure.

The bad news is that I'm days away from the big 3-0, ack! I know it's not so bad, and I wasn't one of those girls who was dreading it at all.... Until it was a week away, haha. There are definitely things I thought I'd accomplish in my twenties that I didn't, but I'd say I did pretty darn good for myself. But anyway, it's coming whether I like it or not, and I totally got carded when my team at work took me out to celebrate on Thursday. So I'm just going to hold on to that :)
 
An early Happy Birthday! 30 was a career ago and in a different part of the country for me. I'm hitting 40 late this year so 30 sounds pretty inviting. 30 is odd because you spend essentially all of your adult life as a 20 something and then you hit 30. It's like "oh shit I'm for real a grown up" mixed with "I really thought I'd have my shit more together by now". I'll save you the suspense. You won't have your shit as together as you'd like at 40 either.

Pizza is lterally poison to me now and that's probably for the best. Exertion in the cold makes me so hungry! I'm sure skiing would really do that.
 
Glad to have you back! I fell down while jogging on my thirtieth birthday, had to walk through town all bloodied up and broke a tooth a couple of days later. Otherwise 30 is fine ;) Pizza is not. But you´ll get back into the game, just keep posting.
 
Thanks for the constant support, guys and gals! I don't plan on having pizza for a LONG time! What I am planning, though, is a little break from drinking starting on Saturday. My big celebration is on Friday, and G's birthday is the 25th, so I've decided to abstain from alcohol in between those two events. Not that G's day will be an 'event', but it was just an easy day to pick. I do hate setting rigid boundaries for myself, but being lax doesn't work either. I have at least one Saturday night social event that I'll have to deal with sober, and I am welcoming the challenge. Please feel free to hold me accountable. I'm not setting any other goals for myself during that time, just thinking maybe the one positive change will naturally lead to more of them.

LaMa, that story is awful! Maybe I'll just go for a walk on my birthday, haha. I had a running fall when I was lost once... Finally found a human who let me in to his car repair shop to wash up and apply bandages and then gave me directions to get home. There's probably still some gravel embedded somewhere under my skin.
 
O it was better than that: I was living in a tourist area at the time and as I was walking home an Asian couple was taking pictures in the park. The man asked me (not really, the only english word he knew seemed to be "photo") if he could take a picture of his wife and me (I must be in several dozen Southeast-Asian photo-albums by now) and as I turned around to join her in front of a group of statues he saw the blood running down the back of my arms. He didn´t say anything but he was suddenly very pale and as I limped away after the pictures I could hear him rattle at his wife really excitedly. I´d like to know what explanation they came up with :D
 
LaMa, people ask to take pictures with strangers on the street? Or are you famous and hiding your identity from us???
 
Mid-day update:

Breakfast was coffee, a banana, and Greek yogurt with some brown rice crispies thrown in for texture. Lunch was a salad with all sorts of yummies - garbanzo beans, avocado, apples, hard boiled eggs, and cucumbers. Oil and vinegar for dressing. I've got some fruit for dessert or a snack.

Dinner is going to be homemade lasagna that I froze a few weeks ago. I'm excited for it, I even made the noodles! My goal will be to leave enough for lunch tomorrow instead of eating it all tonight. I'll let you know how I do!!
 
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Ooo your salad sounds great!

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LaMa, people ask to take pictures with strangers on the street? Or are you famous and hiding your identity from us???
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:D Some people do when said strangers are female, very pale-skinned, blond and taller than the tourists... My clients sometimes show me old pictures of themselves on holiday, posing with "exotic"-looking (how I hate that word) strangers so I guess that´s just human nature.
 
Yesterday was definitely a good day, Mystic! I failed on my lasagna goal, but that was the only misstep. My 'treats' were two glasses of wine and one frozen cookie dough ball. Has anyone eaten frozen cookie dough balls? They are delicious. I made cookies and cream cookies a few weeks ago and put a dozen uncooked in the freezer with the plan to bake them later....but I just keep eating them raw.

Exercise yesterday (Monday) = minimal. A short walk at lunch with a co-worker, and five minutes of random exercises at night. A few pushups and squats and downward dogs, basically.

Exercise so far today = quick run on the 'mill. 1.75 miles in around 19 minutes, with an extra 0.75 of walking between warm up and cool down. I did 1 minute sprints, times 7. Speed varied from 6.0 mph to 6.7 mph, although I definitely could have pushed myself harder.

Food today: I've got Grape Nuts, cottage cheese, and a cup of mixed fruit in my arsenal, but nothing else planned as of yet.
 
I'd say "welcome back", but I think I've been gone longer. Don't worry about 30 - I actually had more fun at my 29th birthday, but I was in a transitional phase of life when I turned 30, so I didn't have too many friends.

Awesome goal for March (most of March), you'll do fine. I knew a recovering alcoholic that used to have soda mixes - asked the bartender to mix this-and-that-and-t'other and a couple cherries, and he had a mocktail. Granted he was rail thin, so the calories meant nothing to him, but it's something to consider when you're out with the gang.
 
Frozen cookie dough ball... yeah, I'm trying that.! haha! I'll wait until I've been back on track for a while though. I don't trust myself not to eat like a dozen of them right now. lol.
 
LJ if it wasn't for my co-workers I'd have a very quiet and boring life.... I'm thankful for them every single day, but terrified by the thought of trying to keep them as friends if I ever decide to leave.

I've never truly taken any break from all alcohol, so I'm hoping this little 2.5 weeks will be short enough for me to make it through but long enough to make an impact. LJ, you probably remember that I truly can enjoy and appreciate a single good quality beer at times, but I'm over being hungover after too many boring drinks on a Thursday. Plus, I hear that when you turn thirty hangovers start lasting two days, and I'm really not on board with that!!!

Jen, the cookie dough balls are surprisingly one of the few things I haven't binged on recently, but I hear ya, why test yourself now?? Just remember it the next time you wanna bake cookies and don't want them around to tempt you!! I forgot about mine for weeks before I started munching.
 
Early happy birthday. Sounds like you got yourself quite a backlog of stories to share. Aging isn't so bad, they say your 30's are the best time of your life. I will hope that is the case for you. And for myself as I'll be there with you soon in a few years, heh. Good luck and keep pushing!
 
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