Over the last few years we have acclimated to seeing calories next to our favorite food items. At first it seemed to deter some people, but eventually you just shrugged it off and ate it because you wanted that personal-size Uno pizza that is like a 1,400 calories. (Not me, because I just can̵[...]
Posts Tagged ‘#mefirst’
April 25th, 2013 - 10:09 am § in Wellness
An Evening With Jillian
When I think about spending an evening with Jillian Michaels, I immediately think buckets of sweat and a fierce attitude in your face. So I was skeptical when I heard about her “Maximize Your Life” tour. I know she offers motivation in the form of one-on-one talks on Biggest Loser, but t[...]
April 23rd, 2013 - 10:16 am § in Wellness
Sidelined and Other Ramblings
I am the perfect example of how not to take care of yourself. There are studies out there that show that stress depletes your immune system and once your stress dissipates your immune system is flooded and then you get sick. Well that happened to me last week. I was go, go, going and then I [...][...]
Weekend Warrior: Mind Prep for the Week
To put it in spinning terms…I’ve been on a slow steep climb up a massive mountain at work. There is a specific project that has been a year in the making and we are about to hit the peak and begin the incredibly speedy ride down. My days have been long, and my weeks even [...][...]
Sleeping Patterns & Exercise
I have a cut off for exercise. If I haven’t done it by 7:30 pm then it just isn’t going to happen that day. It just gets too complicated with eating dinner and getting home to shower and all that jazz. Plus I was convinced that if I exercised too close to bedtime (and I [...][...]
Long Weekend Workouts
There is something about that extra day off that seems to give me permission to have hour+ long workouts. I have extra hours to get everything done, and still relax. On Saturday I slept until noon, which was fantastic and needed desperately, since I had two very late nights during the week. When I[...]
I Don’t Find The Time to Exercise, I Make It
This week has been rough with work and something had to give….and it wasn’t going to be exercising because if I have learned anything about myself, it is that I need to exercise especially in times of high stress. So since I put blog writing on the back burner this week; here are some in[...]
A Blech Workout
Have you ever just had one of those days where you know you need to workout and you put it off until you are exhausted and just really don’t want to do it? That’s what yesterday was like. I hadn’t slept well the night before, it was Inauguration Day, and I had a few hours [...][...]
January 18th, 2013 - 3:54 pm § in Wellness
Progress(ish?)
I’ve been diligently tracking my calorie intake and burn on myfitnesspal. I’m doing it without the heart rate monitor that I am currently lusting after, so it is possible that it isn’t accurate. Anyway, a month of serious workouts with Leslie Ann, calorie tracking and upping my car[...]
How to workout “around” the resolutioners
I applaud all of the resolutioners out there for making a commitment to getting healthy this year. I hate that they take my spin bike and treadmill and only do it until March (if they are truly in the work out spirit). Q1 (as we call it in business terms) is my most stressful time [...][...]
