Stuff

Ok, so it's been a while since I've blogged, but that doesn't necessarily mean I've fallen off the wagon. Here are some things I'm noticing.

1) I get really off track when I travel. I was at a conference in Denver last week and I ate burger king like crazy. It's like whenever I go off my normal routine, I just get totally crappy with food. And now my skin is paying for it, too. Ick.

2) I feel better when I'm not stuffed. I've noticed that I actually don't want to eat a ton of food during the day because it makes me sluggish. Now this doesn't mean that I always listen to my body, but it's interesting that my body really doesn't want a lot of heavy food.

3) It's not much harder to add an additional 15 minutes of working out to my schedule. Before I'd been doing 30 minutes four or five times a week, but then I read that really 30 minutes is good to maintain weight, but to lose it you really have to do at least 45 minutes. I had considered upping it gradually, but last week, while watching the Superstars of Dance finale, I just went crazy on the elliptical for 45 minutes, and it really wasn't that difficult. In this week I have now done five 45 minute workouts, which is an additional 75 minutes of working out over what I would have done if my sessions were 30 minutes.

I don't have any stats because I'm too afraid to get on the scale. But my jeans fit well (the size 20 ones from the Gap, not the 22 from Lane Bryant, which I've now donated to goodwill) and I'm feeling good. Also, another benefit is that lately I've been doing a lot of one-day trips up to San Francisco, which require me getting up very early in the morning. To try to make this less painful, I'm getting on a schedule where I wake up at 6 each morning. During the three hours in between waking up and starting work, I have started doing yoga videos.

I'm also cutting way back on my diet coke and drinking a lot of water. I'm really liking the Archer Farms flavored water, but even that is beginning to be a bit strong for my newly formed tastebuds which are craving plain water and not too much flavor.

So that's where things stand right now. Maybe next week I'll have stats.