May 2009
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Zarela Menu - Midtown East - New York Magazine... →
What to have for dinner? I’m going to this restaurant tonight and trying to figure out what’s the healthiest (besides the salad.) I’m thinking maybe fajitas and substituting with corn tortillas. Going out is always hard!
DAILY DOSE APRIL 27 | Women's Health Magazine →
Tamsin clued me into this one! Women’s Health (ONE OF MY FAVE MAGS!) has this Daily Dose, which has “eat-this-not-that” and some other good features. I just subscribed to it and you should too!
I'm waiting for takeout
If you’re a loyal reader, you know I’m probably waiting for sushi. If you’re not a loyal reader, you probably don’t care. Actually either way, you probably don’t care.
Anyway, I know I spend too much money on takeout. But hey, if I could stop eating all the crap that made me fat and lose 19 pounds in 10 weeks, I can stop spending so much on takeout and cooking more....
I don't want to work out right now
But I will.
Unrelated to weight loss
But please wish Eileen luck! She’s having surgery on her ACL tomorrow — the second such surgery in the past year. She’s one of my good friends from high school, and, really, nobody deserves having surgery twice in one year. So go on! Wish her luck!
I've lost 19 pounds!
Not 15, not 18, not 20. I mentioned to someone today that I lost 19 pounds, and they said “wow, you lost 20 pounds!”
I got weirdly defensive. Most of those pounds have been a struggle. Strangely enough, the last 4-5 were ridiculously easy. But the rest I WORKED MY ASS OFF FOR. So when I get to 20, (which should be really soon!) I will throw myself a party. Like, at the gym. With no...
FYI
I’ve taken down the info from my nutritionist for legal reasons, but if you’re looking for an awesome nutritionist in NYC, feel free to e-mail me at theodora AT theodorablanchfield.com and I will certainly recommend her!
Secrets of the fittest- Self Magazine
kmaverick:
1. Pay lip service to hot abs
To achieve the firm midsection you’ve always wanted, become a blowhard. “When doing crunches, I exhale during the contraction, my lips pursed, as if I’m blowing through a small straw,” says Jay Blahnik, a trainer in Laguna Beach, California, who has worked with Jane Fonda. “I feel my stomach muscles contract more intensely, and I stay more focused.”
2....
One more note on the nutritionist
Lest you think you can’t afford a nutritionist, PLEASE check your health insurance, as she was covered by my health insurance as a specialist, so I had to pay a $40 copay, which is much better than whatever it would have cost to see her had my insurance not covered it. Also, sometimes pre-existing conditions (i.e. stomach conditions) can be “reasons” that insurance will cover it.
Today is a rockstar kinda day
I e-mailed my mom and told her I pretty much feel like there’s nothing I can’t do right now. This morning I jumped on the scale and it said 171, which is 18 pounds down from where I started!
In addition, as posted yesterday, lots of old clothes are brand-new again. As in they fit. As in a pair of adorable J. Crew bermuda shorts (green with navy tennis racquets - I am ridiculously...
WatchThe first of hopefully many more vlogs! This one is one of my favorite foods — scallops sauteed in some olive oil, spices and wine. My mom and I like to put a lot of wine in (that is her beautiful kitchen in the video, not mine :( ) and get the scallops “drunk.”
Ugh
I haven’t done this in a while but I just couldn’t make it to the gym today, so I am going both before and after work tomorrow. Eesh.
Comments
…have now been enabled, fyi. I just forgot to turn them on. You can find the comment feature at the bottom of each post. Be nice :)
Me (after weighing myself and finding I'd lost another .5 pounds today alone!): I think I just lost another half-pound! The weight is *literally* melting off this week!
Eileen: Yeah, it's called sweating...it is literally melting off you.
Me: Oh! Damn...
Quick update!
It’s absolutely gorgeous here in NYC! So last night I met up with a friend of mine from Junior League at Ulysses, which is on the awesome Stone Street (looks totally European.) I may or may not have drank my dinner. But I made good drinking choices (as good as possible) and stuck with vodka sodas. I can’t believe I ever drank tonic now - it’s so sugary!
I also struck up...
Oh hai blog
I swear I didn’t forget you existed! Some technical difficulties combined with a gorgeous day and a busy day at work make for light posting.
To catch up on what I’ve eaten since we chatted last. That yummy pic of the rice last night was a brown rice and shrimp stir-fry from Josie’s, a nice organic restaurant in Murray Hill.
This morning, I was all set to make some eggs and...
The 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating
nutritionista:
1. Reject the Diet Mentality Throw out the diet books and magazine articles that offer you false hope of losing weight quickly, easily, and permanently. Get angry at the lies that have led you to feel as if you were a failure every time a new diet stopped working and you gained back all of the weight. If you allow even one small hope to linger that a new and better diet might be...
I'm thinking...
thinnerthoughts:
I need to ween myself off coffee…
My ultimate goals is to not really eat any processed foods and eat as natural and organic as I can. Also, to use natural/organic products (skin care and such).
God I sound like a hippie lol
Why ween off coffee? Isn’t coffee from coffee beans?
Day in food: breakfast
So I’m talking to a friend about my blog (she likes it! yay!) and I just said “my blog is my food journal,” since we were talking about food journaling. I’m doing well, but I need to really make sure I’m keeping track of what I’m eating and not just the food I think looks pretty-ish.
Today so far: coffee with a splash o’soy milk and stevia; two scrambled...
I smell a bagel
OMG and I want to go to there so badly. But clearly my smoothie is so much better.