Wooowwww has it really been a month since I posted here?!
Jeeze Kyuuuu.
So, with Thanksgiving around the corner, I'm making a super healthy dish to bring and a super unhealthy dish. Roasted multi colored carrots, and pumpkin stuffing.. my signature dish. I'm making a big dish for friendsgiving, and two small dishes for family thanksgiving (BF and his mom and her bf) and work that evening.
I've been cooking mostly healthy meals, but I haven't been exercising the way I used to... and it shows. Physically shows.

I was driving my car and I felt a weird sensation on my sides.. Like, I couldn't figure out what was going on. WTF IS THAT!? ... Turns out, I've gained juuuuust enough fat on my tummy area that my sides were jiggling with the vibrations of the car.

I've never experienced that before so that was interesting. But it's my fault, I got hormone-based birth control so that I wouldn't be miserable half a month every month, and I gotta pay for that with daily real exercise.
I've been a slacker and doing 10 minutes here, stretching there, outdoor chores, HEMA once a week.. and little else. I need to step up my game and be serious for a minute. I used to do 2 hours of physical activity every single day on top of my normal daily activities. It obviously isn't enough to maintain.
Besides the loss of muscle I haven't noticed it too much at all.. so I just need to ramp it up some. Stop being lazy and get out there and run, and stop being lazy and lift some cotdam weights for some REAL time.
So, I'm making a new plan.
- Total day off on my last day of work. I'll just do a stretching video at work itself. If I'm going to have a day off, it's going to be on a day where I've almost had it with work haha.
- Do a stretching video at work every single day I work. Unless it's insanely busy, I usually get a lunch break, and I should use that time to stretch tfo.
- Each work out day... warm up to fitness marshall.
- One of the 30 minute bored-easily exercises on FB.
- Rotate one of the following throughout the 6 days.. 10-15 minute burn out arms, legs, abs, and I've designed my own for my calves, and run. The days I do legs and calves I will run first.
- Do cycles of 1 of the 3-day stretching challenges after each work out.
- I can substitute out a training session for an activity.. I.E. HEMA class will substitute a work out day, hashing will sub, and on thanksgiving we're going out first for a bike ride/hike and that'll sub.. stuff like that... but I'll still do the burn outs, and the stretching, once I get home. So the work outs will be on a rotational basis.. Meaning if I skip a day, the next day becomes "day 2" vs just skipping arm day.
What I'm eating this week:
- As I'm eating down the freezer, I ate leftover rice/cauliflower and TJ orange chicken last night.
- I made some salad, leftover mashed squash, pickled papaya and sauteed veggies for dinners at work the next two nights. I'm busting out a vegetarian chili in a can to go with it all.
- Salad and toasty sandwiches with sauteed garlic spinach for lunches here at the house. I'm going to try experimenting with non-butter toasty sandwiches and see if they come out almost as good..
- Oats for breakfast with pumpkin seeds and almonds sprinkled in.
- After work, I'm cooking up some frozen soup from the freezer, making a box of tabbouleh that's been hanging out in the pantry for a long while, and cooking up some onion/bell pepper/spinach tacos and that'll get me through thursday night and friday.. and Saturday is friendsgiving and the start of tons-of-leftover-food-to-turn-into-meals, so I probably will only eat some oats prior to it to get me through bike riding.
I think next week will just be leftover food + thanksgiving + more leftover food. Probably going to make some turkey salad and lots of toasty thanksgiving sandwiches.
