After Christmas

I’m so proud of myself for being careful during the holidays and not only maintaining my weight, but actually losing a little bit. Despite Christmas dinner and going out to eat, I’ve still been careful to keep portions small, but still eat the things I like. It’s been a crazy week, between work, shopping for Christmas and Christmas dinner. Had a few friends over and after dinner we went to the living room and played games. I think I’ve gotten them addicted to Taboo, lol. I haven’t done my 15 Minute workout the past few days, so going to try to get that in at some point today. Only plans for today are meeting friends in San Francisco for dinner, followed by another friend’s birthday, in San Fracisco.

WI: 183.3

Update: Time to leave for SF came more quickly than expected, so while I didn’t get a 15 Minute workout in, I did dance for hours on Saturday night, enough that I was really feeling it in my legs the next morning.

3 Days Until Christmas

3 Days until Christmas and all my shopping has NOT been finished. I still have wine to buy the co-workers, and a little something for Dustin and Lu, plus a White Elephant gift for the Christmas dinner I’m planning. This is definitely going to be a hectic week. Other than Christmas shopping, I still have tons of cleaning, shopping and other errands to run. It’s also looking to be another crazy week at work, we’re still in the middle of Rebranding and I haven’t gotten all projects in to be sent on to Creative.

This past weekend was crazy and fun, both. Friday was pretty quiet, but Saturday was a Yelp Elite event at Travese in Los Gatos. It was supposed to be appetizers and a few wines to try, instead it was very few appetizers and lot of wine, poured in full servings, instead of 1oz tastings. Can we say toasted by 3pm? To fix this Susan drove us back, with a stop at Taqueria La Bamba for a Super Burrito with Carnitas. I just wish they had a smaller version of the Super Burrito, since I never can eat more than half of it, the other half goes to waste. So, half of a super burrito, followed by an hour long nap, sobered me up enough to go home and finish the scarf I was making for Susan’s Christmas gift. Thank goodness I could get it done, since I’d just found out that morning that our group of girls were doing our gift exchange Saturday night, instead of later in the week! Susan seemed to love the scarf (orange, her favorite color), Judy seemed to be excited at the Borders gift card, and Lucy seemed to love the necklace I had made for her (see earlier blog post). As for me, I was extremely excited over getting “Lust, Caution” from Judy, it’s one of my favorite movies, and I didn’t have a copy. Lucy gave me a great overnight makeup bag set (she got one for herself, too, lol0 and Susan bought the four of us matching pajamas! The pajamas are cute and very soft, but Susan wanted us to all wear them to the New Year’s Eve Pajama Party! I don’t think so, especially since Susan and Lucy will look so much better in them than I will! So, after the exchange, we went out for sushi and to see “7 Pounds” the new Will Smith movie, it was good, but I wouldn’t say great, although sad and thought provoking. All in all, a good night. Sunday was much less busy, although I should have been cleaning for Christmas, I more vegged the day away, after a quick 15 minute workout. Then, joined some friends for dinner, followed by a few games of pool, in which I didn’t completely suck, thanks to my friend Dustin’s instructions.

Workout: (8:00am) 15 Minutes Core

Meals:
9:00am: Oatmeal with dried fruit and almonds, 1/2 fresh berries, multi-vitamin
11:30am: Eating Right Pinapple Black Bean Chicken and Brown Cow Apricot Mango Nonfat Yogurt
2:00pm: 1 mini macaroon, 1 small slice of lemon-berry cake, plus 1 cup of strawberries (2-3 in the afternoon is one of my greatest times of weakness when it comes to sweets. My energy level takes a dive and I need something to perk me up)

This work day is turning into the day from Budget hell, and I’m really craving chocolate, but trying to avoid it.

8 Days Until Christmas

Only 8 days left until Christmas, I just can’t believe how fast the last couple of months have gone by! Still haven’t finished my shopping or the scarf I’m knitting for a friend, although I should finish that at my knitting group tomorrow night.

Breakfast: Brown Cow Nonfat Blueberry Yogurt
Lunch: Organic Bistro Chicken Citron Whole Life Meal
Afternoon Snack: Total raisin bran with nonfat milk and a Kashi cereal bar, plus 2 Godiva truffles (hormones, but at least I don’t get PMS)
Dinner: 1 cup of Trader Joe’s frozen brown rice with 2/3 cup of Green Giant Healthy Weight vegetable mix

I’ve been super frustrated all day, too much to do at work and not enough focus or time to get it done. The new Aprimo system first got blocked by our security system, then once I was finally able to get in, the entries were done incorrectly and I couldn’t access them. I now have to wait for a co-worker to get home from dinner with his mother and unlock each of them, so I’ll be at this all night. But, at least my frustration was a good push. Finally got around to calling a psychologist about determining if I have ADHD or not. Since I’ve already taken some tests online that indicate I’m ADHD she said the next step was trying medication to see if it helps. So, I’m to call my General Practitioner to see if I can get a short-term prescription and see if it helps, then set up an appointment with the psychologist. Since it’s too late to call Dr. Katie’s office tonight, I’ve marked on my calendar to call first thing in the morning.

Tomorrow’s Goal: My friend Harrison has challenged me to get in at least 15 minutes of working out before work in the morning, so that is my goal!

The Holidays are Coming!

It’s that time of year again, the time eat, drink, shop and be merry with friends and family. The signs are becoming more obvious year after year. Christmas decorations being put out in stores immediately after Halloween?! Crazy! For me, it’s not really time until after Thanksgiving, at the earliest. I’m not saying you can’t get started on shopping for presents earlier, but come on, no decorations on Nov. 1st!! I have actually started my shopping, even sent one present to the receiver, but it was a combination birthday/Christmas present (no nagging about that, people!) of little things I see for him during the year. The “I won’t hurt you… Much” t-shirt is perfect for him, as is the Jesus packing tape and Nun-zilla (both sacreligious, just like him). I bought a necklace for another friend who is always wearing cute ones. I bought it from a co-worker’s sister who has her own jewelry business and makes some absolutely beautiful pieces, I even bought a necklace for myself at the same time (grin). Her site is a bit out of date, but you should check it out at WayJazzyJewels.com and if you don’t see something you like, she can make something else for you to go with that special outfit. I’ve also got plans for other gifts going about in my mind, but can’t leave too many hints or my friends might figure out what I’m getting them, if they ever read the blog, lol. My co-workers are putting up the holiday decorations on their cubicles, so I guess it’s time to pull mine out, gotta remember that tomorrow, if I’m able to wake up after tonight’s Yelp Holiday party.

Breakfast: My usual oatmeal with dried fruit and nuts, with 1 bottle of water
Mid-morning Snack (okay, it’s actually lunch time): Honeydew, cantaloupe, watermelon, pineapple, strawberries and a blueberry muffin top, with 1 bottle of water
Lunch: It was 3pm by the time I ate lunch, so willpower was low. Had part of the office catered lunch from Specialty’s, Turkey-Cranberry sandwich, sea salt chips and a cookie, plus some asparagus and strawberries from one of the other team’s catered lunches

Emotional Outlook: In a good mood, the Yelp Holiday party is tonight and I’ve been looking forward to it for weeks
Physical Outlook: Sore from my workout two nights ago. Sort of glad that I didn’t make it to the gym last night because Jung had to work, I was exhausted!

Just got assigned to a new project and it’s going to be big, but at least the O/T will be worth it.