It's Asparagus and Brussel Sprouts From Here On Out
Mardi Gras is over. It's time to leash the boobs again and get back to normal life. (Anyone who knows me knows the boobs were never unleashed.)
I am not Catholic but quite a few members of my family are. After Fat Tuesday, they begin something called Lent. This year Lent runs from March 9th (Ash Wednesday) to April 23rd (Easter). For 40 days (Sundays do not count), my cousins prepare for Easter by fasting and repenting.
My understanding of Lent is limited to childhood conversations I had with my cousins. I remember my cousins giving up something that was dear to them during Lent. It always seemed to me that it was food items they gave up. The love for food seems to run in my family.
When we were 8 years old, my cousin Sean stated he was giving up ice cream and I was horrified. Who could give up ice cream for 40 days? 40 DAYS?? At eight 40 days is an eternity! I'm not sure if 40 days would not be an eternity for me now.
Time to give up jambalaya, oyster dressing, and King cakes
All the Christmas and Mardi Gras celebrating has caught up to me, and it is time to stop with the jambalayas, oyster dressings, King Cakes and start eating the asparagus, broccoli, and brussel sprouts.
It is time to start thinking about my health and not just what tastes good. I can hear the collective groan. Or maybe that was just my stomach growling.
So for a while, I will be exploring recipes that are healthy and taste good.
Luckily, it is getting warm here in Florida and fresh produce will be more plentiful.
I am a little excited! Warm weather and tropical diets. Sounds good after all that lovely cold weather.
About Running
Bet you were wondering if I was ever going to talk about running again. Truthfully, this past week I fell off the running wagon. I do that sometimes.
Why? Because I decided to become ultra organized and it worked against me.
You see, I am not a morning person. I can barely function before 10 AM. I can get up but I just have no oomph. I have never, and I mean NEVER, run in the morning. I have consistently been a nighttime runner. That worked for me.
But I had to go and shake things up. I decided to sit down on Sunday and plan out my entire week on Google Calendar and I decided the best time for me to run would be 6 AM.
I should have known that was never going to happen.
So instead of running in the evening and trucking along in my program, I put TONS of pressure on myself to get up and run at 6 AM. I did not make it once. I could get up and wander around in my pajamas with coffee, feeling terribly guilty that I was not running, but I just could not even get my running shoes on.
Once I didn't follow my self imposed calender, my day was off to a horrible start, and this was probably the most unproductive week I have had in a long time. It was a nightmare! I just felt confused and bad about myself all week and got nothing accomplished.
From now on I think it would be best to acknowledge that I am not a morning runner and plan on doing less taxing things in the morning. Otherwise, I may never run again.
Also...
I had gotten frustrated with my bad 5 milers and had started a program I got from http://www.fitness.com/ to speed up my 5K. Every day this program had me running a max of 20 minutes and while my speed was increasing some, I felt like a turtle who was barely moving.
Time to step it up a notch. I think I am going to ditch the 5K program and just run 3 miles every night, increasing my speed a little each night. I'm just going to push it every night until I can run a good 3 miles at 5.0 on the treadmill. Then I will start worrying about following a program to train for the half marathon.
These 20 minute sessions are not pushing me the way I feel I need to be pushing. I'm tired of training so slowly and just need to get moving before I die of boredom (or fall off the treadmill).
Time to stop talking and just do it!
What about you? Have you ever felt you just were not moving forward fast enough? Did you take matters into your own hands, or did you continue to follow the baby steps prescribed. Have you ever tried to make yourself ultra organized only to completely throw yourself off track?
I am not Catholic but quite a few members of my family are. After Fat Tuesday, they begin something called Lent. This year Lent runs from March 9th (Ash Wednesday) to April 23rd (Easter). For 40 days (Sundays do not count), my cousins prepare for Easter by fasting and repenting.
My understanding of Lent is limited to childhood conversations I had with my cousins. I remember my cousins giving up something that was dear to them during Lent. It always seemed to me that it was food items they gave up. The love for food seems to run in my family.
When we were 8 years old, my cousin Sean stated he was giving up ice cream and I was horrified. Who could give up ice cream for 40 days? 40 DAYS?? At eight 40 days is an eternity! I'm not sure if 40 days would not be an eternity for me now.
Time to give up jambalaya, oyster dressing, and King cakes
All the Christmas and Mardi Gras celebrating has caught up to me, and it is time to stop with the jambalayas, oyster dressings, King Cakes and start eating the asparagus, broccoli, and brussel sprouts.
It is time to start thinking about my health and not just what tastes good. I can hear the collective groan. Or maybe that was just my stomach growling.
So for a while, I will be exploring recipes that are healthy and taste good.
Luckily, it is getting warm here in Florida and fresh produce will be more plentiful.
I am a little excited! Warm weather and tropical diets. Sounds good after all that lovely cold weather.
About Running
Bet you were wondering if I was ever going to talk about running again. Truthfully, this past week I fell off the running wagon. I do that sometimes.
Why? Because I decided to become ultra organized and it worked against me.
You see, I am not a morning person. I can barely function before 10 AM. I can get up but I just have no oomph. I have never, and I mean NEVER, run in the morning. I have consistently been a nighttime runner. That worked for me.
But I had to go and shake things up. I decided to sit down on Sunday and plan out my entire week on Google Calendar and I decided the best time for me to run would be 6 AM.
I should have known that was never going to happen.
So instead of running in the evening and trucking along in my program, I put TONS of pressure on myself to get up and run at 6 AM. I did not make it once. I could get up and wander around in my pajamas with coffee, feeling terribly guilty that I was not running, but I just could not even get my running shoes on.
Once I didn't follow my self imposed calender, my day was off to a horrible start, and this was probably the most unproductive week I have had in a long time. It was a nightmare! I just felt confused and bad about myself all week and got nothing accomplished.
From now on I think it would be best to acknowledge that I am not a morning runner and plan on doing less taxing things in the morning. Otherwise, I may never run again.
Also...
I had gotten frustrated with my bad 5 milers and had started a program I got from http://www.fitness.com/ to speed up my 5K. Every day this program had me running a max of 20 minutes and while my speed was increasing some, I felt like a turtle who was barely moving.
Time to step it up a notch. I think I am going to ditch the 5K program and just run 3 miles every night, increasing my speed a little each night. I'm just going to push it every night until I can run a good 3 miles at 5.0 on the treadmill. Then I will start worrying about following a program to train for the half marathon.
These 20 minute sessions are not pushing me the way I feel I need to be pushing. I'm tired of training so slowly and just need to get moving before I die of boredom (or fall off the treadmill).
Time to stop talking and just do it!
What about you? Have you ever felt you just were not moving forward fast enough? Did you take matters into your own hands, or did you continue to follow the baby steps prescribed. Have you ever tried to make yourself ultra organized only to completely throw yourself off track?
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Ps. I always take baby steps because I burn out pretty quickly in anything I jump head first in.
PPS. I'm guilty of trying to organize something and it takes me longer to clean up my mess than it did to organize! I'm easily side-tracked