As you know, I am really trying to up the protein in my diet. It's hard to keep track of but I found this really handy site that tracks all of the nutritional values in your diet you can think of and its FREE. Check it out here. I enter all of my meals for the day there and it magically tells me how many calories, grams of fat, protein content, sodium, etc, etc....basically anything you could want to know. I never really tried to be a calorie counter before because I think that its just too difficult, but this is a great way to see just exactly what your caloric intake is. I was pretty pleased with mine and I'm very pleased with how I've been increasing my protein. This site allows you to look up each food item individually and build your meals. It also has food from just about every restaurant you can think of. Hope you all find it as helpful as I have!
I also did some research yesterday because I've heard conflicting reports on how much water per day is an adequate amount. Probably the best advice that I read was for an active person that works out almost every day, you should drink 75% of your weight in ounces of water. Sounds like a good rule of thumb to me. I've also really been working on that area, drinking over 3 liters per day for the past couple of weeks. Love the way it makes me feel, but hate the way I'm in the bathroom constantly!
Whitney
Thursday, January 13, 2011
We love visitors...
And it's a good thing because you tend to get several of them in the winter when you live in Florida.
Scotty's family is coming for a weekend visit tonight.
I know you probably can't tell from this photo, but they are all sooo tall. Standing at 5'6", I never thought of myself as exactly short until I started hanging around with these guys. I mean, I knew that I would never be a starting middle hitter at a D-1 school, but still...I'm no shrimp! Scotty is the tallest at 6'3 and a half, his Mom and Dad are each 6'3" and little sis is 6'1", little sis's boyfriend and probably one-day husband is 6'5"!!!!...just imagine how out of place I look while walking in a group with them. But it works out great because we make up our own volleyball team...and I'm never at a shortage for hitters or blockers!
I still have quite a bit to do before they get here this evening. I cleaned up the kitchen at the new house yesterday and we moved our bed in the master bedroom (actually right now it's just a mattress on the floor, but that will have to do for now). Tonight I have to finish vacuuming the other bedrooms and sweeping the tile floors and other little odds and ends. I'm actually going to have a kind of fun lunch break today...I have to go make some purchases for kitchen & bathroom supplies...and I love almost any kind of shopping.
I almost let my working on the house derail my workout again last night...instead I just let it modify it. I didn't get to the gym until 9pm...I HATE going that late. I was already tired and definitely didn't feel like being there. I also had the attention span of a toddler. So I jumped on the elliptical and cranked out 15 minutes until I was bored stiff, then jumped on the treadmill for 20, then back to the elliptical for another quick 15 at a high incline. Then I just called it a night. I didn't realize I was sore from the mucho squats and lunges I did the previous night until I started working up a sweat on the elliptical. So I decided to take a rest from the weights for a day, but will be back to hitting them today.
Today will be 10 minute intervals of elliptical and the stair mill, I'm not really giving myself a set time to complete, I'll just go until I'm tired. Then I have a full upper-body work out to look forward to. Hitting all muscle groups with 2 sets until exhaustion.
I had a larger breakfast than usual today. I was extra hungry, probably from working out so late last night.
Breakfast: 1 scrambled egg (I usually like them fried with a hard yellow, no runnies! But Scotty requested scrambled so I gave in), 2 turkey sausage patties, bowl of plain oats with cinnamon and Splenda.
Snack: Few pieces of beef jerkey
Lunch: Double turkey salad from Subway (we didn't have anything to bring at home :( )
Snack: String cheese and a few almonds
Pre-gym: Apple with 2 rice cakes
Dinner: Still a mystery
Hope everyone is having a great Thursday...I love Thursdays because that means tomorrow is FRIDAY!!! And I have a very fun weekend to look forward to, so excited! Ta Ta for now!
Whitney
Scotty's family is coming for a weekend visit tonight.
I still have quite a bit to do before they get here this evening. I cleaned up the kitchen at the new house yesterday and we moved our bed in the master bedroom (actually right now it's just a mattress on the floor, but that will have to do for now). Tonight I have to finish vacuuming the other bedrooms and sweeping the tile floors and other little odds and ends. I'm actually going to have a kind of fun lunch break today...I have to go make some purchases for kitchen & bathroom supplies...and I love almost any kind of shopping.
I almost let my working on the house derail my workout again last night...instead I just let it modify it. I didn't get to the gym until 9pm...I HATE going that late. I was already tired and definitely didn't feel like being there. I also had the attention span of a toddler. So I jumped on the elliptical and cranked out 15 minutes until I was bored stiff, then jumped on the treadmill for 20, then back to the elliptical for another quick 15 at a high incline. Then I just called it a night. I didn't realize I was sore from the mucho squats and lunges I did the previous night until I started working up a sweat on the elliptical. So I decided to take a rest from the weights for a day, but will be back to hitting them today.
Today will be 10 minute intervals of elliptical and the stair mill, I'm not really giving myself a set time to complete, I'll just go until I'm tired. Then I have a full upper-body work out to look forward to. Hitting all muscle groups with 2 sets until exhaustion.
I had a larger breakfast than usual today. I was extra hungry, probably from working out so late last night.
Breakfast: 1 scrambled egg (I usually like them fried with a hard yellow, no runnies! But Scotty requested scrambled so I gave in), 2 turkey sausage patties, bowl of plain oats with cinnamon and Splenda.
Snack: Few pieces of beef jerkey
Lunch: Double turkey salad from Subway (we didn't have anything to bring at home :( )
Snack: String cheese and a few almonds
Pre-gym: Apple with 2 rice cakes
Dinner: Still a mystery
Hope everyone is having a great Thursday...I love Thursdays because that means tomorrow is FRIDAY!!! And I have a very fun weekend to look forward to, so excited! Ta Ta for now!
Whitney
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
GREAT News!
We've (okay, actually I've) decided on DirectTV instead of Comcast cable and guess what? THEY ARE INSTALLING ON FRIDAY!!! Woohoo...I can watch the football game and act as crazy and barbaric as I want to because I will be in the privacy of my own home! I haven't been this happy since I discovered the garbanzo bean (tear, tear).
Another plus, the in-laws (pretty much) will be at the house so neither Scott or myself have to take off work for the installation, a double whammy! Wahoo!
Now I just have to find an internet service provider that doesn't want an arm and a leg...thats gonna be a toughie!
Another plus, the in-laws (pretty much) will be at the house so neither Scott or myself have to take off work for the installation, a double whammy! Wahoo!
Now I just have to find an internet service provider that doesn't want an arm and a leg...thats gonna be a toughie!
Baby it's cold outside
Holy cow, I thought I lived in Florida! It is downright chilly today. Probably not compared to where some of you are, but for us Floridians it's pretty darn miserable...and windy too, which just makes it that much worse. Unfortunately the heat is broken in the office and although the property manager has been promising that it would be fixed soon (like a month ago)...still nothing. So I'm bundled up in a cozy sweater and trying to tough it out.
My work out plan was derailed last night by other important matters involving the new house. I did manage to get 35 minutes in on my stair climber at home. I'll seriously have to take a picture of this piece of work for you guys. It is totally ancient but still manages to kick my booty. I love that thing and will keep it til it no longer stands upright. I also did TONS and I do mean TONS of squats, lunges and some lower-body pilates exercises, regular crunches and scissor crunches. My not-yet-existent abs were burning after those and it felt so good.
I'm not even going to bore you with my eats for the day because it's pretty much the same as yesterday.
I'm starting to get a little nervous because the future in-laws are going to be here tomorrow night and there is still so much to do. Scotty is picking up our new mattress tonight, which we will probably be sleeping on in the floor this weekend. His sister will probably also be sleeping on a mattress on the floor, but at least the parentals will have a normal bed! I'm hoping that we have enough time to get the living room furniture moved in because sitting on cold tile doesn't sound too appealing to me...and maybe the kitchen table and chairs...we all love to play cards and that is much easier at a table than on the floor.
We plan to go to a movie while they are here, possibly some bowling... and boating (if we can suck it up and not freeze in the cold air), and DEFINITELY LOTS OF FOOTBALL WILL BE WATCHED. Although I'm not sure where this is going to occur...you see, I called to schedule cable/internet installation yesterday and they can't come until NEXT FRIDAY! Ahhh...I guess we'll see if we can all make it through the weekend without killing each other! It's also going to be a toughie to stick to my diet plan over the weekend. Of course when you are on vacation you like to go out to eat a lot, which is definitely what we do when they are in town. It's going to be a big test for me but I think I can handle it! Hope everyone is staying warm and the good news is that it's Hump Day...I can see the weekend in sight! Yay! Ta ta for now!
Whitney
PS-I promise to post pictures tomorrow, even if it is of something totally unrelated to the post...maybe then you won't die from boredom while reading this.
My work out plan was derailed last night by other important matters involving the new house. I did manage to get 35 minutes in on my stair climber at home. I'll seriously have to take a picture of this piece of work for you guys. It is totally ancient but still manages to kick my booty. I love that thing and will keep it til it no longer stands upright. I also did TONS and I do mean TONS of squats, lunges and some lower-body pilates exercises, regular crunches and scissor crunches. My not-yet-existent abs were burning after those and it felt so good.
I'm not even going to bore you with my eats for the day because it's pretty much the same as yesterday.
I'm starting to get a little nervous because the future in-laws are going to be here tomorrow night and there is still so much to do. Scotty is picking up our new mattress tonight, which we will probably be sleeping on in the floor this weekend. His sister will probably also be sleeping on a mattress on the floor, but at least the parentals will have a normal bed! I'm hoping that we have enough time to get the living room furniture moved in because sitting on cold tile doesn't sound too appealing to me...and maybe the kitchen table and chairs...we all love to play cards and that is much easier at a table than on the floor.
We plan to go to a movie while they are here, possibly some bowling... and boating (if we can suck it up and not freeze in the cold air), and DEFINITELY LOTS OF FOOTBALL WILL BE WATCHED. Although I'm not sure where this is going to occur...you see, I called to schedule cable/internet installation yesterday and they can't come until NEXT FRIDAY! Ahhh...I guess we'll see if we can all make it through the weekend without killing each other! It's also going to be a toughie to stick to my diet plan over the weekend. Of course when you are on vacation you like to go out to eat a lot, which is definitely what we do when they are in town. It's going to be a big test for me but I think I can handle it! Hope everyone is staying warm and the good news is that it's Hump Day...I can see the weekend in sight! Yay! Ta ta for now!
Whitney
PS-I promise to post pictures tomorrow, even if it is of something totally unrelated to the post...maybe then you won't die from boredom while reading this.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
I've got the Tuesday blues...
I woke up this morning with the feeling of "Ugh, it's only Tuesday?"...not sure why, but I haven't been sleeping very well and I'm just plumb tired. Sleep is usually never a problem for me but I guess I have a lot on my mind with the upcoming move, school, "roomie" issue, etc.
I had a kick butt workout yesterday evening and I'm feelin' it today. I love that burning pain though. I know that I did a great job in the weight room when I can hardly walk the next day. Sounds stupid to love a feeling like that, but I do.
After work I'll hit the gym, then home to quickly eat some leftovers for dinner. I've got to return a few things that we bought for the house and then buy what I really want, then its on to the house to continue the nonstop work and cleaning. Yay! Doesn't sound like I'll be much more rested tomorrow, but the goal is a 10:30 bed time tonight.
Eats for the day:
Breakfast- 2 turkey sausage patties, bowl of oats
Snack- Granny smith apple
Lunch- Ground beef, diced tomato, garbanzos (again...this is apparently my go-to meal)
Snack- Couple of pieces of beef jerkey & a string cheese
Pre-workout- Handful of almonds and a rice cake
Dinner- 2 eggs and a salad (this is obviously an odd combination, but I am craving both so why not combine them for one wacky dinner?)
This is an unusually short post for me, but thats about all I have to say today. It's just one of those days I guess. On the upside...I'm extremely excited for SATURDAY and wish it would hurry its butt up and get here! STEELERS vs. RAVENS...oh yeah. I'll be acting like a crazy woman for sure.
Ta ta for now!
Whitney
I had a kick butt workout yesterday evening and I'm feelin' it today. I love that burning pain though. I know that I did a great job in the weight room when I can hardly walk the next day. Sounds stupid to love a feeling like that, but I do.
After work I'll hit the gym, then home to quickly eat some leftovers for dinner. I've got to return a few things that we bought for the house and then buy what I really want, then its on to the house to continue the nonstop work and cleaning. Yay! Doesn't sound like I'll be much more rested tomorrow, but the goal is a 10:30 bed time tonight.
Eats for the day:
Breakfast- 2 turkey sausage patties, bowl of oats
Snack- Granny smith apple
Lunch- Ground beef, diced tomato, garbanzos (again...this is apparently my go-to meal)
Snack- Couple of pieces of beef jerkey & a string cheese
Pre-workout- Handful of almonds and a rice cake
Dinner- 2 eggs and a salad (this is obviously an odd combination, but I am craving both so why not combine them for one wacky dinner?)
This is an unusually short post for me, but thats about all I have to say today. It's just one of those days I guess. On the upside...I'm extremely excited for SATURDAY and wish it would hurry its butt up and get here! STEELERS vs. RAVENS...oh yeah. I'll be acting like a crazy woman for sure.
Ta ta for now!
Whitney
Monday, January 10, 2011
Crazy Monday
I'm going out on a limb here and starting something new...Monday's are almost always crazy around these parts, which made me come up with an idea. Every morning I listen to the Kidd Kraddick radio show on my way to work. I just love those guys. They always make me laugh without fail. Plus I'm usually getting in my car just as they are starting the Hizziewood Hizzle, an entertainment/celebrity gossip segment that just always seems to start my morning off right. Gotta love that celeb gossip. Anyways, getting back on track...they also do a segment called "Does that make me crazy?". Each cast member admits a little quirk about themselves and then asks, "Does that make me crazy?" and the other cast members decide, crazy or not? They also take listener calls in which listeners call and ask the cast the same thing about something a little cooky that they do. So, I'm declaring today and all Mondays- CRAZY MONDAY- the one day of the week where you will admit something that is probably a little weird about yourself and then find out who thinks you are crazy or not. Lets face it, it will probably make us feel better to get these crazy antics off our chests! Can't wait to see what kind of responses I get, actually I just hope to get a few! Since this is my brilliant idea, I will go first. Wow, yesterday I showed you all my feet and now this...what has gotten into me?
Each time I use a public restroom I always tear the first few squares of toilet paper off and throw them away. It just really grosses me out to use toilet paper that some random stranger has touched. Does that make me crazy?
Okay, now it's your turn! Go CrAzY! Knock yourself out! Tell me what you think makes you crazy...
Whitney
Each time I use a public restroom I always tear the first few squares of toilet paper off and throw them away. It just really grosses me out to use toilet paper that some random stranger has touched. Does that make me crazy?
Okay, now it's your turn! Go CrAzY! Knock yourself out! Tell me what you think makes you crazy...
Whitney
Just another manic Monday
One of my coworkers said that this morning and I thought it was a very fitting title for today's post.
Don't even get me started on my morning, that would not be a good idea. As you know, we have a temporary roommate. He's a good friend of my Scotty's from back in Illinois. They've been friends forever and we decided that we'd let him stay in our condo over the winter (as he wants to try out snow-birding at the ripe old age of 29, lucky). We were planning on being in our house by now which would make this whole situation much less complicated. But instead, we are all 3 living in a fairly small 2 bedroom condo…one big happy family, right? Wrong! See, I guess most other 24 year olds would probably consider me a granny, but I'm not much of a partier…at all. I do enjoy dancing and shakin' my groove thang, even having a few drinks every now and then, but this is usually reserved for special occasions, e.g. birthdays, New Years (except for this year), 4th of July, Memorial Day (other big boating holidays). I'm not exactly used to someone getting wasted and coming home at 3 am being very disrespectful…and this is not just a one time thing, although it bothered me more than usual today. Today, there was another person involved. The "roomie" has a friend in from out of town and they decided to go live it up last night. Scotty was even nice enough to drop them off at the bar so they would only have to pay for a taxi back. How do they repay us/him? By coming in and slamming doors, watching TV, leaving lights & fans on all night, talking extremely loud and just being downright disrespectful. I also discovered a half eaten pizza, gatorades and open bags of chips on my kitchen counter this morning when I went to make breakfast…I DO NOT COOK IN A DIRTY KITCHEN.
Thats just gross…so I tried to move all of their crap around or work around it, but it most definitely wasn't a pleasant cooking experience or morning in general. You'd think it'd be over as soon as I walked out the door right? Well, I decided to take the stairs down to my car this morning instead of the elevator, and what did I find strategically placed on the stair case between the 2nd and 3rd floors of our building? Thats right…vomit. Obviously someone had a little too much fun, serves them right if you ask me. But how immature and stupid can you be? We live in a condo community full of retired people. Scott and I would never do something like that and I think that all of our neighbors know that, but it just irks the heck out of me that someone living in my house would. SO…needless to say, I am glad to be at work today and away from those guys.
New subject- I've begun to tweak my work out plan. The latest and greatest goes as follows: 45 minutes of cardio Monday through Saturday. Four sets of 3-4 upper body and 3-4 lower body exercises daily. The first 2 sets will be performed with lower weight and higher reps, the following 2 sets will be higher weight and lower reps. I'm also going to do 2 ab exercises daily.
Eats for today include: A very grumpy 2 eggs and bowl of oats for breakfast, serving of almonds for a morning snack, shredded baked chicken with green peas, mushrooms and brown rice for lunch, 4 slices of chicken with a rice cake for an afternoon snack, medium apple with Tbsp. peanut butter pre-workout, and lean ground beef stir fried with garbanzos, diced tomato and green chillis and mushrooms for dinner.
After dinner we are going to pick up a new bed for one of our guest rooms. I hated to do it, but I made a compromise with the Scottster that he can put this huge cherry wood desk in there (which I hate) but now the bed for that room doesn't match, so we had to get a new one. We're also going to start cleaning up in the new house this evening because we are actually going to be spending a few nights there this weekend while his fam is in town…we can't expose them to the nightmare that is living in our condo. Well, that is all the negativity I will burden you with for now. Off to drink a diet coke to improve my mood (darn it, there I go breaking one my rules!).
Ta ta,
Whitney
Don't even get me started on my morning, that would not be a good idea. As you know, we have a temporary roommate. He's a good friend of my Scotty's from back in Illinois. They've been friends forever and we decided that we'd let him stay in our condo over the winter (as he wants to try out snow-birding at the ripe old age of 29, lucky). We were planning on being in our house by now which would make this whole situation much less complicated. But instead, we are all 3 living in a fairly small 2 bedroom condo…one big happy family, right? Wrong! See, I guess most other 24 year olds would probably consider me a granny, but I'm not much of a partier…at all. I do enjoy dancing and shakin' my groove thang, even having a few drinks every now and then, but this is usually reserved for special occasions, e.g. birthdays, New Years (except for this year), 4th of July, Memorial Day (other big boating holidays). I'm not exactly used to someone getting wasted and coming home at 3 am being very disrespectful…and this is not just a one time thing, although it bothered me more than usual today. Today, there was another person involved. The "roomie" has a friend in from out of town and they decided to go live it up last night. Scotty was even nice enough to drop them off at the bar so they would only have to pay for a taxi back. How do they repay us/him? By coming in and slamming doors, watching TV, leaving lights & fans on all night, talking extremely loud and just being downright disrespectful. I also discovered a half eaten pizza, gatorades and open bags of chips on my kitchen counter this morning when I went to make breakfast…I DO NOT COOK IN A DIRTY KITCHEN.
Thats just gross…so I tried to move all of their crap around or work around it, but it most definitely wasn't a pleasant cooking experience or morning in general. You'd think it'd be over as soon as I walked out the door right? Well, I decided to take the stairs down to my car this morning instead of the elevator, and what did I find strategically placed on the stair case between the 2nd and 3rd floors of our building? Thats right…vomit. Obviously someone had a little too much fun, serves them right if you ask me. But how immature and stupid can you be? We live in a condo community full of retired people. Scott and I would never do something like that and I think that all of our neighbors know that, but it just irks the heck out of me that someone living in my house would. SO…needless to say, I am glad to be at work today and away from those guys.
New subject- I've begun to tweak my work out plan. The latest and greatest goes as follows: 45 minutes of cardio Monday through Saturday. Four sets of 3-4 upper body and 3-4 lower body exercises daily. The first 2 sets will be performed with lower weight and higher reps, the following 2 sets will be higher weight and lower reps. I'm also going to do 2 ab exercises daily.
Eats for today include: A very grumpy 2 eggs and bowl of oats for breakfast, serving of almonds for a morning snack, shredded baked chicken with green peas, mushrooms and brown rice for lunch, 4 slices of chicken with a rice cake for an afternoon snack, medium apple with Tbsp. peanut butter pre-workout, and lean ground beef stir fried with garbanzos, diced tomato and green chillis and mushrooms for dinner.
After dinner we are going to pick up a new bed for one of our guest rooms. I hated to do it, but I made a compromise with the Scottster that he can put this huge cherry wood desk in there (which I hate) but now the bed for that room doesn't match, so we had to get a new one. We're also going to start cleaning up in the new house this evening because we are actually going to be spending a few nights there this weekend while his fam is in town…we can't expose them to the nightmare that is living in our condo. Well, that is all the negativity I will burden you with for now. Off to drink a diet coke to improve my mood (darn it, there I go breaking one my rules!).
Ta ta,
Whitney
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