Health & Fitness Thread - 1/29

And the recipe would be.... That sounds really good.

I had an okay week. Less time exercising than I would like, but I was really good about planning balanced, healthful meals. I have my new fitbit, so I'm going to try to make some goals and stick to them using that.

I'm reading Grethen Rubin's book, "Better than Before", and I'm finding it really helpful. I need to mull over some of the ideas that I like and figure out how to apply them. It's a very close look at habits, how we form them, how we keep or break them, and why. She stresses that different tactics work with different people, and talks about how to recognize what motivates you. I'd recommend for developing good habits, and breaking bad ones.

ETA What I like about the book is that it explains why so many attempts or programs don't work for me.  It's making me rethink my approach to a healthy lifestyle.

Shrimp tacos are going on my menu for next week- Yum! Went to the gym this morning and did a variety of things. I played a little game with a goal to burn through a number of calories before my time was up on each machine. I was a winner! I have a really busy weekend ahead to include a dinner out at an awesome pizza place tonight and a birthday party on Sunday. Anyone from St. Louis will know that Gooey Butter Cake is going to be hard to resist!
B- veggie omlet
L- salad and 1/2 sweet potato
D- damn good pizza
S- apple and PB

Well I was traveling this week and wasn't fully on plan. However, I did well in two areas: first, I tracked even when it was ugly, and believe me, it was really ugly a couple times. But I put it into MFP and moved on. Second, I got up early one morning out of 3 and went down to the fitness center in my hotel. Not a huge effort or workout that morning, but better than not showing up at all.

I'll get to the gym today and tomorrow, and want to also get some yoga in this weekend.

Came up with some good ideas for managing food and my energy levels on future trips, which is good since I leave again on Weds.

The food plan for today is a mystery for me as well.
B - toast, AB, yogurt
L - ?
D - profit

It is already late evening here in Finland. I'm watching ice hockey and relaxing -I love Friday!

I went to the gym after work as planned earlier. It was a pretty good work out. I have started to jog at treadmill and even though I am really slow, I am happy that I am able to do that. I have always hated running, but maybe I can change that.

I don't think I will lose much this week. I haven't been eating well enough, so I can only blame myself.

Have a great weekend everyone!

I travel a fair amount too - not on par with Kelli, but usually 6 - 7 days a month. DFW is my home airport (Which, usually you don't have to eat as much at your home airport!)

I was at SNA - Orange County John Wayne yesterday, and their options weren't great. However, depending on what you're looking for, McDonalds actually has some great protein option. They did a grilled chicken breast cut up for me, only charged me $2.20 - I guess they rang it as a side or something. With all-day breakfast too, I also did an egg mcmufffin without the english muffin and the protein/carbs/fat on that fit my plan really well. Definitely not a lot of veg options there, but I often get things from a couple different places. 

I've also pretty much started hitting the grocery store as soon as I get somewhere and buying my staples that don't need cooking - some hard boiled eggs, yogurt, string cheese, whatever. I am often in meetings with catered lunches, but at my company, it's common for people to slip away to make phone calls during lunch, so I will sometimes slip back to my room and have my own "packed lunch" if the meal option isn't very good. It really depends on the dynamic of the meeting. Client meetings that obviously won't work, or working lunches, but at the very least at least I controlled my breakfast, can often stick a snack in my bag for all-day meetings. I try to limit eating out to only when I'm with other colleagues and if I'm on my own one evening, stop by a grocery store and pick up something that's easy and on plan. I usually don't have a rental car, but I've found most Ubers are willing to take a quick detour and wait 10 minutes for me to do a fast run into the store, or some of the hotels I stay in are within walking distance to a store. Even if I have to do a couple uber rides, the money I save vs eating out more than offsets my expenses. 

Anyway, enough about travel - I was on a 3-day to CA this week, all catered/dining out meals. I did my grocery trip (got in a nice 1.5 mile walk too to the store... had to be strategic when buying groceries so it wasn't too heavy to carry back!!), ate breakfast before going down to the meetings every morning, and was able to slip away or grab something out of my bag for lunch. Dinner we had out and thankfully was able to review a menu online ahead of time. Yesterday was a super long day traveling back and not getting home until 11, so I did have some cashews I wouldn't normally eat towards the end of the day, but all things considered it was actually a really good choice and while I was over my calorie goal, everything else was pretty much on track. 

I've found stress/exhaustion/feeling overwhelmed to be a big trigger for me falling off track, so I'm working hard on taking it easy when I'm feeling stressed and focusing only on basics. 

That looks so yummy! I'm going to make those.

@rvjl I'm jealous of you getting to run around Lisbon.

I am feeling weak today. I want to stress eat.

I am trying my best not to give in. Man, I hate mean people. Mean people suck.

This sounds super interesting!  I would love to hear more, I'm in a fitness challenge and we are supposed to pick a book to read to help with our goals and this sounds like a great option!