can you die from a cold?

What a week!

I've been batting the onset of a cold all week and today it finally won. I am as sick as a dog.. so sick that Hubs has decided to spend the entire day out of the house to avoid catching my germies. bummer. It's no fun being sick when there is no one around to complain to. haha.

Besides the cold.. I managed to slice the tip of my thumb off this week while preparing myself a salad. Therefore, Tuesday night was spent screaming and yelling.. then cleaning up the bloody mess (a/k/a my thumb). No fear bloggies, I didn't do as much damage as I originally thought.. but still .. pretty scary. I haven't had a salad since. LOL.

Hope everyone has had a good week.. I have to catch up with everyone..

Saturday-ness

What a crappy Saturday here in NYC. Warm. Humid. Muggy. and Cloudy. yuck.

Since this is my last weekend from between now and oh, the end of June- I had to take care of things around the house. This usually translates to food shopping and the weekly run to Target. boo. Now, normally I love spending my hub's hard-earned money on useless shit at Target, but today I just wasn't feeling it. I bought the essentials-- tissues, soap, etc. then I bolted. Upon my travels back to our teeny tiny apartment I decided to get off at the 'rich exit'. Please. What was I thinking? The houses here are HUGE. (JLo is rumored to be living in this area.. as she had her twins in the hospital an exit away). Seeing the size of those houses just depressed me b/c we really need to sell this place but the market sucks and no one wants a 500 square foot apartment. Kind of irritates me because Hubs and I should have never bought it, but we couldn't afford a house (at the time) and thought this was the best option. stupid.

Anyways, I'm rambling.

Then I headed to Whole Foods.. picked up coconut water (after seeing it on so many blogs) and some homemade raviolis for dinner.. go up to the register.. and I forgot my wallet in the car. UGH.

So I left there and went to a more reasonably priced supermarket and did our food shopping for the week. At this point it is 2pm and I'm getting weak.. all I ate was a banana. I knew I was going to be bad when I got home.. just how bad...?

Got home and scarfed down a plate of tortilla chips with melted cheese. MY FAAAAAAAAV!

then I cleaned the apartment..

then ate a big huge bowl of pasta.

now I'm on my second glass of wine. LOL.

Oh well, we all need a cheat day, right??

TGIF!!

Yes! It's finally Friday! Can I hear a "woohoooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

The rest of the week was long and boring. I've been a little pathetic and haven't worked out at all, but that is all changing as of tomorrow! Hubs was off the last few days.. and I dunno.. when he is off, I just can't drag myself to the gym and miss out on time with him. (that's bad, isn't it?) It's just.. we have such conflicting schedules and when either of us has some off time, we like to be together. Oh well, I guess it all works out.

We did have a very productive night yesterday!! I finaaaaaaaally got him to sit down and sort through the 1000+ wedding proofs! After 3 long hours of staring at ourselves, we narrowed them down to 75! YES! They are off to the photographer and we'll have our album in 6 months. WOHOOO!

As for the food.. I've been doing AMAZING. Today was the first day (since using Sparkpeople and tracking the food) that I've gone over my alotted calories. Of course I still can't figure out how to link it back here, but I was about 59 calories over today. The rest of the week I was in the right range.. so I guess I'm doing OK!

so far, I love Sparkpeople!

Is anyone else on there? If so, lets be friends! (Let me know so we can friend each other!)

The website is super easy, full of information and FREE! yay! I'm still learning some things on there, but I have mastered how to track my daily eats.. and found out that today I could have eaten a little more than I did (I may go have an apple.. or a popsicle). Over the years I had gotten so used to counting points or carbs that I have no clue how many calories things are. Total eye-opener.

Anyways, today I had 1180 calories, 144 carbs, 30 fat and 82 protein. I know.. I'm very low on calories, and I am even on the low end of the carbs and fat, so tomorrow I'm going to try to work on that. Then again, on Tuesday I ate over 2000 calories and over 100 grams of fat (!!!!!!!).

woohoooo

..I'm a little late..

But WTH, I am going to post my May goals:

Mind you, I will be vacationing for a week at the end of the month, so between now and May 20th, I plan on sticking to my goals :-)

• Track every single morsel of food (I started this today and it was an eye opener b/c I eat way too much!)
• Aim to burn at least 1600 calories between now and the 20th
  
• Try 3 new recipes
• Plan meals
  

So basically, I am still going to continue being low carb.. but I really need to watch the calories too. Today I ate almost 2000 calories! That's just insane! If I can figure out how to link my food from Sparkpeople.com onto this thing, I will. (someone please help me figure that out! haha)

Back to Biggest Loser! Let's go Mike! (he's such a cutie! hehe)

what a week!

TGIAF!

This week is draaaaagging. wow. Not sure if it's because it is just a blah kind of week at work, or what, but whoa, I can't wait to wake up and kiss Friday morning. hahaha.

The eats this week have been pretty good.. lots of salads :-)

and tonight I tried yoga for the first time. Not sure what my feelings are about it. It's hard! I may give it another go in a few weeks, but we'll see :-)

Hope everyone is having a quicker week then me!!

Cardio for the week

I want to start planning my cardio for the week and maybe that will help me stick to it and get myself there. So I'm thinking:

Monday: 30 mins elliptical, 15 min walk/jog on treadmill, abs and arms
Tuesday: 45 mins walk/jog on treadmill
Wednesday: Off. Spending time with the Hubs.
Thursday: Yoga (my first time!)
Friday: 30 mins elliptical, 15 min walk/jog on treadmill, legs
Saturday: Off. I have 2 communion parties and 1 engagement party to go to! (ahhhh!)
Sunday: Zumba!

Since I'm kinda new to this, and really new to strength training, I need to find some exercises to do for the various body parts. Arms and legs I know, but back, shoulders, chest and tush have me in the dark. Any websites out there that would help me?