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Waldorf-y Salad recipeToday

Here's something yummy!

This is based on a Waldorf Salad, which I've never eaten. This version is good, though. If you use the smaller amounts given, it should be around 500 calories for the whole thing.

1 - 2 cups of cooked chicken, cut up
1/2 - 1 cup of plain yogurt
half an apple, cut up
a handful of grapes
1/8 - 1/4 cup of sliced almonds
a splash of lemon juice

I forgot to take a picture before I ate most of it. Sorry!

Cinnamon Ricotta snackToday

Here's a surprisingly good snack. I don't know why I even tried it, since it sounds so weird to me. But I did!

1/4 c. skim or part skim ricotta cheese
1/2 c. berries
1 tsp. cinnamon

Again, with the no pictures.

MOONYesterday

 

New Year's Cliche ResolutionYesterday

This winter, I am going to lose 10 pounds of fat! I have all this good muscle that I've built up over the past few years, but it is covered in a layer of fat. I want to see the muscles. I want to see my abs for once in my life.

I love exercise, so that's not a problem. I will keep up my normal habit of working out almost every day. I'm actually shortening the time I spend on it to about 35 - 40 minutes a day. Usually I spend at least an hour a day. Mixing things up is a good way to make changes in a body. I'm doing heavy lifting three days a week and cardio intervals two days a week. I'll add a steady state cardio day and a yoga day each week.

The PROBLEM is dieting. I love junk food! I love to drink beer! I love to eat great, nutritional food all day long and then eat a huge amount of crap at night! Today is Day 2 of my dieting plan. I am doing okay so far. I'm cooking a variety of foods so I don't get bored, and I'm eating 5 times a day to ward off hunger. I'm not eating super low-cal, but concentrating on good, healthy foods and no junk, and a reasonable number of calories for someone my size. I'm going for 1800 calories a day, which for me has been a weight-loss number in the past, provided I'm working out hard and eating good food. If I were to eat less than that right now, I would feel like crap -- exhausted, starving, grumpy, weak. I may be able to scale it down a bit if I need to later. I can't imagine eating the 1200 usually

Francis Hates YogaYesterday

I did a yoga practice tonight that involves a breathing technique called "Breath of Fire." It's basically a fast sniffing, in and out, or a light panting through the nose. It really freaks out the cat! I've been doing this kind of yoga for several years, and he has always hated it, but he learned to stay out of the room until I'm done.

Tonight, he came running in, squealing at me, and chomped on my calf. Then he jumped up in the air to grab onto my arm and bite it! I had to put him out of the room and tell him to go see what Jason was doing.

He gave me a meaningful, "You are betraying me!" look and sat in the hallway outside the room, with his back turned to me, hunched up angrily.

When I've visited my family, their cats were also upset by Breath of Fire, and also refused to just go into another room.

Oh, cats!