Revival

I quit writing here, because I more or less COMPLETELY stopped trying to be healthy. I would say that I would start over today, except I have already eaten an entire box of chocolates. Fail.

They were good though.

I will find resolve to try again this weekend. I like to think that when I have a kitchen again that this will solve my problem somewhat, but my real problem is that I have limited self-discipline when it comes to candy.

Wednesday

BREAKFAST
Crescent roll
Coke Zero

LUNCH
Salad with chicken, bell pepper, tomatoes, and pesto dressing
1 liter water
2 Coffee w/ milk

DINNER
Cup of fruit
Ice cream cone

EXERCISE
15 min elliptical
10 minute leg machines
10 minute crunches
5 minute shoulder machines
YAY

LATE LATE NITE
A half a million cookies
BOO

Thurs. 37 days to wedding

WAKE-UP
God, I have to get out of this snoozing habit

BREAKFAST
Crescent roll
2 cups coffee
1 breath mint

TUESDAY

BREAKFAST
4 cups of coffee

LUNCH
6 pieces of turkey
Cup of cottage cheese
Mineral water with apple juice

MONDAY

BREAKFAST
Four cups of coffee

LUNCH
Subway BMT, small
Salt and vinegar chips
Diet Coke

DINNER
Two pizza baquettes

SUNDAY

BREAKFAST
Musli with skim milk

LUNCH
Turkey and tomato salad
Beer with citronen (Altster)

DINNER
Chicken schnitzel, potatoes with gravy, and asparagus
Apple juice and mineral water

Donnerstag

BREAKFAST
Bowl of puffed wheat with skim milk

LUNCH
6 pieces of turkey
6 strawberries
1 cup of cottage cheese
Mineral water with a splash of orange juice

Mittwoch

BREAKFAST
Bowl of musli + skim milk

LUNCH
6 slices of turkey
Banana
Orange-lime yogurt
Mineral water with a splash of apple juice

SNACK
Cup of cottage cheese, 6 cherry tomatoes

DINNER
White fish filet with scallions and pine nuts
6 cherry tomatoes
Half a red bell pepper

BEFORE BED
Peppermint tea
Cookie

Yesterday

BREAKFAST
3 Egg whites, some spinach
6 cherry tomatoes

SNACK
Grapes

LUNCH
Pan-fried fish with scallions and pine nuts
6 cherry tomatoes
Half a red bell pepper

DINNER
Bowl of musli + low fat milk
cup of cottage cheese + 6 cherry tomatoes

EXERCISE
15 min on elliptical
30 min arm machines
15 min stomach
ouch

100 days until the wedding

Tired.

BREAKFAST
Bowl of sugar smacks
2 cups of coffee

LUNCH
Salad with dried tomatoes, shredd carrots, grilled chicken with pesto dressing
Water

DINNER
Tomato, feta, onion salad (burp)
6 crackers with pepper cheese

LATE NIGHT
Bowl of sugar smacks

101 days until I get married

EXERCISE
What is that?

BREAKFAST
Two cups of coffee

LUNCH
2 pizza baguettes
Diet Coke

DINNER
Tomato Feta Onion salad
6 crackers with pepper cheese
Diet Coke

Stayed up all night pulling together suggestions for wedding soundtrack

Friday---WOOHOO

BREAKFAST
Two cups of coffee

Thursday...trying harder

WAKEUP
Late

BREAKFAST
Bowl of sugar smacks
Peppermint tea

LUNCH
Salad
Diet Coke

DINNER
Two pieces of Pizza Hut pizza...one BILLLION calories....bah

Wednesday...oh no, the muffin

BREAKFAST
Frosted muffin with smarties...BAD BETH
Double expresso

LUNCH
Salad
Diet Coke

DINNER
Two cheeseburgers from McDonalds
Fries

LATE NIGHT
Bowl of sugar smacks

Tuesday...just another day

MORNING
Woke up early. So nice. Must do this more.
Washed all dishes. Wiped down bathroom. Made bed. There is never an excuse to not make a German bed, because it is so easy.

BREAKFAST
Bowl of sugar smacks with whole milk (the store was out of skim)
Cup of coffee

LUNCH
Subway steak sandwich with all veggies, cheese, and sweet onion sauce
Nasty British BBQ potato chips...so not worth the calories
Coke Zero

DEATH TO DISCIPLINE
Twix

DINNER
Madagascar Schnitzel
Bratkartoffeln
Alt Bier

Rain rain go away

MORNING
Woke up super early!
Went back to bed.
Still got up earlier than normal.
Cleaned shower!
Put away laundry!
Failed to do the dishes and take out the trash, but I will do that tonight. The trash is smelly. Taking out the trash is the man's job...

EXERCISE
20 bathtub arm lifts

BREAKFAST
2 Cup2 of coffee
Sugar Smacks
Peppermint tea

LUNCH...

Feelin' Better -Wooooooooooo

MORNING
Still really very tired.
Picked up apartment. Started laundry.

BREAKFAST
Coffee
Sugar smacks

EXERCISE
15 bathtub arm lifts

LUNCH
2 pieces of baguette pizza
Diet coke

DINNER
Half a bag of Werther's...I know...I am going to hell.

Still sick, bah

MORNING
Mad rush. Still sick. Still hating the universe in general for all of the meanness it is giving me lately. The universe and I, we are about to rumble.

BREAKFAST
2 Orange juice

LUNCH
Salad

DINNER
Madagascar schnitzel mit Bratkaroffeln
Alt Bier

8th day of sick

MORNING
Sick and tired of being sick and tired. Took a train from Detmold to Dusseldorf at 6:45 AM. We've been thinking about making this a perm. commute. I think it would be tough, because the train is really overcrowded for the first leg of the trip. Would probably have to take an earlier train. Will look into if one exists. Note to self for when I start thinking that this is a viable solution to the problem: This is not a good solution to the problem.

8 days later and I am still running a fever off and on. This makes me angry.

BREAKFAST
Two cups of coffee
McGriddles
Bacon egg McMuffin
...I really like McGriddles...too bad they are evil.

Let the neighbors cat in again.
All of my plants are dead.

LUNCH
Glass of orange juice
Half a bag of "light" potato chips...hahahaha
3 itty bitty baby pizzas
Snot

SNACK
6 Toffeefees...probably spelled that wrong

EXERCISE
10 bathtub arm lifts. I will do more later. These are easy and make me feel less lame.

DINNER
Other half of box of Toffeefee

Wizard Wednesday

DREAM
Really messed up. 5 or 6 different dreams all very different, but all ended in the same way: I was denied a blended rootbeer from Sonic. Sherlock Holmes was in one dream. I was definitely in Turkey in a another. I have never been to Turkey, but I was pretty convinced that was where I was.

WOKE
Sick. Went into work anyway since I had stayed home the previous two days.
Appreciated the woman at the Apotheke who gave me free Softies (tissues).
Blew my nose a lot.

BREAKFAST
Cup of coffee
Cup of tea
Diet coke

LUNCH
Carrot and ginger soup
Diet Coke

SNACK
Water

ON WAY HOME
Read wireframes
Was checked on train for ticket. Luckily I had bought one that morning. Otherwise, I would have been fined, and that would have made me mad.

Asked man for a tissue in German without thinking. He gave me one.

DINNER
Madagascar Schnitzel
Beer
Read wireframes

Waitress couldn't understand my German. I had the words right. I am blaming my cold.
Saw a wizard.

AFTER DINNER
Worked.

I would say that I need to get a life...but really I have too much of one right now. I need to get a housekeeper.

EXERCISE
30 very lame chair lifts. I don't care. I did something.

Chilling on Sunday

BREAKFAST
2 bon bons
2 cups of coffee

Samstag

BREAKFAST
2 cups of coffee

LUNCH
2 bon bons
1 olive

DINNER
Half a baguette and hot, spreadable cheese
Diet coke

Thank God it is the end of the week

WOKE UP
Late

BREAKFAST
Pink cupcake with mandms
Diet Coke

LUNCH
Salad from Hoytons
Diet Coke
Chocolate cookie

DINNER
Ate madagascar schnitzel at local hang out
Altbier

Going to get a lot done today

WAKE UP
Not early. Not late.

BREAKFAST
Two cups of coffee
Three egg whites with chili powder

LUNCH
Some really nasty soup
Mezzo Mix...which is basically Fanta plus coke

DINNER
Two cheeseburgers from McDs
Half a packet of fries...threw out the other half, since I was so disgusted with myself...still...those cheeseburgers were good.

EXERCISE
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

SLEEP
3AM. Just. Couldn't.

Hump day

WAKE UP
Late. Skipped shower. Cleaned kitchen.

BREAKFAST
1 cup coffee
1 diet coke
1 crescent roll

LUNCH
Really good salad from Hoyton's
Diet Coke

MID AFTERNOON SNACK
Apfeltasche

DINNER
Two pieces of pizza from the Hauptbahnhof
One pop tart
...damn it

SLEEP
Stayed up until 1AM writing on novel

There has to be some candy in here somewhere....

WOKE-UP
Late, showered

BREAKAST
Spinach omelette
Cup of coffee
I think I reached my limit on red apple cabbage...we will put that away for a while

LUNCH
Potato soup....seriously good potato soup from Hoyton's
Diet coke
Small bag of gummy bears that I found randomly in my purse

DINNER
Simply obscene...
Two pieces of pizza as I walked through the Hauptbahnhof
An entire box of pop tarts when I got home....at least I know that I can't buy a replacement

GYM
Hahahahahaha

GETTING MY LEARN ON
Really interesting podcast on robotic warfare
Boring podcast on economics
Alternative history sci fi on Hitler in Paris
Read last book in Samit Basu's trilogy. Done with that. Should write a review

BED
1AM

Monday of SUPREME UNHEALTHY

WOKE-UP
Late

BREAKFAST
Cupcake with pink frosting and mandms

LUNCH
Meatball sandwich
Salt and vinegar chips
Diet Coke

DINNER
2 packages of pop tarts
A bag of jalepeno potato chips
A cheeseburger from McDonalds
OH. MY. GOD.

GERMAN
Went to class

GYM
Nope

SLEEP
I stayed up until 3AM looking at idiotic wedding dresses online

Week 6, 2009 Summary - Breakfast Yay, Dinner Nay

Summary of the 6th week of 2009 (1st week of this exercise)

WAKING UP
Major fail - but A for effort, at least I am trying

GOING TO BED
Mostly fail. Some success.

BREAKFAST
I would call this a success. Half of the week I was able to make some eggs. The other half was fruit loops and a roll. Only skipped it once or twice. Considering that I was living on cupcakes for breakfast...pretty good.

LUNCH
I managed a salad or two. Score. Brought/made my lunch every day of the week. WOOT.

DINNER
In general, this is where all of the crap creeps into my diet. I completely lose discipline by the end of the day. Need to look into managing this. I didn't realize this and would have laid the blame at breakfast

FUNDS
I spent zero on lunch. I overspent on going out on the weekend. I am still managing the budget so far this month better than last (although last months failure we can blame on new furniture).

ORGANIZATIONAL
I managed to organize most of my documents and incoming mail. There is still some minor clean up to do
I managed to keep my space clean until the very end of the week, where I let the kitchen get out of control.

LEARNING
Attended two German classes
Listened to a number of podcasts on economics
Read several chapters in a fiction novel and a how to write fiction book

WRITING
A couple of blog posts
Two chapters in the novel - but both sketchy, need more work

WORK
Too much people mgmt, and not enough in terms of wireframing. Need to set goal to get portfolio in shape on wkend, soon.

ENTERTAINMENT/COMFORT
Saw Rush Hour 3
Ate cake with fam
Shopped for wedding bands

WORKOUT
FAIL. Seriously lame. I think I did ten pushups across the whole week.

So places to improve: DINNER, WORKOUT

Cake times two

Woke up stupidly late

BREAKFAST
The other half of the bag of Hot Tamales

LUNCH
2 pieces of really good pizza

MID AFTERNOON SNACK
-Aunt Marian's plum cake with cream
-Christiane's chocolate cherry cake

DINNER
Baked potato with sour cream
Small salad
Beer

LATE NIGHT SNACK
Jalapeno potato chips

Best Greek Food EVER

BREAKFAST
-A poppyseed roll with liverwurst and spreadable cheese...not as bad as it sounds

LUNCH
-Half a bag of Hot Tamales

DINNER
AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING Greek food -
2 salads...it was too good to just have one
4 pieces of FREAKING AWESOME garlic bread
-half a cup of KILLER rice
-Suvlaki, gyro
-Broccoli
-Cola light
-Beer
-One spoonful of a really sucky dessert

Bock Bock. Bagock

WAKE-UP
Could not sleep at all. Woke up in relatively good time. Feel not so good due to lack of sleep

BREAKFAST
Two cups of coffee

LUNCH
-Green beans
-Red apple cabbage
How did I ever live without red apple cabbage? I hope this doesn't turn me purple or give me cancer or something for eating too much of it.

Made chicken salad to take to Detmold along with fruit and bread that I don't want to go bad.

DINNER
American diner in Bielefeld - Half a chicken sandwich, fries, and hot chocolate

I wish I had a dog or a cat or a farm with thirty animals that could talk to each other and spin spiderwebs with words

WOKE UP
Woke up almost two hours after target time. I may never be able to rise early. I need a new strategy. Of course...I wasn't able to fall asleep until after 1AM. Should start there.

BREAKFAST
-Spinach omelette
-Red apple cabbage
-Two cups of coffee

Let Buggerhead in the back door, because he was meowing his fool head off. Put a load of laundry on to wash

GETTING MY LEARN ON
-Read a couple of chapters of Samit Basu's third book in his Game World trilogy. I will be sad when these end.
-Watched this video of a hero dog

MID MORNING SNACK
-Too much coffee
-Coke Zero
-Big stick of candy
Woooooowooooooo

LUNCH (really, unreasonably late due to meetings)
-Yummy hamburger patty
-Red apple cabbage
-Green beans with red chili pepper
-Coke Zero

GYM
Nada

GERMAN CLASS
-Bought books, completed homework

DINNER
-Twix bar
-Two wafer cookies

I know...I know...

One day, I will wake up on time...

WAKE-UP
Woke up on time. Fell back to sleep without resetting alarm. Woke up late. FAIL. Took shower and made breakfast anyway. Started out the morning wrong and made it right.

BREAKFAST
-Spinach omelette with tomatoes
-Red apple cabbage
-Two cups of coffee
-Vitamin (man, I'm good today)

GETTING MY LEARN ON
-Wallstreet Journal daily news podcast
-Wallstreet Journal personal finance podcast
Nothing really new from either, aside from listening about how the Senate will probably pass the stimulus package and that everyone is shoving their pet projects into it. I think the stimulus package is a bad idea.
-Read article on UXMag about how some people built a portfolio out of companies they thought invested well in UX. I would be interested in seeing that portfolio performance today.

LUNCH:
-Small piece of foccacia bread
-Big apple

MID AFTERNOON SNACK
-Other half of foccacia bread
-0,7 liter water

DINNER
-Homemade hamburger patty
-Brussel sprouts
-Red apple cabbage
-2 big candy sticks, like the kind you get from the bank, but bigger

GYM
FAIL

You snooze, you loose

WAKE-UP
I snoozed for almost two hours. This is unacceptable. Skipped a shower, but did manage to iron a shirt.

GETTING MY LEARN ON
-Read this article sent by Jonda about a frugal woman in Germany. I can relate to most of what she wrote about. Bookmarked it to revisit in case she writes other things of interest.
-Listened to Econ Talk on my way into work. This is one of my favorite podcasts. I need to write up a little review. I can't say the latest episode was very productive, because it was mostly Russ Roberts crying about how Economics is so hard to define as a science and about how data can always be interpreted differently depending upon your perspective, but I still like to listen to him jabber.
-I read the second in a series by Samit Basu. He makes me jealous. More people should read this trilogy, because it is pretty fun.

BREAKFAST
Bowl of Fruit Loops, cup of coffee.

LUNCH
-Piece of foccacia bread
-Big apple

MID-AFTERNOON SNACK
Half a piece of Marcel's evil chocolate marzipan cake
0,7 liter water

DINNER
-One McDonald's cheeseburger. Sometimes when I am hungry, it is hard to walk through the Hauptbahnhof and not buy a snack to eat on the way home.
-Two bowls of fruit loops with milk
-One Twix bar. These suckers are almost gone, and then I can be good about not buying any replacements. I don't know what I was thinking when I bought them in the first place.
All in all -- major FAIL for dinner

EXERCISE
FAIL. I didn't even do the push-ups for the challenge. I will start tomorrow.

In the beginning, there were only seven push-ups

This is my first day of tracking all things good and healthy that I undertake. I am going to start out to see how disciplined I can be regarding documenting what I eat, how much I exercise, etc. We'll see how it goes.

I got up early this morning so that I could actually make myself breakfast and pack my lunch. I was so proud of myself. This saved €6.50 I would have otherwise spent on a daily cupcake and a salad. Most likely, I would have also broken down in the afternoon and purchased a Twix, another €.70. At the end of the month, I will be flipping the money I have saved into another "envelope" where I can spend the money in ways that are more fun.

WRITING
Major fail. I set the alarm to go off at 6AM, but didn't get out of bed until 6:30. I took a shower, and got back into bed until 7. Writing did not happen, but I did look up the nutritional value of a PBJ sandwich. People say this thing is healthy, but I am not so sure.

GETTING MY LEARN ON
-I listened to a Bloomberg podcasts on the way into work, this one was about the Motley Fools new book coming out, Something Something Millionaire. Waste of my time. Learned nothing new.
-I read an article on portrait photography

BREAKFAST
Spinach omelette, contains approx. 75g of frozen spinach, 3 egg whites, 1 med. chopped tomato, seeds removed, and a pat of butter. I also had a small glass of juice, and 2 cups of coffee. The coffee, I probably could have lived without, but it made me happy. Besides, I have read that coffee helps your brain fire better when you get old. Who knows.

MID MORNING SNACK
-1 orange. This was supposed to be a blood orange, but it was just a regular old orange orange. I was somewhat irritated at this discovery, since I paid extra for it to be red inside.
-3 cups of tea

LUNCH
Chicken salad, maybe 300 grams. Good stuff.

MID AFTERNOON SNACK
Piece of Focaccia bread
3 small fruity breath mints
0,7 liter water

DINNER
Apparently my German class turned off all of the discipline in my brain, because when I got home I ate: a bowl of Fruit Loops with milk, a Twix bar, half a dozen crackers with Gouda cheese, and half a bag of potato chips. Then I went to bed.

EXERCISE
I am not going tonight, since it is my first German class, which will keep me occupied past when my gym closes.

I took an afternoon break and walked around the corner to the market, since I would not get home until after the market closer to my house would be closed. What kind of supermarket carries neither jelly/jam/marmalade nor peanut butter? Germans!

I did, though, do seven push-ups as the initial effort in satisfying the 100 push-up challenge.