Monday, October 13, 2014

Day 18 challenges: cold weather, eating out

Today, I did not get enough sleep. (Boo!)
I taught several guitar students. (yay!)
Went to an outdoor marching band competition to see a friend's daughter's band (yay!).
It turned really really cold while we were out. (boo! does not agree with me or my shoulders- had about a half hour of shoulder pain flare up- which is annoying but glad it subsided without the aid of medication). (boo? yay? meh?)

I started this nutrition plan (for health reasons) 18 days ago. The food is very clean (gluten-free, no artificial anything) and super convenient (the 30-day plan involves 2 shakes a day, leaving me to plan just one meal a day).

The one daily meal I do plan needs to be low glycemic (not too many carbs and certainly no dessert!).

Tonight I ate out. Turkey burger. I usually skip the bun but they had gluten free ... So I had the bun. And I ate half the fries. Pretty sure I had too many carbs and fries probably aren't on this plan at ALL but:

1) I otherwise ate very clean today
2) it was not a massive infraction
3) I skipped the cheese :)
4) tempted but did not get the nacho appetizer
5) tomorrow is a new day
6) it's all about the bigger picture (dealing with the current medical issue while developing new habits for the long term).

One day at a time.


Marching on....
Carla

http://www.thesingingpatient.com

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Day 17 vlog: Farts and dealing with doctors


Carla

Day 16: minor setback

Day 16: stayed on the plan!!

Sunbathed.
Spent too much time on Facebook. Acting class (much fun).
Numerous emails.


Shoulder discomfort is making a minor comeback as of about 2am. Boo.
I had 15 days in a row being free from this! Dang.
Of course, this may be PMS. This is how it manifests with me. 

Still, there are some "friends" you'd just rather never see again and constant disconfort, an old companion, is one of those.

In other news, I've slimmed my thighs by 2 inches, my waist by 1 inch & my chest by 2 (Joe not as enthused about that last one).

I will keep going. Every journey has little setbacks. I'm sure my iPhone overuse today didn't help matters today.

Screwing up my sleep schedule lately so rather than do a video blog (it usually takes me 30 mins to throw a song together and 30 to get a video because YouTube crashes a lot- then I have to wrestle with my blog website to get it to accept the embed code)... I'm gonna go to bed. Will make a vlog tomorrow!

Carla
http://www.thesingingpatient.com

Day 15 vlog: Farts, Pain, and a song

Day 15: Napalm farts, chronic pain, and a ditty



Carla
http://www.thesingingpatient.com

Day 14: Sleep as a currency

Trading sleep for food (and vice versa), sleep for fun, sleep for work...



Carla
http://www.thesingingpatient.com