Showing posts with label sleeping in. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sleeping in. Show all posts

Friday, October 24, 2014

October 24th, 2014 Their Turn Is Coming Once Again

October 24th, 2014 Their Turn Is Coming Once Again

I enjoyed sleeping in today. I woke up and immediately needed to get ready to join Heather and her daughter in Tulsa for the day. Breaking my normal routine is sometimes tough. I normally relax with coffee, prepare breakfast--pack it, transport it and eat it about two hours after I initially wake.  I also cook eggs 98% of the time. It's become the breakfast I enjoy the most, it seems. I do change it up with different styles and preparations, but still, eggs--most everyday.

This morning I enjoyed a serving of Vanilla Shakeology with a banana and cashew milk. Oh, by the way--that's not a typo, Cashew Milk! The unsweetened cashew milk is a low 25 calories per cup. That's a lot of non-dairy milk for not a lot of calories! And the taste was wonderful in my Shakeology! I handled the change in routine in stride. It just wasn't a big deal to me. I commented on this dynamic as it applies to other things, today during our drive: I don't get worked up in a hot and negative way about much. I just don't care to, most of the time.  

We had several stops, including a stop at a clothing store where I purchased myself a new long sleeve black pullover as a birthday present. It's the perfect size for me now--it won't be in the next 20 pounds or so, and that's okay! I'm going to enjoy wearing it while I can. One of the nice things about where this positive momentum is leading? I have a closet full of clothing I wore between the weights of 230 and 250, just hanging there, waiting for me to pick them once again. And I will, soon. Their turn is coming once again! I don't really know when it will come (I don't do long range calendar speculations) but it will come!

Heather prepared an incredible birthday meal for me tonight. I offered help and she declined, saying she wanted to do it for my birthday. And well, okay! I gladly let her!

Tomorrow morning kicks off what is poised to be a very active Saturday and Sunday. I'm about ready to drop in bed for a decent night's sleep!  



















Thank you for reading and for your continued support,
Strength,
Sean
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Monday, October 20, 2014

October 20th, 2014 I Ran (So Far Away)

October 20th, 2014 I Ran (So Far Away)

I woke up this morning hardly recognizing the man in the mirror. How does my hair get so jacked up in the middle of the night? I mean, really? (I wish I would have snapped a selfie) My hair was doing cool 80's style things as if I had joined A Flock Of Seagulls tribute band. It wasn't the wild hair, though. It was more the feeling of a completely rested body and mind. I slept for 11 hours straight!

Today was another vacation day for me since I hadn't planned on being back from Vegas until this morning sometime.  I enjoyed a day off, relaxing--catching up on blog comment replies, emails and fixing the Vegas posts with the Tweet embedding issues.

I also started working on what is my next project, it's MP3's and Audio CD's titled: "Weight Loss Meditations." I have a lot of writing ahead of me for this one. With WLM, you'll be able to select the meditation that fits what you're experiencing and how you're feeling. Feeling empowered and right on track? There's a two minute motivational meditation for that! Are you challenged and feeling weak? There's an encouraging meditation for that, too! Are you feeling stuck and unmotivated? Listen to track 40! Did you just have an awesome weigh-in? Perfect, listen to track 13. Was it a horrible weigh-in experience? Track 17 will help you gain some perspective. Do you have a big dinner with family, friends or coworkers coming up and you're feeling anxious? Listen to track 52 on your way to the event. I plan on creating somewhere in the neighborhood of eighty different two minute messages, delivered in a calm and soothing way, designed to motivate, encourage and inspire in three different categories: Before Bed, First Thing, and Right Now! And each will have sub categories like the above descriptions.

I'm putting WLM ahead of book number two on my list of priorities. Right now, I'm pumped up about both, more than ever!

I had a wonderful weekend. I needed a good recharge! I had a good and relaxing day, today. I needed a day to simply chill. I made it to the store and prepared a wonderful dinner at my place. Usually we go out for dinner, but my goodness--I've had so many meals out lately, I lost count! So I prepared a gluten free pasta dinner at home. Amber enjoyed it very much! I am not gluten free (see Joseph's Pitas in my Twitter feed), but I do like to limit the gluten when I can. The dinner was nice!

I'm looking forward to getting back to the YMCA tomorrow and back into my work routine and everything else routine! Being into a different routine the last several days has shown me that I can break from the norm without breaking my commitment to taking extraordinary care. What I do in the foreground of my life can change often, what I do in the background with my food and exercise mustn't change. As long as I keep this perspective, I feel like I can take on the challenges along this road and have a decent shot of winning.

My Tweets today:














Thank you for reading and your support,
Strength,
Sean
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Saturday, September 20, 2014

September 20th, 2014 I'll Be Sleeping-In Tomorrow

September 20th, 2014 I'll Be Sleeping-In Tomorrow

This wasn't a relaxed Saturday. It was an enjoyable Saturday, just not relaxed.  I had a location broadcast scheduled for 10am and since we were planning to head toward Stillwater immediately after my broadcasts concluded, my workout needed to happen early.

Heather and I made our way to the store to pick up some fruit, then it was off to the trail for a brisk 1.7 mile walk. We made it back to the apartment in just enough time to prepare breakfast and grab a shower before my broadcast. Heather finished her run while I was at my broadcast.

My FitBit stats show this to be one of the most active days I've had since starting with FitBit. It's giving me a 562 "calorie adjustment" based on measured activity.

Today's trip to Stillwater included two meals out, lunch with mom and dinner with Heather's daughter.  I did very well at each place. It wasn't too much of an issue. Mexico Joe's has my "go to" chicken fajitas and I found a small 6 oz sirloin at Texas Roadhouse, ordered without butter or any added fat whatsoever.

We attended the Red Dirt Film Festival's showing of "The Long Way Home." Being a professional actress, Heather knew many of the people associated with this project. It was pretty cool to watch a film with the actors watching from the seats all around you.

We decided a coffee was in order before the drive home. I invested 120 calories in a sugar-free skinny cinnamon dolce latte from Starbucks. It was well worth the drink calories! We both needed the caffeine!

I'm planning to sleep in as late as humanly possible tomorrow. It'll be very nice!

I'm looking forward to getting back to the YMCA tomorrow afternoon!

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Thank you for reading and your support,
Strength,
Sean
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Saturday, September 13, 2014

September 13th, 2014 "No" Is A Complete Sentence

September 13th, 2014 "No" Is A Complete Sentence

I slept well last night. Sleeping in is sometimes difficult because I'm trained to be up at 4:30am. I've tried to sleep in before, only to wake up at 6am, get up and just accept that I'll be going back for a nap a little later.  Sleeping in seems to be not as difficult these days. It's certainly because of my drastically improved sleep quality. Quality, not quantity. Yeah, that's a another discussion.

I had a location broadcast from a grocery store today. It was pretty routine. This broadcast coincides with an annual event in Newkirk, Oklahoma called Charlie Adams Day. A local BBQ competition team phoned the station earlier in the week, promising to bring me BBQ today. I spent a little bit of time stressing about this--not because I feared eating it, not at all. It's BBQ--the calorie values are horrible and the sauces typically have a lot of sugar. I obviously wasn't going to eat it. My plan was to leave the plate of whatever they might bring in the break room of this store and let their employees devour. I was actually going over in my head how I would decline if they asked me to try their BBQ on the spot. The likelihood of this is pretty high considering they were in a BBQ cookoff competition at the day's downtown festivities.

It was all worry for nothing. The plate of BBQ never showed. I was relieved. How crazy does that sound? I was relieved when the free plate of award winning BBQ didn't show up like expected. That's interesting. Again, wasn't the food--it was the possible confrontational aspect if they requested I try their food right then and there. What was I going to say? I guess a simple "no, thank you." would work. Or as Life Coach Gerri always reminds me, "No is a complete sentence."

I left my broadcast feeling a little lighter on my feet. I headed home to do some multi-tasking...Laundry, cooking and working out needed to happen at the same time. I made it that way. I prepared lunch, threw in the laundry--put lunch in a foil pouch, then tossed it in the oven on 325 while I left for the YMCA elliptical.

Great workout!! I was walking out of the Y when my friend Jon in Wisconsin called. I had a wonderful conversation with Jon for probably 15-20 minutes on my hands free as I drove, arrived home, transferred laundry from the washer to the dryer, grabbed lunch from oven, cut up some cantaloupe, weighed everything I needed to weigh, entered everything in MFP, snapped the photo--tweeted the tweet and washed a few dishes! All of this while carrying on a good conversation. Multi-tasking for sure.

I made the trip over to Heather's to enjoy dinner and a rented movie. Heather cooked chicken taco chili and it was amazing. Perfect amount of spice!! She even went a step further and calculated the crock pot of calories--and divided it by the number of servings to give me a fairly accurate post for MFP and Twitter. She is absolutely one of a kind! I'm so lucky. The dinner was exceptional and the movie "The Other Woman" was hilarious.

We watched the new documentary "Fed Up" Thursday evening. If you've watched the trailer, you have a great idea about what it's all about. Sugar and sugar's link to obesity in America. One of the craziest things in this documentary was a Cola executive claiming his soda product was just as healthy as water. It was also sad. Fed Up features a lot of obese and even morbidly obese children. The school lunch program was discussed. I didn't know these things: Pizza is considered a vegetable because it has tomato sauce, french fries are also on the list of veggies. This means my favorite lunch from high school--pizza and fries from the ala cart line was actually just me eating two different veggies! Yeah, right. I had planned on a big review, but I don't have the energy tonight. I do recommend you find it and see for yourself.

My tweets today:














I really enjoyed the cantaloupe today!
Thank you for reading and your support,
Strength,
Sean
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