I don't know a soul on the planet who didn't know Michael Jackson and love at least ONE of his many songs. I also don't know a single blogger or facebooker or twitterer who hasn't said something about the death of this reclusive, brilliant, tragic artist.
He is without doubt the artist of our lives. There will never be another like him. The world has lost one of its greatest talents. Elvis, Michael Jackson and John Lennon--I'm just beyond words, I feel like I've lost a family member and I know many others feel the same.
If there has been ONE positive thing about this, it is the absolute love that I feel coming out of everyone I know, for Michael Jackson. Yesterday, within two hours of his death, radio stations in Los Angeles were playing the hits, callers were waxing poetic about what Michael's music meant to their lives. EVERYONE has lost someone--everyone loved his music and him. I miss you, Michael. A lifelong friend and fan.
~Victoria
Friday, June 26, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Still Going Strong!
Calorie counting is not fun. But watching what you eat sort of is. Having a ball park daily goal is what works for me. I try not only to not go OVER my limit but I also try to REACH it. You'd be surprised how difficult that is if you change what you're eating.
Eating whole, organic (when possible) and light, surprisingly, offers a lot of nutrition and not a lot of calories! (This is a newsflash for me, even if it's not for, oh, the rest of humanity.) You can eat like cups and cups of spinach and there's only 50 calories! I thought I was going to have to deprive myself of the things I love, but basically if I want to have that toaster strudel, I try to eat as clean as possible so that at the end of the day I have 200 calories (geez!) to devote to it if I want to.
Paying attention to what you eat, even if you don't change it, I believe leads to inevitable weightloss. Maybe not to the degree that you require long term, but just enough to make those jeans fit again. Holding yourself accountable and letting a little responsibility (not guilt!) leak into your consciousness, maybe you'll just eat one of those pop tarts instead of two!
Right now everything in my closet fits. SOME things are even slightly loose. Since I was sick for two weeks I haven't gotten back into the swing of workouts except for a killer hike at Runyon Canyon on Saturday morning. I'm going to try to fold that back in--it didn't kick my ass as much as it normally does so that's progress!
Looking forward to keeping it going.
~V
Eating whole, organic (when possible) and light, surprisingly, offers a lot of nutrition and not a lot of calories! (This is a newsflash for me, even if it's not for, oh, the rest of humanity.) You can eat like cups and cups of spinach and there's only 50 calories! I thought I was going to have to deprive myself of the things I love, but basically if I want to have that toaster strudel, I try to eat as clean as possible so that at the end of the day I have 200 calories (geez!) to devote to it if I want to.
Paying attention to what you eat, even if you don't change it, I believe leads to inevitable weightloss. Maybe not to the degree that you require long term, but just enough to make those jeans fit again. Holding yourself accountable and letting a little responsibility (not guilt!) leak into your consciousness, maybe you'll just eat one of those pop tarts instead of two!
Right now everything in my closet fits. SOME things are even slightly loose. Since I was sick for two weeks I haven't gotten back into the swing of workouts except for a killer hike at Runyon Canyon on Saturday morning. I'm going to try to fold that back in--it didn't kick my ass as much as it normally does so that's progress!
Looking forward to keeping it going.
~V
Friday, June 5, 2009
Caffeine!
Ok so you know how you find out something and then you can't UNknow it? Let me think of a few examples: nah, that's too depressing. You know what I mean.
I'm counting calories. I'm watching Cook Yourself Thin on Lifetime. I'm struggling not to make myself into one of "those women". You know the ones--the Food Police. They're on Weight Wathers, NutriSystem, Jenny Craig and everything else all at the same time. They know how many points that spinach salad and ice cream pint you had for dinner is worth. They remember what you had to eat three weeks ago and they've been counting your point deficit ever since--and you still haven't caught up. That pizza and beer from Friday night will be worked off about a month from now if you keep yourself on bread and water.
Folks, these are the kinds of posts I write when my brain is foggy from lack of sleep. I'm getting over a cold, I've reduced my caloric intake by half (egads! That means I was eating twice as much as I should be daily) and thankfully last night I got to sleep peacefully albeit pretty late.
AT ANY RATE, to keep this from getting too depressing today I will say this--a few good observations from attempting to watch what I put in my mouth every day:
1.) Food lasts WAY longer when you eat it in the correct portions.
2.) When you honestly count your caloric intake you realize that portion sizes are accurate and fair. You were just eating too much.
3.) You sleep better when you stop eating earlier in the evening--TRUST ME on this one.
4.) Multivitamins are manna from Heaven. I promise.
I still want to be a crusader for having the foods in your life that you love. Currently, ice cream, soda, fast food, potato chips, soda and white rice are all off my list. But cake remains, my friends, cake remains. If I want to sacrifice 300 calories for cake every day for the rest of my life, I'll damn well do it! Note the date and time, friends. Note the date and time.
~V
I'm counting calories. I'm watching Cook Yourself Thin on Lifetime. I'm struggling not to make myself into one of "those women". You know the ones--the Food Police. They're on Weight Wathers, NutriSystem, Jenny Craig and everything else all at the same time. They know how many points that spinach salad and ice cream pint you had for dinner is worth. They remember what you had to eat three weeks ago and they've been counting your point deficit ever since--and you still haven't caught up. That pizza and beer from Friday night will be worked off about a month from now if you keep yourself on bread and water.
Folks, these are the kinds of posts I write when my brain is foggy from lack of sleep. I'm getting over a cold, I've reduced my caloric intake by half (egads! That means I was eating twice as much as I should be daily) and thankfully last night I got to sleep peacefully albeit pretty late.
AT ANY RATE, to keep this from getting too depressing today I will say this--a few good observations from attempting to watch what I put in my mouth every day:
1.) Food lasts WAY longer when you eat it in the correct portions.
2.) When you honestly count your caloric intake you realize that portion sizes are accurate and fair. You were just eating too much.
3.) You sleep better when you stop eating earlier in the evening--TRUST ME on this one.
4.) Multivitamins are manna from Heaven. I promise.
I still want to be a crusader for having the foods in your life that you love. Currently, ice cream, soda, fast food, potato chips, soda and white rice are all off my list. But cake remains, my friends, cake remains. If I want to sacrifice 300 calories for cake every day for the rest of my life, I'll damn well do it! Note the date and time, friends. Note the date and time.
~V
Thursday, June 4, 2009
It's Been a Year!
OMG it's been a year since I posted. We'll try to do this more frequently, kids. Maybe once I'm consistent I'll get my readership up and I won't have to do this all by my lil lonesome.
So this blog has been (and was initially created) to talk about ayurveda. It's still about that, but I'm also going to start talking about my struggle to lose weight. Like the other 45,907,675 blogs online.
Right now it's day three of me counting my calories. I resisted it for as long as I could. Paying attention to what you eat is essential and I've started to do it and my mind is blown. I almost ate a doughnut today until I discovered that it was 300 calories and I could eat that doughnut or I could eat, I don't know, a MEAL.
We'll see how long I last.
~V
So this blog has been (and was initially created) to talk about ayurveda. It's still about that, but I'm also going to start talking about my struggle to lose weight. Like the other 45,907,675 blogs online.
Right now it's day three of me counting my calories. I resisted it for as long as I could. Paying attention to what you eat is essential and I've started to do it and my mind is blown. I almost ate a doughnut today until I discovered that it was 300 calories and I could eat that doughnut or I could eat, I don't know, a MEAL.
We'll see how long I last.
~V
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