In my mind, NYU’s cafeteria invented hummus. I had never had the stuff before, but it was definitely love at first bite. A creamy mixture of chickpeas, tahini (sesame paste) and lemon juice, it’s a great party dip (Superbowl party, anyone?) and the perfect spread for an open-faced sandwich. It also happens to be low [...]
31 Jan, 2009
Posted by: joymanning In: Gym Tunes| Working out
This song is also the overall theme of the week.
Tonight, some of my friends are going to the party of a former coworker. A party I only heard about accidentally, because, as it happens, I wasn’t invited. An emotionally healthy 31 year old woman would probably not be very affected by this business, but me, I’ve been feeling like an outcast all week.
My whole [...]
Mission accomplished.
That’s a new low. Yay!
I’m still a bit under the weather. This cold makes it impossible for me to sleep in. I was up at 7 am today, which is, for me, unheard of for a Saturday. I’m getting ready to go off to meet a friend for coffee and then to the gym–I’m determined [...]
This was my worst day of blogging since I began almost two months ago! Having a cold really saps my energy–though I did make it to the gym today and I did better than yesterday. Because of the day I missed, I’ll need to work out for an hour tomorrow to make my goal of [...]
It’s no fun to be up a half pound, but I know it’s just part of the process. I have a cold, I haven’t been working out as hard this week, and I had some extremely bad for me food last night, so whatever. This is what it is today.
I’ve been eating some pretty sad lunches lately–an apple, walnuts and Greek yogurt most days. This morning, when Dan was getting ready to go to work, I practically forced him to take a container of freezer soup. When I IMed him to ask how it was, and he told me he didn’t eat it, I [...]
I’m pretty sure the most important epiphany I’ve ever had was about processed food. Maybe epiphany is the wrong word, because it didn’t happen in a flash, but during the last decade, I’ve slowly but surely eliminated virtually all processed foods from my life. And I never miss them.
One of the first books I ever [...]
I first glimpsed 147.5 less than a week ago; now I already feel stuck there. Silly, huh? It’s human nature, or at least my nature, to lose patience. Just because I haven’t hit a new low in three days dosen’t mean I’m stuck.
Yesterday, I felt the first ickiness of a cold in the back of [...]