Raw Food -- Cooking Class!

I have such a weird attitude when it comes to food. I mean, I want to learn to cook, but I get so stressed out about wasting food!

Yesterday I sat myself down and had a little talk about this. I said, "Nadia, you've spent $500 countless times on classes during your eight year university degree, why not spend the same on a self-directed cooking class?"

Damn. I am so right! I'm really glad I have me to talk me out of being so irrational sometimes -- I always know what to say to my crazy self to make things make sense.

So.

I'm cooking. Well, not cooking, actually because I'm learning to make raw creations. Uncooking? Food preparing? Blending? ... I don't know about titles. I'm basically chopping stuff up, throwing it into the blender, cackling out a "will it blend?", then pushing go.

Easy!

But now I'm taking notes LIKE A SCIENTIST, yo. To see what ratios work and don't work. And taking pictures too of all my concoctions.

I'll post them soon -- some are really quite delicious!

Status Update

Well. Where did most of that year go? I really got distracted, friends, by something that while it did help me grow in a certain way, definitely threw me off the track of my health goals.

Ooo... ambiguous mystery...

But!-- I am pulling this run-away carriage of a life right around and getting back on the straight and narrow (wherever that was). I'm a little lost in the woods, but I'm sure my intuition can find the right path again.

SO.

I now have 70 days until the end of the year. It's a Saturday morning today. This weekend I will be CLEANING ALL THE THINGS and thinking about the goals I want to accomplish by the end of 2010.

I'll post them here tomorrow.

200 Sit Ups Challenge -- Trying Again!

Um... So I did Week 4 again and again and again... then fell off the wagon.

For a month or so.

But!

I must not lose heart!

So this week I went back to Week 3. It hurt! My abs are flabs.

But!

I must persevere!

Running Report

I felt horrible when I woke up today. So, in crazy Nadia style, I got mad at my own uselessness and made myself go to the gym, where I proceeded to kick my own ass for half an hour.

I really thought I wouldn't make it through today; I kept thinking "I'm never going to make it, I'm never going to make it..."

SHUT UP BODY -- DON'T WANNA HEAR IT

Whatevs. I made my body do it anyway. I'll show you, body! Just for the whining, I'll make you do sprints!

Sprints are great. I did three: one at 10 min, 15 min and 20 min, one minute each followed by one minute of walking.

Upshot to sprinting: shoots up the adrenaline and then makes the running feel eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeasy afterwards.

Distance 2.52 km
Time: 30 min
Velocity: 5 km/h

Monday Morning

I wake up and spend too long THINKING about whether or not I should go to the gym.

Argh.

No more thinking -- JUST GO NADIA.

Okay, okay, here I go.

I hadn’t been going to the gym last month for the stupidest reason: the payment didn’t go through on my credit card.

Today, I went there with a fist full of cash and was determined to get back on my treadmill. But, as it turns out, the money all went through yesterday. Oh.

So I had been stressing about nothing. Ha. So silly.

Time: 20 min
Level: 4
Feeling: AWESOME! Energetic despite being sleep low this week and my mood is good. Just what I need to plow through all this work on my desk.

200 Sit Ups Challenge -- Week 3

Doing Week 3, Day 3 of the 200 Sit Ups Challenge, I thought I would never make it through. But then when I got to the end, I just threw everything into it and just kept doing sit ups.

Doing ten, taking a breath, doing the next ten.

I did 200 sit ups today!

Okay, that was probably a crazy one-off. Nonetheless, I'm proud of myself. :D

Today is my first beach day of the year. I don't think I look any different, but maybe I will in three weeks when I'm done. Having a flat tummy is a nice bonus incentive. :)