a review of the past

My coworkers were discussing how the jolly ranchers they kept eating were hurting their teeth. This reminded me of some of my old eating practices. Of course, again, no judgement to those who do any of these things! I have just changed my preferences for some things! I don't regret any of these things, because regret is a wasted emotion, but also it's because of my story. No one can make a change with how they eat unless they want to. And if eating like below is great for you, that's great for me. I just love the way my body feels since I've changed things up!

-when i worked in data entry in college, i would bring in a bag of jolly ranchers and suck on them all. day. long. no wonder i got more cavities then...

-my diet in college largly consisted of salami sandwhiches, jacks pizza, pasta roni and canned green beans. i would plan to only eat half the pizza, or half the pasta roni, but suddnely it would be gone

-a regular meal throughout my life has been angel hair pasta with butter and parm cheese

-another was boiled potato with butter, sour cream and colby jack cheese

-i used to frequently go to noodles and co, and get a large mac n cheese, and a soda, to go, and pig out at home (omg it doesn't even sound that good right now, holy crap!)

-i loved (still love probably, but i'm not even gonna go there. soda, i will admit, is awful, judgement free zone on this subject) soda. i would get it as a treat to myself. i didn't buy it in bulk thankfully, but i still would have 2-3 glasses if i went out to eat! i don't even have a desire to touch it anymore, thank god. (whenever i say stuff like that it's mixed with the realistic nature of, yeah it would taste great, but it's more worth to not have it)

-i grew up on an interesting treat, saltine crackers and butter, sounds good right now, but i so don't want to get back into that territory!

-i barely ever used to drink water, now i drink almost a gallon daily, and love it

-i had a hard time getting iron when i was in college and post college, i would go days without having any meat or eggs, to the point where they had to turn me away from giving blood a few times

-when i went to mcdonalds, sometimes i would get a large fry, a dollar mcdouble, AND chicken nuggest, AND a mcflurry, AND a coke

-a regular snack was salami with a scoop of cream cheese

-when i first moved in with roommates after living alone, one morning my roommate walked in and i was having leftover skittles and a pepsi for breakfast. the things that went unoticed when you lived alone...

No it's not awful to eat these things, and it's part of my story. But I am so incredibly happy with the way I eat now. I have been tracking my sleeping with my fitbit the past couple of weeks, and I sleep so soundly! I really hope it's from the food I eat. It's so easy now too, like last night whipping up shrimp, cauliflower mashed potatoes and an avacado for dinner was so fun. Lots of clean up though, so the time part can be stressful. But I love it! I also got an immersion blender to make mayo and it worked super well! Some of the oil gets left behind on the top, but I just mixed it up with the final stuff. I hope it allows me to make mayo fast/more often.

Workout today was good! Didn't push myself as hard as usual...it's interesting to see which types of workouts make me work harder...for example today we did rower to treadmill, and I think I treated the rower as a "break". I like it better when I'm forced to work hard on just the treadmill for half the class.

I also got new shoes which rocks! For the past 8ish years I have always gotten practically the same Asic shoe (different colors). My last pair I decided the Reeboks at Marshalls rack would be a good idea, even though they were only like $10 cheaper. Dumb. Mistake. Never again. I love you Asics, you've always been good to me! Why fix something if it 'aint broke!?!? The Reeboks gave me blisters right away, and still gave me some months after. So now I'm back to my Asics and will forever be loyal:)

Workout:
500m rower
0.5 mile treadmill
400m rower
0.4 mile treadmill
300m rower
0.3 mile treadmill
200m rower
0.2 mile treadmill

Floor:
10lb weight (should have done 15)
15 concentrated arm curls
15 plank things
15 side plank ab lifts (R)
15 (L)
15 plank things
15 TRX arms
15 plank things
(x2ish)

10 straight arm lifts
10 walk down to push up, push up, walk up
10 reverse sit ups (lift legs straight up)
10 walk down to push up, push up, walk up
10 abs with roller legs curl in, then pike
10 walk down to push up, push up, walk up
(x2)

20s bicycle abs
10s rest
(x6)

Party on!