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September 16, 2007
Weekend
Very good. Finally got some sleep. Had a wonderful time with Hilary Grace, who is a ton of fun... I came close to offering her a job organizing, but she's clearly happy in her field of education. We found a great new tea shop and had some very yummy tea with her carefully concealed sucralose. It's so much fun to geek out with a fellow CR girl!
Today I spent over an hour at the gym, hitting the treadmill hard and doing some weights. Spent a lot of time cooking: at lunch I made a dish so big that even MR had trouble getting through it. Tonight was tofu night: yellow tomatoes, silken light tofu, veggie broth with lite soy sauce and garlic. Big sides for MR: nonfat ricotta with Walden Farm's chocolate sauce, broccoli steamed with lemon, and a big salad of raw collard greens with cauliflower and Walden Farm's tomato basil dressing. I had a side of cottage cheese with flax and Carolina Treet.
I have somehow managed to neglect all of the housecleaning. All of it. I suspect that tomorrow morning I'll clean the bathroom... I tend to do that on Monday mornings. Something about leaving for work on Monday with a not clean bathroom gets to me.
This week will be super busy, and I'm just barely getting over my last episode of travelling. Tomorrow is negotiations at the older of our twins, then Tuesday we have big staff meetings, then Wednesay I head to Scranton, then Thursday we have first negotiations at the younger, bigger twin up in Scranton, then Friday I have an appointment in New Jersey also for work. I will no doubt be exhausted again by the end of the week. But at the moment I am feeling pretty good. I am just taking my good food along with me... I am so sick of eating out at this point. I ate a ton of kale today, including 100 g in Single Girl Salad at lunch with a cup of nonfat cottage cheese, 4 tbsps salsa verde and 31 g avocado. It was actually too much volume for me! MR can eat about five times the volume I can stuff into my tummy, yet we are so close to the same size. Weird. Yet I manage to eat plenty of calories, to be sure!
Kieffer the cat is now on the breakfast table, where he is not supposed to be. He obeys his father, but not me. I am a very lax kitty mommy... I let him do whatever he wants. MR introduced some discipline into his life, and of course the cat adores MR. He was bereft when MR left for SENS. "Where is my daddy?" he meowed. Poor MR never had any idea he'd become a full-time cat sitter. We don't CR the cats because he doesn't *want* them to live longer.
Okay, off to bed. Just got email that my other half of running the organization is coming in at 8 so I want to get to the gym at 5 or so, shower, eat, clean the bathroom, wash out cat dishes, and get to the office before 8...
Posted by april at September 16, 2007 6:49 PM
Comments
April: I'm otta breath just reading about your week. Take care and have good one.
Cheers, Y
Posted by: The other Yvonne at September 16, 2007 7:46 PM
Hi The Other Yvonne!
Isn't it funny that we have two Yvonnes?
Thanks for your wishes! You have a great week too!
a
Posted by: april at September 16, 2007 7:50 PM
How would one go about CRing a cat if they wanted to? I have 3 overweight cats and one that is average weight. Just curious.
I have been reading your blog for a while and really enjoy it. Thanks for keeping it going.
Posted by: Tanya at September 16, 2007 8:39 PM
Hey April,
This is the first time I came by your diary/blog and just wanted to tell you I enjoy reading it a lot. Very interesting and I've gained much more knowledge about health/eating/dieting in general. I was wondering if you have any suggestions for my daily caloric intake...I'm 5'2" weighing at 123lbs and eventually I'd like to get down to about 103lbs. I've had some people telling me to cut down to 800 calories a day so since I can see you have a good knowledge when it comes to this...what would you suggest?
Posted by: Hollie at September 17, 2007 2:13 AM
Hi Hollie!
Thanks for your kind words, and welcome!
Please ignore anyone who tells you to eat 800 calories a day. That is nowhere near enough. Don't go below 1200. The best thing to do is to figure out how many calories you're really eating now, and then gradually cut by 100 - 200 at a time. How many calories you need really depends on your personal body composition and your activity level. Do you exercise? If I had it to do over again, I would have started exercising when I was first losing weight instead of being pretty lax about working out until well into my CR journey.
I'll dig up some of my entries on how to determine your calorie level when I have some time.
Meanwhile, for CRing a cat... it's easy because you know how much you're feeding him or her. Just very gradually cut back the size of meals. If you can take the howling. I wouldn't really CR a cat though, we just practice obesity avoidance diets for our cats, so that they don't have elevated risk of diabetes, etc. Since a cat can't really sign up for the project intentionally, it doesn't seem right to actually put them on CR... I'd just keep it to *healthy* cat weight.
Kieffer would like you all to know that he's not fat, he's just very muscular.
april
Posted by: april at September 17, 2007 5:34 AM
Dear Aprilita,
I really admire your ability to get up so early in the mornings! If I had to be at work at 8 a.m, nothing, I mean nothing, not even a major eartkquake would get me up at 5 a.m. I would probably get up earliest at 7.45 a.m and then run as fast as I could without even washing my damn face. I am a really hopeless situation when it comes to getting up early in the mornings and it started becoming a problem since I started working as a freelancer, i.e not having to be anywhere in the mornings. I would be a much happier person if I could get up every morning at 9 a.m instead of 1.30 p.m. I could get so much more done! I mean, I don't have high expectations of ever getting up at 7 a.m, 9 a.m would do for such a night owl like me. How do you do it? Any tips for me? I usually don't go to bed later then 1 a.m for the past 3-4 months and haven't drunk any alcohol for 7 months so it's not due to lack of sleep or a hungover either, I sleep between 9-12 hrs a day but still can't get up.
On another note, my cats are as undisciplined as wild tigers because I am a soft momma too. Someone like MR would do a lot of good in our household.
Miss you, love
zeynep
Posted by: zeynepella at September 17, 2007 7:27 AM