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2. Cook less like Paula Deen and more like Jamie Oliver. I'm not going to "diet". I know this. I love to cook and eat too much for that to ever work.
I don't agree with much he says but I'll agree that Paula Deen is "the worst, most dangerous person to America".
I wouldn't say she's the worst, most dangerous person to America, but she does an awful lot to validate America's love affair with fat. I love watching her because I see a 60 year old me in the kitchen. I cook old school, I learned from my mother and my grandmother. Although I can cook the best chicken and dumplings (and a lot of other things) you'll ever have, I really need to learn some new habits in the kitchen.
I wouldn't say she's the worst, most dangerous person to America, but she does an awful lot to validate America's love affair with fat. I love watching her because I see a 60 year old me in the kitchen. I cook old school, I learned from my mother and my grandmother. Although I can cook the best chicken and dumplings (and a lot of other things) you'll ever have, I really need to learn some new habits in the kitchen.
Paula isn't a bad person to learn from. She makes great food on the cheap. You're right though. It's all butter and fat. Everything is cooked in better and/or fat. I learned to cook through my grandmother, as well. My mom was horrible .. still is actually.
To me it's important to cook. Period. I careless where the inspiration comes from .. I just want good food. Period.
Post by funkybuttlovin on Jan 4, 2012 12:31:54 GMT -5
My Resolutions: Get above a 3.0 Keep up with my exercising Be a better person overall
Whatever your resolution may be good luck to you all and I hope you stick with it.
For all you smokers looking to quit, stay with it and remember how bad it is for your health. www.vaporcig.com/ is an alternative.
My motivation for those who want to start exercising is keep with it and be patient and results will happen. You can push your body further than you know it.
^^ I started an arobics class at skyzone. I've never been in so much pain in my life. The girl I went with actually had to stop so she could go throw up in the bathroom.
Post by ziggyandthemonkeys on Jan 4, 2012 15:25:43 GMT -5
Working out doesn't have to be terrible. Classes are good, I love spin classes. Also doing plyometric heavy workouts are fun, and good for functional strength and conditioning. Joining an ultimate frisbee team, indoor soccer, flag football, are all good workouts a few times a week that are fun. I don't plan on going to the gym gym at all to get back into shape. Biking 3 days a week, climbing 3 days a week, and doing some plyo with my trx a few times a week; all fun stuff. Getting a buddy to work out with makes it easier also. I hate when people say they hate working out, but all they do is go to the YMCA and use the treadmill and pec dec. No poop that's gonna suck, and its not even an efficient use of your time imo. Do HIIT rowing with a buddy for 30 minutes if you want something simple, that's pretty fun. END RANT! I should also add i'm uber competitive. ;D
Edit: Also take progression pictures. Change happens too gradually to really notice just looking in a mirror. When I was powerlifting and went from 160lbs to 200 I still felt like I looked the same the whole time looking in a mirror. Also keep a workout journal. Progressive resistance is the only way to improve, and you can't do that not knowing what you did last time.
Post by abrakapokus on Jan 4, 2012 23:18:54 GMT -5
I find the only way I can work out is by not working out. I take hooping classes now so I get about an hour of working out 2x a week and I'm pretty sweaty afterwords. I also have done rowing which was a great workout but I was paying so much attention to detail that I didn't realize I was working out. I don't think I could ever be a runner or a gym rat. What fun is that? I would like to get into some dance classes though.
Post by Vector Viking on Jan 12, 2012 3:33:50 GMT -5
Like most people, I give up on new year's resolutions by February as a general rule. Instead, I just try to get a little better and closer to my goals every day. If I take a day off, I only have a few hours to kick myself about it instead of 10 months.
I've been wondering what some of your resolutions are this year and how the ones you made last year fared. Here are mine from last year and I have to say that I've done well.
1. Check. 2. Check. Except for the last month. I've been pretty naughty. 3. Kinda check. I did quit but have settled into smoking socially or when I drink. 4. See number two.
There are some things I need to address this year. I won't call them resolutions because, well, that just gives me reason to break them.
1. Get control of my anxiety and open up more socially. 2. Cook less like Paula Deen and more like Jamie Oliver. I'm not going to "diet". I know this. I love to cook and eat too much for that to ever work. 3. Quit smoking. I think this will be much easier if I can get control of my anxiety first. Maybe I should focus on not smoking as much in the meantime. 4. I think it was LLL that said "take more steps". I need to take more steps. Taking more steps sounds so much nicer than "exercise". ;D
This year I need to put much more effort into making connections with people and maintaining the ones I already have. I also need to work harder at making myself healthier and dropping some more weight and getting the financial mess that I'm in under control.
To quit smoking. Tried a couple times this year but you know how that goes. To really get this homeschooling thing down, everyday. To get my body where I want it to be which means mostly more working out. To learn how to hoop freely by Roo To SAVE money. I'm great at spending it but inorder to go to all the fests I want I need to learn to save. To get back in school in the fall. To get an internship at AC entertainment after getting back in school.
STILL planning on quitting smoking again this year. I also need to learn to save money and I've had to decide between work/school and homeschooling. I'm doing much better at homeschooling since last year, so that's a half kept resolution.
Get back to a regular workout schedule. Lose weight. Give up soda (again). Drink more water. Manage money better. Work on getting out of debt. Work harder on some friendships.
I make 10 resolutions each year but the only one I accomplished last year was going to my first Vikings game. It was a preseason game but I'm going to count it. I didn't even come close to the other 9 resolutions. My 10 resolutions for 2013 are:
1. Publish 500 articles (I work as a freelance writer.) 2. Start an emergency fund and save $500 3. Lose 24 lbs (2 lbs/month) 4. Read 12 books (1 book/month) 5. Ride my bike 10 miles 6. Pay off 1 student loan (smallest loan is $1,000) 7. Learn to play guitar (I have a list of 5 songs I want to learn before the end of the year) 8. Learn to make Crème Brulee 9. Get health insurance 10. Celebrate my 30th birthday in Times Square in NYC (1/1/2014) (My friends think I'm crazy to want to do this but they say the same thing about Roo.)
Learn how to cook better than I do now Lose some weight (the freshman 15 came 2 years late ) Think before I say things (I have a quick temper) Find things I like for myself instead of going with what other people say Build up my vinyl collection Don't let others hold me back Read books more
I have silly post-it notes all over the house to remind me of the better daily habits I vow to build this year. Little things like "Take your Vitamins" "Floss twice a day" "1 tsp Bee Pollen" "Take your medication" "Wash off your mascara". Getting from point A to point B in my brain always involves interruptions by points C, D, E, F, G, so I need prompts.
Also Suck less Love more Fewer carbs More steps
I did pretty well here. Except the "Fewer carbs"
I also managed to meet my goal of purchasing primarily local/organic/grassfed/free range/ etc etc, more Earth and body friendly foods.
2013 Reduce my food waste, as 40% of the food in this country is THROWN AWAY!! Can you believe it!!!??? Learn to play my squeeze box. Buy a house of my own Love even more, and more and more and more More steps Less interwebs.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
I have silly post-it notes all over the house to remind me of the better daily habits I vow to build this year. Little things like "Take your Vitamins" "Floss twice a day" "1 tsp Bee Pollen" "Take your medication" "Wash off your mascara". Getting from point A to point B in my brain always involves interruptions by points C, D, E, F, G, so I need prompts.
Also Suck less Love more Fewer carbs More steps
I did pretty well here. Except the "Fewer carbs"
I also managed to meet my goal of purchasing primarily local/organic/grassfed/free range/ etc etc, more Earth and body friendly foods.
2013 Reduce my food waste, as 40% of the food in this country is THROWN AWAY!! Can you believe it!!!??? Learn to play my squeeze box. Buy a house of my own Love even more, and more and more and more More steps Less interwebs.
02/08 Tool 02/11 Jeff Mangum 02/17 of Montreal 02/29 Blind Pilot 03/31 The Naked & The Famous 05/14 M83 and I Break Horses 05/19 Flaming Lips, Young the Giant, Dawes and AWOLNATION 06/07 Bonnaroo 2012!!! 06/13 Roger Waters 07/28 Toadies
02/08 Tool 02/11 Jeff Mangum 02/17 of Montreal 02/29 Blind Pilot 03/31 The Naked & The Famous 05/14 M83 and I Break Horses 05/19 Flaming Lips, Young the Giant, Dawes and AWOLNATION 06/07 Bonnaroo 2012!!! 06/13 Roger Waters 07/28 Toadies
I didnt really make any, but I suppose continue on the improvements I've made to things in the last couple of years and to EGOT.
And to be more supportive of my coworkers when they're annoying me. It's not that they're trying to be annoying, they are concerned and I should recognize that.