My healthy happier life

Good evening!! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thursday. I can’t complain one bit as I woke up feeling much better and ready to take on the day!

I met Gabriela and Sara at Equinox for another wonderful Thursday spin class with Shaina. I’m always worried how people will enjoy classes but luckily Gabriela loved it too! Shaina went a little crazy on us and started getting very deep and preachy towards the end. I don’t usually like this but she made a good fact. Each day, we must figure out what is the one thing we do for ourselves that no one can take away.

Today’s class was more intense than normal with a few really tough intervals. I left class sweaty and tan! 🙂

After a quick shower I left the gym feeling refreshed and renewed. I think I sweat all the germs out during class! Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t warm and sunny this morning. Instead it was sunny and felt like 9 degrees! My nose was already cold just a few seconds out of the gym!

Today was a far less stressful day than yesterday and the workday went by very quickly due to all the productivity!

I enjoyed a few breaks for nourishment, but otherwise stayed busy all day.

I left the office early to run a few errands and enjoy a relaxing evening at home complete with more delicious cereal.

I am ready for a wonderful weekend, starting with a fun Friday!

Peanut Butter & Company Nutropolitan Museum event with Melissa and Sara
Long run with Theodora
Mani & Pedi at Bliss Spa
A fun girl’s brunch
New York Junior League’s Winter Ball with Theodora and Bo

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Question: What one thing do you do for yourself each day that no one can take away?

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Thank you guys for all your warm comments after last night’s post. It was definitely a stream of consciousness post and I have no idea what inspired me. I’ll definitely address some of your questions in upcoming posts. As always, leave any other questions in comments or feel free to email me!

This morning didn’t start very well. I’ve been popping Vitamin C like it’s my job. Three quarters of my team at work are sick and I woke up feeling stiff and could barely swallow. An extra hour of sleep, warm water salt gargle, sunshine, fun shoes, and green juice left me feeling much better.

Look at that sunshine!!

I wasn’t craving my normal breakfast though. I treated myself to a delicious egg white omelet from Toasties.

This delicious omelet included lots of veggies and was topped with fresh salsa! I enjoyed it with a side of grapefruit for an extra kick of Vitamin C!

My afternoon was a bit more stressful than I’d like but as always, Sara and Theodora were there for me! What would I do without awesome girl friends? I can’t really share details at this point but hopefully I’ll have some good news to share with you all soon!

I took out some of my stress during an evening gym session. I had a meeting with the Equinox special events manager before my workout and spent a few minutes brainstorming blog events!

Unfortunately, my workout didn’t go quite as well. I stepped on the treadmill, focused on doing four miles at a harder than normal pace. One mile into my workout I was bored, in a funk, and ready to leave. I knew some sweat would make me feel better so I decided to make today’s workout a mash up of workouts.

2 miles at 6.3 pace on the treadmill
20 minutes of weights focusing on arms, abs, and shoulders
10 minutes on the stair climber
5 minutes abs and planks
1 miles at 6.7 pace

It wasn’t the four miles I’d intended to complete but at least it was a sweat fest that left me feeling a bit better. I enjoyed what’s quickly becoming my favorite late night dinner: cereal!

skim milk
banana
Fiber One
Kashi Puffs

The rest of my evening was spent trying to master the art of self tanning. Luckily, my friend Grace dedicated an entire blog post to this endeavor today. Hopefully I’ll look tanner tomorrow and won’t regret this decision. My products of choice were the ones Grace recommended:

L’Oreal Dermo-Expertise Sublime Bronze Self-Tanning Gelee, Medium-Natural , 5 fl oz (150 ml)

Kate Somerville Self Tanner Somer 360 Somer360 Tanning Towelettes

Today’s health and fitness tip of the day has to do with vitamins! The key components you must look for in a daily vitamin are the vitamins B6, B12, D, E and folic acid. Check yours today!

Question: Do you self tan?

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Sometimes, I think I forget that readers realize I’m a real person. I’m a human being who isn’t perfect, makes mistakes, and licks the icing spoon just like many of my readers. So in order to remind you guys that I’m human, I thought I’d make tonight’s post a fun little confession post.

It vaguely reminds me of truth, dare, double dare, promise or repeat. Anyone else ever play that at childhood sleepovers?

1. I don’t wash my fruit before eating it at least half the time. Maybe I should stick to fruits I peel.

2. As soon as I walk through the door, after a long day of work I want nothing more than to strip off my work clothes and put on old boxers which are an XL and one of Bo’s tshirts.

3. Speaking of t-shirts, I wear Bo’s more than mine because I prefer lounging in L or XL tshirts than S or M.

4. I take things to work with good intentions of running errands during the day. But, that clearly doesn’t work because right now I have the following under my desk:

Broken Penguin which needs to be exchanged at Williams-Sonoma (circa Jan 10, 2011)
A pair of shoes I bought at Bloomingdales which don’t fit (circa Oct 22, 2010)
A pile of books, magazines, etc for my mom (circa this week)
A blog prize which was never claimed (circa May 2010)

5. I still haven’t ordered any of my NYC Marathon photos because I can’t figure out which package to order or whether to have them make a plaque. Suggestions?

6. Today, one of my co-workers and readers, called me out at work for eating a mini cupcake that I didn’t take a picture. Just to be clear, I take pictures of my meals, but rarely my snacks. Please believe I do not just eat 3 square meals a day. Would you all like more food pictures?

7. I love that my husband is an amazing cook chef/cook but I wish he’d learn to share the kitchen better. I call it the curse of a New York kitchen. He jumps up and starts cooking and suddenly there is no room. I think I just need to use one side of the counter for sides (me) and one side for mains (him).

8. Sometimes weight gain isn’t all bad. As much as I’d like to lose these pesky 8 pounds, I’m 10x happier and healthier now, both mentally and emotionally, than I was 35 pounds ago.

I thought I looked awesome at this point in my life but I was miserable. I could count my ribs in the picture below and my hair was visibly thinning. Also, there are literal indentions on the side of my face. 🙁 I wasn’t happy and food, even healthy things like avocado or bananas were my enemy.

Really? As you can see in this picture my head is an akward size. This isn’t due to bad photography. This is due to my unhappiness and focus on limiting everything in my life.