What's on your Tuesday Menu, RNYers?

Thanks for all your well wishes yesterday! Remember how I asked you all what your most memorable days of work were? Well, I have a new contender, after my first day yesterday! But since this is the internet, I am going to keep my stories to myself right now... Haha. Nothing terrible, it was a perfectly wonderful day--no complaints, but someday after some time has passed, remind me to tell you all!

Accountability: Well, since I forgot my lunch it was a great excuse to out with the girls :) The choices were not great and I ended up getting a turkey panini and tried to eat around the bread as much as possible. But even though I am sure that was a much higher calorie lunch than I counted on, I didn't have even one snack all day. So calories ended up low, but so did protein.

I managed the hot walks both ways with no problem and plan to do it again today!

QOTD: Has a book ever changed your outlook on life? I feel changed by lots of books, but the one that stands out was Never let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I really felt like I had a better understanding of the meaning of life when I read that. I think I was about 20 and I think of that book often.

Lunch is already packed from yesterday!

Good Morning! Happy Tuesday that will hopefully fly by and feel like a Friday!!

JB - sounds like you had a bit of "in a few years this is going to be a hilarious" first day!

QOTD - The Power of Habit was life changing, I read it on 2012 and username it to give myself a need for excercise. It?s also helped me with work because of you understand the ?key? habit of your company, you can help drive change management!

accountability - I moved a few things around because the hotel didn?t have cheese for my eggs yesterday and ended up 1 calorie higher, 2 g of protein higher and and carbs as planned.

Menu

b - premier protein

s-coffee plus half and half

l - 3 oz mozzarella

D - 3 oz deli roast beef

s - moon cheese

totals- 668 calories, 74 protein, 10 carbs

Ooh can I nerd out with you on great "change management" books? My two favorite are: Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard. And the Checklist Manifesto.

Oh, I wanted to make The Checklist Manifesto required reading for my team!! The power of doing things with intention and confirmation vs routine is game changing -- in any industry! I have not read

Switch yet, but I want to. Also I have Mindful Work And Presence on my list to get read before end of year!

Mornin'!

So I think I'm going to try a class called "Yogalates" this morning (obviously, a combo of yoga and Pilates). Pilates is tough, but I know I need it - so maybe this combo would be a good way to ease into it. Lunch with a friend. Maybe finish cleaning out my work email account (I'm done with work as of yesterday - no more going in - but I'm now using accrued vacation until my "official" retirement date of Aug 1. I may just take half a day today, though, because I still have a few work-related emails left in my email account - should be able to wipe them out in three or four hours, I think.. Retirees can keep their email accounts, but I don't want old work-related stuff in there - I want it out of my life!!)

QOTD: the first one that pops into my mind is "Your Money or Your Life", which I read when it first came out 30 or so years ago. At the time, I was in a fair amount of debt - car loan, student loans, several credit cards (Visa plus a bunch of store and gas credit cards). That book completely changed the way I look at money and set me on the path to be debt free and financially independent. It was one of those books where you take what's useful and disregard what's not - some of the advice was really good - some was flat-out weird. But overall, it was great and changed my life.

B: Greek yogurt with blueberries and nectarine

MS: coffee with half & half, Miralax/protein shake, yogurt or protein bar (lunch isn't until 1:30, so I'll need something to tie me over....)

L: meeting a friend at a sushi place. So either sushi or miso cod. Maybe with seaweed salad.

D: pork chop & veggies

ex: Yogalates

Tell us how your class was.

it was great! This was the first time I've been to Yogalates, and there was a sub there - who happens to be a friend of mine! I had no idea she'd be teaching it. She's a certified yoga instructor - not sure about her Pilates background, but she was good. She did both yoga poses and Pilates poses - but she did more yoga than Pilates. She told me afterward the the regular instructor does both as well, but she leans more toward Pilates poses (probably because she's more of a Pilates person).

anyway, the class is a mix - *usually*, from what I understand, alternating Pilates and yoga poses. Lisa (my friend who was teaching it - and who has a PhD in Exercise Physiology) said interspersing it like that is actually better for most people, because Pilates can put a real strain on your hip flexors, especially. By mixing them, not only do you get less strain overall (because you're only doing half the normal amount of Pilates), but the yoga offers counter poses to the Pilates, so your muscles recover right away. Or something like that...

anyway, I liked the class much better than straight Pilates - although I know I need some Pilates because my core muscles really need the exercise. So I'll keep going to this class. Even though the regular instructor emphasizes Pilates exercises more, I'll still get a fair amount of yoga in there, too. Having the yoga mixed in will be a nice break - because doing Pilates for 45 minutes straight is tough.. (great workout, but tough!)

Good Morning everyone!

Pearly post from me but I couldn't sleep. Getting ready to travel to my sisters for a few days. I'm very worried cause the scale is up from the trip to get my daughter settled and I haven't been able to get it back down in the couple of days I've been home. I'm going to try very hard to just have protein while we are there but it is very difficult there. Wish me luck. When I get back I know it will be strictly CAMAW until the extra pounds are off.

QOTD: honestly too tired and stressed about weight to think of something but this is a great QOTD cause I'll read these suggestions this summer!

B: coffee and premiere protein

S: epic chicken bar and baby bel

L: protein?

D; chicken ?

no clear idea of stats while traveling

Travel safely and do the best you can with food.

Sorry you are feeling overwhelmed. I hope it is a great trip!