I just feel lonely and overwhelmed right now. I am juggling a lot of things (obviously) and I am worried that once I am done with my thesis defense on Monday…what if life doesn’t improve? I keep telling myself to just push through until next week and after that it’ll all get better. What if it doesn’t? The major things I am working on is the thesis, work and losing weight. I also have other things that are stressful in my life (my relationship with my family is a major one) and then just other normal stresses. I just worry that taking the thesis out of the mix isn’t going to help as much as I am hoping it will. I just want to be a normal, happy 28 year old who is able to enjoy life, the warm weather and their husband/friends!
Workout
Yesterday I went to the gym after work. (I went to Starbucks over lunch and worked on my thesis defense/studied). I did the treadmill for 40 minutes. I ran for 9 minutes and then walked for 1 minute. The run was at 5.3mph and the walk was at 4.0mph.
Dinner
The weather was awful yesterday so I knew I wanted a bowl of soup for dinner. I kept thinking about the wonderful udon noodle bowls that I would have in Japan and I decided to try and recreate one of those. All this is is udon noodles, chicken broth, some scallions and mushrooms and some baked tofu. I mixed in some oyster sauce and hoisin sauce to the broth. It didn’t taste quite like it did in Japan but it was something warm in my belly. I wish I could make the fried bean curd like they did!
a nice close-up of those noodles.
I worked on my thesis presentation and questions until about 11 last night and then went to bed. I forgot to pack my lunch for today (or even feed the cat!). So that meant I was running around like crazy this morning. I was late no matter how you looked at it but because it is spring break for most schools in NOVA, traffic was light.
Tuesday Calorie Count:1493 cals
Breakfast
My breakfast to go: 2 waffles. 1 with a T of PB and another with a T of jelly
(oh and my Crohn’s medicine snuck into there in the background.)
AM Snack
A giant green apple
Lunch
I found a new brand while wandering Wegman’s last weekend. Helen’s Kitchen. Have any of you tried this brand before? I thought this chili sounded fabulous and hopefully will be perfect to hold me over after my spinning class, which we learned last week leaves me STARVING.
I’ll let you know
and some wasa crackers
PM Snack
Some Oikos. I was wondering, have any of you noticed a difference between Fage and Oikos? I feel like Oikos is thicker, which I like! And maybe a bit more tart….
With a granola bar….I plan on only putting half of this into the yogurt.
Calories so far today: 890 cals
Aim for today–head to spinning class over lunch. Quit doing work work at 5 and work on the thesis from 5-7. Justin and I are going to a concert at Wolfe Trap tonight (Vienna Teng!!!) so we will probably eat dinner over there…and maybe I’ll have a glass of wine or two. I need to relax and enjoy this evening!
I don’t trust this blue line. I expect it to go up tomorrow, I just don’t feel like it really is going down.
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