Posted on Feb 03, 2010 - 11:30pm by HippieLisa in Health
I said the other day that I was going to start back logging my food at Sparkpeople.com ….and I started to do just that. Really, I did. I think I logged my lunch yesterday and that was it in the last two days. Dudes, I’m just not there yet. My head is not ‘back in the game’. I can feel myself mentally getting closer, though. And I think I’m getting closer in terms of the amount of food I’m eating, as well. I need to get back on the Getting Healthier Train. Man, it feels amazing when I do. The mental, spiritual, emotional pick-me-up from doing so is a total kick! And my business (all of the various stuff that I do online) is doing better, so coupling that with making a new commitment to myself would ROCK!
Oh – you know what I should do? I was involved in a challenge on Sparkpeople. I failed when I gained weight one of the weeks. They still let you stay ‘in’ – you just log your weight every Monday in a different spot from the people still ‘in the game’. So you are still challenging yourself, working towards your own personal goals – they didn’t just boot me out on my tuckus, so that’s cool. And they do other challenges within the challenge that I can still participate in. Anyhoo – one of those mini-challenges early on was to join a site called HabitForge.com and set up a habit that you wanted to work on – a certain thing that you wanted to become a habit.
I’ve gotten out of the habit of hitting my knees every morning and night – so I set my first challenge up as ‘hitting my knees every morning’. They send you a daily email to ask you if you ‘did your habit’ the previous day. So I just had the idea that maybe I could piggy back Sparkpeople and HabitForge – just to get me back in the groove. I’ll set up a habit in there of ‘logging food into Sparkpeople for the whole day’. I don’t know if you can have more than one habit at once, though. Well, I’ll just set up another account with another email if not.
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Posted on Feb 01, 2010 - 10:32pm by HippieLisa in Health
It seems I’ve gotten myself into a little bit of chocolate trouble. Or a lot, perhaps, depending on your viewpoint. I was choosing healthy food to eat, I was logging my daily intake of food at Sparkpeople.com and I was doing well. Then I went to Nashville for a conference with a friend and we indulged ourselves. It was quite fun, actually. We had a blast!
Ever since then, though, I’ve been having trouble getting back on track, getting my head ‘back in the game’, if you will. I want Peanut M&M’s every day. And I have been obliging myself. It’s ridiculous. I don’t think there are any shapely secrets hidden in that bag of M&M’s. Well, that is, unless – you want to count the shape ’round’. And I’m really rather tired of that shape.
But you know – actually, I was eating M&M’s prior to going to Nashville. I was just being a lot smarter about it. I was only buying the regular size bag – not the extra large or super size or whatever it’s called. And I was dividing it up into two snacks – and that was totally fitting in my calorie count for the day. Now, though, I’m buying the large and I am absolutely having trouble not eating the whole bag at once. And the large bag has a LOT more calories in it!! It hardly counts for a ’snack’ when it is taking up a whole meal’s worth of points!! Or calories, as it were.
I’m getting really sick of being such an M&M drunk’! I so hope I’m ready to give it up soon. I tell you what, blog readers, I’m going to promise to you, right now, that tomorrow – I will go log my food at Sparkpeople. No matter what I eat – I’ll take responsibility for it in black and white on my Sparkpeople profile.
And now I’m going to take my full tummy (full on dinner, but, it was too high in calories, too) and go to bed. Goodnight – thanks for reading my whining!
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Posted on Oct 20, 2009 - 10:13am by HippieLisa in Health
Just about thirty minutes ago, a MACK TRUCK named “Allergy Attack” came storming through my office. I’m just sitting here, getting my day going, blog posts ready, letters to children written, the whole nine yards – when ….
I get hit by that durned, blasted mack truck allergy attack and am rendered three notches away from completely useless! But – but – I have so much planned for today….ugh…
I could take the allergy pill that 99.9% of the time does NOT work. I could take benadryl and go ahead and go right on past those three notches of usefulness to 78 notches below useless. Zombie Lisa – that’s always fun. A little early for a Halloween gig, though….
So then I got this bright idea to go searching on the web for other remedies to the situation. Are there other remedies? Sure not any I’ve heard of. But hey, let’s keep an open mind and go searching anyway….okay, why not?
And this is the one that I found that intrigued me –
I do love yoga, you know. So I might as well try it out and see what happens – while I’m sitting here putting off entering the Zombie Zone.
So I’m gonna try it – do you think it will work?
(Adorable image on post can be bought at
AllPosters.com I totally want one myself!)
Posted on Aug 09, 2009 - 4:51pm by HippieLisa in Health, Videos
This afternoon, I thought I’d share one of my very favorite TED Talks with you. It’s actually really hard to have a favorite TED Talk, as they are all so fascinatingly interesting. Jill Bolte Taylor’s 18 minutes really had an affect on me, though.
Here is the introduction from the site:
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story.
A horrible experience, for sure, but, what she got out of it – and shares with others, most importantly, the scientific community – is simply amazing.
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Posted on May 26, 2009 - 12:32pm by HippieLisa in Health
Ok, so you guys know I just had a birthday, right? Wherein I told you how bomb diggitylicious my kids are? So, I turned 39. Thirty-nine years old. That’s me. Yep. 39. That’s my number. And the funny thing is, I really don’t mind it a bit. I was sort of afraid to say it out loud – and cringed when my brother said it – he was the first one to say the number out loud in direct reference to little ‘ol me. But you know what? When I said it out loud – you know what happened? The same exact thing that happened to me when I turned 27. I discovered that I like the number. I like the age. I like what I think it says about me. Does it really say any of those things I’m thinking it says about me? Who knows – probably not. But I like the way it sounds. So that’s cool.
So where I’m going with all of this hullaballoo – and how we get to my ‘Ultimate Wimpiness’ – is that for some time now I knew I would have a ‘Turning 40′ goal. In fact, I knew the year I turned 30. One of my best friends at the time, a super duper cool chick named Debbie, just happened to be ten years older than I. And she had a ‘Turning 40′ goal. And I just thought that was a really cool thing to do. Her goal was to run a mile, as she had been very busy with child-rearing and homeschooling and had not been running in quite some time. She made it – ahead of time, and ran longer than a mile. I was so proud of her and so uber impressed.
And at that time, I decided that my goal would be….
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Posted on Mar 12, 2009 - 1:29pm by HippieLisa in Health
Image via WikipediaI caved, people. I totally caved. I just could not do it. Staying away from coffee is too hard. I got up this morning and my head was killing me and it was really chilly in here and I just wanted to get back under the covers. There was only ONE way I was staying up and doing my ‘mama get the kids up and out the door’ thing.
And that was coffee.
It’s five in the morning and I’m giving in, thinking, ‘Ah, to heck with it! I can’t do it!’ And then I realized that all of the other times I’ve given up coffee – I never went cold turkey. Oh, the stupidity. Of course not, you fool! *smack self in head*
See, I’m a two-pots-a-day gal, so the wise and friendlier-to-my-head way to handle this whole thing is to just have the first pot and not the second. (And I might also add that hubby drinks one or two cups of that first pot. So that won’t be too bad at all, really, drinking that first pot.)
So that is my rearranged goal now. Do NOT make that second pot! Do NOT make that second pot! Do NOT make that second pot! Okay, okay! I think I’ve got it already!
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