Month: March 2019

Day 3 of OMAD, and the hunger pangs keep coming during the day but they are so liveable, and I have been relatively zen for the past three days. It makes me happy to think I might have found something that works!

That said, today, my angel of a coworker was sick, and we’re heading into peak season. On top of that, we’re in the middle of a massive transition with our platform that is throwing off our ability to make some crucial changes. I was trying to keep a cool head, but it was very busy. I can really only summarize my thoughts with this vine:

That said, I love how I started this year with a specific intent with my New Year to not put a lot of focus on my reading nor my weight, and yet that’s almost entirely been my focus these days. Rather than avoid it, I’d like to manifest it. With that, I want to put together a focused morning routine:

Let’s say my mornings are 5 AM – 7:30 AM. I need to reserve 7:00 – 7:30 AM for getting ready for work. That gives me from 5 AM to 7 AM to have a good start to my morning.

At 5 AM, I should wake up, brush my teeth, and drink a glass of water. I think with that I should do a morning meditation, and morning affirmations.

I think my workouts can be shorter. That said, in relation to my New Year’s resolutions, I have been making slow but steady progress with my “pull-up” resolution! It takes about twenty minutes to do my warm up and my pull-up practice. Everything on Pinterest says that fat loss isn’t so much about lengthy cardio as it is about weight lifting. WITH that, I lose fat from my legs last, and seeing my, ahem, “juicy” thighs is what always reminds me that I could stand to skip dessert every so often; when I look up how to lose fat from thighs, each article says endurance running, long bouts of easy cardio (nothing like a stairmaster or a high incline treadmill).

So, what is it, guys? No squats or no cardio?

I’m going to just suggest that I do combinations of both, but keep my “leg days” light. Power walking is a suggested cardio, which I love, because I enjoy blasting songs played during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion show and pretending I’m strutting the runway.

Combine it with my arm workouts and ab workouts and I should be fine. Is it a problem, then, that my workouts are an hour? And then throw in the thirty minutes to get there and back? That leaves me only thirty minutes to hydrate in the morning, brush my teeth, and get myself dressed for the gym.

I could sleep in my gym clothes, but I’ve read that I’m not supposed to sleep in my sports bra either. I guess the act of taking off my workout shirt to put on a bra, and then putting my shirt back on, is less time-consuming than going all-out WITHOUT putting on anything.

So it’s settled then:
First five minutes of my morning: Brush my teeth, get water
Next twenty minutes of my morning: Meditation
Next five minutes of my morning: Getting changed and lacing up
Next fifteen minutes of my morning: Getting to the gym
Next sixty minutes of my morning: Workout, including:

• Ten minute warm-up
• Five minute pull-ups (three-four sets of ten)
• Forty minutes of some combination of the following:
  • All cardio
  • Arm workout
  • Abs workout
  • Leg workout
  • Brief cardio session
• Five minute cool down session

Next fifteen minutes of my morning: Getting home from the gym and MAKING GREEN TEA.

I wanna do aromatherapy in the shower. Cleanse with intent, or something.

That there sentence summarizes my whole approach to life: a desire for purpose, but cloaked in layer of humor with a dash of self-deprecation.

Enjoy green tea while getting ready in the morning. I want my mornings to feel more free, less frantic.

Here are some of the “I am” statements I want to use to guide my meditations:

I am beautiful.
I am strong.
I am loved.
I am smart.
I am successful.
I am kind.
I am beautiful as I am.
I am wealthy in currency.
I am wealthy in life.
I am wealthy in love.
I am whole.
I am pure.
I am happy.
I am content.
I am free.

Close it out with that layer of humor: here’s Josh Groban singing a Kanye West tweet.

I don’t know what it is! Maybe because I’m already home from work, or maybe because I’m trying to manifest better energy, but I feel so light and happy right now!

I’m giving OMAD a shot this week, and I started to feel it a few times during the day, but I let mind over matter persevere. Now I’m home and Aaron’s making pasta for dinner. I’m in my pajamas already, too! It feels good to feel this good.

I want to fill this blog entry up with smiley faces. Hooray for being happy!

I was watching this vlog today about a new-age morning routine. This girl wakes up and meditates, expresses gratitude, does kundalini yoga, and reads tarot cards, along with doing the standard skin routine ALL while waking up after the sun. I’m so jealous! I want to wake up at sunrise to meditate, then go for a workout. You know, when I verbalize that out loud, it doesn’t sound so impossible. I’d have to track the sunrise but I think I can do it! Or at least, meditate at sunset? The Golden Hour, for sure!

I also like that she expressed gratitude and recited affirmations. It’s all part of the law of attraction, where you attract only what you put out, like happy loving thoughts. I want to do that, too. I’ve definitely felt very ho-hum the past few weeks. I feel like my brain is all over the place! It’d do me well to write down all the things that are scattered in my brain.

Well, I’ve got a canvas right here, don’t I?

1. Wanting to listen to more podcasts.
2. Wanting to be more proactive in the mornings.
3. Wanting to live kinder.
4. Wanting to be healthier.
5. Wanting a picture perfect wedding.
6. Wanting a higher-paying job.
7. Wanting to learn another language.
8. Wanting to read more books.
9. Wanting to be less tired.
10. Wanting to FEEL less stress (I live a pretty not-so-stressful life, but I think I manifest the stress I DO have and it fogs my brain. Let’s get that out of there!).
11. Wanting to have less debt.
12. Wanting to be more organized.
13. Wanting to have all of those things while still enjoying “Gossip Girl” and Pinterest scrolls.

The question is– Do I chip away at all of it at once, or do I chunk it down and tackle three of them at a time? I feel like taking care of all these things will make me the well-adjusted adult worthy of a memoir. Like “Somehow I Manage,” with me shrugging on the cover with my sleeves rolled up.

Okay, I’m watching “Gossip Girl” right now, but after this episode I will shift my attention to adding my bank accounts to my new phone and figuring out Acorn. Get my financial ducks in a row while listening to a podcast, then read before bed. Jackpot! Steps at a time.