Busy, busy, busy but not so healthy

The last few days have been a swift reminder that I went into one hectic field. Recently there have been a lot of new babies born, which is great, but also a lot of work. It's my first time back on OB since July and man oh man, the learning curve is steep. But I'll make it through. It has, however, led me into some poor eating habits and I am excited to start with a fresh slate tomorrow!

Since finishing my exam on Tuesday, I've been pretty busy (read: haven't exactly been to the gym). Wednesday I hung out with a friend that I haven't seen in a bit because I was trying to study a lot. Thursday, I sat around and watched some TV (Thursdays are typically my chillax night as it's an early start day). Friday, I grabbed dinner with a co-intern and then ran home to watch the Project Runway Finale. Yesterday, I had some friends come over with dinner to catch up and hang out. And today, I did technically go to the gym, but it was to soak in the hot tub/de-stress my knee. Last night, it got super achy and locked up on me to the point where doing the stairs was really difficult and painful. And then this morning, I couldn't bear weight on it and limped around a lot of the day. I'm not sure what I did to it, but whatever's happening with my body, I'm over it. It's time to get healthy again and feel good again!

Tomorrow is Monday and I usually like to fast on Mondays because it's a good way to reset a week. And tomorrow I'll be doing a few C-sections and then spending my afternoon doing ultrasounds, so it'll be good that I'll be distracted enough to keep my mind off eating. I'm also planning on putting in some time on the elliptical tomorrow to get my knee moving and healing (I hope).

Tuesday will be back to healthy eating and I'll have a training session with my personal trainer.

Wednesday, I will likely fast and then do a cardio night.

Thursday will be my off night. 

Friday, I will hit up the gym before my interview dinner for the incoming interns. 

Saturday and Sunday I'm not working (which is awesome) and I'll be doing some strength training and probably some hot tub soaking.

It'll be a good week!

Napping, selfies, and snacking

Oh man, guys. Yesterday I made the mistake of napping in the afternoon when I had 6 a.m. lecture today. My nap was awesome, but I could not fall asleep until like 2:30 a.m. and then had to wake up by 5:00 a.m. to get to work by 6. Not cool. I was very le tired this morning. Like couldn't even think about putting in my contacts tired because I would likely scratch the hell out of my cornea or miss my eye or poke my eye out - you know, real world problems ;-)

So, anywho, I had a lovely day at work and then came home and napped hard. My intention was two hours - turned into 4+. Oops. And then I hit up the gym and had a pretty legit workout. I easily beat the elliptical and then came home and studied a bit. Now I'm freezing my butt off in my apartment thanks to the ridiculous Michigan weather and even more ridiculous wind, pushing the cold in through all the cracks. My apartment was a chilly 61° when I got home. And even though I turned the heat on to 68°F, the heat is primarily working in the living room, so I'm camping out here while I blog and watch the Arrow. I'm hoping my office/bedroom while be warm enough once I go back to bed.

In other news, I hit up the grocery store yesterday while I was hungry, which was a rookie mistake. I bought some of my favorite pretzels as well as some chocolate, which I really didn't need. I basically turned the chocolate and pretzels into meals the last two days, which was a mistake. Buuuut, I've already turned it around. Go me! Hitting up the gym, hydrating, and not snacking just to snack. Tomorrow I'll log calories and take photos of all my food just for you/mostly for me. 

Some photos for you to hold you over until tomorrow:

Breakfast for my day of surgery

Scrub selfie (they really do nothing for your shape)

This upgrade took foreverrrrr

But look at the new colorful thinking thing!

I think that's about all I've got for now. Tomorrow I have clinic in the morning. I intend to hit up the gym after clinic, get some good studying in, and then head back to work (I have a 4:45 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift). I'll cut myself off from eating around 8 p.m. so that once I get home I am able to hit the hay and get some good sleep so I can study like a maniac all weekend. My test is on Monday (and Tuesday)!

Gifts/motivation for weight loss

This weekend was a bit more chill for me. I really needed that. It's been go, go, go for the last few weekends. I think I've worked the last 5 or 6 weekends in a row. This weekend was just a Friday night late night shift and an overnight shift Saturday night (7p to 7a). Typically I try to nap before a shift, but my little ol' brain just wouldn't shut down, so Saturday night was looooong with a lot of patients who screamed during labor and delivery. It was a bit intense for my eardrums. When I came back home, all I wanted was peace and quiet and my bed. I slept until 3:30 p.m., hit the gym, went grocery shopping, had Sara over for dinner, and then laid in bed not sleeping (probably since I slept until 3:30 p.m.)

This morning, I weighed in - and yayyyyy!

Yay!

You can see my weigh-ins here. Since recomitting to my weight loss journey, I've lost 19.4 pounds. Now, before I get all crazy and buy myself new shoes (which I promised myself I'd do when I was in the 220s), I want my next weigh-in to remain in the 220s. Since I'm pretty famous for losing and then regaining, I am waiting until I have one more weigh-in under my belt that is in the 220s. Then I'll order my new shoes.

My next big goal will be for the 210's. If I can get there and stay there for two consecutive weeks, I will buy myself two new pair of compression socks. 

Anywho, tomorrow is a fasting day in addition to being a personal trainer day. Usually I don't fast on trainer days, but since I didn't fast today, it was the only day that really made sense. I'm sure I'll be fine. 

Tomorrow I'll take photos of my eats for the day - I promise!

Do you give yourself any gifts/motivation to meet your weight loss goals?

No shoes for me

So, today started out with a womp, womp. I just missed it with my weigh-in today!

My goal was 240.2 and I missed it by 0.8 pounds. Too bad. No new shoes for me! But, I did lose 5.2 pounds, so I'm happy about that. And I'm going to try again. I'm going to set another goal: 2 weeks - 5 pounds. I'm sure this will be a bit harder because I just lost 5.2 pounds in 2 weeks, but I also know that I can do it. And it's been a bit since I've been in the 230s. And I want those new shoes, damn it. So I'm really going to try to pull it out this time. I'm thinking adding in the strength training will help me this time when I mostly did cardio over the last two weeks.

The rest of today was pretty good. It was a busy day and it was also a fast day, so I started the day out with a hefty breakfast and then waited until dinner out at a Korean restaurant with my coworkers to eat again. 

I hmmed and hawed through the day as to whether or not I wanted to go, but then almost everyone was going to go and I didn't want to be the odd resident out. So, I went and enjoyed myself and was definitely glad I went. The only downside was that the restaurant was a bit far from home, so I didn't get home until 8:30ish. So, I hurriedly washed my face and brushed my teeth and now I'm blogging and I don't have a lot of photos - sorry! I didn't snap any pictures of the food at dinnerbecause there was so much of it - it was family style and I would've felt a bit creepy. But, there was a lot of meat and veggies. We also had to eat with chopsticks, so it slowed me down a bit ;-)

Tomorrow I'm planning on doing a cardio day given that I have personal training on Wednesday and don't want to be too sore for it. I'm also still a bit sore from the strength training I did on Friday.

Anyone have a favorite ethnic food? That was my first time trying Korean food and it was pretty delicious!

Little less crazy in my life

So today was way less crazy than yesterday. Thank God. It's exactly what I needed after yesterday's day o' struggles. And Nasur kept telling me that everything was going to be okay and I was just all, "STRESS!!!!!!" But then he was right...per usual.

Anywho, no fasting today cuz I'm going to do my 5 and 2 on Monday and Thursday this week, I think. I had my usual breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, a few pretzels for an afternoon snack, and a quick dinner when I got home from the gym because it was 7:40 p.m. and I was starving. Unfortunately, I didn't take any photos of anything until later in the day. Womp, womp.

I'm also exhausted, so I'm going to leave you with some photos and hit the hay!

A rainbow after work

Peach mango juice - 1 serving of fruit and 1 serving of veggies

Dinner: shrimp and toast

Dessert

Anyone have any go to healthy dessert recipes they'd recommend? Sometimes I want just a little something for dessert, but I don't want to be too unhealthy nor do I want a recipe for like a gazillion servings that I could binge eat. Please and thank you!