Kettlebell workout A:
Turkish Getups.
Goblet Squat
Bent over Row
2 Handed Swings
Huge improvement over Monday's session. 20lb bell not used at all. Got 2 extra TGU's in and the squat/row combo went from 6 sets to 9 using the 12kg bell for all sets. I had to drop to BW squats for 2 sets last time. Swings went to the from 136 to 150 which is about the max I can do in that time. Week 2 changes to a 30/30 split.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Mmm Curry
I've been experimenting with Thai cooking recently. I think experiment #2 of the Red Curry can be declared a success.
Swampsville doesn't exactly have a great amount of locally available speciality stores so I have to make do with supermarket ingredients. There is where Taste of Thai products come in. I had to laugh at the first variation of this I made:
The recipe on the back of the jar of curry paste directs you to use 1/2 to 1 tbsp per 14oz of coconut milk along with a careful admonition at the bottom to start with a small amount and work up according to taste. Well I guess I've worked up my tastes a bit since living here as I thought I'd be daring and add the whole tbsp straight off.
Couldn't taste a damn thing. What I ended up with was way too sweet and not even remotely spicy. So experiment #2 I went to three tablespoons of curry paste and left the sugar and fish sauce down at the original amount. Much better :) I still think #3 will probably have one or two more tablespoons. I would put what I just ate at a 'mild' rating. I like my sinuses to be clear when I finish a curry, I'm barely even sniffing. Flavour was definitely good though. I might have gone overboard on the veggies though, I tend to load up on those and skip the rice. I did discover a great addition is some new potatoes though. :)
Anyone who knew me from back in the UK might be mildly shocked as I never cared for anything remotely spicy growing up. Now I eat things that will knock the socks of most of the cajuns around here and they can do some mean seasoning at a crawfish boil. Trying to eat the corn on the cob from your average boil is asking for totally numb lips that'll burn for hours after - it tastes sooo good though :)
Swampsville doesn't exactly have a great amount of locally available speciality stores so I have to make do with supermarket ingredients. There is where Taste of Thai products come in. I had to laugh at the first variation of this I made:
The recipe on the back of the jar of curry paste directs you to use 1/2 to 1 tbsp per 14oz of coconut milk along with a careful admonition at the bottom to start with a small amount and work up according to taste. Well I guess I've worked up my tastes a bit since living here as I thought I'd be daring and add the whole tbsp straight off.
Couldn't taste a damn thing. What I ended up with was way too sweet and not even remotely spicy. So experiment #2 I went to three tablespoons of curry paste and left the sugar and fish sauce down at the original amount. Much better :) I still think #3 will probably have one or two more tablespoons. I would put what I just ate at a 'mild' rating. I like my sinuses to be clear when I finish a curry, I'm barely even sniffing. Flavour was definitely good though. I might have gone overboard on the veggies though, I tend to load up on those and skip the rice. I did discover a great addition is some new potatoes though. :)
Anyone who knew me from back in the UK might be mildly shocked as I never cared for anything remotely spicy growing up. Now I eat things that will knock the socks of most of the cajuns around here and they can do some mean seasoning at a crawfish boil. Trying to eat the corn on the cob from your average boil is asking for totally numb lips that'll burn for hours after - it tastes sooo good though :)
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Workout 2
Kettlebell workout B:
Clean and Press ladders
Get Up Sit up
Reverse Lunges
2 Handed Swings
Stiff and sore so not my best efforts here. I have a 16kg bell tucked in the corner waiting for me to get uber enough to use it Resorting to my 20lb bell is a current sign of weakness. I should be able to do all of this with the 12kg. It's amazing the difference 6 pounds can make.
Clean and Press ladders
Get Up Sit up
Reverse Lunges
2 Handed Swings
Stiff and sore so not my best efforts here. I have a 16kg bell tucked in the corner waiting for me to get uber enough to use it Resorting to my 20lb bell is a current sign of weakness. I should be able to do all of this with the 12kg. It's amazing the difference 6 pounds can make.
Snack Pack Score
So my current eating habits have revolved around Intermittent Fasting of the daily kind. This basically boils down to no breakfast, small lunch and a happy me sized dinner that doesn't make my brain implode at the unfairness of such a minuscule portion as happens when I used to eat 5 times a day.
Generally this keeps me happy but I spent half the weekend ravaging my kitchen for whatever it was I was craving and eating way too much in the process.
After the second pot of sugar free jello mousse (great little snack packs by the way - 60 calories in a little pot of heaven) that normally quash any such craving but this time being totally useless in that regard I found a fruit cup in the back of the fridge.
I pondered it, up till now they had been ignored. Purchased for hubby at some time or another which typically puts food out of my mental range. I don't eat his food, he mostly doesn't eat mine. It's a good system for us that means he can buy his junk and I don't eat it. I just mentally treat it like a house mates food (totally off limits) unless I ask. He knows me well enough to typically say no *laugh*
Anyhow, I ate it since it had been there for a month or so. It was perfect, and then I realised I hadn't bought any fruit recently. So I ended up at brookshires for my lunch break and stocked up on some humongous peaches, bunch of granny smith apples, tub of pineapple and my score of the week: 100 calorie snack packs of wholly guacamole.
Avocado's are a fruit too!! hush :p
Anyway, I love avocado but suffer from the once you pop you can't stop attitude and will eat a whole one without blinking. So this fits the bill beautifully. And I can stick it in my lunch bag.
Omm Nom Nom.. :)
Generally this keeps me happy but I spent half the weekend ravaging my kitchen for whatever it was I was craving and eating way too much in the process.
After the second pot of sugar free jello mousse (great little snack packs by the way - 60 calories in a little pot of heaven) that normally quash any such craving but this time being totally useless in that regard I found a fruit cup in the back of the fridge.
I pondered it, up till now they had been ignored. Purchased for hubby at some time or another which typically puts food out of my mental range. I don't eat his food, he mostly doesn't eat mine. It's a good system for us that means he can buy his junk and I don't eat it. I just mentally treat it like a house mates food (totally off limits) unless I ask. He knows me well enough to typically say no *laugh*
Anyhow, I ate it since it had been there for a month or so. It was perfect, and then I realised I hadn't bought any fruit recently. So I ended up at brookshires for my lunch break and stocked up on some humongous peaches, bunch of granny smith apples, tub of pineapple and my score of the week: 100 calorie snack packs of wholly guacamole.
Avocado's are a fruit too!! hush :p
Anyway, I love avocado but suffer from the once you pop you can't stop attitude and will eat a whole one without blinking. So this fits the bill beautifully. And I can stick it in my lunch bag.
Omm Nom Nom.. :)
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Kettlebells for the Win
Kettlebell workout A:
Turkish Getups.
Goblet Squat
Bent over Row
2 Handed Swings
And we're back
Seems blogger has done a wonder on updates in the last couple of years. Not that I am much of an active blogger but hey, never hurts to start again :)
So, I've lost some weight running around the lower 160's these days, picked up my kettle bells again as of last night and decided to move back to England...
Hubby wants to explore the world, to experience a new culture and generally get out of Dodge. I can't blame him. I want to as well and I don't think we are going to do it with our current life.
I could write so much here, the why's the wherefore's but it simply boils down to we aren't happy with the american dream, it's not all it's cracked up to be. We need some passion in our lives, something more fulfilling than a 'good job' that means we are stressed out of our brains whilst simultaneously being stuck behind a desk. I love the people I work with, they have treated me so wonderfully but the job itself has burned me out somewhat.
So back to England we go, me to work with my family. Hubby to explore various avenues and figure out what he wants to do when he grows up :) I hope that one day it is to come work with my family too, I'm not putting any pressure on him there.
In the mean time, we have a house to fix up and sell, packing and sorting to wade through and numerous other hurdles to overcome that seem a whole lot harder than when I did it the other way around exactly 8 years ago this weekend. I also am continuing down my journey to find that flat belly I have been dreaming about for so many years.
So this blog will be a recording of that journey and the move we make that I hope one day we look upon and say 'this was the best thing we ever did'. I hope my only regret to be that we didn't do it sooner.
So, I've lost some weight running around the lower 160's these days, picked up my kettle bells again as of last night and decided to move back to England...
Hubby wants to explore the world, to experience a new culture and generally get out of Dodge. I can't blame him. I want to as well and I don't think we are going to do it with our current life.
I could write so much here, the why's the wherefore's but it simply boils down to we aren't happy with the american dream, it's not all it's cracked up to be. We need some passion in our lives, something more fulfilling than a 'good job' that means we are stressed out of our brains whilst simultaneously being stuck behind a desk. I love the people I work with, they have treated me so wonderfully but the job itself has burned me out somewhat.
So back to England we go, me to work with my family. Hubby to explore various avenues and figure out what he wants to do when he grows up :) I hope that one day it is to come work with my family too, I'm not putting any pressure on him there.
In the mean time, we have a house to fix up and sell, packing and sorting to wade through and numerous other hurdles to overcome that seem a whole lot harder than when I did it the other way around exactly 8 years ago this weekend. I also am continuing down my journey to find that flat belly I have been dreaming about for so many years.
So this blog will be a recording of that journey and the move we make that I hope one day we look upon and say 'this was the best thing we ever did'. I hope my only regret to be that we didn't do it sooner.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
I moved
Sorry Blogger, but Wordpress has cooler features.
You can find any future musings from me at http://lifeolimey.wordpress.com.
You can find any future musings from me at http://lifeolimey.wordpress.com.
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