March 18, 2008

  • Miscellany

    After today, my work week is half over!  I love me some short weeks and long weekends.  Even though the reason we get Friday off is a pretty big deal for all of Christianity.  At mass last weekend, I almost felt compelled to add The Passion to our Netflix queue.  If I recall correctly, Fella has not seen it.  And even my, for all intents and purposes, agnostic father saw it in the theater with his two Catholic girls. (That'd be Mama Zest and yours zestfully).

     

    But I have yet to take any steps to update our queue.  At this point, I highly doubt that I will.

    I've been trying to clean up my dietary life.  As many of my loyal readers know, I've had an on-again-off-again relationship with the world-famous WW program since about the 8th Grade.  Right now we are on-again and I have been pretty faithful to regularly attending meetings.  The numbers on the scale haven't been as faithfully declining as I would like, but slow and steady eventually finishes the race.

     

    For other reasons that I can't exactly explain, I've jumped on the making better dietary choices bandwagon.  One day I just realized that I needed to eat more foods occurring in nature and fewer 100 Calorie Packs.  The bottom line was also that I plain wasn't getting enough fruit in my diet.  And I've been doing well with that.  Instead of a snack size bag of microwave popcorn in the afternoon, I reach for an apple or a banana and PB (albeit highly processed PB—baby steps, people).  And I've found that for the most part, I'm not really missing the snacks that I've cut back on.   

     

    Another thing that I would like to tackle, but have no idea how to approach: caffeine.  I'd like to limit my caffeine intake.  As it stands now, I drink two cups of coffee daily.  Inevitably there are days when I add a diet soda in the afternoon and rare occasions when I may indulge in some foofie blended coffee drink after lunch.  Even rarer still is finding that I need a third cup of coffee to get through the afternoon, but it happens once in a blue moon.

     

    I thoroughly enjoy a good, strong cup of coffee; in fact I think it's an inherited trait.  But I also realize that I am quite dependent on the caffeine portion of my daily coffee program.  Just ask my rebound headaches when I've missed a daily fix.  My fear, of course, is that I will rarely be able to have an enjoyable cup of coffee if I switch to decaf (which we all know still contains caffeine anyway).  At least not one that isn't made at home using a spendy, but comparably flavored, decaf coffee.

     

    So right now I'm not sure if I'm ready to walk away from regular leaded coffee.  It hasn't been recommended to me to quit, so it's not as though I'm ignoring a diagnosed physical problem.  But there are questionable health items that have prompted my attention to a potential change.  For now I won't make my co-workers, family, and friends suffer through Zesty's Coffee Rehab.

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  • I gave up coffee for lent once and it was so horrendous I figured I was good on Lent for the rest of my life.  I'm on about 2 cups a day - more than that makes me feel icky (this is *way* down from about 4 or 5 cups a day when I was younger).  I find though, that part of what I like is having something warm with flavor to sip on.  Usually sometime during the day if I think I want another cup of coffee I switch and make some herbal tea.  It satisfies the taste buds and it's warm, but doesn't have the caffeine.  If you read French Women Don't Get Fat, there's actually a part in there about sipping herbal tea.  Not that I'm all about that book or anything - it was mostly just entertaining - but there were some interesting tips, including that one.

  • I just started WW last week.  I even have a separate blog on xanga to track my WW progress and to gripe about hurdles, etc.  *sigh*  Definitely slow and steady does it.  The problem is that I'm so impatient!  I want big results!  NOW!!

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