2017 New Year's Resolutions
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1. Drink more champagne.
2. Europe trip
3. Spend more money so it doesn't all end up with ISU or relatives when I croak.
4. Return to a major 5K race and finish in the top 3 of my age group.
5. Do not have a heart attack. Or a stroke. Those would suck
6. Finish off bath remodels.
2. Europe trip
3. Spend more money so it doesn't all end up with ISU or relatives when I croak.
4. Return to a major 5K race and finish in the top 3 of my age group.
5. Do not have a heart attack. Or a stroke. Those would suck
6. Finish off bath remodels.
I can help you with 1 and 3. I have some champagne I can sell you at department of defense pricing.
Well, technically it will be domestic sparkling wine and not "champagne" cause pending trade wars and tariffs with our allies.
1 Cup of uncooked white rice makes approx. 3 cups of cooked rice. For brown rice, it's more like 4 cups cooked.
I also bought a Faberware food scale for like 40 bucks that's great for portion control. Instead of just throwing a giant top of Iowa sirloin on the grill and eating it all, I can weigh it out and then cut it into 4-7 oz portions (you'll still be guessing on where to cut, but you can stay in the ballpark of 5 or 6 oz pretty easily). So now I go and buy a couple pounds of sirloin and a couple pounds of trimmed chicken breast, cut it into the portions I want, then cook them all at once (I use several different seasonings on the chicken to change things up a bit). Then I prepare about a week's worth of meals (always including a cup of green veggies with one meat portion, and sometimes I add a cup of rice). Then I store the rest in a large rubbermaid container for next week's meals. The veggies are dirt cheap, so I can buy in bulk, and I can get two week's worth of meet for like 25 bucks. Then I fill in with fruits, protein bars, pb sandwiches, etc. That's when I'm staying disciplined.
I lack discipline.
Another vote here for getting a food scale and using an app like My Fitness Pal to track your calories and macros. You can save recipes in MFP, so when you go to make a meal you can pull up what amounts of something you had. I can pull up how many ounces of rice, chicken, peppers, etc that goes into my stirfry and then when I make up meals for the week I try to get close to those amounts, +/- .05 - .1 ounces when I can. I don't readjust the ounces in MFP for each meal, because in one meal prep I'll make 5 or 6 meals of the same thing and each has a littler variation but I figure it averages out.
I also live alone and am a student, so I usually take a few hours on Sunday afternoon to meal prep for the week. Probably not so easy with kids who are picky or spouses who aren't as on-board with the rigidity of the process. I rarely eat out or pick up snacks at gas stations anymore because I know I have something at home or have healthy snacks on me.
It's also kinda cool and exciting when you hit your macros goals. Sometimes at night when I'm feeling snacky I'll plug in a few options to see how they fit my plan and pick one from there. When I'm really ambitious, I put in the entire next day's meals to see what I should change.
I also live alone and am a student, so I usually take a few hours on Sunday afternoon to meal prep for the week. Probably not so easy with kids who are picky or spouses who aren't as on-board with the rigidity of the process. I rarely eat out or pick up snacks at gas stations anymore because I know I have something at home or have healthy snacks on me.
It's also kinda cool and exciting when you hit your macros goals. Sometimes at night when I'm feeling snacky I'll plug in a few options to see how they fit my plan and pick one from there. When I'm really ambitious, I put in the entire next day's meals to see what I should change.
we haven't really gotten into meal prep yet but try to at least make something big on the weekend/night we don't go to the gym so we can have leftovers for lunch. Saves $$ and calories.
Another 10k person! That's like 3-4 of us now. I'm impressed at the 5k time. It's been a couple years since I've been under 30, which I feel is really slow.
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Devote time everyday to spend time reading the Bible. I notice I'm much more at peace when I do.
Find a teaching job, getting a degree in PE was a poor choice because of over saturation, so hoping finishing a Biology endorsement opens doors.
Start saving a little more in my 401k.
Find a teaching job, getting a degree in PE was a poor choice because of over saturation, so hoping finishing a Biology endorsement opens doors.
Start saving a little more in my 401k.
