The day began with watermelon and water. I had a meeting when I got in, and I didn't want to fill up on Chia Gruel before my lunch, since it was at a set time.
Lunch was an exercise in restraint. My Employee Relations coworkers had a pizza and cupcakes celebration for those of us who had worked on a big project. With my fabulous coworker, Kathy, deputized to not let me eat more than one slice of pizza and a half a cupcake, I survived. And I had veggie pizza. And brought my own Athena salad. And drank water. And split a cupcake with Coworker Meg, who is smart and stylish (I let her pick her own description, but she is smart and stylish).
Then I headed to the gym with Coworker Kelly who is one of the only people I know that looks good with bangs. She is also a certified personal trainer, and she's free! And so is the gym at work! It's like Google, but the cafeteria is terrible!
I did 25 minutes of cardio by myself, and then Kelly tortured me with a new workout to target my core. It involved planks. It almost didn't live. (No one suffers like Alyssa.) After that, I did my upper body workout (also devised by Kelly), which involves six exercises. They are:
-Drink your beers
-Start your lawnmower
-80's Exercise Video
-I'm a Winner
-Zombie Punch
-And that one where you hold the weight over your head
Those are the names that Kelly came up with for me to remember the exercises by, because she knows I won't remember the real names. Okay, I do know that "drink your beers" is actually "hammer curls," but I only remember that one because it seems like something that would be part of a Super Mario Bros. game.
So to recap today's exercise routine: suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck it, Shame Squad!
Dinner was at our favorite Indian restaurant--Rangoli in South Riding. We split a Bombay Burger (it's actually delicious potatoes on a bun, and the best way to spend $4 in Northern Virginia), then I had chicken biryani (Andrew--protein!) with raita (Andrew--protein!) and lentils (Andrew--protein!). And lots of water, bringing the water count for today up to about...three thousand glasses.
(In case you are wondering who Andrew Protein! is, he's a friend that I have known for 20+ years, who is crazy because (a) he does like, 25 hours of CrossFit a day (b) he chose to become a dentist (c) in the navy (d) and he follows a Paleo diet. What I'm trying to say is this: he's much more useful to society than I am. But he encourages me to eat more protein, and I listen to him, because he just moved to Hawaii, and I'd like to stay at his house.)
As for the Chia Gruel, well, I was full and didn't eat it (darn), so you're gonna have to wait until Thursday for that since it's in the fridge at work. I just took my vitamin, and with that, I thank you for reading and wish you a protein-filled day.
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| Removing the seeds from watermelon is serious business. |
Then I headed to the gym with Coworker Kelly who is one of the only people I know that looks good with bangs. She is also a certified personal trainer, and she's free! And so is the gym at work! It's like Google, but the cafeteria is terrible!
I did 25 minutes of cardio by myself, and then Kelly tortured me with a new workout to target my core. It involved planks. It almost didn't live. (No one suffers like Alyssa.) After that, I did my upper body workout (also devised by Kelly), which involves six exercises. They are:
-Drink your beers
-Start your lawnmower
-80's Exercise Video
-I'm a Winner
-Zombie Punch
-And that one where you hold the weight over your head
Those are the names that Kelly came up with for me to remember the exercises by, because she knows I won't remember the real names. Okay, I do know that "drink your beers" is actually "hammer curls," but I only remember that one because it seems like something that would be part of a Super Mario Bros. game.
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| Stop! Hammer curls! |
Dinner was at our favorite Indian restaurant--Rangoli in South Riding. We split a Bombay Burger (it's actually delicious potatoes on a bun, and the best way to spend $4 in Northern Virginia), then I had chicken biryani (Andrew--protein!) with raita (Andrew--protein!) and lentils (Andrew--protein!). And lots of water, bringing the water count for today up to about...three thousand glasses.
(In case you are wondering who Andrew Protein! is, he's a friend that I have known for 20+ years, who is crazy because (a) he does like, 25 hours of CrossFit a day (b) he chose to become a dentist (c) in the navy (d) and he follows a Paleo diet. What I'm trying to say is this: he's much more useful to society than I am. But he encourages me to eat more protein, and I listen to him, because he just moved to Hawaii, and I'd like to stay at his house.)
As for the Chia Gruel, well, I was full and didn't eat it (darn), so you're gonna have to wait until Thursday for that since it's in the fridge at work. I just took my vitamin, and with that, I thank you for reading and wish you a protein-filled day.