EatRunLitigate

Hiatus

jaimielyn — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:22:00 +0000

Sorry to have taken a blog hiatus. The bad news is that the hiatus will continue for the next few weeks, at a minimum. I’m spending all my free time on a very big project that will effect the blog in it’s entirety. I think it will benefit me and my readers to do this instead of spending any time blogging. When I return the blog will be more focused, more useful, and, probably most importantly, more…how should I put this?…independent?

As always, you’ll be the first to know what’s going on and where we are going?

The good, the bad and the ugly

jaimielyn — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:56:00 +0000

It’s late and I should be sleeping, but alas I’m going to throw a quick post together.

EAT

Because M and I went to The Restaurant at the Canterbury Hotel (yes, that’s the real name of it) as part of Devour Downtown, my calories for today are somewhat of a guess, and my guess is that they are on the low side of guessing, but without further adieu:

Total Calories: 1464

Percentage of Calories from Fat: 27.5%

Percentage of Calories from Protein: 27.2%

Grams of Fiber: 19 g

RUN

Although it was almost 9:30 by the time we got home, I laced up my running shoes and went out for a quick 2 mile run. I actually think it was a really fast two mile run for little slow poke me, but I will never find out as the Garmin died 1.3 miles in After the run, I convinced M to take the dog out for a walk with me it. The weather was lovely tonight. I could have (and perhaps should have) run forever!

LITIGATE

This category is hard to write something about every day. The stuff I do has become quite routine for me. I’m sure it’s far from boring to most people, but after a year (I can’t believe it’s only been that long) of doing this stuff it’s become quite mundane to me. That doesn’t mean I don’t get a crazy call daily from a variety of clients or that I’m not learning about how small Indianapolis is once we learn about all the affairs in the city — which by the way seems like the smallest city on earth when you start doing this stuff. It’s just at this point it seems like almost nothing will shock me. In a year of doing this I’ve seen the good (parties who hated each other being able to agree what was best for the kids without an argument or second thought), the bad (countless cases of infidelity and being hit on by a 75 year old client) and the ugly (domestic abuse and a XXX picture from a client’s soon to be ex-husband).

The Dreaded Billable Hour

jaimielyn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:30:00 +0000

EAT

I’m sure your first thought when you didn’t see my post last night (you noticed, right?) was that I had a bad day. While that’s partially true, it’s not the reason I didn’t post. I didn’t post because I went to bed really early and feel fantastic today. If I haven’t mentioned it before, I’m using Livestrong/Daily Plate to track of all of my eats and I have managed to do so all three days this week. Tonight will be a struggle as I’m heading to a fancy dinner with M, but I’ll do my best to put something into Daily Plate.

Instead of the chart I normally post, I’ll just post the end of day stats:

Total Calories: 1476

Percentage of Calories from Fat: 26%

Percentage of Calories from Protein: 16%

Grams of Fiber: 20 g

RUN

I managed to do a whole lot of nothing. Yeah that’s my second “rest” day this week, which is no good considering getting a work out in today will be quite a struggle. I think I’m going to make a real effort to go to the gym and do a quick run late tonight after dinner or at least do Thirty Day Shred. I’ve gotta be honest: I think I’ve lost my work out motivation. I’m hoping it’s just a slump and it will come back. I think part of the problem is that I’ve been doing the same thing for several months now (training for the triathlons) and so there hasn’t been much variety in my work outs. As soon as the triathlon is over on the 29th, I’m going to start doing more running, a class at the gym (it’s a Body Pump type class), and perhaps some spinning (particularly when the weather starts to cool down). And I will probably quit swimming or swim only once a week until next spring.

LITIGATE

I think that the thing about being attorney that is so weird is the billable hour. I know that lots of professions have these (engineers, consultants, accountants), but because I went straight from college to law school, I have no experience being an employee other than an hourly one. The difference, as you may or may not know, is that every hour you at work when you have a billable hour requirement is not billable. That means that some days I’m at the office for 11 or 12 hours and I only have 8 billables. What’s even worse are days when you are at the office all day and only have 3-4 billables. It’s like taking a half vacation day but being at work — a terrible result if you ask me. Thankfully I’ve learned and am learning more and more each day how to become more efficient at my billable hours. What makes me nervous about them is that right now, during the week, I barely have the energy to go to the gym after work — what is going to happen to my work out routine if/when I have kids on top of work?? That’s a scary thought.

An Odd Combination

jaimielyn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:36:00 +0000

EAT

Had another good day of eats today. Had to add an almond butter sandwich to dinner (roasted eggplant) because I was going to be a bit calorie deficient.

Food	Calories	Fat	Protein
Peach	66	0	2
Oikos	110	0	15
Honey Wheat Bread	240	2	12
Deli Turkey	50	1	8
Reduced Fat Colby Jack	50	4	6
Banana	121	0	1
Butternut Squash Soup	140	2	3
Almond Butter	285	27	12
Patel’s Roasted Eggplant	204	13	6
Pita Chips	110	3	4
Totals/Percentages	1376	34%	20%

I know that I started out this well last week and it was abysmal after that, but I’m optimistic this week will be better.

RUN

I swam 950 meters tonight, including 500 meters straight of freestyle. I haven’t swam that long straight of freestyle in a long time. In case, I forgot to mention it, I swam breast stroke the whole time during the triathlon except for the first few strokes. I just wasn’t comfortable doing freestyle and I wanted to start the triathlon out confidently which I knew I could do if I did breaststroke (although it would be a slower confidently).

I hopped out of the pool and onto the treadmill. I made this a tempo run and ended up doing my fastest 3 miles EVER! 3 miles in 27 minutes. Overall a great workout!

LITIGATE

I wonder if a study has ever been done on individuals going through civil litigation and how different they act/think while going through such litigation. I am frequently amazed by the words that come out of people’s mouths.

Out of the loop

jaimielyn — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:19:00 +0000

EAT

My eats for today were decent. I ate a few unknowns though: M made the sweet potato fries and put about 5 times too much oil (but I cannot complain because he did most of the cooking tonight!) and I had a wrap for lunch (I used Subways chicken bacon ranch wrap for my calorie count). I didn’t snack today because I think I was snacking too much. Further, if I’m going to eat out for lunch I’m eating more calories because of that so I need to make up and eat less calories at another point.

Food	Calories	Fat	Protein
Oikos Greek Yogurt	90	0	15
Puffins	146	3	4
Chicken Ranch Wrap	544	12	28
Ground Turkey	200	10	30
Honey Wheat Bun	180	2	8
Fat Free Colby Jack Cheese	50	4	6
Sweet Potato	103	0	2
Olive Oil	238	27	0
Totals/Percentages	1551	34%	24%

RUN

No runs today as I just ran a triathlon (yes, I put marathon here the first time, maybe someday that will be true but today far from it) yesterday. I thought I deserved a day off I am planning a swim on the a.m. but if I’m too tired when the alarm goes off that may not happen (hey, I’m all about honesty around here). Hoping for a good week. Not going to say any grandiose things like it will be a peak week, but just hoping for a good, strong week. That can help me build on this first tri leading up to the next one.

LITIGATE

I usually get my daily legal gossip from Above the Law, but I recently put that in my outlook reader instead of Google Reader because of a meeting I went to last week that recommended the Outlook function. The problem with this is that I forget that it’s in my outlook so I haven’t been reading ATL like I used to. I’m out of the legal gossip loop. A loop I have been in for a year straight. It’s rather refreshing to be honest. The legal gossip loop has been, in case you weren’t aware, the most depressing loop for the last year. The large law firm economy tanked approximately seven seconds after I started working (I’m hoping there’s no correlation between these two events!) so my law gossip reading has consisted of reading about people getting laid off, firms dissolving, pay cuts occuring, and, worst of all, seeing my own friends at my own firm let go. It still makes me mad. So maybe this out of the loop thing isn’t so bad. I can live outside the loop for a while and hope that when I return things will be happy again! (I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that my sabbatical from the loop will last much longer which means this is a pipe dream – but I can dream, right?)

Tri Indy 2009

jaimielyn — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:28:00 +0000

Sporting my race number…
At the start of the swim/race:
Swimming (I actually did breast stroke the whole time and my time was okay given this fact), please note the “No Swimming” sign:
Transitioning from swim to run (isn’t that trisuit hot?)…Going out for the bike ride. The ride was great. I mostly passed people and didn’t get passed by a single woman
Coming off the bike. I definitely almost bit the dust at this point (Matt said several people did)

Out to the run. This was by far the worst run of my life. I had no juice. Note for next triathlon: take some energy type thing between bike and run or near end of bike…
And at the finish. Only 5 minutes longer than my goal…

Overall: 1:35:12 (258/463 – 55.7%)

Group (“Athena”, i.e., Fat Chick) Category: 2/11 (I wonder if I get an award for this….)

Age Group: 9/37 (24.3%)

Swim: 13:05 (195/463 – 42.1%)

T1: 2:17.7 (142/463 – 30.7%)

Bike: 42:56, 17.4 mph (184/463 – 39.7%)

T2: 1:38.7 (198/463 – 42.5%)

Run: 35:14, 11:20 (340/463 – 73.4%)

Had I not totally sucked up the run, I would have finished around the 200 mark (which would have made me seventh in my age group and first in the fat chick category). Overall the race went very well.

New Post Format & A Good Day

jaimielyn — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:32:00 +0000

EAT

I did great today with my food. In fact, I may be too good at this point.

Food Item	Cals	Fat	Carbs	Protein	Fiber
Oikos Greek Yogurt	90	0	6	15	0
Barbara’s Puffins Peanut Butter Cereal	110	2	23	3	2
Orange	50	0	12	1	2
Spinach	14	0	2	2	1
Amport Foods Pine Nuts	190	15	9	4	4
Feta	70	5	0	7	0
Kroger Cottage Cheese	110	5	5	13	0
Apple	90	0	23	0	4
Newman’s Own Lighten Up! Light Cranberry Walnut	70	4	8	1	0
Nature’s Own Honey Wheat Bread	120	1	24	6	2
Deli Turkey	50	1	2	8	0
Sweet Potato	103	0	24	2	4
Delallo Olive Oil	40	5	0	0	0
Sargento Reduced Fat Colby Jack	50	4	0	6	0
Hellman’s Light Mayonnaise	35	4	1	0	0
Totals/Percentages	1192	0.34	0.47	0.23	19

So yes, this seems low. But I also had 1 and 1/2 pieces of fudge and 2 fun size Heath bars. I think that with those calories I’m more in the 1400 range.

RUN

Did 5 miles on the treadmill. Was going to do them slow at 5 mph, but just couldn’t resist bumping it up. Ended up doing it in like 53 minutes instead of 60. Tomorrow, I’m biking and running the triathlon course with my friend who is also doing the triathlon.

LITIGATE

I discovered today that there is a statute in Indiana that requires people to support their parents if they become incapable of supporting themselves, the child is financially capable (I’d be interested to know what that actually meant) and assuming the parents supported the child until the child was 16. Although I would care for my parents if they became incapable of doing so themselves I think it is ridiculous to have such a statue. Just a random discovery while working today.

So this is my proposed new format. I have some ideas for nifty graphics to use in there but those are going to take some work, so for now this will work. The thought I had yesterday was to break it up into three daily posts, but given that I can hardly post once a day I think this will have to do. What do you think?

Why am I always back at square one?

jaimielyn — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:18:00 +0000

Sad truth #1: I haven’t been on track with my diet for a consistent period of longer than 5 days in months.

Sad truth #2: I haven’t followed a work out plan in weeks. I make them, but I don’t actually follow them. And I already won’t be following this weeks as I didn’t work out tonight because ~~I didn’t have time~~ I was too lazy. I choose instead

Sad truth #3: I have been eating out more and more every week. I was doing okay for a while there, but today I ate a 251 wrap for lunch and sushi for dinner. Both were delicious, but both will not help me lose any weight

Sad truth #4: I weighed myself tonight and I am back to where I was when I wrote this post. That was over a month ago.

Sad truth #5: I have really started to think about where my food comes from. I don’t think its coincidental that as the ingredients of our food have become more and more unpronounceable that cases of infertility, cancer, and other random diseases and problems have been on the rise. I have all kinds of excuses for why I let myself eat that crap (ease, affordability, etc.) but the main reason I eat is because it tastes good. Well that’s the worst reason of them all. It tastes good because it is fake and synthetic. If I am really doing this weight loss/fitness kick in order to get healthier than I need to actually consider my health. I am ignoring my health if I eat random chemicals because they taste good or are easy to make.

If I plan to actually lose weight and get beyond this plateau I have been at for several months I will never reach my goal, so here I go again. I am like a freaking broken record around me.

New reality #1: It doesn’t matter how good something tastes or how it easy it is to make. I need to know what is going into my body. I am going to start eating clean. This means I will primarily be eating fruits and vegetables, lean meats, dairy, etc. The real key is that if there is an ingredient list on the package I need to read it and know what each ingrediet is. If I don’t, I’m not eating it. Period.

New reality #2: I am back to counting calories. 1500 maximum per day (with some calculations on days with long work outs to make sure I do not do harm to my body by significant calorie deficiencies). No more wishy-washy range. No more skipping days when it’s convenient. I need to lose some weight and I’m going to quit pretending that I’m okay with the weight I am at right now. Sure I’m happy that I am not the weight I was. But I am not yet satisfied with where I am. I will be honest and say that the major reason for this is for appearance reasons, but I also know that the weight loss will aid in increasing my speed in both biking and running…and probably swimming as well!

New reality #3: I am going to make a work out plan every week and I am going to make that work out happen. I think I need to look at my work schedule more as I figure out my work out schedule so that my work out plan can be realistic. I also need to get back in the swing of working out in the morning. I think when I was the most successful at my weight loss when I was working out several mornings a week.

New reality #4: Lolly-gagging my way through this has not been working. No more lolly-gagging. Tomorrow, a Tuesdsay, which some may think isn’t the best day to start is going to be the start for me.

New reality #5: Back to daily posts. I would ideally like to do three posts a day. I’m going to work out the logistics, but I have a catchy idea for the various entries. I think it may work, but I’ve gotta figure out if I really have it in me to do three posts a day.

T-minus 7 Days

jaimielyn — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:07:00 +0000

7 days until my first triathlon!!! I have no idea how I’m going to do time-wise, but I can tell you that this week which was supposed to be my peak week was not my peak. I think my plan is to make the triathlon this week my test tri and the one in 3 weeks will be the real attempt (my goal at that one will be to break 1:30).

My totals for this week were:

Monday: 3 mile run in the morning, 1000 yard swim in the evening, and weight lifting session
Wednesday: 5 mile run
Saturday: 5 mile run
Sunday: 11.5 miles (would have went further but it was atrociously hot) so I decided to go to the gym and do 750 yards in the pool

My plan for this week is to take it somewhat easy:

Monday: 12.5 mile hard ride in the a.m.; swim in the evening
Tuesday: 5-6 mile easy run
Wednesday: 12.5 mile ride + 3 mile run on the actual course with my friend who is also running the triathlon
Thursday: Nothing
Friday: easy bike ride or run
Saturday: nothing
Sunday: RACE DAY!!!

My friend Nicole, who I once attempted a blog with, has started her own blog. She’s a newbie but already has three awesome entries, an awesome name, and has so much potential. You should get on this bandwagon from the beginning!

NSV!

jaimielyn — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:46:00 +0000

I managed to drag my butt out of bed this morning and run 3 miles as the sun rose (this was my NSV). Sadly, I did not feel nearly as energized today as I expected. I’m hoping to do it again tomorrow again. I did the run as more of an easy jog and ran it in 30:15.

After work, M and I had our favorite dinner: our attempt at the Gobbler panini. Tonight was the best yet. We then hit up the gym where I swam for 1000 yards (I just can’t stand to do it any longer than that. I have to figure out a way to overcome my swimming boredom. I have a feeling getting better at swimming will help me want to stay in the pool longer). After the swim, I did a full body lifting session. I’m hoping to amp up the weight lifting, particularly after the triathlons are over.

That’s all I’ve got for today. Hope everyone had a fabulous day!