Hello my little bloggy blog!!
It's been oh so long since I've written on this little blog but I've been a busy lady! I had a trip to go visit my mom and family, I'm in the middle of applying to go back to school again, I'm quitting my job and switching to a part time job (yay for holidays and weekends off!), I've had family in town for a short time and I've had my head down grinding through workouts and meals!
While traveling and having family in town I had to resort to eating out at restaurants. The first thing I notice when going to eat out is that it's sometimes difficult to find restaurants that offer even healthy options. But thankfully each restaurant I ate at had a salmon option which is on my meal plan. I looked for brown rice and veggies as side options and substituted so I could get healthy side options. The first thing I noticed about eating out was that even the healthy options have a lot of seasoning and sodium on them. Personally I feel that the best option is not to eat out but there are times when traveling with food or entertaining guests doesn't make it easy. I haven't seen any negative changes to my body because of eating out but I am not interested in continuing to eat out. I enjoy making my meals and being able to use spices in a healthy way to make my food. Mrs. Dash is the most amazing thing pretty much ever! The last thing to keep in mind- restaurants over do the serving size. Even with the brown rice I got well over the 1/2 cup portion I usually eat so I just eyeballed the right amount to eat and leave the rest. Don't think that just because it's on your plate it's fair game or the right about to eat because they are really generous with portions.
There has been some hard moments keeping up with life, traveling, laundry, dishes, cooking, work, trying to start my application process for school and my workouts. I'm trying to keep my food fresh, and interesting, I'm enjoying my cheat meals, getting enough sleep and planning my workouts. I think in August I'll bump my workouts up to two times a week with my trainer and I believe she has plans for me to start doubling up or changing my cardio come September. I am glad that I am transitioning to a part time job. The stress of having to keep up with it all and not having a schedule that allows me much time to spend with my family was getting too much and I'm ready to continue my life in the direction I want even if it takes some time to get there.
I hope that everything is going well for everyone and that when balancing it all gets tough that you still do the things that take care of you. I've had my breakdown moments where I think I can't do it all and I'm wanting too much to happen right now. I've just got to learn to be patient and keep on going!
Cheers,
Ash
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