Happy Wednesday. We’re rolling right along in this week aren’t we?
I’ve had SO many things I’ve wanted to blog about lately, but I usually wait until late in the day to set up my posts and by that time, I’m too busy. So this week I’ve been spending a little time blogging BEFORE I start my homework. At first I thought it wouldn’t work, but it seems I was wrong, wasn’t I? Hopefully I can keep this up!
So, multiple people have asked me to post a “Day in the Life” blog about what my typical day has looked like. I’m not much of a daily life sharer here, but it’s something I always work on doing more because those are some of my favorite posts to read on other people’s blogs.
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But the problem for me is I don’t have a typical day. Every day of every week is different in my life right now. I’ve always struggled with how I would write a post like this due to this fact.
Last week I decided, whatever! I’ll post whatever day I want and I’ll just take pictures with my cell phone.
And thus, I present to you – a day in my life. This Friday from last week. Fridays are usually “my” day now. I don’t have school, don’t volunteer and have the day completely to myself. I thought this would be the perfect day to show you (and the most interesting for y’all to read probably).
My day started around 8-8:30 am. I’ve been sleeping really late lately on my days off because I don’t get much sleep during the week. I’m currently trying to wake up earlier and go to bed earlier every night, so let’s hope I can make the switch!
I actually woke up a little earlier and took my thyroid medicine, then went back to sleep. I have to take this 1 hour before eating, so it’s better to do it this way.
Once getting up and getting out of bed, I fed the dogs:
I also took my morning supplements (probiotic and an evening primrose oil) and made some breakfast – an english muffin with a tablespoon of peanut butter.
I changed into gym clothes, grabbed my gym bag and went straight to an hour long body works class. This was a new instructor for me and I LOVED her. Can’t wait to go back to her class this week!
After the class ended, my hip felt awesome – so I chowed this fruit leather down and then hopped on the elliptical for 30 minutes. I wanted to do more, but I didn’t have anymore food and didn’t want to push my hip too much.
After stretching I left the gym and ran a few quick errands on the way home. Petsmart for dog treats and Starbucks for a green tea. I also stopped by Petco because I have a coupon and I thought our dog food is on sale, but I was wrong.
As soon as I got home – I was in food making mode. I cut up everything for my lunch and got it one skillet. I also cooked some caramelized onions, chicken sausage and green bell peppers for our dinner.
For the last step of dinner prep, I got a 1/2 batch of whole wheat pizza dough started in my bread machine for dinner.
While lunch and dinner were cooking, I started some laundry and unloaded the dishwasher.
Finally, lunch was ready so I sat down and enjoyed an episode of 30 Minute Meals while eating and icing my hip. I also had to push this puppy away from my food constantly!
I enjoyed my most favorite recipe ever right now – a potato hash with potatoes, onion, bell pepper and garlic with an over hard egg on the side topped with mustard.
After lunch, I went back to laundry duty – folding and flipping loads. I think I did four loads all day?
After laundry, I returned to the kitchen – got everything put away for dinner (except my bread dough) and cleaned the kitchen – finishing the dishes, cleaning the counter and getting a new load of dishes started.
Finally I was able to strip out of my workout clothes (gross, I know) and take a shower. After my shower I worked on training the dogs for about 20 minutes – spending 10 minutes with each of them.
By this time, I was a little hungry so I made a smoothie – 1/2 cup vanilla greek yogurt, 1/2 cup skim milk, 1/2 T peanut butter, 1 cup frozen fruit and 2 huge handfuls of spinach.
This smoothie was enjoyed upstairs while I watched some TV (Say Yes to the Dress and The Doctors) while I worked on my computer. I did some blog stuff, looked up school stuff and just messed around for a little while.
After a little while I did some pushups and crunches for my February Fitness Challenge, ran downstairs a few times to flip more laundry and put my dough in the fridge when it was done. I also made some plain popcorn (from the bulk bin kernels) in the microwave and put nutritional yeast on it. I had a pear sauce on the side (from Trader Joes). I’m sorry but this pear sauce was NASTY y’all. It was like straight up syrup. Way too sweet for me.
Finally, I started some homework – studying for my Medical Terminology quiz that I have today. While I was working on this, Matt came home!
I was literally starving all day (not a big enough lunch I guess), so in addition to the other snacks – I also had a few of these crackers. I hate that when I’m hungry like this, because it doesn’t dawn on me until my hands are in the snacky carb box that it’s because I haven’t had enough protein (that’s usually when I turn for the carbs). So I promptly put these up and went downstairs to assemble dinner.
I’ve been struggling a lot since I bumped up my exercise to figure out the right balance of eating throughout the day. Days like today are a great reminder I didn’t eat enough earlier in the day and thus was starving all afternoon.
Anyway – moving on to dinner. Since I prepped everything earlier in the day, I just had to roll out my pizza dough and fill our calzones with our toppings.
Mine had 2 oz chicken sausage, 1 oz cheese, tomato sauce, green peppers and caramelized onions. I also had my evening supplements with dinner – two fish oil, another evening primrose oil and my calcium disk (after dinner).
The rest of the evening, Matt and I caught up on our DVR (Daily Show, anyone?) and then watched the Pilot episode of the A-Team. I bought him the first season for Valentines Day!
I did homework the entire time, but I did get through the first studying step of my Medical Terminology unit, which definitely took some excess work off my shoulders for yesterday when I finished studying everything.
(Knife not necessary for studying. haha)
We debated going out for a drink, but both had big plans on Saturday – so decided to stay in. I was asleep and in bed by about 11:30-11:45 pm. Early for me!!!
So there you go y’all – a day in my life. Now you know my dirty secrets like I don’t always change immediately out of my workout clothes, I’m a sleep monster and I’ve been studying in front of the TV too much lately.
Anyone else who doesn’t blog about their daily life normally have a Day in the Life post I can read? I’d love to check it out!
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