So initially, I was going to document both food that I ate and the amount of exercise I got. Unfortunately, I didn't go to the gym once this week - so my "exercise" just involved walking around campus, the occasional trot to the bus, and some half-assed push ups. Oh well. More on this in the "why did I eat that crap" break down...
I should mention: I am blogging this at 3:40 am, waiting for a program that I've been writing all week to FINALLY. F*CKIN'.WORK. And I have an organic chemistry exam on Monday that I have done zero studying for because, of course, I've been writing this program every waking hour that I haven't been watching 30 rock or ... well, you'll see, in the "why I drank this booze" break down. Oh, and most of my hours have been waking - because sleep is the first thing I sacrifice when I have a lot of work to do - long before my precious 30 rock.
March 2nd, 2010
8:30 am, at home - a few bites of yogurt, because I thought I might go to the gym today and eating something is better than nothing, especially a few hours before a run. I didn't actually go.
9:00 am, meeting before our class! - 1 cup of coffee. Because this is way way earlier than I would normally wake up.
12:00 pm - Tomato bisque soup w/ a pop over @ purple onion - because instead of going to class, I rewrote my program from hell for the first time.
3:30 pm in transit to the computer science building - small mocha. Was running out of steam.
9:30 pm at a mexican restaraunt in st paul- chorizo enchiladas with my dad. I had class straight until 8:30 and was starving at this point.
11:00 pm at home- 1 cup of coffee. Because I am obsessive and I needed to get my program working.
11:10 pm at home- 1/2 a cup of chocolate chips... oral fixation? I don't know.
12:00 pm at home- another cup of coffee. Perhaps because I am insane. Still working on that program.
total calories: 1720
March 3rd, 2010
11:30 am at home (yes, when I woke up) - 1 cup of yogurt. Breakfast. Back to work on my program.
11:30 am at home- 1 cup of coffee. Something to do with being an addict.
3:00 pm at home- worst peanut butter and jelly sandwich ever. Still programming
5:30 pm in global studies class - yogurt.
9:30 pm - Tracy's Saloon - cheeseburger and fries... because to get out of the house, I met my dad at the bar.
9:30 pm - 1/4 of a beer, 1/3rd of a mixed drink. Because I was sipping off of my dad's drinks.
10:20 pm -at home, coffee again. Still programming. Was working until 4 am, had a breakthrough at around 3:45 and was finally satisfied enough to sleep.
total calories: 1700
March 4th, 2010
8:30 am at home - measly amount of yogurt.
9:30 am in our class- coffee, and a cherry coke. Because I had to give a presentation on Cyborg Feminism and I was so tired I doubted my ability to spell my own name.
11:30 am at purple onion- pop over and chicken wild rice soup. Back at purple onion working on my program, which was supposed to be done by midnight of this night and I still wasn't near finished.
6:30 pm - after going home and crashing for 5 hours, and missing a class - yogurt.
9:00 pm - 1 beef taco, at the bar with my dad again.
9:00 pm - 1 summit maibach, because I got an email that said the deadline for my program was extended till saturday night.
10:00 pm - at home - more coffee. Still wanted to finish my program.
10:50 pm - at home, 1 cup of white rice with soy sauce. Wasn't so much hungry as bored.
12:00 am - 2 whiskey sours. Because my ex boyfriend called and wanted to play catch up at Psycho Suzies.
1:00 am. Psycho Suzies still, Sausage wrapped in bacon - because I am a terrible, terrible jew.
1:00 am. "Free Tilly" - because it had a hilarious name. But boy was it ever a terrible idea to drink this! I fell on my way into my apartment for the first time all winter.
total calories: 2300
March 5th, 2010
12:40 pm (this is when I woke up. Cripes.) a banana for breakfast at home
1:30 pm - some weird coffee with vanilla in it so I would be lucid in ochem lecture
3:30 pm - cereal w/ milk at home
5:30 pm - more coffee. ... wow. at home
7:10 pm - an apple, snacking before dinner
8:00 pm - Tracy's Saloon, a pork sandwich w/ fries and a beer, at the bar again. With my dad.
10:00 pm - cake for my friend of the family's birthday, at my cousins house.
11:00 pm - a margarita. Because my cousin made a pitcher of margaritas for the family so that we could tolerate each other.
1:00 am - more coffee. Because I decided to whip out my programming assignment again at the tail end of a drunken family card game. And in fact, that is what I am still working on, right now.
total calories: 1855
I counted my calories because I thought I'd hit two birds with one stone - I wanted to see how much booze and junk I am ingesting, and I wanted to see how much of my daily intake that ends up comprising. I really could do better. Also, most weeks I would go to the gym and run off 300 - 600 calories, 1- 3 times in the week. And when I wasn't counting my calories, I was eating a lot more junk! The fact that I had to write it down caused a lot of stuff to lose its appeal (dessert after every meal, finishing all of my french fries, drinking beer every night..)
yee gads! I don't think I'm very healthy.
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How interesting that you might think that, just because you don't work off every calorie that you consume, you are unhealthy. Your eating patterns are those of a person that has one hell of a schedule and is close with her family (especially when there are Margaritas involved). If I were to comment (and because I HAVE to comment), I would say that your sleep patterns are more of a concern than anything you eat. I am a serious coffee junky - read my blog entry if you doubt this, I can have a couple of strong cups of coffee, after 7pm, and still be in bed by midnight; however, I am always up by 730 or 0800. I value sleep as much as I value any major thing in my life - and sleep IS a major part of our lives despite the many pressures to give it up in favor of being more productive - I assert that quality of productivity trumps quantity ANY DAY!! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI believe sincerely that circadian rhythms are more closely tied to our overall health than the I/O differential of an extra 300-500 calories. The other VERY notable absence, which I hope is merely unintentional rather than an accurate picture is WATER!! Where the hell is the water in your 72 hours? Nearly two-thirds of Americans are chronically dehydrated. Chronic dehydration is closely linked to so many really, really bad diseases and conditions that I don't even want to get started. I'm hoping that water is such a major part of your every day intake that you didn't even think to include it in your report. I know that I completely forgot to include my H2O on some of my days, even though I drink at least two liters per day (at a minimum).
Life is short - burn that candle while you're young!! Great blog entry Estheria!
Oh! You're right - I totally forgot to include water. I do drink quite a bit of water, most days.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, my sleep schedule / drinking excessively was really what I meant by unhealthy. I am starting to really wear myself down... spring break will help, I hope.
i hope you got that damn program to work. seriously. sounds like it may have required a margarita....you should come get a shiatsu! ;)
ReplyDeleteBuying drinks with silly names at Psycho Suzi's is my vice. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteMehhhh...virtues are overrated. However, shiatsu sounds pretty friggin' awesome.
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