08.18.08
Posted in Operation: Bikini Bod at 3:28 pm by Nicole
I never realized before just how important food is, not just to nourish yourself, but also as a social activity. Business lunches, drinks, dinner dates, coffee with friends, all of it requires that we eat. I mean, next to shopping (which oftentimes involves a snack) what other kind of bonding type experiences can you do together with a girlfriend?
Which is kinda a problem for Operation: Bikini Bod. The nature of my work is that I’m about 70% in the office and 30% traveling. While I’m traveling, I’m meeting with people and having to have lunch, or grabing quick unhelathy things at the airport or 7-11. When I’m at work, I like to book lunches with friends since dinners are so much harder to coordinate. Today, I thought about asking a friend if she wanted to grab lunch, thought about the fact that I ate two slices of cold pizza (I KNOW) for breakfast, and decided that a cup of water and a handful of chips should suffice for lunch. Now, I’m practically clawing at the walls of the office because I didn’t get a lunch break, and I missed seeing my friend. For someone that equates eating with valued social interaction, this is TORTURE.
And, forget about the possibility that I would “be good” and just eat something small and light when eating with others. Because you best be sure that if you are going to order the chocolate cake, I’m going to eat half. And I’m not going to get a salad if you’re getting the bacon cheeseburger and fries. I mean, that, too, is torture.
I wonder how everyday people find the time to eat healthy and exercise. I know that people do it, but to me, it seems impossible. Sigh.
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08.15.08
Posted in Primping and Pampering, Operation: Bikini Bod at 5:24 pm by Nicole
Happy Friday everyone! Operation Bikini Bod is…notsomuch. I have been eating cheeseburgers (lunch and dinner), margaritas and nachos (dinner), spaghetti (lunch and dinner) and pizza (snack). I told my mother and she was like, “Well, just wear a cover up on the beach!” and so she is going to buy one for me and I’m going to not let it bother me so much because, whatever, YAY! I’m going to a beach in less than a month!
Oh, but also for those of you in LA! I forgot to mention that the warehouse sale began last weekend! But, that’s ok because I never go the first weekend and I always just go the second weekend or the last weekend. The first week is too crowded it is a such a madhouse. On the second week, most of the good things are still there, things are marked down, and it is not as crazy. Good hunting!
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08.11.08
Posted in Operation: Bikini Bod at 10:18 am by Nicole
The other day, I was having lunch with a friend who I hadn’t seen in months and months. She was telling me how she was hitting the gym and had lost five pounds already. I said that I felt like I had been gaining weight because not only do I not exercise ever, I’m also eating all the time. She looked me over and said, “Well, you are nesting by living with you boyfriend. It is to be expected.”
Gasp! Like I’m supposed to turn into some kind of whale now?
But, I do feel kinda whaleish. I mean, all my clothes still fit, but things jiggle that aren’t supposed to jiggle. And, now, I’m supposed to go on a beach vacation?!?!
So, it is operation bikini bod time. But I am being REALISTIC here because I don’t own a gym membership and maybe exercising gives me a rash so I’m not going to be going crazy at the gym or anything. But, I am just going to try and be more active and eat better and I will see where that takes me. (But, I’m not ruling out more drastic measures the closer I get to the bikini date.)
Wish me luck!
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