Weigh-in Wednesday: Just Plain Crazy

My Team Booblicious Wine Party event at Fleming’s Steakhouse & Wine Bar at DC Ranch raised over $3,000 for Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk. I tell you, Fleming’s sure knows how to make a girl feel special – their service is by far the best I have seen, their food tastes amazing, and the management makes you feel like you are the most important girl in the world. For the event, we had ahi tuna tartare (I’m not normally a fan, but wow, oh holy wow), with a table of overflowing food including a crudite platter, spicy calamari, cheesy spinach and artichoke dip, a green market salad and a tower of shrimp cocktail. Then there were the wines – so many bottles of wine! Without the generosity of Fleming’s DC Ranch, I would never have been able to raise $3k in the fight against breast cancer. I cannot say thank you enough. If you go into Fleming’s (any location) please thank them for me and say Team Booblicious sent you.  Let’s show them our gratitude and give them a big Thank You for supporting our community!

To go along with all of that wonderful food was this incredible decadent cake from Le Napoleon. Chef Gerard Cretton  is an international Pastry Chef and Swiss Chocolatier for over 39 years, the last 10 years have been here in Phoenix. He blew my socks off by creating this chocolate and raspberry cake with a creamy chocolate mousse filling and another layer with a sweet raspberry filling. I’m a frosting kind of girl and restrained from taking a little sample before the cake was cut. If you need truffles, a custom cake, or any scrumptious dessert, you must visit Le Napoleon in Glendale. Team Booblicious thanks him for creating such a tasteful masterpiece. I can’t wait for my next friend’s birthday, because I sure know where the cake is coming from!

After being out the last 12 nights eating all over town, drinking wine and an occasional beer, only exercising twice, one would think I would have gained weight this week. And they would be wrong. I lost 1.5 pounds!! How the heck is that possible? The weeks I eat rabbit food, drink only a glass of wine and one soda, work out like crazy I gain weight. Then when I do the exact opposite I lose. Crazy I tell you – just plain crazy!! It sure as hell doesn’t make sense to me. Not one bit. I did make it the gym yesterday and did upper body with 20 minutes of cardio and burned 475 calories – I know that thanks to my new Polar watch and heart rate monitor from @IndianaBackDoc. I just need to figure out my time management – how do I go to the gym, make it to yoga, AND train for the 3-Day which is all walking, no running – I have no effing clue!! If you have ideas, please share.

Weight Loss

Lost  1.5 lbs

What I Did Right This Week:

• Did Yoga 1 day
• Worked out at the gym 1 day
• Working on the eating 5-6x a day – this is hard to do.
• Had 1 Pepsi Way more than that
• Meditated each morning

What I Did Wrong This Week:

• Ate out every night
• Drank a crap ton of Pepsi
• Didn’t eat enough veggies
• Didn’t eat enough fruit
• Not drinking as much water as I should
• Definitely did not get enough sleep. Again. And yet Again. And yet Again. I can’t seem to catch up on my rest – I am exhausted mentally and physically.

Goals For This Week:

• Yoga 3 days
• Strength training & running at the gym 3 days
• Do an 8-mile and 11-mile training walk this weekend
• Write out a Menu for next week
• Be in the moment when I eat and workout
• Workout 3x, walk 25 miles, yoga 3x
• Meditate every morning

Goals For This Month: (this is new!)

• No Pepsi! I need something to reward myself if I can do this. Suggestions? Make ‘em good!!
• Daily intake of sugar – 25g. I have seen my friends (@skinnyjeans & @ohkatiecookies) try this, so I am going to see if I can do #SweetlessSeptember. Need to research if this includes sugar in fruit.

My intention for last week was Seize the Moment. I was able to do this a few times, but not everyday. I really wanted to do it for my event. Most times when I organize something like this, I am stressed and preoccupied. I tried to be present and enjoy the time with my friends and educate people on breast cancer and how it affects me and them. The other thing that really made me stop and think was this: I was rushing to a meeting yesterday and I looked over and saw this homeless man with a big sack of bird seed. He was feeding the pigeons and they were loving it. Here is a man who probably doesn’t have a lot of money and spent what little he had to help others. Yes, even pigeons need help. I was blown away and had to take a minute to reflect on my own actions in life. Was I giving back enough?

My intention for this week is to get Organized!! I can’t say this enough. With my inbox sitting at over 140 unread emails, 14 content calendars that need to be written, client work that has to be completed, my websites still need to have their upgrades completed, exercising and fitting in a social life – OMG I am hyperventilating just thinking about it all. I know I am a super star at times, but right now, I can’t find my cape. Do you know where I left it? I can admit I feel very overwhelmed and need to get myself organized so I can continue to grow and so that I can enjoy what I do again and not feel so stressed out.

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Weigh-in Wednesday: Booblicious

This Sunday I am hosting the Team Booblicious Wine Party at Fleming’s Steakhouse & Wine Bar at DC Ranch to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk. Wanna come? Get your tickets here: http://booblicious.eventbrite.com/  Not able to make it, you can still donate to this great cause: http://www.the3day.org/goto/kristitrimmer. Have an item you would like to donate to the Silent Auction, contact me right away! I sure hope to see you there on Sunday for a little wine + food + boobs = great time.

I am very humbled by my friends posting the event on their Facebook walls, tweeting it out, and emailing it to their networks. Trying to pull an event together in 2 weeks is mighty tough. With the help of my friends and teammates, I know we will be able to raise money to fight this deadly disease.

Do you believe in Karma? When I was at the gas station yesterday I could tell the guy at the pump in front of me was a tad stressed out. He was looking at the few dollars in his hand and trying to calculate if he could even afford a gallon of gas. He couldn’t. Even before he humbly asked if I could give him a few bucks, I had decided to fill up his gas tank. I put my debit card in his machine and I saw his girlfriend sitting in the front seat totally amazed that I was helping them out. He started to tell me his story and I told him it was ok, I understood. I told him one day I hoped he would Pay It Forward. You see, when I was broke in college, I was on the side of the road, no gas, and no cash. I was freaking out. This man stopped and offered to take me to the gas station down the road. I told him no thanks that I didn’t want him to kill me. As we were talking, he ended up being a friend of my Dad’s. This stranger filled up my tank, gave me a $100 and said one day, Pay It Forward. I finally was able to live up to that promise. I don’t have a lot of money, but giving that young couple $60 worth of gas was worth way more than money – I gave them hope.

I am so happy to say that I completed my 40-Day Yoga Challenge!! I never really thought I could and was so excited to do it. I went ahead and signed up for a month of unlimited classes so I could keep it up. I also started working with Coach @KGirlTris and am excited to see her workouts. You know that new heart rate monitor I was talking about? I had no idea that when you stepped onto a machine at the gym that it shows your heart-rate on the machine! How cool is that? This week I did a 6-mile training work, did a grueling Yoga Core workout, and about died doing Coach @KGirlTris‘ workout. And I gained 3 pounds. I’m beyond depressed about that.

I have all these events that I have to go to and all I want to do is cancel. I just don’t want people seeing me weigh my absolute heaviest. I don’t feel pretty let alone sexy. When someone flirts with me, I wonder if they are taking pity on the heavy girl. This recent weight gain over the last month or so has been really messing with my mind and my self-image.

Weight Loss

Gained 3 lbs

What I Did Right This Week:

• Did Yoga 5 days
• Went on a 6-mile training walk
• Finally got back to the gym for strength training
• Working on the eating 5-6x a day
• Had 1 Pepsi
• Meditated each morning

What I Did Wrong This Week:

• Didn’t eat enough veggies
• Didn’t eat enough fruit
• Not drinking as much water as I should
• Definitely did not get enough sleep. Again. And yet Again.

Goals For This Week:

• Yoga 4 days
• Back to the gym 3 days
• Start to run again
• Do an 8-mile and 11-mile training walk this weekend
• Write out a Menu for next week
• Be in the moment when I eat and workout
• Workout 3x, walk 25 miles, yoga 4x
• Meditate every morning

My intention for last week was Forgiveness. For some reason I think the Universe was working through me this week. I talked about this a lot with many different people. It was strangely odd and enlightening. I looked at some situations and instead of seeing the negative in them or if they were in the past, the hurt that I felt, I actually looked at it through forgiving eyes. It is quite a powerful thing to do. Try it. Forgive. Let go. Move on.

My intention for this week is Seize the Moment. Be in the moment. Live for today. Enjoy each experience as it is in that exact moment of time. I am a worrier, I always think about the future, so this intention will be hard to do. I want to seize all the moments of my life, not worry them away.

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Weigh-in Wednesday: Parent Envy

Last week I wrote about my allergic reaction to soy and finally got it out of my system after 9 days. That was good because the last time it happened, I was down for a few weeks. It has been a struggle to get back on top of things for sure. Lots of commitments, client work, and  a Breast Cancer fundraiser that I am planning with an extremely quick turnaround – nothing like a little stress to get you motivated. Have to give Fleming’s Steakhouse & Wine Bar a huge shout-out and thank you for agreeing to host my Team Booblicious Wine Party on August 28th. Wanna come? Get your tickets here: http://booblicious.eventbrite.com/  Not able to make it, you can still donate to this great cause: http://www.the3day.org/goto/kristitrimmer. Have an item you would like to donate to the Silent Auction, contact me right away!

I’ve been writing Weigh-in Wednesday for quite awhile now. Everyone says when you write down what you eat, exercise 3-5x a week, and stay hydrated that the weight would naturally fall off. That hasn’t happened. I’m not giving up though. I have signed up to work with Coach @KGirlTris to prepare for the Breast Cancer 3-Day and really, to see what is going on with me. I have a new heart rate monitor from Polar where it measures my heart rate and caloric outtake and I will be using this during all of my training. More on that next week! I am excited to work with Kristine as she is an Ironman athlete and a Marathoner. I truly admire her dedication and determination. I don’t need to run a marathon, but I don’t want to be embarrassed to hang out at the pool either.

This is @KGirlTris and @IndianaBackDoc in Phoenix for the Rock-N-Roll Marathon

One thing that has crept into my mind this week is something I call Parent Envy. This last week on Facebook and Twitter has been a parade of my friend’s and family’s kids going to their first day of high school or kindergarten, even preschool. Every show I watch on TV has parental themes this week too. I’m 37 and have to realize that because I made other choices in my life, that I might never become a mother. When I was married, we did want children, but were never blessed. Now being single in my late-30s, being a mother in the traditional sense is looking like a pipe dream. Maybe this will change, and maybe it won’t. Either way, this time of year I recognize these emotions as Parent Envy. I shared this story at my Women’s Circle Network event last night. I was very surprised when one of the other women shared her feelings and that she often felt the same way. We both have friends who have children tell us how lucky we are – but you don’t always get it unless you are in the same position. It was nice that someone else understood me.

Weight Loss

Lost 1 lb

What I Did Right This Week:

• Did Yoga 7 days in a row!!
• Went on a 3-mile training walk
• Ate homemade chicken noodle and chicken & rice soup
• Only had 1 glass of wine all week
• Only had 1 Pepsi all week!!
• Meditated each morning

What I Did Wrong This Week:

• Didn’t eat enough veggies
• Started out eating fruit everyday, then forgot the rest of the week
• Not drinking as much water as I should
• Definitely did not get enough sleep. Again.

Goals For This Week:

• Yoga everyday – 1 more day to go in my 40-Day Yoga challenge!!
• Do an 8-mile and 11-mile training walk this weekend
• Write out a Menu for next week
• Be in the moment when I eat and workout
• Workout 2x, walk 25 miles, yoga 5x
• Meditate every morning

My intention for last week was Follow Through. Still working on this. I got really behind with the conference and then being sick. I actually feel like I lost time. I have had dates so mixed up in my head. So I will continue to work this intention for another week.

My intention for this week is Forgiveness. I’ve done this one before and it really helped me. Lately I have been seeing all these people getting into arguments on Twitter, and the old saying – Can’t we all just get along – keeps going on in my head. Do this week I want to spread the art of Forgiveness. Forgive ourselves and forgive others. Forgiving myself is the most difficult thing I have ever tried to do. And realizing that not everyone is going to like each other or me, and that is ok. There are so many people on this earth that we bound to find those people who think we are crazy amazing. Have you find your tribe?

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Weigh-in Wednesday: Severe Soy Allergy

08/10/2011

I had the most amazing time at BlogHer this last week in San Diego! I went to 2 yoga practices, one put on by Pzifer and then another on Saturday compliments of FiltreteWater. They were awesome and it was great that I was able to continue with my 40-Day Yoga Challenge even when at the conference. I went to the Fitness Boot Camp put on by @FitApproach and it was brutal, not gonna lie. I did all of this after I had a severe reaction to soy lecithin. *Most people allergic to soy are allergic to the soy protein. I am not, I can eat soybeans all day long.*

I cannot though have Soy lecithin (E322) which is extracted from soybeans either mechanically or chemically. It’s actually a byproduct of the soybean oil production. Lecithins are oily substances that occur naturally in plants (soybeans) and animals (egg yolks). Soy lecithin is used as an additive in foods as it possesses emulsification properties. This means it can keep a candy bar together by making sure that the cocoa and the cocoa butter don’t separate. I’ve seen it on margarine containers, as the whip on some foods, and in so many really common products.

A year ago I was at a networking event and someone made a dessert with a chocolate that had soy lecithin in it. It closed my throat within 5 minutes and I had to take Benadryl immediately. I was down for almost 2 weeks with that attack. It made me swell up so much in the throat that I couldn’t talk, and had a hard time breathing. Hence I had a food allergy test taken soon after.

On the first day of the BlogHer conference I had a salad and pasta salad. I’m almost positive that the soy lecithin was in the salad dressing. Within 10 minutes of eating, I could feel the right side of my throat closing (like I was getting a sore throat). But unlike a sore throat, this came on super fast. I started asking those at my table if they had any allergy meds. I carry an Epi pen because my allergy is so severe, but with my purse change, I had left it in my room. While I could barely swallow, I am saying, “I’m fine, really” and still trying to keep up on my Tweet Stream. now that’s dedication) Thankfully the woman I asked was a nurse and she could see I was going into distress and asked the BlogHer admin for their emergency kit. I took the Benadryl so afraid that it was going to put me to sleep and all I wanted was to continue on in the wonderful world of BlogHer. After that, I asked the Convention Center Director, who then asked the Head Chef to let me know which food items were safe. My allergy to soy lecithin is the first they had come across.

I thought I was fine, but over the next 24 hours I noticed that I was swelling up. My feet were twice their normal size and I could see the swelling in my face – sure glad I had a lot of makeup with me! When I got home, I immediately weighed myself… drum roll please… I had gained 9 pounds in 4 days!! I was still so swollen everywhere. At this point, I had lost my voice and was extremely tired. Then the headaches came. Over the course of the next 24-hours, and many Benadryl later, I lost all of those 9 pounds while resting on my couch in a daze. Weird to lose that much weight overnight!

Weight Loss

Gained 0 lbs – This is so ok after gaining and losing 9 pounds in 1 day.

What I Did Right This Week:

• Did Yoga 3days
• Fitness Boot Camp
• Went on a 3-mile training walk
• Ate salad and tried to limit processed foods while at BlogHer
• Limited myself to 2 glasses of wine each evening
• Meditated each morning

What I Did Wrong This Week:

• Had way too much Pepsi, not gonna lie.
• Had wine everyday for 5 days
• Didn’t eat enough fruit
• Definitely did not get enough sleep

Goals For This Week:

• Yoga everyday – 9 more days to go in my challenge
• Do an 8-mile training walk
• Write out a Menu for next week
• Be in the moment when I eat and workout
• Workout 1x, walk 10 miles, yoga 7x
• Meditate every morning

My intention for last week was Worthiness. After writing about this last week, I had no issues with it. It was odd. On the drive out to San Diego, I let my mind just relax, unwind, and feel. It was just what I needed. I explored those feelings of worthiness, worked through them, and set intentions for my time in San Diego. I’m happy to say that I was able to live up to all of my intentions.

My intention for this week is Follow Through. I came home with a renewed sense of what I need to accomplish. Coming home sick has set me back a few days. I need to buckle down and set up my goals and tasks and follow through with everything and everyone. I am ready!!

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Weigh-in Wednesday: Am I Worthy?

08/03/2011

This week I have had a lot of thoughts about am I worthy, am I good enough, do I deserve all of life’s blessings? Sometimes I hear the word ‘No’ resound in my mind and other times I can hear my inner voice screaming ‘Yes’!! During yoga there are times when they ask you to make an intention for that day, and lately I feel myself saying – I Am Worthy. I don’t know where this is coming from, but I am aware of how it has been in my thoughts this last week. Am I worthy to receive peace and love? Am I worthy to be in the presence of greatness? Of friends? Am I worthy to belong?

I’m leaving on a jet plane today for San Diego… actually I am driving, but I liked how that sounded! I am beyond excited to attend BlogHer and to meet some of my blogging idols. There are some great sessions I want to attend, brands I plan to meet, and friendships that I know that will be formed over some bubbly. I cannot wait!!

I have been doing double-ups in yoga to help make up for the days that I will be missing. Thankfully, BlogHer has two yoga sessions, a fitness boot camp, and a 5k I can participate in. I have signed up for all of them! Who’s taking bets on whether I can do them all? Only one I am not certain about is the 5k… put money on this one for sure!

Weight Loss

Gained 1.0 lb – Le Sigh.

What I Did Right This Week:

• Made this crazy amazing Spinach Quinoa with Ground Turkey
• Ate a lot of spinach.
• Did Yoga 5 days, 8 classes total
• Went on a 5-mile training walk
• Meditated each morning

What I Did Wrong This Week:

• Had a vanilla cone dipped in Butterscotch at Dairy Queen. #dontjudge
• There were 2 days where I drank 2 Pepsis each day.
• Didn’t eat enough fruit
• Not getting enough sleep

Goals For This Week:

• To enjoy my time in San Diego!!
• Do 3 days of yoga while I’m gone
• Attend the fitness Bootcamp by @fitapproach at BlogHer
• Walk the 5k run at BlogHer
• Be in the moment when I eat and workout
• Workout 1x, walk 10 miles, yoga 3x
• Meditate every morning

My intention for last week was Structure. I wanted so much to work on this intention, but I had no time. A lot of curve balls were thrown at me this week so I rolled with the punches. I accomplished what I could and pushed off what I could. Definitely need to put some energy into this though.

My intention for this week is Worthiness. I’ve never been one of those people who struggled with self-worth. But something must be going on in my head for me to have these thoughts this week. I need to be mindful and allow these thoughts to surface so I can work on where they are coming from. I know I am worth it! I am worthy of love, joy, optimism, respect, and acceptance.

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Spinach Quinoa with Ground Turkey

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Quinoa
• 2 cups chicken stock
• 1 Tbsp goat butter
• 1 Tbsp Italian seasonings
• 1 can diced tomatoes
• 1/2 fresh parsley, chopped
• 2 cups spinach, raw
• 1 cup scallons, chopped
• 1 lb ground turkey meat, browned

Yields: 6 Servings

Brown the ground turkey and set aside. Bring chicken stock and butter to a boil, then add in quinoa and Italian seasonings. Cook on medium heat for about 15-30 minutes stirring occasionally. When the stock is almost completely absorbed add in the tomatoes, parsley, spinach, and scallions. Stir them in slowly and cook for 5 minutes. Add in the ground turkey meat and give it a great big stir.

Can sprinkle fresh Parmesan cheese on top if desired. Enjoy!

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