You know what bothers me? Those girls at the gym. The girls who wear their tight little outfits with their makeup impeccable and their hair down and they never seem to sweat (because they don't actually do anything except walk around) and they're carrying their cute little purses and their cute pink waterbottles while they touch up their lipgloss. Sorry chickadees, but I don't go to the gym to look cute and pick up guys. I put my hair in a ponytail and wear a headband (okay, I do rock the LuLu clothes, can't deny that) and I sweat and my face gets red and I look unattractive. Please be practical and sweat a little - you are at a gym after all, and I know you're unaware of this, but that's a little place where you go to get in shape. Not pick up guys. Mmmk?

Labels: fitness

posted by Maresa @ 9:52 PM 2 Comments

Got my hair cut tonight. Maybe you think it looks the same, but it's the shortest it's ever been! Yowsa! Loving it though. But I think after this I might grow it out again.



Other randoms:
- Signed up at the gym close to my work and am finding it's a good fit for me there. Except there's a dress code where you can't wear tanktops and I find that really annoying. The first time I worked out there I didn't even know that was the rule and came strolling downstairs in a tanktop - yes, I will flaunt opposition!

- The Veggie Challenge seems to be going well - I haven't eaten any meat for the past 5 days. Tomorrow is going to be challenging however because we're ordering Indian food for lunch at work, and I'm going to have to resist the callings of butter chicken and tandoori chicken and the like.

- However, the whole cooking good dinners thing is a big fail. Way to crash and burn within 2 days, Maresa. I've eaten sandwiches for dinner probably 3 nights this week. Although last night after my sandwich I ended up baking cookies... does that redeem me in any way? Brought the cookies into work this morning and they were gobbled up in an hour. Wow.

- I love fall. This is worth noting again for the millionth time.

Labels: 30dayvegchallenge, fitness, food

posted by Maresa @ 8:35 PM 3 Comments

Getting ready for the Veggie Challenge. Bought some protein powder and a tiny hand blender that works surprisingly well today.

I just want to say that I eat the worst dinners in the world. I'm hoping this vegetarian thing and cooking blogging thing will inspire me to cook better dinners. Probably 90% of the time I eat a sandwich for dinner. Or cereal. Yep, I don't get home from work until about 6:45pm and by that time I'm starving and it's late and I have no patience for cutting up vegetables and steaming rice and putting chicken in the oven, or making some semblance of a decent meal. I need to change this. But how?

I'm also going to be joining a new gym (my previous membership at the YMCA expired at the end of August, and now I live too far from there) but I can't decide if I:
a) want to go to a lower-end gym that's a minute from my work, which I physically see on the way to the bus stop so that I can't avoid going after work, but will be harder to get to on weekends or anytime I'm not at work, and which has a less intimidating environment; or
b) go to a high-class "see-and-be-seen" gym that is five minutes from my apartment, for which I will have to get off the bus after work a stop early (which could be easily "forgotten"), but more convenient to go to on the weekends, which has better perks ie. a heated outdoor pool, spa, better drop-in classes (but would I actually use any of these things?)
Herein lies the dilemma. They will both end up costing me roughly the same. Basically, I just want somewhere that I will actually go to, and after work is usually when I work out.

Labels: fitness, food

posted by Maresa @ 10:49 PM 1 Comments

"I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows." - Andy Warhol

I love weekends. This one was particularly nice because of the amazing hot weather. Yesterday I spent the majority of the afternoon at the lake, floating on an air mattress. It was so relaxing and heavenly, I would like to do it every day. We then had a BBQ dinner here with some friends along with homemade pina coladas and Dilly bars from DQ. Yum.

Today I made blueberry pancakes from scratch (read: no box mix) and they were delish. (I'm sensing a food-related theme to this post.) Then we went to a swap meet, I bought a new wallet (not from the swap meet) because mine had fallen apart last week, and we ended the afternoon at the art gallery because I really wanted to see the Warhol exhibit. Which was fabulous. Loved it.

Also on Saturday morning, I went to the gym. I'm trying to get back into a gym routine because I've fallen off the boat lately. I get really into it for a couple of weeks and then I seem to lose interest for a month or two and then the cycle starts again. So I'm hoping this time will be different. I'm setting a realistic weekly goal of 3 1-hour sessions at the gym, with basically 30-40 mins of cardio and 20-30 mins of weights/stretches/floor work. I might actually start a separate fitness blog to track my progress and hopefully keep me motivated. I'm not looking to lose weight at all, I'd just like to be healthy and tone up a little more. I'm on my way... last week at the grocery store I bought soy milk to replace my regular milk and tofu to replace steaks.

Tomorrow morning I have to bring my car down to the shop so it can get fixed! Yay! I'll be getting a rental car for a couple days while the work is getting done and then it will feel like I have a brand new car... well, sort of. Hehe. Anyway, I have to be there at 8AM, so... zzz...

Labels: fitness, food, summer

posted by Maresa @ 1:52 AM 0 Comments