But today... you don't even need to type in an address... you can just type a bunch of words and you'll still end up at the website you wanted! hehehaha. It's like a Google bar. Farewell "www" and ".com". You can even miss-spell the words, I doesn't matter! Good stuff I say. Good stuff.
I love this
magazine. Kens mom, Kathy has always generously given me her already-read issues, but recently I saw an offer for 12 free issues so I figured I'd get a subscription, so that she could give her issues to someone else in need. And I can pass mine along as well. It's such a small magazine so it's great to put in my little laptop case pockets to read on the train to and from the city.The only problem is, I constantly tear out pages! Recipes, work out tips, make up tips, product reviews, medical & nutrition articles, etc etc. I had to create my own binder with like 13428974328974 dividers by topic. And its already filling up. Eek.
I think one day I will drown in magazine pages! Until then, this is one of my current addictions. But it has so many benefits.
In the past 12 months, I've pretty much traded everything quasi-healthful in our kitchen for things that are Prevention approved. If we have chips, bread, tortillas, even pasta... you can bet its ONLY whole wheat. No white flour. Well, we also have spinach and omega infused pastas as well. We eat veggies all the time (some thanks to our own personal garden out back) and fruit as well. 100% pom and raspberry juices count too! I only drink soy milk (which I convinced my lil sister to try as well, and she ended up loving), unless a recipe calls for milk, then sometimes use 1%. Ken still likes his regular milk for morning chai, but maybe I'll get him to transition one day. Speaking of Ken, since I met him he's gone from eating red meat on a normal basis to eating it practically never. Now he says it makes him feel sick. He started eating a very Japanese inspired diet. Lots of miso, sushi, maki, soba, brown rices and green teas. I credit him for getting me interested in that kind of food/drink as well. I think it will benefit us in the long run seeing as though Japan has an average 82 year life span, the worlds highest.
It's amazing how many people who eat poorly everyday don't even know why they feel so crappy. All three of us Wilson girls have eliminated red meat, and actually most meat all together (chicken and fish sparingly). Lindsay since her early teens, myself since my late teens, and Julie just within the last year (she's studying to be a Dietitian, which is fabulous!).
I've read so many books on food science and nutrition over the past 5 years that I feel like a Nutritionist, so I can understand Julies interest. It's fun and rewarding stuff! I'm always nagging on Ken to eat certain things, and have to hold myself back on a normal basis from putting my 2-cents in on peoples diets. I think that will make me a good personal trainer. I'm great at showing/telling people what is good for them. It will at least give me a big heads up when I start going to training school. There's a huge amount of material covered on nutrition in the 1 year long program. That might be my favorite part about school. The cost of it would definately be my least favorite part. Ugh!
My plans are to go the NPTI (National Personal Training Institute). Here's a nice pic from their
website. Lucky for me the Institute has a location in Skokie at the LifeTime Fitness gym. The only other IL locations are West-side Chicago and Elgin I think. Those would be impossible to attend. Skokie is perfect, it's basically next door to Des Plaines.Classes add up to 10 hours a week for a whole year. I imagine its unlikely that you're allowed to miss even one week. So looks like whichever 12 months I choose, will be 12 months I don't see any vacations! :(
It will be worth it though. I don't necessarily intend to start my own business, although I already have clients lined up (yay!), I just really love learning and being in shape. And oh my goodness do I MISS being in the shape I was in during high school and my first year of college. Softball calls for a lot of muscle.
Funny though, I weigh exactly the same (good thing)! Not many people can say that 6 years out of high school, well, unless they were in extremely bad shape and then decided to get healthy, which I'm sure happens. But for the most part, you get the cliche image of a 10 year reunion and everyone with a beer gut or post baby thighs. So I'm lucky I haven't changed in that aspect. Any future baby years will be my hardest working ones.
However, I have changed in the unfortunate sense, that I don't have as much muscle as I did during my 2-3 hour a day softball training sessions. And the problem with muscle loss, is that muscles are the only thing that keep your metabolism high (besides eating every few hours and certain metabo-speeding foods). And thus, my metabolism has definately dropped, as was warned would happen at 21 by an older friend of mine. Yeah, can't eat 1/2 a deep dish pizza for dinner anymore! As much as I'd love to, and yeah I could probably do that back in the day and remain a stick. Today, to keep my "stick-ness," its all about salads, produce, whole grains, mufas (monounsaturated fatty acids) which can be good blood sugar stabilizers, and of course fiber and lean protein. Even the bad stuff you need, I try to find healthier versions of, like Smart Balance butter. Luckily that hasn't been hard for me to adjust to, for the MOST part. ;) I'm still a cheese-aholic and indulge accordingly. I even try to have a glass of red wine, or other drink each night for heart health. Trick is, for a girl you're not supposed to go over 1 serving, or it reverses the benefits.
And of course there's exercising.... Lucky for me I found a form of cardio in which I don't even notice I'm working! Hooping is amazing. Best thing I ever started, and it's been over 2 years now and it still makes me happy. I even have my own space in the basement finally to use for it (speakers and all), between kens massive weight machines and my eliptical (which is currently gathering dust, shhhhhhhh)
Over the last year I've also started watching The Biggest Loser to watch the trainers to observe their techniques. I think I'll have to work on my toughness, lol.
On a side note, I've always understood the benefits of stretching and all. When I get in to a good work out groove, I try to stretch for a 1/2 hour each day. And I know that "Yoga" is basically glamorized stretching.... so I've always been kinda... "Whaaa?", when it comes to people paying for a stretching class when they could just do it at home, cus who doesn't know how to stretch? This is ironic for me tho cus usually I'm into hippie-ish ideas, I've just never had any desire to experience a yoga class. But I'm thinking I'll have to one day or another to be able to teach it to others.
I found a studio down the street for me, by my train stop. See, total hippie name. Although of
course I think its cute. Maybe I'll check it out sometime this winter (fall is going to be very busy with at home work outs and real estate review studying).Well, I've got 3 magazines with me today, so I might as well try to get thru them.
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