{"id":875,"date":"2010-01-07T11:07:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/?p=875"},"modified":"2010-01-07T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T18:12:09","slug":"resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2010\/01\/07\/resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t really make resolutions, but each year I tell myself I’m going to be better about dieting and exercising.\u00a0\u00a0Sadly,\u00a0eating better becomes more important each year\u00a0as my metabolism slows down and I’m no longer able to eat an entire box of See’s candy with impunity, no matter how much I exercise.\u00a0 =(<\/p>\n

Eating better is more complicated with T in the mix since I try to prepare foods he would like as well.\u00a0 I could eat the same thing for a week and not get bored, but he generally needs more variety.\u00a0\u00a0Between the lack of time and the inability to decide what to cook, we end up eating out a lot.\u00a0 This year, I’m going to try to cook healthier meals at home at least twice a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On that note, I made\u00a0mushroom risotto and scallops\u00a0(not super healthy but better than what we’d eat in a restaurant) and\u00a0salmon with rice and\u00a0broccoli earlier this week.\u00a0 The risotto and scallops were yummy.\u00a0 The salmon was solely for T as I hate salmon.\u00a0 I had a store bought roasted chicken instead.<\/p>\n

Inspired by my friend S, I made quinoa<\/a> last night.\u00a0 It\u00a0turned out to be super easy and was pretty good.\u00a0\u00a0T\u00a0was out late bowling and I was too lazy to make a main dish, so I just had it with the roasted chicken I’d bought earlier in the week.\u00a0\u00a0This apparently wasn’t appealing enough, so\u00a0T\u00a0opted for a sandwhich when he got home.\u00a0 Today, I think I’ll use the rest of the quinoa and\u00a0chicken in a stir fry.\u00a0 Hopefully that will tempt him to try some.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During my trip to Trader Joe’s yesterday, I also picked up some steel cut oats, almond butter, pumpkin butter, flax seed meal, and polenta (again inspired by S and several food blogs I read).\u00a0 I had the steel cut oats this morning with 1\/2 banana, a bit of almond butter, flax seed meal and a smidge of brown sugar.\u00a0 It was super filling.\u00a0 Not quite as good as rolled oats, but I feel fuller (may be the flax seed).\u00a0 We’ll see if this lasts ’til lunch!<\/p>\n

As for the exercise part, so far, so good.\u00a0 I’ve been half-heartedly training for the LA Marathon up until this point – and have felt it on the longer runs – but I need to start getting serious about it.\u00a0 With a 22 mile run looming this Saturday, I tried to be especially good this week so I biked Sunday, ran 40 minutes Tuesday, did 30 minutes of elliptical and 10 minutes of weights on Wednesday, and ran 40 minutes today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t really make resolutions, but each year I tell myself I’m going to be better about dieting and exercising.\u00a0\u00a0Sadly,\u00a0eating better becomes more important each year\u00a0as my metabolism slows down and I’m no longer able to eat an entire box of See’s candy with impunity, no matter how much I exercise.\u00a0 =( Eating better is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-run-y-run","category-salads-salads-more-salads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}