Oops, I totally forgot about this blog....soo, it's been 2 years since I started this, intending to chronicle my adventures on the road. Welll, I forgot, clearly. Not only am I back from 1 year+ of Sesame Street Live, but I also had 7 months with Blue Man Group, recently ending this past March.
I am back, and now that I have the magical thing called free time, I am hoping to finally kick my life back into gear properly. I'm gonna use this blog to keep myself on track, don't really care if anyone else reads it.
Operation Get Fit
1. No more soda (pop)
Up until recently I've been drinking way way WAY too much soda, thanks to the weird schedule I kept while touring. All those extra calories meant me getting up to nearly a size 12 pants. I would drink sometimes 5 or 6 glasses of Coke or Pepsi a day..yuck!
When I got home, I started a quest to find something to take the place of all that Coke. Well, I found a nice little thing called Teavana. I got some recommendations from Josh and Elyse, who swore by it (Josh was a previous coffee addict who now drinks tea instead - if it converted him it's gotta be good!)
Fast forward to now and I have quite the tea collection....it's delicious! My goal is to have 4 - 16oz cups of tea a day, which will help me reach my 64oz a day water consumption.
2. Cut down on the drinking!
Another item that I overindulged in on tour was alcohol. By the time Canada rolled around in mid-March I was drinking upwards of a bottle of wine a night....not good, in many many ways! Unlike pretty much every get healthy program out there, I am still allowing alcohol - I go out with my friends on Wednesday evenings, so I will allow myself a couple beers that night, and maybe a glass of wine or 2 with Michelle per week.
3. Eat at home more often
Touring makes one eat out 100% of the time....3 - 4 meals a day, which means huge portions, fried food, and lots of sodium. A combination of my Weight Watchers cookbook, Cook Yourself Thin, and my awesome Trader Joe's cookbook should hopefully take the place of takeout. I will still budget in 2 or 3 meals per week eaten out.
4. Find a workout routine that works...for real this time!
I've tried to get in shape by working out more times than I can count. Up until 2008 I was perfectly happy with how I looked - I was thin (125lbs), had an active job, and my metabolism was pretty quick (I was 24). I then became suddenly unemployed, then managed to get a very sedentary desk job, in addition to starting a bad relationship with a law student which had me out drinking and eating late at night at least 5-6 nights a week, if not all of them. This combination equaled putting on a whopping 30 lbs for a total of 155, hitting a high of 161 in late 2011.
Over the last 3.5 years I've tried:
-Gym memberships - eliptical, treadmills, classes, running on the track
-Team in Training Fundraising - I raised money to run a half-marathon in San Diego, thinking this would start me on a path to fitness. It's a great cause and I had an awesome experienc e, but I got a stress fracture from under training, and the sidelining afterward killed any progress I made.
-Gunnar Petersen's Core Workout - purchased at Dick's Sporting Goods, didn't stick with it
-Bender Ball -- Abs workout from Target, same reason
-Mari Winsor's Winsorslim Pilates - Informercial, tried it for half a session, seeing a trend?
-Turbo Fire - Purchased on tour last year....seemed good, but too hard to do in a hotel room with a roommate
So, my new plan is to restart Turbo Fire, doing the Prep Schedule, adding in Bender Ball workouts after. Additionally, I want to try to do at least 2 organized 5k's a month, eventually running 10mi a week.
Whew! That's a lot to keep track of, now I'm kinda glad I've got it all written down.
Today's Figures
Water consumption: 32oz water, 32oz tea
Food: Breakfast - 3 pieces cinnamon bread with butter, glass of milk
Lunch - Mushroom Sorta-Risotto (Trader Joe's Cookbook)
Snack: Homemade Guacamole w/ tortilla chips
Handful of Edamame
Beverages: Glass of Wine
Workout: Turbo Fire - Fire 30, Stretch 10
Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, August 29, 2010
And So It Begins......
Well, this is officially my "first" day as a roadie w/Sesame Street Live. It has certainly been interesting, and not at all what I expected.
Got into Minneapolis around 2:30, got to the shuttle, then arrived at the hotel around 3. Checked in, was informed my roommate had not arrived, then went up to my room......to find that there was only one bed. Yes, thats right, one bed. As it turns out the couch in my "suite" is actually a pull out sofa bed, but it is rather ridiculous I think to expect 2 adults who have never met in their lives to coexist in a space made for one. (not to mention the fact that I'm still coughing my lungs out, which I'm sure she is THRILLED with).
Went to the crew meeting, got the schedule, then went out to dinner.....talked to some cast and crew, a lot of them have been doing this for several years, and they are still excited about this job.....so obviously something must be working, super cramped shared rooms and all.
At any rate, I'm chalking my hotel room stress up to being overtired and still kinda sick, and hopefully it will get better from here on out (crosses fingers)
Load in at 8am tomorrow, and I have NO clue what I'm doing.....woo hoo!!
More on that tomorrow....
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