Do you spill the beans?

Hey there,

How’s the last week been for you?  You’ll be happy to know (or not care, either or) that I survived my first work trip sans baby.  I missed him like crazy, but Facetime worked pretty well.  He did try to look for me behind the iPad which was pretty darn cute.  Regardless I was glad to be back with him Friday AM, giving him tons of kisses and hugs. I mean, really, look at this face:

And my back is feeling better!  This makes me believe it is due to lifting Bean since it seemed to get better while on work travel.  Maybe Tina’s Best Body Bootcamp will strengthen me up even more so this go ’round so I don’t strain myself again.

This weekend we tried to catch up on some family time, which really just meant running errands, ordering Thai food (pumpkin curry a la Shana Thai (that’s the name of the restaurant)), watching DVRed shows, drinking vino, cleaning, some pumpkin patch fun on Sunday,

and my first experience baking an acorn squash (complete with lentils and feta).

Finally getting to the post title, I read a magazine article last week while on travel (which magazine escapes me) and it mentioned that sharing your goals (aka spillin’ the beans) actually makes you less likely to achieve them.  I don’t know about you, but I always thought sharing your goals made a person feel more committed to reaching them (if only to avoid public shortfall) and are held more accountable for their progress.  But studies (since as early as the 1920′s) indicate the opposite.   You can read more from a 2010 TED talk here.  [Note, the magazine article was recent and once I unearth it again, I will share the source]  The gist of the article was that studies show a sense of accomplishment is felt (feeling of success) by just announcing the goal rather than reaching it.

I got to thinking about what kind of person I am and realize I’m more of keep it to myself / share with only a select few.  Perhaps it’s in part due to fearing public failure and / or it’s that I want to reserve the right to change my mind and my course.  In the past, I was more open about sharing goals, mainly because I felt they were completely in my control (what school to go to, grad school, jobs, etc).  But now I feel like my bigger life goals are family-related and are not as hard and fast as they once were.  My bestie is probably just the opposite.  When Boston was just a glimmer, the bestie announced to all that she was going to interview at a specific company, and then move to Boston.  And whatdya know?  She did!  I swear, she could have a goal of making grass purple and it would happen

So whatever your goals may be: tone up, get pregnant, buy a home, earn a promotion, etc — do you share or keep it to yourself?  Or does it depend on what the goal is?

 

WIAW and a makeover

Hi there –

My Denver trip is keeping me quite busy, but in a good way overall.  I hate being bored so pile on the millions of things and I’ll be a much happier girl.

But I have to admit, that I have been engaged in some mindless eating.  So much so that I did this:

I had too much Love for the granola

Yeah, I did throw away half my bag of Cran-Pecan Love Granola   Frankly, I actually didn’t care for this flavor as much — it tasted burnt…anyone else have that experience?  I do however still adore the almond-raisin and chocolate.  Either way, I was munching away on something I didn’t like consuming hundreds of calories for no reason.

I confess that I also did this with a bag of jellybeans.  You see, when I’m forced to be in meetings all day, my narcoleptic tendencies kick in so I like to have some sort of candy (usually portioned into a serving size) to keep me alert.  Well, err, without that portion sizing, I end up eating nearly the entire bag.  I’m so ashamed.  Really.

Mindless eating isn’t actually all that mindless after all.  When I step back and think about why I’m so called mindlessly eating it, I realize it’s almost always because of some underlying anxiety I’m feeling.  And frankly, I am anxious.  I have a lot of things on my mind as of late and can’t seem to quiet all the thoughts.  So I eat. 

I’m trying not to beat myself up about it and instead focus on how I can turn this around into more thoughtful eating, while simultaneously trying to tackle this anxiousness.  Wish me luck?

Alright, back to WIAW:

My WIAW is going to be somewhat pathetic, I must say.  I only have my iPhone to snap pictures and forgot to get a shot of half my food.  Oops. 

Breakfast: Not worth a picture.  I had a NuGo Dark and some coffee.  My hotel didn’t have the yogurt-granola-to-go today so I opted for a protein bar I brought.

Snack: red vines from meeting and jelly beans (oops)

Lunch: Totally forgot to take a photo, but it was a mexi buffet that was catered.  I had a bed of lettuce, spanish rice, black beans, tomatoes, topped with a bit of cheese and salsa.

Snack: err, more jellybeans, a banana (stolen from hotel), and a decaf latte (I was sooo cold in the room)

Dinner:

Dinner was held here:

Not a bad view, eh?

Walnut cran salad with a mocktail of soda water, pineapple juice and grenadine

Vegetarian option: puff pastry filled with veggies, atop light layer of marinara (pretty good actually!)

Snack: well based on the first picture, you can surmise that it was too much granola

Ugh.

 

But today is a new day and I can start revamping my eating today and that’s what I shall do!

 

How do you combat mindless eating?

 

Have you ate too much of something lately?

 

 

Dad’s and Denver

This weekend was far better than the last   Definite WIN!

Thanks for weighing in on my choices of what to eat Friday – it’s nice to know I’m not the only neurotic menu stalker out there   I ended up getting the Chicken Parmesan because I wanted protein and also pasta.  Overall quite good, but then I remembered, that I’m not a huge fan of chicken parmesan or chicken for that matter (as of late), so I did my best to shove half in.  Dinner was followed by Sweet Treat Fro-yo, which the hubby and I agreed was only ‘meh’.’

Hopefully you all go to spend time with your dad for Father’s Day yesterday.  As you know, I live in Cali and my dads all live at least 2000 miles away.  Sigh.  But that doesn’t mean I can’t still give a shoutout! 

Happy Father’s Day to my Dad, Gregorio, and Gary!

And Dad, I can’t wait to see you in September!  Here’s a couple fave pics from my Dad and I on my wedding day:

And in case you haven’t guessed by the title of the post, I’m off to Denver again this week.  I’ve got some big meetings on deck as well as a “graduation” from my rotation program.  However, I think I’m most looking forward to the pedis I’m getting with some coworker friends tonight!

To keep up with my healthy eating while on travel, I’ve packed snacks:

 

I’ve packed some raw almonds, Nugo Darks (good god, I love these things) and Love Grown pecan-cran granola (—my last bag of Love )

Did you do something special for Father’s Day?

What are your favorite snacks to pack on the go?