I woke up early like over an hour early around quarter to 5am, cooked beef burgers before the meat spoiled bc the sell by date was for today. Good idea. Ate one even for breakfast in a wrap! And for lunch I had another. Now i have 3 left...they are tasty :-D My first time actually cooking beef burgers (yes, i'm slow like that...glad i did it). I'm learning to cook and doing far better. Proud of myself!!!
It saves me money and I eat healthier by cooking more meat at home and not eating so much tofu and veg products that aren't necessarily healthier than eating meat.
All those soy products are processed. But i do have some tofu at home, lol, that i should def get around to eating before it spoils!
Plan for tonight is 2 things: reading & early to bed. I'm tired, but happy. It's been an uneventful week which is GREAT!
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Early: ACV drink no cal. and diet tonic.
Breakfast: wrap with burger 300, coffee 50 (Had cravings for LOW sugar and MEAT since yesterday i ate tons of carbs in the evening.)
Snack:almonds 200 healthy. and a few candies.
Lunch: another of my tasty 90% lean burgers 200 at most (so proud of myself for cooking them this AM when i woke up early and wanted to be productive and not cook meat tonight lol!), matzah 100, tons of veggies in thai ginger sauce 300 most. 600 and healthy.
snack small cake 100
Dinner: egg 70, some pumpkin 50, greens and potatoes 150?, spinach 50, ice cream 150: 500
1750 :-)
avg cal: 2050 5day! good!!!
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If you wanna read something more interesting, read either Monday's or Tuesday entry, LOL.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
2120 4-day average.
Cookies and coffee 200
snack: wrap 100, honey 50, pb 200
Lunch: rice and beans 250? chicken smallest bites 100?, veggies sauteed 150, matzah 100: 600.
1150 after lunch. healthy!
Snack: caffeine and small choc bar 100
1250 before gym.
Dinner protein cookie 350, later some nori chips at 9:30pm bc i have an appetite right now lol. and reg potato chips...felt i neded the carbs and moreso salt.
1800, perfect.
Today was pretty good. My annoying boss played some trick on me, not writing it out, so i left late.
But then my good looking, hot, MARRIED so no i'm not hitting on the dude...he walked into the gym next door and saw me working out! That made my night! But then he left? and he was in gym clothes....i don't know...was he there just to change and say hi and then leave. i'm sure tomorrow he'll say hi or smile that we saw each other? i feel like i almost imagined it...it was FAST. and he left?
i swear this happened. and i'm glad it did bc i doubt it'll ever happen again...because in one month i'll be done at the gym next door and already paid to join the one year old gym, BLINK, which is two blocks from work, instead of next door, but newer and better. I'm sick of the crap place next door to work. I'll still leave my car safe in the work parking lot, but get to walk a couple blocks to the gym and back...good for my health!
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
Slept pretty well but seems I am sleeping better and better, without pills, during week. I can feel myself getting a pretty good night's sleep tonight, too. Need lots of energy bc I work long, busy weeks, every week. This is going to be good for me....overall....a tight and precise schedule. I can do this.
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ACV in seltzer with stevia.
Breakfast: wrap100, extra pb 200, honey extra 50, drink / candies 50: 400
Snack:1 egg and 1 weight watchers oatmeal raisin cookie. 200
600 before lunch.
Lunch: veggies and sauce 300, calamari 100, grain 120 - 550
1150 after tasty lunch :)
1950 total, excellent.
3day avg:2220
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Long Story Short:
My New boss is a piece of work. He's been my boss since October...and i can't trust him for the world. You'd think someone his age, 60, would have some heart and be kind somewhat. He is not. Like a devil disguised in nice clothes. A fat devil is what he is. (sorry no offense ot anyone here, but he thinks he's perfect and he's just not!) Oh well.
I'll make this work. I'll play his rules. Let his bull**** and inequality that he allows fly back in his face when he least expects it. He's racist, hates me as a Jew and is out ot get for no reason.
My boss hated my old boss who is also his boss. My new boss now likes the people old boss hated and tables are turned so that i'm not benefited in the least anymore.
Lots of changes overall in my entire company like the owner was even fired from his own company after he sold it.
There's a lot of revenge and butting heads.
My boss is stressed, and does't seem to like me. He's Italian, typical from an area where it's very Italian in Queens. I am not rasist, never thought i had a problem with him, till now...till I see how he favors this other girl over me...sorta like my boss used to favor me over her....it's a sick world. And upper managment wins = my boss wins = I'll deal, unless i want to leave, which i will....in December.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
I just need to hold out till mid December here! So yes, i am thinking the same exact way as you - Get out! :-D
Also police job is more reliable and better pay after only 3 years i'll be at the same pay scale i have now...and then I will almost double it in 6 years as an officer.
Thank you for your kindness. And your insights.
my father is in the industry, not company, and if anything, i have someone to reach out to - although i definitely hope i don't have to at all. i don't want problems, but did make my father aware of this situation...and of course that led to a bit of an upsetting morning which ended up improving. of course my dad doesn't want to deal with controversy or know that i'm involved in office upsets. so it was hard to speak with him about this. i hope it's over.
Monday Morning Update: i did wake up in middle of the night but was able to fight a craving to get up and nosh....and instead i WAS able to get back to bed. I didn't take a sleeping pill, but did sleep pretty well anyways. This is good.
I'll be working on my sleeping this year. And working on taking less sleeping pills.
I need to have my life under control (as healthy and low stress as i can manage) before i leave this job.
I do feel positive about it. I do feel I am able to overcome and accomplish this, despite recent setbacks at work involving huge miscommunications.
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Sunday:
Breakfast: dried fruit 80, almond milk 30, fiber one 180, cinnamon. total: 300, good.
Snack bar 200 and candies and caffeine drink 50 550 before lunch with parents Asparagus 150, roasted root veggies 250, pepper salad 200, salmon larger piece 500 and dessert darn 250 1900.. Bigger dinner 650 2550. 2350 2-day average
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Bigger plan for today is to meet my dad at my grandma's place and visit her from 9:30-11:30am. Then have lunch back with my mom and dad (mom doesn't go to visit grandma). After lunch, i'm driving straight to the gym (which reminds me I must bring my gym clothes!). After gym, back home. Maybe cook burgers (i bought the meat already). Maybe wash my sheets, but i don't think so....i may wait till Monday after work. Either way, I think i'll shower now....
Life will be very busy. I've made the decision, which i want for me right now, to not take any days off this year. To leave work in mid-December instead. I may not even wait till mid-December. But I'll try. then I'll have a month lapse between when i leave work and time to rest up / prepare for NYPD academy.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
Breakfast: oatmeal 150, dried goldenberries 80, almond milk 20, protein powder 80, 330. caffeine.
Snack: bar 200.
530. fruit and bread...
750 cals
3pm meal with friend: Fries 300, shrimp 150, salad with cheese 200, dressing 50, pickle, veggies 50, alcohol drink 150 950. 1700, good.
strawberries 150 (entire quart)
1850.
5:30pm: dessert wrap 100, pb 200, honey 50: 350.
2150, good.
hour walk.
bed early, waking up early for family stuff. took sleeping pill.
very busy.
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Last night in bed, I pulled my fb account off for awhile. I disabled it bc i am having too much hassel at work and all around. I've decided to take some time away from the world, especially fb.
Today i have nice plans to go to a new park with a friend who lives a few blocks from me. Older guy, no intentions to date, but a friend. We going to park and lunch after. Always nice to get a walk in with a friend at a new park here.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
Enjoy the park today - I'm not sure the weather will cooperate by you? (Was watching the Today Show while working out.)
yes, thank goodness for gym and goals.
work is lousy, that's all. it's high stress with loads of change for everyone. and somehow whenever i open my mouth even if it's for GOOD, i get blamed for what comes out. so....my mouth is sealed.
and it just goes to show that everyone has good and bad in their hearts...but some people prefer to use the bad side over the good. it's life. not fair or equal.
2240 avg this week good!
Happy Friday - I'd like to say, for once, after a full week, I feel quite EXCELLENT! I have this....NYPD January 2018 here I come! I have no more time to delay it, so it's mandatory for me to enter in January. Will learn to run this late Spring / Summer.
Unbelievabe afternoon crap edit: This Friday ended in Drama at work again. with me involved. I'll write another time, it's too stupid to share. I have already made the choice to not talk to anyone, anymore (within reason). I will now have many days eat at my desk as well to have lunch here and not cafeteria. to leave at 4:30pm on the dot. I arrived here early, 15 min early at 7:45am. I will leave at 4:30 - there shouldn't be an issue here.
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Home: Honey local extra larger serving 100 cal...it's done the job - hardly any allergies so far this year! fingers crossed about this. i usually get horrible pollen allergies. fingers crossed that this year it'll not affect me badly. And ACV with seltzer (cheaper than kombucha and is doing the job...i just have to perfect now the amount of ACV to add to seltzer so as not to waste too much ACV and also not to use too little so it doesn't work....will practice...as it's cheaper than kombucha (WAY CHEAPER).
8am breakfast: back to craving more fat and protein - wrap 100, cream cheese 100, salami with black pepper 100, coffee 50. 350.
Snack: almonds and also dried okra from a really sweet lady coworker that i get along really well with. a lady i don't hang out with much anymore, but she's cool. 200.
Lunch: matzah 120, beans 50, veg 150, soy chicken so good 250? 600 tops
1250 after a tasty lunch.
Snack: ? not sure, ,maybe granola bar - been liking this in the afternoon even on days without gym. 100
1350...before dinner. plan is to pick up plastic forks after work walk to the dollar store by work and then next pick up rx at drugstore.
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Dinner:
850Total 2200. Good. Laundry will be done soon then reading and bed early :-)
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
I plan to YES check in with DD because i do like this online community a lot (and have been part of it for over 10 years now!).
This can change her life. She can lose a lot of weight if she gets into activity. It's really healthy.
Maybe tell her it's healthy to be active...good for the mind and body. It will make her feel more powerful...stronger.
but be careful talking about weightloss as it can cause an eating disorder in young girls....that's my take.
You sound SO motivated to join the NYPD. January will be here before you know it!
Have an awesome weekend dear :)
I'll be doing this on my own...this journey to NYPD. THANK YOU for your support!
And yes, detaching at work. Just coming in on time & leaving on time.
2010 6-day average, good!
Home: ACV drink, honey, banana 150
Breakfast: coffee with milk and splenda 30 (had half), energy drink 0, wrap 100 with pb 150 (and some of that banana) 250. 300.
Snack: egg. 50.
Lunch: extremely healthy: white meat turkey burger 120, avocado half 150, broccoli slaw mix 100, other veg sauteed 100, matzah 120: 600 tops.
1100 approx
Snack before gym: granola bar 100, caffeine (oh and candies thru morning) 50 more.
and had one more granola bar at 3pm 100
1350...
after gym: protein cookie 350 and then back at home after a shower i had a craving for more carbs so i filled that craving - wrap 120 with a banana 120 and some honey 30. total here 650 tops.
total today is good: 2000. seems my body is i think able to burn around 2000 daily, i think, maybe, to maintain. we'll see.
Gym workout was one of my best. I wore only a sorts bra at the gym that i usally don't do that at - but it was worth it - i worked out harder. I may continue with that method. It seems that nobody really gets offended....and that i am still respected....and i like to workout this way....i may.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
PS - I was supposed to give a ride to a coworker after work today (FRIDAY!) to get glasses for him as a favor but he DOES have multiple days off he can take now to do it himself and he does drive and/or take busses.
I can't do the favor for him - decided to tell him i have to visit my parents...
I'm learning to limit what I say YES to. :-D
I need to take care of me after work today...not be running around getting glasses for a coworker / friend - when they are fully capable to do it themselves....
It's another "errand" that i don't need to do...it's not even for me!
Food: ACV drink and some honey and later a small banana. 150
Breakfast: wrap 100 with small amount plantain 100 and peanut butter 200.
Snack:egg 50 small amount and candies 50
12:30pmLunch: matzah 120, avocado 160, veg burger 150, more veg 150 tops: 600. and caffeine.
3:30pm granola bar 100
1350....
So busy i didn't even calculate a total until now coming back to this entry on Thursday night ! oh my lol.
Dinner: tons of brussel sprouts and yes sauteed 400? with eggs 150. and i think this is it? and then dessert of a hair of ice cream 60. total here is 600.
total wed: 1950, excellent.
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Housing meeting tonight at 7pm...planning to have dinner at home first (or maybe mostly veg and a snack later after the meeting also!)...pick up some hot food and then walk over to the meeting as it's 10min walk from my place. So a nice mile walk there and back tonight :-D It's a meeting for all of us housing residents bc we hold stock as it's a co-op. It's an optional meeting that I have never attended in my four years living at my apt, so I'm eager to attend this ear and see what it's about!
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As I wrote to Annie:
Going to take it day by day. Going to be ON TIME always to work. Leave ON TIME always.
I will manage the stress that I can manage and the rest I'm going to try to ignore.
I will do what I can, as well as I can, to make these last few months at this job simple, efficient, fast & as lessened in the stress dept as I can possible make them.
i will do what i can to stay out of everybody's way. I will do what i can to shut up and sit at my desk.
When it's 8am i'll be here (if not a few minutes earlier). and when it's 4:30pm i'm out of here, on time.
Annie, thank you.
I am going to try to absolute best to manage what i can. And not stress about what I cannot.
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Work right now, well, it sucks.
There's a lot of tension overall in my large workplace.
And more and more, the office is cutting it's staff and downsizing.
I'm lucky to have this job but people are not all good right now, especially to me.
The tension for ME in particular is HIGH.
I am thinking it's a new week, my mood is lifted...and then....BAM! i'm struck out again. there's no relief, and it's very unsettling to me.
I thought it was a new week - was so thankful - and yesterday while i walk by my boss' office - he asks "seriously, is everything ok? you need to settle down and stay at your desk.".... When he asked me this question it was VERY unexpected by me. I was happy yesterday until that point. I was actually assisting a coworker earlier with his questions and helping him out. I was doing my work. Yes, i had spoken to a few people in the office also. ... But it seems that in order to get thru this job it will require me sitting down and shutting up COMPLETELY. I don't find it healthy and i find it very old-school and typical of what assembly line work must have been.
I HAVE NO CHOICE. So i am making one choice - arrive at work each day at 7:45 and leave at 4:30. Take my lunch in cafeteria and sometimes walk if i want to outside with an even shorter lunch. Speak to nobody. Not even friends. And run the hell outta there at 4:30pm.
For me - the workplace has become hostile and mean and inconsiderate. It's become a nasty place where many people would rather bully and laugh at people who have troubles. It's become a very sick place for me to show up at. My boss that said that to me was off both Fri and Monday....i worked that whole week as well as basically every single week (with one day off recently) every single week since early february. Get me out of this work environment. I shall leave at 4:30pm every single day as long as I'm in charge of that for the rest of my days.
There are some people i can still talk to if i have a problem. It's not a totally neck for neck place. But many of the hostile people still have jobs here and people's true colors are coming out.
It's become a neck for neck and hostile environment. And it is far from equal in terms of days of and stuff - some people have 4 weeks vaca and some of 2. It is what it is and nothing is equal - that's life.
I'll get thru but thank gosh for anxiety pills i take.....because i have a lot to get thru before this academy.
Trust me - you would be running for your life too if you had my job. People can be nasty. I'll NEVER understand why.
TALK LATER.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
I will manage the stress that I can manage and the rest I'm going to try to ignore.
I will do what I can, as well as I can, to make these last few months at this job simple, efficient, fast & as lessened in the stress dept as I can possible make them.
i will do what i can to stay out of everybody's way. I will do what i can to shut up and sit at my desk.
When it's 8am i'll be here (if not a few minutes earlier). and when it's 4:30pm i'm out of here, on time.
Annie, thank you.
I am going to try to absolute best to manage what i can. And not stress about what I cannot.
If nothing else, this is another motivator to get you closer to your NYPD goal.
And then I'm leaving this job before Christmas but will be paid for the 2 weeks i'm saving up till then.
I hope it gets better as you mark your time to bigger and better things.
2012 4-day average.
3:48pm afternoon edit: i go to say hello to another administrator while i'm at work...my boss then proceeds to ask me if everything is ok? and that i need to stay at my desk and not get up!?
WTF!?
I am so angry. people here chat all the time. but i cannot chat? at all!? WTF man.....getting out of here will be the BEST THING EVER FOR ME!
I am now not allowed to talk to anyone. I must sit at my desk and that's it. I'm so sick of this piece of sh*t place here at work.;
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Honey and kombucha also but didn't poop for some odd reason so sorta bloated slightly. not the end of the world! 100.
Breakfast: wrap 60, with broiled plantain by me! 100 (small amount), peanut butter 200: 360, and some coffee but throwing away 40 coffee
snack: hard boiled egg 70, almonds 100 or so.
Lunch: Sauteed veggies in a lil oil 200, turkey burger 120, matzah 120, piece of fried plantain 100. 550.
1200.
Snack before gym: caffeine and bar 100.
1300
after gym: protein cookie. maybe some fruit also.
1650, total.
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in Morning - (lately i drink some and then i don't have a taste for evening finishing it...weird). and totally not wanting lots of meat. sorta forced myself last night to eat meat. craving more carbs and i'm eating them. feeling good. ....and later i had an unsweetened matcha drink that was cool and i sweetened it with natural stevia. very cool! i had found a small can of matcha at the store on weekend specifically buying it to enjoy at work. very tasty!
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Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
Here at work feeling alright after last week and a more restful weekend thankfully i needed it so badly. :-D
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Home: tasty kombucha did the trick 70 cal a nice blend of carrot, ginger, and blood orange was the flavor. Expensive but treating myself right now.
Breakfast tasty at work: coffee i think accidentally with creamer (ordered it) 50, wrap 60, plantain that i broiled last week so tasty and fresh still! 140, extra peanut butter (not wanting meat wanting more carbs as I usually do during TOM time of month week lol) 200: 450 :-D
Snack: hard boiled egg and also drinking caffeine thru morning in addition to half the coffee the rest was thrown out. 80
1pm Healthy lunch of course: fried plaintains small amount 150, matzah one piece 120, cooked veggies with some oil 200?, turkey burger small but darker meat 150, 650 or so.
3:30pm granola bar 100
dinner: higher in carbs and no veggies (had mostly rice, a turkey burger, and lots of strawberries). this time of the month i do NOT crave veggies. it's the weirdest thing!
2000 cal today, excellent.
2133 3-day average.
i think i want to buy ice cream or some frozen yogurt later to have with dinner. i also see myself going to sleep early tonight and reading :-D
It's been a relaxing day and I'm planning on a nice night. bosses are out and my schedule / work load is very light right now. i'm content on relaxing.
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Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
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Tofu spoils? Good to know. I've had some that I wanted to make tofu bacon with. Never did...yet.
Yes, def go according to the package. the expiration for me is usually a long time - like at least 2 weeks and sometimes more like 1 month the date goes until from the time i get it.
When it's spoiled you'll know...it gets slimy and partially smelly. but instead of just being firm (not talking about silken tofu which is naturally like silk feeling as it tastes gross!) ...but the firm tofu i get...if it gets slimy on the perimeter, it's spoiled. Only happened to me a couple times bc the expiration date usually isn't over by the time i eat it. BUT...i even sometimes eat it a few days after the exp date. it's similar to like yogurt in expiration properties LOL.
Donkey on 04/26/2017:
Well done, HoP! I had to shake my head at all your work drama. I'm so sorry. A bad boss makes it really difficult. Hang in there - you've got the right approach.
My stupid boss thought my hours (for the entire 6 months he's been the boss) were from 8-5 when they are really 8-4:30! He must of thought i was ALWAYS taking time from company when i'd leave before 5 like at 4:45pm. Such a stupid man. He never thought to speak to me about it.
This guy doesn't communicate. And the one time he did, he went above me to the other boss and HR (who deals with conflict). Thanks Donkey. I actually had to speak up yesterday and make sure my boss knew my hours yesterday. i am still not sure it's clear. i will speak to him again today, because i will let him know everything on my mind.
I will specifically say to my boss this AM, if you have anything you feel you need to discuss with me, I'd prefer it be with ME first before you take it to Russ or anyone else.
I want my boss to be stressed and not be able to do the job. I want him to fail. Because that's what he did to me. When i was having troubles this past month, he decided to lay it on me also.