Happy Day After Valentine's

I just spent the past 10 minutes writing a blog entry in which I complained about midterms, bemoaned the unusually high amount of baked goods I consumed yesterday, belleyached about how little sleep I've gotten in the past few days and sniveled (yes, sniveled like Snape snivels) about my failure at trying to take a walk this morning to burn off all the cookies and pinkberry from yesterday...

HOWEVER

I just wanted to let you know I'm kicking all of that shiznat out of my system right now, and I'm going to make a recommendation to you, even though it has to do with fitness, not eating.

TRY YOGA! I did it on Sunday night and trust me it's SO worth it even if your session goes a little long. For those of you who would prefer to do yoga in the comfort of your own homes, "there's an app for that" - go to the Mac store online here:
<http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store/?cid=wwa-naus-seg-mac10-029&cp=wwa-seg-mac10-operatingsystem&sr=sem>
then type in "pocket yoga" to the search bar. Pocket yoga is awesome. I just whip out my computer when I can't make the yoga schedule at the gym and voila! There are like 6 sessions you can choose from, with time variations of 30-45-60 min and you can get your warrior I on in your living room!
I'm going to yoga class tomorrow at the gym and I hope to see you there! Let's get our flexibility on and actually do something to lower our stress! =)

Midterms Blues

I'm sitting in Anatomy class and I feel like my stress levels have jumped from a 0 to 10 in the past 4 hours! My natural inclination would be to hit the Rocky Road ice cream when I feel like this, but somehow I don't think pounding the Hagen Daaz will help with all the midterm studying I have to do. On the up side, I did yoga last night with the girls and even though I'm sore today, I feel like I'm sitting up straighter and breathing a little deeper today than I was yesterday. All this to say I am knee-deep in midterms, I'm stressed out, and I feel like my eating habits are going to suffer.

Less Salt = More Sanity

I was talking to my friend Karin last night and she gave me an eating tip from a nutritionist which makes total sense:
Eating less salt in your diet will help if you're feeling bloated.
The more salt we take in, the more water we retain, hence the more bloated we feel! So tomorrow, rather than salting your eggs, potatoes, pasta, etc. drink some water and revel in the non-bloated results! Also, in the same conversation, Karin and I talked about the fact that we don't know how high in sodium most of the foods we consume on a daily basis are, especially here at LMU, compliments of Sodexo. So next time you're munching at the Lair, take a couple extra seconds and actually read the nutrition facts to check and see if that convenient wrap will stress you out later on.

Yogalicious = good thinking?

I got yogalicious today for an afternoon snack, something I would like to keep in my stress-relieving diet! However, though yogalicious froyo is delightful, I wonder if it is truly helping my cause in eating to relieve stress or not. I know that getting some froyo with chocolate sauce and crumbled up brownies in it is probably not very healthful (though sometimes necessary!) but I wonder if the fruity frozen yogurt is a good choice in my mission to de-stress. I would say short term, the decision to treat oneself occasionally is a good thing, but I wonder if this is a good choice long term or not.
Here are some articles I found on the subject, the first one seems to think froyo is not so great, the second one seems to think it's fine:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0675/is_n6_v8/ai_9223152/
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/frozen-yogurt-nutrition-facts.html

Day 1 : Making this blog is stressin' me out! =)

Hello world! I've decided to create this blog in order to assess and attempt to lower my stress through working on this project for Anatomy 153. This week, I will be involved in the preliminary stages of planning for my technique which will be reducing my stress through changing my diet. This will be interesting because I know I tend to eat more and eat unhealthy things when I'm stressed out; last night I had a bag of peach rings for dinner because I had a presentation this morning. However, I am excited to start this project to start feeling better and eating healthier to reduce stress. I haven't decided yet whether I will follow a pre-formed diet, or whether I want to just pinpoint foods that lower stress and eat those, so please comment and let me know! So here's to a new project, a new blog and a new way of looking at food - here's to eating our way to sanity, one bite at a time! L'Chaim!