I haven’t used it yet, but I bought this Orka oil mister from Williams-Sonoma today. I’ll report back on what I think once I use it, but here’s the description from the W-S site:
For spraying foods with a fine mist of oil, our nonaerosol mister has a built-in filter that performs well with olive oils flavored with herbs, cheese and garlic that would otherwise clog the sprayer. This simple tool provides precise control over the amount of oil you use, which makes it ideal for low-fat cooking. Its clear container allows you to view the contents, and a quick pump of the top cap increases the air pressure inside for easier spraying. 4-oz. cap., 6 1/2″ high. A Williams-Sonoma exclusive.
No more aerosol cans (and whatever chemicals are in those!) sounds great to me! Also, I imagine I’ll use less oil with the mister versus dumping/pouring straight from the bottle into the pan.
Score!
My weight is up, but I’m not surprised. I’ve eaten out a lot more this week than I normally do, and I haven’t made the healthiest choices. Oh, well. It happens, right? One good thing is I didn’t really enjoy eating out, and I didn’t really enjoy the bad-for-me food. Well, I did while I was eating it, but I certainly didn’t enjoy it after. And to be perfectly honest, I had a voice in the back of my head tsk tsking with every bite.
More good news is that I think I’m on my way to regularly waking up early enough to get a workout in before I have to leave for work. I woke up early Wednesday and worked out, early Thursday but didn’t work out (decent reason), and then I was up early again this morning and worked out.
I’m feeling more stable, I suppose, with working out and eating better, and less like I’m flailing out of control. So that’s good.
On the downside, I’m just exhausted. Planning healthy foods and workouts and planning the rest of my life around those things is just tiring. Disappointment is tiring. Getting nowhere is tiring. And frustrating.
I know it’s all part of the game, but I need to whine a bit, m’kay?
The scale was up to 153.4 this morning. Fabulous. I’ve officially stumbled. I think I’m eating way too much, and I’m definitely not moving enough.
I started tracking all my food again today and will continue till I see some changes. My sleeping has been a little out of whack, but I think I’m to the point where I just have to deal with being tired for a couple days and suffer through some workouts to get back on track.
Suck, suck, suck.
Time Inc. is getting ready to launch Maghound, a multi-magazine subscription service that’s been compared to Netflix (or my beloved Blockbuster movie pass). You pay a set price (the plan for $3.95/month for three magazines looks pretty good to me for me) and get to choose what magazines you’d like to receive that month.
Read more about this Maghound here.
This kind of throws a wrench in my plans to request a few magazine subscriptions for my birthday. That seems quite silly when I was looking at three different publications at around $20/year for each. I guess I’ll just have to be patient.
I’ve noticed that my motivation to keep up my new healthy lifestyle stays way far up there when I’m reading about fitness and healthy food choices on a regular (every day, sometimes several times a day) basis.
So that’s the tip I’m passing along today: Find something – a blog, a magazine full of articles, a site that sends daily newsletters to your inbox, whatever – that will keep your mind on making healthy choices.
What do I read? I get Jillian Michaels’ newsletters, Weight Watchers newsletters, a few different Cooking Light newsletters, Real Simple, Whole Living and Hungry Girl all delivered to my inbox for free. I also have a few healthy-type blogs listed in my blogroll that I read as they’re updated.
Basically, I find it hard to make bad food choices or lazy “activity” choices when all that get-fit, get-healthy information is so fresh in my brain. On the flipside, I also find it easier to make the bad choices when I haven’t had time to read much during the day.
Try it out for yourself!
