A few food pics - Breakfast and Lunch

3 omelette versions for breakfast

with radish

with Parsley (currently my favourite)

with carrots (and lots of butter)

And my lunch one day.

rotisserie chicken, fresh italian strawberries and a banana. Life can be sooo good.

Bad news for Starbucks

Yes, I still love Starbucks. Yes, I will still go there and ponder things and drink frappucinos and chocolate mochas. But no, I won't buy their chocolate truffle cake anymore and eat it. The reason?

It's not worth the feeling unwell afterwards. The pleasure of eating it lasts about an hour, if I eat really slow. My hurting stomach lasts the whole night. 1 hour vs. 8 hours. This is in serious disequilibrium, even without the other bad effects like bad skin for days afterwards. So, as sad as it is, no more Starbucks truffle cake or any other of their baked goods for me.

I've learned all this after I had my After-a-job-interview-treat last evening. I've been for another interview, this time lo and behold in my home town, and afterwards I went to Starbucks and bought my treat. I ate it (took me maybe 20 minutes) and had a complaining stomach 3 hours later. Yeah well, it was my own stupid decision. I've been free of grains for quite some time now, it's only logical that my body would be mad at me.

So, lesson learned. Back to Paleo.

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!
And listen to your body.

My lowest in 5 years

Just a few minutes ago I weighed myself and I'm amazed at the nice number that showed up.

61.1 kg

That is my lowest in about 5 years and a whole pound since yesterday! Okay, I know, it's probably mostly water that my body let go due to the fact that I just finished my cycle. Nevertheless, I haven't seen such a low number in years! What I think is funny, is that I always seem to get rid of more weight on days that I don't move a lot. Yesterday did nothing but surfing the net, preparing and eating gorgeous food and resting. Mmmh, maybe my cortisol was too high for getting rid of the fat on the other days? Well, I'll probably never know, so I go with the flow.

Yesterdays dinner consisted of this:


Plus 3 clementines and 1 apple

Today, I will move a bit more, I need to buy groceries and get some stuff to the post and friends. So there will be a lot of walking and listening to Robb Wolfs podcast. I don't know why, but these days I really enjoy trudging through the snow and listening to this podcast, before that I "never" listened to podcasts. I mean, I just learned of a way to get around another surgery, thanks to Robb and Mark, which is so AWESOME I can't even describe how lucky I feel to be abled to have listened to this podcast and get the solution for one of my health issues for free. Who would've thought, that it's so ridiculously easy as changing my diet?!

Okay, enough of this for today, I need to get going. Literally.

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Better

in several ways. I used yesterday to re-organize my kitchen and planned my last kitchen purchases, a Santoku-knife and middlesized wooden cutting board. I read more in the Primal Blueprint and rested sufficiently. I also ate very Paleo.

Yesterdays Mampf Diary:
400 ml protein shake, 1 apple, avocado cream (made of 2 avocadoes and the freshly squeezed juice of one orange), beetroot soup, 1 apple

I know this looks like nothing and it's definitely lacking in proteins, however I was sated and couldn't have eaten more yesterday. Today I will definitely eat more proteins (eggs in case you're wondering) and get some much needed exercise, as in I will take another long walk with Chris.

(Hawaii 2008, South Point on Big Island)

However, due to this low foodintake from yesterday, I've lost 1 pound and am back down to 61,8 kg. But who's counting. ;-)

Okay, time to get some shopping done and listen to another podcast from Robb. Should be quite interesting. And if you like to read something about paleolithic eating and neanderthales including a good laugh, I can recommend this article from Andrew of evolvify.com: http://evolvify.com/grain-consumption-caused-neanderthal-extinction-an-alternative-hypothesis/ I just love his humor and blog.

Have a great Tuesday.

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Yikes

I'm feeling like crap today, since I threw up this morning around 2 AM. I don't have any idea what triggered it, because when I went to bed 2.5 hours earlier I was feeling fine, except for being quite tired.

On Saturday I did two hourlong walks through the snow (to and fro my parents for lunch, we had trout), though it was more trudging since it was often 40 cm high. When I got home I had to lie down for a nap, I was totally exhausted.

Yesterday we went to grandmas and there I took a short brisk walk with my dad of about forty minutes. We had duck for lunch. Since my grandma has opinion and I don't felt like going into a fight over food on christmas with her, I ate a few christmas cookies. My stomach wasn't to happy about them. Maybe they were the first stepping stone to the 2 AM happening. Whatever...


I don't know about you, but I'm currently planning my training goals for 2011. It's all about building a sound fitness base, leaning out, getting my food and metabolism right (Solving the knee issue. Would you believe it? I have a big bruise on my knee where it was always swollen, but I didn't hit it. Mmh, this isn't good.). I might throw in a short distance race in the summer just for the atmosphere, but nothing is fixed.
Since I haven't finished the Primal Blueprint yet, I can't give you any fixed info on this, but you will read how I do over time soon enough. In any case I'll go swimming this week. The 50m pool has really good opening hours this week, so I'll have a go on Wednesday or Thursday. I wished they had these opening hours all the time. It would make it so much easier.

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Second day of 100% Primal

Good Evening everybody.

So today is the second day in a row, where I haven't eaten any sweets or grains!! I'm terribly proud on myself, if I'm allowed to say so. Since this is my blog I certainly am allowed to say so.

Funny thing is, I also did some intermittent fasting, without having planned for it. What I mean is that I skipped dinner last night entirely. When I left for the concert (Robert Schumanns "Genoveva") at 6 PM I still wasn't hungry at all and so I figured that I could skip dinner altogether since I would be home pretty late and had no intention to start cooking after 10 PM. It was a good decision since I was home at 11 PM and still full of energy even though my stomach grumbled a bit. So during the night my stomach send out some tunes (more grumbling), but my energy levels stayed the same. No sugar crash whatsoever!

Today I've had my usual proteine shake for breakfast. For lunch I had a delicious bowl of stew with turkey hen, tomatoes and golden kiwis (recipe in the next taste bud adventures). Then I went into the city by streetcar and got myself an new pan with a lid (I love this pan), two food storage boxes and a cookbook about meat it is called "meat basics" and I think I will start reading it right after I finished this post.

For dinner I had a korean style meal. The food in itself wasn't korean except maybe the wakame, but it was made up of three little side dishes (2 broiled eggs, 3 stripes of grilled turkey hen and some wakame) with a quickly made tomatosauce which contained 1 onion, 3 teaspoons of coconut oil, 3 teaspoons of heavy cream, a hand full of cherry tomatoes, the juice of a lemon and some tomato puree. This dinner was delicious, primal and served nearly no carbs. Which is fantastic for the evening since I want to have my insulin level down for the night, because I want my body to burn fats and produce the human growth hormone and repair my cells. But when you eat carbs in the evening and have an insulin peak, this whole process starts significantly later and you don't see the results you want, like a lean body, bigger muscles, clear skin or whatever else.

I also prepared some healthy snacks for me, so that when I don't eat a propper dinner (some days I'm just too lazy or uninspired) I have some healthy food choices to munch on without any effort. Those snacks are the stripes of grilled turkey hen and broiled eggs so far. However I want to make some other snacks, but I need more boxes, before I can make them. Yes, I could use bowls and alu foil, but then I don't see the food and forget about it (which happened time and again). I have to see what I have as food choices or I'll grow some special funghi in my fridge, since I'm not a friend of those funghis....

So yeah, I've enjoyed 2 lovely meals, got another pan which I love, prepared primal snacks, did the grokcrawl through my flat for exercise and have an interesting new cookbook. I'm feeling really content this evening. Now I just need someone to cuddle and I'm in heaven. Well, as it looks, it's "only" my teddybear again. But I guess this is fine for this year. Next year is whole different story. ;-)

Enjoy your weekend, eat delicious and healthy food, have fun with training and enjoy some quality time with your loved ones.

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Figuring food out

This Saturday I enjoyed an apartment day. Means, except for going grocery shopping I stayed home, cleaned and enjoyed my apartment.

What I found out is that I obviously don't eat enough! How come, you might ask. Well, yesterday was a day when I literally ate all day. But since I didn't have any sweets and didn't buy any sweets, I had to make do with what I had to eat. And this wasn't bad food, in fact it was all very delicious, however it was low in it's fat or carb content, so I ate and ate and ate.

I ate: 4 or 6 Kiwis, 3 persimons, 8 or 9 small meatballs, 1 proteinshake, cherrytomatoes with feta cheese, 1 tin of Scomber Mix (fish with vegetables in tomatosauce), 2 clementines and 3 pieces of dark chocolate (doesn't count as a sweet, because of it's low sugar content). You know the funny thing is: looking at this all I realize that this isn't much, but when I ate it I thought I was eating tons. I think my perception of food amounts is totally off. (I really don't know how vegans do it, do they eat constantly? Mind you, I admire them, because I know I couldn't do it and wouldn't want to for that matter.)

Funny thing, even though I thought that I was binge eating yesterday evening, (binging on kiwis, persimons and the fish tin) I lost about 1 pound of weight. This morning I weighed 137,4 lbs.

So, what am I going to do? I'll have to eat more, but how much more? I know that I get sick from eating grains or too many sweets. Last sunday I ate quinoa and felt sick the whole night, and I get eczema from eating bread! I really have to figure out how much more and what to eat (recipes).

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Can you stray from a path for 2 years and

then get back on it? Well, I'm currently trying it out. But with a different mindset then when I tried to get back on it before. And so far it seems to work out fine. I can't tell you what this means for this blog (in positive terms) but I have some assumptions.

As for todays post I have this on sport and food to tell you:

Chris and I are already back from a 2 1/2 hour ride. It contained some short picture stops, so we were riding approx 2 hours of the time. We even saw several hawks, awesome birds, totally elegant in flight.

I have also made 2 "burpees" today. Don't know what the hell a "burpee" is? It's one of the workouts/exercises of CrossFit. And it's pretty awesome and I love the name of it, "burpee". Here is a vid on how to do them:


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MGljX4bbps)

Mampf Diary:
BF: 1 chocolate protein shake, 1 mug of black tea and 1 mug of green tea
Lunch: (Now its getting weird but healthy) A few slices of hungarian salami, 1 cup of trail mix, 2 "christmas" apples (I call them christmas apples because when I was a child they were only sold on christmas. The real name is red delicious or red chief.) and one boiled egg.
Dinner: Haha, not tellin' ya. (Mainly because I don't have a clue what it will be. ;-)

As for that, have a great weekend.

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perfect job?

Hi,

today was a really good day for me.

I looked for job offers and I found one that sounds perfect to me (cool project, lots of travel), I already asked for the contact and will write the application first thing tomorrow morning.

The next good thing, I finally got some songs from "Monkey Majik", which is a japanese music group. Their music is really fantastic, unfortunately japanese music is really hard to get in Germany. Don't know why, american music is everywhere, but japanese...it's really annoying. No wonder that the record companies have problems, they don't do their job, which is to provide the music I like, when and how I like it. They deserve it to suffer.

(Yeah, I took this pic.)

Todays food diary is really crazy.
Breakfast: chocolate protein shake, a handful of mangetouts, black tea
Snack/Lunch: 7 sugar apricots (small sweet apricots, not apricots coated in sugar!)
Dinner: chocolate protein shake

This happened by accident, I lost track of time and suddenly it was evening and I still wasn't hungry, so to give my body some good stuff I drank another protein shake.

Hope your Monday was equally nice.

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Back from my Mini-Vacation

Yes, I've been on a mini-vacation. I started out Wednesday and am back this morning.

You wondering where I went?

Nowhere.

I holed myself in at home in my room and watched asian dramas galore. I only went out to buy an icecream. No training? Nope. Meeting with friends? Nope. Writing emails to friends? Nope. All I did was hiding from the heat (100°F) and watching various japanese dramas. Crazy? Yes.

Today I'm back in my new life. I started out with checking my weight, which I hadn't done for weeks, I'm down to 62,3 kg = 137,34 lbs. Another little success. The last few days I didn't eat any cereals. Seems like cereals really are the culprit of my high bodyfat. And Friday was the last day I ate something warm, I simply can't stand the idea of eating warm in this heat. So this might be another reason, combined with my high water and zinc intake. Oh well, whatever the reason is, I like the outcome. Especially since I'm not sleepy anymore. (Yawn)

Just for giggles, yesterdays Mampf Diary:
Breakfast (2PM): chocolate protein shake (fully awake)
Lunch (6PM): watermelon (fully awake afterwards and this stuff is sooo tasty)
Dinner (10PM): 1 apple and sugared strawberries with milk (fully awake)


Next step is getting rid of the papermountains on my desk. I can't think straight with this mess surrounding me. And I need a clear head for my applications. When I stick to my plan, I write 5 applications this week. Which means a new pair of earrings by tomorrow. (I know I could put this money into my tri account instead, but there is this really nice pair of earrings ;-)

Tonight, when it finally cools down a bit, I'll take Aurora for a ride. Until then: it's work and maybe some light reading, because as soon as I would start watching another drama, I'd do nothing else until 4 AM in the morning. (I've done so the last few days, therefore I know what I'm talking about.)

One word to the idea of making a end of season Sprint-Tri. I've looked into it and there is not one sprint tri in September near me. So getting to one (Austria) would go above and beyond my budget. So for this year, I stick with my main goal building a base/getting my body and dragon used to a regular workout (come rain or come shine) and getting rid of the useless bodyfat.

So this is it for today. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

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First tiny success: a nightmare free night!

Good morning.

I've had a nightmare free night after my cool dinner salad last night. Wohoo.

So I thought I get back on the Mampf Diary (food diary), just to see if the food I eat is good for me or not.

Yesterdays Mampf Diary:
Breakfast: chocolate protein shake (fully awake afterwards and no more food for hours = good for me)
Lunch: 4 of my springrolls made of ricepaper, lentils, my pesto, kaki and bell pepper (I sank to my bed right afterwards and when I slept I had a nightmare = bad for me)
snack: some cheese, water melon, cherries (yummi and no immediate tiredness = good for me)
dinner: Chicken-Sauerkraut-Salad with red currants, rest of the apple, two golden kiwis (good nights sleep without any nightmares = good for me)
All over the day 2 litres of water and 60 mg of zinc = good for me.

Now I'm off to write my applications.

What kind of food makes you tired?

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Schools out for summer (update)

Hello.

Okay, so this weekend we "enjoyed" temperatures of up to 100°F in the shadow which meant for me mainly one thing: Sleep. (I want to move to Scotland, they have about 50°F at the moment!!!!)

(Me on the big ride (50k) a few weeks back. Chris took this picture.)

While I stuck with my plan of taking in high amounts of zinc and water, I didn't stick with my healthy eating plan. On Saturday I subsisted on icecream. Yesterday was slightly better, since I had run out of icecream and couldn't be bothered to go to the icecream parlor. But Chris and I went for an easy ride around the Markkleeberger See in the evening (ca. 20k). And I walked 7 k today and will drive them too.

Today is my first day off. Friday was finally my last day of my project management class (Thank gawd this is over). Meaning today I could sleep in. Well I slept in until 9 because it's Auroras big day. Repair day that is. Finally the gear shift will be fixed. I'll pick her up in about an hour, we'll see what this has done to this months tri budget. (Update: Aurora gear shift is finally working again. And even better most of my tri budget is still there, repair only cost me 20 bucks. YEAH. Meaning my new Helmet is probably due for September 2010. Strike.)

For todays lunch I made a variation of my PURE BLISS PESTO, instead of the pear I used strawberries. Yummy. Tonight I make myself some nice springrolls with the leftover pesto.

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3 kinds of adversity training (loooong pic post)

This weekend I was "enjoying" 3 kinds of adversity training. Here they are.

1. Swimming with Elliott (my dragon)
Yesterday I went for a swim and had initially planned to do my first "quadrathlon" biking to the pool, swimming, biking back home and then run around the block. Unfortunately my favourite pool, the 50m pool, is closed on weekends during the summer. And this city applied for the olympic games in 2012! Anyway, there is only one indoor pool (outdoor pools are for fun in Leipzig and not for training) open during the summer holidays and that is located in the north of Leipzig. No biking to that one.

So since I couldn't go there with my bike Elliott started nagging, but I kicked butt and headed there via streetcar. When I got to the pool I was positively surprised when I got inside. On the outside the building looks rundown, but on the inside everything is fine and it costs less then going to the 5om pool. Good times. There were just the right amount of patrons swimming, not overcrowded, but I wasn't the only one either. But I had bad luck on eyecandy, nothing nice to see, definitely no triathletes but some 15 months pregnant men in swim briefs, ugh. ;-)
Anyway, I swam an hour for the first time in months. (I'm getting better with the timing, when I swam in January I hadn't been swimming in years!) The first few lanes were hurting and all through the hour of swimming I had to watch out, since several muscle were shortly before cramping. This remembers me I wanted to drink Magnesium, wait a sec...

Okay, I'm back with a glass of magnesium and I moved to our balcony enjoying the weather. Where was I? Oh yes, my muscles.

I didn't feel that well yesterday, so Elliott thought that 15 minutes of swimming were more than enough! After 30 minutes he really tempted me to get out of the water and back home, because I felt yucky. Nevertheless I stayed for the full hour, thanks to some old ladies who always got out of the pool when I wanted to leave, I don't need to see naked old ladies in the showers. Then I got out and headed home. At the pools streetcar stop I saw those three, aren't they the cutest things ever?




Back at home I ate some cottage cheese and took a nap. Which leads straight up to adversity training number

2. Staying awake.

Yes, you've read right. Problem is, since Friday I could sleep all day long and I feel yucky to no end. First I thought this was due to the weather or the stress of the assessment or whatever else, but no.
While eating lunch today it hit me: I had eaten tons of wheat this week. I don't have a full allergy to wheat or gluten, it depends totally on the amount I eat and this week it was obviously toooooo much, it simply adds up. It started on Monday and went on until Friday.

Wheat Food Diary:
Monday: 2 pain au chocolat
Tuesday: 1 bagel and some whole grain bread
Wednesday: 2 Spritzkuchen (something like german "doughnuts" only more fluffy, see pic below)
Thursday: 1 white flour roll and a Döner (with white bread)
Friday: Starbucks Chocolate Decadence Cake (or is it just chemistry? Doesn't matter it tastes divine!)


(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Mini-spritzkuchen-29.jpg)

All of this added up over the week, so that my body is in full out battle mode since Friday. This is also the reason why I was so sleepy on Friday, but slept like crap the night before. Even though, I still passed the project management test at class with 96% and I missed a whole day (Thursday)! Yes, I'm that fantastic.

Maybe I felt the first pressure of the Wrong Eating on Thursday, but I got that under control with an unintentional Starbucks Java Frappucino before I went to the assessment. (I came one train early, don't trust the Deutsche Bahn or you'll be lost.). I normally don't drink coffee and I ordered a Java Chocolate cream but she made a coffee one for some reason. Under other circumstances I would have given it back, but I figured I could use the caffeine to stay awake. (Universe helping me again?!) Since the assessment was scheduled for the time where I normally have my afternoon low and sink into a nap. Following you see the only pics I took on Thursday.




Since AZ asked for some explanation: This assessment center is for a postgraduate university. At which I'd like to make my Master of Science in International Management, but you can also make an MBA or an MA there. This program is special since you work for a company during those two years and the tuition, the traveling expenses and your "salary" (more like a grant) are payed by the company. The student works full time and has 2- or 3-day classes once a month and naturally some homework. The salary is pretty low, since the course costs quite a lot (mine is as usual the most expensive with 1184,- € a month) and the travel expenses don't come cheap either.
You can bring your "own" company or apply for one of the offered jobs. I applied for a job at Daimler / Mercedes, this job isn't open anymore, but there are some other new openings which are really interesting too, also Daimler.
Since I passed Thursdays assessment, my next steps are now to make the online competence test KODE (something like GMAT) and apply for the interesting jobs. I've already asked the universities key account managers on Friday evening for the contact information of the jobs that interest me. Originally I wanted to write the applications today and then just add the contact information tomorrow. But I didn't get around to make the online application training offered by the university yesterday, so I'll make some of the training after I finished this post and write the applications tomorrow.

Now, wanna know something funny? My Mom is scared by my determination to get into this program. She literally told me so on Friday, after I got the information that I passed Thursdays assessment. This is probably due to the fact that she never saw me work for something that I want and certainly not this determined. We also had a quarrel, since she again needed to tell me, that there is the chance that I might not get the Daimler job. She doesn't seem to grasp the fact that I know that, but I still do everything in my ability to get this job. Parents,... (insert annoyed sigh here)

Okay. 3rd adversity training: Picking strawberries on thistle field.
Huh?
Well, you can selfpick strawberries on a near field. Trouble or adversity was: There were as much thistles on this field as strawberry plants!! We nevertheless succeeded in finding and picking some strawberries even though my forearms were red from the thistles afterwards. Elliott was whining and Dads dragon wailed right along with Elliott (nice cacophony). Especially, since we got there really early, 9AM. We (Dad and me) got back at 10:30 AM with one full basket and I got back to bed to sleep until lunch at 1 PM.

Now I'm sitting on the balcony and enjoying the lovely summer weather in the shadow of the canvas blind. Yessss, that's a Sunday as I like it. Tonight, my parents and I will watch summer theater at the Gohlis Castle, it's a play by J.W. von Goethe. I'm quite excited since I love open air theatre, especially when I don't have to pay for it (parents pay). ;-) Here is a pic from the castle for Big Daddy. I'll see if I can take some more pictures at the venue and from the play for you tonight.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Gohliser_Schloesschen_Leipzig_2.jpg)

That's it. Hope your weekends were as relaxed as mine and have a good start in the new week.

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This little monster

Elliott had me eating chocolate waffles this morning (4 AM) again. Dang. On the other side, I stood strong with training and dinner last night, so a few waffles are only a small setback along the way. This kind of nighteating will stop as soon as I move out, anyway. For two reasons: a) I'll buy no waffles b) this nighteating is a parents flat thing. Never did it when I shared flats and I won't do it in my own flat. So there's nothing to worry about.
I ate some Thai noodles and backed bananas (i just love those) yesterday for lunch (my mom and I bought a Deuter backpack for my dad, his birthday is on Friday, I made her treating me to lunch ;-). Unfortunately my skin started acting up last evening and now my inner elbows (old place for my neurodermatitis from childhood) are red and looking bad. I'm definitely sensitive to gluten. I don't have a problem with small amounts, so soy sauce is okay, but big portions of noodles are a problem for me. Good to know. Noodles (carbs) are bad for me anyway, so I'll make a big detour around them from now on.

The assessment center for Super Job is moved to next Thursday. So I've got even more time to prepare and enough time to work the "Mental Training" book through. (Looking on the bright side, right? Right.) Like Keith said in his comment, it has tons of good advice. Buy it! It's worth its weight in gold, in my opinion. I highlight nearly every sentence I read and I'm just on page 13! I wasn't too happy about this appointment shifting as you can read in yesterdays first post. BUT have a look on todays Elle UK horoscope for me:
"So much is happening behind the scenes at the moment—so much so that you’re not even aware of all subtle influences guiding you beyond your normal safety zones. Tune into the subtle clues if you want to get a handle on what’s really influencing you. Nothing is quite what it seems." Sounds good, no?

Triathlon insights
Yesterday I forgot to tell you what I also learned from my "long" ride. "CORE STRENGTH", until yesterday I didn't know why I should train it! Even when Molly wrote that "I thought of camp a lot, when Jen Harrison had talked about core strength and how much it pays off late in the race when run form starts falling apart." on her post about "Silicon Valley International Triathlon", I didn't get it. Since the second round of yesterdays ride I know now what core strength is for and that it hurts like hell, when I don't have it. This whole second part of the ride would have been a lot easier if my core muscles would have been abled to hold on. But it hurt. Elliott and my body weren't amused in the slightest. Now I have to find the right drills to get it done. By the way my chest muscles are still complaining.

Well, here is some wisdom from the "The triatlete's guide to mental training":
"In the beginning it's hard to understand that the race is not against others but against that little voice in your head that tells you when to quit" Charlss Brenke, age-group triathlete (p.12)

"You must train yourself to seek out and thrive on adversity and have the ability to stay calm and focused when the race is on the line. You need the ability to use your emotions to your advantage so that they help you perform well. Finally, mastering the pain that you will experience in training and races will enable you to endure the physical challenges you will face as you pursue your goals." (p. 11)

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!!

New Day Resolution - No meal skipping anymore!

Did you watch it on the news yesterday? Hell froze over! The reason was sadly not that BP finally succeeded in plugging their oil gusher, but me shopping and buying a skirt. I never wore skirts (or sandals) because I felt vulnerable in them. I still do, but as with blouses I think it all comes down to training. So the more I wear them, the more comfortable I will feel in them. I started out with sandals today, since I want my legs to look a bit less cheesy when I wear the skirt. (Tanning lotion!)

This is the first skirt I tried on (in a decade) to see what style works for me. Funnily it looks better in the picture than in real life, so I didn't buy this one. (I was really surprised when I looked at this picture in the evening. The camera and my self perception both lie.) I definitely don't like this frilly and floral stuff on me, I stick to the classics when it comes to clothes. Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn are my style inspiration.

In the end I bought this black, slightly shorter and more classic skirt and I will wear it.


But I probably won't wear it with this t-shirt.


Anyway, over the last few days I noticed a trend with my eating habits, which is quite counterproductive in my quest to get rid of body fat and getting fit. I tend to skip dinner, only to eat uncontrollably afterwards. This isn't good for my glands and my bowels, but good for my body fat (it gets more food).

So todays resolutions are:
A) No more meal skipping: I'll eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. No more snacking in between.
B) Finishing tasks.

On B, I'm really scatterbrained lately, I can't seem to finish the tasks I started in one go. This consumes way too much time and energy that I need for other stuff, so I'll concentrate on finishing tasks in one go.

Those two are quite challenging, so I'll keep working on them for the next weeks.

Except for that I do my strength drills and enjoy the sunny and warm weather (ca. 80° the last two days). Tonight I'll meet with my fellow runner and hawaiian room mate D. What a fun week!

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!!!

Chocolate to sore throat

Yesterday afternoon I had the absolute craving for "kinder Schokolade". Normally I don't give in to this craving since I can't stop after one bar, I always eat all eight of them. (Just thinking of it makes me sick now.)

Well, yesterday afternoon I bought and ate it. Which resulted in a asthma attack!! Who would've guessed that I'm allergic to "kinder Schokolade"?!!!! In any case I went home and as soon as I got there I took my asthma spray. HUGE mistake. Why? Well, because right after my nap I had a sore throat and started to cough. This cough went on the whole evening and when it was time to get to sleep the cough subsided and gave way to my throat hurting when I swallow. This kept me awake half of the night. At 3 AM I was fed up and took an Aspirin. Then I could finally sleep.

As you can guess I feel like crap today. My throat is still sore, swallowing still hurts, I just took another Aspirin and I'm freezing. And unfortunately I can't stay in bed today. This evening is an event at the Business School in Berlin where I want to take that masters class and I booked my traintickets yesterday evening. And taking off tomorrow is also not really an option since we'll write a test. Damn!

Well I'll treat myself to a hot chocolate from Starbucks in the breakfast break. Maybe even a Double Chocolate Muffin or not, because my skin is really good at the moment. Cereals are bad for me. Though not as bad as "kinder Schokolade"!!

Oh gawd, I just want to crawl into my bed.

But I KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

Have a great goal and the rest will follow

Preparations galore for the most important application for my future as world leader namely the masters study / super job.

I have to get the certificate from my time in the Student Racing Team at my former University scanned. Did you know I was one of the design engineers of undercarriage parts of the Ty 2003/2004 race car?! Yep, I'm a real engineer!

My MacBook Pro arrived this morning. Apple FOREVER! It was delivered 1 week earlier than they first said. Thanks Apple, thanks UPS, thanks chinese manufacturers. I love you all!

My room is still neat (72 hours and counting ;-), even though I'm still tidying it.

I had heartburn yesterday and have bad skin today from the cereals of the last two days. No more cereals. I'm High Potential. High Potentials don't eat bad stuff!

My bank counselor at "Deutsche Bank" asked for my advice concerning a laptop for her daughter (5 th grade). I gave it to her. Naturally I couldn't help myself and promoted Apple, but within her best interest and according to her needs and specifications.

I've brought tons of food today. 7 Mini-meatballs (made by my mom), 2 sliced apples, 1 chocolate pudding (no cereal, but 75% dark chocolate, that's what I call "perfect snack") and 6 radishes.

I shouldn't have talked about my knee yesterday, because it acted up yesterday evening and feels weird right now. Good thing I see my doc this afternoon. Funny thing, the mom of my friend has an appointment right before me. Fluke.

This morning I did my stretching and yoga. Does your neck crackle when you move your head? Mine does. But I don't hear it when I have my iPod on. So for the neck moves I always turn the music off.

Yesterday evening I had a looong talk with a friend of mine and she gave me back my self esteem. (No she hadn't borrowed it! Don't know why it was with her. Hahaha) And since she worked for the company which has the super job / masters study and knows my workstyle and skill set she told me I'm a perfect fit. *happy sigh*

My elle uk horoscope for this month is great. Going after that, I'll get the superjob / masters class. Strike!

Since I'm member of a political party (liberal), I think of working in one of their committee of experts, but first I have to get THE job.

Have you ever been part of a political party or considered it?

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

Day 1 (29-04-2010) - Success

Wrote a job application for a job as an editor in Austria and sended it off at 10:30 PM. Strike!

Did some strength drills.

(Haven't mastered the art of tucking my tummy in and keep breathing at the same time. Continue to work on it.)

Ate only healthy stuff. No cereals. Yeah.

Spend only 1,50 € for some photographic prints I ordered for two friends. (Part of their yearlong birthday present!)

Ordered my new MacBook Pro 13", 500 GB, 4 GB RAM. It should arrive around May 12th. Wahoo.

Finished Mireille Guilianos "Women, Work and the Art of Savoir Faire". Great book, Girls. Read it.

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

Right now I could climb walls

and I don't mean that in a good way.

After another encounter with my mirror yesterday (you would have thought I see myself everyday since it hangs in my room left from my door), I've decided to go back on zero cereal food. I don't know how often I've said this in 2010 already and have failed miserably. And you know what I don't know if I'll stick with it this time for more than 3 days. I've been determined everytime and I am so today. The problem is that I always find reasons to stray from this diet. But it doesn't do me any good. My skin is a nightmare and don't get me started on my bodyshape or my waistline.

Over the last few weeks I have developed the habit of eating all morning. From 7 to 12:30 I ate:

3 hard boiled eggs

3 pears

2 white globe radishes

and my obligatory chocolate protein shake. You would think that I would have been done afterwards, but no I wanted more. I could still eat, but I don't have any nuts with me and I don't want to buy new nuts.

Next thing is, I found a wonderful food picture on Elisabelles Blog (check it out) which made me really hungry and she was so nice to send me the recipe via email. So I've decided to make it with almond flour instead of normal wheat flour. And until then I won't eat.

Still, I want to eat now. Darn it. I mean I'm not really hungry. It's just that I want to put food in my mouth. ARRGGH

You ever had this?

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!!

April Fool's Day - even my scale

plays a joke on me. Meaning, when I stepped this morning on it, 64,6 kg were shown. 2 kg less then on Monday. Hahahaha. Really funny scale that I have. I don't think that I have lost that much weight in 72 hours. Well at least not fat. :-(

Mampf Diary March 31st
Breakfast (7:30 AM): 1 chocolate protein shake, 1 black tea

Lunch (10 AM to 12 AM): 1 Berry-chocolate -almond - shake, 1 red bell pepper, 1 pear,
Snack (1 PM): Para nuts ´
Dinner (8 PM): green fresh peas and scallops, 3 bites of harzer cheese, 1 cherry yogurt, 1 magnesium drink
10 PM: 1 glass of berry-chocolate-shake (rest of the smoothie I prepared for today)

As you can see I was a bit off the tracks due to the 1st day of Red Week and maybe the lack of sleep, otherwise I would have stuck to my 4hr routine and hadn't eaten that yogurt (too much sugar). I have trouble accomodating to summer time. In the evening I can't conk out and in the morning I have trouble getting up. I hope this normalizes during the next 4 days.

Happy Eastern everyone or whatever you celebrate.

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!