Life Verbatim @kalenroo - Tumblr Blog

Progress

All I want is like a dozen donuts. And I am so proud of that. This is evidence of my commitment to Whole30 for the past 2ish weeks. It is too much to type it all out here day-by-day... sorry (to all zero of you reading this). Maybe I’ll do one big post about the entire process and progress at the end. I can tell you that I lost about 1lb per day that I was fully committed to the diet. So, that is to say, it works great for someone like me who has a sedentary job and loves baked goods.

Gonna make bacon, eggs, and hashbrowns for dinner. I am SUPER hungry these days and not sleeping well at all. Thought a big, calorie-intensive meal might help.

mmmmmmm bacon beckons.

WHOLE30 HERE I GO! Today I had brownies, the better part of a box of ranch Nut Thins, and 2 cheesy gordita crunches. BUT tomorrow, tomorrow is 100% Whole30. Tomorrow's meals include a boiled egg and banana for b’fast, grilled chicken and avocado for lunch, pistachios and an orange for snack, then asparagus and more chicken for dinner. Also got some cranberry juice, lean ground beef, strawberries, apples, pure OJ, olives, and craisins. For whatever reason, my Kroger doesn’t have arugula or lemons??? So I will grab them from the bigger Kroger by my office tomorrow. I have some sunflower seeds to add to arugula for lunches as well. This is technically not against the rules but Whole30 advises against smoothies so that you don’t get too many calories in a meal and get hungrier faster. I don’t really get hungry until dinnertime on a regular day so I am planning on making a smoothie for breakfast now and again. But enough of this boring meal-planning chit-chat...

I’M READY TO MAKE INTENTIONAL, HEALTHY CHOICES. I’M EXCITED!

I’ll weigh in tomorrow morning and then put the scale away until July 13th.

I just went on the craziest trip. A sincere trip of a lifetime. Paris, London, Stonehenge, Ireland, and Iceland. With two of the most influential people on my life. This trip was planned beginning about 3 years ago after Malaria tried to kill me on my last big trip. It was meaningful, crazy, a whirlwind, and just left me wanting to go again asap. ICELAND Y’ALL. JUST WOW.

#ireland #iceland #paris #london #stonehenge #travel #wanderlust

Been a Minute

This Tumblr account has been through many phases. Most recently, it has been in a comatose phase. Before that, it was all funny reblogs, a shizton (yeah, that’s a real measurement) of gifs, and some pictures/videos of random KEG happenings. Before that, more original content and the occasional long text post. I have always admired and enjoyed the Tumblr community from afar but want to reignite Life Verbatim for a more worthwhile life phase.

Let me first tell you about what I look like right now: On my giant sofa, feet on coffee table, drinking pink lemonade my mom made me, towel in hair, wearing a purple robe I have had for 15 years, and The Office is on in the background.

Mmk, now we are all in the together. I don’t know who “we all” is (are?), but welcome to the beginning of my “I am changing my life for the better” phase. I have been mulling over the possibility and benefits of documenting the next few months of my life with real honesty. I can’t help but think I should for myself mostly. This is the good kind of selfish. I need to learn and pursue supporting myself better. TBH, a good portion of these changes will be to and for my body. I will also be working on my heart, spirit, emotions, relationships, and mind. These are all necessary. None more than another. I, like anyone, have certain propensities towards taking better care of certain areas of my life over others. My body has and will probably always be a hypersensitive subject for me. I’ll probably delve into the history there...I don’t know how I couldn’t.

So all of that being said, I will try to post pictures, text, stories, links, videos, and gifs that reflect my actual life as it is actually happening in this “Make KEG Better” phase. I hope that anyone who stumbles across this, at the very least finds my story entertaining and at the very most, inspiring. I PROUDLY WILL NOT PROMISE perfect grammar or perfect spelling. (There is a story here that I shall share soon enough.)

#inspo