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[lbriscoe]

How I manage to keep healthy while living on my own at university.

I’ve been living on my own for a few years now so I’ve been the one in charge of what’s in my fridge and my pantry. It’s honestly easy to give in and buy cookies, any kind of fried food, sugary cereals etc… In the past couple of years, I’ve lost lots of weight from sheer will and a radical change of diet. Keep in mind that I did not restrain myself from any type of food, I ate smarter and more varied. So here are some basic tips I’m following on the daily (I’m not an expert of any kind, though. I might make mistakes!). I’m still losing some weight, slowly, but I don’t feel hungry between meals, and I don’t crave some type of foods on the daily.

→ Food

• I do three meals a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It might seems silly, but I know some people tend to easily skip one of them or add snacks. If I feel hungry, I drink some tea between meals. If I’m actually hungry for food, I eat a fruit (sometimes with some muesli or cereals if I know it won’t be enough). But afterwards, I keep in mind that the meal preceding it wasn’t enough for me and I adjust the quantity. • I eat vegetables and/or fruits at each and every meal. It might not be a lot, but it’s still healthier, and it still makes you diminish the quantity of whatever else you have in your plate. A basic meal for me contains: fruit/vegetable, some protein (legumes (peas, beans, lentils, quinoa etc…), meat, cheese etc…), and cereals/carbs. This combo usually satisfies me, and I add a fruit, low-fat yoghurt, or a compote as dessert if I feel the need to. • I get creative! I use cookbooks and websites to get some inspiration. I follow a couple of healthy accounts on Instagram to have some meal recipe ideas. And I use spices! You can do the very same dish and just change the spices and it feels new to your palate. • Per day, I try to ‘eat’ the equivalent of a glass of milk, no more (be it actual milk, or yoghurt, or cheese); at least 5 fruits and vegetables (one at breakfast, two at lunch, two at dinner). • For instance, at breakfast, I alternate between porridge (half milk/half water) + fruit + seeds/nut or spices + tea and low-fat yoghurt + fruit + cereals (muesli + sugar free cereals) + coffee. At lunch, considering it’s still summer, I usually eat a salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, seeds) and I either add corn, or cold pasta or cold rice (etc... you get it), or I make myself a small sandwich with chicken or vegetables etc… get creative! and with a fruit as dessert. As for dinner, I cook some vegetables (depending on what I have in my fridge) and cook some carbs – whatever appeals me at the moment, and mix the two together. I may add tofu or a fried egg or if I have meat, some meat. If I’m still hungry, I do eat a dessert, otherwise, no. • I allow myself what some call ‘cheat meals’. When I’m at a restaurant, I don’t really care what I order, I just check whether it’ll keep me satisfy until the next meal. Or I might buy a muffin or a pastry when out, too. It really depends on whether I want it at the moment. • I actually don’t have sugary things in my flat. The only thing fitting this category are fruits, muesli (because yes, I know, it’s still sugary), and dark chocolate. That way, it’s easier to not cave and eat whatever’s in my pantry. • For uni, if I need to eat on campus: I pack my own lunch. The advantages? You know what you put in it, you know you’ll be satisfied at the end of the meal, and it’s cheaper! You just need to get organised a bit and cook more food the previous evening for your dinner so that you have leftovers for the next day. Or you can even make your own sandwichs adding raw veggies in them. It has two perks: raw veggies are often juicy so you don’t have to put much sauce inside your sandwich for it to not be dry, and you eat more/take more time to eat so it has more chance to satisfy you for the whole afternoon.

→ Drinks

• I try and drink at least 1.5L of water per day. • I don’t drink fizzy drinks, unless I’m at a party. • I do drink alcohol when with friends, and I don’t care whether this or that drink might be more calorific than the other. BUT, I don’t go out that much. • I drink my coffee and my tea without added sugar. I do add milk in my coffee (not in my tea), sometimes plant-based drinks or flavoured ones (like vanilla soy) so they’re actually sweeter than normal milk. • If I feel like having a drink during the day, something other than water but not hot tea, I either drink orange juice (I limit myself to one glass a day, though) or I pour some lemon juice in my glass of water.

→ Moving

• I try to move every day. If you’re looking to lose weight or get healthier, changing your diet won’t do everything. (Though, yes, if you had a pretty shitty diet so far, you’ll lose some weight just by changing it. Most of my weight loss is due to my change of diet only.) • If I can walk instead of taking the bus, I do. For instance, I walk to the train station which, hence, is 20-25min away from home. It’d take me less than 5 minutes if I took the bus. I go to uni by walking, same for shopping, same for doing the groceries. I do everything by walking. If I can take the stairs instead of the lift, I do. Though, if like me you get sweaty easily, try waiting the end of the day to take the stairs home. If I go home for lunch time, I use the lift otherwise my clothes would smell of sweat for the whole afternoon… I’m a sweaty person, by the way. So yes, walking to places make me sweat, but I know it’s good for my body and honestly? It’s cheaper as well. • For a couple of months now, I’ve started more diligently to follow online sports classes. For those speaking French, these classes are free and you can follow them live from home while they happen in a gym in the north of France (I assume if you change the language to French, you’ll access them but I’m not sure). Anyways, I checked out some classes to see those I liked and those I don’t. I now have 6 classes per week, for a total of about 4 hours. I don’t need any type of accessories for them except for a mat. My schedule consists of 2x30min cardio classes, 2x30min abs, 1x50min gym, 1x50min stretching. I try to do everything the coach says, but I’m not perfect. I sometimes can’t hold the pose, or I can’t finish an exercise. But that’s okay, I try! • Now that uni is going to start again, I’ll have to adapt this schedule. And if I think I don’t have enough classes per week, I’ll check out others that I’ll be able to do according to my timetable! When I’m at my parents’ in the countryside for a while, I take a walk around the hill. It’s about 5 kms long, and I just walk. I try to do it faster every time but still, at least I move.

Now, I hope this has been useful to you in any way. Don’t forget that I’m a 22yr old student, and I don’t have any official knowledge on this, just what I learned over the years. I keep myself informed about food, to correct what I could be doing wrong. I also try to eat less meat, so it’s challenging to have enough protein added to my diet. If you have any question regarding this post, feel free to ask me and I’ll try to answer you. (If you want to keep it private, tell me so.)

Have a good day,

Sam/lbriscoe xx

[newyorktheater]

Broadway is always big on Thanksgiving. If Olaf the snowman isn’t on stage in “Frozen” at the St. James on Thanksgiving Day, he IS in the air as a balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade, AND “Frozen” has TWO performances both the day before and the day after Thanksgiving Day.

Below is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week, with links to my reviews, followed by five of these I most recommend, and another five that are especially suitable for young children.

Five Broadway shows are scheduled to perform on Thanksgiving Day — Chicago, Jagged Little Pill (which hasn’t opened yet), The Lightning Thief, Phantom of the Opera, Torch and Waitress. All the others are dark that day, but most have added matinees on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, and 15 have even added performances on the Monday, before Thanksgiving.

And, let’s not forget the Broadway shows performing at the 93rd Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, kicking off at 9 AM (and broadcast on NBC): Ain’t Too Proud, Beetlejuice, Hadestown, Tina…and, as usual, the Radio City Rockettes. (All performances are early in the broadcast.)  Also glimpse Broadway veterans Billy Porter, atop Rexy in the City float from COACH, Idina Menzel on the Deck the Halls float from Balsam Hill, and Lea Michele on the Central Park float from Macy’s.

  Show Run Time Theatre Mon 11/25 Tue 11/26 Wed 11/27 Thu 11/28 Fri 11/29 Sat 11/30 Sun 12/01 Ain’t Too Proud -The Life and Times of The Temptations 2h 30min Imperial 7:00 2:00 & 7:30 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Aladdin 2h 30min New Amsterdam 7:00 2:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 American Utopia 100min Hudson 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 5:30 & 9:00 3:00 Beetlejuice 2h 30min Winter Garden 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Betrayal 90min Jacobs 7:00 2:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 The Book of Mormon 2h 30min Eugene O’Neill 7:00 2:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 Chicago 2h 30min Ambassador 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 2:30 & 8:00 2:30 &8:00 A Christmas Carol 2h 15min Lyceum 7:00 7:00 2:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Come From Away 100min Schoenfeld 7:00 2:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Dear Evan Hansen 2h 25min Music Box 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Derren Brown: Secret 2h 30min Cort 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Freestyle Love Supreme 80min Booth 7:00 & 10:00 7:00 8:00 7:00 & 10:00 7:00 & 10:00 Frozen 2h 15min St. James 7:00 1:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 The Great Society 2h 40min Vivian Beaumont 7:00 7:00 1:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 Hadestown 2h 25min Walter Kerr 7:00 7:00 2:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Hamilton 2h 40min Richard Rodgers 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two 2h 40min Lyric 2:00 Pt 1 & 7:30 Pt 2 2:00 Pt 1 & 7:30 Pt 2 2:00 Pt 1 & 7:30 Pt 2 2:00 Pt 1 & 7:30 Pt 2 The Illusionists – Magic of the Holidays Neil Simon 3:00 & 8:00 11:00 3:00 & 8:00 1:00 & 6:30 The Inheritance 6h 25min Barrymore 7:00 Pt1 1:00 Pt1 & 7:00 Pt2 7:00 Pt1 1:00 Pt1 & 7:00 Pt2 1:00 Pt1 & 7:00 Pt2 Jagged Little Pill 2h 30min Broadhurst 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 7:00 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical 2h 5min Longacre 7:00 2:00 7:30 2:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 1:00 The Lion King 2h 30min Minskoff 7:00 2:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Mean Girls 2h 30min August Wilson 7:00 2:00 & 7:30 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 Moulin Rouge! 2h 35min Hirschfeld 7:00 7:00 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 7:00 Oklahoma! 2h 45min Circle in the Square 7:00 1:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 The Phantom of the Opera 2h 30min Majestic 8:00 7:00 8:00 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 The Rose Tattoo 2h 15min American Airlines 7:00 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Slava’s Snowshow 100min Stephen Sondheim 7:00 2:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Slave Play 2h 0min Golden 7:00 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 The Sound Inside 90min Studio 54 7:00 7:00 2:00 & 7:00 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Tina – The Tina Turner Musical 2h 45min Lunt-Fontanne 8:00 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 To Kill a Mockingbird 2h 50min Shubert 7:00 7:00 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 Tootsie 2h 35min Marquis 7:30 2:00 & 7:30 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00 Waitress 2h 30min Brooks Atkinson 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 Wicked 2h 45min Gershwin 7:00 2:00 & 7:00 2:00 & 8:00 2:00 & 8:00 3:00

Broadway Recommended

Here are four shows that have opened this year, and one that’s a must-see if you can afford it (or win the lottery), listed  in alphabetical order. Many of these are difficult to get last-minute tickets to at the box office  — check there first (or the show’s website)  —   or, if you’re open to risk, try the lower-priced lotteries and/or rush tickets (which are available the day of the show.)  I also link below to a secondary market ticket seller.

AIN’T TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS Imperial Theater (249 West 45th St. NYC) Opened: Mar 21, 2019 Twitter: @AintTooProud

My review

Fans of 1960’s Motown are in for a treat in this musical whose performers can sing and dance as well as the Temptations — and act too.

$42 digital lottery

Tickets to Ain’t Too Proud

Andre De Shields

HADESTOWN Walter Kerr (219 W 48th Street, New York, NY 10036) Opened: April 17, 2019 Twitter: @hadestown

My review

This sung-through musical taking place in Hell adapts the Greek myth of retrieving his wife Eurydice from the Underworld. Anaïs Mitchell’s score features sweet and sexy folk music, rocking jazz, and down-home blues.

Digital lottery: $42.50

Hadestown also has $39 standing room when the show is sold out.

Tickets to Hadestown

James Monroe Iglehart as Thomas Jefferson

HAMILTON Richard Rodgers (226 W. 46th St., New York, NY) Opened: August 6, 2015 @HamiltonMusical

I loved this hip hop musical about American founding father Alexander Hamilton,  Off-Broadway ,  on Broadway  and now with the new cast , finding it ground-breaking and breathtaking.

There IS a daily lottery online  where you can try your luck at snagging one of the tickets for only  $10 (because Hamilton’s face is on the ten-dollar bill.)

Tickets to Hamilton

Samuel H. Levine, Kyle Soller and Andrew Burnap in The Inheritance

THE INHERITANCE Ethel Barrymore Opened: November 17, 2019 Twitter:@Inheritanceplay

My review

This is a long, ambitious play in nearly seven hours over two parts about three generations of gay men in New York. It is worth your time for the astonishing performances, including that of Lois Smith.

$40 General Rush

Tickets to The Inheritance

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Shubert Theater (225 W 44th Street, New York, NY 10036) Opened: December 13, 2018 Twitter: @mockingbirdbway

My review (with the old cast)

Aaron Sorkin has adapted Harper Lee’s beloved novel to focus more on the murder trial of an unjustly accused black man who is defended by Atticus Finch. But Scout, her brother Jem and her friend Dill  still feature in the show, all played by adults. A largely new cast led by Ed Harris and Nina Grollman has just taken over,

General rush: $29 to $49

Tickets to To Kill A Mockingbird

Broadway shows for young children

Major Attaway as the Genie

Aladdin

The genie ( now Major Attaway)  is the one who provides the bulk of the entertainment, morphing from showbiz master of ceremonies to carnival barker to infomercial huckster to game show host to Cab Calloway-like zoot-suiter to disco dj to hip-hopper in a Hawaiian shirt, to yes, a sparkling-suited magical genie who emerges amid smoke from a little lamp. Every number over which he presides – nearly every moment he is on stage –  answers the question that fans of the 1992 film Aladdin might have wondered about: How would Disney be able to translate to the stage the protean cartoon character of genie voiced by Robin Williams at his peak?  Also new to the cast: Telly Leung as Aladdin!

$30 digital lottery

Tickets to Aladdin

The Lion King

Disney celebrated The Lion King’s 20th anniversary on Broadway last year with lots of self-congratulations, but in this case it is deserved. Based on the 1994 Disney animated film about the coming-of-age of a young lion in the African jungle, this musical offers African-inflected music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice and the visual magic of Julie Taymor. Taymor is the director, and a composer and lyricist for some of the songs. But above all, she is the designer of the costumes, masks, and puppets — and it is these visuals that make this show a good first theatrical experience — and worthwhile for any theatergoer no matter how experienced.

$30 digital lottery

Tickets to The Lion King

Wicked

Wicked NY

The musical tells the story of “The Wizard of Oz” from the witches’ perspective, more specifically from the Wicked Witch of the West, who was not, as a child, wicked at all, but just green-tinted, taunted, and misunderstood. There is so much to like about this musical, the clever twists on the familiar tale, the spectacular set, and music that is a lot more appealing in context (such as the song “Defying Gravity”) that I will forgive the contortions necessary to tack on a happy ending.

$30 in person lottery

$49 digital lottery

Tickets to Wicked

  Also — for Harry Potter fans, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and for Charles Dickens fans, A Christmas Carol.

  Thanksgiving Week 2019 Broadway Theater Schedule and 10 Recommendations Broadway is always big on Thanksgiving. If Olaf the snowman isn't on stage in "Frozen" at the St.