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- Good morning, good life.
Welcome back to another episode of AmyTV
where we come together
to help you go after the life you want.
I'm in the car.
Why am I in the car?
Because I like to frustrate myself with white balance.
Can you see?
The lighting is, everything is crazy
but I think it kind of goes with the theme of the video.
We are driving home right now from Connecticut.
We went to visit Vin's family.
We also may have stolen a dog.
Just kidding, just kidding, we asked permission.
She's our little support animal.
We took a trip.
We've been traveling a lot this month, just to Connecticut,
driving and staying safe
but honestly, it's been so weird at home.
We haven't wanted to be at home since Lucy passed away
and we were missing Vinny's dogs
so we're borrowing her for a little while
and we're heading back
and we need to get our lives back together.
We are very much out of our routines right now.
When we visit Connecticut, what do we do?
- Make wine.
- We, not every time.
We did do that this time
but when we going to Connecticut, what do we do?
- Eat food.
- We eat food, we eat so much food!
- [Vin] Thanks mom!
But we did exercise, it's just that we eat a lot more
when we are there.
So between the eating
and getting back on our normal workout regimen
and getting back to our other stuff,
there's just a lot that there needs to be happening
right now in our lives
when it comes to getting it back together.
So I thought, I've been very inspired by Sarah's Day.
I love her, her YouTube channel, her Instagram as well
but her YouTube channel's so much fun
and she has this thing.
I think the last time she did it
was after she gave birth to her son.
She does this thing called Project Comeback
and I was like, "I kinda wanna do a Project Comeback",
our version of a Project Comeback.
We've gotta work on our healthy eating and meal planning.
We've got to work on our exercise
and we need to work on our nighttime sleepiness,
going to bed on time, getting enough sleep.
- [Vin] I have to work on my skin routine.
- Yeah.
And finally our morning routines,
getting back on our morning routine.
So those are the, kinda the key areas
that we're gonna focus on,
and I thought I would share that with you
because I get the question a lot, like,
"How do I get back into a routine
"if I've fallen out of it?"
And so this isn't going to be a very good example of that.
So I thought I would bring you along in that process.
So we have to get our act together.
Are you with me, Landino?
- Let's do this.
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Okay, so a little bit of a rough start to the morning.
We did get enough sleep last night,
mostly because we were exhausted from the drive,
but I do have a busy morning this morning.
I don't always have nine o'clock meetings.
I actually try not to have nine o'clock meetings,
but I do have one on Wednesdays with my team.
So it was a little bit of a rushed morning routine.
We didn't get time for our walk, none of that.
So we're hoping that this will smooth itself out
the rest of the week,
but I felt like it was at least a win
to make sure that I did my morning routine stuff.
So basically just going through my journal,
checking off whatever I can check off,
make myself feel a little bit balanced
with the Good Morning, Good Life planner.
I actually started a new Morning Pages journal today,
so this was fresh.
I like to keep these and I usually label them on the side
what months they are that I wrote in them,
and I'm just realizing
this might kinda throw it for a wrench.
I like to get different ones every time,
but I'm gonna have to cut my label
so it doesn't hit that thing.
And then of course I read "The Daily Stoic".
So that was pretty much all I had time for this morning.
Definitely need to get on track with eating.
I'm feeling very sluggish
because of the diet that we have been on,
so that is going to be a huge priority today,
and I don't know if I'm gonna have time to work out,
but if I do, it'll be later in the day.
I think the biggest thing,
if I can't get a hundred percent back on to everything
is just noticing it,
being honest with myself about it and then saying,
"Okay, well what can we do the rest of the week?"
So if I can at least get around
to moving my body in some way today,
which I think we're at least going to take a walk,
let's be honest.
We'll take a walk,
but I'd like to do like a spin class or something.
When I can't do that,
I will at least schedule out the rest of the week, like,
"Okay, well when is it going to happen?"
Because if I can't get into the routine,
I can at least plan to get into the routine.
So if I didn't have such a busy morning,
I would be doing that already,
but that's where we're at at this point.
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Grocery shopping did not get off to a super strong start.
It took me a couple of days to get my bearings on that,
and that's usually because I grocery shop on Sundays
and that really helps us get back on track
from a healthy eating standpoint,
but I had to do that in the middle of the week this week,
while catching up on work.
So I finally got us kind of to a good place.
What I typically do is I sit down with my notion
and do weekly meal planning.
I am not a master at this.
I just like to pick out, is it three or four dinners?
For sure, I know what I'm gonna do this week.
And then for lunches and breakfast,
I just try to have options.
When I get time on the weekends or in the evenings,
I will make granola
so that we have that as a go-to for yogurt,
or I will make little breakfast muffins
or breakfast cookies, I go between the two of those,
so that they're just kind of ready throughout the week.
You can take one and run with it
and it'll kind of get you by.
We don't really spend a lot of time on breakfast.
If we have eggs, it ends up being more of a brunch situation
in the late morning.
So it's just good to have options in the house,
and whenever I get a little bit of time
to prepare a bunch of foods so that we have it, it is ideal.
This is probably my favorite thing to make,
because as much as I love breakfast, like I said,
it ends up happening a little bit later in the morning.
So having this granola, it's literally my favorite recipe.
It has protein powder in it and it's all gluten free oats.
It is so perfect for on the go, which I am all the time.
So having this prepared,
this is only one Tupperware of my granola.
When I make it, I make a lot
because Vin and I both like it a lot,
and it just is, again, the perfect thing
when you just don't have time.
This is what I recommend, is when you make the time to bake,
can you also throw in a batch of granola
or throw in a batch of something
that you can really mix together quickly?
Someday, I'm going to do a cookbook
of my very quick five ingredient recipes that I have,
ready to go.
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Okay, so it's days like this when I'm really grateful
that I have the Peloton,
because I'm not really in the mood to do a HIIT workout
'cause I feel like I'm just getting back
into the swing of things, and I know if I do that,
I'm gonna be too reliant on myself,
and I just know I'm not in that place right now.
I'm not in the place to trust myself to do a good workout.
I need someone to yell at me, like Cody.
Cody is my favorite spin instructor on Peloton.
I think he's fabulous.
He gets me so pumped.
He picks the best playlist.
So I'm very grateful that we have a Peloton.
It is a huge investment,
but these days where you really can't safely travel
to work out, you can, just carefully.
I'm choosing not to.
I'm choosing to stay home.
I'm not able to go to a yoga studio by making that choice.
I'm not able to go to a spin class.
I have to do it here.
So for the amount of money I'm saving in gym memberships
and classes and everything, it is so worth it.
I'm on it all the time, especially when I'm like,
"Okay, I just have to do something.
"I have to get back into my routine",
I will jump on the Peloton,
and I usually have so much more energy.
I typically work out late morning,
but lately I've been doing it in the afternoon,
and I have to say, I'm such an afternoon workout bunny.
I just feel so much better in the afternoons
because then I have this jolt of energy
to get through the rest of the day,
power through making dinner,
power through the rest of my emails,
whatever the case may be.
So I know everyone's life is gonna be different,
but this has been helping me a lot,
even though it's not the most routine thing.
Doing it every day, super important,
and thank goodness for this bike
because it just barks at me and I do what it says.
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Alexa, good evening.
- [Alexa] Good evening.
Currently in Columbus is 66 degrees Fahrenheit
with mostly cloudy skies.
Tonight, you can expect just a few clouds in the sky
with a low of 58 degrees.
- Okay, this is a really big win.
I'm feeling so good about this.
Been really productive,
mostly getting my life back together,
but I'm actually in bed before nine o'clock.
I have no intention of going asleep right this second,
but I really like to be asleep by 10,
if I'm following my routine really well.
It's been really difficult to make that happen
since we got back and just getting back into it,
but tonight is the night.
I'm very excited about that.
It is dark in here because we're setting the mood,
you know what I mean?
I'm gonna have to go and refill my water bottle.
I like to refill my Hydro Flask.
I thought it was good, but I like it really ice cold
so that it lasts all night,
and what I'll probably do is just hang out
for about 30 minutes and read.
30 minutes, I'm usually out cold.
I, even if I'm riveted by a book,
it's very hard for me to not fall asleep after 30 minutes.
So I have my Kindle Oasis for that.
Let's see what we've got on here.
Ah yes, "Lives of the Stoics".
It's getting really interesting.
We're moving through time here.
So I'll be diving back into that.
I also usually take my vitamins before bed.
I'm a big fan of Care/of,
they've been a partner of AmyTV in the past,
but again, not sponsored.
I really love their customized packs
because I get to pick what vitamins are important to me
and they motivate me too, it's so cute.
"I am not afraid of storms,
"for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
"Louisa May Alcott, 'Little Women'", love that.
Remembering to take my vitamins is a win in and of itself,
but I do realize it's kinda weird that I take them at night.
It's just that I kinda get afraid
that if I do it with the morning routine
that I'm so good at,
then I'm taking vitamins on an empty stomach
'cause I just don't eat that early,
or I'm definitely not eating enough food
to kinda balance that out.
So I've just never found a memorable time of day
other than my nighttime routine to take my vitamins,
so that's what I do, and I actually think it works out
because I take two magnesium vitamins
and that helps me sleep.
So I don't have to drink magnesium before bed
if I don't want to
'cause my vitamins kinda back me up on that.
So it's a good balance for me.
The fact that I'm remembering to take them today,
very very good for getting back into my routine.
But I definitely need to start reading and wind down,
'cause I still feel like I've got energy,
which is probably because it's before nine,
but yeah, I need to start slowing it down.
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Okay, as I was thinking about the things
that I do to get myself back into routine,
it's very hard for me to do that
if my space is out of control,
and I've been feeling like my closet
got a little bit out of control.
So dressed things up in my dressing room a little bit,
it is definitely much more tidy.
I cleaned a lot of things out.
I feel so much weight off my shoulders
and it definitely feels a lot better,
especially going into a fresh week, a fresh day.
Pretty much anything fresh you need,
if your closet is navigatable, we're in good shape.
So this was much, much needed.
It's so much easier now for me to pick out
what I'm gonna wear, even if I can't go anywhere,
make sure that I have something reasonable to wear,
whether it is to get my workout in or to get work in,
this is super important for me to get my head right.
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Okay, I think it's safe to say
I'm fully back into my routine.
I'm about to start filming.
I'm feeling high energy.
Did my workout, got my morning routine in,
went to bed on time last night.
It's been a good couple of days.
We've also started going on walks every morning,
which you probably see if you follow me on Instagram.
Feeling really good about it.
Hopefully this video was helpful for you,
if you wanted to see what it's like for me
to struggle a little bit and get back into a routine.
If you liked this video, it's a little different than usual,
let me know in the comments if we should do
more stuff like this.
I need to know, you've got to tell me that.
That's all for today.
Thank you so much for tuning in, I appreciate it.
As always, remember, subscribe for good vibes.
Kiss the ones you love, and go after the life you want.
Cheers.
Oh shoot.
I need to do cleansing balm first.
I grabbed the wrong thing, dang it!
Hyper lapse boo.
Ah, I'm trying not to show my camera.
I apologize for looking like a literal toe.