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Sassy’s Local Bites: Proctors 2019-2020 Announcement Bash

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March 7, 2019 By Laura Ligos, MBA, RD, CSSD Leave a Comment

I was lucky the other night to be invited to our local theatre’s preview show. It was called Proctors’ 2019-2020 Announcement Bash and I’m so thankful to have been apart of it. If you had asked me almost 7 years ago when I moved to Albany if I would have made Albany my home, I probably would’ve laughed. I was struggling to find my place in the community and at the time, I had no intentions of staying here forever, but man I love this place and find new things to immerse my self in weekly.

When Proctors reached out and asked if I’d be interested in checking out their Announcement Bash, I of course jumped at the opportunity. Health is so much more than just the food you put in your body, it is also what else you are doing the other hours of the day that help with your health. Going out on the town with friends gives me joy, so I snagged up the tickets and brought my hand-dandy assistant/manager/bestie and headed to Proctor’s to see what all the fuss was about.

We had seats up in a box and we felt like the muppets.

Sassy’s Local Bites

Alright, a side note. I’ve been brainstorming lately ways that I can document local events, eats, and everything that doesn’t quite have to do with nutrition/fitness/recipes. When driving today I thought “what about Sassy’s Bites or Sassy’s Local Bites?!” Well, it might not be the best thing but I’m going to make it a thing. It will be where I write about my experience at local restaurants, fitness studios, events, etc.

I’m not going to limit it to Albany, but expect a lot of it (for now) to be Albany based. I want to start traveling more and hope that I can take Sassy’s Bites on the road with me. Stay tuned

For now, I’m going to start my Sassy’s Local Bites with this Proctor’s event I was invited to, so let’s see what it was all about.

Proctors Theatre

Proctors Theatre is a well known theatre located in Schenectady, NY and is a site for a lot of shows to do “teching” at. This means that they launch their play here and work out all the kinks before moving to places like NYC or on tour across country. That’s pretty awesome that Upstate NY is the place where shows start, who knew?!

I’ve had the opportunity to go to a few plays over the past few years thanks to my friends and have toyed with the idea of getting a subscription to their shows but haven’t yet bit the bullet. After sitting in on the announcement show, it makes me want to subscribe and get my theatre on more this year. TBD on that.

2019-2020 Announcement Bash

This bash is a tradition that Proctors has been doing to announce the shows for the year to come. It’s how they show their current subscribers what’s coming up so they can get excited and sign up for the next year. This year they have shows like Willy Wonka, Phantom of the Opera, & Hamilton, definitely going to be hard to top but there are SO.MANY.SHOWS lined up for this next year. There are 2 sites for shows, Proctors in Schenectady and The Rep in downtown Albany. I’ve been to both and both are so unique and always a good time.

This year’s line up was fun to experience, we got to see some previews as well as some live singing/dancing from some of the actual singers/dancers their respective plays. The shows this coming year include:

  • Cats– Proctors, 4/28-5/3/2020
  • Dear Evan Hansen- Proctors, 6/9-14/2020
  • Fiddler on the Roof- Proctors, 2/18-23/2020
  • Frozen– Proctors 11/10-24/2019
  • Hello, Dolly!- Proctors, 5/5-10/2020
  • The Irish– theREP, 3/6-4/5/2020
  • Lobby Hero- theREP, 9/27-10/20/2019
  • The Full Monty– theREP, 7/5-8/11/2019
  • The Spongebob Musical– Proctors, 9/22/28/2019
  • Sister Act- theREP, 7/10-8/16/2020
  • Summer- Proctors, 3/24-29/2020
  • The Band’s Visit– Proctors, 12/31/2019-1/5/2019
  • The Play that Goes Wrong– Proctors, 4/7-12/2020
  • It’s a Wonderful Life-theREP, 11/22-12/22/2019
  • Your Best One– theREP, 1/17-2/9/2020

What do you do for fun in your town?! I’d love to know!

I’d also love to know what you think about Sassy’s Local Bites? I want to use it as a place to document not only things in Albany but also other places when I travel, stay tuned!

xoxo,

Sassy

ps. if you got to Proctors or The Rep, make sure you tag @atproctorstheatre & #ProctorsRep19

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We’ve made it over a week together and it feels We’ve made it over a week together and it feels like it’s always been this way.

Motherhood is a wild ride & it’s only getting started. I have never been so tired & simultaneously so fulfilled in my life. That’s not to say it’s not filled with tears, worries and doubts but what fun would it be if it were all sunshine and roses anyway?

Going into this all I have felt so supported by friends going through this with me BUT I felt so unsupported by the general public. It seems like we want to fear and shame moms because misery loves company, right?!

The focus quickly shifts from mom to baby (still shocked that I only have an appointment at 6 weeks even though my body went through the biggest event of its life) and there also seems to be this shift from joy to shame & guilt.

Here’s some of what I heard from people:

😕Sleep when baby sleeps. You’ll never sleep again.
😕Don’t let baby sleep in a car seat, or a bouncer, or anywhere but their crib EVER. 
😕You’ll never have time to shower again, enjoy it now. 
😕Cry it out is cruel and harmful to the baby. 
😕Get baby on a schedule/never put baby on a schedule.

These are all things I heard and that truly led me to believe I was going to lose all sense of who I was and my life as I knew it.

What I wish people had said instead were:

🥰Your heart will grow bigger than you could imagine.
🥰You’ll cry the happiest tears you’ve ever cried.
🥰You’ll feel like a giant hole was filled that you didn’t even know was there.
🥰You won’t feel guilty about cleaning your house, it just won’t matter anymore.
🥰Babies pooping will make you laugh so hard you will feel like a kid again.
🥰You will have time to eat and shower and you don’t have to neglect yourself.

We need to do a better job of building each other up, supporting one another and our decisions while refraining from offering unsolicited advice and opinions. 

So for all you future mamas and new mamas out there, I see you, I’m proud of you and I cannot wait to share our stories with one another and the world.

Let’s stop fear mongering (just like the diet world) and start building one another up.

Xoxo,
Sassy & lil sassy man
🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s b 🌈Some things truly are worth the wait. It’s been a long year of loss, unknowns and worry but it’s all been worth it to get to meet my lil man🥰
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Now time to introduce this sassy human who is already so well loved to the world...
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Introducing 

💙 Connor James Ligos 💙
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After an almost 24 hour labor, Connor joined us over a week past his due date on 2/12/21 at a whopping 9lb2oz & 22.5 inches long with a full head of hair and lungs to scream hello to us with.
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We are so in love already and cannot wait to share him with the world. Thank you for all the love and support from friends and family and to all those that helped us in the hospital. Holy cow labor & delivery teams are truly magical and I cannot imagine doing it without all of their support.
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Now back to snuggling this human of mine and trying not to cry at every last thing he does 🥰 
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Mom, Dad & Bode are all doing well!
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I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk t I get it, we all eat so we all then want to talk to others about what worked for us. That's great!
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What's not great is when we push our nutrition and eating behaviors onto others ESPECIALLY when we are not qualified to do so.
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So often when people meet me for the first time they are worried to eat around me and/or buy groceries around me. My friends can attest I am not judgemental around food and will gladly eat that cake, queso dip or sip on that glass of wine right alongside of you. I am not the food police and do not offer unsolicited nutrition advice unless it's a client who is paying for my help OR on Instagram and other social media platforms where my goal is to educate.
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Why do I share this? 
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Because I see far too many people diving down diet rabbit holes, finding success & then claiming to be nutrition experts purely because something worked for them. 
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I've also seen this alot being pregnant, everyone wants to tell you what worked for them. IF you use that stipulation of "this worked for me" then fine, share away but if you start doleing out advice please pause, take a breath and think about NOT doing it.
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People are OVERWHELMED by diet culture and some so badly want to change but YOUR way is not the only way and it most likely is not what will work for your friend/coworker/cousin/neighbor so please, stop trying to be an expert in something you aren't.
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Got it!?! 
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Ok, carry on.
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xoxo,
Sassy
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#nutrition #nutritiontips #nutritionist #dietitianapproved #rdapproved #rdchat #dietitiansofinstagram #dietitian #dietitiansofig #albanyny #albanynutrition #albanynutrition
Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. Your nutrition does NOT need to be all or nothing. I'm not saying you have to find perfect balance (does that even exist?) but I am saying that we shouldn't feel like either we have to eat perfectly or that we might as well give up.
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Instead we should look to the grey area in between for our nutrition guidance. 
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What do I mean?
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I mean that we need to realize that we can still eat cookies but we probably should throw some veggies in there. 
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We can have a glass or 2 of wine but we should probably also drink some water. 
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We can take rest days but we should also find ways to move our bodies regularly.
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And the list goes on.
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It's not about all or nothing it's about doing something daily to help your health and nutrition without it feeling like a set of rules or a free for all.
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How do we find that grey area in between?
👉🏻 stop hopping on and off fad diets
👉🏻listen and trust your self, not your coworkers and cousins 
👉🏻focus on the simple things (ie drinking water instead of worrying about supplements)
👉🏻work to remove guilt and shame around food & body
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Where do you currently fall Right now?!
🤪 all
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🙅🏻‍♀️ nothing 
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