Not bad for my first day back on. I only used 1 flext point.
I also consumed 2.5 cups of milk, and almost 8 cups of water. That's all I drank, and I survived! Its amazing =) I got these no-cal water flavor packets from target, they're a bit strong but they're a great way to be able to get down lots of H2O without it being bland or otherwise ill-tasting.
I need to get a pedometer =) I'm terribly curious as to how far it is from the parking lot to my building. It usually takes about 5+ minutes to walk from my car to class. That means I get at least 10+ minutes of walking in a day =) And part of it is uphill, and with my ridiculous amount of books I usually have my blood flowing by the time I get to class every morning!
I did 50 JJs earlier, in the middle of studying for a big test tomorrow. I need to study some more, but I think I'll try to throw in a bit of free weights in the meantime.
I've gained so much weight over the summer! It's not even funny.
I'm going back to being calorie-conscious. I'll do a weigh-in & measure tomorrow. Likely I'll be so disgusted I'll just not want to eat anything =) lol
I'm going to try to keep a daily eating & exercise log. I want to get a least 20 minutes of something in everyday, whether its DDR, free weights, or something simple like jumping jacks, crunches, pushups, arm circles or leg lifts.
I'm sick atm, which also doesn't help ;o
Classes are going good - unfortunately the work-outs i had intended on don't fit in as well with my schedule as I had hoped. I just don't have enough time to get from class to the Rec and get changed in order to be there on time. =(
I'm looking at doing 4 Artist's Alleys next spring, not sure how many I'll do past that - there's only 5 conventions that I'd consider 'within range' however it's been suggested to me that I do a few Renaissance Faires, and there's a few of those here too, provided that they don't overlap with any of our LARP events we're running.
I've really let myself go this summer! I haven't been watching what I've been eating or exercising nearly as much as I should. I really need to change that, I was doing so well!
I did check the Rec center for school, and I should be able to make the Yoga Fit classes 2x/week and depending on if I like it, I might try the "lunchtime crunch" on Fridays. So watching what I eat and exercising in a GROUP setting 3x/week, sounds like a good start to this plan.
So stressed. So I'm totally behind on making stuff for this weekend.
Good/Bad: I can't get ahold of one of the people who's going with us! Good I don't have to make another costume, bad I can't get ahold of her!!!
AND - My legally adult mentally not future step-sister moved out of the house on a whim with a RSO [Registered Sex Offender] She didn't tell our parents where she went so I had to hunt her down and went and talked to her yesterday (she moved like 2 hrs away from our parents but like 10 minutes away from me).
So I've been on Spring Break this week, I've been able to attempt to catch up on some sleep and succeed in doing practically nothing all week. I don't particuarly find that a good thing, but I'm working on it.
So I still haven't got my confirmation e-mail from Anime St. Louis yet. The con is exactly 2 weeks away. Yuck. I sent an e-mail to them about it so hopefully *crosses fingers* I'll get a reply back.
My favorite WWE Superstar got suspended (again) for violation of the substance abuse policies. I hope he can clean up his act. Unfortunately they probably won't trust him again anytime soon to give him a title, but the fans really love him - so they can't *not* give him airtime.
I've watched the first 3 seasons of Stargate SG-1 this week XD Started on season 4 and I watched the movie. Another Stargate movie came out on Tuesday and another one in July with 3/4 of the SG-1 cast. I plan on using my Amazon gift card to buy it and the WWE: RAW 15 CD, I believe.
I have mixed feelings about a gain this week. I know it would be healthier for me to gain than to lose, but I still want to lose! This week I have come to believe that I've been lowering my calorie intake too much. For the past 9 weeks I've been pretty good about it, but I think I'm finally coming around to the consequences. This week I've been plagued with headaches, stomach cramps, and lightheadedness (occasional partial blackouts when standing/walking). It seems to let up if I eat something. Its a pretty bad struggle for me, since I have felt a sort of "addiction" to food these past 9 weeks. Granted I've lost 20 lbs, but still! I think about food a lot when I'm not consuming it, which makes me wonder if my subconscious mind had been aware of this "starving" whereas my conscious mind has been ignorning it or passing it off as "normal".
Regardless, I came up with a new exercise schedule which I intend to try which will hopefully help out in this regard. According to one of my textbooks, faintness is one of the side effects of losing weight rapidly in addition to malnutrition. *tsk*tsk*
A Guide to Determine Activity Level:
Score yourself on these 3 questions:
1. How hard do you exercise in a typical session:
0 - no change in pulse
1 - little change in heart rate (slow walking, bowling, yoga)
2 - small increase in heart rate & breathing (table tennis, active golf)
3 - moderate increase in heart rate & breathing (rapid walking, dancing, easy swimming)
4 - occasional heavy breathing and sweating (tennis, basketball, squash)
5 - sustained heavy breathing and sweating (jogging, aerobic dance)
2. How long do you exercise at one session?
0 - Less than 5 minutes
1 - 5-14 min
2 - 15-29 min
3 - 30-44 min
4 - 45-59 min
5 - 60 min
3. How often do you exercise?
0 - Less than 1/week
1 - 1/week
2 - 2/week
3 - 3/week
4 - 4/week
5 - 5 /week
Now multiply your three scores together:
Inactive - Less than 15
Somewhat Active (Light) - 15-24
Moderately Active - 25-40
Active - 41-60
Very Active - 60
A Guide to Determne Calories:
Inactive people need to consume 10 calories per lb to maintain their current weight.
Lightly active people need to consume 13 calories per lb to maintain their current weight.
Moderately active people need to consume 18 calories per lb to maintain their current weight.
Highly active people need to consume 20 calories per lb to maintain their current weight.
Remember, 3500 calories = 1 lb, so if you are deficient by your "needed intake" (this will change every time you weigh) you should be able to predict some loss! (Never lower your intake to less than 1000 calories per day!)
For example: My classes are going to be 3/week for ~1 hr each so I would get a 3 and a 4 in each of those categories. Monday is Yoga (1), Tuesday is Cycling (4), and Friday is walking (I'd probably use a mixture of rapid (3) & slow (1), so we'll call it a 2. My average for the week would then be a 2. So my total will be 24 which is still considered "lightly active". My last weigh-in was 166.5 so my caloric intake would need to be 2164.5. If I want to lose 1 lb over the week, I should limit my caloric intake to 1664.5/day. (A deficit of 500 cal/day, or 3500 for the week). Yay, math!
I'm going to look into some health-conscious recipe books to start planning meals with. I also need to figure out what to do with my meals for the day, considering if I go off of the shakes, my newer meals won't be as "convenient" for breakfast and lunch as they were previously. Something to consider! My stepmother was on WW and used to save half of her pts for dinner & desert, perhaps I'll do the same with my calories for the week.
Oh, and I fixed Taylor's ipod. She had it on security lock when she was messing around with it and forgot the code instantly (she was just playing with numbers on it. She had it like 3 weeks before the did this LAST SUMMER so she hasn't been able to use it since.) and apparently they couldn't get it open through the methods listed on Apples site. Scrolling through numbers on that thing is annoying! Anyways, we changed the security code, and she's going to have to come to us to get it unlocked if she locks it again.
To Do List for Today:
Clean up kitchen.
Go to Laundromat (something wrong with our sewer! EWW! But our washing machine won't drain...)
File papers (I've got a big stack that needs filed)
Go through fabric to determine what I'm going to use on costumes.
To Do List for This Weekend:
Finish Spring Break Homework
On the bright side, I did get my alternative costume sketches done this week! They should look pretty pimp if I can pull them off!
So our group cheer is tomorrow and Slacker-girl showed up super late. She sent me the message that she got off at 1:15 last week, but YESTERDAY she sent me a message that said she didn't get off until 1:30. Well, she really didn't get off until like 1:50 or so so we were waiting around like 20 minutes before we heard from her and had to wait another like 15 minutes for her to show up. Well, she sticks around like 15 minutes and says she has another group that she has to go to that met at 2 (its like 2:20 by this point) How lame is that? So we gave her a job, the outline for it, and the deadline and if she doesn' t have it for me tomorrow morning I'm going to e-mail the teacher and do her part for her.
I pointed out some communication flaws in a chair at Anime St. L and now I keep getting people telling me to shut up, not go, and stop bitching =) lol PR is a hard lesson to learn! No matter what people think, conventions are still a business and have to make $$ in order to happen every year and should be treated as such. Speaking of which, our college now offers a minor on the subject, so now I can get certified to run an anime convention, LOL. Only 38 schools in the US do it!
SPRING BREAK STARTS TOMORROW! Unfortunately first I have a test and then a presentation (LAME). I still don't know if I'm actually going to get any alone time with J this weekend, he was talking about keeping the kids Sat or switching weekends! I need some you time too, baby ;.;
I finally got to see the end of my show! (Sort of) I fell asleep and missed the last 10 minutes of it last night, so I watched it when it was on repeat. But of course, during the VERY LAST segment Ryan comes in and is talking super loud and trying to wrestle with me. I kept asking him not to but he doesn't listen to a THING I say about ANYTHING. I don't know what to do about it. If I get "stern" with him Jeremy just give me dirty looks but he doesn't listen to ANYBODY ANYTIME about ANYTHING and needs to learn that he can't IGNORE people ALL the time. I don't know, I don't have kids of my own so I can't really talk I guess. Maybe I was like that? Who knows? (my parents) We *still* haven't had the chance to talk about anything yet, and if they're coming over Saturday I don't want to do it Friday and then have Saturday be weird. *sigh* Does anybody know of any good sources relating to children and "structure"? Because seriously, they have like, none when they're here and it drives me INSANE. =)
I was so super stressed and pissed off this morning I almost opted for a regular Mt. Dew today (The machine didn't have Diet Sierra Mist or Diet Cherry and I really wanted caffiene, but didn't feel like Diet Pepsi) but I was good and got a regular Diet Pepsi instead.
You can call this post "I hate group projects, part II" So the same group I had problems with for the debate is having issues again with the same girl. There were three of us in class and we decided to meet Tues at noon. One girl had to work until 1:15, and I was going to give blood so we figured at least 2 of us would be late. Well, one girl shows up on time, and guess I barely missed her when she left (giving blood took forever). The person who wasn't in class when we decided sent me a message at like 12:10 saying he couldn't come. I waited until 2pm and the girl who had to work (she works and lives on campus) never showed up. This is the same girl who didn't do anything before. Basic correspondence:
Me (Mon Night) - Sent a reminder e-mail to the 2 girls I talked to notice to the guy in our group.
Slacker (Tues Night) - "Um, ok, I had to work from 11:15 to 1:15............Yeah."
Me (Tues Night) - "You also said in class that you could come over after right after you got off, so I don't really want to hear it.
Slacker (Tues Night) - "Well, you may not want to hear it, but you may want to listen anyway, because I had a beu appointment after work today." (The Beu is our on-campus Health Center)
Me (Wed Morn) - "You said you had a Beu appointment but you never said when. If you had one right after work then you should have said so instead of saying that you could come to group. If you're going to contribute to the project, then do it. I can't speak for anybody else, but after last time I know I'm more than tired of hearing just excuses at this point."
So yeah, our professor already knows we're having issues with her again. I've sent her the same information I've sent to everyone else, so she can't say we didn't try to include her.
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On a happier note, YogaFit was fun! I may try to incorporate the following schedule for the rest of the semester:
Mon - YogaFit (Its 1 hr after I get out of class)
Tues - Cycle (Its 15 min after I get out of class)
Fri - Walk the track (I have a 3 hr break on most Fridays in between classes)
And the last Wed of every month I stay later for VAMO (the club for my major) and they have a bunch of classes during the 3 1/2 hours, so potentially I could try out a bunch of different activities.
I just keep hitting these one right after another! Yay <3
So in the past week:
I am down over 10% of my weight since the beginning of the year.
I am down over 20 lbs since the beginning of the year.
AND - I am down to the weight I was at in October 2006 when I went off of my diet! After a short 2 months I have lost all of the weight I gained since I moved!
There's only one more week left in the WLC I'm running in the college support group, unfortunately it looks as though everyone's dropped off of the face of the planet these past few weeks!
My goal is to lose another 1.4 lbs minimum this week so I can end the Spring Break WLC by losing 10% since the start of the challenge =)
Today I'm trying out a "Yoga Fit" class in the student rec. Perhaps I'll like it? Its only an hour after my last class for the day gets out. To be honest, I'm actually doing it because of a class - we have to try a new "leisure" activity. And I've never done Yoga, and I've never done group exercise, so its a 2-fer! I was debating between that and getting a pedicure/manicure/massage, but I decided that this one was cheaper and a lot healthier! And who knows? Maybe I'll really love it and will want to start doing it all of the time. I wish that the group activities fit better into my class schedule, unfortunately the activities I want to try are during classes, or I have other obligations so I can't do them on a regular basis (the fact that I commute to school doesn't help either, I'm sure.) Jeremy & I had discussed getting Y! Memberships. One of these days when I'm out I'll have to go and talk to them about it. What sucks is its going to cost an arm and a leg (and a half) because we're not married.
Vacation is just a short 3.5 months away! We were talking about the possiblity of renting a cabin near a lake/river. I wouldn't mind going tent camping, but its not very practical with the kids. So I requested a bunch of brochures for campgrounds as well as canoe/raft/tube/kayak places & horse rentals. I made a list of ideas for on-the-grill cooking as well as some games & crafts we can do there, or bring along with. We keep asking and they keep saying things like "Six Flags" or "Chuck E Cheese". Well Six Flags & Chuck E Cheese aren't really vacation things for us, we can just pick a day and drive down to Six Flags or drive an hour to Chuck E Cheese. I'm sure she'll say yes and he'll say no because he'd absolutely die without XBox or Wii for a whole week. But he'll get over it =)
I've decided that Master Yoda was right (I know, how could I have ever have doubted him! ) "Do or do not, there is no try." This can be applied to so many aspects of life.
School: I got my associate's degree in December. Super congrats to me, especially after taking a year off from school! They always say that once you quit its hard to go back, but its what I wanted to do, and I did it. Now I'm commuting an hour each way at a state university to work on my BS, just like I will until Dec '09, at which point I'll either graduate or begin my internship in January.
Money: My big goal I've been reiterating to myself is that I want to be debt-free outside of student loans by the time I graduate from college. I am one step closer! I made tele-check arrangements today to pay off my next to last bill! Only ONE MORE LEFT! WOO! I'm so proud of myself. I've been dragging that one out for WAY too long!
Health: I finally started seriously dieting, all by myself, no RL buddies or anything in January. I saw the 20s 12 wk WLC & decided that it was a great idea, and started up a WLC in the college support group where as a group (no matter how small we are) we've lost almost 30 lbs together. But before when I said I'd watch what I'd eat & exercise, I didn't really mean it, I just said it to make myself feel better. DOING it has made me feel so much better! I feel phenomenal about what I've accomplished these past two months and I want to thank everybody who's left me support along the way. I do have some vices in this, however: I don't drink enough liquids, & I don't exercise. I mean, I'm good at school - I take the stairs everyday instead of the elevator, and I walk every day instead of taking the bus. But overall I've watched what I eat, learned more about what types of foods I eat/used to eat and have developed much healthier (& more regular) eating habits. Unfortunately, this has made me a bit of a critical eye when it comes to what other people eat, but for the most part I'm good and keep my mouth shut
There are some areas I'd like to be able to focus on, but they will come in good time: I miss crafting! I get to do a little here and there for my visual merchandising class, but not NEARLY what I used to get to do! Crafting is my dream business, so I need to keep practicing or else I'll get rusty =) I'd also like to be able to open up more to J. There are some things about me (nothing life or death or anything) that I've been ashamed of for a long time (my debt being one of them, goodbye debt, hello freedom! At least my hospital bill I've paid on every month (except once when I moved shortly after I got it, because I forgot! OOPS) so its not gaining interest, and I pay off my Dept Store card at the end of every month to try to build credit. But alas, everytime I decide I'm going to, something happens and I either get mad, get upset, get interrupted, or chicken out ;x We're going to have the weekend all to ourselves next week. That sounds like a good time.
) "Do or do not, there is no try." This can be applied to so many aspects of life.