I'm feeling much better about myself this morning. I exercised last night. Yay! I went to my water aerobics class and had a great time. I tried to go easy on my shoulders, but they're still really sore today. I'm not sure if I should just wait it out and hope it gets better, or make a doctor's appointment. I just don't know.
Anyway, today I'm also wearing a new sweater from Ann Taylor Loft (one of my favorite stores), so that makes me happy too. It looks like this:
Except it's green and long. Knee-length in fact. I just couldn't find a picture of the actual sweater. I love it!
Anyway, I'm going to log onto TDP and log last nights dinner and breakfast today. Oh, and I need to log my exercise yesterday. I did decent with food yesterday, but I could have done better. I needed to curb my sugar cravings a little bit. Today I will do better with the sugar cravings. I also plan to exercise today. I will either take a walk at lunch or do my pilates video (which I haven't done in forever) tonight.
So.... I didn't go for a walk yesterday. Naughty naughty. I am going to go to water aerobics tonight though. Even though it's cold. I have to get there a little early and buy a new 20 class pass. I'm all out!
You know, I'm having a really hard time losing any weight lately (ok, for months now). I know that I'm not doing everything I could be doing, but I'm tired of thinking about it and worrying about it. What I would like to do is get down to 160 and maintain that through the holidays. So that is my goal. To reach 160 by Thanksgiving and stay there until New Years. At that point I'll finally be submitting my last grad school applications and I'll be able to think about other things.
To reach 160 I will try to log everything on The Daily Plate and I will try to exercise five days per week.
Thanks to all of you for keeping me motivated. Happy Thursday!
I have never felt this proud of my country and it's people before. Last night was an historic event.
However, in California, apparently the rights of farm animals are more important than the rights of citizens. Don't get me wrong, I voted for the farm animal proposition too, and I'm glad it passed, but I'm so beyond sad at the fact that most of my state doesn't believe I should have all the rights of a citizen.
Anyway, in celebration last night I had maybe a few too many sweets. Whoops! And I didn't exercise. BUT, I will exercise today, even if it's brief. I've got to maintain the habit. My back still hurts though, so I'm not sure what's going on there. I think I'll just go for a walk today, on my lunch break. I'm really debating whether or not I should go to kickboxing tomorrow night. I want to, but I might hurt myself worse. Maybe I should do water aerobics instead. At least that is a no impact workout.
Ok, I've been terrible about remembering to use TDP. I will log my food today! I promise! I'm going there right now. Have a great Wednesday everyone, and if you're anywhere near the SF bay area, enjoy the beautiful weather!
I'm not exercising enough. Nothing Monday or today (so far). For some reason my neck and shoulders are super sore right now. I don't know what I did. I've been eating decently. I'm having dinner at a friends house tonight though (to watch the election results come in), so hopefully I won't overeat or eat too many sweets. Ok, I'm icing my neck now. I have the ice pack wrapped in my scarf, so I probably look very odd, but oh well. Hopefully it will help.
On the bright side, I think my pants are starting to fit more loosely. Maybe I'll be able to wear size 10's again soon! Yay! I just have to get my a** in gear and exercise more. It doesn't help that the weather is starting to cool down here.
Anyway, what are you all up to? I'd better catch up on your blogs. Happy election day, and don't forget to vote!
So I just have to make my plea for voting. Tomorrow will be one of the most historic elections in history, certainly the most important in my lifetime. I know you can see from my avatar who I'm supporting, but I hope all of you will get out there and exercise your right to vote, no matter who you will be voting for. Pay attention to whatever state and local propositions are on your ballot. Often these will have more of a direct impact on your life than the presidency.
On that note, I want to ask all of you in California to please please please vote NO on Proposition 8. This proposition eliminates the right of same-sex couples to marry (so a no vote would preserve the right of same-sex couples to marry). I know many people object to this on religious grounds, but please consider the civil and legal rights that go along with marriage. Domestic partnership does not come close to providing these same rights. So please don't deny me the right to marry the woman I love. Please.
I promise I'll get back to weight related posts tomorrow. Thanks for reading, and I hope you'll all vote!
Ok, so yesterday morning my scale made me sad (3 lbs in one day???). Today though, TOM arrived, which explains the gain. So I'm ok with that. Except that now I have cramps. Blah. Anyway, eating has been kinda wacky this week. I've been eating out a LOT. But tomorrow I'm going to make some soups and casseroles to have during the next week, so that will help. I haven't been exercising either. I know. I'm naughty. But I'll go to water aerobics or run tomorrow. Even if it's raining. Promise.
Well, I'm at work, so I'd better get some work done. Happy Halloween everyone! Good luck with the Halloween candy...
So my scale says I'm down a pound today (from Saturday's weigh in). Even though I'm not sure why, I'll take it! I've actually been eating more over the last few days, so maybe I wasn't getting enough calories before? I don't know. Hard to tell sometimes.
Anyway, I went up to my alma mater yesterday and talked with the three faculty who will be writing me letters of recommendation. Gave them all the necessary paperwork for the programs I'm applying to. Now for the rest of the application process.
Oh, I don't think I told you all that I didn't end up exercising on Monday. Or yesterday. So two no exercise days in a row. Not good! Today I WILL be walking on my lunch break. Tonight is a dinner event at work, so hopefully there will be some decent options to choose from.
Ok, I'm off to read your blogs and get all caught up. Happy Wednesday!
So I'm only at work for a half-day today. I'm heading up to the bay area at noon to meet with three of my faculty from my undergrad to give them the info they need to write me letters of recommendation. This grad school stuff is such a pain! And I'm really have trouble with not knowing where I'll be or what I'll be doing at this time next year. Scary!!!
Anyway, I'd better get some work done, since I'm only here one more hour. I'll check up on you all soon, I promise!
So it's another Monday. I'm still here and still tracking my food. Definitely haven't been eating as well as I could have been. But oh well. Today is a new day. My weight was up at weigh in on Saturday. And it's gone up a bit more since then. BUT... I can deal with this and I won't get discouraged.
I'm going to walk on my lunch break today. Tomorrow will be a no exercise day, since I'm heading up to the bay area to drop off information for the faculty who are writing me letters of recommendation.
Anyway, I've got to head off to a meeting, so I'll check up on you all later this afternoon!
Ok, so I successfully tracked all my food on The Daily Plate yesterday. Woohoo! And I already logged on and put in my breakfast for today.
I'm skipping water aerobics today (booo) because the timing just doesn't work. I'm about to go for a wog instead. Yay! Then I have a busy day ahead of me! I'm going to a conference on campus, then cooking two days worth of dinners for a friend who just had a baby, dropping those off at her house, and going out to dinner to celebrate a friends birthday. We're going to this place that makes amazing wood-fired pizzas. Super-thin crust. Mmmmmm...
