Chores after Exercise

Have to go help Mom in the garden, but I started today with the exercise program, I will post more later,but I feel good!

My Health Weight Goals

137 lbs now. I want to be 115 LBS. - to lose 22 lbs.  SO....

Date I will Lose 11 LBS by: September 7, 2008 (or 11 weeks from June 20, 08)

NEW MINI-GOALS:

By July 13, I will be 133 lbs!

By August 3,  I will be 127 lbs!

By August 24, I will be 121 lbs!

I pledge to lose all this weight by constantly seeking the support of the ExtraPounds and Wellness.com communities by using Jorge Cruise's 8 Minutes in the Morning System and 3-Hour Diet program and to review these goals every morning to keep myself motivated.

And also: figure out how to sleep consistently while having a healthy LDR.

So what do you think of that? huh huh huh?

IM STARTING OVER!!

Signed,

KMG

(initials of my real name)

Update on Goals and LDRs

I'm going to update my goals today, present it to you later. IN the meantime for my own reference (yes, I know...not the use you expect for a blog, but hey, its my blog and I did say I would be doing ramblings on it-- important stuff, but yeah, ramblings!XD).

Maybe you'll find it useful. Yes, I'm in an LDR:)  and yes, heh, sorry, I'm kind of moody today....

http://www.longdistancecouples.com/

http://collegelife.about.com/od/dating/ht/LongDistance.htm

http://www.distancelovinghelp.com/

http://www.distancelovinghelp.com/loveletters/index.html

http://loveatadistance.com/

http://www.twing.com/search?sc=ps&qt=long distance relationships&mk=1&cm_mmc=Google-_-CNB_Relationships_Long Distance Relationships-_-Content-_-long distance relationships&gclid=COD9vpjP_pMCFQFIGgodm1B1Wg

 http://www.reconnectyourrelationship.com/m/ppc/index2.asp?keyword=dating relationships&s=12366

I'm stressed too! :(

Three Women in a Kitchen

There was three women

in a kitchen

One with hunched shoulders,

pretty, 40s weathered face,

One with furrowed brow, eyes ill tempered,

silently doing a task unasked of her, her soft young face unhappy,

Thinking

of the third woman, the youngest of all

who whined and yelled at the first woman,

but did nothing at all,

At the expense of the second woman.

Mood tonight.

I'm sorry...

I'm sorry I havent been here!  There really should be a deliquent dieters' anonymous....I would fit right in!

Havent kept up with you ladies and I am so so sorry for that, I know I should I know I should!

I have no discipline on me, that is the truth. I have just realized I'm a bit sick of it. I really, really want to be healthier.  And because I've been a slacker in exercise been a slacker of being here. Though, I know, as you'll see I had plenty of time to update:(

Still determined to do it the Jorge Cruise way, and then some. I think I'm going to start going outdoors to write....

Yes, i've picked up writing again, writing short fiction. I'm postponing picking my writing to make use of the last four days of my World of Warcraft subscription though-- I'm still a measly Lvl 9 and my boyfriend's already Lvl 23!!....

All things considered my wacky sleep schedule, I sleep approximately 2, 3 or 4 in the morning depending on when my boyfriend gets tired-- I can never say no to him in terms of our phone calls and I just love talking ot him into the wee hours! Its terrible for my get-healthy-and-fit plan though.

I havent been able to get up and do a full 8 minute routine in time, or felt more inclined to listen t omy instinct to roll over, for sleep or to just avoid the hurried hub-hubbab my siblings make outside my bedroom door.  I am not really comfortable with East Coast rush-edness>>

Maybe I should just do it. Get up, ignore everything else and just do! Maybe maybe....:(

Well, on other news, newness is all for me...

I was inspired to sign up on Help.com, where you can sign up to help other people. There are some seriously good ways to help, if only to lend an ear, or lend kind advice; the link is direct to my profile but go click on the giant "Help.com" letters and you'll see the main page.

The Writing Room and Protagonize are my new haunts. Regular haunts in fact, writing is my soul!

But, here, here is my only blog. Where my body is taken care of. Please chastise me and tell me I better come here often!!

Trying to be habitually good:(,

Trin

I am Still Alive

:( Trying to get health lfestyle on grack lol

Size 30 and Relapse and Rushing toa Party

Te jour:

I found out I'm a Size 30 *winces* when I tried on newly acquired jeans. And I say newly acquired cause they'are not exactly new....I think they're consignments. My Mom's boyfriend got a whole bunch for us.

Relapsed on diet again, big time...splurges on cookies, cake, you name it. Yesterday was a hard day, heh, energhy wise. Oh yes, lost sleep, lol....one of those times I dont regret *smiles happily*

Rushing to a party, my aunt is going to kill us again. Its her little boy's birthday....anyhoo, I'm sorry for not posting, and I saw everyone's comments I totally promise I'll respond when  I have more time today!! or Tomorrow....shall read blogs too!

To give you an idea of what I look like and of my Size 30 ness, here is my party look:

Until then...I'm over and out!  For those in the US, have a healthy. happy, warm, rain-less Memorial Day weekend!!! And for those out...well I hope you also have a good time :).

*Zooms off to fret about the traffic to Brooklyn*

Imitating the Energy Bunny

I'm not quite like that yet, nor do I ever really want to because well, truthfully that rabbit looks a little....crazy with that snare drum snapped around it, buttt I'm feeling good! My 8 Minutes A Day routine is working and I'm feeling thinner, fitter, although I dont think I lost the weight yet. We'll have to see, only the scale can tell.

And ours is broken, which means I'll have to badger my mother to get a shiny new one before my Weigh-In Day, which is this Sunday.

Its not his fault, but I was kept away nearly to 3:30 am EST thinking of my boyfriend, who I haven't seen a lot of online, and as an LDR that kind of time is very essential. I'm seeing him today for about 2 hours! Yayys! But anyway back to my sleeping schedule, yeah, after dropping my sibs off, adding on a built in RSS reader to my Yahoo Messenger and hunting for passwords to my Bloglines account and RSS feed readers in general cause I wanted to add the blogs on my friend list here to them, I plopped back to bed and took a nap till 12:30. Heh.

In between of course answer texts from my Knight, who you'll hear a lot about as he's a big part of my life...and, well, as I've said at the  beginning, because my physical health is intricately linked with my life, you're going to hear about him a lot. So there.

I'm off to eat lunch unfortuantely diet as I said on Munchkins' blog I haven't gotten it pat yet-- its just mulitgrain bread with baked salmon with melted cheese, i'm gonna top it off with a corner of the slice of cheese i saved for that purpose, and then leaves. Will add my fast-becoming-fave black berry/cranbyerry juice and the yogurt i didnt finish earlier. Gonna add a glass of water too.

Well, that IS better than yesterday, but...was tempted to rush it. After all, i could get lost on the road  (which i'm getting on after breakfast and showering)....

My Stalker List:P

How odd does ExtraPounds' blog tracking method works.  I have to add "friendds" to keep track of my fave blogs.

I feel like I'm stalking people even though maybe they'd probably want it lol.

Anyhoo....if you notice on my sidebar there's links to others' blogs. Check them out! I'm sure they'll love the support.

And in the coming days, I'll be reading them and try to read some more too.

Oh, and i"m a horrible drawer. I tried drawing a diagram in Microsoft Word free form style.

Have my siblings' band concert today and my boyfriend' suspposed to call...

Besmuccuduous!

Uggh, the things I had to squeeze my impatient self through as I attempted to share past photos with you all.

Oh dont get me wrong i know how to upload to ExtraPounds, but I figured it would be very impolite putting up many past photos of foods of which most probably not many of you want to see. Especially after I reflected and realized that maybe I am not getting the diet part of my plan down yet.

But so the journey goes- Tried VillagePhotos my all time favorite and preference to Flickr but alas their gallery html doesnt seem to be working on my MySpace page...btw, check it out and friend me, I need many friends on that.  Although dont expect me to reply to much, as i'm more on Second LIfe and IMVU and Yahoo Messenger *grin*

Then as I was for the fourth most probable time, and really this was trying, figuring-out-that-my-Blogger account- password-was-forgotten-but- the reminder-gets sent-to- an inaccessible email address-and-so-trying to sign up- led me in circles essentially-  ended up me brilliantly remembering taht there were a couple of scrabook-like blogging services that are fairly new that I wanted to try out, but postponed till I had this awesome avatar by VisaNova on IMVU. Otherwise having an account would have been useless, as I wouldnt be using it as much. I loooove taking virtual photos of my avatars in both worlds and having all the poses would be awesome as well. And scenery too, mind you...Second Life's awesome for that.

But it turns out as I find I like making up for the lack of moola to pay for custom CSS by turning this rather boring blog into a snazzy affair with pictures and vids,  I was left to choose between Scrabblog, Gloogster (more to my youthful taste than Scrapblog, and I'll still sign up for this as soon as I get said avatar from IMVU), and Photoblog .  Scrabblog and Gloogster is colorful and bright, so I quickly rejected Photoblog that seemed well too serious.  Gloogster I found doesnt allow for zoom and click so happily I trotted over and made my first album on Scrapblog, which I am finding is surprisingly flexible and I didnt have time to mess around with the features so I just threw together a quickie but I think i'll definitely have fun with this!  To see the promised pics of days past, click here .

May I point out that ranting about my photo problems is not as serious as my "getting lost in my own state" post that I was planning to post up yesterday, but saved you from it, because I was too tired. Two hours on I-9, Garden State Parkway, and 280 grr.

Moving on to more serious business, here is my lunch for today and my reflections on my diet. Straight of the bat I think I am not trying very carefully enough to monitor my diet, but its sooo fun doing the cooking the way I do, just a splash here and there, here and there. Today, because I rather didnt like to eat rice as its, well, boring- I like spices ya know- I once again pulled out my angelic pasta box and boiled up water. This time I just used plain pasta and just poured in olive oil till i felt it was enough, tossed in crunched basil leaves, and then the cooking wine I used yesterday until I felt it was enough, and I left it to and mix without the pasta for bit. Then I tossed the pasta in, and after it softened and cooked I tossed in more wine. Here's the result:

It was delicious, I was well pleased and I  paired it with baked chicken my Mom had marinated and asked me to bake yesterday. On top of it I had this great blackberry/cranberry juice. But that was it, really, I didnt feel like adding the leaves, i felt it would ruin the taste somehow. If my diet's going to work I am going to need to monitor what I cook too, and maybe find a way to measure precisely without putting out my fun. Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a cook's support group on ExtraPounds?

Anyways, I'm off ot recreate Jorge Cruise's diet trackers on my computer as its not convenient for me to photocopy ....similar but not the same.

TTYL, I'll let cha' know....