I LOVE to run. I mean LOVE. It is currently 60 degrees outside. There is no more perfect running temperature. *happy sigh* So I decided today was the day to get back in it. I left the apartment and just started running. I told myself I'd just start with a half mile and I got there and just couldn't stop so a mile it was. In 12 minutes even. I'm pretty sure there are not words to describe how awesome I feel at the current moment. BAM! :)
In other news, I think I'm going to give up soda....for like the 500th time. Maybe the 501st is the charm?? ;)
So what I've realized is it's sooooo much easier to pass right by the kit kat section of the grocery store if I've just exercised (even easier if I'm still in workout clothes and sweaty :) I pushed that cart around like a BOSS. :)
Until next time,
:)
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
When I eat veggies, I FEEL thinner
Try it. Have veggies for a snack. I just ate a bell pepper and a cucumber. I don't know what it is, but I FEEL smaller. I also ate some string cheese because...well why not?!?! :)
I love raw (but washed) veggies with nothing on them. Stoplight peppers (that would be the red, yellow, and green ones :) sit me down with it and I'll finish it. I'm a little bit more picky when it comes to fruit, but I guess that's a good thing, what with the natural sugars. I maintain these sugars are necessary, but it's important to ensure one doesn't go overboard with them. Just because they're 0 points doesn't mean they have....nothing....It's always been that way, even on the old points system. Most veggies were 0, but you still had to track them because every little bit adds up.
In an effort to drink more water, I've started carrying around a 32 ounce gargantuan water bottle. Turns out, I drink more water. Cue phone call from nature. Sorry, couldn't resist that one :)
I went to the grocery store Tuesday because I had no food. And the snack-y food I did have was all 5 points. SO not worth it. At the store, I bought Lean Cuisine (checked with my WW barcode app), Bell peppers, cucumbers, green beans, apples, strawberries, WW string cheese, Lean Pockets, and a cool looking stir-fry frozen thing to have for dinner. BAM. I conquered Wally World and left with ZERO kit kats. I'm pretty sure I deserve a medal. OH, and I got WW ice cream bars, how could I forget. :)
I was thinking I had something else....OH yea - another test.
Until next time,
:)
I love raw (but washed) veggies with nothing on them. Stoplight peppers (that would be the red, yellow, and green ones :) sit me down with it and I'll finish it. I'm a little bit more picky when it comes to fruit, but I guess that's a good thing, what with the natural sugars. I maintain these sugars are necessary, but it's important to ensure one doesn't go overboard with them. Just because they're 0 points doesn't mean they have....nothing....It's always been that way, even on the old points system. Most veggies were 0, but you still had to track them because every little bit adds up.
In an effort to drink more water, I've started carrying around a 32 ounce gargantuan water bottle. Turns out, I drink more water. Cue phone call from nature. Sorry, couldn't resist that one :)
I went to the grocery store Tuesday because I had no food. And the snack-y food I did have was all 5 points. SO not worth it. At the store, I bought Lean Cuisine (checked with my WW barcode app), Bell peppers, cucumbers, green beans, apples, strawberries, WW string cheese, Lean Pockets, and a cool looking stir-fry frozen thing to have for dinner. BAM. I conquered Wally World and left with ZERO kit kats. I'm pretty sure I deserve a medal. OH, and I got WW ice cream bars, how could I forget. :)
I was thinking I had something else....OH yea - another test.
Until next time,
:)
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Never judge anyone's story until you've walked in their shoes
When I was a young Weight Watchers member, I'll admit when I would hear people say they were rejoining I said to myself "I'll never have to rejoin". Well the joke's on me really. Last week, I rejoined Weight Watchers. It's been a long time coming. This time I joined online because my excuse for not rejoining earlier was that because of my forever changing schedule I had to keep switching meetings. All that does is feed the fire of the aggravation that comes from not having a boring regular schedule.
So far it's going well. The discipline of tracking comes easier than I thought it would.
Until next time,
:)
So far it's going well. The discipline of tracking comes easier than I thought it would.
Until next time,
:)
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Sometimes you don't catch a break, you have to throw one
Ok, so I know that's a corny title, but it's my attempt at a baseball joke. Or maybe football. Just something you throw vs. catch. I tried to incorporate exercise time in my schedule. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to a)get up before the sun to exercise, b)interrupt my study schedule, or c)not eat to have time to exercise. I can't get behind on my studies or I'll never catch up. (This is not at the same as I don't WANT to get behind, because on that front I don't care...see my University Experience blog for the full story. )
So what I've decided is I need to make a better effort to eat better, and sneak in exercise during the week. The weekend should be a no-brainer now that its getting cooler, side note YAY, but I digress. So I got recovered my old plastic fold up table and made a study central spot in my living room so I would no longer need to traverse to the library to have somewhere to spread out. This accomplishes multiple things: a)I can study in my PJs b)I can do laundry while studying c)I can eat at...you guessed it...HOME d)I no longer have to traverse to the library just to spread out. Am I the only one having deja vu? :)
The other part of that is the sneaking in exercise part. I power walk through the grocery store, and by nature, I have to go back and forth to both ends because I don't organize my list according to the store layout. I walk from my car to class, and build in about 5 extra minutes to do so versus riding the bus. Also a no-brainer, since that adds miles per day! On the weekend, I'm hoping to incorporate longer walks on the green-way, or wherever....
That's what going on here...hopefully good progress news forthcoming! :)
Until next time,
:)
So what I've decided is I need to make a better effort to eat better, and sneak in exercise during the week. The weekend should be a no-brainer now that its getting cooler, side note YAY, but I digress. So I got recovered my old plastic fold up table and made a study central spot in my living room so I would no longer need to traverse to the library to have somewhere to spread out. This accomplishes multiple things: a)I can study in my PJs b)I can do laundry while studying c)I can eat at...you guessed it...HOME d)I no longer have to traverse to the library just to spread out. Am I the only one having deja vu? :)
The other part of that is the sneaking in exercise part. I power walk through the grocery store, and by nature, I have to go back and forth to both ends because I don't organize my list according to the store layout. I walk from my car to class, and build in about 5 extra minutes to do so versus riding the bus. Also a no-brainer, since that adds miles per day! On the weekend, I'm hoping to incorporate longer walks on the green-way, or wherever....
That's what going on here...hopefully good progress news forthcoming! :)
Until next time,
:)
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Some days my life sounds like a Shania Twain song
"It's about as bad as it can be..."
This morning I woke up to an e-mail from my professor saying I got a 13/20 on a project. That's a 65. This project will join 4-5 others and make up 20% of my grade. I thought I did better than that!
"Even something simple as...
forgetting to fill up on gas...
there ain't no explaination why, things like that can make you cry, ...
just gotta learn to have a laugh"
Then I found out only because I hounded my leasing office that my August rent hadn't been paid. I could have sworn it was. So when I came in and paid my September rent because I realized the auto-pay hadn't continued on the new lease, they just automatically applied it to August. Without telling me. Now granted, should I be able to keep track of this? Yes. I set up auto-pay last year and just like a crock pot, I set it and forgot it. They send out unpaid balance sheets about the 12th. They didn't send out one for August and send Aug/Sept together because "there were so many new residents and transfers". It seems like in all that moving and shifting a reminder would be a really good idea. But no one asked me! Let me set up e-mail notifications or SOMETHING. The best they can do is I have to pay half by Friday. Cute.
But hey, at least I went to the gym this morning. : |
"When everything is going wrong....
Don't worry it won't last for long...
Yea it's all gonna come around, don't let it get you down, you gotta keep on holding on."
Just take a deep breath and push forward. No wallowing! And listen to happy music on repeat!
"Up, up, up. There's no where but up from here..." and I'm sure it will.
::sigh:: just another road bump in the road to GRADUATION. No one, including me, ever said this was going to be easy. But I wouldn't trade the way things happened for the easy way out. There's a lot of good that has come out of this process.
Until next time,
:)
This morning I woke up to an e-mail from my professor saying I got a 13/20 on a project. That's a 65. This project will join 4-5 others and make up 20% of my grade. I thought I did better than that!
"Even something simple as...
forgetting to fill up on gas...
there ain't no explaination why, things like that can make you cry, ...
just gotta learn to have a laugh"
Then I found out only because I hounded my leasing office that my August rent hadn't been paid. I could have sworn it was. So when I came in and paid my September rent because I realized the auto-pay hadn't continued on the new lease, they just automatically applied it to August. Without telling me. Now granted, should I be able to keep track of this? Yes. I set up auto-pay last year and just like a crock pot, I set it and forgot it. They send out unpaid balance sheets about the 12th. They didn't send out one for August and send Aug/Sept together because "there were so many new residents and transfers". It seems like in all that moving and shifting a reminder would be a really good idea. But no one asked me! Let me set up e-mail notifications or SOMETHING. The best they can do is I have to pay half by Friday. Cute.
But hey, at least I went to the gym this morning. : |
"When everything is going wrong....
Don't worry it won't last for long...
Yea it's all gonna come around, don't let it get you down, you gotta keep on holding on."
Just take a deep breath and push forward. No wallowing! And listen to happy music on repeat!
"Up, up, up. There's no where but up from here..." and I'm sure it will.
::sigh:: just another road bump in the road to GRADUATION. No one, including me, ever said this was going to be easy. But I wouldn't trade the way things happened for the easy way out. There's a lot of good that has come out of this process.
Until next time,
:)
Monday, September 16, 2013
A pep talk and a plan...
My how time flies! It's been a busy summer! Although I guess it's not really summer anymore. Wait, that changeover is this Saturday. Does that mean fall is COMING?!?!?! OH I hope so!!!!!! But I just looked at the weather forecast and fall won't be coming before Tuesday at least...and I can't tell beyond that because it only goes out 10 days *sniff, sniff*. But that weather last Saturday was amazing!
Yes, I'm avoiding talking about where my weight loss journey and running progress is. I'm in denial. At least I'm not in denial about being in denial. Wow, I could get lost in this circle. But, I digress. It's not anywhere. It's not gone down, it's not gone up. Just blah. I haven't run but about once all summer and I hate it. But I hate summer more. This summer was pretty awesome though (NOT the weather, other events...) :) There I go getting *distracted* again. Or am I? Hehe. It needs to go down so blah, but it hasn't gone up so yay? Ugh, I just want to run again. I keep telling myself that when it's not hotter than fire outside I'll go for a run. Or I could go to the free gym at my apartment complex. I mean like 50 yards away. Geez. I really have no excuses. And it's open 24/7, so I got nothin'. Well give me 5 minutes and I'll have an impressive list of excuses.
So a plan. Get things done as efficiently as possible and take time in the morning to carve out at least 30 minutes on the treadmill. I have at least 3 days a week that getting up wouldn't be a hardship. Like tomorrow a.k.a today :o I just have to shift a couple things around without disrupting my studiousness nature I discovered this semester.
I'll get there again. My goal is to get where I was at the end of last year (about 10-15 lbs from current) and just sit tight. I was happy with that place, and so I'm going to get there and hang out. I haven't been to Weight Watchers in...a while. My mind keeps telling me that they'll judge me for being away that long because that's what I'm doing to myself, but the truth is they've all been right where I am right now. And they're loving and accepting no matter what. We all screw up. Over and over sometimes. It's time to get back on the horse, put the past in the past and stop wallowing! How's that for a pep talk?
I promise to go less time than 4 months without posting for next time. I might even post tomorrow! Again, a.k.a today. ;)
Until then, goodnight moon. :)
Until next time,
:)
Yes, I'm avoiding talking about where my weight loss journey and running progress is. I'm in denial. At least I'm not in denial about being in denial. Wow, I could get lost in this circle. But, I digress. It's not anywhere. It's not gone down, it's not gone up. Just blah. I haven't run but about once all summer and I hate it. But I hate summer more. This summer was pretty awesome though (NOT the weather, other events...) :) There I go getting *distracted* again. Or am I? Hehe. It needs to go down so blah, but it hasn't gone up so yay? Ugh, I just want to run again. I keep telling myself that when it's not hotter than fire outside I'll go for a run. Or I could go to the free gym at my apartment complex. I mean like 50 yards away. Geez. I really have no excuses. And it's open 24/7, so I got nothin'. Well give me 5 minutes and I'll have an impressive list of excuses.
So a plan. Get things done as efficiently as possible and take time in the morning to carve out at least 30 minutes on the treadmill. I have at least 3 days a week that getting up wouldn't be a hardship. Like tomorrow a.k.a today :o I just have to shift a couple things around without disrupting my studiousness nature I discovered this semester.
I'll get there again. My goal is to get where I was at the end of last year (about 10-15 lbs from current) and just sit tight. I was happy with that place, and so I'm going to get there and hang out. I haven't been to Weight Watchers in...a while. My mind keeps telling me that they'll judge me for being away that long because that's what I'm doing to myself, but the truth is they've all been right where I am right now. And they're loving and accepting no matter what. We all screw up. Over and over sometimes. It's time to get back on the horse, put the past in the past and stop wallowing! How's that for a pep talk?
I promise to go less time than 4 months without posting for next time. I might even post tomorrow! Again, a.k.a today. ;)
Until then, goodnight moon. :)
Until next time,
:)
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
How do you say goodbye forever?
Good question. My answer involves a pan of brownies, bag of kit-kats and 6 pack of beer, for the record, all of which I have in my apartment right now.
I don't handle loss of life well. Probably due to lack of experience (and I'm NOT complaining about that). I lost my Grandfather when I was 12 and 2 cats a few years ago.
Today, we said goodbye forever to the family puppy, Lucy. Lucy was 6 years old. There's something to be said that is the bond between human and pet. Especially such a cute pet. This is a terribly sad occasion for our household. When I found out, I sobbed all the way home. It's an hour drive.
So how do you handle bad news at work? You go into the warehouse, find a dark corner, have a quick but thorough cry, wipe your face, and get back to work. Then let it all out when you leave. Having this kind of control over one's emotions is terribly difficult. I have found that when I'm in the "mood" to cry, there's little that can stop it, and when I have the "opportunity" to cry, I'm not in the "mood".
Back to Lucy. That puppy was the single most cutest, adorable, and loving puppy to paw the earth. She was a member of the family. It feels like we lost a member of the family. Practically the entire household revolved around the cuteness. For good reason. She was the most well behaved dog ever, and she never went to doggy training, she didn't have to. Lucy came out perfect. :)
I know one day, I'll be able to think about Lucy without tearing up, be able to remember all the happy times, and none of this sadness. But for now, I'm giving in to the tears, knowing the tears are because I loved Lucy 100%. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
So here's to you Lucy, may you rest in eternal peace, and I'll see you in heaven when I get there. Love you cuteness.
Love,
:)
I don't handle loss of life well. Probably due to lack of experience (and I'm NOT complaining about that). I lost my Grandfather when I was 12 and 2 cats a few years ago.
Today, we said goodbye forever to the family puppy, Lucy. Lucy was 6 years old. There's something to be said that is the bond between human and pet. Especially such a cute pet. This is a terribly sad occasion for our household. When I found out, I sobbed all the way home. It's an hour drive.
So how do you handle bad news at work? You go into the warehouse, find a dark corner, have a quick but thorough cry, wipe your face, and get back to work. Then let it all out when you leave. Having this kind of control over one's emotions is terribly difficult. I have found that when I'm in the "mood" to cry, there's little that can stop it, and when I have the "opportunity" to cry, I'm not in the "mood".
Back to Lucy. That puppy was the single most cutest, adorable, and loving puppy to paw the earth. She was a member of the family. It feels like we lost a member of the family. Practically the entire household revolved around the cuteness. For good reason. She was the most well behaved dog ever, and she never went to doggy training, she didn't have to. Lucy came out perfect. :)
I know one day, I'll be able to think about Lucy without tearing up, be able to remember all the happy times, and none of this sadness. But for now, I'm giving in to the tears, knowing the tears are because I loved Lucy 100%. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
So here's to you Lucy, may you rest in eternal peace, and I'll see you in heaven when I get there. Love you cuteness.
:)
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