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you have an amazing work ethic! seriously inspiring! just wanted to drop by and tell you i love your journal (i read all of it!!) and you are doing amazing things!!
Camy
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Wishes: thank you for your kind words, I am quite into my little plan, but I am aware that I will have to keep running once I am in Ghana because there just is no way I can cover the distance until the end of september (unless suddenly I become superhuman and can run 10 or even 15 miles in 1 go!). I think you should aim to go around the world once (the whole equator) on your bike! That would be awesome!!!
Buckeye: wow thanks, that was so nice of you! I am glad you enjoy my diary and I do not feel especially strong to be honest, nor does my work ethic overwhelm me (I always think of myself as quite lazy!), but I am glad I am inspiring someone.
Anke: well the man has a 2 year placement working for the ghanian government as a junior economic consultant. It is a fellowship which sends young economists there to get some experience and share their good education with people who did not get such a good education (mot applicants did oxford or cambridge).
I will work as a volunteer in a hospital. That is the luck with being an MD, I will find some work or other everywhere in the world. I still have to ask, but I think the year in Ghana can count as an elective and then my practical years here get shortened.
I ate a bit disorganized today because I had lunch and dinner at work and both were tiny meals (they had sandwiches for lunch, so clearly not for me and hamburgers for dinner... again didn't really work... so I had very small meals and then made up for it with snacks). I was tired and I hate running with a backpack so I ran less than I hoped for.
Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1 banana (80 cals), 100 cals of chocolate
Lunch: 1 slice of ham (20 cals), 2 chunks of cheese (60 cals), half a mackarel in tomato sauce (70 cals)
Snack: ice cream (220 cals), 1 1/2 babybels (100 cals)
Dinner: 1 slice of salmon (not very well cooked) (220 cals), green salad with artichokes (150 cals), 50 cals of choc
Later night snacky food: 1 toffee yoghurt (fat free, 100 cals), 2 slices (rather big ones) of itaian salami (150 cals??)
Total: 1320 cals (sounds much better than before!)
Also had 3 mugs of tea (fennel, peppermint+fennel and slim tea), plus tons of water, result: I am peeing like a horse!
Exercise:
ran 3.8 k
TumEx
Camy
Buckeye: wow thanks, that was so nice of you! I am glad you enjoy my diary and I do not feel especially strong to be honest, nor does my work ethic overwhelm me (I always think of myself as quite lazy!), but I am glad I am inspiring someone.
Anke: well the man has a 2 year placement working for the ghanian government as a junior economic consultant. It is a fellowship which sends young economists there to get some experience and share their good education with people who did not get such a good education (mot applicants did oxford or cambridge).
I will work as a volunteer in a hospital. That is the luck with being an MD, I will find some work or other everywhere in the world. I still have to ask, but I think the year in Ghana can count as an elective and then my practical years here get shortened.
I ate a bit disorganized today because I had lunch and dinner at work and both were tiny meals (they had sandwiches for lunch, so clearly not for me and hamburgers for dinner... again didn't really work... so I had very small meals and then made up for it with snacks). I was tired and I hate running with a backpack so I ran less than I hoped for.
Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1 banana (80 cals), 100 cals of chocolate
Lunch: 1 slice of ham (20 cals), 2 chunks of cheese (60 cals), half a mackarel in tomato sauce (70 cals)
Snack: ice cream (220 cals), 1 1/2 babybels (100 cals)
Dinner: 1 slice of salmon (not very well cooked) (220 cals), green salad with artichokes (150 cals), 50 cals of choc
Later night snacky food: 1 toffee yoghurt (fat free, 100 cals), 2 slices (rather big ones) of itaian salami (150 cals??)
Total: 1320 cals (sounds much better than before!)
Also had 3 mugs of tea (fennel, peppermint+fennel and slim tea), plus tons of water, result: I am peeing like a horse!
Exercise:
ran 3.8 k
TumEx
Camy
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tinkerbella
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Wow moving to Ghana must be so exciting! Im going to Africa on holiday in a couple of weeks and i would love it to be longer!
You really are doing well with your running...it must really be paying off!
Keep up the great work!
xx
You really are doing well with your running...it must really be paying off!
Keep up the great work!
xx
Camy
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Oh yeah... did I not mention it? Yes I am a Dr. doing a postgraduate degree before I throw myself into the hospitals...
I don't feel like I need to say I am a Dr for 2 reasons, 1) all medics are incredibly conceited, they know it all, and being a medic is what defines them: well I am not, it does not define who I am, I am me, I am funny, I am short(ish), I am blond, I am a sister, a daughter, a granddaughter, a (hopefully) soon to be wife, a medic, a coeliac, etc...
The second reason is that I have worked in hospitals for short terms (like 3 months here and there and clinics, in which they send you around like the last monkey on earth to do crap) but I have not had my practical years, neither have I specialised, so I don;t feel I am a full Dr. yet.
I will post food and stuff later, just wanted to answer that one!
Camy
I don't feel like I need to say I am a Dr for 2 reasons, 1) all medics are incredibly conceited, they know it all, and being a medic is what defines them: well I am not, it does not define who I am, I am me, I am funny, I am short(ish), I am blond, I am a sister, a daughter, a granddaughter, a (hopefully) soon to be wife, a medic, a coeliac, etc...
The second reason is that I have worked in hospitals for short terms (like 3 months here and there and clinics, in which they send you around like the last monkey on earth to do crap) but I have not had my practical years, neither have I specialised, so I don;t feel I am a full Dr. yet.
I will post food and stuff later, just wanted to answer that one!
Camy
Camy
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OK, so today is wednesday and I did my mid-week weigh in. IN PJ I weighed the same as Sunday without PJs, then I stripped down and I weighed a pound less, but these ridiculous modern scales have weight memory (I am sure) and jump back up to the first number they gave you if you weigh repeatedly (I have tsted this out holding stuff I know weighs a pound, like a weight). So dressed it goes 64.6--64.7--64.8-- 64.7 and clicks, undressed it was 64.3 stayed there then suddenly jumped up to 64.7 and "clicked" (it "clicks" and then measures your fat and water content).
So I think I lost a pound!
Today is a swimming day... I have to say that by the middle of the week I can feel like my muscles are more tired and would like a day out, I am going to give them almost a week out, so they will have to make do with that and just be happy for now.
Also didn't get my period yet. I have decided not to freak since I am only like a week late and that would be normal (but not explain the PMS I have had since 2 weeks ago). I will freak if I come back from NY and it still hasn't decided to show! Today I was sweating like crazy (which I often get on the day my period starts... I guess it is my body's way of getting rid of fluid retention), but nuttin'!
Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1 small banana (70 cals), 150 g of blackberries (40 cals)
Lunch: 1 cup of rice, carrots and vegetable stew (with some peanut butter mixed in), 1 cup of quinoa, broccoli, tomato and cucumber salad (I will guess 500 cals, since it was mostly salad and just about a cup of rice and stew), bounty bar (260 cals) (not a very smart choice!)
Snack: apple (50 cals)
Dinner: totally overate! I had 1 BBQ chicken wing (100 cals), then a smallish bowl of rice noodle chicken and prawn curry (it was green), with some veggies (400 cals, guessing there), about half a bowl of french fries (200 cals) and then to top it off an icecream (200 cals)
Total cals: around 1820 but I think it may have been a bit more!
Exercise:
40 lanes swimming (1.3 k)
Camy
So I think I lost a pound!
Today is a swimming day... I have to say that by the middle of the week I can feel like my muscles are more tired and would like a day out, I am going to give them almost a week out, so they will have to make do with that and just be happy for now.
Also didn't get my period yet. I have decided not to freak since I am only like a week late and that would be normal (but not explain the PMS I have had since 2 weeks ago). I will freak if I come back from NY and it still hasn't decided to show! Today I was sweating like crazy (which I often get on the day my period starts... I guess it is my body's way of getting rid of fluid retention), but nuttin'!
Food of the day:
Breakfast: 1 small banana (70 cals), 150 g of blackberries (40 cals)
Lunch: 1 cup of rice, carrots and vegetable stew (with some peanut butter mixed in), 1 cup of quinoa, broccoli, tomato and cucumber salad (I will guess 500 cals, since it was mostly salad and just about a cup of rice and stew), bounty bar (260 cals) (not a very smart choice!)
Snack: apple (50 cals)
Dinner: totally overate! I had 1 BBQ chicken wing (100 cals), then a smallish bowl of rice noodle chicken and prawn curry (it was green), with some veggies (400 cals, guessing there), about half a bowl of french fries (200 cals) and then to top it off an icecream (200 cals)
Total cals: around 1820 but I think it may have been a bit more!
Exercise:
40 lanes swimming (1.3 k)
Camy
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Omega
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Hi Camy
It is great that you have heard about where it is in Africa that you are going. That means that you can start reading up about the place and making proper plans.
I love the idea of running and swimming from London to Paris etc. I have been toying with walking in a similar manner when I am in maintenance (see how I am planning ahead and presuming on the success of this first long phase of my project).
I have been thinking that the weightloss tickers will not be nearly so motivating when I get to goal as there is little excitement in seeing a ticker drifting around an end point. I like my ticker just fine for now but I can see that for motivation it has a "best before date".
I really like the ones that you can get for walking from such as walkintoshape.com
They have a great one that is really similar to your walking swimming project. If only it covered swimming it would be perfect for you.
I dont know whether that ticker company is still there as the maximum date in their range is for last year. You never know though!
Tickerfactory do tickers for exercise.
I hope that you have a great trip. Well done on losing a pound.
Take care
Love
Margaret
It is great that you have heard about where it is in Africa that you are going. That means that you can start reading up about the place and making proper plans.
I love the idea of running and swimming from London to Paris etc. I have been toying with walking in a similar manner when I am in maintenance (see how I am planning ahead and presuming on the success of this first long phase of my project).
I have been thinking that the weightloss tickers will not be nearly so motivating when I get to goal as there is little excitement in seeing a ticker drifting around an end point. I like my ticker just fine for now but I can see that for motivation it has a "best before date".
I really like the ones that you can get for walking from such as walkintoshape.com
They have a great one that is really similar to your walking swimming project. If only it covered swimming it would be perfect for you.
I dont know whether that ticker company is still there as the maximum date in their range is for last year. You never know though!
Tickerfactory do tickers for exercise.
I hope that you have a great trip. Well done on losing a pound.
Take care
Love
Margaret
Camy
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Thank you Margaret and LIz for your nice posts, I cannot add another ticker for some reason (something about the signature may only be 3 lines long), but I will do recounts at the and of the week to see how close I am to Paris.
I have continued sweating but no period... I also feel like my lower abdomen could be tender (which might be spelling out period for me) but I think right now I am just overeagerly hoping for any symptoms, so it could just be my belt or something like that.
Well when I stop thinking about it, it will come!
Ok so today I went to the bookshop and in the sales basket was a book called "The hungry years" and I stupidly grabbed it. So first when I get to the cash register they tell me it is not on sale but I was embarrassed so I bought it anyway (and it was incredibly expensive), then I go to get lunch and read a bit and it didn't make me feel good at all. I haven't got very far yet but it sounds a bit like a praise to the Atkins diet, which I think sucks! And it made my lunch miserable because the guy kept saying how awful it is being fat and all, and I know I am not fat, but still when I looked in the mirror after lunch I felt horribly fat!
I won't go running today, simply because I didn't go this morning when I should have gone (instead I watched 2 episodes of Grey's anatomy, on my bed, sweating like a pig and praying to the gods of the world, to make me look like Ellen Pompeo soon! I usually don't like superthin people, I like curvier people better like Scarlett Johanssen, but there is something in Pompeo's superthin frame that makes her so... cute... maybe in my next life I could look like her! In this I doubt that I ever will!), and now I am at uni with my bag and I hate running with my bag.
Instead though, I will go to the gym and gym it up for a while, probably do 25 mins of elliptical, stretches, TumEx and if I really feel masochistic enough, I will even attempt the bike for a few minutes.
I feel guilty for having eaten too much yesterday and at the same time I feel stupid for feeling guilty... I only ate a bit too much, I didn't like stuff myself with millions of calories, and I do not want to be obsessive girl!!
So Food for the day:
Breakfast: 1 small banana (70 cals), 250 g of raspberries (50 cals)
Lunch: Thai red curry with chicken and half a bowl of rice (it was a large portion so I will guesstimate around 750 cal)
Snack: some sushi
Dinner: chinese, but I wasn't all that hungry, so I had veggies and maybe 1/4 of a bowl of rice and less than 1/4 of some fish.
Exercise:
None in the end... I am a loser
Camy
I have continued sweating but no period... I also feel like my lower abdomen could be tender (which might be spelling out period for me) but I think right now I am just overeagerly hoping for any symptoms, so it could just be my belt or something like that.
Well when I stop thinking about it, it will come!
Ok so today I went to the bookshop and in the sales basket was a book called "The hungry years" and I stupidly grabbed it. So first when I get to the cash register they tell me it is not on sale but I was embarrassed so I bought it anyway (and it was incredibly expensive), then I go to get lunch and read a bit and it didn't make me feel good at all. I haven't got very far yet but it sounds a bit like a praise to the Atkins diet, which I think sucks! And it made my lunch miserable because the guy kept saying how awful it is being fat and all, and I know I am not fat, but still when I looked in the mirror after lunch I felt horribly fat!
I won't go running today, simply because I didn't go this morning when I should have gone (instead I watched 2 episodes of Grey's anatomy, on my bed, sweating like a pig and praying to the gods of the world, to make me look like Ellen Pompeo soon! I usually don't like superthin people, I like curvier people better like Scarlett Johanssen, but there is something in Pompeo's superthin frame that makes her so... cute... maybe in my next life I could look like her! In this I doubt that I ever will!), and now I am at uni with my bag and I hate running with my bag.
Instead though, I will go to the gym and gym it up for a while, probably do 25 mins of elliptical, stretches, TumEx and if I really feel masochistic enough, I will even attempt the bike for a few minutes.
I feel guilty for having eaten too much yesterday and at the same time I feel stupid for feeling guilty... I only ate a bit too much, I didn't like stuff myself with millions of calories, and I do not want to be obsessive girl!!
So Food for the day:
Breakfast: 1 small banana (70 cals), 250 g of raspberries (50 cals)
Lunch: Thai red curry with chicken and half a bowl of rice (it was a large portion so I will guesstimate around 750 cal)
Snack: some sushi
Dinner: chinese, but I wasn't all that hungry, so I had veggies and maybe 1/4 of a bowl of rice and less than 1/4 of some fish.
Exercise:
None in the end... I am a loser
Camy
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Omega
Moderator
Life is too short to spend time reading books that make you feel worse about yourself without giving you a meaningful solution to the problem that they have just magnified. If on the next skim of it - it does nothing for you - discard it. You do not want to drag it to Africa. If Wishes can throw away cake - you can throw away a book (or give it to a charity shop).
As you well know - you are not fat and you never have been. In all likelihood you never will be either. You are carrying more pounds than you would like. You are addressing that through exercise and good nutrition. If that is enough to sort out the weight problem that Wishes and I both had - it is certainly enough to sort out your excess pounds!
As you well know - you are not fat and you never have been. In all likelihood you never will be either. You are carrying more pounds than you would like. You are addressing that through exercise and good nutrition. If that is enough to sort out the weight problem that Wishes and I both had - it is certainly enough to sort out your excess pounds!
wordslinger
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Hello, Camy, I thought I would pop over here and check out your wisdom!
I agree with you that the curvier women are highly attractive. I am not blessed to possess their body type. But I do not have the emaciated slender frame. I am odd mixture of both; I find it difficult to find female role models. I look like some child was messing around with fashion plates when my body frame was selected. I feel like I have the upper half of a prepubescent boy paired with a more substantial lower body, junk in the trunk. The only person I can think of to look up to is Jennifer Lopez because of this, heh. I seem to be more compact from the waist and down.
As for the book, if you can, I'd suggest you return it. Why keep something that makes you feel horrible about yourself? There is no need. And if it can't be... I can turn my head (the best I can, being a Literature major) and allow you to burn the book. Or rip the cover off... because that is what I do at work.
I agree with you that the curvier women are highly attractive. I am not blessed to possess their body type. But I do not have the emaciated slender frame. I am odd mixture of both; I find it difficult to find female role models. I look like some child was messing around with fashion plates when my body frame was selected. I feel like I have the upper half of a prepubescent boy paired with a more substantial lower body, junk in the trunk. The only person I can think of to look up to is Jennifer Lopez because of this, heh. I seem to be more compact from the waist and down.
As for the book, if you can, I'd suggest you return it. Why keep something that makes you feel horrible about yourself? There is no need. And if it can't be... I can turn my head (the best I can, being a Literature major) and allow you to burn the book. Or rip the cover off... because that is what I do at work.
Camy
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Hey folks, I am back!
And... I am 2 pounds lighter!!!! I hadn't lost 2 pounds in 1 week in like ever! So New York treated me well. It is funny because it was way too hot to run in the park, and even though I am ALWAYS conscient of what I am eating I made a lot of exceptions and ate and drank more than what I would usually allow myself (frappucinos and chocolate every day!). We did walk a ton (probably around 8 to 10 miles a day if not more), and we were out and about all day every day, but I really never expected my weight to drop!
We ate american food only once, shared a portion for one (the two of us) and couldn't finish it... no wonder people are larger over there! The food is beyond yummy, so greasy and so much! For really little money (at least in comparison) as well.
Other than that we ate sushi a couple of times, salad a couple of times, had cuban food once and indian food once, for lunch we would either grab something on the go (well for me that usually meant frap and choc since I don't do well with sandwiches) or eat something light in a small place.
I absolutely adored NY, I can totally imagine living there for a little while (couple of years) and the man loved it too. We actually had one of the best vacations we have ever had in the odd 4 years we have been together (and we go on vacation quite a lot). It was just so relaxed, we never picked a fight, we did stuff he likes (in fact I bought him a new (used) guitar which he is totally in love with now) and stuff I like (went to see ""the little mermaid" the musical... amazing!), and just really had a wonderful time.
We also met Abigail Breslin (aka Little Miss Sunshine) on the streets, but she was really shy and her bodyguard really large to really talk to her.
We went shopping once (well one whole day), the man bought himself trousers and shoes and stuff and I found the perfect jeans, they looked amazing, the were cheap, but they felt awful! I think I was losing sensation in my legs after just 2 minutes in them. And the sizes were all the same, I fit into a 7, 9 and 11 and the legroom was just the same, only the waist was different. The image in the mirror did so NOT mirror the pain in my body... it was really horrible to know I could look that amazing but would have to suffer that pain!
I was a bit depressed after that but GAP cheered me up. I found 2 shirts (one long sleeved, one short sleeved, from that (red) campaign (Discove(red) and Inc(red)ible, kind of thing) reduced down to nothing, so I bought them, their original price added up to over 60 dollars and I got them for under 20! And they were size XS!!!!! Can you believe it! XS!!!!!!!!!!!
So the weight: I am now so close to 13 that I can smell it, I can almost touch it...I hope by the end of the week I will be 139... It has been such a struggle to get under 142, but I feel that now the spell is broken and I can finally lose weight again!
However my cycle was completely out of whack (45 day cycle with the most awful PMS and terrible pain when the period finally showed) and my hair is coming out in chunks, so I think my thyroid medication might be way too low (which would explain the inability to lose weight as well!). I am going to see my GP this week and try to get a blood test done to see if I need to up that medication.
So food of the day:
Breakfast: 1 banana, 1 apple, 1 mug of slimming tea
Lunch: big green salad with some feta cheese (just 3 pieces actually...) and tomatoes
Snack: sesame snaps with coconut flavour (150 cals)
Dinner: tapas at a tapas bar (goodbye party for a friend), tapas tend to be less than your tummy would like but more that your cal count would like... of well!
Exercise:
20 lanes swimming (can you say wimp? I just didn't feel like it... was pretty proud I swam at all!)
Camy
And... I am 2 pounds lighter!!!! I hadn't lost 2 pounds in 1 week in like ever! So New York treated me well. It is funny because it was way too hot to run in the park, and even though I am ALWAYS conscient of what I am eating I made a lot of exceptions and ate and drank more than what I would usually allow myself (frappucinos and chocolate every day!). We did walk a ton (probably around 8 to 10 miles a day if not more), and we were out and about all day every day, but I really never expected my weight to drop!
We ate american food only once, shared a portion for one (the two of us) and couldn't finish it... no wonder people are larger over there! The food is beyond yummy, so greasy and so much! For really little money (at least in comparison) as well.
Other than that we ate sushi a couple of times, salad a couple of times, had cuban food once and indian food once, for lunch we would either grab something on the go (well for me that usually meant frap and choc since I don't do well with sandwiches) or eat something light in a small place.
I absolutely adored NY, I can totally imagine living there for a little while (couple of years) and the man loved it too. We actually had one of the best vacations we have ever had in the odd 4 years we have been together (and we go on vacation quite a lot). It was just so relaxed, we never picked a fight, we did stuff he likes (in fact I bought him a new (used) guitar which he is totally in love with now) and stuff I like (went to see ""the little mermaid" the musical... amazing!), and just really had a wonderful time.
We also met Abigail Breslin (aka Little Miss Sunshine) on the streets, but she was really shy and her bodyguard really large to really talk to her.
We went shopping once (well one whole day), the man bought himself trousers and shoes and stuff and I found the perfect jeans, they looked amazing, the were cheap, but they felt awful! I think I was losing sensation in my legs after just 2 minutes in them. And the sizes were all the same, I fit into a 7, 9 and 11 and the legroom was just the same, only the waist was different. The image in the mirror did so NOT mirror the pain in my body... it was really horrible to know I could look that amazing but would have to suffer that pain!
I was a bit depressed after that but GAP cheered me up. I found 2 shirts (one long sleeved, one short sleeved, from that (red) campaign (Discove(red) and Inc(red)ible, kind of thing) reduced down to nothing, so I bought them, their original price added up to over 60 dollars and I got them for under 20! And they were size XS!!!!! Can you believe it! XS!!!!!!!!!!!
So the weight: I am now so close to 13 that I can smell it, I can almost touch it...I hope by the end of the week I will be 139... It has been such a struggle to get under 142, but I feel that now the spell is broken and I can finally lose weight again!
However my cycle was completely out of whack (45 day cycle with the most awful PMS and terrible pain when the period finally showed) and my hair is coming out in chunks, so I think my thyroid medication might be way too low (which would explain the inability to lose weight as well!). I am going to see my GP this week and try to get a blood test done to see if I need to up that medication.
So food of the day:
Breakfast: 1 banana, 1 apple, 1 mug of slimming tea
Lunch: big green salad with some feta cheese (just 3 pieces actually...) and tomatoes
Snack: sesame snaps with coconut flavour (150 cals)
Dinner: tapas at a tapas bar (goodbye party for a friend), tapas tend to be less than your tummy would like but more that your cal count would like... of well!
Exercise:
20 lanes swimming (can you say wimp? I just didn't feel like it... was pretty proud I swam at all!)
Camy
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XS!?!?!?!?!?!? WOAH!!!! Congrats!!!! Yeah, we're definitely larger over here haha but what do you mean American food?? Like a burger?? When I lived in Italy for half a year the "American" restaurant was actually what in America would be known as Mexican, it is so strange some of the views Europeans (and some people from the UK) think of us. Oh well, c'est la vie!
Get that thyroid checked out, scary!!! I saw you were a post-doc, are you doing research? In undergraduate I used to do molecular genetics research with intestinal cancer but after graduating I am moving into pediatric research on inner ear infections.
Good luck with everything and I'm glad you had a fun vay-cay in New York!
Get that thyroid checked out, scary!!! I saw you were a post-doc, are you doing research? In undergraduate I used to do molecular genetics research with intestinal cancer but after graduating I am moving into pediatric research on inner ear infections.
Good luck with everything and I'm glad you had a fun vay-cay in New York!
wordslinger
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Sometimes you just have to indulge and allow yourself to pig out. I sometimes find those sessions actually cause me to lose weight.
I love Gap shirts too, I wear the XS myself. But then again, I can wear little boys and little girl tops. Hey, it's a cheaper way to comply with the dress code at work.
As far as pants are concerned, I'm too much of a woman. I have major problems with leg room-- my thighs have their own zip code, as does my back end. It's like I buy pants for my thighs and butt instead of my waist. When I find a size that fits my waist, I always seem to need the size up for my thighs. Otherwise I'll be packed like a sausage.
Congratulations on your two pound loss. Hopefully it is a signal of more things to come. I wished I would be able to just lose two pounds in a month. In a week? Now that is spectacular.
I am glad that you enjoyed yourself.
I love Gap shirts too, I wear the XS myself. But then again, I can wear little boys and little girl tops. Hey, it's a cheaper way to comply with the dress code at work.
As far as pants are concerned, I'm too much of a woman. I have major problems with leg room-- my thighs have their own zip code, as does my back end. It's like I buy pants for my thighs and butt instead of my waist. When I find a size that fits my waist, I always seem to need the size up for my thighs. Otherwise I'll be packed like a sausage.
Congratulations on your two pound loss. Hopefully it is a signal of more things to come. I wished I would be able to just lose two pounds in a month. In a week? Now that is spectacular.
I am glad that you enjoyed yourself.