Even the most spectacular blaze is ignited by a single spark...

Ok, gonna try and get a post up on here, but there's a good chance I'm gonna fall asleep in the middle of it! Although, if I do, that means I'll end up dropping my phone on my face (happens way more often than it should - tell me I'm not the only one :p) which will make wake up and then I can continue writing, so I guess I have no excuse!


Had a great day yesterday, after work I met up with my really good girlfriend, Jaime, for dinner. She suggested going to a place that is pretty notorious for serving the kind of meals that leave you unbuttoning your pants after you finish them, so I asked her if we could please go this little Mexican place that serves really good chicken salads, and she agreed! Salad was probably 300 calories... and that might not have been the only selling point for the restaurant - there happens to be a frozen yogurt place next door, so we had to hit that up on the way out. But I grabbed the small cup and got the fat free dairy free yogurt and limited myself to only fruit toppings (that was hard! It was one of these places where they let you self serve hundreds of different toppings! - i.e. a trough :p) Now, this was a really big deal for us because we have always been binging buddies - the two of us have done some absolutely terrible things together. Even when we are both being healthy at the time, when we get together, we just can't help it, we always slip up! But, not yesterday! So I am proud of us :) We even managed a workout afterward!! Can you believe it??


I made Jaime do week 1 of the Couch to 5k program. She did not want to- she fought me the whole time- you can't even imagine the complaining! She even tried to tell me that she couldn't run because it would make her fat bounce and cause stretch marks! haha - I told her, oh yeah, I see people all the time and I'm like man, they look absolutely disgusting, they must run a lot! At which she finally gave up and we went out. The workout was hard for her, I remember how hard it was for me when I did that first run too, and the whole time she kept saying, "I hate this" to which I would tell her that she hated being fat more and to suck it up and keep going - I felt like such a little drill sergeant! ;) So we were done, I was really proud of her, and us for having such a healthy evening. I was sure she was gonna kill me when I left last night so you can imagine my utter shock when I woke up this morning with a text from her that said, "run tonight?" Yay!!


Jaime is about a size smaller than I am so she also gave me a bunch of old jeans she has sitting around that have gotten a little loose on her - this is incredibly awesome because now I don't have to blow money on in-between jeans! She also didn't really want them because they have really flared bottoms, but using my unbelievable seamstressing skills (no, not really, I can barely sew a straight line) I was able to take in the bottoms of the legs and turn them all into skinny jeans. Jackpot!!!


Gonna try and get an Insanity workout in today and then do our run tonight, since we are doing week one, the run doesn't do much for me, I didn't even break a sweat last night! That's kind of amazing considering I remember barely even being able to finish the first day when I started!


Hope everyone is have a great day! :)
 
You sound like your doing great hun, well more like AMAZING!! Well done you for going to a restaurant and choosing the most healthy options available!! That yogurt sounds so healthy:)



I have a friend like yours where when we get to together all we do is go to fancy restaurants, take outs, our houses and pig out BIG TIME.I think most of us have one friend that we can turn to and EATEATEAT.



I love how you told your friend when she hated running that she 'hates being fat more'. that is such a positive message, it would totally get my ass in gear next time i want to stop half way!! TOTALLY GOING TO USE IT:)


Well done on running and eating clean. WORK IT WOMAAAN.


Good job today, keep it up hun xxxxx
 
Yay, Rosie! :)


Great job on avoiding that temptation, and then following through by motivating your friend to exercise! Nicely done! :D


My roommate and I are similar when it comes to food. We grew up together, and we were always big.


Nowadays, he 'tries' to eat healthy.. but, I see a lot of pastas and chips in his diet. Sundays are our usual cheat days, but I'm tending to avoid them a little more as of late. I eat some unhealthy items, but I don't binge like I used to because I'm really focused on recovering from this water weight I've accumulated.


If only I could motivate him to do some kind of exercise, that would be great :)


Keep up the awesomeness, Rosie!! :)
 
Yep, I hear ya, me and my best female friend are TERRIBLE when we get together! Literally buying 3-for-2 boxes of cookies and cakes and god knows what else, and eating the lot - so good on you for sticking to your guns! And on top of that, for being a great friend to Jaime! She may not see the fun side of it right now, but once she starts dropping pounds I'm sure she'll realise the confidence you're trying to help her get - the fact she was already suggesting another run is a great sign! Hopefully you guys can carry on together and support one another. :) It defo really helps!


And haha, grats on the new jeans as well!
 
Ok, slipped up just a little yesterday, not sure why but I just felt sooooo hungry all day long!! Oh well, it was just one day and I know I'm back on it today - it was also a little bit of a wake up call that my current diet routine isn't really working for me. I have revamped my eating plan countless time and it's time to go back to what I know works. I have had too much healthy junk food sitting around and it's been my downfall- and by healthy junk food I just mean junk food that doesn't have that many calories but really isn't that good for you. For instance I bought these cookies from Trader Joe's that are covered in yogurt and delicious, and you get 8 tiny cookies for 160 calories, which may sound like a lot, but it's just not. Plus they taste like bad food, which seems to tell my head that I am cheating and to just go into full fledged cookie consumption! So not filling and only leaving me craving more is bad bad bad!


I really just do they best when I have food around here that I kind of like but don't want to go crazy on. Like lots of lean meat and veggies - I never want to have a hog fest on lean meat and veggies - and even if I did, it wouldn't be a huge deal. So back to that, boring seems to equal successful for me.


Gonna try and get in a good amount of exercise as well as clean the house today. I want to get everything taken care of becaaause... I start school next week! Yay! Just found out yesterday!!! It took weeks making this happen but I told myself I could figure something out and it happened!! I had to get creative though and get the registrar to grant me part time status - I'm sure that sounds like an easy feat, but usually you have to be like working 80 hours a week, caring for an entire family of malnourished children, and have a fatal illness for you to get to be part time! So finally, I made it happen, and the tuition for part time is about a third of the cost- much more affordable, although it does mean I'll be taking summer school and won't be done with classes until September, but September is not NEXT spring, so I am happy!!!!


I am super excited because I'm also getting to take a brand new class that has never been offered before - they're re-doing my entire major right now to make sure it's more up-to-date with where the genetics industry is going, so they've introduced a whole new class on genomics and epigenomics which is an area we've only discussed briefly in my classes, but since the sequencing of the human genome is becoming more and more affordable, it really is the future of medicine and science. Real cutting edge stuff- I'm so excited! (nerd squeal :p) I owe my parents huge for this, I hope to be able to pay them back, and then some, very soon!


Good luck everyone!!


Irish- haha thanks Irish, your post cracked me up!! I'm not going to lie, those binge fests can be a blast when you have an accomplice! And it feels so much more justified since someone is being bad with you :p But, we are kind of having to re-condition ourselves because when we hang out together, just the sight of the other makes us think about pigging out! So now we are definitely trying to associate the other with better habits!

haha I hope that does help you, I tell myself that all the time and it really gets me going!!


Greg- Aww thank you :) Let me tell you, I all but dragged Jaime out of the house by her hair! She told me she didn't want to go and I said I don't care, you're going! I didn't give her the option, and afterward, she was grateful that she had done it. She was telling me how terrible it would be and I said to her, when have you gotten back from a work out and said, man, I really wish I hadn't gone out and done that? Never! That helped her a lot, I say you just tell your roommate it's time to work out and drag him out the door! Maybe think of some kind of incentive for him?


Sarah: Hey! Glad to see you back! Thanks for your post!! Oh man, the cakes. We have this little ritual where we go to the near by bakery and get this tuxedo cake, which is one of the most amazing things I have ever eaten, and usually top that off with some wine and dinner, and god knows what else! That stupid tuxedo cake, in all its amazing glory, has 2560 calories and 148 grams of fat! Of course I never even looked at it back before I was counting calories, but damn, the damage we have done, probably managed to put on a few pounds in a night! It's easy to just go crazy like that though when you are with someone you feel comfortable with - I know I've done my fair share with my bf too! But I think Jaime is really getting on this fed up with being fat wagon with me and hopefully we can be just as good together as we were bad!
 
ASparked...I was looking at your progress pics...I couldn't find how tall you were in your diary....but girl you are looking great at 218...you are gonna be fabulously hot at 160!!

kudos on your seamstress skills...I wish I had some one to give me in-between jeans....I am down to one pair!! I went from a 18 to a 14 which I bought two pairs to a 12 which I bought one...and they are starting to sag and I can pull them off and on with out unzipping...the look great out of the dryer but after and hour or two..its sagg ass!! hahaha

I can't believe you do INSANITY!! The infomercials make me weak....lol...I couldn't imagine real life!! KEEP IT UP...SUPER IMPRESSIVE!!!!
 
Nice, Rosie :)


Re-adjusting your diet can be such a pain in the rump. I've found myself leaning once again on my bars to see steady weight loss numbers :[


It's almost like my body treats calories more intensely than your average person. I know it's ridiculous, but sometimes I feel like calories are magnified by x10 for me. So, if someone eats a cookie worth 100 calories, no big deal. But, if I were to eat that same cookie, it's like I'm taking in 1,000 calories!


I know it's not true, but with the way the numbers on my scale read some days, one would wonder.


Anyway, glad you're doing well and school is working out in a (very) favorable way for ya! :D


Cool stuff about the update to your major! :) This sounds like it's going to be an amazing year for ya!! =)
 
AHello my lovely :)

I am so sorry i have taken long to catch up on your diary, i have been mega busy and not in the right head space right now. Thank you so so much for coming by my diary and for your amazing love and support, you are truly a lovely person :grouphug:

Anyway onto your diary, i can see by scroling up that there is lots......I'll comment as i go :)

Glad we could help you sweetie and well done for getting back on the train, 9lb aint so bad, at least you have stopped and are turning it arround instead of thinking 'fuck it' you have come too far to throw it all away now. Well done :)

Well done on the food choice with your friend :hurray: You really are one strong lady :) and the frozen yoghurt!!! wow!!!! You might have read about my 'frozen yoghurt' experience on my diary....It is something i want to forget so wont mention it lol And a workout !!!!!! awesome :)

On your run with your friend you sound like my brother did when he took me on a 5km run and he was determined to get me doing it under 30 mins, the words 'i fucking hate you, you bastard' actually came out of my mouth lol but i did it and now i easily do it in under 30 mins, i've got it down to 28 now :) And i love that she text you asking for more, that's awesome :hurray:

:hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: :hurray: YAY!!!! Back to school!!!!! I am so so pleased for you :) I actually squealed when i read that. I'm totally made up for you my lovely :)

So so glad you are back sweetie, i really have missed you :grouphug:
 
Way to get back on track! You and I are right around the same weight with the same goal so I will be keeping up with your progress as I am always looking for inspiration in those who can truly understand this challenge. There is no doubt that you will reach your goal and we are all going to backtrack every now and then. Here's to your future accomplishments!
 
The last few days have been pretty good! I managed to get some Insanity workouts in (I was pretty sore after them seeing as I had kind of taken a small break from them :p) and have been eating really well. I saw on the Biggest Loser that they recommend that you eat at least once serving of fish a day, which sucks for me because I haaaate fish, the smell, the texture – ugh gross! So, I was on mission this week to force myself into liking fish, and I actually succeeded! I went to the store and bought some fresh tilapia, didn't want to chance the frozen stuff, if I was gonna have any chance at liking fish, it needed to be in prime form! And I made this recipe for blackened tilapia baja tacos. OMG. Amazing. Anyone reading this should try it, it was easy to make and I couldn't believe how good it was and how low in calories (I did mine with out the tortilla even, but made tacos for the bf). Total damage: 296 calories, 13 grams of fat (good fat, and I really piled on the avocado) 8g carbs, and 32g protein – and afterward, I was completely stuffed, and that never happens with my healthy meals! Try it!



So 14 hours until school starts tomorrow. I'm really stressing about it. My parents were looking to buy a new house, but they said that because they paid my tuition, not to mention any other upcoming expenses, that the money had to come out of their down payment, and they would have to hold off on the house. So, this makes me feel terrible and also, that if I don't pull A's in these classes this quarter, that I wasted their money. Also, my adviser said that if I ever plan to apply for grad school that they will look very closely at these classes and I need to do particularly well in them. This is making me really anxious about starting school because I need so badly to do well. These classes are hard. There's a 35 % fail rate and the majority of the people in my classes are pre-med and so much more hard working than I am – they have no lives, well, they do, they live to study. So, I gotta suck it up and be like them this quarter if I'm gonna have a chance of being competitive. I didn't sleep last night worrying about how this is going to go, and I'm preeetty sure that I had my first panic attack today thinking about it. I know – that makes me sound insane – but I just feel really guilty about the situation with my parents and I want to do well for them.



Anyway, in other news, I've set a new goal for myself this week : brave the university gym. It's massive. It's top of the line. It's filled with perfectly fit 18 year olds. It's terrifying. But, I have a 2 hour break in between class getting out and having to be at work, so my goal is to 1. actually walk into the gym, and 2. regularly fit it into my schedule. This weeks a little weird so I won't get my first chance until Thursday, but we'll see how it goes.



Don't think I'm gonna get a chance to check out diaries tonight, I'm gonna give the pre-class reading another run through before bed.

Hope everyone is doing great!



Tete: Aww, thank you! I'm just under 5'11 so I'm hoping 160 will be good – never been that low, we will have to see when I get there, fingers crossed!!

Haha, I know all about the sag-ass!! Why can't they just stay tight and holding everything in like they do right out the dryer?? But almost being out of your 12's is pretty dang exciting! Congrats!

Oh man, Insanity, aptly named. It is an asskicker, but no workout has ever left me feeling so accomplished afterward! I feel like I might never breath ever again, but accomplished nonetheless! ;)

Thanks for stopping by, Tete!



Greg: Thank you! Hmm, I can't do bars, their too much like candy and then I get to snacking! You're strong for being able to not go crazy on them! And what you said about that way your body treats calories, it's not all that crazy, your metabolism adjusts itself to different conditions, sometimes it's not just the basic in vs. out math anymore.

Thanks for your post, I hope it an amazing year, for all of us!! :D



Kate: Oh please don't apologize, sometimes you just gotta focus on yourself for a little bit, and I'm happy to just do what I can to support you when that happens :)

You're right, the 9lbs sucks, but it could have totally been worse! And it'll come off, and I think I really learned a lesson here about priorities, something I think will really help me in the future. Binging like crazy when non-diet things are going bad is kind of self-destructive, and that's never good, so I'm on the look out for that now and trying to be good to myself! :)

Haha, my friend was saying some pretty similar things to me when I was trying to drag her out of the house – but she'll have to eat her words when she starts losing weight! ;) Nice job on the 28 minute 5K, 30 minutes is my goal right now so I am very impressed!!

Hehe, and thank you for squealing, for me! Such a relief to back in, now I just gotta make sure I work insanely hard!



Alice: Hey, good to see you! Thanks so much for the post :) Ooo we are close, although, after my set back, I'm a little closer to 220 now :p Oh well, I'll be back down soon enough! It will be great watching your progress, and of course, if you race ahead of me, it will surely ignite one hell of a competitive fire under me - which is never bad! ;)
 
Sparked!!!!! I'm so happy to see you were able to get school figured out. I prayed things would work themselves out for you.


Good job on getting back into your exercise groove. I wish I had the determination and motivation I have now when I had access to a University gym. I lived right across the street in a dorm and I hardly ever went. Ugh, makes me so mad to think about it!! lol Try not to freak out too much about classes. You can do this. Use exercise as your destressing mechanism. It really helps, especially running. I always feel amazing after running, it almost always puts me in a good mood.


Oh and as for the fish, tilapia is a great fish. Not too fishy and it's delicious. We just grilled some last week. It was so good.


Keep up the hard work girl! :)
 
Heya Rosie
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I know you're stressing out a bit, but you really shouldn't! You're so damn smart and amazing that I don't see how you could do anything but dominate your curriculum!


Much like with weight loss, just take it by the horns and show it who's boss! :biggrin: You know you're gonna kick butt at anything you set your mind to, so no worries!
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The only thing I hope for is that your schooling doesn't interfere too much with your routine. I have no doubt that university gym is pretty swank, but focusing too much on one thing may hurt you in areas with the other.


It's all about balance, but I know you know that
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Give a good amount of attention to school, but also an equal amount to your healthy lifestyle.


Remember that your health is always going to be priority tho!


Anyway, just wanted to wish you the best of luck with everything! In the end, everyone on this forum knows you're gonna be just great - and then some! :hurray:
 
Ahh, see, I knew it would all come together for you in the end! That's amazing news, congratulations!


The tortillas look AWESOME:. ugh, why does my boyfriend have to be a damn veggie!? Lol! Miss out on all the nom stuff!


As for school.. try not to sweat it too much. You're a hard worker and everyone knows that, and I'm sure you'll do your parents, yourself, and everyone else very proud. We have faith in you, lovey! Good luck!
 
Yesterday's (totally fun, felt like I was on vacation, not the slightest bit hectic) schedule:



6:00 AM Wake up, get ready

6:50 AM Drive to school, locate impossible to find off campus parking so that I don't have to pay the $7 a day fee (what?!), walk to class (.63 miles :) )

8:00 AM Functional Genomics 8:00 – 10:20

10:30 AM Advanced Eukaryotic Genetics: 10:30 – 11:50

11:50 AM Leave class, walk back to car ( a total of 1.7 miles round trip!), head for work

12:30 PM Start work

5:30 PM Get off work, drive home (miles driven for the day: 60.5), cook and eat dinner

6:30 PM Study for 2.5 hours

9:00 PM WORK OUT (Insanity Cardio and Resistance - hardest of the bunch, I think)

10:15 PM Study until I pass out

12:30 AM Sleep!



So, Yesterday was a little busy, but I am soooooo freakin proud of myself that I still fit in a workout on top of it!!! Yes!!! I so did not want to, but I had kind of had a one of those ugly-fat days being back at school and it really motivated me to prioritize my weight loss goals as high as I do my education right now. I also put together a calendar for the week and I made sure to schedule in an exact time that I would work out each day. I think that helped a lot because I just kind of treated it like any other thing I have to be on time for and do. So, the calendar was a success and I did it all!! Proud, proud, proud :)



You know, I was really stressing about school - still am a bit, but after reading your posts, I feel so much better! And, I just realized, I need to go about this the same way I have my weight loss - and that's to take it in steps. Sitting around feeling sick about the final before the class has even started is just like when I started losing weight and would sit around getting overwhelmed by the fact that I had 130 lbs to lose, but I've just got to take each one of those a day at a time, and do my best with each.



I'm lucky today because most of my students for work are on spring break, which means I get to sleep in and hang out for a while (plus more studying :p). Since I'm only going part time, I only have class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so that's nice.



Food went flawlessly yesterday, but I am having a bit of a problem finding things I can take with me to eat during the day that don't have to be refrigerated and can be easily transported. I know bars would be a good thing here, but I'm not a big fan of those, they always seem pretty high in calories for what you get. So, if anybody has any recommendations for snacks/meals on the go, I need em!



Think that is it for now, have a great day and work hard! ;)



Munch! - So happy to see you around!! Thanks so much for your post and your prayers, that means so much to me, you are so sweet! :)

Haha, you shouldn't feel too bad as I have had access to this gym for 3 years now and have never ever stepped foot in it - what's worse? I pay $399 in fees each year just for them to keep it up!

You're so right about using exercise to de-stress! Last night I used as my study break, where honestly, for me, a study break usually means go find a snack! But, when I was done I felt super refreshed and ready to keep working! Gotta make sure I remember that feeling next time I don't want to work out :p

I had never tried tilapia before, but I asked all the fish lovers around me what fish a person who doesn't like fish should eat, and the answer was unanimous: tilapia, plan to get some more as soon as I can and try more recipes!



Greg: Thanks, Greg - everything you said, I really needed that, you have no idea how much it helped :) You're right, I need to tackle it just like the weight loss, it isn't the most fun but it sure pays off in the end. Gotta use that same dedication to overcome any desire for procrastination! I think yesterday was perfectly balanced, I know I can keep that up the whole quarter, I just have to stay mindful of my decisions and keep my mind focused on the long term! You're such a great support on here, thanks again for your post :)



Sarah: Aww thank you :) Your faith makes me have faith! :D I really appreciate it, sometimes it is easy to get overwhelmed and some outside encouragement really helps turn it around.

Hey, I wonder if you could make those tacos with tofu? I had a bunch of left over ingredients so I've now used them on both chicken and shrimp and it was amazing! Might work!
 
Hey giiiiiiiiirl:) Well done on such a fab day!!! Im currenly lying on my bed wrapped up in winter shite giving you evil glares. SOOO JEALOUS OF YOU. Ah i kid i kid, im super proud of you hun. Well done on fitting in some exercise, thats my main downfall.



Also for food to bring during the day, i bring chewy cereal bars, they are 88 cals and are so filling. I being 3 of them, and also a sandwhich, and then a low cal bag of crisps at 81 cals( sooo filling) I don't know what ye yanks have over there but there is bound to be alternatives to mine. I find if you don't prepare yourself for college then your more than likely going to grab something high calories and break out!!



SO FRICKEN PROUD OF YOU TODAY THO, KEEP IT UP



loads of loooove xxxx
 
Aww, Rosie :blush5:


I'm happy my words helped! I love that and meant it!


If you're looking for recommendations on foods to eat on the go, I can provide several actually! Being a mail carrier, it's almost a requirement as you're constantly on the go and obviously can't fix up a nice gourmet meal while out in the wilderness some days :p


One thing I really consume a lot of are Nature Valley bars. I love the Oats and Honey! Yes, partially because the label is green ;)


It has 190 calories and other decent nutrition. Have it with a bottle of milk or something, and it's pretty nom :]





I also eat crackers, string cheese, etc. Good carbs, but the fat content is a little high on some of them. No specific brand though, just something I pick up from Super Wal-Mart on occasion.


A few other items I love are Clif Bars and Boost Shakes! :)


Boost Shakes can be a little pricey, but they've served as meal replacements for me over the last few months. I get the Boost Plus versions. They have 360 calories (chocolate flavor is the best btw!). You can find them on websites like Amazon :) Really packed with nutrition, and it tastes yummy - almost like a liquified brownie :]


I'm so happy for ya, Rosie! With the successful weight loss and the classes that you're going to dominate, your future is going to be amazing!! =D
 
Glad to help out where I can! :)


I'll second frogged's suggestion of the nature valley oats and honey bars. They are really good. I've never had milk with them (but now I'm going to try it because that sounds like a delicious combo!)


Keep it going girl. That schedule looked great and I really think your going to do well. I think scheduling your exercise is a great idea and a great idea to keep you on top of it.
 
Hey Sparked - thanks for checking in on my diary, figured I'd return the favor. Sounds like the next few months are going to suck! Though the last time I had good luck with my weight loss was when I was working full time and doing night school for my MBA. It forced my whole life into a routine/rut. Doesn't sound like fun, but it wasn't so bad since I was accepting of it. Then I was done with school, and bought a house, and got engaged/married, and had a kid, and all those great things made me hungry! Constantly! So now I'm where I am, and I need to get thinner. A dream of being simply overweight (vs. obese) is a weird one to have, but there it is.


Anyway, portable snacks: is fruit an option? Something I keep around for the big hunger attacks is a bunch of Chupa Chups Cremora lollipops. They're small, no-fat, but taste creamy and are only 45 cal. 15-20 minutes of sucking on those calms down "the beast" for me, usually. At least until it's really dinnertime!


Take care!
 
AThe New NATURE VALLEY PROTEIN BARS are amazing they have 10 grams of protein and tasty like a candy bar..with half the fat and 100 calories less..sounds like a win in my world. :)

Keep up the great work Sparked...you are beautiful young women...inside and out...you deserve to be a healthy one too :grouphug:
 
Soooo. I did it.


I managed to brave the university gym. I was not looking forward to it, my classes even went super fast today because I was dreading that I would have to face the ARC (Activities and Recreational Center) all day. So, when I got there, it was the most massive gym I have ever seen in my whole life -the wiki article actually lists it as "one of, if not, the largest student recreational centers in the nation" - which I figured was good because maybe it meant that I could find some piece of cardio equipment off in a corner somewhere ... in the dark... possibly shielded by concrete walls. I checked in - turns out I'm going to have to suck it up and get a student ID if I want to go back again - so far I have managed to go my entire career at UC Davis with out getting a student Id! Never wanted to take the picture, now I have to cave :p Anyway, made my way to the locker room and uhh change in the bathroom stall of course - which let me tell you, was damn hard! Then I was on a search for some equipment. I think the ARC must have a spawn site in the back for size 2 sorority girls, because they seemed to fill every square inch of the place! And yeah, they gave me dirty looks, really. At first I kept telling myself, nooo they're not looking at you, no one is bothered by what you are doing, they are here to focus on themselves - as that had been my experience with most gyms - but no, I was definitely getting dirty looks. Oh well, I told myself I was there for me and not them and just pushed through. Oh also, these girls show up to the gym in FULL hair and makeup - put a dress on them and they would be ready for any Friday night out dancing - seriously done up. If you look that good in the middle of your workout, you're doing it wrong! ;) Ok, so finally found a bike, it wasn't off by itself, but far enough away from all the Mean Girls that I wasn't worried anymore. Let me tell you about this freakin cardio equipment, every treadmill, every stairstepper, eliptical, and bike had a full on touch screen computer as the display - you could watch tv, get on the internet, play games, and it even had a USB at the top so you could charge your phone and use any of the data from your phone that you wanted! (oohhh that's where my tuition goes... cool?)

So, blasted out my workout, really did kick some serious butt on that thing since I only had 40 minutes, went down and showered - then got dressed in that shower (and I thought the bathroom stall was impossible!) patted myself on the back for a job well done and went to get ready for work. Just when I thought I was done, I realized I still had the most harrowing part to face: a room full of mirrors, freshman, and .... Miley Cyrus :ack2:, her music that is, blasting from some girl's ipod as she was sure that nothing could make everyone in that - all of a sudden, noticeably small - room happier than to be subjected to "Hoedown Throwdown" at full blast. I don't think I've ever done my makeup faster in my entire life.

But I did, I'm proud, and I figure I can do it again - once I go get an ID.


I've been having a really great week with school and my weight loss, so I'm feeling very accomplished :D Think I might throw in an Insanity workout tonight too!


Good luck everyone! May your workouts be challenging and Miley Cyrus free! ..... unless of course, you're into that kinda thing :p


Was about to reply to comments, but I just realized that I only have just enough time to do my workout and then make it to bed! I will reply to all your awesome comments tomorrow and check out diaries too! :beating:
 
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