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Hey guys!! Class started later today, which gave me plenty of time to get organized and take care of things! Love those days where you know where all your notes are b/c they are in the right place and you look like a female b/c u took care of yourself! lol Anyway, got out of class at 4 or so, but told myself skipping the gym was not an option. Took my notes w/ me, but wasn't too successful studying there. And my ipod wasn't working, but thankfully they have a radio playing there. Anyway, just enjoyed a nice dinner w/ the fam. Bout to study for my final tomorrow. Can't enjoy my usual lunch tomorrow b/c our class is bringing stuff. Don't think it'll be healthy...will try to have just a little. But sometimes ppl are all like "have this" "have that" blah blah. Whatever. Will stay firm (wish ppl weren't so persistent!!). Eats today:
cereal and milk
yogurt
bread and feta
snacks: 2 plums, 1 pear, 1 string cheese, 8 triscuit crackers, 1 gum
dinner: 3 small beef patties, lil beef and celery stew, 1 "kuku"
salad
water and tea

Exercise: hr cardio, weights, need to do abs when have more time later
Might have extra gum tonight b/c of test tomorrow. Better not get the munchies b/c I will regret it tomorrow!! Endless cups of tea, here I come!
 
Don't stress out about food when doing your finals and make sure you get a good breadfast on exam days. Good luck with your exams.
 
Thanks as always Ecky!! Hard not to get stressed about it! TGIF tomorrow!! Have to stay up super late tonight and continue cramming! Had a few of tomorrow's snacks tonight (while studying). Wish I could just surrender and go to bed. Sigh. Eats today were ok except for having extra, which I will make up for tomorrow. Did go to the gym so that's good. I can do this. Trying to be calm. Haven't even studied for one of the exams yet...been worried about the other one. Alright, g'nite peeps! Hopefully, I'll have good news to report tomorrow night!
 
Hey everyone! Didn't have time to post yesterday. Okkkk well I didn't do so great Thursday nite/early Friday morning. Was up late studying, and ate more than I should have. But I wrote everything down and am trying to slowly lessen the damage.
Today's eats first:
cereal and milk
yogurt
snacks: 2 apples, 2 string cheese, 8 triscuits, gum as usual
dinner: bread, pb, feta, and plain sweet potato
salad
water and tea

Did go to the gym today (hr cardio, ran on top of that, weights). Went yesterday as well.

PLAN:
Try to have less gum (once finals are over)
Skip cereal for 2 days (tomorrow and Monday)
Skip yogurt for few days (the coming days)
Have a few less of my snacks (the coming days)
If this is too difficult, I will knock out a few of them, and then take care of the others after that! I am so glad I kept track of my intake...makes it easier to hold myself accountable!!! Am so happy that I'm getting to "know myself." For instance, I almost came home after the test on Friday but I knew I would be tempted to eat lunch (even though I wasn't even hungry b/c had eaten breakfast, lunch, and then some before the test) but told myself "N-O!" I didn't trust myself to just take a nap or watch t.v. I had a feeling I would eat anyway b/c of it being "lunch time." So I exercised, had dinner w/ the fam later, and thought about how I would make up for my "food mistakes." :hurray: Well, gotta go study for couple more tests! So appropriate Thanksgiving is this week! Thank god the semester is almost over!!!!!! Bye guys...will catch up w/ some journals soon!!
 
Hey! Gotta be quick! Ok, I did avoid the cereal today which rocks!! The others not so much. But it's ok. It'll be easier for more to "avoid" them one at a time. So have to skip the cereal one more day (tomorrow) and go from there. Did decent today. Snacks were pretty much the same as yesterday. Had four homemade tacos for dinner (ground beef, lettuce, tomato, and feta) and a salad. Was yummy!! Did my usual cardio and ran today on top of that again. My ipod was having issues...hopefully will be up and running tomorrow. Have a final exam tomorrow...gonna be a long nite again folks! Sigh. Hurry up holidays!!!!!!!
 
Howdy soccerrox! *waves* So, do I call you soccer or rox for short? Or maybe even Roxy? hehehe! Thought I'd swing by to see how yer doing. :) Must say I'm WELL impressed with the amount of workout time you seem to be putting in! Where on earth do you find the time and motivation?! Esp with exams looming! I deffo need to take a leaf from your book because you seem to be doing aaahhhmaaahhzing! :) Well done!

Oh, btw... I'm from the UK so excuse my ignorance... but what are triscuits? They sound cute! ^_^ x
 
Hey cheesemisfit!! lol Now what should I call you that wouldn't be too cheesy? Ha ha! =) I like soccer or rox especially ha ha but wouldn't mind any of those names ...could be worse! lol Thank you for swinging by!!! Sure beats talking to myself! lol And seriously thank you for the compliments cheesemisfit!!!! I try to squeeze the workouts in when I can. I find it helps relieve my stress some too...u know? Highly recommend it! =) Now about triscuits, lol, they're basically a type of cracker. Not the all-mighty healthy cracker lol but pretty decent. Do you guys have them in the UK? Whereabouts do you live? I live in Louisiana...the shoe shaped state! =) And excuse my ignorance, but what areas exactly make up the UK (Wales, England, Scotland...? or am I horribly wrong)? Hope to see you around cheesemisfit! And decide on a nickname I can call ya (Cheesy? Cheese? Ches? sorry if not too original)! lol

Now then...well I avoided cereal again which is great but unfortunately had more snacks than I usually do (gum too). Hope my teeth don't rot (been chewing supposed "sugarless gum" though...hmmmm probably still not great though). Thankfully tomorrow's the last day of school for a while. Just have to survive tonight and tomorrow morning!!!! Good news: done decent thus far, did exercise today. Bad news: HAVE TO MAKE UP FOR MY EXTRA EATS (at the moment: lotta yogurt, lotta sticks of gum, typical snacks)!!!!!!! Hope I have the willpower to be "strong" tonight...keeping my fingers crossed. There's no point for me to indulge anyway b/c the tests will be over tomorrow but the stress of overeating will remain and who wants that? Not me!! Well, bye for now everyone! Hope to report more good news than bad tomorrow!!! =)
 
I read that sugarless gum is actually good for your teeth. Apparently it producs saliva which fights the plaque, or something like that. So keep chewing it's low calorie, good for your teeth and keeps you from eating other things. What more could you want :)
 
Thanks Ecky! I wish I had stuck to the gum but...

I AM SO MAD AT MYSELF!!!!!!! WHY OH WHY DO I ACT STUPID SOMETIMES? SO BASICALLY I STAYED UP LAST NIGHT FOR TWO STUPID TESTS WHICH WON'T EVEN MATTER TWO DAYS FROM NOW AND SACRIFICED MY HEALTH INSTEAD. IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY. I PUT SO MUCH EFFORT AND TIME INTO EATING RIGHT AND BEING HEALTHY AND THEN WHEN I GET STRESSED FIND AN EXCUSE TO OVEREAT. AND I OVERATE A LOT!!!!!!!! I WISH I COULD GO BACK TO LAST NIGHT AND ACT DIFFERENTLY. I WOULD HAVE GONE TO BED AND WOKEN UP AT 4 OR SO TO STUDY. HAD A DECENT BREAKFAST FOR FUEL AND TAKEN MY TESTS. I WOULD HAVE FELT LIGHT AND RELIEVED AFTER FINISHING MY TESTS. INSTEAD I FEEL BLOATED AND LIKE CRAP!! THE SAD PART IS I DIDN'T EVEN ENJOY EVERYTHING I WAS EATING...JUST THE FACT THAT IT WAS SOMETHING I USUALLY WOULDN'T EAT OR THE FACT THAT IT WAS "FOOD" WAS ENOUGH AT THAT MOMENT IN TIME. I HAVE TO RESPECT MYSELF MORE BY TAKING CARE OF MY BODY AS OPPOSED TO STUFFING IT W/ CRAP AND REGRETTING IT LATER. OH, IF MY TEACHERS ONLY KNEW THE STRESS THEY CAUSE IN STUDENTS. BUT ULTIMATELY IT'S MY FAULT AND I WISH I COULD JUST GO DO THE TOUR DE FRANCE RIGHT NOW AND BURN LIKE 8,000 CALORIES OR BE MICHAEL PHELPS AND SWIM FOR 8 HOURS STRAIGHT. IT'S FUNNY B/C PPL IN CLASS CHOSE TO GO TO BED LAST NIGHT INSTEAD OF STAYING UP CRAMMING OR WATCHED T.V. OR WHATEVER. WHY DO I MAKE TESTS OUT TO BE SUCH A BIG DEAL...LIKE A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION???? IT'S CRAZY!! THEY'RE NOT WORTH IT HONESTLY. OH MAN...WISH I COULD ERASE YESTERDAY AND TODAY. I WAS DOING SO WELL TOO. I WILL JUST HAVE TO BE STRONGER THE REST OF TODAY AND TOMORROW AND SO ON...I THINK I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO ONLY EAT WHEN I AM ACTUALLY HUNGRY. WHY SHOULD WE EAT OTHERWISE? I MEAN WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN? SORRY ABOUT THE RANT GUYS! JUST NEED TO POST MY FEELINGS/THOUGHTS SO THAT IN THE DISTANT FUTURE WHEN WE HAVE MORE STUPID TESTS I'LL HAVE SOMETHING TO LOOK BACK UPON. IT'S NOT WORTH IT TO OVEREAT. NOT AT ALL. THE TEST COMES AND GOES BUT THE ANGER, SADNESS, GUILT, DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS LINGER...THE GOOD NEWS (YES GOOD NEWS CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND IN ANYTHING) IS THAT I WILL BE OFF TILL EARLY JANUARY. I WILL BE A MEAN EXERCISING MACHINE. I WILL EAT RIGHT AND HOPEFULLY REACH MY IDEAL WEIGHT IN A TIMELY MANNER (PLEASE OH PLEASE BEFORE I DIE)!!!!!
 
Take a deep breath, calm down and don't be so hard on yourself. So you messed up for a day, we've all done that and most of us have done it many times. You are under so much stress with your exams and I am amazed that you haven't done this before now. One day of bad eating really isn't going to make a difference in the big scheme of things.
Honestly you are doing so well but you are only human and none of us can be expected to be perfect and get it right all of the time.
Hugs and don't stress, just concentrate on your exams and get straight back to healthy eating. Over doing sometimes actually triggers a weight loss so you may even have done some good :)
 
I wish I had advice on not stressing about tests, but I am the exact same way... My boyfriend has caught my spending hours on a two page pass/fail paper before. But don't worry about one night of bad eating, you're not going to undo all that hard work in just one night. Remember how you feel now when you're tempted next time, but don't dwell on it. School stress is terrible on us all, so just know there are lots of us around here who share your pain!
 
I think I’ll call you Roxy because it sounds cute! :) Hope you don’t mind me being a nosey parker, but I was wondering how old you are hun? Are you in high school or college? What kind of exams are you studying for? And don’t mind talking to yourself.. I do it all the time, hehehe! I hear it’s a sign of madness but I’m insane already so it’s fine, lol! :p Triskets sound quite nice.. we don’t have those in the UK & neither have I seen them in any of the import food stores. Tried Goldfish crackers (which we also don’t have except in specialist imported stores) for the first time a few months ago and MANNN they were DRY!!! Just couldn’t eat the lil suckers. I live in a little town in Hertfordshire in the south east of England.. my town is called Hitchin. It’s a cute little market town. :) Am not originally from here tho. Am originally from Nothern England (Sheffield) and lived for about 6 years in London before moving to Hitchin. You’re almost right with your geography lady! :) Well done!! The UK is made up of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Southern Ireland isn’t part of the UK because it’s it’s own little country.. a republic. Hope that helps you!

Sorry to hear you’ve had a bad one today Roxy.. but it’s ok, really. We all have bad days and I’m sure if most of us could turn back the clock and erase all the biscuits we’d ever eaten (or the cheese in my case!) we would. Remember, there is always tomorrow to look forward to honey and tomorrow will be a bigger, brighter and better day for you. You’re doing really well so far so don’t punish yourself too much. We believe in you girl xxx
 
Hey guys!! Thank you for the encouragement!! I woke up from a 3 hour nap and feel better. I am still mad at myself but it helps knowing I'm not the only one or that I'm not a bad person...things like that. Everyone here is so kind!!!!!!!! Bless you all!!!!!!!!

Ecky, as always, you know exactly what to say! I appreciate your wisdom and friendship!! You always make me feel better. *virtual hug =) I promise to get back to the routine tomorrow!! No excuses now!

Laura, thanks for the input!! It's cool that you're a student too! What are you studying? You're absolutely right btw!! It helps knowing others are going through this too!

Cheesy!! I do like the name Roxy btw! =) Well, right now I'm in physical therapy school actually. And I'm 23 btw. I like the field of physical therapy in the sense that I will be able to help ppl bounce back from injuries etc. Just wish I learned everything the teachers teach us (it seems to go in one ear and out the other ear!!!) and that I had more experience, but hopefully with time I'll be good at it! Hmmm interesting about the Triscuits. I thought they were widespread...shows how much I know. Have you heard of Ryvita crackers? Someone else from overseas mentioned them on the forum, but I haven't seen them in Louisiana...weird! Love your use of language btw! It's so energetic! Hitchin?! Did you get hitched there? ha ha Bet that was a transition moving from London to a smaller town!! I wouldn't know any different because I've always lived in a small town. Thanks for the geography lesson! Learn something new every day! I read a children's book when I was younger called A String in the Harp which took places in Wales and the area seemed so peaceful...Hope to travel to the UK some day! Thank you for your kindness Cheesy! You don't know how much it means to me! =)
Well, I must be dedicated from here on out. I start rotations soon and will be doing them for 2 wks then off for a month for holidays, but, in the meantime, I must keep on exercising and eating right. Wouldn't it be awesome if I returned to class in January smaller? So close and yet so far away. But this is not impossible. I REFUSE TO GIVE UP!!! Hugs everyone!!!!!!
 
That's the spirit girl!! :) Glad you're feeling better. You're profession sounds cool! In this country, those kind of therapists are always needed & the money in that line of work is quite good. Is it the same over there? x
 
Thanks Cheesy!! I would say so...anything health related actually pretty much needs people over here. Hope you're feeling better too Cheesy! I'll be sure to check on ya missy! Hugs! =)

Hey guys! Well, my body is still recovering from the hell it went through yesterday. I probably confused it so much that it's wondering what is this girl doing to me!! Yesterday stuffed it w/ crap and felt swollen. Today still had an appetite (unfortunately) but worked out hard!! Am planning on being especially active from here on out while I'm outta school for break! Even if the gym is closed occasionally for the holidays, I can still run on our street or dance in my room!! Will try to not watch the "telly" so much (lol am being influenced by my British friends!)!
Eats:
cereal and milk
yogurt
bread and pb
snacks: 2 string cheese (for you Cheesy lol), 3 small apples (will try to avoid the gum b/c I think it might have initiated the overeating problem somehow...don't need to always have sthing in my mouth!!!!)
dinner: 1 plain sweet potato
salad
water and lotta tea
Exercise: hr cardio and ran a little (Around the track! That's a first! Always felt awkward to do that but figured I would feel more stable than I do running on a treadmill!), weights
Guys, I woke up feeling so ambitious. I told myself I would only have bread and pb and then 1 or 2 snacks and eventually dinner. But I failed to honor that. Sigh. Love food too much. But I wasn't hungry at dinner so just had the potato. Hope to stay "good" this holiday season! I know being thinner won't solve all my problems, but it, for some reason, it makes me feel better about myself and that can't hurt!! Keeping my fingers crossed! G'nite everyone!
 
Hey everyone!! WOW, feels like I haven't written in forever. Been busy w/ Thanksgiving and family being over!! The gym was closed 2 days this week, so I didn't "give my all" exercise-wise. I thought I would eat less this wk as well seeing as how I screwed up some earlier in the wk, but that didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it to. Will try to be more disciplined. I will continue going to the gym and trying my best to eat decently. Hope everyone is doing super!!!! Will write more later!! Hugs to my friends!!! =)
 
Hey everyone! So sad the weekend is over...back to see patients tomorrow! So scared! Hope I don't act too incompetent these next few weeks! Just so intimidating...u know? And it's pass/fail, which truly sux! Anyway, as far as the weight loss front, I don't know where I stand. Did go to the gym today, but my spirit's deflated somewhat. Maybe it's b/c the gym's been empty w/ all the holidays and stuff. Or b/c I've gotten tired of my ipod songs. Will just have to suck it up and keep on trekking along!
Eats today:
yogurt
bread and pb
snacks: more than usual! 3 small apples, 8 triscuits, 2 string cheese, 2 gum...Yes, I know that is 2 much!!
dinner: pork chops and lil rice
salad
water and tea
Was 2 nice to myself today. Craved more at dinner so allowed myself to. Also allowed myself to have an extra snack and gum. Wish I were mean to my body sometimes...might help. Oh well, at least I'm relatively healthy...am able to walk and reach for things. Thank you body for that (saw some discovery health specials today and thank god I wasn't involved in a freak accident or have some incurable disease)! Well guys gonna be an interesting next 2 wks...Hope to survive clinic. Hope to make it to the gym often. Hope to eat well (and by well I mean not misbehave!)! Take care everyone! Keeping my fingers crossed!
 
Hey mate, I think it's great you were nice to yourself, and don't stress too much, you'll do great, I have lots of faith in you :)
 
Hey Jess!! You are 2 sweet!! Thank you for "having faith in me!" lol Sorry I haven't stopped by in awhile! Holidays and school...blah blah blah! I promise 2 visit soon! =) Hope u r kicking butt!

Ok, am so sleepy today. Didn't get much sleep last night, and I was worried I would forget to take something with me that I needed today. It turned out all right though. Hope I can survive the remainder! As the days pass, I know more will be expected from me! Scary thought! Anyway, did not go to the gym today. Got out from clinic late and was not in the mood. Should probably pack an extra snack tomorrow b/c I won't have energy to exercise if I don't eat right before I work out (otherwise last meal will be lunch and can't work out at 4ish or 5ish if haven't eaten since 12!)!
Dinner: salmon and plain sweet potato, salad. Loved the fish and potato! Were delish!! Did ok today...am glad that I've held out on the cereal the past 2 days. Will plan on continue avoiding it for couple more days to make up for extra calories eaten last week! The secret trick: didn't buy milk at the grocery store. Not tempted to have the cereal without the milk so that works out great. Am still having breakfast in the form of my yogurt and one of my snacks (usually a fruit like an apple) so don't worry. Anyway, will hopefully sleep earlier tonight. Feel like a zombie...Take care everyone!
 
Hey guys! Well, wish I could say I'm doing perfect...but I'm still mozying along...Is that even how you spell mozy? :driving: Who knows! Anyway, am doing decent though. Clinic went well today. Was super tired again in the morning...am NOT a morning person! But hopefully will be done w/ it soon and can enjoy the holidays!
Eats today:
yogurt (more than should have)
lunch: bread and pb
snacks: 2 string cheese, 2 small apples, 8 triscuits, 2 gum (oops)
dinner: wheat bread, pb, feta cheese, 1 plain sweet potato
salad
water and tea

Today was my last free skip day at the gym. Have to go the rest of the week. Hate going when it's dark outside but too bad!!!!!!! Will have to pack my gym snack in a separate place tomorrow so I don't have it at lunch and feel deprived of energy at 5 ish! Am happy about the cereal situation though. Hope everyone is doing well! Ciao!
 
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