Lindseybot3k's Diary

They do have soup, but it's usually something like chilli or something they call italian wedding soup....soups and stuff packed with sodium, which I really don't need. My mom has to avoid salt at all costs and both of my parents have high blood pressure problems (and they're both fairly normal sized people, which means I'm gonna have to watch out for it no matter what). I have a really hard time finding healthy stuff to eat here, period, because when it gets cold all I want is hot meals, not the cold salads and sandwiches they do have.

The food they have...it's not well cooked at all. It's either burnt and hard or not cooked enough, and all of it is sloppily done no matter what cafeteria I go to. There are two here- and both of them are bad.
 
Gotta love college life.....I sold back three of my textbooks...two of them were brand new and I paid over a hundred for them, the other I bought used for sixty, and got a hundred dollars, a t-shirt that will get me a 5 dollar discount, and an energy drink that I probably won't drink because caffiene has been out of my blood system for too long to even want to drink it. But hey, I have a new shirt to wear to the gym and bed! I got an XLarge and it fits just fine, slightly baggy but not as bad as some of the others I have....a large probably would have been perfect.
 
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....I'm really disappointed, the grey sweatpants I tried so hard to fit in are starting to get baggy on me. I guess that's a good thing, though.
 
So I wake up early and open my email box to find a Sparkpeople article....nothing new or surprising, pretty usual, but this morning's email was about lowering your expectations to something attainable, something possible. The article said to try 10 percent, which isn't a whole lot- especially if you want to lose over 200 pounds, but it also said that in order to obtain the bigger goal, to try doing 10% over and over again.

So I pulled out a calculator (because I'm an English major and I can't do math for the life of me), and started to crunch numbers). now, losing about half of my body weight from 307 would bring me to 154, exactly half is 153.5... and being 154 would mean having a normal BMI of 23. 4. As of now I'd be pretty happy being in the overweight category, really, considering that I think BMI measurements are a load of bull, but hell, to get 154 would be a pretty big deal.

307 to 276.3 (30 pounds)
276.3 to 248 (28 pounds)
248 to 223 (25 pounds)
223 to 200.7 (22.3 pounds)
200.7 to 180.07 (20.07 pounds)
(Now, if I manage to pull that off, it would mean losing 168.37 pounds including what I have and being in the overweight BMI category. However, being 5‘8, I‘d probably look pretty healthy there.)
180.7 to 162.63 (18.07 pounds) {this would be over half of my beginning weight, which would make me happy, and bring me to a normal BMI}
162.63 to 146.367 (16.263 pounds) {over half of my current weight O.O!, BMI of 22.2}

Uh, yeah, 146.367 is just going to have to be 147. But that's not my overall goal, my overall goal is anywhere from 163 pounds to 154. And when I get there, I'm getting me a tattoo, or a really fancy piece of jewlery (like an antique diamond ring or earrings or a necklace) and all new clothes. Or if I need it, surgery, because seriously, if I get to 154 I'm not going to have boobs and a woman needs some boobs. But now I have some set out goals and I know what to do, but I just have to figure out the whole...how to eat healthy in the cafeteria.

....Really I need new clothes right now, the other day I tried playing DDR in a pair of jeans and I had to hold them up and I eventuall took them off and played in my undies.
 
lindseybot3k said:
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....I'm really disappointed, the grey sweatpants I tried so hard to fit in are starting to get baggy on me. I guess that's a good thing, though.
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lindseybot3k said:
....Really I need new clothes right now, the other day I tried playing DDR in a pair of jeans and I had to hold them up and I eventuall took them off and played in my undies.
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Horay for playing DDR (whatever that is! Lol!) in your panties! :smilielol5:

DO NOT be disappointed those sweatpants don't fit.. be HAPPY!!! YAY!!!

It's awesome that all of your stuff is getting to be too big! That's great!
 
DDR is short for Dance Dance Revolution. It's this video game where you stand on this mat and when arrows go up the screen you hit the matching arrow on the pad. It's really a lot of fun!

As for the pants, most of the disappointment is from where I worked so hard to get into them because they were a Christmas present from my mother and they're really nice sweatpants and I only was able to wear them for a couple of months compared to a few years like the rest of my clothes. It's a very good thing that they are getting bigger, and I guess I shouldn't get too attached to things.
 
I think it's so cool that people can play that - i've tried a version of it at arcades and am so hopelessly uncoordinated it's not even funny :) oh wait it is pretty funny :)

Well done :)
 
Thanks guys!

I'm getting ready to go home for winter break...ahhh, a month to do nothing and a day where I get money and stuff but have to deal with relatives I don't like......but I will get to see my friends! I've been cleaning and packing all day, and getting the room ready for the possiblity of having a roommate. I sat down and wrote her a long note basically saying "help yourself to my dvds, games, and the dishes (but wash them, please), move your furniture and leave mine alone thanks!"
 
So right now I'm pretty hungry, so hungry that I would kill someone if they had something I could eat(as in something that is acceptable breakfast food like my favorite, wheat toast with peanut butter or jelly)........I'm going to go to breakfast this morning, because I don't know if I'll be able to eat again today. I've got a final at eight that doesn't get out until 10, a final at 10:15 that ends at 12:15 and a final at 3:30 that doesn't end until 5:30....and within that time I have to clean my fish bowl and get my fish, Carl, to go into his little transport container (he does not like it what so ever....it seems like a cardboard box compared to his mansion of a fish bowl), finish cleaning the room and finish packing....at least I get to go home tonight after what's going to be a hell of a day.
 
Three finals down, two to go............totally rocked the last three, finished my 200 question communications final within an hour...and then went to my english professor's office to see about the term paper of death (B+) and my grade, WHICH IS AN A! Good thing, cause I'm an English major...

Breakfast was a big disapointment, they were completely out of wheat bread (which is shocking) and only had white....so I had to settle for cereal and some of the gross eggs...I'm so ready to go home and have Mom's food.

This evening I'm getting on the scale...we'll see how I've done.
 
Well, it looks like I won't be weighing in for a few more days. Not because I'm not going home (I still am), but because my Tom decided that today was perfect to make an appearance. Thanks a lot, Tom.
 
Dear Tom- GO AWAY NOW, THANKS. -Lindsey

Yesterday I rode on the exercise bike which doesn't get used when I'm not around for an hour.....according to Sparkpeople at my pace (17MPH) I burned 1152 calories......and I did 18 miles a little over an hour, and found out that the bike restarts the time when you go over an hour. How crappy is that?!

This morning after my mom left, I picked up one of her thin track suit jackets and put it on....it zipped up! It's a 12/14....looks kind of weird because it doesn't go over my hips because I'm pear shaped....my hips are two times bigger than the rest of me. But hey! A 12/14.....I don't know whether to laugh or cry or to chalk it up to it being kind of stretchy or to it being from WalMart, land of the sizing discrepancies....
 
Yeah, I know....what I don't understand is how I can be slightly over 300 and squeeze into a 12/14.......I'm really pearshaped but that doesn't make sense at all, makes me wonder how muscular I really am under all this fat. Kind of makes me want to go into my mom's closet while she's gone and try on some of her things!

The scales 306 this morning.....Tom went away a little bit yesterday and then came back like that drunk uncle nobody invites to anything but Christmas dinner.....good, one pound down but probably more considering that he's here. I hope it's more, I want to badly to not see a 3 in front of my weight anymore......I want it SO BADLY. So, so, badly. That's what I really want for Christmas, the one thing that can't be bought in a store and wrapped up and handed to me....I have to grab it and get it myself.
 
You've got the right attitude and you will get to where you want to be... just keep doing what you're doing and taking it ne step at a time... it's so close.... :D
 
I just found out that I got an A on my history final and therefore an A in that class! That means two As so far......OMYGOD OMYGOD I PASSED MY MATH CLASS! I got an 80 on the final and it brought up my grade to a C, OMYGOD, I thought I was going to fail that course, I'm probably the worst math student ever, and I was so close to failing at midterm, OMYGOD, this isn't going to totally mess up my GPA, omygod, I'm hyperventilating and crying I'm so happy about this!
 
Way to go Miss Smarty Pants :)

What a wonderful christmas present to give yourself :)

I was a math major and used to tutor a lot of people in math - there's no way you are even close to being the worst math student ever :) the stories I could tell... :D
 
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