Lindseybot3k's Diary

So I went to the gym today and I did 20 minutes on the treadmill, 20 on the elliptical, and 20 on the treadmill....popped it all into Sparkpeople and it said that I burned 1444 calories!

I put in all the stuff I had for dinner and it said that I've had a little over 800 today, but that's not counting the small piece of pumpkin pie I had with my dinner since today was thanksgiving dinner on campus....it wasn't bad but it wasn't as good as people were telling me it was.
 
Yeah! I loveee me some pumpkin pie, so I got like...the tiniest piece that they had.

i'm really shocked at the calorie burn....I can't believe that i burned that much within an hour!
 
So I'm home for Thanksgiving, and before we went to Walmart to get stuff for Thursday I jumped on the scale...it said 307! Just 8 more pounds until I'm at under 300, which means I need to start working harder through out this holiday season and try my hardest not to succumb to the goodies and treats that are gonna be all over campus when I get back.

When I get under 300, I'm SO treating myself to something nice. I'm thinking a tattoo or a piercing or an expensive piece of clothing or purse.
 
Since coming back to school from Thanksgiving break, I've been recommited to changing my life and losing all this weight....seeing that I'm so close to my one of my goals is making me want it all the more. I've been keeping under 1500 calories and I went to the gym today (according to Sparkpeople I burned 800 and some calories) and did some strength training yesterday.

To make me hold myself accountable, I printed off a calendar and bought some star stickers so that everyday I do everything that I need to do, I get a star and if I get a week's worth, I can have some junk food or buy something for myself that's under ten dollars, and once I get a month's worth of stars I can get me something under $50. I think that'll make me want to do things and more excited about doing things than only treating myself when I meet weight goals.
 
excellent motivational tool :) you are a star and you will get lots of them :)

Since i"m total busybody - Ill ask- you sure that 1500 calories is a good amount? that seems quite low - and doesn't give you a lot of wiggle room if youhave to adjust down the road... you're sometimes better off starting higher and if you need to go down then you've got that play..
 
It probably is too low, but Sparkpeople is telling me that I need to have anywhere from 1200-1500 calories a day, and I try to meet what they tell me to do when I can do it. I'd follow the meal plans to a core if it weren't for the fact that I live in a dorm and have to eat what I can find in the cafeterias.
 
I manually adjusted my calories on spark so it'd be a higher range - while I like the site and the professionals on it are well informed, their approach is alittle one size fits all-- don't be afraid to bump them up a bit if you feel you need it - you are working out plenty so there will be no damage done...

and give yourself an extra gold star today :)
 
Okay, so this week I've done okay for my sticker earning thing.......Thursday I fell off the ball but it was one day and I plan on earning it back today. I was going to go do it yesterday, but when Katie and I got to the gym, this guy Katie knows was going out and told us it was about to close, so we had to turn around and come back. I also decided that Friday would be my get out of jail day....and boy, did I fall off the wagon foodwise Friday. In my communications class, someone brought doughnuts and another person brought cookies and I had one of each. >.< That was horrible. Yesterday is done and over with and I've got to do better and not let my self slip like that. I'm SO close to meeting my first 50 pounds goal! Seven more, seven more, seven more. That's all I can think about.
 
....You know you're a health and fitness fiend when you'd rather exercise or read Spark People articles rather than do your final research paper.

Yeah. I've gotten that bad....or good, depending on how you look at it! :)
 
Yeah, I know! I'm doing it right now, but I really need to get in my cardio minutes, and it's all I can think about!:rotflmao:
 
Ugh, so, I get really going on my paper, and then go to the site where I've gotten my newspaper articles from only to find that IT'S DOWN. Greeeat.
 
So I've figured out why my calorie allowance on Sparkpeople was so low....it was because of my goal date, but when I moved up to phase 2, I pushed back the date- and my calorie intake went higher! I ate enough calories yesterday and I ended up having probably the best night of sleep I've ever had in this dorm room, and I do think it's because I met it instead of being way under because I was scared that I would go too over it. Now I don't think I'll worry as much about it, because now it says to have anywhere from 1400-1800 and that's a lot more food than what I've been eating.

I finally finished my research paper and have it ready to turn in when I go to class.....I'm so glad it's done. Since Lexis Nexis was down, I had to go on a wild goose chase all over the Internet using my google-fu to find the articles in different places and I managed to locate all of them that I really needed but one, and without the stuff I was using from that article my paper was still just barely long enough.

This week is finals week, but I'm not worried about any of them but my math final...I'm so close to a C but this final could bring me down to an F if I'm not careful....I'm gonna get out my book and my notes sometime this week and try to review the stuff I couldn't get to see if I can figure it out at all.
 
So yesterday I decided to move my furniture around and take the two beds in my room apart in case someone was to move in here....and I fell asleep at eleven after watching Tin Man, only to wake up at three, fall back asleep, have a bad dream about my great grandmother losing her house because of the local privatized worker's comp place (which made NO SENSE AT ALL)....found SNOW all over the campus!
 
let it snow let it snow let it snow...

oh the weather outside's delightful
and the people inside are frightful
since we've not pllace to go
let it snow let it snow let it snow...

go make snow angels :D
 
The lazy people who walk through the field and not on the pathways have already ruined it........

I got my playstation 2 out of my trunk where I kept it for Thanksgiving Break and hooked it up so I could do pilates for the first time in ages.....and found out that for whatever reason the disc will not work in it, unlike the playstation at home, which doesn't make sense because the one at home is older...this means I'm gonna have to either get my ass to the gym or play DDR....might see if there's something online I could do instead.
 
WHAT. THE HELL.

So, me being ever the slight optimist and never giving up, tries one more time to ge the damn playstation to work, and decides that maybe cleaning it with a q-tip is a good idea.

I pop the pilates disc in, restart it, and voila- the damn thing works.
 
So I go to dinner, reallyreallyreally hungry because I didn't go to lunch in hopes of finding something warm and healthy.....hell no, did that happen. It was either a baked potato covered in nacho cheese and bacon bits, a breakfast consisting of biscuits and gravyt, eggs, bacon and tator tots, or something off the grill (cheeseburgers, grilled cheese, fries, fish sticks).....all the healthy stuff (either a salad, wrap or a sandwich) was COLD.

It's like, 30 something degrees outside with a wind chill. Why aren't there any warm healthy foods in the cafeteria? I had to settle with the fishsticks and the tator tots and a glass of water.
 
t's like, 30 something degrees outside with a wind chill. Why aren't there any warm healthy foods in the cafeteria? I had to settle with the fishsticks and the tator tots and a glass of water.
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that really blows that they wouldn't at least have soup or some healthier options... it really amazes me that institutional food hasn't changed much over the last 20 or more years... it was probably the same fishsticks and tater tots they served us back in school :D
 
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