Lisa's Journal

Well Hello there fellow Bikini Babe :)

Thanks for stopping by my diary!! We are gonna rock that challenge!
 
A little more about me

Ugh I am so sick of the cafeteria here. This week they have really not offered much that I can eat (vegetarian and healthy) so for the 3rd time this week I ended up getting cereal for dinner. I only really like 3 vegetables (broccoli, green beans, and spinach) which are pretty common vegetables, but this week they have been majorly skimping on them, so most of the week they havent offered any of those. I have eaten a salad once a day most of this week, but I cant bring myself to eat one for lunch and dinner. They have been offering bean soup more often which I like, but without the vegetables its not a very healthy dinner. Today they offered a different kind of bean soup that wasnt as good, so I didnt end up eating much of it. Blegh!! I am so sick of this cafeteria lol. I want my own kitchen!!!

Dinner: little bit of gross bean soup w/ 6 saltine crackers, big bowl of cereal (mix of raisin bran and frosted flakes w/ skim milk), and salad with fat free honey mustard dressing. Approx. 500 calories
Total for today: 1350 calories

I am going to the movies tonight to see 300 (let me know if you have seen it and how it was, I'm a little skeptical that I will like it), but I wont buy any concessions there (they are too expensive anyways). I might bring my last Hostess 100 calorie pack with me though, so that will bring my calories up to 1450, still within my range of 1200-1500 calories a day.


I have found that I talk a lot more about things going on in my life on other peoples pages than I do on my own journal, so I am going to try to write more in here and maybe i'll be able to entertain some people like I have been entertained so many times by reading other's journal.

Actually, I am thinking about just starting another journal where I can talk about stuff going on in my life and get to know fellow members of the board and just using this journal for my calories and exercise. Cause it would kinda suck to be talking about something serious and then right in the middle stick in my calories for the day lol. But I like to do my calories on here cause if I just try to do it on my own on a Word Document or something, I will forget lol. Does anyone think the 2 journals is a good or bad idea???
 
I think I have just decided to stay with this journal and not create another one...at least for now.

Bleh, its not even noon and I am already in a bad mood. My roomate is reallllly starting to bother me. Sophomore year is supposed to be better because you choose your roomate and dont get stuck with crazy first year ones. But this year has been horrible. I am friends with my roomate, and I think we would be better friends if we weren't roomates. But UGH I am so sick of her being so critical of everything I do. She is critical of my study habits, my eating habits, my sleepng habits, my cleaning habits. etc... I just want to say "shut the F*** up!" lol. But I am much too passive to do that. I can feel myself about to go into a really big rant, so leave now if you dont want to hear about it lol.

First with my study habits....She is very determined to get straight A's in college. I dont have a bad GPA (about a 3.4), but I dont read and study nearly as much as her. Lately it has been getting worse with her yesterday even telling me she doesnt think I will make it in law school!! where does she get off thinking she can say those kind of things to me? I told her I wasn't going to go to a seminar about law because it would mean I would have to skip a class that it is almost impossible to get adequate notes for if you miss it, and she told me that I am not a very determined person. I tried to explain to her why I didnt want to skip the class and even went into how my life goals have changed. I dont want be one of the top lawyers in the country and be rich and famous lol. I told her that my attitude has changed and I dont want to "live to work, but to work to live" (its cliche, but it really explains how my outlook has changed). That was when she told me that I wont make it in law school, and she was being completely serious. She is just critical of me all the time. Today I told her I dont have much to do and she started ragging on me to get my reading done and telling me that I am not going to finish before finals and blah blah blah. She is worse than my mom. But she is just such a critical person...Okay I am done ranting for today. It has just been building up this whole year and I don't ever say anything because I know it would start a fight and its just not fun to be in a fight with your roomate.
 
Howdy New,
Yay we are teamsters were going to kick some butt!!
Bikini babes gone wild lol!!Congrats on your progress so far! Have a nice
day Tammy:)
 
Breakfast: apple- 100calories
Lunch: lots of spinach and some cheese ravioli- approx. 450 calories
snack- kashi cookie- 130 calories
Total thus far: 680 calories
 
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Dinner: bowl of cereal (mix of raisin bran and frosted flakes), spinach, ranch style beans, and a little bit of eggplant parmiagan (lol I know its a REALLY odd combination of foods, but on the weekends the cafeteria gives us even less options) Approx. 550 calories
Total: 1230 calories

I am going to go for a walk later, probably 3 miles or so.
 
Okay, so the walk didnt happen last night lol. I got attached to my computer and started uploading all my CD's into it. Sundays are my "day off" diet wise so I'm not going to list what I've eaten today. I'll probably just end up with about 2000-2200 calories for the day, so not too many over. Plus I am going to go to the gym today and I'm really going to push myself. I decided I am going to go home next weekend so I can have a break from my roomate and from my boredom here lol. I just have so much more fun with my friends from back home. I will write more later....
 
Hey Lisa,

Finally made it over to your diary. Congrats on your progress.

Our team is awesome. I'm sure we're gonna kick butt!

Jenn
 
I love this challenge thing! lol you get and give so much encouragement, plus its just fun.

Breakfast: Zone bar- 200 calories
Lunch: salad with green olives and red wine vinegar, ranch style beans, and an apple- approx. 350 calories
Snack: Kashi cookie- 130 calories
Total: 680 calories
 
Dinner: vegetarian thing with pita bread, rice, kidney beans, and pesto (approx. 350 calories), mixed veggies, canteloupe, and bowl of cereal - total approx. 600 calories
Total for day: 1280 calories
I will probably have an orange after my workout, so that will bring me up to 1480 calories for the day. I am trying to stay a little closer to the 1500 calorie mark than 1200 calories.
 
I am going to continue doing that thing where I was counting the miles I have done to get up to 200 miles whereupon I will get myself a pedicure :)
Before, I was at 26.2 miles, today I did 3 miles walking, so that brings it up to
29.2 miles

I also did some weight machines and tried to do the higher weights and do either 5x5 or 5x3 depending on the machine. I guess I'll be able to tell tomorrow by how sore I am whether I actually did anything.
 
Oh, something else I just found out that im pretty freakin excited about lol is that the DQ sandwich only has 66 calories!!! I'm not sure how thats possible, but thats amazing!
 
hahaha i read it wrong. I was looking at the serving size, the calories is 200 :( its still not bad for an ice cream sandwich, but its not 66 calories. But there is apparentally a DQ Fudge Bar-no sugar added that only has 50 calories (I went back and read it 3 times to make sure I wasnt reading the wrong thing lol). its probably not as good as the ice cream sandwich, but it could be a nice chocolaty treat.

I cant believe I used to eat small chocolate chip cookie dough blizzards so much- they have 720 calories!!! for a small!! Thats like half my daily calories I eat now lol, to think I used to eat one of those with a chicken strips meal-920 calories (I actually thought this would be more) thats a total of 1,640 calories for one meal. It really has become amazing to me to see how many calories are in things and how they add up so fast and how I didnt care AT ALL when I used to eat those things. I think its almost become a problem, like now when I see someone with something like a plate of chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes with gravy, and fried okra, I see a plate of probably around 1300 calories and I think to myself "I wonder what their basal metabolic rate is, whether they work out, and whether they will gain weight because of the way they are eating" lol. I really have these kind of monologues going on in my head when I'm in the cafeteria.

For my work study I work in a dorm for the area coordinator who is the head of 2 dorms. Her latest assignment (which means its my latest assignment as well) is to interview approx. 60% of the sophomores in the dorm about their sophomore year. She has a list of specific questions she asks and pretty much she asks them and I have to write frantically what everyone says. So far we have interviewed 11 people and one thing that continually comes up is the fact that since they have come to college they have been sick A LOT. I went through this last year. I had soooooo many bronchial infections, bronchitis, laryngitis, sinus infections, etc... I blamed it on the fact that allergies are worse here and that we live in such close proximity to each other in our dorms. So, this topic kept coming up about how everyone was always sick, and in particular how about a month ago we had this huge epidemic sweep through the school. 60 students had to go to the hospital (we only have 1200 students at the college) there were people puking everywhere! I went out into the lobby of the dorm and there was someone puking, I stepped outside on my way to the cafeteria and there was someone puking, it was complete madness. My roomate and I quarintined ourselves in our room for about 5 days until the puking seemed to subside. But I was really excited that I didn't get whatever this thing was, I usually catch everything that goes around! Then I realized that at that point I had been eating healthier for about a month and in that month I hadnt gotten sick at all. It has been almost 3 months now since I started my new way of eating and I havent been sick once! not even a cold! I think this is pretty freakin amazing lol. Sooooooo to end this long winded story, my boss and I were talking about the amount that people here get sick and we started discussing reasons why it is. I think that nutrition has a LOT of an effect on things like this, and since college students eat HORRIBLY, that seems like a logical explanation (at least partly, along with the lack of sleep, lots of alcohol, and close proximity in the dorms) as to why people in college get sick so much more than they used to.
 
Hi Lisa,
We've all made those mishaps reading labels - Oh man, there for awhile I was getting the MOST amazing Banana Crisps - Not Banana Chips (I don't like those) but Banana Crisps - they were like a sweet potato chip almost.

I was livng on a bag a day - only 240 calories, no sodium, blah, blah, blah...they were taken off the shelves for awhile - why? I ask? Seems there was a problem with the packaging...something on the label was wrong - not to worry, it was probably the weight. Umm...no...the bag had over 700 calories, ton of sodium etc.

Joy ;)

You wrote:
It really has become amazing to me to see how many calories are in things and how they add up so fast
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This has really mind boggled me. I used to think I didn't eat *that* many calories. Surely not enough to justify gaining so much weight....

Yeah...knowledge is truly power ;)
 
Breakfast: Zone bar and a cookie (my teacher handed out cookies during class, I didnt get a chance to look at the calories in it, though, so I am going to guess about 70?) so for breakfast- 270 calories
Lunch: squash and a burrito without the tortilla (black beans, rice, lettuce, a little cheese, and salsa- approx. 350 calories
Total: 620 calories

I have realized that my buying a new scale a while back really messed me up with seeing how much I have lost. Since I got my new scale and its about 7lbs heavier than my old one, I dont actually see the numbers going down because I still kept the number in my head that my old scale gave me. Like Before I got my new scale, my old scale told me I was 250lbs, but when I got my new scale it said I was 257. Now on my new scale I am at 249, but since I still have that old number of 250lbs in my head, I feel like I havent really gotten far. I think tomorrow I am going to weigh myself on my old scale as well as my new scale just to see what it says. I will trust my new scale of course, I know that I have lost about 9lbs in 3 weeks, which is good, I just wish I could see it on the scale! Its so frustrating lol. Its like what Maleficent was talking about in her diary how she doesnt want to get her motivation from her scale. I wish I could do that, but at this point I think I still need the scale to tell me I'm doing something right. I am the most impatient person in the world!!!
 
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