LynnZs Diary

Oh, I miss studying martial arts!

Very.....satisfying to the pent up hostilities ;)

have a good day Lynn
 
Today is going to be a great day :) I woke up a bit early...early enough to curl my hair,haha :) I ran on the eliptical for 1hr last night b/c kickboxing was cancelled :( The instructor pulled a muscle in his back so he was out last week AND this week...which sucks, I was looking forward to relieving stress :p The running didnt hurt however...I'm running the Cooper River Bridge Run this weekend in Charleston SC so any running I can fit in between now and then doesnt hurt. I'm excited about the run...it's my first one.


Breakfast: 1cup skim milk and NASTY weight control quaker banana oatmeal (YUCK!!) I usually eat raisin,dates and pecan instant oatmeal...but I was out so a friend gave me a packet of the weight control kind...it was NASTYYYY!!! I couldnt even eat it all...so snack may be early today.

Snack: raisins and almonds

Lunch: Spinach Salad w/ craisins and 1/4 cup 2% cheddar cheese and low fat honey mustard, 1 cup Grape Nuts and 1 cup skim milk.

Snack: Kashi peanut butter Granola bar

Dinner: Creamed Spinach, Corn on the cob, Yams, 1 piece of wholewheat bread w/ all natural peanut butter and a piece of cheese. Dessert: Bowl of blueberries and strawberries w/ 2 tablespoons of fatfree french vanilla dip and one graham cracker...yum :)

Tonights workout is Fit and Firm(step and weights) for 1hr followed by a 17min ab blast.
 
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Today is going to be another good day :) ... I'm willing myself this!! haha.
I'm sooo looking forward to the bridge run Saturday...I'm going with my inlaws (whom I love) and cant wait to see them!! Plus, I've been working hard for this run. Oh, and only one more pill and my medicine for this allergic reaction will be finished!!

Breakfast: 1 cup Instant oatmeal (raisins, dates and walnuts) and 1/2 cup of green goodness (a juice similar to v8 but w/ all green veggies and fruits...pretty yummy but high in sugar, although natural sugar).

Snack: carrots and raisins

Lunch: creamed spinach, yams, pretezels, 2 fig newtons

Snack: Soy chips

Dinner: Omelet :) yogurt w/ a bit of granola.

I've gone ahead and mixed a bowl of 3 egg whites and 1 egg yolk, mushrooms, onions and 1/4 cup cheese for either lunch or dinner...I like having it all ready to just pour into the pan...makes things so easy. I'm trying to clean my pantry and fridge out before I go grocery shopping again...so my meals will be random for awhile :p

Tonights workout is 30min eliptical and 1hr pilates :) and of course I'll throw some weights in there at some point.
 
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Today is monday...I didnt post friday, saturday or sunday...for one, I wasnt near a computer and for two I was busy with the run...which was a BLAST!!! I had so much fun!!! I finished it in 1hr 30min...I could have finished it in about 1hr...but I kept running about 1/2mile and turning around and running back to my sister and mother-in-law, I didnt want to cross the finish line w/out them. After the run we walked around downtown Charleston all day...it was so much fun. Although I feel like all we did was eat all day. We had breakfast before the run (banana and granola bar) then fruit at the end of the run, then we went to a seafood restuarant and I had a crab louie salad...then we had ice cream :p (hagen daze(sp?) cookie dough non the less) then we stopped for roof top drinks...I gave up alcohol so I just sipped water and ate a few peanuts. Then we went and had dinner (yummy shrimp cakes and eggplant for me :) ) OF course between all of that eating was walking around...but I still felt fat and bloated that night!! Oh well...it was a GREAT cheat day...and I'm hoping the run helped to balance out the food, lol.

Okay...so today:

Breakfast: Cup of Granola w/ a cup of skim milk.

Snack: Handful of dried fruit/nut trail mix.

Lunch: panini with goat cheese and sundried tomato pesto...yum...and a bite or two of sour cream potato salad :)

Snack: Handful of dried trail mix and two ginger snap cookies.

Dinner: Veggie brick oven pizza, three small pieces :) and for dessert I had half a piece of french silk pie...

yikes so my diet was blown today!! but it was ohhh so yummy.


My mother and aunt are in town this evening so I'm meeting them for lunch and then we're going out to dinner...YIKES...I think I'll order a salad for both :p I'm still planning on running to the gym after work...as long as time allows...1hr on the eliptical...or I might just go straight home and drag my mom and aunt out for a small jog :)


andddd yeah...no excercise but a few crunches...blah.
Happy Monday :)
 
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Eh so yesterday I did really bad w/ eating and not excercising...but today is a new day :) and I'm going to stay on track!!

Breakfast: A bit of trail mix...I know I know not the best breafast, but nuts and raisins were calling my name!!

Snack:

Lunch: Left over veggie brick oven pizza :)

Snack: two flax seed cookies, handful of almonds and raisins :)

Dinner: protein shake I'm thinking.


Excercise tonight is suppose to be kickboxing...but if the trainer is still out today I'll end up just running :) then coming home and doing a bit of wieght training.
 
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Hi Lynn!

Thanks for the warm welcome and the support. I like your philosophy of not fretting when you're having an "oh shit" day- we all have days where we fall off the bandwagon. It's just important that you hop back on! Best of luck and thanks again- Bec
 
Today is sooo pretty out...I really want to go for a run outside...so thats looking like my excercise for the day :)

I'm getting frustrated...my weight just keeps staying the same...however, my mom spent the night w/ me last night and did make comments about how slim I am.

My plans for tonight are figuring out how to posts pictures on here...putting up some before and after pics and an avatar.

I heard from my hubby today...a bomb went off yesterday in his part of Iraq so I hadnt heard from him lately. He was able to call today and tell me all was well **sigh of relief** He has been gone since August :( I gained most of my weight all last summer...I'm going to blame it on stress and emotional difficulties...I was depressed that he was leaving, we were buying our first house and I was having to move myself, my dog, two cars, and my entire household from Hawaii to SC. So I ate...and I ate...and I gained...and it sucked. My favorite thing is mint chocolate icecream birthday cake (baskin n robbins, yum) Hubby got me one for my birthday and then he left the day after my birthday for Iraq...I ate the entire thing in one day....it was sick. I flew to SC Aug the 8th. I stayed w/ my parents...which i HATE doing...its hard going back to your parents when youre married and youve lived on your own for so long....so I ate again....I finally closed on our house Aug. 25th. Got a job in September and kept eating crappy....Hubby came home on R&R the end of October (r&r is two weeks) we ate like crap then....he left...I got our pictures developed...I LOOKED LIKE A PIGGY!!! ...diet time.......but its christmas...cookies and cakes and homecooked meals...stress and worry and a few car bombs killing soldiers...AHHH food that will make everything better.....okay Jan. first I decided was it!!! I stopped drinking sodas, eating red meat and I started excercising daily.

Soooo wow, I just went on a tangent...but thats why I'm here and thats why I'm doing what I'm doing now....I want to be healthy and hot. I want to get myself active and eventually have my husband eating healthy right along with me...he is lucky he hasnt been here for my first few months of "I'm going to only eat healthy things!!" b/c some of the meals I've created ended up in the dog food bowl...but I'm getting there...I can now cook a healthy decent meal....maybe this deployment was good for something after all.....

oh look...its after 5 I'm off work :) and its sunny out :) hello running shoes. :D I'll post pics tonight.
 
Hey just dropped in to say hello. I just finished reading all of your journal entries and wanted to say congratulations for all of the hardwork that you've put in with your weight loss thus far. Congrats, and keep up the good work.
 
Awwwww wednesday...half way there :p

Breakfast: 1cup kashi go lean, 1cup organic skim milk

Snack: Flax seed cookie, handful almonds :)

Lunch: The last bit of veggie brick oven pizza, ginger snap.

Snack: Carrots, grapes, raisins, a few almonds....I got a bit hungry so I ate a few soy chips a second ago.

Dinner: I'm thinking a protein shake...I dont feel much like cooking...but that might make my calorie intake to low...so we shall see :D


Tonight is fit and firm and ab blast.

This morning I did 50 crunches and a bit of weight training. I'm so pissed, I went and bought groceries yesterday and realized that they left (I paid for it) but they left my calorie free honey mustard dressing out of my bags!!!**Sigh**and I was so looking forward to a salad!! I've never had the calorie free dressing...no calories means its probably not to tasty...but if I ever get a bottle I'll see.
 
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I'm happy for you--hang in there, it is very hard to have a husband in the war--I couldn't even imagine...glad you are still able to stay strong, and even lose weight while you're at it! Congrats
 
I didnt have time to do crunches this morning and I forgot my bag of veggies/fruits at home...dang it....oh well, I got a cute pair of shoes yesterday...so today is going to be good!!! I will it to be :p

Breakfast: 1cup kashi golean and 1 cup organic skim milk.

Snack: 1/4 cup of almonds and a flax seed cookie

Lunch: Tuna melt (piece of whole wheat bread w/ tuna, miracle whip and a bit of sweet relish, a bit of cheddar cheese melted on top) Raw Broccoli with a bit of fatfree ranch dressing dip.



Snack: Carrots, grapes and raisins and....this is bad...a small petitefour (sp?)

Dinner: A bowl of frosted mini wheats


Tonight is pilates...yahoo...I need the core work ;) ....I ended up not going to pilates...A friend called around late afternoon and told me her husband had been shot...so things were crazy all evening...ugh.

I didnt hear from hubby yesterday...but I did get an email from him this morning...so all is well. I just recieved word that my husbands grandpa has been given 1-2 months to live :( I had to tell my husband (I'm going to call him S...I'm tired of typing out "my husband") through email that he may never get to see his grandpa again and worse yet...he probably wont even be able to attend his funeral :( He was deployed for a year two years ago and a week before he came home his Grandmother passed away...so this is just a replay of the last deployment...I hurt for him...He is named after this grandpa...we were making plans to go stay w/ him this fall when S returns from war....guess that will never happen now :( **sigh** I have a meeting for work here in a few....

today is still going to be a good day dang it!! Its thursday...I'm almost there!!!! :cool:
 
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keep it up :)
especially all the working out youre doing - its awesome .. youll be in shape in no time as long as you have your patience and motivation!
 
Well, since you visited me, I thought I'd return the favor! Best of luck to you Lindsey! Sounds like you have a great plan in place already! Keep it up!! :)
 
Okay so here is my post about why everyone should follow their heart:
Warning: I'm about to start rambling...but b/c its my diary...I can do that :p lol.

Sooo I dated this guy for 5 years...starting in Highschool...you know highschool sweethearts, blah...anyways...we went off to college together...after our first year he asked me to marry him...yeah young and dumb I know....I said sure...so wham...I had my first fiance. We were at a two year private collere...one you can only get an associates degree at...he was wicked smart so he moved to NC state after our first year...I finished up at the two year school. My parents loved him...he was part of our family...at all the family gatherings...every holiday...he decided to major in science and attend medical school. So I went on to another school to continue my degree in Art Education. We were very close...but more so b/c we were familiar with each other...we were falling out of love...but it didnt feel right to not be together...so we just stuck together...a few months into my new school life...an old friend from highschool (whom I hadnt seen in years) came to the school I was attending to go to the same party that I just happened to be at. We hung out a bit..flirted...that was it...the next day he left. My fiance and I started fighting more...I started talking to my old highschool friend more and more....until one day he(old highschool friend) called to say he had joined the army. (from here on out we'll call my fiance B and highschool friend S). I started talking about ending things w/ my fiance, B. My parents thought I was crazy all of my friends and distant family thought I was crazy..."why, he is so cute, he is so patient and he is going to be a DOCTOR." S wrote from basic and called during his free time(which was far and few between). He asked if I would come to his basic graduation...so I did. We started talking about getting together....my friends and family flipped out...how could I do that to B?? **ugh**

Lets cut to the chase here...I finally ended things with B and started dating S.

S moved to Hawaii (where he was stationed w/ the Army) I was still in my first semester of school at the new university...studying Art Education. S asked me to fly out and visit him...from SC to HI...for THE WEEKEND...he would pay...I didnt tell a soul I just left.....everyone was still pissed that I had ended things w/ B. I had the weekend of a lifetime and realized then that S was who I wanted to be with...no matter what.

I came back...started the next semester of school a few months later (all the while keeping contact w/ S in HI). He deployed to Iraq that Jan. Throughout the semester I was a mess... I wanted to be with S soooo badly...and even when the deployment was over...he would still be in HI...it looked impossible. My parents were totally against me being with S and further more...I was in school...getting a education in a degree that wasnt offered at many other schools.......and everyone was still pressuring me to get back with B.

S called from Iraq around the beginning of summer...and asked me if I would marry him when he came home for his 2 weeks R&R.

I stopped eating, sleeping and attending classes...my world was one big fuzzy blur....

here I was headed down a road to getting the degree I had thought I always wanted, engaged to a doctor, close to my family, living the perfect spoiled sheltered life.

I made the decision then that no one and nothing would stop me from following my heart....

I left school that semester with no intentions of coming back...I ended things once and for all with B (we hadnt been together physically since S and I had hooked up in HI but we still talked as if we were together).
I told my parents I was going to marry S...it was so "far out there" they didnt even believe me.

S came home the end of August...asked me to marry him...I married him a week later...a week after that he redeployed back to Iraq.

My family and friends all pretty much stopped talking to me...they were upset I had run off to get married and on top of that...married to a soldier who wouldnt amount to anything (THEIR words).

Sooooo I shipped everything I owned to Hawaii and with in 2 months I was on a flight to Hawaii...schooless, homeless, and a pissed off family waving goodbye....oh yeah, and S was STILL deployed.

I landed one day with two suitcases, bought a car the next day, found a apartment the third day, on the fourth day I enrolled in the local university and on the fifth day I layed on the floor of my unfurnished apartment...crying...what Had I done?? All I knew was that I had followed my heart...but where in the hell was it leading me??

I spent Christmas in Hawaii...S still deployed.

He returned home Valentines day 2005. Three months after I had landed in Hawaii.

Things were rocky at first...life was crazy...I was insane (families words). Yet I was in heaven...my heart was full.

3 years later I ended up with a degree in Marketing (which I LOVE) I'm still happily married to my bestfriend S, my family is now in love with S and we purchased our first house together in SC last fall....although he is again deployed...I'm content. He got his pilots license and will get out of the Army this fall...I even still keep in touch w/ B and we're civil friends...I kid him and say I'll never have to pay doctor fees :p

Life is still crazy and I'm still young and have soooo much more to go through...but I honestly cant say that following my heart was a bad idea....in fact....I wouldnt have it any other way :D


I rambled...alot...but wow, I've never written out the past 5 years of my life on paper.....I really feel like I've accomplished alot...hmmm, maybe next long winded post I'll post about my experiences as a military wife. lol.

the end.
 
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Lindsey... being a military wife is the hardest job in the Military, believe me! Being a retired Navy guy, I have nothing more than the utmost respect to the wives of our Miltary! :)
 
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Lindsey... being a military wife is the hardest job in the Military, believe me! Being a retired Navy guy, I have nothing more than the utmost respect to the wives of our Miltary! :)
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Awwwwwwww thanks bruce!!! That means alot...its the hardest thing I've ever done and sometimes I get downhearted...but hearing that someone actually respects what we do makes me feel better and a bit more proud :p
 
WOW Lindzy that is seriously some heart-following! I'm glad you did what's right for you! Thanks for sharing and I wish you the best!!! Yeah, I understand how family can be sometimes....all my freinds and family were shocked when I dumped my ex...
 
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