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lena410 said:
i love positive attitudes, it makes me all positive myself hehe. its great to start to have this feeling of complete control :)
have a great day funky :)
Lena
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Thanks Lena. I hope you have an awesome day as well. I'm feeling really good. Now I've just got a nice exam to go and study for.

maleficent said:
you can't ask for more fun than that... it is an absolute hoot :) and save some calories and go to Totonnes for the best pizza ever :)
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Totonnes. Alright then. I'll hit them up for some good pizza. I've never had them. I've either eaten at Not Ray's Pizza or Spamoni Gardens.

sunnydee said:
Awesome! I'm applying to med school in the fall. :D I'm writing the MCAT this summer. Scary! Good luck with it! I hope we both get in!
I'm so happy to hear about your positive epiphany! You've taken on a very healthy attitude, that's for sure. I had one of those positive revelations today too. I was at school and I was thinking about the things I needed to do when I got home, and I was thinking "Ok, I'll do TaeBo around 8:30..." and I realized that exercise has become a routine part of my life. It's just as important to me as eating, sleeping, hanging out with friends, etc. I don't look at it as a chore. I look as it an essential part of healthy living... and I love doing it!
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Cue Twilight Zone theme. We have a few things in common Sunny. It's always funny to read one of your posts and see that something similar has happened to me. I'll be sending you as many positive vibes as possible. The MCATs are no joke. But like I said, if you can lose weight, then almost anything is possible.
 
funkyphantom said:
This is the new attitude I'm taking when it comes to my weight loss. I'm not going to let anything bring me down. I'm on a new path. Riding back up to school, I got this sudden epiphany. It really just struck and I realized that this was the first time that I had actually set my mind to doing something, and I was actually achieving it. I never looked at it that way before and from there, I just started to put a lot of things into perspective. I'm feel so motivated to do things. I mean everything seems possible. I've been missing this feeling for a while now.

I guess you could say that I've been stuck in a bit of rut and had given up on myself. But now that I'm starting to get my weight under control, it's making me reevalute other aspects of my life that I kinda pushed to the back burner.
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I know how you feel. I felt the same way when I started losing weight--because I have achieved a lot IMO, BUT the excess weight that I didn't want to have on me was a hurdle I hadn't tried jumping seriously since I was 19 (I'm 24 1/2 now). I felt like I had all of life on lock excpet the damn weight. Now I look at all the weight I lost, and how I'm almost thin, and it's incredible! I'm even a nicer person because of my higher self-esteem. I wish you all the best in your weight loss and I hope you feel better about yourself than you ever have. :D

Thanks for the recipes!
 
Yeah, we do have quite a few things in common. It's cool. I agree with what you said - after weight loss, just about anything is possible. After all this hard work, the MCAT should be a breeze. :p
 
What a good day.

I've got a doctor's appointment in about an hour. My right knee has been making these weird crunching noises everything I bend so I wanna get that checked out. I had a nice cardio routine. I was on the elliptical for about 30 minutes, and then I headed off to the stair climb for another 20. I even got in some jump rope and I did some core work. I tried out these incline and decline pushups and almost died. But they were fun, and I was able to do 2 sets of 5 for both of them. I'm happy with how I've been doing exercise wise as well as eating wise. It's been 2 days, and I haven't cheated :D. I've challeneged myself to a no cheat 2 week diet. I'm thinking it's doable. Well let's have a look at how I've been eating lately shall we.

Breakfast
Omlette
- mozzarella cheese, green peppers, tomatoes, and onions.
2 turkey sausage links
2 slices of cantaloupe

Lunch
Grilled chicken cesar salad w/ 1 oz of tuna added.

Snacks
1 small apple
1 oz red kidney beans
2 oz green peas

Dinner??? I don't know. I'm thinking of actually cooking tonight. Something really simple.
 
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Just so tired

You ever have one of those days when it feels as though you haven't slept in forever??? Well I'm feeling it today. I just want to get back into bed and sleep my life away. I'm bone tired. But I can't. I've got rehersal until 12 tonight. I've decided that I won't be going to class tomorrow. I'm going to take a mental health day and just relax.

On another note, I felt motivated to head off to the gym today. I ran my cares away and watched the ole Miss. vs. Tennessee game. I was so into the game, that I didn't even see the time pass. I did 9 miles on the treadmill in 35 minutes. As for my knee, the nurse at the clinic said that I've been doing the right things in regards to how I've been taking care of it, but that she wouldn't recommend me engaging in anything that would cause impact. I guess I shouldn't have run tonight :eek: . Haha, I had my knee brace on so it didn't feel bad so I don't think I've done too much damage.

But she did spend a good portion of my visit trying to convince me to go to physical therapy. I'm not feeling that. I don't have a car so I wouldn't be able to make any of the appointments that they would have scheduled. Plus it would be a pain having to bum a ride from people. But I do have an x-ray scheduled on my right thumb. I jammed it a bit ago, but it still hurts, and I've lost some strength in it. She thinks I may have had a slight fracture and she doesn't think that it healed properly. So off to the doctor's I go again.

Dinner
Pasta w/ marina sauce and meatless meatballs - 380 calories
1 oz of mixed vegetables - 18 calories
 
hey! i just wanted to say thank you for stopping by my diary and providing such awesome support! and, of course, for providing such awesome recipies! :D

have a great day!!! :D
 
daiseeangel said:
hey! i just wanted to say thank you for stopping by my diary and providing such awesome support! and, of course, for providing such awesome recipies! :D

have a great day!!! :D
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No problem Daisee. I like reading your diary entries. They're entertaining and give me a lift when I feel like calling it a day.
 
Secret Admirer???

Well, today is turning out to be somewhat eventful. I went to my mailbox and there was a weird highly taped up note waiting for me. I thought it was a fake birthday card. The acapella group that I'm in chooses fake birthdays, and when your fake birthday comes up, you get a card wishing you happy birthday and then you get fun presents and treats...silly things to make the humdrum life of college go by. But when I opened up, it was some "love note." I'm laughing as I'm reading this because either it's the real deal, or my friends have already got the hugest prank planned for me for April Fools Day.

I'm hoping it's the latter because, I love April Fools and I'm one for practical jokes so I think it would be awesome if it was a practical joke. But if it's a for real love letter, well then I feel badly for the person who wrote it to me because I highly suspect that it was a woman. Being that I'm not interested in women, I'd feel badly about having to hurt someone's feelings. The letter is cute and it has the worst grammer and spelling mistakes ever. Who ever did it spent a lot of time typing and pasting the message on some hand decorated paper. Oh please God let it be a joke. Hopefully the mystery writer will unmask themself in the next few days because I really want to know who it is.
 
And the search begins

So this new secret admirer thing has got me getting my Nancy Drew on. I've been going around interrogating people, but my first mistake was in not questioning the girl that works in the mailroom. She would be the one that you give your stuff too, and then she places them in the appropriate boxes. Being that my school is so small that we practically know everybody, she would know who it was that stuck this letter in my box. But I do think that I may have a possible list of suspects. This might be a brother-sister tag team: Ala Josh and Jen. Jen is the practical jokester and she's been trying to find a joke to play on me for a while now and the handwriting on the paper looks like it belongs to a boy.

But then again, my friend Vanessa has boy type handwriting also, and I'm thinking that the freshmen I've adopted are the ones behind it. I cornered my friend Britany, and when I asked her about the letter, she tried to play coy, but she wouldn't give up the goods. I know she knows something even though she's playing dumb. She had this guilty smile on her face that just spoke to her involvement. A little background...anytime people want to play a joke on me, they make it a group effort, and I'm talking 5-10 people.

The last practical joke they played had them posting my pic up on an internet dating site and taking bets on how long it would take me to realize what they had done (I don't check my emails often). So 2 months went by with me being absolutely clueless. Then I discovered it. I had to give it to them. It was real creative. I also liked the profile they created, covered my personality to a T.
 
crazy4beadz said:
OOOO a secret admirer;) Well let's hope it's not a woman then :) and hope its not a joke, hope it's a hot stud oo-lala :D
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A hot stud at my school?!?! Hahaha, I wish. The boys here are extremely immature and young. Plus, my school used to be an all womens college up until 2 years ago, so the quality of men over here is sorely lacking as well as few and far between. Man if I were at another school and this happened, I'd be on my knees praying to the dear lord that it was a sexy man with wash board abs, nice teeth, dimples and good hair :D.
 
Hahaha. Sorry to hear about the slim pickin's in the man department. Since you seem to think it's pretty unlikely that there are any sexy men at your school, I hope it's a joke too. It sounds like it could turn out to be a pretty fun one. I love practical jokes as well. I always got my friend Natalie with practical jokes in high school because she was the type to fall for it every time. It eventually lost its value - it was like shooting fish in a barrel. :p
 
funkyphantom said:
A hot stud at my school?!?! Hahaha, I wish. The boys here are extremely immature and young. Plus, my school used to be an all womens college up until 2 years ago, so the quality of men over here is sorely lacking as well as few and far between. Man if I were at another school and this happened, I'd be on my knees praying to the dear lord that it was a sexy man with wash board abs, nice teeth, dimples and good hair :D.
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Ooo, in that case , lets hope it a fun joke :p
 
Mystery solved

So I finally figured out who was behind the prank. Um too bad it wasn't a prank and it was actually a secret admirer letter. I felt bad once I found out because I actually thought it was a genuine joke but to find out that there was actually a girl on campus that had these feelings towards me...well there's really nothing I can do about it. I'll just pretend I never found out and go on with my day. In the excitement of the last two days, I haven't even managed to write down how I've been doing food wise. Man I was doing so well not eating the junk, but yesterday I had the most amazing piece of chocolate moose cake. It was soooooooooooo good. Now I've got to start fresh with my no cheat challenge. Other than the chocolate cake, I ate really well last night.

We had a networking conference going on at my school where some alums came by and gave we students advice on how to network and find jobs. Too bad no one in my field of interest actually showed up for the conference. But after the session, the group that was there headed over to the Aurora inn for dinner. It was absolutely fantastic. We were given dining etiquette classes by this funny Italian man named Guiseppe who was originally from Verona, Italy. He teaches at Cornell's Hotel Management school. But we learned about all of the proper ways to order, tip and use silverware in fancy restaurants. I learned a whole heck of a lot.

But most importantly, was the food. Restaurant food trumps my lousy dining hall food any day of the week. There were 3 courses. They came out with a nice tasting salad, followed by the main dish of 2 fillets of sole (fish) served over wild rice and a nice helping of I think 8 asparagus shoots. Uh, pure heaven. I was doing so well. I didn't have any of the dinner rolls. But when they rolled out that chocolate cake, it was over. I'm a chocoholic that can't pass the stuff up. Oh well, it's a good thing I've got some intense weight training planned for today. I can use all of that excess sugar to help me pump some iron.
 
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well actually that sounded like a well balanced meal, so a piece of that cake is definitely ok in my book :D Italian ha? I love Verona, its very beautiful.

too bad for the letter though...i was looking forward to hear about some good practical joke hehe
have a great day !
Lena
 
oh wow! not the outcome i was expecting from that letter! :)

sounds like some yummy food, and good job on the intense weight training!

have a happy friday!
 
dazed and confused

I was at the gym this morning working out when my computer science Professor came up to me and asked if we could have a meeting. I didn't know what it was about, so I just said yeah. I tried to focus on my exercise, but the fact that she tracked me down kinda had me worried. So I leave the gym early and literally sprint over to her office and boy did I have a reason to be afraid. Out of no where she was like well I received your work that you emailed in to me, and I'm sorry to inform you that you mailed me work that wasn't your own. There I was looking at her like she was crazy. I say "what do you mean?" and she pulls up a file, opens it and there is my friend's name on my work, but the file is saved under my name.

I'm like, holy shit!!! How the hell did that happen??? She says "I don't know, do you want to explain the situation?" I was like, well I did my hw, saved it and mailed it. So she was like how did you get your friend's work?? I told her, I may have accidently saved her work as my own. She asks how that's possible. I tell her that my friend and I were using the same computer. We both had our excel work saved on the same computer so when I was uploading my homework onto my email, I got confused by which file was mine because both files were saved under the same name.

So I had to open up both hers and mine, to find out which was which and I guess in my haste to get home, I saved her file under my stuff. But it wasn't like it was a bunch of work. It was one assignment, and all of the other assignments had my name on them. One freaking mistake may cost me my reputation. At my school, we have this thing called community court, and teachers or your fellow students can take you there if they suspect you of having broken the honor code. If you're found guilty, you receive some kind of punishment. If you're found guilty for having been dishonest academically, say in your spanish class, then you get an automatic F that class. I'm like this can't be happening....I've worked so hard and this is a fecking nightmare.

I'm still in a daze kind of because now she wants to interview my friend. I told her go ahead. I even offered to run on over to where I did my hw email it to her, and run back to her office. She said, don't worry, I'll speak with your friend and then I'll check out the computer. I was like good. I even drew her a diagram of the computer lab and where she could find the computer I used. I was having such a good day...THIS REALLY SUCKS!!! I feel like...I don't even know how I feel because I'm just stressed out by the situation right now. I'm praying to GOD that this gets resolved favorably. Damn, one stupid mistake and I'm put on the firing line. Darn it!
 
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