Hey!
Welcome back.
So, when I first got to school, my friend Taylor and I had a running bet: Whoever lost the most percentage of body fat over the course of the semester would take the other out to dinner at a place of their choosing.
So, I started off the semester right away. I moved into an on-yet-off campus apartment with my roomate Katie and 4 other girls—meaning my meal plan was cut by like 75%.
This is AWESOM
E. because the food served in our school's caf is nothing short of terrible for you. I mean, Sodexo usually has a good reputation—if you only like to eat salad.
This is NOT AWESOME because I actually have to cook—with non non-stick kitchenware. Yes, you heard right, stuff sticks to them like you wouldn't believe.
But anyways, so one night I started to make chicken, and undercooked it....and introduced myself to my first diet—salmonella. That lasted for a few days and then I somehow contracted skin mites....basically, my life has sucked since I got here.
This made eating not at the top of my list—which it usually was. However, I began to not look forward to eatin
g, but to getting rid of my diseases, which I'm all cured now.
But I found this quote from Cisicero that says: "One should eat to live, not live to eat."
And I feel like this rings true to me. Eating has developed in our culture as something not just needed to survive. We have high-end restaurants, super-sized portions, and a whole channel devoted to food. It means a lot to us, and we'll make it taste as good as possible, no matter what needs to go into it. But when it comes to nutrition, I'll have to make another post after this one.
But even through my sickness and....mite-ness I still went to the gym and started running, lifting, and taking a dance class. I've taken dance for 10 years, and have been to competitions (and actually done well), but I've been for jazz and tap....not ballet, which I'm currently taking. At first, it was all a little ove
rwhelming to my non-flexable self, but I began to feel a little more relaxed when nearly everyone in the class didn't know what they were doing.
But after two weeks of cooking (or not cooking and eating yogurt) for myself and working out, I weighed myself today. Ah yes, the dreaded scale.
But I watched it tick downward.
After the first week of school and working out, I had weighed myself, only to find that I weighed about the same as when I got here—146 to 148.
But today, I weighed myself and I saw the scale balance at 138.
Holy shit.
How the hell did that happen?
Maybe it's because I stopped asking for cheese on everything, or when I went out to eat with my friends, I tok a few minutes beforehand to look at the nutrition facts of what I wanted to chow down on, or becau
se I managed o drag my lazy ass out of bed every day and over to the gym. Either way, I had done it, I had lost weight.
Now, after I had discovered this awesome-ness. I caught myself eating an extra cookie and Woodchuck at dinner, wanting to reward myself. I have to stop myself though and make sure that I don't keep "rewarding myself" back up to 148.
But today, this is basically what I ate:
DANCE CLASS
and
Rowing
Chicken Sandwich, no cheese, mustard please: 290 calories
2 white chocolate chip cookies: 380 calories
Woodchuck: 180 calories
Then:
Oatmeal wi
th apples and brown sugar (wanted to make you think that I made this with the title, but I actually got it from McDonalds: 290 calories
*adding in burnt calories*
So, all in all, I've had about.....900 calories today. I guess I could take a little more off from rowing and stuff, but I don't wanna get technical with it.
I feel like if I don't plan out what I'm going to eat for the next day, I'll epically fail. So, for your viewing pleasure, here's what I'm doing (and eating) tomorrow:
Intro to Imaginative Writing: 10:00-11:00
Workstudy: 11:00-1:00
*Run back to the apartment, have lunch, all that*
Costume Shop: 3:00-3:45
Interview: 4:00
Work out: 5:00-6:00
*run back to apartment, change, have dinner*
KX Initiation: 9:00
And that should be it. But what about what I'm eating?
Breakfast at 9:00 (or so):
Grapefruit: 150 calories
Lunch (at about 1:30):
Awesome Potato Soup: 360 calories
Snack (around 6:00, after working out):
Apple: 80 calories
D-d-dip it in yogurt (Key Lime Pie yogurt): 100 calories
Dinner (at about 8:00):
Hummus and turkey crackers (10 crackers, 2 tblspns. of hummus, six pieces o
f turkey): 290 calories
Altogether: 980 calories
So, nearly one thousand tomorrow, but I'll be working out and my workout goal will be to reach 500 calories, so maybe I can cut my intake by quite a bit. But let's face it, this "lifestyle" of mine isn't about calorie-counting, it's just about trying to be healthier and gaining nutrition and muscle mass, not losing them with the weight.
So, let's see if I can stick to this tomorrow and how well it'll go over.
But until then, I look to one man (other than my wonderful boyfriend) for inspiration. The awesome, the handsome, the all-around attractive ALAN RICKMAN!
Later! :)
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