New Week

Hola!
I looked back at what day I had last blogged, it feels like it was only a couple of days ago, but holy smokes-- it was a week ago! I just can't believe how insanely fast this week went by, especially since I had an incredible amount of work to do (I still do).
I still hate tracking. Like, with a passion. Almost more than I hate packing. And if you know me, that's a lot.
However, of the seven days, I tracked all but two. And that was yesterday and today.
In happier news, I did four Glorify sessions this week. I wasn't feeling the best Friday, so I didn't do it Friday but I did get up and do it Saturday. First off, I loved having it in my planner. It was visual every day. I couldn't cross it off if I didn't have to do it. I don't know why I haven't done this earlier. I mean, I plan things all the time. Second, I love calling working-out Glorify. It makes me more motivated to do it. Woo-hoo!
So I did both of my goals (almost)! Woo! This week, if I have time (maybe Friday-- we don't have school), I'm going to write a blog about my scale... It's been a long time coming and it sort of makes me frightened to write about it. But it's been inspired by another blogger, so we'll see how it all comes together. :)
Goals for this week!
1. Go to bed before 11 pm each night.
2. Eat vegetables or fruit before each meal.

I think that's enough for this week. I'm going to continue drinking water and doing Glorify. We will see where this week takes me!

Happy Holy Week! (That's sort of an oxymoron; oh well!) 

Tracking

You guys, I really, really, really, really, really (words cannot describe how much) hate tracking food. It's not just the writing what I put in my mouth down, but it's everything about the concept. I hate having to remember to write food down. I hate having to have paper in plain sight to help me remember. I hate having to write down "ice cream" and "cookies." *sigh*
This has been a complaint about one of my goals. 15 days to make a habit? And I'm only on day two of tracking? Gag me with a spoon. hahah

In other news, the whole Glorify thing has been working awesome. Two days done. :)

Spring and Things

So. Blogging.

Life has just been incredible insane these past couple of weeks. The week before the last I had an awful week. As in, words cannot describe how down I was feeling and angry I was situations I could not change. Nevertheless, I am in a much better place now. :) Last week we had spring break. I went to a speech tournament at the beginning (I got sixth! Woo-hoo!). Then I went home. My family is moving, so over break I did a lot of cleaning, and then a lot of homework. I'm still not as ahead on my homework as I would like to be (it's going to be a lot until I graduate. Oofta.). And now I'm back at school. So that's that. Let's get down to business.

I decided that I needed to start planning my work-out times in my planner. As in physically writing the times down that I was going to work-out, because if I don't, exercise might not happen. I wrote it in for the week, and it seemed to go pretty okay today, so that's awesome. I also didn't want to just write "Work-Out" in my planner. I don't know, I guess it just made me a little uncomfortable. So I had to think of a way to plan it without specifically saying that I was going to break a sweat while losing my bum-ness. I decided to call it "Glorify." Why? Well, I'll tell you.

1 Corinthians 10:31 "For whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God."
Our bodies are temples, and I decided that it's about time that I started to treat mine like one. Every move we make, we do it for the glory of God. I think that by calling my work-out time "Glorify," it's reminding me that I am not just working out to get healthy, I am working out to build up my temple. To build up the place where the Holy Spirit dwells. It also helps to give me motivation when I know I'm doing something specifically for the Lord-- to glorify Him. He's the one that's given me this body, and He's the one that I need to keep my eyes on. I think I might even change the name of the blog to Glorify. Not tonight. But maybe sometime.

I will continue to set goals, because that helps me in major ways. So. Goals.
1. Do all of my Glorify sessions this week. (I have four written down, with a fifth one on Saturday that may or may not happen).
2. Track what I eat. (This one is so hard for me, so I'm going to keep it at two goals this week).

Thanks for reading and taking the time out of your day to support me. I love you all!

Power Through

Hola amigos!

Well, this week has certainly had its ups and downs. One of my best friends dropped out of school, and quite frankly, that caused some pretty hard core emotional eating. But hopefully I can control that better this weekend.
As far as my goals- I'm blogging! So woo-hoo!
I did pretty well on drinking two water bottles each day. I think there was one or two days that I didn't. But I still drink water at all my meals, so it worked out.
And for working out, I did work out twice this week! Woot! I started doing Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred videos. I found them on youtube. I didn't know if I was going to be able to do it, but I felt pretty good after each time (sore, but good).

This week, my goals are as follows:
1. Power through until spring break. (I can do this).
2. Work out three times this week (either Pilates or Jillian Michael)
3. Brush my teeth twice a day. Because as I've mentioned before, "healthy" isn't an exclusive club of dieting and running.

And those are the goals for this week. I hope you all have a fantastic week! 

Speech

Today we had a speech tournament.
It went okay... Until supper.
After the tournaments, we always go out to eat as a team.
One of the girls requested that we go to Long John Silver's.

Holy Calories and Diabeetus (not the same thing as diabetes).

I didn't say anything, because she really wanted to go. And I don't really remember the last time I've been.

As much as I'd like to say I made healthy choices, I definitely did not.
And then I got back and had some left over ice cream from my roomie's birthday part last night.

And now I feel awful. Not just emotionally awful that I ate that food, but I literally feel sick.
I hope that I don't actually get sick; I'm teaching Bible class in the morning.
And I just needed to write about it and get it out in the open.
So boom. Done.

The music I'm playing right now is also being a bit derpy (like, stopping and going without me doing anything and skipping songs. It's weird.)

Good night, lovelies!

To Be Honest...

Hello lovelies!

Let's not talk about how long it's been since I've blogged, and let's greet each other as if no time has passed. 

Hi! How are things?! I haven't seen you in a while, but that's okay. Oh? You missed me? I missed blogging. I loved doing it, and it makes me a bit sad that I haven't been consistent with it. Yes, I've been busy. Yeah! I'm almost done with school, so nice of you to ask! 

... 

...

Hopefully that wasn't awkward for any of you. I just needed to get back in to writing to an "audience." 

This is going to be a longer post. Bear with me. 

Since May, which is the last time I blogged half-way consistently, I've pretty much flat-lined on the whole "weight journey" thing. So I'm going to try and start out again. I don't know how it will go, but I'm going to make a valiant effort, because truly, I do miss blogging and having some sort of accountability. 

Today it was snowy and I ate a box of Whoppers. In retrospect, I think I could have chosen a lot more healthy things to do, but it was just one of those days. haha 

I'm going to re-visit some of the things that I brought up in past posts, because I think it'll be a good reminder for you and me. 

"I'm not losing weight for those that have made fun of me. I'm not losing weight for others at all, in fact. I'm losing weight for me. Because I am concerned about me. It may sound narcissistic, but that's the way it has to be."--- I said this last January, and it still rings true. I'm doing this for myself, because when I was losing weight, I felt so good about myself and the decisions I was making. I also felt healthier.

"1. I will lose 80 pounds by May 25, 2013. [That's just under five pounds per month.]
 2. I will learn to cook good, healthy, and cheap food for one person.

 3. I will find a "healthy" ice cream. [This one's my favorite goal. :)]"
These were the three original goals that I started with last January. Quite frankly I don't think I even tried on the second goal. The third goal was a good one, but I stopped trying. I have reverted back to the good ol' Ben and Jerry's pint. And that's not even remotely healthy. At all... Like, "I am getting diabetes while I eat this" unhealthy.
As far as the first goal, I did make an attempt, and in fact I did do a pretty good job in January to April, but then I'm not entirely sure what happened. I just stopped blogging and stopped losing weight.

Thankfully, over the summer and last semester, I did not gain any of the weight I took off last semester, back. And that is truly an accomplishment.

So where do I go from here?
I don't know. Back to small goals, I think.

So. Next week, I hope to accomplish these:
1. Drink two water bottles each day. I have this one water bottle that is 32 ounces, so it's super easy to drink just two of those.
2. Work out at least twice this week.
3. Blog next week. Or in the middle of the week. Or whenever I feel like it.
I think that's enough goals for this week. haha I don't want to overwhelm myself.
Maybe a fourth one would be to send it to a few more people. I think I'm going to do that anyway.
Go team, go.

I'm sorry this was such a ridiculously long post. Hopefully, I will continue to make time for blogging. Because I've quite enjoyed it.

Have a lovely, snowy evening!

Commandeered!!!

Holy. Smokes.
It has been entirely too long. I do have to say though, for the past oh, three or four months, my blogger account had been commandeered! I had been using my school email account for this, and there was something with the thing in the deal and I just wasn't sure how to take care of it, but alas! I'm back!

I definitely have not been on top of game with the whole losing weight thing, although I haven't gained any of the weight back. I've been pretty good at maintaining this whole time I've been gone. So this puts me behind on my goals, but that's okay, because maintaining is better than gaining. For. Sure.

So I'm going to set two small goals (considering we're just coming off of Thanksgiving! haha). My goal is to drink 52 ounces of water each day.
My other goal is to blog again on Tuesday. I don't know why I started the blogging thing on Tuesdays, that's just what happened. haha

Here's to blogging again and losing the weight that I need to so I can be healthy!

Also-- I got a Pilates workout DVD. I did it tonight, and I like it already! Woo-hoo!

Until the next time (I promise, it won't be 4 months!).