OH yeah indoor!

Indoor soccer started tonight. It was SO much fun. I played great. We won, 1-0.

My back hurts. :( Chiropractor tomorrow and hopefully back to yogilates this coming week, if not in the next day or two.... Lots of homework coming up, though, so who knows.

Life sure makes it difficult to look after oneself, doesn't it?

Did I mention I LOVE soccer??

I love ice cream.

So, it's no secret amongst my in-laws that I LOVE ice cream. LOVE it. Soooo I'm not really expecting to lose any more girth this week, let's just say. hahaha

I DID run with Mi yesterday - something about running with her KILLS me - we were chatting about it when we finished. Is it because we're actually running faster or just a mental block for me?? I did my 5K on Monday with NO troubles, and then yesterday with Mi I'm DYING, just GASPING for air by the end. WITH a one-lap (200m) water-break after 3kms. I don't take breaks when I run by myself. Or with Blue Belle.

Anyway, yesterday it took us 33 minutes to do the 5K. Would definitely have been faster if poor Mi hadn't been slowed down by my desperation for water, but what can ya' do??

TODAY:
A HECK of a lot of walking ALL OVER the school. In sport psych we were examining team-building and got sent, literally, all over the place on a scavenger hunt. It was a BLAST and a tonne of walking. Then lots MORE walking to and from cars and errand-running....I walked around campus so much today that it's actually worth mentioning, which has to mean something because I almost NEVER mention it.
20 minutes Tae Bo :)
AND no yogilates, again. Which is sad. I need to figure it out and get that back in there 'cause it was previously my resistance training AND stretching (yeah, it's THAT awesome), so now I'm missing out on both. How did I fit it in before??? GAH! OH well!!

OH, and BY THE WAY - being a girl THIS is very exciting. :D

Gap 10

Sooo I didn't get too much when we were shopping - we had the entire family along with us and apparently the jelly doughnut is shrinking so quickly (YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY) that Mom suggested it sort of silly to buy me a whole bunch of new things while I'm in transition-mode. And I whole-heartedly agree. I found some things I would really really love to own but on the off chance that I really AM shrinking I couldn't justify spending good money on them, hoping they would be too big in a few months or even next year. (Ask Mr. Man and/or Mom - when I get an article of clothing I keep it FOREVER. I'm pretty good at resurrecting clothes from high school....)

BUT I did acquire a few new things so I at least feel like I can get dressed in the mornings - one pair of jeans and three tops, so now I have two pairs of jeans that actually fit me "properly" as opposed to when I wear Mr. Man's (which I LOVE to do). And let me tell you how AWESOME it was to buy my one new pair of jeans:

We were in the Gap, which apparently, while I was pregnant, changed its whole style. WEIRD, but okay. So I'm looking at jeans, kinda' laughing internally like, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, but I found a pair that I liked and figured, oh, what the heck. I grabbed a size ten knowing full well it would be too small and I wouldn't be able to cram my thunder-thighs through the legs and headed off to the fitting room. I stripped off my one pair of jeans that I LOVE and reached down to my feet with the too-small pair. And pulled one leg over my foot and up my leg, waiting for the moment when the pant-leg would get too snug and I wouldn't be able to get my hands up any further.....

IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!! I pulled on BOTH legs without ANY trouble, stood up, DID the jeans up, and stared open-mouthed into the mirror. THEY FIT!!!!

So, I know I know, size 10 isn't really anything to get TOO excited about. It's a double-digited number, still. But it's at LEAST a size smaller than I think I've ever been at the Gap, and it's a GAP size 10! It's not old-frumpy-ladies-r-us size 10, but GAP size 10.

So we bought the pants. Which turn out to be actually BAGGY in my legs, and leave a little room around the "waist".

Maybe this dream of 8 is attainable after all, even post-Little-Miss.....

YESTERDAY:
Ran 5K at school. I THINK it only took me 30 minutes - I forgot my watch and so was relying on the wall-clocks which sadly are not close enough to the track for me to be definitively sure, but I THINK it was only 30 minutes. I'm totally open to the fact that it may have been a minute or two (or three) longer because I am NOT a fast runner (ask Mi), but I'm hoping that with the exhaustion I was feeling and the fact that I've been running for a few weeks now that I've managed to shave that extra two or three minutes off my time and it really was only half an hour.

TODAY:
Nothing yet, but I have a date for a butt-kicking on the track this afternoon with Mi for another 5K. And if I'm really lucky I'll find some time after classes tonight to squeeze in a much-needed yogilates session, but it might not happen. Will report on that later!

Shopping Spree!

So I never got around to making any goals about the whole birthday-shopping from Mom because we never got around to planning when we were going. Anyway, we're going! We started tonight after she was finished work and are hitting the mall tomorrow, too! Don't worry, so far only Little Miss is getting spoiled. But she's REALLY getting spoiled. Remind me come Christmas time to post a picture of this year's Christmas dress....GORGEOUS!

Anyway, I do think that since my birthday there's been some slimming down going on, but I wasn't tracking diligently so can't say how I'm starting this shopping trip. Sad for me. I guess we'll know better how I do after tomorrow!

TODAY:
Ran on Mom & Dad's treadmill, which tracks distance in miles. 5K = 3.1 miles soooooo, WALKED for 5 minutes to warm up, 0.12 miles, ran 'till it read 3.42 miles, then walked to cool down 'till 3.60 miles. So in that mess I did run my 5K today, and it took about 32:30, which is a wee eensie teensie bit faster than before on the track. ;)

That makes 3 5ks this week, which I think is the most I've managed to get in, PLUS Wednesday's Tae Bo. hahahaha Been a good week!

"Day Off"

I had a good day today. Fun day. Hung out with this crazy guy at school between classes and had SUCH a laugh!! (Don't worry, I've reported all events to Mr. Man, so there's nothing like THAT to get in a fuss over) :P

I wasn't overly motivated today to workout - figured I've worked pretty darn hard the last two days and I'd give my poor little self a bit to relax. So I relaxed. Then I put Little Miss to bed and figured, what the heck!

I have these old Tae Bo videos, one is like, 20 minutes, so I popped it in for kicks. Hahaha Kickboxing. Kicks. Get it? Okay, it was by accident, so it's fine that it sucked. GEEZE people!! Anyway, it was nothing overly insane, but 20 minutes, got the heart pumping the sweat DRIPPING, and it's better than the nothing I had planned and different from the running that I've been pounding out. So, I'd say, good day!!

OH! And Big Momma was SUPER awesome today and told me how super-fast the Jelly Doughnut is shrinking, so YAY!! I was going to have Mr. Man take a picture tonight but now I don't feel like it. hahaha I'm all sorts of uber flighty today. Get over it. ;)

Going Ape

This was passed on to me from Mi, because last week I had a banana for dinner. :D

Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.

But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.

Depression
According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.

PMS
Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.

Anemia
High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.

Blood Pressure
This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.

Brain Power
200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

Constipation
High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

Hangovers
One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.

Heartburn
Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness
Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.

Mosquito bites
Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

Nerves
Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.

Overweight and at work?
Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.

Ulcers
The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

Temperature control
Many other cultures see bananas as a 'cooling' fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.

Smoking & Tobacco Use
Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.

Stress
Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.

Strokes
According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!

Warts
Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!

So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. Maybe it's time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, 'A banana a day keeps the doctor away!'

PS:
Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time! I will add one here; want a quick shine on our shoes? Take the INSIDE of the banana skin, and rub directly on the shoe, polish with dry cloth. Amazing fruit!!

TODAY:
60 minutes Yogilates this morning. Had a REALLY hard time with it today for some reason. I mean, obviously, I've had some time off, but I seemed extra-stiff. Mi suggested maybe just midterm-stress??? ANYWAY, whatever it was, I got through it.
Ran 3K, walked 200m with my water bottle, ran 1.8K, walked 400m for a total of 5.4K. I made the mistake of going with Mi. hahaha I knew she'd be faster than me but DANG I was having a hard time. Anyway, I felt the need for water after 3K and she suggested walking a lap with the bottle so I could get good and hydrated. AND my breathing in check. hahaha Sweet girl, that. ;) To do the 5K took 34 minutes. The walking severely added to the time. Anyway, I think I'm going to try to kill myself again next Tuesday and run with her again. ;) hahaha Wish me luck!

Live for Comments

hahahaha So I have some great comments and encouragement - THANKS all!! Blue Belle and I DID run today, Steph, I do NOT want to run with you yet; I'd NEVER keep up! And SERIOUS congrats on the half-marathon on the weekend - hurry up and post your stuff so I can link to it for my little band of readers, will ya'?! GEEZE!! And Mi, absolutely I'll meet you tomorrow. ;) And YES, Jennifer Rae, I AM that craftily talented. Just don't tell anyone.... hahaha

TODAY:
Ran 5k with Blue Belle. FORGOT to watch the clock. Duh. I need to just set the stopwatch on my watch when I go then I don't have to remember what time I started and finished, just the ONE number of how long it was! hahaha You'd think it wouldn't have taken me this long to think of that... Hey. I've JUST finished midterms. My brain has been a little wee bit preoccupied with Forces, Action Potentials, Jack Johnson, and the Dorsal Column Medial Lemniscal Pathway! ;) (Biomechanics, Physiology, Sport History, and Motor Control. Thank goodness Sport Psych has two midterms so they're spaced nice and far from that bottle-neck!!)
Got ready to do Yogilates tonight, but decided to return a phone call first to Auntie Anj, and delightfully talked so long that I ran out of yogilates time. I am bummed to miss the yogilates because, you may be aware, I've been feeling low about my physical fitness accomplishments and/or lack thereof (I feel FAT, is what I'm saying) but THRILLED to have such a good chat with a friend. Much needed, I'd say, on both our parts. And isn't mental huzzahness part of overall well-being? So STILL good!

Going to visit with my Mr. Man, now! Ta ta!!

What happened to October Goals?

Soooooooo I've been slacking. I'm happy to be the first to admit it, and sad that I am at a point where I have to say it. I DO think the midterms are a good, not EXCUSE, but REASON for having taken more time for school than for exercise this week ;) (my grades will definitely agree, I promise you), but I've let myself get so burnt out feeling that my non-studying time has been spent doing NON exercise things. But I DID make this WHICH I think is pretty cool. AND is work-related so it wasn't even like I was WASTING time!!

Anyway, I'm watching a video taken earlier today of me emceeing a children's talent show (we're giving the kids the video for Christmas) and feeling like a WHALE. I look GINORMOUS and THEN some poundage!! GAH!! Hopefully I'm the only one who will ever watch this video and think that, but it's discouraging.

At the same time, I had a great...encourager? hahaha today - I put on a pair of dress pants that Mom-O and I bought a good while ago, post-pregnancy, that were kinda' snug at the time but I figured, hey, if I need 'em I have 'em. Anyway, they're almost HUGE on me today, which in light of the fact I feel like a whale must mean I was beyond large when I bought them. But they're HUGE today, which means I'm SMALLER! Which means, IT IS WORTH IT to run 5K periodically!!

One more midterm, on Monday, and then expect to hear about me being totally and completely back on track. And leave me mean and rude comments about being a fat-reared slacker. PLEASE. I need all the help I can get!!

Thanks for "listening" to me tonight - a bit of a pity-party rant, but it is what it is.

Midterms

So I had a midterm last Wednesday, one today, have two on Thursday coming and one next Monday.

Time has become a very very valuable thing.

TODAY:
Ran 4.6k (after writing my biomechanics exam!) on the indoor track - I was aiming for another 5k, but stopped two laps short due to a rather sharp pain running from the front of my left hip back through my bummy! I couldn't at the time tell if it was just a cramp or something more serious, and as it was starting to make me run funny I figured taking it easy was best. I DO think, now, that it was probably just a cramp, but better safe than incapacitated!! Walked the remaining 400m, and back to the changeroom, then all the freaking way to the car - the parking lot is SO FAR AWAY, especially after a good long run. Well, it feels like a long run. ;)

And that is that. :D

5 years

SO today Mr. Man and I have been married for five years. CRAZY!

It's funny - it seems like we've just always been together, that we've been married for as long as I can remember. But if I do try I can think of times when we weren't together, not even dating. hahaha LOTS of those times. And yet, at the same time it feels like just yesterday we GOT married, not five YEARS ago!!

And here we are. Mr. Man, Little Miss, though she's not been with us the whole five years, OBVIOUSly, myself, the jelly doughnut and the cats, Toad & Fox. (YES we KNOW they're cats and that there are other animals whose species are identified by the words "toad" and "fox": Toad is named for Toadstool from Mario Bros., and Fox is named for Lucius Fox from Batman. GEEZE!)

TODAY:
Anniversary day! We had SUCH a nice, laid back day. Went to Marineland and walked EVERYWHERE. It's a relatively small amusement park but well spread out and we walked back and forth and back and forth so we could see everything we wanted at the times we wanted when we wanted ;). I was pretty bagged, actually, by the time we were done, and I can run 5K! hahaha So you KNOW we did a bunch of extra walking. ;)
And I DID get in my 60 min yogilates after Marineland, while Little Miss napped, before dinner. It was very nice of Mr. Man to let me take the time out of our time to do it. BUT he doesn't really mind the effect it has on my hotness level sooooo.... ;)

No Wii Fit measures today, and I can't be bothered to do it now. I even think that when I hit POST it's going to say that this is Oct. 12 - our anniversary is the 11th, FYI.

OH, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! (Yes, that's right - we're Canadian). ;)

Let's get serious

Okay, so I just wanted to address a couple of things.

FIRST off THANKS to everyone for comments both on and off the blog - it really helps with my own motivation. ESPECIALLY people who are setting their own fitness goals - I LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear about them!!

Here's the let's-get-down-to-business part: I hope that you realize that, at least for now, this is a HUGE part of my life - I go to school every day to study the human body and how it works and moves and why things do this and that and the next thing. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE what I do. Granted, cellular physiology can get a bit dry but when you put it in the big picture - HEY COOL! (Did you know you use calcium in your MUSCLES to allow for the use of energy? That's right, it's NOT JUST for your bones!)

For quite literally years now I have been immersed in all things physical/fitness related. I can't get enough.

SO if you're setting your OWN goals and/or plans and think hey-maybe-I'm-NOT-as-up-on-this-stuff-as-my-buddy-Red-because-I'm-a-genius-at-economics (FASCINATING subject, by the way) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE feel free to tap into ME and get some feedback! And no OF COURSE I don't think I'm the be-all-and-end-all of fitness knowledge, obviously. Well, I hope that's obvious. Mi, if you read this post you'll laugh - you KNOW I'm not smart in all things this-related! hahaha BUT hopefully I can help dissuade some of the silliness that a lot of us find so easy to buy into.

TAKE IT SLOW - you don't want to lose weight to fast! Your body likes its weight where it is, even if you're 300lbs! It takes being a weight for about a year for that weight to be your body's new favourite weight SO, SERIOUSLY with weight loss you want to go at the pace of the tortoise. If you take a hare approach to it your body is going to try DESPERATELY to snap itself back to it's favourite weight, wherever you just came from. Don't DO that to yourself - you want the hard work to pay off for good!!

I was asked in the comments on my last post if I'd recommend the Wii Fit - it totally depends on the person. Any training regime is going to depend on the person - do what you love to do! My CONCERN with the Wii Fit is that it's probably not enough for an active person. You have to use it wisely, I'd say, to get a good workout from it. On the OTHER HAND, if you DO weigh 300lbs and live on the couch, the Wii Fit will get your ginormous butt OFF the couch and won't let you push yourself too hard, so it's awesome for that.

My FAVOURITE part about the Wii Fit is the charts and graphs so I have a visual of my progress. Even with my weight yo-yoing back and forth each day, as everyone's does (YES that's normal), I can see a general downwards trend in my weight. It's very encouraging. So, take that as you will - Wii Fit is FUN and for some people, the perfect fit to get started exercising. For me...it's just fun and a good way to track myself.

Okay, longest post ever?? Probably. If you ARE working on your own goals and want some input from a way-too-pushy me, please by all means feel free to drop me a line in the comments or e-mail me: redlovestomove@gmail.com. This stuff is WHAT I DO so I'm ALWAYS happy to help. :)

TODAY:
60 minutes yogilates - interrupted by a phone call, which I would have just let ring BUT I forgot to turn the ringers off after putting Little Miss to bed and so DASHED to the phone the instant I heard it. THEN it was about work so I took a breather for a few minutes while that got sorted out. Was actually like, right at the 30-min mark, so broke things right in half.

Wii Fit measures:
Weight: 175.3lbs
BMI: 28.17

And I realize I'm BEYOND due for photos of the jelly doughnut - I'll get on it, eventually. Kinda' hasn't been priority lately. ;) My legs are hard as rock, though, in case you were wondering. muahahaha!

Stolen Time ;)

Ahhhhhhhhh..........

WHAT a great day!!

Besides a little pang of missing the Little Miss, I had a GREAT day.

Midterm wasn't NEARLY as scary as I'd anticipated (let's hope the person marking it feels the same way!), and I was done early, so went running on the track. :) THEN to lab which got out early and then...that was IT! My other lab for the day was cancelled!! So I was ALL done school (and a run) by 10:40 this morning and no Little Miss 'till 2:30pm! WOOHOO!!

Soooooo.....

I came home, had a BATH (I didn't shower after the run before the lab - ICK) read a magazine, got cleaned up and dressed, did laundry, FOLDED laundry and even PUT IT AWAY, oh yeah, there was lunch, a movie with the laundry, ran the dishwasher.... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what a satisfying day!!

THEN I got Little Miss and we took ME to the doctor. Here's the report, so far:
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. It's likely that I just had a moment where my blood pressure dropped and left me KATHUMP on the floor, which has some name or other. JUST IN CASE we're running some serious blood tests (I have a history of problems with iron i.e. anemia - hooray) to see if that may be it, AGAIN, but nothing seems so out of the ordinary that anyone needs to be worried. (So STOP WORRYING you darling darling people!! I'm FINE!!)

TODAY:
Ran(ish - more like painfully-slowly-jogged, I will admit) another 5K. It was WAY harder than on Monday with Blue Belle. Huh. BUT I knew I could do it, so I did it. I really wish I had timed us on Monday though so I'd know if today was harder just because I went faster or if it's because I was feeling lazy.... Anyway started at 8:57 and finished at 9:33 sooooo....36 minutes. :) Ran the 5K, walked an additional 400m to try to get my poor racing heart (I full on RAN the last 200m) back to somewhere near normal, before hightailing it to the locker room and then across campus, literally, to lab.
60 minutes yogilates (while and after Mr. Man put Little Miss to bed and then got some work done).

I haven't done a Wii Fit test - let me go do that right now......
Wii Fit Measures :D
Weight: 174.4 lbs
BMI: 28.03
Which is apparently 7.9 lbs less than last time I measured myself, 12 days ago. I'm going to guess that somewhere in that insane flux I've actually lost a little bit of weight!

So...midterm tomorrow....

GAH!

Okay, so I'm definately just procrastinating another five minutes and then I HAVE to read over my notes. I have a midterm bright and early tomorrow morning at 8 in my sport psychology class and I HAVEN'T STUDIED YET! I'm SUCH an idiot!!

Today, Mr. Man is away at a conference for work, which means that some of my precious exercise/study time was completely eaten up driving Little Miss from day care to awesome-people-who-are-crazy-and-agreed-to-watch-her-while-I'm-in-evening-class. THEN finally time to get home, eat (Thanks, Uncle Ben!) put Little Miss to bed, print off notes and BOOM I have GOT to study, so NO CAN DO yogilates or anything tonight.

Sooooooo between the whole fainting thing (doctor appointment tomorrow afternoon - will let ya' know) and the whole midterm thing, my October goals aren't going so well. BUT after October is November, then December which is FINALS, then four more months 'till the end of the school year....

It's all within reach! ;) hahahaha As Blue Belle kept chanting on her way to 5K on Monday: "I CAN DO HARD THINGS!"

(SIDE note: got our mark back on the super-awesome George Chuvalo biography project for sports history that I hope you've all checked out ;) and thought you'd be thrilled to know we got 98%. Yeah, that's right. Freaking AWESOME! If I'm gonna' get fat at least I'll be SMART doing it! hahaha)

BOOYAH I'm AMAZING

Yeah, I can totally run 5k. YIPPIE!!!

(And no more fainting spells - yay! I AM going to the doctor about that...don't worry!)

Thanks, Blue Belle, for being my extra motivation today! :)

Fainting schmainting!

SO, I'm going running today with Blue Belle. She's worried I'm going to kill her - no promises, but I AM planning to push her pretty hard. ;) Should be fun!

Haven't been around much lately - I don't know if I'm ill or just unlucky (is this getting old yet, or what??) as I have yet to get to the doctor BUT on Friday when I woke up and got out of bed I fainted immediately. It was WEIRD.

Anyway, I'm still alive, and feeling pretty back to normal, today, so far. It's 8:12am so there's still lots of time for me to fall apart - I figure that the run today will either make or break me, so you can check back later to see what's up. Hopefully it's me.... ;)

Welcome October

Well, it's a new month, I'm NOT sick, as I was to start last month, and I've just put the polishing touches on this project of mine (SERIOUSLY check it out and learn some fascinating stuff about a fascinating man - at least it was fun to do, right?) so I'm on track to GET MY LIFE BACK! Or at least in order until school's done... ;)

NEW MONTH:
Let's plan the shopping, and set a specific goal related to that. I need to call my mommy....
Yogilates 5-6 times per week - because I love it and it's good for me and I need to de-aweorjaeflkm regularly to stay on top of things.
Cardio/aerobic exercise AT LEAST three times per week. Always with me it's been that if I'm going to see any 'significant' changes I need to be working my butt off like, constantly, so if we're aiming to look awesome in sexy pants when I go shopping then I may definately want to strive for more than 3 times. I like to think I'm a realist, though, and sadly NOT superwoman, though I try, so more than 3 might be out of my capabilities with everything else I'm juggling.
IF I FIND THAT'S THE CASE then I'll really re-evaluate my schedule and try to FINALLY adjust my eating habits. I'm super super weird - I'd literally rather work out for hours a day than restrict anything I have to eat. I LOVE LOVE LOVE food. I think if it weren't for the amount of food I've always been able to pack away that I'd be like, well, yeah. hahaha A lot closer to HOT than not.

Okay, so those are the goals for October, starting TOMORROW (I'm NOT working out now, it's 11:27pm! GEEZE!)

Check up on me and keep me accountable, people! People seem to be the thing that motivates me better than any other, so HELP! hahaha