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Thursday, October 24, 2013
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10.24
So....tired....can't....think.....
What a day! I think my week is starting to get to me.....
On the bright side, I'm doing something fun tomorrow and I found an article for my presentation that should be easy enough to translate.
I think I've officially applied to everything I'm going to apply to (unless something awesome comes up or something or something over here falls through pretty quickly, which will more than likely happen)!!!
I can't wait to reset next week y'all....
What a day! I think my week is starting to get to me.....
On the bright side, I'm doing something fun tomorrow and I found an article for my presentation that should be easy enough to translate.
I think I've officially applied to everything I'm going to apply to (unless something awesome comes up or something or something over here falls through pretty quickly, which will more than likely happen)!!!
I can't wait to reset next week y'all....
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10.23
Crazy next few days coming up. My sleeping pattern is going to be way off/ non-existent :/ I think I can finally handle real food again! No circuit yesterday or today. Once I actually get out of crazy mode, things will be much better.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
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10.22
Successful first day of weaning myself off sugary drinks. No coffee or soda! My lunch made me a little sick so I just had something bland for dinner. I woke up too late to eat breakfast though...#notcool. I took a super long nap today and I realized that I'm actually pretty caught up in all my classes coming off my crazy weekend so I can take it easy tonight. I'm still going to get a lot of work done, but I can stop whenever I want which is awesome. I ended up getting to bed at 4am...ugh. It made getting through class tough, but I took a mental health break and skyped my friends and family yesterday, which is why everything got pushed back. Plus I napped lol. It's so important to try and maintain balance when possible. No, getting to bed that late is not great, but I felt so much better after I talked to my friends so it was worth it. I really feel like doing a circuit so I may try doing one today or tomorrow!
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10.21
Real food today, great nap AND an 100 on my quiz y'all today is a good day!!!! More importantly, I can start getting back into eating properly and doing my circuit again....slowly. It's really important to try and eat and be as healthy as possible when your sick and stay hydrated. I started to come down with a cold I think because I haven't really been able to do anything other than drink water and carbo. load since that's all my stomach can handle. So thankful my vegan ways will have me back to feeling great in now time! All of my friends have been really supportive of me over the past week. Feelin' the love. It's a great feeling to know to at least one other person cares about you and they show it by checking up on you and offering to help you if you need anything. My relationships with my friends isn't perfect, but I they are the best bunch of friends I could ask for :) Now, I just have to do a ton of work so I can wake up for my 8 am class tomorrow.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
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10.20
Still queasy today so I'm still doing the rice thing, but (drum roll please) I GOT MY APPS TURNED IN! I feel like I weight has been lifted off me....well, until I have to do my next round of stuff haha, but still. I'm very proud of myself for sticking it out. I started out Friday with pretty much nothing done and now I finished all 10 of my apps. It wasn't easy especially on account of my being sick the whole time, but I'm pretty happy with the materials I turned in. All I can do is sit back and wait to hear if I get any interview offers. This has been one heck of a journey up until this point. I've learned a lot about along the way too! I'm hoping I can start eating something else a little more nutritious flavorful tomorrow and maybe workout later on this up coming week :)
10.19
Hey everyone! Sorry for being MIA for so long. I've actually been horribly sick since my last post, so pretty much everything has gone out of the window. I'm still nauseous and my appetite is pretty null, but I want to get back into my routine as soon as possible. Crazy amount of apps due be tomorrow back home so I've been up working nonstop to fine tune everything, which hasn't been the best for my health. I'm not going to set an alarm tonight so I can try and get some rest and I'll wake up and turn everything in tomorrow. I'm sleepy so I'd rather be coherent when I hit submit lol. My account was approved for AdSense (yay) so I'm pretty jazzed about that. Not jazzed, however that I couldn't work out this week and my fruits and veggies spoiled since I became too sick eat (I'll spare the details) and now I'm still having a little trouble keeping food down. Need to do some light busy work before I get ready for bed. Till tomorrow :)
Monday, October 14, 2013
10.14
More family problems this morning :/ Kind of put a damper on my day, but I know everything (eventually) will be ok. I need to focus on school and internship now and over the past couple of days that's been pretty hard to do. This week is going to be a little crazy, especially tonight but I'll push through and get everything done :) It's starting to get cold out so I need to go buy clothes and shoes this upcoming weekend. I wish I could go earlier, but I just don't have time. I'm doing a super early dinner today and maybe a light snack later. I need to take a break, but I don't have time to take a break now and go make food later so I'm just going to do both now lol. I've noticed my site has been getting a lot more traffic recently. Thanks everyone! It really means a lot to me :)
Sunday, October 13, 2013
10.13
Such a good day today! Pretty productive (and the day isn't over yet!), leftovers were amazing, no complaints for the first night with my new beauty products, found a new way to cook my eegs with burning them and I just took a fantastic nap lol. Light dinner tonight. I slept in today and as a result, my whole day got shifted so I'm actually not the hungry and I don't plan on staying up super late. I need to go to the store so I'm going to suck it up and do that now. I was going to go earlier so I could walk, but I really needed the sleep so I'm just going to take the bus instead. Really looking to my menu for this week. Going to be trying some new recipes. Hoping all goes well!
10.12
Oops forgot to post earlier. Today actually ended up being a pretty good day. Lots of ups and down I had an emotionally horrible night/ early morning), sleep deprivation and trying news things, talking to friends and family but all in all, as I write about my day, it was a a good one. Took a much needed break. Excited to go to the store tomorrow so I can do my first round of buying stuff for my raw foods kick. I also bought some new beauty products so it will be interesting to see how might night goes. I need to watch my spending! Too many treats over the past couple of days. Thank god I have school coming up Monday so I literally won't have time to go buy more stuff lol. I didn't really eat very much today. Pretty much didn't have lunch and dinner was ok, but I ended up buying too much food so I'll have left overs tomorrow which saves me the time of really having to cook the majority of meal. Going to get back on track with working out as well. I feel refreshed. Tough week ahead but I feel like I'm back on top things; done with trying to catch up.
Friday, October 11, 2013
10.11
I think things are starting to turn around :)
I've decided to try doing more raw food based diet lunch and dinner ideas as a way to help get me back on track. It also might help with my acne which would be sweet. I treated my sister to lunch and a little light shopping. It's been such a long time since we were able to hang out and have fun. It made me really happy. Lunch was super unhealthy though, but I'm not mad or going to complain. Spending quality time with my sister was worth it. Class went ok...? I'm not really sure. I did some parts of my assignments wrong and my second class was horrible because I missed the day when they started the new topic so I didn't really understand what was going on the topic for the new chapter is actually horrible. I'm still pretty full from lunch so I think I'm going to pass on dinner. Lots of work lies ahead this week, but I think I'm mentally ready for it. Had an off couple of weeks, but I'm beginning to get back to believing in myself again. It's kind of hard to admit that I didn't for a while, but I'm only human. Some times people break but that doesn't mean they can't put themselves back together again!
I've decided to try doing more raw food based diet lunch and dinner ideas as a way to help get me back on track. It also might help with my acne which would be sweet. I treated my sister to lunch and a little light shopping. It's been such a long time since we were able to hang out and have fun. It made me really happy. Lunch was super unhealthy though, but I'm not mad or going to complain. Spending quality time with my sister was worth it. Class went ok...? I'm not really sure. I did some parts of my assignments wrong and my second class was horrible because I missed the day when they started the new topic so I didn't really understand what was going on the topic for the new chapter is actually horrible. I'm still pretty full from lunch so I think I'm going to pass on dinner. Lots of work lies ahead this week, but I think I'm mentally ready for it. Had an off couple of weeks, but I'm beginning to get back to believing in myself again. It's kind of hard to admit that I didn't for a while, but I'm only human. Some times people break but that doesn't mean they can't put themselves back together again!
Thursday, October 10, 2013
10.10
OK day. Turns out 70% of the work I stayed up to do last night was a waste. One of my professors was also a little rude to us today. On the one hand, I'm not even mad about doing the work and it's nice to know I can meet the expectations I set for myself. On the other, I'm haunted cranky and desperately want to sleep but still have a ton of work to do, part of which I could have done yesterday.... I need to stop over eating. Multiple nights of separate dinners is not cool and I can feel myself slipping back into my old habits :( Tomorrow should be much better. My stress levels should come down a good bit. I'm going to figure out a way to get back on track...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
10.9
Decent school day. Bad food day...Instead of focusing on what went "wrong," I'm going to get myself back on track and get back on top of my school work, my eating and exercising. I think I hit an emotional low and kind of stayed there for most of my afternoon. I pretty much internationally pigged out. I was feeling stressed and a little lonely earlier and now I feel stressed, lonely and sick.... Tomorrow should be better for a variety of reasons. Too lazy to type the rest of my thoughts out. Need to get back to work. Writing what little I did, definitely helped.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
10.8
Pretty great day today. Some recruiters emailed me back right after I sent my initial round of emails which was awesome. I had to stay up later than I waned to though to respond to all of them, but I was pretty proud of myself for taking the first step. I had an awkward nights sleep. I felt well rested, but I never felt like I went to sleep. I think I tossed and turned and had my eyes close most of the time... I came back and did some work then took a nap after I made lunch. I "accidentally" ate both my my lunch and dinner for lunch today, which is ultimately probably for the best. I felt hungry and I didn't really feel like I overate afterwards. I've been feeling like I've been under eating at each day for lunch and dinner. Not today, I treated myself to a dish a really. It had egg in it though, but I think I'm going to make a concession and start eating them again as its a good source (and would really be my only source) of protein. I've been doing good with eating enough vegetables, but I need to work on getting enough protein and fruits. I'm going to back to doing an apple with my oatmeal and smoothies on days where I don't have morning class. Gotta start somewhere...the vitamins I bought are a tad salty, which makes me mad, but it's better than nothing. I really don't consume sodium either so I don't think it'll be too harmful for this month. I'll order something else next month. I wished I had my calorie counter, but it's a good lessen in making do with that I got. I think I'm doing pretty good all things considered. I did my circuit last night which made me happy, but I'm not sure if I'm going to make it to the gym and do my circuit tonight. I just ate (it was kind of heavy) and I'm going through some pretty bad fatigue right now. I can definitely do the circuit tonight, but with 8am classes again tomorrow, I'd rather get as much sleep as possible. My dinner had rice (a trigger food), but I need to teach myself to understand my relationship with certain foods rather than stay away from them completely. I have more self-control than that. I shouldn't deprive myself of foods that I can just watch how I eat them instead. In hind sight, doing that is kind of ridiculous.
Monday, October 7, 2013
10.7
Mood was crazy off today. I finally got some work done last night and today, but man, I did not have the energy to do most of it. I still feel kinda blah right now. I'm hoping tomorrow will be better. I'm going to give myself another break and go to the store then come back and do some work. I'm really not feeling dinner right now (which is bad, I know), but I ate a bigger lunch and I don't have the energy to cook right now, which is why I ate out earlier. On the bright side, my tummy feels better and I don't think my week will be super stressful because I am getting a lot of work done now. I was feeling pretty stressed out earlier, but I think I'm starting to calm down again and rationalize where I'm at with some stuff. I kinda realized that I'm not behind and that the amount of internship related work I have to do isn't that bad. I'm also hoping my new study method works well for class tomorrow. Despite my lack of motivation right now, I want to try and move away from having to write everything down...I kinda need to talk to someone about something. I've been trying to wait a week, but its starting to eat away at me and I don't think I'll really feel better until I say something. It's nothing bad, but it's probably going to open up a can of worms that I'm not going to want to deal with. I don't really like talking about my feelings y'all :3 I'll blog about it afterwards, promise lol.
Sunday, October 6, 2013
10.6
The tea I bought made me disgustingly sick all day yesterday and left me with no appetite today :/ I loss 4 pounds from yesterday to today and I could barely get down the vegetables I made for lunch and dinner because I didn't want them to spoil and they were expensive. The pollution is also really bad here today, which made me break out a little :/ I'm really committed to get my weight and skin under control before I go back home and I just felt kind bummed out today. I was not happy with the way I looked. I did, however, splurge and buy something to help with my acne since I don't think my US stuff is strong enough and I also got something to help with teeth whitening, vitamins (I've gone without them for a month because I ran out. Even though they aren't the same kind that I use back home, it's better than nothing and I could read the label lol), an emory board for my nails, socks, and a scarf. All things that I needed. I also walked around the mall today, which made me happy because 1) I saw a ton of things I wanted to buy which is going to help keep me motivated to save as much money as I can and go shopping right before I leave and 2) because I saw stuff that I could easily fit into. Non-scale victory. 4 years ago, after I gained all that weight, I could barely find anything in markets that would fit. I've already bought a dress from a department store which is awesome. I'm hoping the acne stuff I bought helps....My hyper pigmentation is getting better but getting new acne always makes it harder to clear my skin up because it's so sensitive. No gym today. I just didn't have the stomach to do it. I've also been putting off doing work/ facing my future and I'm going to make myself start looking for an internship tonight and doing my homework. I've been putting it off for days, and while I am excited to be here/ look for a job, it's just a lot of pressure and I know failing to either is not an option. Plus I stress out easily which doesn't help. I think I'm going to go the bakery and grab some fresh bread and warm coke for my stomach. I had an early dinner, but I don't want the veggies to be the last thing in my stomach for today. I'm probably just being greedy, but it went down fine the first time when I had it for breakfast and my stomach is kinda upset from lunch and dinner. Tonight is going to be a long night. I'm probably never going to drink that tea again haha.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
10.5
Push meal times back to 7. With my workouts, 6 is just too early because my hunger doesn't hit me until much later in the day.. I also had a great workout. Interesting how I burned more calories today with my new routine. I also started my strength training today. I was able to get through the circuit once. I'm going to work up to doing it several times a day. Gotta start somewhere. I also pigged out last night. didn't realize how hungry my workout was going to make me. Veggie sub was fine but then I bought some chocolate buns and chocolate doughnuts…not so great. The buns were fine bc I really wanted them, but the doughnuts were too much. I felt obligated to finish to them even though about half way through I didn't want anymore. Coming off this vacation and all that good food, I had stuff with a lot of sugar in it, which I'm not used to anymore. Now my craving sugar all the time….ugh it's the worst. The cravings are hard to ignore too :/ I ended up getting some Oreos today instead of the buns because I want to try and get myself off eating the buns then getting off sugar completely. I've noticed they are happening at night either right around dinner time so it's a little better then when I first came back when I just wanted to eat sugar all day. I'm going to try something new with my lunch and dinner plans. I made squash pasta, which even though it didn't turn out so so well, I'm going to try doing two veggie meals a day with oatmeal as my major carb for breakfast. I think the pasta is just a source of unnecessary calories when I can substitute it veggie like squash. I accidentally bough laxative tea :/ It's working, but I didn't realize that that's what kind of kind of tea it is… Imma hold on drinking this all the time lol.
Friday, October 4, 2013
10.4
l spent an hr at the gym today! Pretty proud of myself for sticking it out. On days where I don't have class or morning class, I'm going to try and bump up to 60 mins instead of 30. I was a little bummed that my food schedule was a little off today. I bought a ton of fresh veggies for 2 meals today and I ended up making a new friend (yay) who wanted to go out to lunch so I was kinda stuck with not being able to cook. I guess it's fine. I just hate spending money on going out when the only things I can usually order vegetable-wise are a couple of dishes drenched in sauces, oil and salt (such a waste of money), but making new friends is always good so it was worth it. After my work out, I wasn't feeling super hungry so I could grabbed some almonds and sweet potatoes for dinner. Not the worst food day and certainly not the best. I started drinking this new tea today and I think it's supposed to help curb my appetite which is why I'm not super hungry now. I'll see how this first round goes. I definitely don't want to find shortcuts for loosing weight, but since I drink tea every day, I figured it wouldn't hurt to at least try it. It definitely won't be sustainable in the long run (I'm leaving at the end of the semester so buying it would be nearly impossible after that) so it may not be worth it. Plus, I feel like I'm cheating and the guilt also isn't worth it. The smoothie I had for breakfast was amazing though. It made me so happy! I also did my first weigh-in today. I've lost about 3 pounds since I've been here. Mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I haven't gained any weight, which is a complete 180, but, on the other, I thought I had lost more, but that might be a little irrational. My clothes were fitting super loosely after I washed them and, while I do think I've lost something (inches, weight, idk) in my things, my stomach has stayed about the same, which kinda bums me out. On the same hand though, I'm literally only doing cardio so there's not much I can say. I'm worried that if I try and tack on too many things, I'll get overwhelmed and quit so I'd rather nail down going to use the treadmill every day before I start doing abs, weights, squats ect because that's happened in the past a lot. I also haven't been working out regularly or really eating enough to keep my body at a healthy calorie intake until these past 2 weeks so I can't really complain. I'm also tying to figure out how much of my initial weight loss from my changed to veganism and how much can be attributed to my working out. After about the first 20 pounds, things have been moving at a much slower pace, which worries me because I still want to hit my goal weight by my birthday. I don't think it's going to happen now because I want to loose weight in a healthy, sustainable way, so I'm going to try to shoot for another 10-15 pounds by January, which seems realistic and healthy as long as I eat properly and work out regularly I figure I can loose the rest of the weight over the course of spring semester since to help keep me focused and my fitness goals. It will only be another 20-30 pounds at the point. I've gained the most weight/ had the most unhealthiest habits in those two places so I want to prove to myself that I can loose weight and stay on track and not getting out of control again despite being back in those same two environments. Did much better with my cravings today. I don't really think I had any :)
Thursday, October 3, 2013
10.3
I'm having horrible sugar cravings coming off of my vacation :3 These next couple of days are going to be hard. I did ok today. I was able to fight most of my cravings today. I started doing some lat night snacking before I left and I was able to keep myself from buying my go-to treat when I went to the store. For lunch, ended up going across the street and getting a dish that I normally like to eat and I realized today that 1) not only was it not as good as I remembered it being a week ago, but 2) it wasn't worth it. I've worked really hard. Today might not necessarily count though due to my eating schedule was off because I slept most of the day, had no food in my room, and had no energy to do anything other than make it to the store and buy food for the next two days. I don't think I'll be getting that dish again nor will I keep buying my late-night snack. I also bought a scale and water pump today! Weighing in will definitely help me stay determined with keeping up with the weight-loss goals I've set for myself and now I can drink as much as I want each day. I'm going to try and worry less about getting off track and focus more on eating and working out regularly. Gym tomorrow.
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