Losing weight
Pat left to go back home for good this morning. I felt a little bad that I really didn't get to spend too much time with him this weekend because I caught a horrible cold (from him, might I add), but I will still get to see him on the weekends, so its not too big of a deal. He made a bet with me that every weekend he comes up here to visit we are going to weigh ourselves and whoever has lost more weight has to take the other one to a movie of their choice (no popcorn!). It sounds like a good plan to me. I'm a pretty competitive person, so hopefully this will kick me in the direction I need to go. I will probably lose this week; I hate working out when I'm sick! I just want to lay in bed and drink orange juice all day. So far I've made it to the couch. My poor dogs are out laying out on my back porch. I hate to leave them in their cages, so at least out there they can run around a little. I just can't have them in the apartment right now. Unless I had some bones for them, then they would just lay down and chew on them, but I can't go to the store.
Anyway, losing weight. I have been looking at the live journal communities for fitness tips (not that I need them with Ashley as my trainer, but I just like to look for maybe some inspiration). Most of them are full of anorexic or bulemic girls trying to weigh below 100. Its more than a little disturbing. It really just sickens me the extreme measures that people take to be thin. They just don't understand that there are healthy ways to lose weight, and that being ridiculously thin is not healthy. It takes time to lose weight right. The measures that they are taking are going to destroy their bodies, and in the long run they are going to gain it all back and just be more unhealthy than they were to begin with. But, you can't really say anything to them, because no matter how you phrase it, they take offense to it. I would love to be a fitness model or even personal trainer. Maybe I'll make that my plan B if the whole lawyer thing doesn't work out ;) I have a few plan b's... dog training, wrestling school, fitness model... Its crazy to think how focused I am on law school and then to think about the million other things that I want to do that I have just pushed aside. There just isn't enough time.
Happy New Year!
Anyway, losing weight. I have been looking at the live journal communities for fitness tips (not that I need them with Ashley as my trainer, but I just like to look for maybe some inspiration). Most of them are full of anorexic or bulemic girls trying to weigh below 100. Its more than a little disturbing. It really just sickens me the extreme measures that people take to be thin. They just don't understand that there are healthy ways to lose weight, and that being ridiculously thin is not healthy. It takes time to lose weight right. The measures that they are taking are going to destroy their bodies, and in the long run they are going to gain it all back and just be more unhealthy than they were to begin with. But, you can't really say anything to them, because no matter how you phrase it, they take offense to it. I would love to be a fitness model or even personal trainer. Maybe I'll make that my plan B if the whole lawyer thing doesn't work out ;) I have a few plan b's... dog training, wrestling school, fitness model... Its crazy to think how focused I am on law school and then to think about the million other things that I want to do that I have just pushed aside. There just isn't enough time.
Happy New Year!