My "sister" and I flew out to California for a college friend's wedding, so have decided to treat ourselves with this little girl's trip. We've left both of our partners, gotten a ridiculous suite overlooking a cove. We also somehow were able to rent a Mustang and have enjoyed zooming all over this hilly city.

A new development in our friendship is ( Read more... )

I have realized I fucking hate working out. I did some research about how I used to do the work-grad school-healthy living thing and realized that, uh, I just kinda did it. I did some planning, looked at my schedule, and penciled in what I could accomplish in the time I had. My old planners are littered with little calendars with nights crossed ( Read more... )

I've maintained consistency for the past week, so have lost about two pounds since starting the new job and schedule. I realized I needed to work towards adding back in exercise. When I was in grad school and doing this healthy journey, I would work full-time, go to grad school, and still work out consistently. There are definite issues signing ( Read more... )

On Friday, I decided to get on the treadmill again. I had completely destroyed my office, so shuffled around things to get the treadmill locked and loaded. After unsuccessfully finding anything on Verizon OnDemand that piqued my interest, I decided to watch Property Brothers and see where the treadmill took me ( Read more... )

It's amazing how much the mind fights for attention; how we feel we deserve something, when in actuality, it's more common than not ( Read more... )

Tonight, I decided to go ahead and do it. Donned the new shoes, put on the once-familiar sports bra and shorts. I no longer had the excuses: I came out of my quasi-depressive slump, we bought the treadmill, I have new shoes finally, and even bought new socks. Finally settled on watching Girls that I had on my HBO app on the Kindle. I found the ( Read more... )

Whew, I am going to hurt tomorrow. I had talked about switching up my exercise routine frequently, glad I was finally able to get back to spin this past Sunday. FINALLY. Took me three weeks to get there, but I did, dammit, and felt like a bad ass afterward. I was really glad I did it, and kept trying to ride the exercise high for the rest of ( Read more... )

The challenge starts tomorrow at 100pounds2lose. I weighed myself yesterday morning in at 219.6. Again, the hovering thing, but I haven't done a lot to try and focus on losing weight since I was gorging due to pre-Lenten fast. I'm hoping to lose somewhat this challenge, seeing as I still want to be around 200 pounds by my birthday, which is in June ( Read more... )

I came to school today in order to do some prep work for the break, meet with my supervisor, review an exam, and get a general head start. I had originally planned on going to the 1215 spin class, but when I got to the gym, they stated they had cancelled classes due to spring break. FAIL. So I still logged in and changed, figuring I could use ( Read more... )

Finally, my head cold became more manageable, so I was able to use part of the gym pass yesterday and today. Obviously, not ideally what I wanted, but meh. I checked in, being late and missing the first spin class. Instead, I did twenty minutes on one of their fancy treadmills to kill time. I did my mile in fifteen minutes, which I think isn't too ( Read more... )