Less to Love

Slept through breakfast

Lunch: small salad with < 1/4c cheese, 1T bacon bits & 2T lite ranch dressing; sweet potato fries; grilled pork chop

Snack: 4 thin mints

Dinner: small pack (like gas station pack) of honey roasted cashews; small movie popcorn no butter

Snack: white cheddar rice cakes with salsa

My roommate and I got prescreen tickets to “21 Jump Street” today. OMG sososo good. If you liked “Superbad”, you’ll love this - no doubt. It was fantastic!!!

Have a great night!

I had homemade spicy sweet potato fries, a small salad with bacon bits, cheese & light parm dressing and a grilled pork chop.

I could definitely eat way more food. It was oh so good.

Alright… haven’t weighed myself in forever.

Luckily, I was right around where I thought I’d be.

CW: 231

Next week will be better!

Dinner was not a panko-breaded pork chop with sweet potato fries.  When I got home, my pork chop hadn’t defrosted, it was going to take forever to make sweet potato fries and my roommate suggested Chinese.

I made her order from the organic place down the street vs the normal fatty place we go… I got a small steamed veggies with chicken and a small Akai rice.  I ate all of it… scarfed it down, devoured it, it was the greatest food ever.  Of course, I covered it in Sriracha and went to spicy, steamed veggie heaven.

All things considered…. I usually get a general gau’s combo with white rice & crab rangoons… and eat it all.  I call this an improvement.

Day to day life happens… moderation.
I think this was pretty good moderation… right? 

Whole wheat toast with 1T all-natural pb & a banana

Salad with grilled veggies & chicken topped with fat free honey dijon dressed bacon bits & sunflower seeds; 2 small onion rings with salsa

Gym later + panko-breaded pork chop & sweat potato fries for dinner

Yumyum

Okay… so maybe I’m the one who snoozed my alarm twice and that’s why I left late and hit massive beautiful Boston traffic.

I had intentions of working out this morning before my 9:30am study session for my neuropsychology exam… I was so excited, packed my stuff last night was all ready… Then my alarm went off at 7am and even though I wanted to leave at 7:30, I was like whaaaaatever I’ll snooze 10 minutes, nbd.
Totally a big deal… I didn’t end up leaving until 7:45 and hit crazy traffic.

No time to work out before study sesh.

BUT since I’m already on campus, all my gym stuff in my car, I’m just going to go after my last class…. and therefore, miss a night of tequila & Mexican food at trivia.  I guess it’s a win-win. 

Have a great day!!

updating my current weight (~230 im guessing) from my old listed weight (217) was not fun

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Not a fantastic day, but I’ve noticed my weekends never are.  Thank god tomorrow’s Monday.

Went out last night for the first time in awhile - 3 light beers & 2 shots.  Unfortunately, we ended up at Sonic - bacon cheeseburger & chili cheese fries, whoops.  I never got the munchies when I was a stoner, but I always do after drinking.

I had my alarm set to wake up to do Pilates this mornng, but after going to be at 4:30a, I just ended up sleeping in.
Went to a poetry reading at work for an elderly resident who published her first book of poems - had cookies. Pasta for dinner at work.

Lots of water… At least that’s good!
And a cup of green tea.

Tomorrow - up early for Pilates then lab meetings & a coffee date.
I’ll probably end up working out after lab and before coffee now that I think about it…

I should probably weigh in on Wednesday as usual, right? Let’s hope I remember.

bingo.

(Source: thehealthexperiment)

Being single has really opened my eyes on how much I let myself go when I was content in my relationship.

Keith and I broke up in September… He finally moved out of our house in December, just to move next door.  I was doing fine - keeping busy with school and lab really kept my emotions at bay. I got to my six week winter break between semesters and absolutely lost it…. I lost any sort of control I was pretending to have.  In six weeks, I gained 10-15? pounds.  I don’t really know how many - I wasn’t weighing myself, obviously.  I was drinking like a drunk, smoking like a chimney, and crying like something that cries a lot.  I was having sex with whoever was around… I really hit an intense self-destructive phase. 

Then we got to January 17…
I was at home, visiting for the week before school started.  It was a Tuesday.  I called my best friend from high school, insisted we had to go out drinking because it was what would have been my 3 year anniversary.  I didn’t want to do it sober.  She agreed, that’s what best friends are for.  We went out, I got drunk, and Keith never came up….. I didn’t cry about it, drunk text him that I missed him, talk about him, nothing - all things I expected I’d do, actually. 

To me, that was a sign.  I needed to get through January 17, 2012 in one piece and I did. 

It’s been nearly 5 months since my 2.5 year relationship ended.  It’s been nearly 5 months of self-destruction: fattening foods, cigarette smoke, bottle after bottle of hard liquor, stranger sex. 

On Sunday (2/26), my “lazy” roommate decided she was going to start Insanity again.  My “active” roommate already works out a few days a week.  On Monday (2/27), it was my turn to get my ass in gear - everyone else was doing it.  I worked out 4 days this week - 3 days of Pilates, 1 day of higher intensity cardio (something similar to Insanity, but not actually Insanity or P90X).  I started watching what I was eating - making healthier choices.

Singledom, I’m down with it.  This is all about me now.  There are no partners to care about, no one else to impress or make happy… just me.  I’m ready.

carogetsfit:

A million times this.

 must remember.

(Source: eachsinglestep)

must stop.

maybe.

but most definitely drinking tons of water after the last 25 days of sweets.

….you get to campus early and used to nap, but decide to do research instead.

I love neuroscience.

I find it sad that there are people in this world without such a driving passion.