Day 37 - It's My Biiiirthday!

It's true. Today's my birthday. Turned 23. Honestly, I always loved birthdays... but since my 21st, they all seem a little less exciting as time goes on. Looking forward to 25 when I get to see that big insurance price drop, though! haha

No celebrations are planned for this evening. I work at 8am tomorrow. This weekend there might be some celebrations. Fortunately (and unfortunately - I guess) my friends and I tend to celebrate more with alcohol than food... So I should be able to get through this weekend without completely wrecking my week.

I'm having some serious hunger pangs right now... I had a bagel thin with some laughing cow cheese this morning with my coffee, but I guess I've lost track of time because it is definitely lunch time. I think I'll hop on the elliptical for 20 minutes or so and then make myself something delicious for lunch. I'm thinking salad with canned jalapeno tuna. This tuna is so flavorful I never need dressing.. which is awesome.

Then tonight I'm making steak with baked sweet potato and some kind of frozen veggie. I'm feeling lazy and we have needed to cook these steaks for a while now. Can't let them go to waste, no matter how badly I want to avoid red meat.

I really wanna see at least a pound loss on Tuesday! I was a little disheartened about the .4 pound loss last week... Just wanna see a little more this week. It probably didn't help that it was my TOM. Which I didn't mention when I wrote that post.  Oh well. I've been really  good this week soooo far.

Now for some elliptical and lunch. Then making some dinner. Then taking a Clinical Psych exam this evening. Bam. Lots to do! No  more sitting on my butt on the couch!

Here's to hard work and determination,

-E

Day 34 - Today Was A Chumbawamba Day!

I feel like this is almost embarrassing to admit... But I'm totally listening to Chumbawamba right now. They just get me super pumped. I'm not doing much right now that I need to be all pumped... but they put me in a good mood.

SO! How is everyone? I'm well. I have some positive and negative things to report for these past three days...

I can't even remember Friday... Which is why it's good I log my food... Let's see... Oh that's right. Friday was the first of probably a few birthday celebrations this week. My birthday is the 9th. The big "two-three". haha I'm feeling old! I ate really well all day... Then I drank my dinner. Went to the bar and had 3 pints of Guinness and a gin and tonic. I am NOT a binge drinker, usually... It was over the course of like 3 hours. That day was still only around 1,250 calories. Even if over half of that was alcohol... I consider it a success.

Then Saturday was also very good. And bad. I only ate like 1,000 calories. This isn't because I don't eat... I just don't eat a lot anymore. And It's always really healthy stuff. Plus work always screws me up when I close. I worked 1-10... So I ate a really late breakfast, kinda snacked for lunch then ate a normal dinner.

Sunday however... I went kind of insane. I considered not even counting my calories... but I thought I'd better. If I don't lose tomorrow, then I'll definitely know why. It was Super Bowl Sunday! (Yay, Giants!) And that calls for bad food, of course. We made a pizza and cut&bake cookies. I had 3 slices of home made pizza and freakin' 5 cookies. hah Dinner alone was 1,400 calories. The day ended up 1,880. I'm not sorry. I haven't eaten like THAT in a month. And that was something the old me would have not thought twice about doing multiple times a week. No wonder I weighed 235 pounds at one point.

At this point of my day I've eaten around 700 calories. I'm going to have a snack though before bed. I wanna keep it a lower calorie day because of yesterday. I'm not "making up for it" or anything... I just feel like I should kinda try and balance it a little? That sounds like making up for it... Oh well. Makes me feel better.

Tomorrow I'm going to WEIGH MYSELF! I get so excited about Tuesday's. I think I should probably lower my expectations a little... Since I had such a huge loss last week AND I stuffed myself last night. Also, I haven't drank hardly any water today. I'm probably retaining water like crazy. boo...

I hate an Industrial Psych exam tomorrow. I've never had this prof so I don't know what to expect from his tests... I hope it isn't too painful...

ALSO! Unrelated to food or weight... I finally ordered myself a new laptop. I had been breathing life back into my current one every few months. I've had it since my 18th birthday... Which makes it 5 years old in a few days. I think that's a long time for a laptop. It has been through a lot and it's been very reliable up until recently. I'm making the big switch from Windows to Mac and I'm very anxious. I expect to love it though... I ordered the 15" MacBook Pro with 8GB RAM and 720GB HD. And I opted for the high resolution screen. It should be a pretty sexy piece of technology. haha (;

It's a combination of what I'm doing with my tax money and a birthday present from my momma. She's wonderful and I miss her. ): She lives like... 3 hours away and it just feels like I never see her. sad. sad.

Anyway... I need to study. I never feel like I contribute anything of value to you guys. I just babble about my life and what I'm eating... Still lacking in the exercise department too. Soon (I keep saying that) bf and I are buying running shoes. For running. We have decided to give the Couch to 5K a whirl.

Okay...okay... Everyone have a good day or night, whichever it is when you're reading this.

Here's to hard work and determination,

-E