The problem with not having a job or school right now is that I have a lot of time. This grand amount of time allows me WAY too much time to sit about reading and eating. Yum, I’ve easily gained back all the weight I lost on Korea. Bummer, but such is life. It’s hard to diet with my life so up in the air right now. I’m sleeping on my parent’s couch, applying for jobs, watching tv, reading books, and not taking Luna for walks. :Shrugs: So its time for another recommit and a plan. I have no idea where I will be in a year, but I do know that the newest Star Trek movie is coming out next May and I know I will go to the midnight showing and I hope to convince as many people as possible to go in TOS costumes/uniforms. My goal is to look good in the TOS miniskirt uniform.
Here’s a pic.
Yes, this is a short uniform and I’ll have to be pretty small to fit it. My sister Ann has a constume version and wants to wear it too, so we both want to get in shape and be thin enough to pull it off. Regardless, its going to be a couple of inches shorter because that length mini just will not work. So this is my goal for next year. Wherever I am in my life. :) Toward that end, I’m starting training today for a 5k later this month. It’s a run/walk so I don’t worry overmuch. There is a 5k and a Short or Half or whatever the word is Triathlon on my birthday and I want to train for them too. The only thing that holds me back is the swimming since I’ve no access to a swimming pool right now. I wonder if I could try the Eastfield pool just to see. 
Also, I’m looking for local emplyment as well as professional positions farther away. I may be looking for awhile, so I think I will try for something local in the meantime. My brother wants to be roomies with another sister and one of the apt rules will be no junk food in public areas since he wants to lose weight too. Wish us luck on that.
Well, to keep me gaining any more weight, I think I need to only eat at specific times and no snacking. Eating breakfast between 7 and 8, lunch between 12 and 1, a snack at 3, and dinner between 7 and 8. I think I should revisit another diet and have one peice of fruit or veggie and a protein shake at eat meal time and eat smaller meal because of it. My problem right now is that I’m eating through boredom and anxiety over finding a job rather than hunger.
So bottomline for the next week
6:30-7 Luna walk
7-8 Bfast
12-1 lunch
3:30 snack
7-8 Dinner
9-10 Luna walk
10 sleep (I keep falling asleep too late)
I’ll update tomorrow if I can do it.
Posted on June 4th, 2008 by anabolina
Filed under: General | No Comments »
So I haven’t updated for awhile because I am lazy and have been a bit busy. So me and Korea didn’t mix as well as expected and I returned to the states. I’ve been back for 2 weeks now and while I’m enjoying seeing my family and eating good food, I do miss some aspects of Korea. Namely, the Tanchon. I think I’ve gained back the 10 pounds I’d lost in Korea. Bummer.
Anyway, so my new inspiration, weighing myself at the Johnson Space Center and realizing how much I weigh… So HPB had a 20% off all books sale and I picked up Your First Triathlon. The only thing is that I’ve looked up triathlons and they are expensive $50-$75. I’m planning on doing the Benbrook Women’s Triathlon on October 5, 2008. That’s my birthday and gives me more than 5 months to prepare. The book takes 3 months to prepare, so I have a bit more time. It’s a sprint triathlon, 300 yard swim, 13.9 mile bike ride, and 3.1 mile run. I’m going to start the plan tomorrow, since that’s Monday, with a strength/flexibility workout. Then on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, I will run. Tuesday and Friday are swimming and biking is Saturday and Wednesday.
I’m going to focus more on the running for now since I have an intermediate goal of running a 5k next month. I know its a bit soon, but for me, it’ll be a run walk. I’m mostly interested because it supports a reading group. It’s the Mid-Year Muse and Motion 5k Run/Walk and its only $10 and the proceeds go to HOPE (Helping our pupils Excel). You are supposed to bring books to donate as well and I think that’s awesome (being a librarian and all). I really lilke the running program from the book more than the Cool Runnings Counch to 5K one because that one call for a greater proportion of running to walking and I cal probably not finish. I think I can finish the YFT running program. It calls for 15 seconds of running to 45 seconds of walking. The Ct5k calls for much more, 1 mintute of running to 1:30 minute of walking. So for the YFt, its really a 5 minute warmup and cool down and 10 minutes of running and walking intervals. That’s 5 cycles. So 20 minute sessions are the beginning. Every running versus walking interval increases each week or so. This plan seems conceivable for me, so wish me luck. I don’t aim to complete the 5k in June, but I would like to try it and complete it and get a number I can only improve upon.
I’m not sure where I’m going to do the swimming thing, but I may substitute kickboxing for it or pilates until I can find a good convenient swimming option that doesn’t involve an expensive gym membership.
Oh yes. I need to get to sleep earlier and
Posted on May 25th, 2008 by anabolina
Filed under: General | No Comments »
Well, all this exercise is certainly helping. I just did the measurements thing and they are:
Bust 36, waist 30, Hips 39
Yay. I did just buy some cheese though and have been eating very little of it lately. I also ate several pb and js for lunch rather than the Korean food last week, so I need to recommit to eating Korean food while at school. Darn it. :) On the bright side, I’ve lost 2 inches off my bust, 2 from my waist, and 3 from my hips. Oh happy days, I just need to keep going. I think I’ll be happy when I get to a 26-28 inch waist. Any smaller and I would not probably be happy. Nope, no skinny minny lifestyle, just a bit more of a healthy one. Anyway, here’s a pic of me at my work at the end of the day when I am so ready to go home.
Posted on April 19th, 2008 by anabolina
Filed under: changes | No Comments »
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
-Unknown Author
Hmmm, my current measurements are B37 W31.5 H41. That means that I’ve lost an inch from the bust, and 1.5 inches from the waist. Yay. My vow for the coming weeks is to save money and calories by not buying chips, cookies, or ice cream. Seriously, I do sometimes buy these things even though I know they aren’t good for me because I feel great after I eat. I bought cookies while feeling bad about my allergies and they maded me feel better temporarily. I’m also going to stop accepting snacks from my kids and bring a peice of fruit to school as an afternoon snack every day, beit bananas, ornages, straberries, grapes, or apples. Yum. I maybe should bring 2 peices of fruit, one for one of my random breaks, and another for the afternoon.
So, I am happy to seemigly be shrinking and hope that the trend will continue. My goal measurements are B34 W26 H36. This gives me 3 more inches to lose from the chest, 5.5 from the waist, and 5 from the hips. Wish me luck as I continue my journey.
I meant to start the Couch to 5k program, but keep putting it off. I don’t mean to, but it just happens. :shrugs: I’ve got to work on that. I also need to do a lot more toning exercises. Positive thinking, I can do it.
Posted on April 5th, 2008 by anabolina
Filed under: General, changes, korea | No Comments »
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
Arnold H. Glasgow
So I had breakfast and did a 10 minute ab workout this morning and I think it did help me have more energy through the day and be less hungry. I ate this almond corn flakes cereal, it was a little sweet, but reasonably good. I also ate an orange.
Lunch was school food, fried chicken, rice, typical Korean soup, and some kimchi.
Then I got home and ate 3 chocolate chip cookies while making dinner. Dinner was a lower fat version of pasta carbonara. Or at least that’s what it should have been, but I forgot onions and burned the bacon because I was watching STDS9(what can I say, it’s the beginning of the 6th season) and it cooked faster than I expected. I did ate a much smaller portion of pasta then yesterday with some salad with ranch dressing and 2 peices of garlic bread and 3 rosemary garlic chicken strips (they were pretty good). Since the sauce was NOT successful, i added spaghtti sauce to it and it became palatable. Next time, I will not burn the bacon or forget the onions. I’ve been looking at some recipes too and noticed that some have egg yolks that I should incorporate next time. I’m still not used to using a gas burner, it’s been awhile, like years since i’ve cooked with a non-electric stovetop. I think tomorrow dinner will be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, maybe. I do have some leftover rosemary, garlic chicken strips and lettuce so the chicken and salad would seem to be a much healthier dinner, maybe with a couple of oranges for dinner. Hmmm, maybe some bananas too? I’m actually going to bring a banana with me to woprk tomorrow as a snack. Because I’m not in love with the Korean cafeteria food (it’s edible, but nothing more most days), I only eat enough to not be hungry. That’s probably a good thing, but I’m usually hungry in the afternoon at 2:30 before I have to deal with the after clubs and need all the energy to put up with those wonderfully energetic youngones. A banana would be a good idea.
You know the weird thing is that today I had cereal for the first time in Korea while at home for breakfast and our morning snack was also cereal at school and that was also the first time. Strange things that.
So tomorrow, I will not eat any cookies and will have a lighter dinner and bring fruit to work for an afternoon snack.
Posted on March 24th, 2008 by anabolina
Filed under: beginning, changes, korea | No Comments »
So I’ve decided to try to focus on improving things sort of slowly. I should probaby try only 3 healthy habits out at a time and gives them at least 2 weeks before adding more. This means that my goals for the next 2 weeks are to eat breakfast at home, get up when my alarm goes off, and do my 10-20 minute workout videosevery the morning during the week and longer ones on the weekend. Video-wise I have Pilates 20/20, Tamilee’s I want that Body, Quickfix Kickboxing, and 10 minute solutions Pilates. This gives a good variety. I really like the kickboxing one, it gets me going and the Pilates 20/20 lower body workout is wonderful. I really need to buy more from that instructor. It’s not a true Pilates workout since it incorporates yoga, isometrics, and kickboxing, but it’s effective and interesting. I’m less fond of the upper-body workout on that same DVD, and the Tamilee videos are rather difficult.
Breakfast-wise, I’ve got food to eat cereal with milk and fruit in the mornings this week.
After these 2 weeks, I really want to start that couch to 5k program and keep track of my water consumption and no eating after 8 p.m.
That gets me to the first week of April when I want to add an evening 10 minute workout, eating more fruits and veggies, and buying a bicycle to get around better with and add even more healthful exercise into my days.
So now its the middle of April, and I’m going to focus on portion control and eating a more balanced diet.
Okay, I think that’s enough new healthy habits. I’m going to try to come on here every day or so with a diet/fitness/beauty quote to inspire myself.
Today’s quote is “You may delay, but time will not” from Ben Franklin according to about.com.
Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by anabolina
Filed under: General | No Comments »
So Current Measurements
Bust: 38
Waist: 33
Hips: 41
Weird, but my waist measurement is so big right now, I suppose I need to do a lot more ab work. Anyway, so given the state of diet food in Korea, portion control is the only way I reckon i can lose the weight. So here are some new facets of my diet.
Facet 1: In the morning, eat only half a roll and save the rest for an afternoon snack. Or eat something else small for breakfast since I know I’ll get another snack between 9:30 and 10.
Facet 2: Eat dinner between 5 and 6 and don’t eat anything more for the night, maybe some herbal tea, but that’s it.
Facet 3: For every book I read, I must do some sort of exercise video first and the videos are cumulative, so if I do 2 one day, that means I can read 2 books.
Facet 4: Eat only small amounts of food for lunch, nothing excessive.
Facet 5: No buying Pepero (kinda like Pocky) since I can’t be trusted with it in the house.
Facet 6: For dinner, get a sub with no cheese and eat only half the quantity of chips in a bag and save the rest for the next day. This will save money and calories. For pizza, buy only one slice and eat that. Hmm and one of these days I am seriously gonna try other that food they sell at those street vendors. It smells really good. There’s one that smells like pancakes and looks like it to.
So rewards, I like rewards a lot.
Reward #1: Every exercise video of at least 20 minutes duration entitles me to read one book.
Reward #2: Trip to Dongdaemon to buy some shoes and clothes when I get down to a size 10. Those measurements are B37, W29, H40. I’m actually close with my bust and hips, it’s just my waist thats big. In Dongdaemon I will buy a new pair of exercise pants, 1 pair of work style pants, 1 pair of new flats or small heals, and 1 jean skirt.
Reward #3: Trip back to Dongdaemon for shoes and clothes when I get down to a size 8. Those measurements are B36, W28, H38. For those measurments I get a dress, a pair of jeans, a fashion shirt, and another pair of shoes.
Reward #4 Final measurements of a size 6 because I surely would never want to be smaller than that. Those measurements are B35, W27, H37. For that my reward will be a trip to Jeju for the weekend if I’m still in Korea. So I need to lose 3 inches from my bust, 6 inches from my waist, and 4 inches from my hips to get to my goal size. For this trip, I will need some new clothes that will be determined at the time.
So wish me, luck, I will update my measurements every Monday to keep ya’ll informed, but an sort of busy with other things like living in a foreign coutry so it may take awhile.
Posted on March 10th, 2008 by anabolina
Filed under: beginning, korea | No Comments »
So I don’t know how Korean women stay so thin. They work a lot and eat food high in calories and salt and I’ve not seen a lot of them exercising outside, maybe they always exercise in a gym. Anyway so I’ve been eating really unhealthily with cheesebread for breakfast, sunchips, oreos, hot chocolate, rice, and pasta. Now on the plus side, I take a 45-60 minute walk twice a day and drink a lot of water. Hmmm, so I’ve got to change my diet next week to something better for me.
Breakfast: Vegetable omelet
Lunch: I have to eat the lunch at the school and finish it off because of the kids. This means I’ll get smaller portions of everything and larger portions of the soup and salad and remember to drink water.
Dinner: Hmmm, dinner, I’ve not eater dinner this whole week because I’ve not been hungry. Bummer so I need to discover the best places to eat dinner out and what I can make while in.
Well, wish me luck
Posted on February 29th, 2008 by anabolina
Filed under: changes, korea, weight loss | No Comments »
Alright, so I’m goign to eat other tv dinners too, but I’m feeling so frazzled and out of it that I’ve not got the psychic energy to cook and clean up the dishes afterward. What I do have time for is nuking tv dinners and so that’s the plan for the next week or so until I leave.
So the plan for today is to take Lunch when Cameron gets back and to leave work at 8 pm and take the extra time to wash some clothes, organize teh toiletries, take everything out of the room, and prepare signs for the garage sale. I’ll need signs at 6 or 8 places. If reasonably, priced, I may pick up 10. Now tomorrow, I’ll need to leave the house a 9:00 or 9:15 to get up to Denton with all my paperwork because I will pick up the transcript from TWU up in Denton and go straight to the post office to send the whole shebang down to Houston via overnight mail so my visa application will be received on Friday. It takes 3-6 days for it to be processed. So I probably won’t be leaving on Feb 21, which is okay. I may leave the following Monday and get to enjoy one more weekend with my family.
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by anabolina
Filed under: General, social | No Comments »
I’ve never really thought about it, but friends are a great help. I just had lunch with a woman I would call a work friend who could probably be a real friend if time permitted. She’s thinking of going to Korea to and alreadyhas ESL teaching experience. The only problem is that she’s not a native speaker and has an eastern european accent. Really cool here in Texas, not so much for teaching pronunciation in Korea.
Anyway, so we spent lunch taking about men and relationships because of the poetry reading tomorrow I was trying to recruit her to join in with. It should be a lot of fun and we went from love poetry to past relationship and how it is being a single reasonably young woman and working at Eastfield. You know, I don’t know any single men who work here under the age of 40, so the single women have only the students to look at. Hmm, most are young, but it can be hard to tell just how young. I’m 26 and many of our students are 18-21. Bummer, some are older and married. I don’t know about ya’ll, but I would feel weird dating a 21 year old. I did get asked out by a really handsome one last semester and even said yes before doubts started crowding in and we played phone tag for a week before I gave up on the idea. Obviously, we weren’t meant to be. :sigh: Anyway, so me and D talked about relationship opporunities here at Eastfield. Another single Eastfield under 30s employee is now dating a really attractive man she met at a conference, so I suppose we can’t count her among the singletons.
Okay, so I mentioned to her, as we were checking out some hot young men walking by the table, that I’m going to work on my courage in Korea. I’m also going to try to work on going out more. I’m just to comfortable here in Dallas. I live with teh parents so there’s always someone around to talk to whenever I feel the need for companionship and in Korea I’m going to have to go out and find companionship.
I will admit to being a complete loner though. I’m happy with my own company and can be really shy, especially when talking to attractive, available men. Anyway, but going to Korea is all about leaving my comfort zone and embracing change. I’m going to eat healthier, drink more water, get less sleep, be more active, shop less, and be more sociable.
Posted on February 12th, 2008 by anabolina
Filed under: social | No Comments »
