Well hopefully this is the last time I do this….

Well all I can say is my blogging habits are certainly not a metaphor for my healthy lifestyle/weight loss efforts! I currently weigh about 180 lbs. (but we’ll see where I stand Friday). As of now I am down 45 lbs. and 6 lbs. overweight! I think wearing a bikini this summer will actually be a reality! While I am not comfortable wearing a bikini just yet, I am questioning if I can pull it off at my current weight. That is way better than “no way in hell”. I should hit 170 in early June. I think another 10-15 lbs. and I’ll look great in a bikini.

I am beginning to reassess my weight loss goals. Recently I have been thinking I might want to go down to 155 instead of 160. I know I want to get down to around 20% body fat. However, I do not want to have the “skinny” look. I want to look fit, strong and healthy. I definitely don’t want to be showing any ribs.

I have had a lot of work in school between finals, papers and best of all…. group projects. Since the start of April I have had 12 major assignments due, and I had work for my music classes as well. I have pulled an all-nighter every week for the last 5 weeks. I have pulled 8 all together this semester. I know, not sleeping is really bad, it is bad for your health and your weight. But sometimes, you have to make calculated sacrifices to get better grades.

Luckily my last final is tomorrow. I plan on recovering this tomorrow and Friday. But from Saturday forward I am back to working out hard core. I am looking forward to it as well. I plan on working out everyday until my summer classes start. Then I will exercise 3-5 days a week. I plan on putting a larger emphasis on weight training in the past. I am also going to do a lot of interval training with cardio. I have started using the dreadmill instead of the track. I want to be able to measure my speed and progress more accurately. And I am to lazy to time myself. I feel it will make it easier to increase my speed. My goal is to run a 9 min./mile for an hour. More or less.

Posted on May 9th, 2012 by mmw160
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Anyone else feel guilty about taking a rest day from exercise? I always feel like I’m cheating, but in reality to get as fit as possible we need to take days off. Otherwise your body won’t recover and will continue to break down and increase the risk of injury. It is during your rest days that the effects of training take place and that will make you better at a given task.

So make sure you are taking days off from exercise and enjoy being lazy!

Posted on February 27th, 2012 by mmw160
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As you probably know by now, today is Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday). So last year I gave up all drinks except for coffee (w/ milk and sugar) and water (including sparkling water). So naturally I had a 32 oz. Dr. Pepper and had celebrated over the weekend the way about 99% of college students do. I also allowed myself Raising Cane’s for dinner (a fried chicken place on campus) and my favorite two men, Ben & Jerry. Yeah I ate Ben & Jerry’s A LOT. I surprisingly managed to stick through to the end and resisted drinking soda. I also lost 5 lbs. which I probably gained over Easter weekend.

This year I’m giving up one of my favorite pastimes, recreational eating. This will be by far my hardest Lent yet, usually I just give up one thing, like sugary drinks or chocolate. That said I’m allowing myself recreational drinking because I am in college and like to have a few drinks over the weekends. Although I do not plan on drinking in excess, but I would like to go to bars with friends and get a couple of drinks. I also like to have tea at night to try and keep myself form eating. I currently have all empty calorie snacks hidden from myself, basically the only snacks I get are protein bars and fruit, because those are really the only useful snacks I eat.

I think this will be good for me, I need to break my bad habits. Although I don’t recreationally eat at the same frequency or to the same extent it still is a problem for me. Last night I had 3 cookies with milk when I was watching TV with a friend, which was an unnecessary 400+ calories. The other night I had a 100 calorie popcorn bag heavily seasoned with a ranch seasoning mix (I guess it’s better than chips). That said usually my worst night snacking follows a day where I eat 1100-1300 calories. It seems that somewhere from 1300-1400 calories is my dieting threshold in terms of not failing.

So tonight I will allow myself to have a few snacks and allow myself a more than necessary dinner, but I won’t go overboard like in the past.

By the way, I don’t get whats so special about Fat Tuesday, that’s like every Tuesday to me. Just kidding, I just had to make that joke. (We were all thinking it).

Posted on February 21st, 2012 by mmw160
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I color code pretty much everything. Including my posts on this blog (if you haven’t noticed).

Food (Nutrition/Cooking)

Fitness

General Health (nerd posts)

Rambling

Weight Updates

Posted on February 18th, 2012 by mmw160
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I weighed in today at 194.1, so a 1.7 lb. loss for the week. I thought I would do better because I ate very well all week and went to the gym 6 times. But I guess sometimes your body has other ideas. That said, 1.7 lb. loss isn’t bad. I’m hoping to improve my numbers though. Spring break is coming up and I was hoping to get down to 185. At the very least I want to hit 190 because I was about 190 when I graduated high school.

Of course my big goal for the semester is to be at a healthy weight (173). I think it is very attainable, but at the same time it won’t be easy. By the time I return to school next year I want to be at 160. And by that I mean when fall semester starts since I’m staying over the summer to take a class and become a certified EMT.

Posted on February 18th, 2012 by mmw160
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