Mini Goals!

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I love making mini goals! Its so much easier for me to stay motivated if all I have to think about is getting to the next goal and the not the toal 60 lbs I need to lose (now 28 lbs!). So here are my mini goals, however they might change once I restart school.

1st mini goal:

August 12 (the day I head back to Pittsburgh for school) - 193 lbs, a total of 20 lbs lost for the summer

2nd mini goal:

Sept. 7 (Labor Day) - 187 lbs (or in the 180s a place I haven’t been since maybe freshmen year of highschool)

3rd mini goal:

October 31 (Halloween, because i wear ridiculous costumes and I’ll be wearing something that celebrates my new body) - 175 lbs (at least in the 170s since I’m now well into school and god knows what my schedule will be)

GOAL!

December 15 (End of 1st semester) - 170!!!!

I’m hoping I’ll be a size 8/10 at this weight however once I’m at my goal weight I’m going to reavaluate I might make 160 my goal.

Possible FINAL goal!

April 26 (my 23rd Bday!) - 160 or whatever I decided if my final goal weight (though I can’t imagine it will be any lower than 155)

Life without Diet Coke…

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So far I’m not actually craving soda, however whenever I’m thristy I think to grab a diet coke so I’m realizing it much more of a habit then I thought. Also I didn’t realise how much the caffine affected me, I have been getting really tired and small headaches which I never get. All this while annoying at the moment just makes me really happy I decided to give it up. I had no idea it was hurting me so much. I have replaced diet coke mainly with sparkling flavored water which is 0-10 cals so not going to affected me calories wise, though I might have the occasional lemonade. I missed the bubbles from soda so sparkling water seemed a natural choice though I need to figure out if the carbonation is something i should worry about. While I know this won’t be life long ban, I just want to make soda an occasional drink, I’m taking it one day at a time and am going until I feel comfortable which my relationship with soda. Wish me luck!

Getting Back on track…again!

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For the past few weeks, basically when I started the internship. Whats great about the internship is that its basically 8-12 hours 3 days a week of being on my feet, which is really my only exercise. However, I am completely surrounded by food, I mean catered breakfeast and lunch and a kitchen filled with EVERYTHING. Honestly, I’m a bit amazed a my restraint, I know that a year or two ago I would have gone a bit crazy. That said I have no idea how many calories I am eating. My plan was to eat only 1200 cal a day, because technically that would have me losing 3lbs a week. I realized that that was a bit unrealistic. New goal is to get to 190 by the time school starts, Aug. 24 ( I actually want to get there by Aug. 12, but we’ll see). So thats 12 lbs in 8 weeks or 6 if I’m good, definetly achievable. Also I going to try to give up soda, I have a terrible diet coke addiction that I am throughly sick of, so I am moving on to sparkingly water, and other hopefully low cal drinks. Also I will be forcing myself to keep up this food journal which has always helped me so much. Wish me luck!!

Internship

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So I’m starting an internship tomorrow, unpaid ( I have literally applied for 30 jobs and have gotten none of them, I’m only here for the summer and there are so many people applying for the same jobs I don’t really blame anyone fore not getting them, but I NEED money), it is in the film industry which is what I’m studying in school and it will be great to have on a resume. But I’m worried about my diet or healthy eating. Once on set I’m at the mercy of craft services, which usually has some healthy fare, but I’m afraid more that I’m just going to be stressed out and not have as much control. Though the last time when I worked on a short film I thought that for sure I had gained weight, but it turned out that I had actually lost a few, which had more to do with forgetting to eat than eating healthy so I’m hoping to avoid that. Anyways I start tomorrow and am nervous as hell so wish me luck!