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So updates?
The weight is definitely off that I lost from phase 1. I haven't gained any since I've started phase 2, which I was REALLY scared of, but nothing bad has happened!. It has been fluctuating up and down the past couple of days, but on average it's still the same weight I hit on the last day of phase 1. So, YAY! :)

I did make it up at 5:50 this morning to go jogging for week 3 day 2. I was able to do it without cheating during a jogging part. No cheating this time. Felt better, especially since I tried to take a different route to see if the hills were less in the area. They weren't, but I still made it through. :)

I'm getting haircut and dyed today. I will take a picture of it after I've done it. You'll see a before picture once I actually get my DITL up (man I suck at getting it done, darn wanting to get good grades in school!).

Hope everyone is having a great day! :)

Help!

So, I've been trying to look for the past two weeks for this information.

I have a presentation on Saturday (I'm prepared mostly, just need to see if I can find this bit of information) about a balanced look at teaching hearing infants to sign. This means my teacher wants to hear the pros and cons of teaching a hearing infant/toddler to sign. I know there's a research study out there that's called "Baby Talk" or something similar that discusses the cons of doing so. It was a research that came from Harvard. I can't find it! Does anyone know where I can find it, or if it's under a different title? Or does anyone know of any other resources besides personal experience that talks about how teaching a hearing infant to sign hindered something in the child's development?

If you could help, that would be awesome.

(No worries, I've got PLENTY of stuff on the pros of teaching a baby to sign).

Thanks!

Boo Yah!

Well I made it to Week 3 Day 1 for couch to 5k this morning. I was excited, but disappointed in a way. Part of my run is uphill. It does not matter where I go outside, at one point it IS uphill, and the path I take has the least amount of uphill I can get around here. On the uphill part, I had to stop and walk in the middle of my second interval of 3 minute jogging, but only for about 10 second, then I went right back to jogging for the rest of the interval. We'll have to see how Thursday goes. Then I got home and did 130 crunchies, 50 more on each side for side crunchies, and 20 leg lift things. It felt good. I just got done eating a good breakfast :) (still south beach style though!).

I finished phase 1 yesterday. I COULD keep going on phase 1 for another week, but I don't think I could mentally handle it. I also don't think Bryan could handle it as well. It's been hard to find something for dinner that we would both like that we're not sick of. So hopefully phase 2 will be better since my options are a lot bigger now.

I definitely officially lost 11 pounds on this diet so far. I plateaued for a bit last week for a few days, so I was getting a little discouraged. Then I just dropped like crazy the last three days. I'm really excited about it. Most of all, I'm just proud of myself for sticking to it. Really proud.

Anyhow, I gotta take Bryan to school and then get ready for work/school myself. Hope everyone is having a great day (I swear my pictures from last week will, at some point, be posted....boring as it may be).

P.S. I miss Bella....:(

Hearing dog?

Oh yeah.

We're looking into getting me a hearing dog. I always thought it was ridiculous that there were hearing dogs. But...the more I look into it, the more I realize my life could be quite a bit easier with a hearing dog, and I would feel better/safer at home as well...we shall see...

South beach

HAH, I finished Week 2 completely for running last week! YAY! I'll be starting week 3 tomorrow since I didn't sleep well last night. So I'll be running Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday hopefully. :)

In South Beach news...Today is Day 14 of phase 1....THE LAST DAY! WOOT! I did cheat a little bit last night because grandpa made the birthday cake for my sister's birthday dinner, and I already felt bad not eating his homemade jam, so I had some lemon cheesecake. He was watching me, so I just had to eat it. It wasn't worth it though because it was just too much sugar (I haven't had anything real sugary since the diet started). But it hasn't seemed to affect my weight at all as I was down another pound this morning (Total loss since diet started: 11 pounds, total loss since highest weight two months ago: 13 pounds :) ). So yeah, it feels good that I actually stuck to it pretty strictly (until last night. I'm excited :)

Weight food moving

Well, update time I guess. :)

I do have a DITL coming up, thought I'd give it a shot. I took the pictures on Monday, but I just haven't had the time to resize the pics for LJ and upload them. That will be coming up....at some point anyway.

Taking a break from work since this same thing I'm entering over and over again is driving me insane, and I forgot my lotion so I REALLY do not want to touch paper. I hate the feel of paper when my hands are extremely dry...just...ugh. The same way I feel about cardboard.

Well, diet/weight loss news: I've list about 8 pounds these past 10 days. I'm glad it's finally taken a dip. Now it's just a matter of making it stay off and losing more as well (I've got another 50 pounds to go before I get to my ULTIMATE weight, 40 to get to my satisfactory weight). I'm on Day 11 for the south beach diet of phase 1. Only 3 more days after this, should be interesting since my sisters may want to hang out this weekend, and a birthday dinner is happening at my parents house on Sunday. I'll be able to do it though, the last day is Monday! YAY!

I started jogging again this week, I've been able to do Week 2 Day 1 and Day 2. Tomorrow I will be doing day 3 so that I can move onto week 3 next week. I'm getting there.

Moving. That's right, we're moving, not far though :) We got accepted to the university married housing. It'll save us around 100 bucks a month, so we decided to go ahead and do it. It's a two bedroom, so we're REALLY excited about that. The downside? we move on the 26th. We had told them that we needed a 30 day notice if we were to accept an apartment, since that's what's in our current contract with our current landlord. They let us know this last Wednesday! So, we contacted our landlord, and he was REALLY nice and said we didn't have to pay anything in October. I'm SO excited about that. We can't move in until the 26th. It's gonna be a crazy time because that's mid-term time. I know Bryan has some, and I have a mid-term the day OF the move in date. So we're going to take our time, little by little to move out since we have until October 1st to move out. We're really not moving that far, just a few miles away.

The other downside? We have to get rid of Bella, our awesome cat. :( I'm REALLY sad about that. My parents will take her for now and do a trial run to see if they can handle having her around. If not, then we're going to...somehow...get her to Bryan's parents in CA. We're going to miss her a lot. We're already looking into some kind of pet that we can have for our university apartment. Heh. We love animals :) (just not reptiles for Bryan...darn it!).

Hmm...nothing else to update on, so I hope you have a fantastic weekend :)

Temptations

So, I'm at work today, kind of stressful for the first hourish due to some technology problems. ( I do tape transfers, and apparantely the camera has gone kaput, which stinks because this particular camera has no back up camera, and we need like 4 or 5 tapes transferred still....).

This caused me to REALLY want some sweets or bread or crackers, something with TONS of carbs in it.

Well, I get over it and just eat my salad, celery, turkey roll ups and string cheese. Then one of my co-workers comes in. She had gone to the greek festival (I LOVE their food), and brought back some sweet breadsticks. She offered some to me....regretfully, but thankfully I said no thank you chalking it up to being full (see what I had above).

It's getting easier to ignore my cravings and say no. I'm glad. :) The scale says I've lost weight so far, (it's day 4), but I'm not going to really believe it until it's been a week and it really stays down there. It's the lowest I've been in three months though...so I'm crossing my fingers. :)

more weight

Working out? yeah, that went down the tube this week. :) Due to three reasons, 1 - it ain't a good time this month, 2 - had a ton of homework to do, took a lot more time than I thought it would, thus lots of staying up late, 3 - started a diet.

My doctor recommended to me at least three times to do the South Beach diet. So...I started it on Tuesday. The first two weeks, no pasta/bread like things or fruit. So I'm feeling just a little tired with the combination of the month visitor and late nights. I hope to get back into it next week though after giving my body some time to get used to the diet. Thankfully, it's only for two weeks.

I haven't cheated at all, and I've been really good. I'm determined to do something. I have tried weight watchers before, but I just can't seem to keep up with keeping track of the points. I disagree with the Atkins diet, I think you need some bread (it's on the bottom of the food pyramid isn't it???), so I decided that South beach would be doable for me as it allows carbs back in on Phase 2 in small portions, then phase 3 has more. I also like that the idea is to teach you hwo to eat healthier. So yeah...I'm giving it a shot, only because exercise doesn't seem to be doing much by itself and trying to eat better isn't working either (whole wheat, no fat/low-fat, low sodium, smaller portions). So this is pretty much the last thing I'm trying. If it doesn't work, then I really do give up. I'm done. :)

The recipes that have been for the diet so far have been surprisingly very good. So I'm not THAT tempted to eat bread/regular cheese/pasta/rice, etc. Last night was an exception as we went to sizzler for dinner and bryan had some bread and fruit, that was just hard to look at, but I was good. I didn't eat anything I wasn't supposed to. Yay me!

IN othe rnews...school is still the same....work is the same....(taking a break right now)....yeah, I have a boring life. :)