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...
Monday, September 17, 2007
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 :)
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 :)
Friday, September 14, 2007
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 :)
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 :)
Friday, September 7, 2007
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. :)
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. :)
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
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. :)
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. :)
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Starting fall semester
My knee was still hurting when I got up. However, I did get up still, and did homework. I finished my reading for Saturday (well, did more than I needed to actually, since were only required to read 1 article or the equivalent of about 25 pgs for Saturday. I ended up reading the whole book [225 pages]). I've also finished 1/3 of my online class and taken the test. I missed 4 questions because I ALWAYS get fooled by those all of the above choices, and 3 of them were the all of the above one (where all of the above was the correct answer). The other one I missed I just wasn't thinking all th way through with it. Good thing is, we can retake this over and over until we get 100%. This is because we do not pass the class unless we have passed the test with a 100%. (It's an APA professional writing skills class). We just can't take more than once within 24 hours. So I'll take it again tomorrow and get that 100%! YAY!
I've realized I've got some things to review for my assessment class, such as the public laws dealing with education/special education as well as the presenting of data through various forms. For my other class I need to review the different theories of how children acquire language starting at birth (studying the old ones as well as the new ones). So really, it's not so bad. I'm loving the classes so far. Saturday is just a little tough. It's only a term class (1/2 semester), so it's 6 weeks long. She has no exams for this class, however, we have a quiz at the end of each class. This is ONLY tough because class is 4 hours long. From 9 AM to 1 PM on Saturdays.
I guess I should say what I'm taking... :)
Obviously, my online class. Tuesday night is Functional Communication for Children with Disabilities. I absolutely LOVE this class. I love language and love learning how we acquire it and use it. My Wednesday class is Assessment Principles in Special Education and Inclusive Education. I know this will be my hardest class already. The lowest grade I got once I was officially in my major was in Assessment for my undergrad. That was a B+, and I worked hard for that class. So we shall see how this goes, hopefully I understand things better this time around since I already have had a class and have experience with it from teaching for a year. My Saturday class is Development Constructs from 0-5. Basically, we go through the physical and mental developments of children starting with pre-natal to 5 years old. I really will enjoy this class, just a lot of information to go through in 4 hours, with only 6 or 7 weeks of it. That's the only reason why that will be hard.
That's all I have this semester. I was supposed to take another class, but my Early Childhood adviser told my Special Education adviser that I should take it later after I've had a chance to take another class. So yeah, a light semester, and I'm glad.
All of my classes are undergrad/grad combined. My online class doesn't require any extra work for grad students, so that's nice. My Functional Communication, as well as my Assessment class requires a research paper. That's not a big deal because both papers only have to be 5-6 pages long, and I already have my topic. My Development class requires that I teach a 20 minute seminar to the class. I haven't decided what topic to do for this yet. I need to soon.
Anyway....yeah, this turned out to be a lot longer than I thought :)
I've realized I've got some things to review for my assessment class, such as the public laws dealing with education/special education as well as the presenting of data through various forms. For my other class I need to review the different theories of how children acquire language starting at birth (studying the old ones as well as the new ones). So really, it's not so bad. I'm loving the classes so far. Saturday is just a little tough. It's only a term class (1/2 semester), so it's 6 weeks long. She has no exams for this class, however, we have a quiz at the end of each class. This is ONLY tough because class is 4 hours long. From 9 AM to 1 PM on Saturdays.
I guess I should say what I'm taking... :)
Obviously, my online class. Tuesday night is Functional Communication for Children with Disabilities. I absolutely LOVE this class. I love language and love learning how we acquire it and use it. My Wednesday class is Assessment Principles in Special Education and Inclusive Education. I know this will be my hardest class already. The lowest grade I got once I was officially in my major was in Assessment for my undergrad. That was a B+, and I worked hard for that class. So we shall see how this goes, hopefully I understand things better this time around since I already have had a class and have experience with it from teaching for a year. My Saturday class is Development Constructs from 0-5. Basically, we go through the physical and mental developments of children starting with pre-natal to 5 years old. I really will enjoy this class, just a lot of information to go through in 4 hours, with only 6 or 7 weeks of it. That's the only reason why that will be hard.
That's all I have this semester. I was supposed to take another class, but my Early Childhood adviser told my Special Education adviser that I should take it later after I've had a chance to take another class. So yeah, a light semester, and I'm glad.
All of my classes are undergrad/grad combined. My online class doesn't require any extra work for grad students, so that's nice. My Functional Communication, as well as my Assessment class requires a research paper. That's not a big deal because both papers only have to be 5-6 pages long, and I already have my topic. My Development class requires that I teach a 20 minute seminar to the class. I haven't decided what topic to do for this yet. I need to soon.
Anyway....yeah, this turned out to be a lot longer than I thought :)
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Excuses Excuses
Didn't make it out exercising today....with good reason
I had class from 9-1 today, then I came home. I ate some lunch and watched a show or two with Bryan. Then I went and donated blood. There's my reason...donated blood. I haven't done that for awhile. What's been even longer than that is that I haven't passed out from donating blood in about 5 years (I used to donate quite a bit, then did plasma for awhile. I've also done quite a few blood tests). Today...man was I close...twice. It wasn't until towards the last minute or two that I was feeling really woozy, I had to stay in the chair for about 20 minutes before I could get up. I almost passed out once, then she laid me back. When she sat me back up, I was getting worse and really thought I was going to lose it. However, I did not. I was very happy about that. So afterwards, I was completely exhausted from it. I just woke up from a 2ish hour nap where I had just conked out on the bed. It was nice...but now, I've got more than enough to do.
I had class from 9-1 today, then I came home. I ate some lunch and watched a show or two with Bryan. Then I went and donated blood. There's my reason...donated blood. I haven't done that for awhile. What's been even longer than that is that I haven't passed out from donating blood in about 5 years (I used to donate quite a bit, then did plasma for awhile. I've also done quite a few blood tests). Today...man was I close...twice. It wasn't until towards the last minute or two that I was feeling really woozy, I had to stay in the chair for about 20 minutes before I could get up. I almost passed out once, then she laid me back. When she sat me back up, I was getting worse and really thought I was going to lose it. However, I did not. I was very happy about that. So afterwards, I was completely exhausted from it. I just woke up from a 2ish hour nap where I had just conked out on the bed. It was nice...but now, I've got more than enough to do.
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