done

DONE, DONE, DONE, DONE, DONE!!!

One semester to go before I have a Master's in my hand!!!

(Sigh). I survived.

319

319 - a song about me and my roomies :)

half marathon

My friend Kristen, who is now living in Florida, convinced me to run the Disney Princess Half Marathon the first weekend in March. I'm excited and serious about training for this. Yesterday, I ran three miles because I could. Tomorrow, I'm attempting five. We'll see how it goes. I'm just hoping my calf doesn't give out on me again.

Note: I only made it to three again. But my time was better. Maybe I shouldn't do legs before attempting a long run on the treadmill.

hardest two weeks

Is it my imagination or are the two or three weeks between Thanksgiving break and Christmas break the hardest and most stressful weeks of the semester? You come back from a week at home. A week in which you had a lot of homework and had every intention to do it. Let's be honest, you're lucky if you even open your book over break. So then you come back and have to get back into the groove of school after being off, then frantically finish up assignments since you didn't do them over break, prepare for finals, do Christmas shopping, all while thinking about how you get to go home again in a couple weeks.

Then added in for me is the confusion my body feels over which time zone it should be in. I was trying to stay on an East Coast sleep schedule so that I wouldn't sleep until noon my first couple days back. However, last night ruined that plan for me :( I didn't get to bed until almost two so I slept until after 9:30...which is almost noon in PA. Sadness.

Well, on to tackle this paper and then go hit the gym to burn some serious calories to make up for the hot chocolate I am currently drinking ;)

lovin' the bodybugg

Yes, I'm still pretty stoked about my bodybugg. Today was my first full day wearing it. It says I've burned 2375 calories and according to the food that I logged (with is as accurate as I could get), I've consumed 1343..so that's a 1032 deficit so far...well on my way to losing 2 lbs a week (I need a 1000 calorie a day deficit for that). Today didn't even include a trip to the gym...just two 20 minute trips to campus and back...so 80 minutes of walking all together. This little device just might be the secret to my survival over Christmas break. Normally, I'd go to the gym to see how many more calories I can burn, but...I'm much too tired to do so tonight. However, I must go grocery shopping so that I have food to eat this week.

bodybugg

I got a bodybugg for my birthday. Meaning, my mom gave me the money for it and I ordered it from Costco.com which is currently having a pretty sweat deal on them, fyi. I'm pretty excited about this. I also bought the digital display watch so that I can see the calories burned on demand rather than having to wait until I upload all the info at the end of the day. I have it set to lose 2 lbs a week. Which means that I need to have a 1,000 calorie deficit. My nutrition plan gives me about 1300 calories so I need to burn 2300 throughout the day. I'm curious to see how many I burn during a typical day.

Not to turn this back into a weight loss journal (I don't really want it to be that...who really wants to read about my roller coaster journey) but I also have my goal set at losing 17 lbs by January 30th. I was going to do a smaller short term goal, but I figured the 2 lbs a week would help me toward the bigger picture.

And the journey begins...again.