Wasting away again in Margaritaville

Tips for sucessful weight loss in college:

1. If it's been fried, stay away. Once a week is okay, but no more than that. This includes fried chicken sandwiches, french fries, and chicken nuggets. [This is surprisingly a pretty easy goal to meet!]

2. Stay away from high fat foods at the dining hall. [This year I have been checking the online dining hall menu before every meal to find low fat foods. I was shocked when the majority of foods there have 10+ grams of fat per serving. I'm much more conscious of the food choices I make there. Instead of picking things that I think will just taste good, I go for the things that are good for me. :) ]

3. Lots of water! This means no sodas, teas, or coffee. [This has been an easy for me because I hopped on the water train this past summer. I can drink water day in and day out and it's the best :). There have been a few late nights and early mornings that I grabbed a caffeinated drink on the way to class, but I'm doing really good sticking to water everywhere else!]

4. Live on the opposite side of campus from your classes! [This tip is mostly about walking. I happen to live on the opposite side of campus from ALL of my classes. So everyday I am walking at least 1.75 miles just to get to class, sometimes I do it twice. It is true that I have a bicycle now and I ride that to class sometimes, but have I mentioned how hilly campus is? :D]

5. Stay positive. Keep it up! You can do it! [Even if people aren't saying anything directly to you, they sure are noticing your new fabulousness.]



I realized it had been awhile again since I'd last blogged. College life gets hectic, especially when you attend an NCAA football school and happen to be in the marching band.

I've been feeling kind of discouraged and stagnating for awhile now. But then I have to start thinking about the numbers and everything doesn't seem so bad.

I started this journey at 228 pounds. Right now, I weigh 195! That's a different of 33 pounds! Holy shiznit, that's a lot!

Most mornings I still don't feel any different. I still feel like that really fat girl that everybody is friends with cause she's kind of funny. And then I put on a tank top that shows off my skinny waist and I feel amazing again.

I need more clothes that make me feel amazing. Wearing the same bulky clothes that I had to wedge myself into 30 pounds ago isn't very inspiring. I see a shopping trip or two in the future.

Love and kisses and lots if inspiration,

the Bob

P.S. Today's title is a throwback to our first marching show of the season which was Beach Music and Jimmy Buffet inspired.

Beach Music

Sorry about the long time no blog.

As I mentioned before, I moved back to college week before last and then started classes last week.

I kept using classes as an excuse to procrastinate from the blog and now I'm using the blog to procrastinate schoolwork! Yay :)

It's a win-win scenario.

I've been trying to keep with my good eating choices and I have like zero bad-snacking-choices lurking my dorm to sabotage my good eating.

For the first time since starting this thing, I'm living without a scale. It used to be my routine to wake up and weigh and weigh before going to bed. At school, I don't yet have a scale in the dorm room. I went home over this past weekend and weighed myself for the first time in a week and a half. The last weighin I remember was somewhere around 202? This morning (when I weighed before driving back to school), I was 197.6.

Woot!

However, I've been having terrible digestive issues for days that was probably caused from taking the antibiotics after getting bit by the dog. This may end up being something I have to go to the doctor about if it doesn't settle soon.

Also, did I mention that the first day of riding my bike to classes I grazed a wall and gave myself a terrible flesh wound? It looked pretty gnarly for days and was slightly brick shaped. Tehe. It's healing now though and I have to get on my bike soon and ride off to class.

Cheers darlings.

Title

I don't even know how to blog about this...

I got bit by a dog today while on my ride (second ride around the block).

I rode back to my house and then people were contacted. Trip to ER happened. As did tetanus shot and bandaids.

I feel like an idiot.

And I seriously hope I don't have to have any more shots over this whole ordeal.

I meant to post yesterday about buying the new bike and pictures I took on my ride and how awesome and fun it was and how the camp went and about all that fun and nice stuff. Instead you get this quick update and I'm very very very sleeepy

If I don't wake up to the sun

Wow. I feel really dumb a lot.

I've been feeling down the last few days. No energy to exercise. And then I keep using the weather as an excuse. "Oh it's raining. Can't go walk now." As if I couldn't put on an exercise tape and burn through an hour workout inside.

Being depressed makes me eat. I've noticed that lately I've been craving chocolate and cookies more. I've also been snacking a whole lot more. I'm doing that thing where I eat even when I'm not hungry. I read this really awesome thing on Jillian Micheal's newsletter about keeping a feed journal and before you eat something, ask yourself, "Am I hungry? Do I need this food? Am I feeling depressed/happy/sad? Why do I want to eat this?"

This might be something I look into doing. I am a notorious writer and journal keeper. It wouldn't be hard for me to tote a notebook around with me all day and write every time I feel the need to sneak that third ice pop when I already had a snack.

Like I said, besides the eating, I haven't felt inspired to move. For instance, today, I didn't walk or do a video. It's bedtime and I was just going to crawl in bed without having done my crunches and weights, even though I know its just a small thing and won't take five minutes. I just didn't have the motivation to do it (or anything lately).

I was snooping on netflix for something to watch, or was going to look up old shows and the "10 Minute Solution: Carb Burner" came up on my top 10 recommendations. The more I thought about it, the more it seemed like a good idea. I've got ten minutes. I'm not doing anything else. Why not? I haven't moved at all today and surely I can handle ten minutes.

Hah, when I found out the video is 55 minutes long, I almost backed out before giving it a chance.

I made some space in my room and turned the volume up enough to barely hear it (our house is small and it was almost 1am, everyone else being asleep). I watched the intro explaining that there are five 10 minute workouts and I can choose to do one, some or all.

I just went with the first workout, in my pajamas and no shoes or socks.

It was actually pretty good! I keep the movements small but I felt better for having moved around. In the video I recognized quite a few of the movies from doing the Self: Your Best Butt, Fast video. It was like learning a new dance with the same moves, I was already a step up and didn't feel quite so intimidated. Though the lady instructor is very fit and FAST.

If she were a pokemon, she'd have SUPER AGILITY power.

Sometimes it looks like I'm watching a fast forward. Seriously, watch her arms whip around.

Okay, well I did the 10 minutes and I'm about to go do my weights and crunches. Just this little burst of movement is a reminder to myself that I'm not hopeless and I can accomplish this. I may have bad days, but I still can push through and MOVE.

Disneyfication

Have I mentioned I've been on vacation this week at DisneyWorld?

Bob's Dino Life should be back to it's regularly scheduled programming Sunday (July 17th).

Thanks darlings! :)