Okay it's the 7th day and I lost another 2 lbs. which is great. That will help motivate me to at least get through today.

I will say that I feel better than I did before I started. Also, my husband went and picked up fruit for me yesterday so I think I will be fin today.

Now if only I can figure out how to balance work and workout. But for now I will accept the victory of succeeding with the nutrition plus the 10,000 step per day.

Okay, this has been an interesting week for me. Last week was rough with two midterm exams plus the preliminary exam. The stress and change in lifestyle has lead to me going from 214lbs to 239lbs. Needless to say I have decided this trend can't continue.

Last week I "ran" a full mile, seven laps in the gym track. This Thursday night I went for a "run", four laps of the outdoor track. I had thought that the track was .25 mile per lap so I used the fact that I had already done one mile to keep going. Turns out that the track is (1/3) mile per lap so for a new personal best I "ran" 1.3 miles. Then cooled down for another .3 miles.

It's amazing how much is a mental game when it comes to working out when overweight. I started the first lap and was feeling pain in my back, feet, and knee. So I adjusted my form to workout other (appropriate) muscle. engaging my abs and using my gluts. But I still didn't think I would make running past the first lap, but then I told myself that the only way I would get better is to do it. Also, reminding myself that I want to change. What's one more, lets just finish this lap. Then, just start the next one. Once the next lap is in progress then I tell myself, just finish this lap. I keep that up as well as enjoy the feeling of the fat burning, that's what I tell myself when I feel the pain start, the pain is my muscles getting stronger, the fat burning. That way the pain becomes a good thing. To a point of course.

*When I say run, it's really a slow jog but given that my heart rate gets up to over 150 bpm I consider it a run for me.

In bike related news, I am purchasing a fixer upper on campus. This means that I am going to need to fix the bike myself but as a result it will only cost $40.

This is weightwatchers day 2 for nutrition.

Trying to take it a day at a time. Focus on filling in the weightwatchers today and meeting my triclub compatriots.

Yes, I have joined a triathlon training club. No I haven't signed up for any races. I signed up for the combination of social and physical activities. Plus it will serve as training for the corporate challenge.

The current goal is to lose on average 2 lbs per week until my trip back to LA which is in about 5 months. That will have me down about 40 lbs by the time I go back for a visit.

So that is the update!

The problem with being a morning person is that on weekends when I wake up I spend hours completely bored because no one I know wakes up before noon on the weekends. I'm sick of sitting at home watching TV on Saturday and/or Sunday mornings. I am sick of being alone on Saturday/Sunday mornings. I'm not looking to join some expensive workout club I just want to find people to hang out with.

I managed to make one of my goals, I worked out seven days in a row for 1 hour a day. I'm alittle scared to get on the scale tonight because I don't know what it's going to say. I am terrified that I've gained weight, especially after indulging in the twix, cookies, and brownies yesterday. My net calorie intake was negative but still I am hoping that I have the resolve to do better than that today. At least I don't have to worrie about the twix, that was a craving last night.

Now I may or may not take today off of working out both because it's my birthday (which is why I am considering that if I do workout I will only do half of the workout). And because I have a full day of training followed by traveling. But I suppose that time will tell. I really want to lose weight it just always seems impossible. I suppose all I can do is take it one decision at a time and I will post later tonight or tomorrow morning with an update.

Rage against ATT.

I can't wait for November so I can leave ATT for good. I am so sick of argueing with them over their misbilling.

Any suggestions regarding Sprint vs Verizon Wireless would be helpful.

OMG: I actually finished it.

My prize for completing my homework?

Housework...

sighs

At least I can take solice in the fact that I can RP today guilt and stress free.

It's so sad. Yet again it's that time of year, NANOWRIMO, and I can't sign up because of school. Damn having priorities.

Good Luck to everyone on my FLIST and even those not on my F-List that are participating.

Why is it that the man just can't listen? He keeps wanting me to magically change reality to suit what he wants/need. Example (see e-mail cut below)

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My Weekend was far less productive but much more fun then I thought it would be. I didn't go to Dargon Con but I did go to a smaller gaming convention called Strategicon. I went a 72 hour period of time on 3 hours of sleep...I just don't do that, really I don't, but I did, it's crazy!!! And it was fun. Strangeley enough my mind was still firing on the same number of pins as it usually does but my muscles were very fatigued. It is likely to take me days to recover from it as I sit here ready to fall asleep at any moment.

Also, in some bad news, I accidently erased all of the songs that were on my ipod shuffle. The problem is that they were the ones that were from a computer that I no longer have and it contained songs I put on it from CDs that I owned but were stolen which means that I am going to have to buy the albums all over again. How did this happen? My laptop has a feature where if you tap the pad twice you are effectively clicking and I accidently clicked on the middle option, so I don't actually know what it does but I think it deletes the songs that are on there. This is very sad.