17 days till home!

I slept through my morning. Oh well. 
Today I ate:
A bowl of steel cut oatmeal with blueberries and brown sugar
A cherry pie Larabar
A piece of wheat toast with hummus and cucumbers
A dinner of coconut curried vegetables and tofu with brown rice at PF Chang's
A glass of wine
Tomorrow I have class and Girl's LEAP. I plan on running tomorrow night, probably around 8 or so. 

Back on the Wagon

I've recommitted myself to my fitness goals! Yay for me! 
So I know that I needed to eat more today, but I think I did pretty well. Here's my food journal for today:

Apple Pie Larabar (Yum)

A couple of handfuls of assorted nuts (raw almonds, walnuts, and pecans)

A veggie patty with vegan chili, banana peppers, onions, lettuce, and tomatoes
A couple of cups of coffee with soymilk

Frozen blueberries
I also elliptical-ed for 12-ish minutes until a treadmill was free, then I grabbed one and ran for 33-ish minutes for 45 minutes of cardio.

Tomorrow I'm going to yoga at 9:15 and I might run later in the day.  
I bought this super-cute skirt at H&M a few weeks ago without trying it on, and it's a little tight. My goal is to be able to wear it on the plane home comfortably. Will post picture in near future.

Epic Fail

I wrote a whole post and blogger didn't save it. Gah. 

Basically I can't wait until Thanksgiving, at whence point I am planning to plan the rest of my semester.

I love you tomorrow

Here's my ridiculously detailed schedule for tomorrow (the theory is that if I write it down I'll do it- so let's see how that goes)
7 am - Wake up. Go downstairs, eat a piece of fruit (a banana, orange, grapefruit, or apple) and drink a glass of water. Take vitamins. Get changed and go for a 40 minute run. 
8 ish- Return from run and eat a bowl of steel-cut oats with blueberries for breakfast. Shower. Prepare for day.
9-9:30 is- Go to work. Drink a bunch of water. 
12:30 pm- Lunch. Eat a salad and 2 veggie patties. 
1:30- Class
2:40- Watch Ran by Kurosawa until 4:45. Eat a snack- fruit or veggies and hummus
4:55- Walk/jog to yoga
5:15-Yoga
6:30- Walk back to Wellesley- maybe pickup a latte and fruit cup. 
6:45 ish- Dinner. TBD. 
7:30- Shower. Finish watching Ran. Outline presentation, write response. 
9:30- write paper proposal for MIT class
10:30- Do ES reading
11:30-12 Bed


I'll let you know how this pans out tomorrow. Hopefully having it written out will encourage me to follow it!
Today, my eating was not so good, but I did go on a run/walk. Though my knee did start hurting quite a bit. I'm sure that will pass. 
Sorry there's still no pictures. I'll work on that.

Two steps forward, one step back

Here's my food journal for today:

I ate a bowl of steel cut oats with blueberries and brown sugar for breakfast at around 9:45 am. For lunch at 12, I ate 2 veggie patties with mustard, tomatoes, and onions and the bottoms of two wheat buns. And some shaved fennel. I had a slice of wheat bread with peanut butter and jelly at about 4:10. At 6:20, I had a grande soy latte and a fruit cup from Starbucks. When I got to the dining hall for dinner about 15 minutes later, there was literally nothing I wanted to eat, so I had some cucumbers and some more coffee with soymilk. Then I had a piece of pita bread with hummus. And then, when I was watching a movie for class, I ate WAAAAAY too many pistachios. I had picked up a bag of them in CVS on my way home from Ballet Stretch (which was killer today) and now at least half of the bag is gone. Bleh.

I'm proud of most of my food decisions today. It would have been better if instead of eating the pistachios right of the bag in a dark room when I'm not paying attention to what I'm doing if I portioned them out. Which I will do in the future. Other than that, I think that I did a pretty great job, food-wise.  I also went to ballet stretch at the yoga studio today which is an hour and 15 minute floor-barre class that left me so sore I basically had to hobble back to campus after. 


My goals for tomorrow:
In the morning, Shirley and I are going to pilates and NIA  at the yoga studio. Here's the place we've been going to: http://ldy.otpartners.com/
I plan on getting up in time to have breakfast before we go. I need to make an effort to eat as soon as I get up to get my metabolism going. 
Today, I didn't eat after 9:30 pm and I'm working on moving that time earlier. I also need to get to bed and wake up earlier. I read that the most important thing for a consistent schedule is getting up at the same time each day, so I'm going to work on that. 
I also need to get in cardio; more specifically, running. 


I'll post a progress picture tomorrow.

Here's the Skinny

I'm on a mission to lose my lovehandles. I plan on using this blog as a way to hold myself accountable for my actions and keep me on track. 

My first project is to keep a meticulous record of everything I eat for this next week. That way I can figure out how many calories I'm consuming and if I'm eating enough protein, etc. 

Sad but true. And funny.



My scale is mean, so I'm going to use goal outfits to measure my progress. I'll post a picture tomorrow.