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Today's Document
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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shark vs the universe
Andulka
Cosmic Funnies
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DEAR READER
Product Placement
PR's Tumblrdome
trying on a metaphor
wallacepolsom
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Show & Tell
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@sarabiestrikesback-blog
You know what?
I don't like eating healthy food. I just don't. If I had the choice and there were no negative side effects, I would eat junk food all day, every day. It's not that healthy food tastes bad, but junk food is easier, faster, and tastes friggen delicious.
It sucks. Why can't I be addicted to leafy greens and carrots and apples and squash and babybel cheese!?
Flags made out of the foods their nationalities are famous for.
Not having internet really sucks.
I'm going to try really hard to post consistently and I've got some really awesome things planned for this blog, so bear with me while I try to get all this under control. There's gonna be at least a day delay for all my posts, haha.
Oh well. I'm trying!
Gone AWOL
Sorry about that guys! But I've been doing a ton of thinking and I'm pretty sure there's gonna be some serious revamping in my blog's future.
Plans are a-brewing.
Tumblr Tuesday!
withloveminusthehandles -- She drinks out of an owl mug and takes beautiful scenery pictures. What else is there to say?!
smaller-n-smaller -- Sarah just celebrated her 100lb weight loss and I am so excited for her!
beautifulbeforebeautifulafter -- I love this girl's positive attitude! It always makes me day a little brighter.
regainingmymoxy -- Who doesn't know Moxy? And what is wrong with you?
operation-fat-loss -- I love this blog! She kicks ass at Bootcamp and wears the cutest outfits!
fat-chance -- I just found her blog again and I'm so happy I did! Love her posts! And she writes, too!
ginafindsbalance -- Gina is so positive and so real. I love it!
karikeepsrunning -- It's so inspiring to see a mom working hard and being healthy!
chrissiesgettinghealthy -- I just started following her, and so far it's been awesome! She's from New Zealand, she's honest, and that's always the best.
All of these people are super awesome and totally worth the follow! :D
Question a Day Challenge: Day 9
Day 9: Do you feel like you have given anything up over the course of this process? If yes, what is it, and how do you feel about making the sacrifice? It’s hard to tell sometimes, haha. I don’t really feel like I’ve given up anything, but sometimes I feel like I’m more self-conscious when I count calories. Not all the time, but definitely sometimes. In general though, I feel like I’ve gained a lot more than whatever I may have had to sacrifice (nights of pigging out on anything and everything in the house!) and the only things I’ve had to give up are unhealthy anyway.
I do miss being free to eat while I cook and bake. I am an avid snacker-while-cooking chef!
I don't eat well.
So I sneaky-peeky at the scaley this morning and see I've lost weight. And then I try to remember what I've eaten in the past week.
Bread. Bread. Something kinda like pizza that was made out of a failed bread experiment. Cookies. And bread.
I should probably start eating those veggies in the fridge.
Elephantiatis of the Knee!
I think the swelling in my knee has finally gone down enough for me to run again! Those things get giant when something sets the swelling off and I never know how to stop it. Mr. Boyfriend always jokes around and tells me I have elephantiatis of the knee. With how big they get, I almost believe him. :P
Anyway, I can walk and bend my knee, so it's back to running! Hopefully this is the last time for a while that it will swell up.
The Worst Thing About NaNoWriMo...
Having to wait until November to write! I know I'm supposed to be spending October doing all my planning and getting ready for November so I actually can write 50,000 words in a single month, but all I want to do right now is write!
And I'm scared all my motivation will disappear by November. Ah well, I guess I should get back to planning!
Question a Day Challenge: Day 8
Day 8: Your workout routine. Right now all I’m doing is trying to get to the dam and run/walk three days a week. Eventually I’d like to incorporate some sort of strength training, but it isn’t really on the top of my list. I just want to get back into the habit of being active.
Unfortunately, I've got some physical restrictions that are making it very difficult to keep up with running. For now, I'm trying to push through them. But I do need to find something else to do when I just can't run.
Mr. Boyfriend was baptized today!
It was so much fun. I'm so glad I got to be there for his baptism! He and his sister were both baptized today along with five other people. It's so awesome to be able to witness seven people professing their faith and declaring to the world that Jesus Christ is Lord.
I will never tired of baptism services! Speaking of, you can hear the gospel presentation from our last baptism service here.
I love my church!
Dinner is definitely a challenge.
It's always where I tend to get lazy. Breakfast is easy, lunch is getting easier now that I'm getting into the habit of making sure it's packed! It helps that I don't mind eating peanut butter and jelly every day!
But dinner is a bit harder. I'm not usually at home which means I'm basically eating whatever boyfriend's family is eating. Sometimes it's homemade chili and salad and healthy(ish) stuff. Sometimes it's Chinese or fast food.
So basically, it's not very reliable. Not sure how to fix that.
It's been over a week since I've had soda!
It's actually been surprisingly easy! I can't say I've felt a difference yet, except maybe some caffeine headaches, haha. But hey, one week-ish and going strong!
Question a Day Challenge: Day 7
Day 7: Who knows about your weight loss journey? What do they think about it? Everyone. I don’t keep it a secret. Sometimes I talk about it more often than others, but everyone know I’m trying to eat better and work out. Some people don’t understand that it’s more than just wanting to lose weight. They ask me if I’m “still on a diet” and honestly I never know how to respond to them. Besides not really understanding what I’m doing, haha, everyone is pretty supportive. Mr. Boyfriend more than anyone else. He always checks up on me and asks about my work outs and what I’ve eaten. But the best part is that he never puts any pressure on me to keep up with it. He always tells me I’m beautiful exactly as I am and that he’s going to love me just as much at this weight as at any other.
What is love, really? What is its opposite, hate?
In the Company of Writers
Thursday night, I went to the first officially NaNoWriMo meet-up and it was ridiculously fun! I have never been in the company of so many writers. We met in this little coffee shop which probably wasn't the best idea since there ended up being 20+ people there, haha.
I don't really have many friends who like to write and ones I do have I know over the internet, so it was an amazing experience getting to talk to all these people who love writing as much as I do.
I had no idea writers could be so outgoing and loud! I just felt incredibly comfortable with complete strangers. There was lots of talking and laughing and being complained about to the manager (so then we went to the park nearby and continued to have ridiculous amounts of fun just discussing books).
This is what school should be like, haha. If I ever get into a creative writing class (you know, for my Creative Writing major that I've been working at for two years) I hope it'll be like it was with them.
I am so excited for November!
Question a Day Challenge: Day 6
Day 6: Do you have any disordered eating habits? How do you overcome/cope with them?
I’m not really sure how to answer this question. Once upon a time, I was only eating 900 calories a day, but that was because I didn’t know any better. I thought that if I was eating “healthy” foods (if you call Lean Cuisine healthy) and I wasn’t hungry, I was doing a good job. Then there was a time about 7 months ago when I stopped eating on purpose. February was one of the worst/best months of my life. I’d been fighting the thoughts in my head that were telling me to stop eating for months before and I was doing pretty well, but I eventually gave in. Thankfully, my God provides for me and I have an amazing best friend, now boyfriend, who I’ve always been able to talk to about everything. I told him about it and he helped me to start eating again. Sometimes, the thought is still there, but it’s not really something I ever consider anymore.
Whenever I think that it would be easier to just stop eating, I ask myself if that's really a road I want to travel down. I was only seriously involved in it for a couple months and it completely screwed up the way I think about myself, even now. How much harder would it be to heal from that if it became a part of my life?
I want to be healthy, not thin.
