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I've been pretty constant lately. I guess that isn't necessarily good or bad. I have been meeting frequently with nutrition advisors on campus and they have been giving me their opinion about my habits. Last week, I met on Wednesday. We talked about my eating habits and working out habits. We established that I eat really healthy compared to the normal person. I eat my toast with avocado and egg everyday and lunches are always my burritos or some sort of concoction with chicken and peppers. My workout routine is fine. I work out almost every day and I follow a running schedule. When I don't feel like going, I will skip a day but never the next. One great piece of advice that I was given was to implement a lot more interval training into my routine. I started running at different intervals and working out on the stair master at different levels. Doing this, I always break a sweat a lot quicker! The frustrating thing is that I am trying so hard and doing so well, but I do not move forward nor backwards. We talked a lot about stress. Because of school and other social activities that I have going on, I could have a lot of stress. I started with pilates. I really like it EXCEPT for the fact that I never have time for it... PROBLEM. That probably means that I really am too stressed. So I think that I need to work on that. I think that my biggest problem is that I eat whenever things are just put in front of me. Every weekend, I feel as though I have gained 10 pounds because, when my roommates suggest Cafe Rio... I cannot turn it down. If I had to make a goal, it would be to say no once in a while. BUT, Also, I believe that it is healthier to say yes than it is to say no. It's just a balance. No deprivation but no over indulgence. I am thankful for the body that I do have and that I have the opportunity to take care of it. Now I just need to figure it out.
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Things are going a lot better lately. Two days ago, I went to the school wellness center and had an appointment with someone for a nutrition assessment. There, we talked about how I am eating, exercising and living my life. I explained to him that I struggle moving forward. My problem is that I feel as though I eat well, I workout daily and I always sleep and drink plenty of water. Lately, I have been pretty frustrated because I feel like I am doing everything correctly but I am not moving forward SO...
The guy that I worked with suggested that I up my protein. He also suggested that I mix up my workouts and add a lot more intervals. After that, I went to the grocery store and bought more eggs and a huge tub of cottage cheese. I have added 2 more eggs to my breakfast and along with my lunch, I eat cottage cheese. As with working out, I started right up the next day on the treadmill. That day was a short 2 mile run, so I started out at 5.5 mph and after 2 min, jumped up to 6.3 mph for 30 seconds. Then I went up to 5.6 for a minute and a half and jumped up to 6.4 for 30 seconds and continued until I was at 6.5 mph and 7.5 mph for 30 seconds each. Although it has only been a couple of days, I feel like I am working a lot more efficiently at the gym. I am excited to meet back up at the wellness center next week and see if this is what is going to help or what else I can change. Okay, so I am really happy with how I have started. I have been eating a lot more vegetables and fruits (which is big for me). Everyday, I usually eat the same things. For breakfast, two pieces of toast with avocado and eggs. For lunch, I make myself a burrito. While I cook chicken, I take a tortilla and put a bit of cheese and almost half a can of black beans. I also cook a bell pepper with onions and swinish with the chicken. Once that is cooked, I put it on the rest of the stuff and put some organic salsa on. Then, I roll it up and eat it! OH I always forget that I can never make it from breakfast to lunch so I usually have a snack like a protein bar. For dinner, I have rice or eggs or chicken or cafe rio. Something like that.
Exercise has been great! I feel like, since I have created a routine, I am working out harder and staying more focussed and determined. I have been following my chart and it seems to really help me motivate myself more than anything! I am, though, super sad to admit that today was not a good one. I felt so groggy and hungry and sad. Instead of making good meals, I ate plain rice and eggs. :( I didn't work out and I have just been doing homework nonstop. Tomorrow, I will do better! I promise!!! Also!!! other update. This school program, Fit for Life. Not as great as I thought it would be. I have not been notified about anything and I feel like I can just do better on my own. So, I will continue with my plan and try my hardest to whip myself into shape! Your attitude can take you a long ways. I believe that with a great attitude, anyone can succeed. I have changed the purpose of this section of the blog. If there's even a soul who has noticed... It was meant to be my journal type section, but I have turned it into my Fitness Log/Journal. At School, I am enrolled in a Religion Class about the family. One of the projects, in this class, has to do with improving ourselves physically. To record all of my progress and/or failure, I will use this section of the blog. Attached is a copy of my plan that I will submit to my teacher and hopefully follow from here on out. I am actually really excited about this because, I am horrible at journaling and writing down my daily happenings. So, instead, I'll try having fun recording my healthy goals and experiences from now on. I hope this works... (actually I've always heard that if you doubt yourself, then you are not likely to achieve those goals so... I know this will work) Wish me luck, Emily
Now that I am turning to this blog as a journal, I think that I am going to make a better effort to take pictures everyday (Maybe a New Years Resolution). Today I woke up and ALMOST finished cleaning... I am terrible. Around lunch time, my mom and I went to the movie theatre to reserve our seats. It was the fancy theatre with recliner seats and you actually have to reserve the seat you want to sit in (like an airplane). So, we did that, and then stopped by Forever 21 to get some jeans because mine keep ripping (probably because I keep buying them there...). After, we ate and with my sister, we went to the theatre to go see "La La Land" with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.
The movie was really good. Normally I don't like the musical type movies, but this one was good! There wasn't TOO much singing and dancing, but just enought that it was cute. It also had great messages like to follow your dreams no matter what. It does not matter the money or circumstance, but if it is your dream, chase it. I really love that becauase I have learned that, in life, sometimes we become too obsessed with money and material. It is important to step back, recognize what is most important to us and go for that. When we do this, we will find TRUE happiness. After, the movies, we went to Menchies Frozen Yogurt. I, of course, got vanilla with reeces cups. Today was a great day. 12/29/2016
It has been 4 days since Christmas and even though it is done and over with, I can still feel that Christmas spirit. It is something special. Today, was an interesting day. I woke up and went on a walk with my mom. Next, I tried to clean up my room and organize my stuff... but of course I didnt. After lunch, my siblings, mom and I went to run a few errands that ended in a sibbling fight over the front seat. Hey, no ones perfect. Throughout the day, we talked about going to the movies, but could not agree on a movie that we would all want to see. (Typical) Because we could not decide on a movie, we decided to go to the Ethel M. Chocolate Factory in Henderson, NV. I think it's their headquarters where they make all of the chocolate. For Christmas, they set up a lot of lights in their desert landscape. It was really beacutiful. There are all kinds of lights and blow ups. It was mostly fun to just be with the family. I feel thankful to have the family that I do. I love them beyond measure. Since coming home from my mission, I have realized that family is not perfect. I think that was hard for me to accept. I taught people that families are forever but in order for them to attain that foreverness, they need to keep the commandments and essentially be good people. I am learning that that doesnt necessarly mean perfect. We can be good people through the atonement of Chirst. He fills in those gaps and makes us whole. We just need to accept it and live it. Funny: Last week, we went to Florida and on our flight back, there was a poster that said, "Here's a yes or yes question: Cabo?" it was obviously advertising a trip to Cabo and Conner reads it as "Here's a yes or yes question: Caboo?" "that doesn't even make sense" he said. We were all in tears as the flight crew was staring at us. |
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