This Tumblr was started as a weight loss blog. It still is, in a way, but it's about more than that. It's about getting fit, and healthy, and being able to run the Marine Corps Marathon in October of 2012 for a friend that I promised. It's about increasing speed, distance, strength, and confidence. I don't want to be skinny, I want to be bad ass, and I want to be the best I can be.
SW: 267 (October 13th, 2010)
CW: 224
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It’s like starting all over again…
I did really great last week. And then the weekend came. And then I started slacking again. It feels like I’m starting from scratch all over again. I do great for a few days, crash and burn during the weekend, and then have to drag myself out again on Monday. Except this was a three day weekend so I had to drag myself out on Tuesday. And then I didn’t so now I have to do it tomorrow. It’s just frustrating. Like I was so good for so long and now it’s a struggle again. Getting back on the wagon is going to be way more difficult than I thought.
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Cheeeeers to the freakin’ weekend!
Gonna see some guys from school tomorrow. I’m so excited. (: We’ve only been apart a week and I already miss them a bunches.
Job interview soon and then gym time. House to myself all weekend.
I’m a happy camper. (:
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My dayyyyyy.
Finish breakfast.
Library.
Clean room.
Interview.
Gym.
Shower.
Cook dinner.
Friend time.
Read.
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Things I Want To Do This Summer
Get back in a health groove. I’ve been working on this…it’s a slow process but I’m getting there.
Spend more time outside. (Trail running, kayaking, camping, etc.) It’s summer. Why waste it inside? Especially when my AC is broken anyway. -_-
Learn to long board. Just something that’s been on my list since I was a kid. I want this to happen!
Study for Russian 4x a week. I can’t forget my Russian! It’s my minor and I will be so screwed next semester if I forget everything.
Listen to/read the news as much as possible. I’m an international relations major, I should keep up with all the world news as much as I can, whether I’m in school or not.
Minimalize. I have too. much. stuff. Literally going to go start on this one as soon as I’m done typing this.
Play more music. I know this is ALWAYS a goal for me but playing music is always one of the first things to go when I get busy because it’s not a priority but it needs to be. I miss it.
Read more. For fun. For education. For anything. Just read more.
Meal #2 banana protein shake and (not pictured) half a grapefruit.
Shake is DELICIOUS.
My legs are going to be worthless tomorrow.
Off to shower and job hunt!
Alright, about to go lift some heavy shit.
Brb.
EDIT: Wow I forgot how hard this is.
Breakfast: Coffee, water, 5 egg whites on lettuce with carrots celery and yellow peppers, and oatmeal with blueberries. Nommmm
Prepping food now!
Om nom nom.
Tomorrow I eat healthy, work my ass off at the gym, job hunt, and attempt to clean my room. I can totallllllly do this.
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It’s been decided.
Starting Live Fit on Monday. Tomorrow after Warrior Dash I’ll make a grocery list and shop and do food prep for the week. NO. MORE. EXCUSES.
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Home. Random thoughts. Blah blah blah. I’m back.
While moving out, saying goodbyes, sharing a last beer with my boys, and packing up I was sad. The car ride home was sad with my friends texting me telling me they missed me already. But then I went to the normal bar with my parents. We had dinner with our regular bartenders serving us and the other regulars at the bar. My friends from home started texting me and calling me looking for me wondering when I was going to get home. And then I got home and was welcomed by the greatest people in the world. We played Yu Gi Oh and did stupid shit and it was wonderful. I love being home and it makes being away from school much better. It’s strange how it’s kind of a double life but I couldn’t be happier. Imagine that…a life that’s happy no matter where I go. (:
BUT now that I’m home…I have some things I need to do. Currently I’m unemployed and I need to get a job, preferably two. I spent six hours today job hunting and I really hope something comes out of it. Really hoping for Outback and Cracker Barrel that way I can have a morning and night shift. We’ll see though. Also on my to do list, get my ass back in shape. My month of freedom is over and it’s back to eating healthy and working my ass off and I cannot WAIT. Starting Monday. (: I rejoined my gym today and I found a lifting/eating plan I’m gonna try to follow. Should be good. I wanna look completely different when I go back to school and I want to feel good again. And last on my to do list is to GET RID OF SHIT. My room is insane. I have like 10 boxes and no where to put the stuff in the boxes because I have so much other shit everything. There is absolutely no reason for me to have this much stuff. Like none. I’m a runner and I can honestly say I have too many tshirts. Clearly there’s a problem. So that’s how I’m going to be spending my unemployment time for now. Job hunt, work out, clean/minimize.
Tomorrow is the Warrior Dash. I’m doing it with my grandfather and I’m pumped. He’s been working hard so it should be a blast. I’m definitely gonna get my ass kicked with all my lack of work but I guess that’s what I get for being lazy.
Off to do some job applications, make a grocery list, and sleep before the race. (:
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I never thought I’d feel like this.
If you had asked me last semester how I would feel about moving out, I never ever would have guessed I’d be this heartbroken about it. This semester I got so much closer to the floor. And beyond being friends, the floor is wild and there is always something going on and they are all really great people. The group dynamic was perfect. There was very little drama. We had fun, we helped each other in classes, and we were there for each other when people needed it most. Tonight is my last night on Patapsco Third East, and as pumped as I am to go home and have summer, I am so upset to be leaving this group of people. I know I’ll never find another floor as perfect as this one.
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Honesty corner.
Since the marathon I have not done one ounce of exercise.
Actually, I lifted once and then discovered how messed up my foot was.
Anyway, no exercise. No running. No lifting. Nothing. Nothing that I planned to do. Nothing that I said I was going to do. And you know what? I’m not even mad. I’ve been eating shitty, relaxing, having time to myself and with my friends, going to bed at unbelievable hours and waking up at 2pm, and I’m. not. mad. I needed it. I have been on the right track (roughly) for a year and a half. I spent a year and a half working up to the marathon. I spent 8 months training specifically FOR the marathon. I spent four of those months on relatively strict lockdown. Bed at a reasonable hour, no drinking, eating healthy 80% of the time. In college, that is difficult. And then I had the marathon and messed up my foot. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t be as bad but you know what? I started to love school. I spent the entire first semester hating it, but since I’ve eased up and I don’t spend all my free time sleeping/working out I made tons of friends on my floor and spent a bunch of time with them doing crazy things, awesome shit and getting into shenanigans.
The point of this is to remind me that I’m not failing. I’m taking a break and there’s nothing wrong with that. Lately, it doesn’t matter what I do I just can’t pull my self esteem up when I get dressed in the morning. It’s just one of those things. I know I can’t run as far anymore or lift as heavy and my clothes are starting to fit weird and I don’t like how I look in anything. My last final is tomorrow and then I’m going home. I’m going to renew my gym membership and go grocery shopping and get back on track because that’s what I need now. This past month I needed to have fun and complete freedom from calorie counting, minutes per mile, reps per set. But now I need those numbers back. Time to whip myself into shape again, I want to get fast and get strong so I can destroy the Marine Corps Marathon. Because that’s what this is all about for me. 163 days.
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