First off I got a gym membership almost a month ago. I've been going 3 or 4 times a week. I am starting to lose weight finally and I am happy about this. I go to Gold's Gym and I always have an awesome time there.When I go I usually do a little bit of everything, though lately I've just been doing a lot of cardio. I felt after a few weeks there I should focus on cardio, because that has been one of my weak spots for most of my life. I am going to get back into the weight machines and stuff soon, probably tomorrow. They have so many weight machines in the one I go to it's so cool! One of my other weak spots is my arms, I have weak arms and I need to fix that. One thing I love to do when I am at the gym is listen to music or books while I am working out, it makes me so much more enjoyable. I also watch cartoons on the TVs a lot when I am there. Stuff like this helps me concentrate and keep my motivation up a lot.
Two of my favorite things at the gym are the classesa nd the pool. There are all kinds of classes at Gold's gym. I haven't been doing them lately, but they have classes like Yoga, Pilates, Cycling, swimming, etc. I am planning on getting to a lot of their classes more often. The other thing I love is the pool, it's kind of small and only has three lanes, but it works out just fine. I love water fitness so i try to get at least 20 or 30 minutes in when I go. If the pool weren't cool enough there is also a hot tub, a sauna, and a steam room. I am quite fond of the whole area all around, it is pretty neat. One thing I've had to do however is when I swim I try and keep my ears above water. I need to get earplugs because my left ear really hates water and I usually have problems if I get too much water in it.
I am planning on buying some workout clothes soon, I've had to be a little creative this past month with workout clothes. I have shorts, but i don't think they are the right ones, I need better ones. When I bought my shorts this month I thought they would work out better, but my legs rub together a lot when I am on the treadmill and it get's uncomfortable after a while. I think I might need something a bit longer. So far as shirts go I just use whatever I have in my closet that works good for working out. I don't have very many workout shirts, probably 1 or 2 at best. Most of my clothes aren't suited for the gym. I think I might get another pair of shoes as well, I'm sure it couldn't hurt for the treadmill or something like that. I definitely need mores ports bras though, that is a big priority for me now that I am working out a lot more.
I am slowly losing weight, I am excited to get further in my progress. i don't really care how long it takes to reach my goal weight as long as I get there eventually. My goal weight is 121 lbs. I am just feeling super good in general now that I am becoming more in shape, I have a long way to go, but I know if I keep working at it I will progress and get better at a lot of things and stronger. Right now I can only lift 10 pound weights. I'm not aiming to be a muscle woman or anything like that but I do want my arms to not be weak haha.
I burned my first 1000 calories this month as well at the gym. I've never burned more than 500 calories before. I do that all the time now, but the first time it felt so great. I always use MyFitnessPal as well when I work out so I can keep track of the calories I eat and burn. I have to be careful that I don't eat too little when I burn this much.
One of my goals is to get to a point where I can run. Right now I just kind of walk fast, but when i get to 150 lbs I can run. It's bad for my joints to run at the weight I am now, so I just walk, but once i get down to that amount of weight I am going to start training for a 5k right away. I kind of figure that is a good place to start.
Anyway usually I walk through the mall a bit before and / or after i go to the gym. I love going to See's Candies and getting a sample after I am done working out. There are a couple of food places in the food court I get samples from as well. Sometimes i go through the clothing and shoe stores or the other stores to see if there is anything I need. I try not to go window shopping too often because then I start really wanting stuff. haha.
I've been sticking close to the mall this past month. I did go to the Farrs ice cream shop, but other than that I haven't been to any other places besides the Gym and the mall because I've been pretty tired after I work out and I spend so much time over at the gym currently it takes up a lot of my time. I am planning on getting out more to other places soon though. I need to renew my Barnes and Noble Membership in May so I expect I'll go and make a trip there soon.
My niece had a birthday this month, we went out to eat on one day and on another day when we were all together we had cupcakes and stuff at my brothers house. We usually have two seperate days for birthdays because we are always so busy.
The post before my last post I mentioned that I ordered some stress / fidget toys. I was going to update right when I got them in the mail, but I fell off of the blogosphere again and quit writing. I got my stress toys a couple of days after i wrote that post. I love them to death, they are so relaxing and take away a lot of my sensory overload. Here is a picture and a video. :)
If you notice I uploaded it a couple of days ago that is because I moved to a different Youtube channel and a different email so I am uploading everything again. I didn't want to be stuck with two different youtube channels so i got rid of my old one and moved over to the new one. I am using a universal username for pretty much everything now, mostly gaming stuff. My new email is midnistarz@gmail.com and my work and professional email is liahna@ymail.com. This wouldn't be the first time I have switched to a different email and stuff. I have done it once more in the past and that worked out pretty well so I'm sure this will as well. I still have to change the email addresses of a few sites I am a member of, but I'm in no hurry to do that. If i got on a website I am a member of I'll change it right away. I already took care of the important ones like facebook and twitter and stuff like that.
Anyway earlier this month we had General Conference. For those of you that are reading this but aren't Mormon / LDS, that is a church thing we have every six months. There are 5 sessions that last 2 hours each and there are various people that are mostly church leaders that give spiritual talks. One of the meetings is only for men, the women have theirs a week earlier. Anyway I can't remember what the talks were about, i will have to probably read them again. The talks are on a very wide spectrum of church topics though. The choir sings and the beginning, middle, and end of the sessions. Usually there is a musical number before and after the prayer at the beginning and sometimes in certain sessions there is a guest choir. There is no church the weekend General Conference happens. General Conference more than makes up for it though.
My parents didn't have time to prepare very much for Easter dinner this year because they were doing the big Messiah concert the whole week previous. My parents were too exhausted and didn't have enough preparation to do anything very big this year so we had a small dinner with deviled eggs and salad and we had out real dinner this past weekend. Some of my family members went to the messiah concert which was over 2 and a half hours long, i didn't go though. I stayed at home and chilled out. One thing we did get done all the way this Easter was the Easter egg hunt. My sister and I made sure we didn't hide the real eggs if any difficult spaces. There were 40 real eggs and we only missed one according to my sister and my mom. Personally I think we didn't miss any though because i remember there only being 40 real eggs.
The fake ones were a different story entirely. My sister and dad were the ones that hid the fake ones that had the candy and nuts in them. Some of them were hidden inside, but most of them were hidden very skillfully outside. I didn't help much with the fake ones because I didn't know where they were. I mostly took care of the real ones. At the end of the Easter egg hunt we were missing 25 out of 144 fake eggs. I somehow think we will never find them. I think they might have been hidden a bit too well. I'm sure the ants had a field day with the missing eggs.
Anyway Nothing much has happened this week and as for today i am going to write a separate post for that after this. If i forgot anything you will hear about it in in the future, and probably in more detail than if I were to put it here. This post is already super long haha. :)
