This morning was one of those times when you are pretty sure the thermometer is lying. The temperature read 27 degrees, but I felt like it was 17 or lower. As I lazily walked outside dreading the impending freezing weather I knew I was in for a rough 15 minutes out in the cold waiting for the bus. When I woke up at 7:00am I had no idea what was awaiting me outside at all. I guess the cold weather just hasn't sunk in yet for me. I had a banana, toast, and some milk for breakfast today and proceeded to pack my backpack for school and later the gym.
When I went outside I knew I was going to have to be strong. I hate cold weather you see, but at the time I didn't have a coat I was willing to wear. I think it was right then and there that I decided that today was going to be the day I bought a new coat. I have a bulky coat that I wear for more extreme weather like snow and stuff but it's bulky so I try to avoid wearing it if I can. I have another wool coat that is also pretty warn, but it is wool and that is really irritating to my skin so I only wear it on formal occasions. Lucky for me just a few days previous on the day before Halloween I just happened to go window shopping for a coat and found one that was perfect for me.
Anyway, so there I was outside just waiting for the bus and everything was freezing and going numb. It's a good thing I have a lot of patience because this was a time it was definitely needed. I took out my iPhone and my buss pass and started listening to Yellowcard radio on Pandora and it helped a lot. Eventually after thousands of eons or so it seemed waiting the bus finally came and took me to school.
Today in P.E we did this thing we do once a month where we record our weight, BMI, how fast we can run a mile and a half, how many pushups, situps, and a few other things we can do. I've improved on the pushups and situps a lot and I can leg press 100 lbs more than I could last month. I think I might have been a little lazy or something last month because that is just weird! The thing I am most proud of however is that I am officially out of the Obesity class 1 category in weight. 29% body fat or something like that. I feel all great about all m hard work at the gym and stuff now even more now. The one thing on the assessment I need to improve however was the stretching part. I do the toe touching stretch standing up, but it's a little different when you are sitting down. I really need to work on it. I can do it standing up pretty easy, but for some reason sitting down I'm just not quite there yet. On the thing that measures how far I can stretch I got 9 inches. Last month I think I got 8, but I could have done more to improve it even further. I guess that is what I will work on a lot more this month.
When I was done with everything in my P.E class I had a whole half an hour before my next class because I got out early. Usually inbetween the end of P.E and the beginning of Math I go and get hot chocolate, trail mix, and cheese crackers and bring them to class. I usually drink the hot chocolate during class and save therest of the stuff I buy for later when I am hungry. I didn't buy hot chocolate today because as you know if you read yesterday's post I have started a sugar free diet. I ended up not buying anything in the end and decided to save my money for later when I had to buy a coat. It was kind of weird not having a hot chocolate in class, but I was okay. I wasn't up to the subject we were talking about in class today so I worked on math on Khan Academy on my phone all class period. We are currently doing stuff with ratios and percents and stuff in class. I'll catch up pretty soon, not there yet though.
I wanted to get something to eat after math but I ended up not deciding on anything after about 20 minutes. I had my Old Testament class almost right after math and I was late today. We are still talking about stuff in the book of Exodus. I thought about getting a chicken bowl with rice for lunch but it was $6 so it awsn't really worth it for me. I looked around at all the snacks and places to eat and just gave up after a while and went to my institute class. I was pretty hungry but the thing is that this week just happens to be international week at the Instutute building and so there were a few tables after class that had some small food samples. I had some cheese, lemonade, flat bread, tomatoes, and a couple of other things I don't remembers. There were tables representing France, Greece, Germany I think and a few others I don't remember.
Between Institute and my development and life span class I actually walked to Walmart which is really close to campus and I went looking at their coats and at some food items. I ended up not liking any of their coats or buying anything but it was fun. In my psychology class we talked about people being seen as objects in the media, both men and women. We looked at a bunch of different magazines and shared the stuff we realized. It was really interesting. I explained to my teacher that I've never been able to be charmed by celebrities mostly my whole life. I guess I've had 1 or 2 crushes, but not anything that crazy. I guess you could say I'm really hard to impress and glamor. I've had a lot of crushes and I've loved 3 guys in my lifetime, but me thinking anyone is physically attractive is really rare. I guess when you grow up having a sister like Linda who is really pretty in reality you kind of get immune to stuff in magazines and on TV and other places.
Anyway after school I took the bus to the mall where I was planning on getting something to eat. I looked around at all the places in the food court. I wanted to choose wisely because of my sugar free diet.
And then it happened, I saw the Waffle Bistro and it was like all recollection of my sugar free diet just went out the window. I didn't realize what I had done until after I looked at all the toppings, picked some and ordered a waffle. I ended up getting a waffle with Nutella, raspberries, and whipped cream. I wasn't about to waste it of course so I just went ahead and enjoyed it, it was REALLY good. I think I will be more careful in the future. It was so crazy, I've never been so hypnotized by the call of the waffle before. I was both amused and annoyed at myself for letting this happen.
So after I left Deb I went straight to Gold's gym to work out. I knew that the waffle I ate was bound to be a lot of calories and I didn't want to mess my weight up really bad. I was going to go regardless, but this was great motivation.
The gym has been doing some remodeling, I'm not sure what else they are planning, but I love the changes so far. When I got there tonight I noticed they put down this grass like carpet in some of the gym and they had new kettlebells, dumbbells, barbells, and what I think are medicine balls but I'm not sure yet. There are other things that were new, but they don't come to mind at the moment. Here is a picture.
I did an hour of cardio on the bike, stair stepper and elipical and then I walked around the gym and learned where everything was moved around to. The area where the green carpet is now used to be where the ab machines were, they moved then around the gym to different places. I did weight training for a couple of hours after this, just doing random machines and stuff with the dumbbells and a lot of other stuff. I don't feel any need to get specific tonight haha. I went home around 9pm and I've just beeen here watching anime and typing ths ever since. I've started watching JoJo's Bizarre adventure, not sure if I will stick with it though yet. My sister had also made rice krispy treats when I got home, I had a little bit of those. I figured I might as well enjoy myself tonight, I can start my sugar free diet again tomorrow or on Thursday. I'll get the hag of it soon enough.
Anyway, other than being a bit tired today I have been in a pretty good mood. I'll just end here, I don't think anything else is going to happen.
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