I'm Shrinking!

I went to Walmart after institute today. I didn't go to the gym today. I found out I shrunk 3 sizes in jeans! I am one size short of being able to fit into the highest size out of plus size at Deb as well! I didn't end up buying anything, but after going to Walmart and then Deb I was pretty happy! I definitely want to buy new pants next month for sure! I'm also really looking forward to this weekends weigh in. I think I might reach my halfway point!

Here are pictures.


I'm making progress slowly but surely. I'm also going to grow my hair out again if I reach my half way point before my next hair salon appointment.

Anyway, here is a random plate of eggs I ate tonight. I had some extra calories and wanted to try and make an egg that was a perfect circle.




I got pretty close!

I also forgot to mention that I weigh 165 lbs now! I was so preoccupied with Valentine's Day that it slipped my mind!

I'm glad I went shopping for pants today, it was a lot of fun.I also got in a really good nap and had popcorn at institute.

Mediocre Monday

Here is a Savage Chickens comic since today was boring.

Boring Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! Today I let myself cheat by eating some chocolate. It's Valentine's Day so I don't feel bad about it. I'm going to go ahead and write today instead of Sunday simply because of what day it is. I won't write tomorrow naturally. Nothing much happened today. I just played games and watched YouTube videos. Yesterday was Tim's birthday, he turned 28. Mom and dad went out to dinner with him and I just stayed home. I don't think I mentioned this last night.

Here is a picture I like as consimation for my lack of subject material. I just think I really need to let myself take a break from writing this weekend.

Friday The 13th!

You might see my posting be a little unsteady over the next couple of weeks as I figure out what I want to do to improve my blog. I'll get my posts up eventually, but they will probably take a few days. I'll be improving my subject material and length as well.

Happy Friday the 13th! Today was a great day!

Anyway so on facebook I'm a part of this group called Chive Fitness. It is full of fitness buffs like me and every day of the week we have a special posting topic. Today was "Flex Friday". I don't remember if I mentioned it yesterday, but I got a tshirt from the gym but it was pretty big! I exchanged the shirt today and got a different size. This one isn't all red with black lettering like the other one. I had a black shirt that was pretty worn out and I threw it away and put my new shirt on. I'll get to Flex Friday soon. First I'll mention that I got a good workout today so far as arms go. I only brought a fanny pack with my wallet and phone today. I didn't feel like bringing my backpack today. I left after my workout. On my way home I did my pictures for Flex Friday for the Chive Fitness group. I was on the bus when I took these.










And here is my new shirt!







We had pizza tonight and I managed to only eat one slice. So far my improved eating has been going great. I'm already rapidly losing weight and I feel so good! Little Ceasars breadsticks ( crazy bread ) were the real challenge though! I love those and it was hard eating just one of those as well.

Skipping Class

I let myself sleep in today. I didn't feel like riding the bus all the way to school today and I was a little tired.

I did go to the gym tonight because my parents were at choir. I got to see Darik briefly too! I was a bit surprised by his appearance though because I was resting from sit-ups and had my eyes closed. My mind was just totally caught off guard. I really hope I see him again soon. Anyway, so I did cardio and weights and the usual. I think I'm going to focus more on my core for a while. I did a half an hour walk on the treadmill while I was waiting for mom and dad when they were on their way back.




Here is a random pie chart of my macros today.

Eggs & cheese on bread

This was my breakfast this morning. I'm still doing good diet wise. I've been drinking protein shakes for breakfast the past couple days but today I didn't feel like it very much.

I went to Harmon's today and bought some personal items I've been needing this week. Sorry if this week is a little bland. I am just taking it easy, especially after yesterday's squat binge. I am so sore today, but it feels really nice.

Funny how this week is turning out. Hopefully I'll have more to talk about tomorrow. I've been just watching Naruto and brainstorming about how I want to improve this blog and make it more interesting.

Anyway, we will see what happens.

Squats

I can tell this week is going to be kind of boring. I skipped institute today and just stayed home. I did 500 squats tonight and I'm sure I'm going to be sore tomorrow. It took me around 45 minutes and I was listening to Harry Potter while doing it. I was going to do 1000, but now I see that would have been insanity. Anyway, still doing good sugar free, but Laura brought me home a small bag of candy from a church activity she went to with Natalie and Kayla. I'm not going to eat it yet. I might eat it on Valentine's Day, but not sure yet.

Anyway here is some interesting stuff.

Sugar Free Day 1

Nothing much happened today. I made a short trip to the mall and started my sugar free diet again today. I didn't go to FHE tonight because they were giving away cupcakes and I didn't want the temptation.

Here are some cool videos. Today sugar free was a success! I've also started drinking 3/4th of a gallon of water every day. Hopefully my water weight will drop.

Lemon Bars & Chocolate Cake

Yesterday the lemon bars were finished! They finally set and we ate some of them. I went to Costco with Laura, Kayla and Mom yesterday later in the afternoon. We also went to Harmon's and I got a Raspberry Keifer and a cashew vanilla blueberry Kind bar




I watched more of a vampire anime called "Strike the Blood", it's more exciting in a magical way, more than a creepy way. I've been really enjoying it.

I listened to Harry Potter, and played games on my phone like Oldschool Blocks, Bejeweled and Trivia Crack.

In the afternoon I took my first walk around the track of the year,. The weather was flawless and wonderful. On my one hour walk I saw this really cool tree.



I decided I'm going to try to go sugar free this week and just try to eat healthier in general because I've been doing dreadful lately. I decided to finish off my peppermint candy because of this.

Today I got woken up to my brother giving me cookies that were delivered by my childhood best friend Devin. There were M&M and chocolate chip. I've known Devin my whole life and this made me really happy. We aren't as close as we used to be, but I still think of him as one of my most important friends. After this lovely wake up call I had a little bit of lemon bar, some pistachios and a little bit of dried mango for breakfast.

We talked about free agency today in Relief Society and Devin gave a lesson on the creation in Sunday school that was fantastic.

After church later in the evening we had a double birthday party for Paul who turned 30 last week and Tim who is turning 28 this week. We had chocolate cake and chocolate oreo pudding pie with whipped cream and oreo bits on top. The crust was an Oreo crust. I am going sugar free, or at least low sugar tomorrow, so I just ate as much as I wanted to. We also had steak, chicken, salad, potatoes, and broccoli for dinner.







I don't think I missed anything worth writing about.

Diamond Rose

I was hit with inspiration yesterday and felt like creating a poem about Cara (Darik's wife). She really is someone you would expect to read about in some pretty song or poem. She is beautiful inside and out. I showed this poem to her and both she and Darik loved it.

Anyway, so today I just made a brief trip to the mall and took the bus to Macey's grocery store to pick up an application and get a chocolate vanilla ice cream cone. Later Laura made chicken and cheese enchiladas. She also made lemon bars, but they aren't done quite yet. I'm planning on filling out the applications I got today and also finishing the ones online. I'll turn the ones that have physical copies in on Monday.

Cinnamon & Chai

I woke up at 9 and decided I didn't feel like doing morning cardio. I put on my Canada sweatshirt that I found yesterday and ate an orange. While I was checking my email today I saw I had a free drink from Starbucks! I decided to forgo breakfast because I knew I was going to have a short gap between when I left for institute and when I ate and I wanted to save the calories for Starbucks.

I didn't feel like bringing my backpack today, so I just grabbed my gym padlock, phone ear buds, charger and put them in the big pocket that my hoodie has.

I rode the bus to the mall, it was around 10:30am by this time. I went to See's Candies and bought some peppermint candy. I went to institute after walking around for a little bit. We had KFC pot pie for lunch today. I brought mine to class where we talked about psalms. I slipped choir later just to see how I feel about it and make sure I want to drop it.

I headed off to the mall where I headed straight for Starbucks and got a free large Chai Cream Frappuccino with cinnamon. It was amazing on so many levels.



I headed over to The Body Shop and hung out there for a while looking at the items and talking to the staff while I drank my drink.

I did a lot of job searching after this. I went through the whole mall and asked every one of the stores if they were hiring. I got 5 or 6 paper applications and the rest I'm doing online. It was fun going through all the stores again. I am excited to turn all my applications in.

The rest of the day I was at the gym. I took my phone and charger and let my phone charge until around 6pm. I spent the rest of the night doing cardio, lifting weights, visiting the sauna and I even saw Darik while I was doing sit-ups. I was picked up by mom and dad around 10:30. I burned over 800 calories today!

Oh Canada

Mom was cleaning out the coat closet when she found this awesome hoodie. I fell in love with it and I've been wearing it all day. It's been pretty boring today. The only interesting part of the day didn't happen until around 7pm.

There was a church activity where we had dinner from Zupas, did a getting to know you activity, and talked about the Book of Mormon. We also started reading it together and got new books. Here is a picture of the dinner. I chose the strawberry raspberry salad with raspberry vinaigrette, potato chips, a ham sandwich and a chocolate strawberry (not pictured).



I got a separate picture of the chocolate strawberries.



There were things all over the walls that had our baby picture and 5 facts about us on them. For the getting to know you activity we took turns standing in front our info and we had people that asked us about ourselves. We rotated and did one wall at a time. I was the first wall and got to rotate through 3 different people and learned about other people later when I visited their walls. It was a little hard to talk so much, but I got through it!

The rest of the day before this isn't really important. I did play a lot of trivia crack though!

Trippy Rainbow Surprises

I had chicken, an orange and milk for breakfast. I know that is very bizarre, but I didn't feel like a protein shake.

I went to the gym, did my cardio and then left.

Today the institute was giving out free pancakes and syrup. They were simple, but good pancakes. We talked about the book of Job in the Old Testament today, and I accidentally fell asleep in class. Good thing I already know the material. In choir I thought about leaving the class, but stayed for at least the whole class period because I need to make sure very carefully I want to drop. I sang for part of the class, and just watched the rest.

After this I went to the mall and then to Starbucks. I got a white hot chocolate frappuccino with carmel and a grilled cheese sandwich. Later I thought about getting a new drain plug. from Lowe's or Home Depot, but ended up getting sidetracked and headed to Michael's where I looked around for a while. I found these really cool balls.


I changed my mind about the drain plug and went back to the mall where I bought a new water bottle from Sports Authority.


I called mom and she gave me a ride home. I took a nap when I got home and woke up to a chicken pot pie Laura had cooked for me. I just spent the rest of the night cleaning my room, watching anime and listening to music. Nothing more to write, I'm so tired...

Chocolate Vanilla Cinnamon

I decided on Sunday that I don't need to wake up so early every day. I don't catch the bus to institute until around 11pm. On mondays I've started waking up at 9:30, and on Tuesday's and Thursdays I wake up around 8:30 instead of 7:30. I woke up at 9:30am today and did my protein shake. I didn't leave for the gym until around 10am. I caught the 10:20am bus and arrived at the mall around 10:30. I walked around the mall for 10 minutes and then went to the gym and did my usual cardio. I actually managed to run into Dylan, or at least I think it was Dylan. I wasn't paying very much attention to be honest. He was doing something on the TRX straps and I was headed to the eliptical at the time.

I went around the mall as usual, but more specifically I made a trip to The Body Shop, one of my favorite shops in the mall. I want to work there possibly, the staff know me pretty well. I haven't been in there for a while because I always want to buy stuff and I didn't want to get distracted or get the employees hopes up that I was going to buy something.

I went to starbucks after looking at the mango items at The Body shop. I ordered a Chocolate, Vanilla, cinnamon frappuccino. It was amazing and tasted like heaven.

After I was done at the mall I headed home on the bus and hot off at Harmon's. At FHE (family home evening) we were going to play games and eat brownies. I decided I wanted to get more snacks for this fun activity so I got some pretzel sticks, cheese its, and 4 different things of Lays Stax. I got regular, cheese, sour cream and onion, and buffalo wings with ranch. the last one was the most bizarre. I called dad and he picked me up after I was done.

When I got home I watched Naruto and played games like trivia crack on my phone until FHE.

At FHE we had 3 different stations. I brought my snacks and someone brought brownies as expected. Some people played Super Smash Bros, some people did dancing games, and some people did tennis and bowling on the wii. I did bowling, but mostly just hung around and talked to people and ate snacks. We were a little worried that no one would show up, but they just all showed up late as usual. My snacks were a hit as I thought they would be. When I got home all I had left were some Cheeze its. We had Parmesan chicken for dinner and sweet potatoes. I fell asleep after I ate and just woke up a few minutes ago. I figured I should get this done before I go back to sleep. it's almost midnight.

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On Saturday I watched Naruto and went to Costco to get samples. I noticed that there was a lot of focus on sausage, hotdogs and burritos. There was also a sample of my favorite cranberry and cranberry cherry juice though! There weren't as many samples as we thought there would be. I went with Laura and Natalie. Some of my favorites were the juice, the cinnamon roll sample, the chicken wings that came in 3 different flavors, the sausages, and the mozzarella sticks. The chicken wings were really spicy and messy, but they were great. We just went home and I played games on my phone and watched anime all day. Later we had chicken and veggies for dinner.

Today marks a full month of blog posts. I haven't blogged for a whole month straight in a long time, if ever. I wore my new Sunday clothes to church today. Today was fast Sunday, but I went ahead and ate an orange so I wouldn't get carsick on the way to church. Here is a picture of my new clothes.


It was actually warm inside the church building for once today. I didn't have to keep my coat on. We talked about Nicodemus today in Sunday school. I don't remember much about church today. We also had a testimony meeting though. I always enjoy testimony meetings, but sadly I didn't go up today.

Anyway so after church I had chips and guacamole, more oranges, chicken, and for dinner later we had meat, cheese, and veggies in tortilla pockets. There were different ones with just broccoli and cheese. I took a loooong nap after I ate and actually just woke up 10 minutes ago. The rest of what happened today isn't interesting.. I did have a weird nap dream about getting ice cream after hours at the store. Apparently the employees were having a party and came out and gave me free ice cream just because I was there. Oh yeah, and I remember Darik and Dylan were in my dream too at some point. Oddly enough they were singing in a choir. I think it was a one time thing. I remember seeing them in a snapchat with their friends as well. I also remember riding the bus in my dream, it was so random. If I remember any more I'll tell about it in a later post.I feel the memories of the dream coming back, but it'll take time I think.