New Rule for Lauren

After measuring out my dinner, like a great little calorie counter, I left the rest on the stove. After eating, I went into the kitchen to get some Smart Pop popcorn. While it was popping, I ate a whole other serving of biscuits and chicken.

New Rule: After making dinner and serving it, the rest gets put away in the fridge immediately!!!!

Luckily, I'm still only about 250 over what I wanted to be for the day, but still!!! I shouldn't have done that!

Today wasn't good or bad, it just was. As far as being healthy though, better than most. Woke at 9, had breakfast (tea, Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch), read a few Psalms, out the door at 10 to walk to campus. I wanted to practice for a few hours. Went to the door, swiped my card to open it, doesn't work. Go to next door. Doesn't work. Walk to the library to use the pianos in the basement. All doors locked, library closed until the 22nd. Look across and see a door helpfully left open to another building. Practice on a piano that I don't really like, but practice nonetheless. Regardless of this very annoying locked door escapade, I did walk a bit more than I would have. I walked 20 minutes to campus, and then another 15 minutes around campus trying any door that led to a piano. Anyway....

after practicing until about 12 I came home (more walking!) and got some lunch (1 cup of Three Cheese noodles from yesterday, pretzels with honey mustard) and lazed around for awhile. Then I left at 3:30 to go to a wedding dress rehearsal. Came home from the rehearsal around 6:15, made dinner (Betty Crocker Complete Chicken and Biscuit Meal) around 7. And that brings us to me eating dinner and watching, of all things, Secret Life of the American Teenager on fancast. No kidding. I don't know why I let my brain rot, but alas, there's nothing I can do.

Well, here we go again.

Stop blogging=weight gain. I don't know why I let myself stop. It's so simple. Take five minutes out of my day to blog about my life. Benefits of doing so: no overeating, actually exercising, feeling really good about myself....

Well, I'm back into the swing of things at school. Classes haven't started yet, but I'm here practicing and getting ready for everything. So I might as well get back to my routine. Lately I've been eating like an empty trashcan. I can eat anything and everything in sight. It's actually quite disgusting when I think about it. I feel bad about it after, but then I inevitably do it again in a few hours. Some days I start off wonderfully with a fantastic breakfast. For example, yesterday I had yogurt with some granola mixed in and some tea. Wonderful, delicious, and perfect for the start of the day. And then the day spiraled from there....

My wonderful roommate and I are starting back on the road to being healthy and feeling good. We both have stopped running, which has led to both of us feeling less than stellar. We are becoming the new 'Sisters of the Traveling Pants' except that we have rechristened it 'Sisters of the Traveling Dress'. She has a beautiful dress that is size 8. Neither of us can fit into it but we both have a goal. Over winter break it will travel between us and we both will wear it! We can do it!!

Confession: January 2009 I was 210lbs. By the middle of the Fall semester I was floating between 140 and 145. May 2010 I was about 160 and I told myself I was going to stop. Now, in August 2010 I am close to 175.