Im back again, but man am I feeling the burn. I just got done doing this workout from youtube on this channel called POPSugar fitness! Its amazing! The trainers provide modifications, which i need big time since I am just beginning to get into all these workouts. I ordered a yoga mat today so I am not on the carpet of my dorm room floor, it should be here tomorrow :) My day was not at all eventful, just more work. First I had my thermodynamics class at 8:25AM, then I had my hydrology class at 9:30 and let me tell you this class's structure is absolutely horrible. The only thing we do all class is copy examples out of the book that have the answers right in front of them, but the one good thing is that I am a pro at using excel and solver in excel. I then had my water and wastewater treament class which is in fact over an hour of total boring lecture. Its hard to pay attention in that class, but today I did a lot of my wastewater lab report in the class so is it considered being constructvie? IDK but ill take it as a yes. LOL. Then after wastewater i had hydrology lab, which didnt last very long thank god, but we did get to play with a river table and thats pretty fun (Ended at around 4:30). After that I came back to my room and after contemplating with myself if it was a good idea or not I took a nap. I slept for three hours, and then I yelled at myself after I woke up but I was so gosh darn tired. I woke up and i get these little spurts of motivation, of course not to finish my homework, but to make my eating schedule a little bit better. Usually I eat a granola bar for breakfast, a meal for lunch, a meal for dinner and snack throughout the rest of the day which i know is very bad. So I read up on the way proper meals should be planned out (Thank you pinterest) and then i went to the small store just a little bit aways and bought some food that should help me out. I got a dozen eggs and boiled and peeled them all just as little snacks, but in the process I did end up eating 3 of them, they are just so delicious. My goal is to definitely snack less and if I do have a snack then it should be something very healthy. Another goal that I have is to start being conscious when im eating meals, serving sizes, swapping out something not healthy like fries for something healthy like carrots or a vegetable, and definitely another thing im horrible at, as im sure a lot of people are, is portioning my condiments like ketchup and mayonaise and stuff like that. So im going to try to be more conscious of that too. Let me tell you my muscles are so sore too but I hope this is all going to be worth it and I will start seeing the poundage come off. I dont have a scale and I read that its good to keep a scale but maybe it will be a future purchase during this weight loss journey. In my room I have a wall full of photos of me and my mom, and my best friend and my brother and when im working out and im thinking that I have to quit I look at the pictures of my mom and I and I want to do this for her. She was once heavily heavily overweight, but even with that I thought she was the most beautiful person in the world, and she made a transition to eat healthy and workout and she lost all of that weight. I was literally so proud of her but at the same time so jealous, but at that point I had already gained the freshman 15 and was continually going up and up on the scale, and I just kept on eating. You see my mom is literally my hero. Shes so amazing even though she does get on my nerves sometimes, what mothers dont though? We probably have the best mother-daughter relationship ever to be honest, a lot of people do get jealous of how close we are. I always go to concerts with her and shopping and we are literally best friends, I dont know where I would be without her. Although Im not the shopping-loving, dressing-up, girly daughter that she wanted, she loves me for who I am and accepts the fact that im as redneck as you can get for living in New York.
Alright I think its time to sign off, I have a bit of a lab report im going to do then im going to hit the hay. :) Stay tuned until tomorrow, im really looking forward to writing these blogs now, its going to definitely help me stay on track with this journey. Thank you!
-Reminton <3
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Day 1: Just the beginning
Day 1:
I am totally not used to writing about myself, but I think its time for a bit of a change. As you have seen by the title I am from a very small town in the Southern Tier of New York. I graduated with a class of 26 people (Yes, i know its very small) and I am currently at junior at SUNY College of ESF. I am 20 years old and am starting to realize some new things. This blog isn't meant to just be all about me, Im thinking more of a way to document my day to day life and showcase my struggles and what im going through and mostly just to get some much need heat off my back (excuse the grammar mistakes and such, I will probably be writing all of these at very late times). Today while i was sitting in bed at around 10:00 pm I had quite the revelation as I have had many times before. I looked down to my marked up arms and my jiggly thighs and I thought to myself, why am i doing this to my body? Every new stretch mark that I find signals another few pounds gained and most of the times I just look at them and not care. How could I not care that im destroying my body at such a young age? I told myself that i was done with doing this to myself, that i would make better food choices and start taking care of myself more. I actually cleaned off the floor to my very messy room and did a 30 minute intense yoga training session from a video on youtube. I thought that it was going to be a breeze, I loved doing yoga in fitness classes in high school, but i was breathing heavy only 5 minutes in! LOL. Man was I winded by the end of it. My muscles were shaking and I was sweating, that was probably the only real muscle work out I had completed since two weeks ago in softball practice. I kept looking up at the timer they had going on the screen thinking, oh lord 20 more minutes it feels like its been an hour, but before I even knew it it was over and I was relaxing my muscles in the shower. I made a pact with myself to do this every night and continually get better at it, and I am hoping i can truly stick to it. Now that I have told you about my weight loss revelation that I had today let me complain about my class that I had today. SO on Tuesdays I only have one class at 12:30 (Nice right? I havent been able to sleep in on a week day in AGES). I do not enjoy this class at all, of course its required for my engineering major but remote sensing is literally such a boring subject. I spent most of the class doing dictionary.com's daily crossword puzzle. Our midterm for this class is in two weeks and man am i scared for that. We dont do example problems but we do take quizzes every thursday. To pass this class you have to get above a 65 on both the midterm and the final, and im actually starting to worry. I do say that about a lot of classes though and end up getting pretty decent grades. Im just a normal B student to be honest and I dont think theres anything wrong with that, and side note my remote sensing professor literally ALWAYS has a quarter zip on every day. He must have a million in his closet. LOL. So other than that class, I worked after it and then went to eat at Panera bread, and everytime im at the end of check out on the kiosk and it says "One specially priced bakery item" its such a deal, I cant pass it up, though I 100% should. Its definitely going to be hard trying to kick my sugar and chocolate addiction to get healthier. Tomorrow I have a pretty long day and have one more lab report to write for the week then it should be smooth sailing through the rest of the week. Im getting tired so im going to end this blog promptly. Ill write again tomorrow, I dont know if anyone will read these but welcome if you are. :)
-Remington <3
I am totally not used to writing about myself, but I think its time for a bit of a change. As you have seen by the title I am from a very small town in the Southern Tier of New York. I graduated with a class of 26 people (Yes, i know its very small) and I am currently at junior at SUNY College of ESF. I am 20 years old and am starting to realize some new things. This blog isn't meant to just be all about me, Im thinking more of a way to document my day to day life and showcase my struggles and what im going through and mostly just to get some much need heat off my back (excuse the grammar mistakes and such, I will probably be writing all of these at very late times). Today while i was sitting in bed at around 10:00 pm I had quite the revelation as I have had many times before. I looked down to my marked up arms and my jiggly thighs and I thought to myself, why am i doing this to my body? Every new stretch mark that I find signals another few pounds gained and most of the times I just look at them and not care. How could I not care that im destroying my body at such a young age? I told myself that i was done with doing this to myself, that i would make better food choices and start taking care of myself more. I actually cleaned off the floor to my very messy room and did a 30 minute intense yoga training session from a video on youtube. I thought that it was going to be a breeze, I loved doing yoga in fitness classes in high school, but i was breathing heavy only 5 minutes in! LOL. Man was I winded by the end of it. My muscles were shaking and I was sweating, that was probably the only real muscle work out I had completed since two weeks ago in softball practice. I kept looking up at the timer they had going on the screen thinking, oh lord 20 more minutes it feels like its been an hour, but before I even knew it it was over and I was relaxing my muscles in the shower. I made a pact with myself to do this every night and continually get better at it, and I am hoping i can truly stick to it. Now that I have told you about my weight loss revelation that I had today let me complain about my class that I had today. SO on Tuesdays I only have one class at 12:30 (Nice right? I havent been able to sleep in on a week day in AGES). I do not enjoy this class at all, of course its required for my engineering major but remote sensing is literally such a boring subject. I spent most of the class doing dictionary.com's daily crossword puzzle. Our midterm for this class is in two weeks and man am i scared for that. We dont do example problems but we do take quizzes every thursday. To pass this class you have to get above a 65 on both the midterm and the final, and im actually starting to worry. I do say that about a lot of classes though and end up getting pretty decent grades. Im just a normal B student to be honest and I dont think theres anything wrong with that, and side note my remote sensing professor literally ALWAYS has a quarter zip on every day. He must have a million in his closet. LOL. So other than that class, I worked after it and then went to eat at Panera bread, and everytime im at the end of check out on the kiosk and it says "One specially priced bakery item" its such a deal, I cant pass it up, though I 100% should. Its definitely going to be hard trying to kick my sugar and chocolate addiction to get healthier. Tomorrow I have a pretty long day and have one more lab report to write for the week then it should be smooth sailing through the rest of the week. Im getting tired so im going to end this blog promptly. Ill write again tomorrow, I dont know if anyone will read these but welcome if you are. :)
-Remington <3
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