SGD day 4: 500

This post is actually for yesterday.

Intake:
[x]apple: 0
[x]banana: 0
[x] heart thrive: 160
[x] plain salad: 0
[x] soy nuts: 130
[x] jelly beans: 70
[x] cookie: 100
[x] rice cakes: 200
Total ~660

Eww so much food but it was the first day of my period and I was out of control ahh!  I also couldn't even complete my run because of my period, I only did 30 minutes of jog/walk instead of 60 mins of jogging.  Although it did burn off most of what I ate over my limit.

111 pounds today!

SGD day 3: 400

I'm back down to 112.5 today!  Slowly but steadily I am getting back to where I was before my month-long binge :)

So I just graduated from college, but I'm still taking my last 2 classes right now (just started Monday).  One of them is a math class (I won't bore you with the details lol) and the other is a GE class about diet and exercise...  Hmmmm!  It's really quite interesting and I am already learning so much useful information.  We're all pretty much experts on here about all of the different diets out there and which ones work, etc.  But now I'm learning about why these diets work/don't work and exactly which bodily processes they are capitalizing on.  For example, we've heard that eating multiple small meals a day is better than a couple of large meals.  Why? Because low glucose levels (sugar) causes us to release insulin, which inhibits the breakdown of fat (BAD!).  So instead, we should try to keep our glucose levels higher constantly to promote lower insulin.

Anyway, I'll try to include some more helpful tips from my class on here to share with everyone in the future :)

Plan for today: 400 calories
[x] 2 carrots: 0
[] plain salad: 0
[] fruit: 0
[] vegan meatloaf (homemade by me! out of mushed up black beans) ~230

Princess Perfection I wish I could run for miles and miles without stopping!  I daydream about it all the time, it seems so exhilerating and refreshing.  But I can't do it--not yet anyway!  I've built up to running for over 16 minutes without stopping so far, hopefully I can continue to improve because I love it so much :)

SGD day 2: 300

So today I started out by doing my 4 mile jog.  The last time I did it here in LA was over a week ago (I went home last week because I didn't have school), and I was wearing shorts that kept riding up making me feel incredibly self-conscious (I have huge legs).  Anyway, I was still feeling a bit traumatized by that so I decided to flip my route so that I went through the city part of my jog first before people I might know would be up and about.  Also, if there were any people that might see me, I would just be starting my run so I would still be running strong when they saw me.  The only problem is I didn't take into account the hills on my route.  The direction I usually go in has less steep uphills but steep downhills.  I didn't think about that lol.  So today I was trying to run up steeper hills than I'm used to (and I'm not that much of a runner yet to begin with), and I ended up walking up most of them.  Then like 30 minutes into it I felt like I was going to pass out, possibly because I just started the SGD + I was doing more uphills than I was used to.  I tried to keep going but I really didn't want to faint so I stopped and cut across campus (I've been doing a perimeter run) and went home :(

It sucks because although I was still out there for an hour, half of it was walking.  It was also the first time I tried to run since I started restricting again and I wanted to see how much it would affect my running.  But since I messed everything up by going the opposite way I won't know until tomorrow.

I'm pretty worried because I started running when I decided to become more "healthy."  The only problem was my calories were getting out of control during my "healthy" period and I got up to 115 pounds yesterday (up from 108 pounds in only a month, but down to 114 today).  But I've grown to love running, and I want to continue challenging and improving myself.  It seems somehow that maybe I can't have both :(  I can't be superskinny and be a strong runner.  At least not for now :(

Anyway, I figure I burned about 200 calories this morning.  So far I had an apple (0 cals) and a plain salad (0 cals).  I also had some soy nuts (~150 cals<--I'm overestimating just in case).  So I've still got 150 cals left, or 350 if I subtract my cals burned.  I'm pretty sure I should be fine :) I'm actually still working on my salad and it's already 7pm.

Princess Perfection: Thanks for the words of encouragement!  You're always there for me with something positive :)

Wings to Set me Free: I'll definitely keep you guys updated!  It's nice to be back on here again--you guys keep me on track with my weight loss goals :)

Samzi: Great, thanks for the help :)  I'm not too worried about feeling hungry just because fruits/veggies are so filling anyway, but I'll probably try to keep them under 200 like you said so that I still lose weight!

SGD Day 1: 400

I've decided to try the Skinny Girl Diet. I really want to do the ABC because I've been eating nonstop for the past week partying and visiting with people after my graduation.  But I also want to continue running everyday, and I'm not sure I can do that with too few calories.  I don't want to end up giving up on my diet or my running, so I'm trying the SGD!  Oh, I would also try the Healthy Skinny Girl Diet, but I feel it allows too many calories so I might end up stuffing my face all the time.  I want to be healthy, but now is not the time!  I want to feel good about my body for the first time everrrr so I'm going to once again do whatever it takes to lose weight.

Update (10:20pm):
-banana: 0
-plain salad: 0
-2 homemade vegan pecan sandies (why?!?!): 200
-2 homemade vegan rice krispies (again, why?!?!?): 100
-handful of soynuts: ~100
Total: ~400


Hmm.  Feels weird not counting fruits/veggies.  Not sure if I should count them in though.

Graduation!

This morning I went to my departmental graduation ceremony.  I kept getting emotional and teary-eyed (I just can't believe I accomplished what I have, and that I'm going to have to move on right when I was getting comfortable here).  Thanks to Wings to Set me Free and Princess Perfection for the congrats and words of wisdom!  I'm really going to try and sit back to just soak everything in this weekend and enjoy my time with my family.

After the ceremony I went with my family and my boyfriend's family out to Korean BBQ for lunch.  I order the bibimbap sans meat and egg, which means it was basically just a salad and rice--quite tasty!  Plus since it was mostly veggies I didn't feel bad about eating most of it (picked around the rice though to avoid the extra calories).  My parents went back to their hotel for now, so I'm just waiting for them to pick me up and we'll just hang out around LA for the rest of the day (I'm thinking of heading to the Beverly Center).

Last night I signed up for a 5k in August.  I'm really excited!  My goal is to do at least one race every month, or 2 (one every 2 weeks) if I can afford it.  I also bought some new running shoes, the Puma FAAS 300.

Well, I guess that's it for now.  Congrats to any other grads in the Class of 2011! (Like my little sister who just graduated from high school yesterday!)

Went for a jog again today :) First time going 2 days in a row in over a week!  I also weighed myself afterwards.  I'm 111.5, which is up 3.5 pounds since my lowest (feels like forever ago).   So far today I had almost 2 bananas (shared with my boyfriend) and like 10 animal crackers (<--I don't know why I ate those...)

Hmm not much to say today, I'm too tired from finals this week.  Didn't even go to my university's graduation ceremony today... It doesn't really matter though because I'm going to the Math Dept's graduation ceremony on Sunday, which is the one my family will be attending.  So EXCITED to be graduating haha!

Bah, I want to be skinny already!

I'm Back!

OMG I'm absolutely exhausted! These past two weeks all but killed me D: but hey, I'm done!  I've got a whole week off of school/work yay!  Time for some much needed rest :)


Later tonight I'm going for a jog (I haven't gone in almost a week!).  This weekend will be a blur because of graduation, but next week I'll get to catch up on this weight-loss I've had to put on hold :) I'll restrict as much as possible next week plus do extra exercise while I have the time.  Then once summer school starts I'll probably go back to the SGD or HSGD while jogging everyday (yay for my good old routines).


Anyway, off to catch up on all your blogs!  I've missed you guys sooo much!!!