Today consisted of waking up at around 8am to go running. Beating the heat, I was able to run about 2.4 miles (to and around the near elementary school). Got back and showered because I was so sweaty... and then I worked out a bit while my hair dried and tried to do some work after that. Why all the physical activity you may ask? Well. I am determined to lose a couple pounds, goshdarnit.
That's right. Stephanie is turning over a NEW LEAF.
In the past, I haven't been that conscious of my weight.. Technically, I'm healthy and not over or underweight but... meh, there's something about the fact that I'm not necessarily all that pleased at what I see in the mirror. Recently I've been like "eh..." looking into reflective surfaces and just a short while ago I started to understand that thing about "the camera adding pounds"... Goodness me, I look like an elephant! And then I see myself sitting around and just eating and not really being active, and I get kind of annoyed at how lazy I am. I never really did anything about it. Well now, I want to DO. I want to DO SOMETHING to get my physical skills in shape as well as my body.
I also think I am one of the most impatient people I know... I mean, we're talking about the girl who gets something for her birthday and just HAS to open it up right then and there and start using it. And like a lot of other people, I want results fast, but the real world doesn't work like that. I know I'll have to keep at it, and just work as hard as I can and hopefully I can have some Steph-satisfactory results. So. I have developed a game-plan. This almighty master-plan consists of some cardio in the morning (woo, running while it's not boiling hot) some abdominal workouts 3-5 times a day for a short period of time, (like somewhat vigorous things 5 minutes at time) and of course, dietary supervision. I made a goal to not snack absentmindedly, especially if snacking means something sweet and unhealthy... (I'm so sorry sweet tooth, I am neglecting you!) So I'm afraid I'll have to trade my Badass Banana Bread for a handful of carrots or a fruit/skim milk smoothie.
NOTE TO SELF: Guess I should start making my Confection Perfections a bit healthier, so I won't be tempted to slip into my bad ways. (If you have any fun and creative NATURALLY sweet snack ideas, feel free to share in a comment, and I'd be delighted to feature your idea on the Confection's page! ;D)
So that's that. We'll see what happens. I've made a workout chart and everything, and I really want to stick with this so I can feel better and healthier in general. I know there will be times I slip up, or when I don't exactly meet my aerobic requirements (like today, when J and I kinda said "oooh! Icing! Want some? YES! NOMNOMNOM" *spreads vanilla icing on graham crackers and devours*) but that's okay. I'll just learn from things and keep at it, and hopefully it'll become a healthy habit and I'll feel better about my not-so-lazy life. (Though I have to say I think I was able to burn off some of that icing sugary perfection when I rode my bike home...) Challenge accepted.
After I was done with the morning/early afternoon half of my attempted fitness stuff, J asked if we could hang out and I went over to his place. He got back really early in the morning yesterday, like, 4am and like I predicted, needed kind of a day to get his head pulled together from the travel and the family and the climbing... And I realized today, when I got to see him for the first time in almost a WEEK that we actually made it through a week! (I kid, I kid. I knew we'd make it.) But think of when I'll be gone for two weeks at the beach... That will be interesting. But anyways. I saw him today! He was tan! He claims to be invincible skin-wise, saying he doesn't need sunscreen and that he won't burn. Well after his trip he admitted with a frown that he, too, could get sunburned. He was peeling a bit, but he said it hadn't hurt. Lucky... *grumble grumble* I don't tan, I just burn. I've got this peaches 'n' cream complexion, as people say. And while it's nice, I get annoyed that my skin is so fair that I burn at the drop of a hat. And it's frustrating that when I don't burn, I get "tan". But "tan" to me means my forearms and legs get a SLIGHTLY darker shade of pasty white. Ha.
Today was supposed to be a "spontane" (spon-TAIN) day, where we do nothing but spontaneously come up with things that we want to do. One of those things was watch "The Pink Panther", (face it, we love Steve Martin) but upon searching his house high and low, we couldn't find it. :/
Sooooooooo we settled for watching the bonus feature disk of "The Incredibles" (ah, we're Disney Pixar fans, too... XD) and eating chicken and cheese and then graham crackers smothered in icing instead. (eheh.. so much for no unecessary sweet stuff... Whoops...) A couple of hours passed and as I was about to leave, J saw a package on the front step and got all excited very suddenly. Well, let's back up for a second.
*flashback* For a while now, J has constantly told me how he's wanted to build his own computer. He wanted to make one suited for his needs, with all the stuff he wanted, and he often told me how it would be the BEST COMPUTER EVER. The only problem, he said, was that computer parts were expensive, especially for the thing he wanted to build. Well, he must have gathered enough money because he placed an order for the computer case (the thing the CPU goes in and all of the other components) and it's this wicked green thing and it looks AWESOME. The case, er, empty shell, arrived before all of the other parts did, so he was basically being taunted by an empty shell with nothing to put in it. Well, that's where today comes in.
*back to present time* J's excited rush towards the door was because of the large box on his front step was, as you could tell from the packaging, his computer parts. In that sense, he's just like me (impatient-wise) because the moment he got it inside, he ripped open the packaging and counted to make sure there were seven parts, seven parts just as he ordered. And I don't blame him, he's waited a long while for this. He was in his happy place, I could tell XD And I had this feeling of "Okay, I'm going to go now, you just... have fun with that, and bask in all the glory of those parts." I wonder, if I had just left while he was looking through the box of computer parts, if he would've even noticed I was gone. He was that absorbed/excited. But I didn't and he did see me off like the gentlemen he is... ...When he's not in a supermegaultrafunland of computer parts, lol. I biked home, made some more headway on exercise, annnnd now I'm here, taking a cool-off, chill break/working before I eat something. Something healthy. (;
This isn't me.... But it WILL BE! >:D
I'm an Aires. Ambition's my middle name. So chill guys, I got this.
xoxo
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