What the....?

I went to do a search on google, and you know how they always have pics around the name on special occasions? Well, it must be one today because there is a picture, but I don't know what the hell it's supposed to be of. Perhaps you can enlighten me.



Are they metallic tulips? Rainbow colored garden spades? Moraccas?

Coundown

3 days until my last final is due!

4 days until Las Vegas!

11 days until graduation!

P.S. I am procrastinating so I don't have to study legislation, which is boring. I am trying to care, but it's hard.

Weekly Totals

As I type this I have a bit of a headache, presumably because I have caused some neck muscle to kink up. My low back can hardly believe it belongs to me, but I am persevering, and I dare say, it's working out OK. Hurray!

7 Day -Total
elliptical - 3.4 hours
jogging - 6 miles
walking - 8 miles
cycling - 10 miles

I think I may have lost a pound or two, but mostly I seem to be changing shape and building muscle. I'll take it. I am also eating a fair amount due to the stress of finals. Plus, I am heading to Las Vegas on Saturday, and I will not be eating well there, so I have to burn, baby, burn! I updated my workout mix today and made some very inspiring additions. Chris Brown's Forever and Rhianna's Don't Stop the Music are great for jogging!

Tomorrow I have my first final, and I am definitely less prepared than I have ever been. This semester has not really been about school for me, but the things I have been focusing on are going well, so I can't complain. WIsh me luck, cuz I am actually going to need it!

Exercisathon Week 1

Totals for week one of the exercisathon:

elliptical - 3 hours 30 minutes
miles jogged at epically slow pace - 3
miles walked - 8

Official Announcement

Do-do-do-doooooo! Announcing my new blog theme! Since I am only 3 weeks away from graduating, and 3.5 months into my personal makeover that I've told you nearly nothing about, I thought I would change the angle on my blog and journal to you instead of myself about my progress. I am a little neurotic and ADD about my makeover, so bear with me.

On January 6th I started my diet makeover, which continues on to this day. My roomie and I are both eating healthy, we make flax muffins, vegetable soup, and steel cut oats every week. We eat oranges and strawberries and salads chock full of vegetable so we won't get scurvy or other vitamin deficiencies. And I have basically eaten 1500 calories a day or less everyday (with a few exceptions).

Then in mid February I added in exercise, and lo and behold, my back is adapting! it makes me extremely happy. First it was just the elliptical trainer 3-4 times a week, then I started taking weekly bike rides at the river, and this week I started jogging. I bought beautiful running shoes that I LOVE, and took them for a spin today as I did my first bout of wind sprints to improve my fitness.

So far I have lost 20 pounds and two sizes. I have been in a bit of a slump over the past few weeks from the stress of school projects coming due, working two internships, but I've thrown the running in, and switched from counting Weight Watcher's points to counting calories. I just have to make it a few more weeks and them my Get Fit and Get Smart summer starts, when roomie and I will work out and study for the Bar all day every day. It's gonna be great.

My goal - 20 more pounds by the end of summer. Then re-assess. Kate is my role-model. I want to have a body just like hers...only mine.