I think it’s high time I use this again:

Hi everyone! Wow, it’s been a while.

Needless to say I need to get back on track. Last semester was the hardest and busiest semester of my life, and I wasn’t able to actively try and lose weight. I hovered around 155 though, which wasn’t bad. I’d stopped weight watchers when I was stuck around 151.

However, with Christmas, a cheap cross country road trip and 3,000 miles later, I’m struggling between 159 and 162 consistently and I hate it. I’m in L.A. I’m starting my new life here and I’m not okay with this weight. I’m eating enormously healthy, save for the occasional drunk binge (last night, ugh) and I always snack at night when I smoke, though I’ve been trying to come up with healthy options and fit that activity into the rest of the day’s calories.

I don’t know how I’m going to manage the blog now. Probably more casually, but I think it’s time for an outlet again to push through this.

As for right now, I’m heading out to run errands but I’m already in workout gear. It’s my clothing for the entire day so that at one point when I get back today I WILL be going to the gym and that’s that.

Wish me luck!

-Air

Food Journal: Tuesday 9/6

Today was my first day of classes and it was really weird. I have a 10-2 and a 6-10 and I stay on campus in between so my eating is very weird. But I think it went well.

Breakfast: 8:45am

Sunny side up egg with laughing cow cheese on a reduced fat waffle

Lunch: 2:15pm

Veggies with balsamic and boursin on multigrain bread
Sweet potato fries

(I didn’t eat a lot of this because I got full really fast and felt sick shortly after. Nerves I think!)

Snack: 5:45pm

100 calorie pack of cheese-itz

Dinner?: 7:00pm

Half of my small tupperware of leftover past from last night

Dinner?: 10:30pm

The rest of the pasta

Dessert: 11:30pm

100 calorie pack of fudge brownie bites

Food Journal: Monday 9/5

Breakfast:

Egg and laughing cow cheese on a sandwich thin

Snack:

Special K crackers and hummus

Dinner:

Whole wheat pasta with homemade crushed tomato sauce, onions, chickpeas, spinach and chicken sausage

Dessert:

High-fiber, 100 calorie brownie

Workout:

3.5 mile power walk
1.6 mile walk

Food Journal: Sunday 9/4

Breakfast:

Nonfat lemon greek yogurt

Lunch:

Sliced turkey, hummus, cucumbers, goat cheese and honey mustard on a sandwich thin
Cheez-it 100 calorie pack

Snack:

Honey wheat pretzels

Dinner:

Cucumber and laughing cow cheese sandwich on a sandwich thin
60 calorie chocolate mouse pudding with sliced kiwi

Drinks:

1 gin and tonic
2 long island ice teas
1 shot of SoCo and Lime

Snack:

A few of my friend’s french fries
Cheez-it 100 calorie pack
5 special K crackers and hummus

Workout:

3.5 mile walk/jog (jogged probably 1 mile)
100 crunches with weighted object
Arm training with weighted object
1+ hours of dancing (trust me, I felt it!)

Food Journal: Saturday 9/3

Breakfast:

Leftover mango curry with chicken

Lunch:

Smoothie from Pinkberry: watermelon froyo, kiwi, watermelon and mango

Dinner:

Veggie burger on a sandwich thin with laughing cow cheese and condiments
Sauteed spinah
cucumber and hummus

Snack:

Honey wheat pretzels with hummus

Workout:

Walked 3 miles downtown.

Food Journal: Friday 9/2

Breakfast: N/A

Lunch:

Half of leftover tuna melt on an english muffin w/ tomato and swiss

Dinner:

Crab Rangoon
Mango curry with chicken and brown rice

Don’t know what to make of this day! I ate little, but not well!

Hi everyone!

I took a break, obviously. I went on vacation for a while and was generally back and forth between home and my apartment all summer.

I was doing well until vacation and haven’t seemed to get myself back on track. Hopefully school and a routine next week will help.

Expect updates!

I’ve been walking 3.5 miles for the past 3 days straight. I walk to the reservoir, then around it, then back. It takes about an hour and it’s awesome!

I’m going this evening as it begins to cool off. And my goal for Thursday is 2 pounds! Let’s hope I can make it work!

Week 55: 150.2 [-2.8/-17.2]

The weirdness of being on a film set kicked in I guess. Last week I didn’t lose anything from Cinch, but I got my period the next day. Then I went straight to filming and I couldn’t eat very much, and when I did start eating later in the shoot I pretty much just got rid of it all because I’d get sick in the mornings. It’s my way of dealing with the nerves I think because I stay very calm and put together.

Anyway I’m trying to use this as momentum to kickstart a 2 and a half week push to 145 if I can. I leave the 26th for Europe and I want to get there!

And even though I lose this I still feel like a whale. I’ve been hovering around 150 for so long I feel like it’s my new heavy weight.

A few downsides to Cinch

1. Be careful of the ingredients. I bought nonfat vanilla greek yogurt before I realized it had added sugar and other ingredients. Today I bought lemon which has less but still has some evaporated cane juice. I also bought plain. If I could find vanilla extract in my stupid grocery store I would have gotten some and maybe some lemons and splenda for sweetness?
   
   
2. The thing is….this is fucking expensive! Just the sheer amount of berries has killed me. I’ve been to the grocery twice since Monday and in total I’ve spend about $75.00! And that’s just on cinch ingredients. I get $150 for an entire month for groceries usually…so I’ll have to do some finagling since the money goes into my account 20th of every month and here it is…the 22nd. I mean….what. I truthfully won’t be able to do this again just because of the cost. I seriously hope I drop like 5 pounds to make this worth it!