On the Books

First day back at the gym yesterday = death! I worked on chest and triceps with my trainer and once I was done I felt like my breast bone was going to snap in half. I've never experienced that kind of pain before, it was a good pain though. Today was a bit easier, I worked on legs and put in 35 minutes of cardio.

I realized that I usually do better when I track my intake and plan out my exercise, so I made this handy spreadsheet [pictured below]. It has a few tabs; one for writing down my exercise/workouts daily, another to track everything I ate in a day and count calories, and a third to track my measurements every month. The front page is a basic schedule for my workouts and also tracks my weight loss and intake/output every day. I usually avoid excel at all costs but I actually enjoyed doing this and I'm pretty proud of myself :]

Fact of the Day: [yes it's back!] My favorite color is purple, and has been since I was in preschool. I have a purple striped room [lavender and dark purple] and I love it!

Bitter Sweet

So today was the day. The day I've been dreading since I first arrived in Pittsburgh. The day I had to leave my boyfriend to go home. Now don't get me wrong, I love where I live, I love my friends where I live, I love my family that I live with, and I love being at home. However, I wish that Mike could be a part of that life too. Unfortunately we are currently separated by about 320 miles of Pennsylvania, something that will hopefully change by the end of next year. Spending 11 days and nights with him was so amazing, we did so much; dinner with his family, baseball games, water parks, lotssss of eating at a variety of different places, concerts, fireworks, and plenty of chill time. All of this adding up to the hardest goodbye ever. Did I mention the drive sucked too? Pretty much rained, correction, monsooned for over half the drive [the full drive takes about 5 hours].

But now that I'm back I have some serious shit to focus on. I am afraid to get on the scale for fear of how much weight I gained. I haven't worked out in over a week [ughhh] and I've been eating crap for about a week. I need to get back on track, now that summer class is over I'll be able to put in double sessions at the gym and attend yoga a couple times a week. I also plan on drastically healthifying [yeah I made that up haha] my intake until I leave for vacation on August 7th. Gotta get bikini ready!

miss him already...

Crunch Time

Wow, so I got on the scale this morning and realized that I have reallllly let myself go over the past week in Pittsburgh. Three pounds worth of letting myself go. Ugh. I leave for my annual vacation to St. Marten on August 7th, clearly not leaving me a lot of time to get to my original goal of 130. However, I'm not giving up, I'm just making a more realistic goal for this time frame. I would at least like to be IN the 130's by the time I leave. I'll probably start planning meals and things when I get back home in a few days, but any advice or awesome diet recipes you girls have would be extremely helpful :]

My sister and I in Turks and Caicos for spring break [around 168]

Western Bound

Hope everyone had a wonderful fourth of July! I know I did, some starbucks for breakfast, movies, then back home to cook dinner [extra lean turkey tacos and my signature avocado, lime, mango salsa], then into the city for fireworks over the river :]

Last night was awesome, got to spend 4 hours in the emergency room [note the sarcasm haha]. But everything's good now, leaving for West Virginia in a couple hours to see my best guy friend, Steve. He's basically the older brother I never had. He graduated from Pitt 2 years ago, and now he goes to WVU for grad. Funny thing is he used to be my ex-boyfriends best friend, ha. Either way, I'm expecting a great time as always!

the fireworks in pittsburgh

our dinner & beautiful roses from Mike :]

Light Up the Sky

Happy fourth of July everyone! I hope you guys all have something fun planned for tonight, including fireworks. I love this time of year mostly for that reason. I got to see a fireworks show last night at the baseball game, and again tonight. I don't know if any of you know that Pittsburgh is called the city of bridges [also the steel city], but they have a millllllion bridges. Apparently they close them for the fourth of July so people can watch fireworks over the river on them :]

About to kick off my fourth of July by getting breakfast at a crepe place on campus [I know, not very American], then forcing my boyfriend to see eclipse haha, followed by the regatta and fireworks!

Pittsburgh Sound

After five hours of driving yesterday I finally made it to Pitt. For once it is not grey or freezing here, I brought multiple hoodies just in case. I'm sure I will be needing them. This morning I watched Julie & Julia for the first time, it was fantastic! Maybe i'll try something like that [but on a smaller scale and with a diet cookbook instead haha].

Mike is at class until 1 o'clock but afterwards we're hitting up the gym then going out to dinner with his parents and brother :]

the cathedral of learning on campus, oh how I missed it

First Day of July

149.8!

So not only did I make my goal, but I also just took my final for summer class and I think it went pretty well. I needed to get a 60% to pass the class with a C but I definitely feel that it's going to be an A or B :] Now to the gym then driving to pittsburgh for a longgg visit with my snugglepuss [haha]. I'll probably update later tonight once I get there. Hope you girls have a wonderful day!