Worst Day of My Life...

No, I am not being over-dramatic. I honestly think this could be one of the worst things that could ever happen to me, absolutely heartbreaking; Simon Gagne has been traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Ugh. I know this may sound ridiculous to most people thinking "he's just an athlete get over it", but he's so much more than just and athlete.

Drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in '98, Gagne is the player with the longest history playing for any Philadelphia sports team. Not to mention saving the flyers from defeat multiple times in this years playoffs. Also, Simon Gagne scored the game winning goal in legendary game 7 against the Boston Bruins after being down 3-0 in the beginning of the series. Only two other NHL teams have ever pulled of such a feat.

I have been a loving fan of his since I was nine and will continue to be. Gags you'll be missed :[

I'm In Miami, Bitch?

This afternoon my mom and my sister left for a little 5 day vacation to Miami. I didn't go because two years ago just my mom and I went to Atlantis for a week, leaving my sister behind since she was still in school. So this trip was supposed to be the "make up" for that. Anyway, they have probably been there for about 4 hours and are already telling me to find a ticket for tomorrow so I can fly down and join them haha! Of course I would love to, I mean really who wouldn't? However, it seems that the cheapest flight would be around 700 dollars, which I guess is kind of a blessing in disguise because I have so much stuff to do this week and if I went down there I would most likely end up partying way too hard and consuming way way wayyy too many calories.

Switching topics

Sunday is the day of the week where my dad and I go to yoga followed by croissants at this amazing little cheese shop down the block from the yoga studio. I usually get the raspberry and brie croissant but today the lady had made blueberry-lemon-coconut cream croissants! Obviously I had to try this and I must say it was phenomenal!

Lazy

Well, today was a total bust. After working out extremely hard yesterday [yoga, lifting, and 30 minutes of cardio...about 750 calories burned] I get on the scale and gained 2.2 pounds over night! Really?! I considered my intake yesterday and it wasn't too bad considering the amount of exercise I had done. I probably ate between 1,400 and 1,500 calories. Today I was way too sore to even think about going to the gym but tomorrow I'm going to yoga bright and early, followed by cardio and a back and bicep workout at the gym.

Today's intake was a little higher than what I would like on a no exercise day [about 1,250 calories], we'll see how the scale treats me tomorrow morning. Another thing that really pissed me off this week was the FOUR re-runs of chelsea lately. That's an entire week for that show, so disappointing.

In other news, and on a brighter note, I have doing a lot of online shopping in the past few days. I'm most excited to get my yoga towel from manduka. I sweat a lot when I practice and my hands and feet tend to slip on my mat. A couple months ago a woman in my class had this cool looking hot pink towel over her mat. I asked her about it after class and she said that she also slipped on her mat and that the manduka towel was the solution. They come in all sorts of colors too, I ordered mine in lilac. Can't wait to try it out :]

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 :]