For Real This Time

It just feels like I’m dying.  I have what I’m sure is the plague, but everyone else is saying is just a head cold.  Either way…all I want to do is sleep, and school and life are making that basically impossible:\

I’ll be back soon!

This week has been crazy…in a good way!  I’ve been practicing my butt off, and it’s paying off big time:D  This music is NOT easy, and the fact that I’m getting it down in the second week makes me feel A LOT better about things.

In the midst of school craziness, I have somehow still managed to work out consistantly and eat well.  On Wednesday, my friends and I went to Brasa, a Brazilian steakhouse a few blocks away from school.  O.M.G. SO GOOD.  We spent three hours there, and even though I never cleaned my plate, I had a taste of everything and left super satisfied:)

I just got done doing some Tae Bo and made an extra  point to push myself pretty hard, so I’m pretty much exhausted right now…but expect a post tomorrow! Maybe even with pictures :D

Five days late but whatevs!

Old August Goals

Get to 310-  I feel like if I stick with what I’ve been doing while trying to workout for an hour (15 mins more) a day I can do it!-Seeing as my scale broke in the middle of August, I really have no idea how much I weight…it’s both awesome (because I don’t obsess over the scale) and horrible (but I DO obsess about how much I weight day in and day out) at the same time…

Cut out salt completely-  My mom already buys ‘low sodium salt’ and I rarely use it, I doubt I’ll miss it much.-I’ll say I stuck to this 80% of the time.  I didn’t add salt to anything, but it’s nearly impossible for everything I eat to not already have salt in it in this house :\  I did track my sodium intake and kept it between 900-1100(well within my allotted limit.)

Cut out sugar mostly- I have been slowly doing this without realizing it.  I haven’t had a cookie in months, no peanut butter m&m’s(my FAVORITE), and minus the summer cold I had last week, no juice. I can do this easily!!-If you don’t count peanut butter, I completely stuck to this one ;)

No more eating junkfood under the “I’ll just eat half of this donut” premise.  No more junk food in general- I think this speaks for itself:)-Did this one by default!

Find the other Tae Bo dvds I KNOW I have- I love that crazy sweaty bitch Billy Blanks. Love. Him.-I found all of my bootcamp dvds, and my vhs tapes…yet I have no vcr:\

Mmkay..

SEPTEMBER GOALS

Buy a Scale, a good excercise mat, and new hand weights-My financial aid check is on the way…I’m about to go bananas!

Practice…EVERYDAY-I shouldn’t have to tell myself this…but this semester is more important than ever with a recital, grad school auditions, and about a pound of music I need to have ready by next week at the latest…S-T-R-E-S-S-E-D

Workout…EVERYDAY-I’m not only counting all the walking and practicing as my daily workout…I dunno why, but doing some cardio and breaking a sweat makes me feel like I’m doing so much more:)

Lose 10lbs-Whatever my weight may be right now…I want it ten pounds lower by October…I have big plans ;D

Try to blog at least 3 times a week-The past two weeks have been weird exhausting emotional roller coasters, but I always feel a lot better when I get it all out.  So, no matter how tired or not in to writing anything, I’ll try to do it anyway!

Okay…time to break a sweat, do some practicing, and go out with friends for Labor Day shenanigans!

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So I’ve not been here long and I barely really know any of you guys, but I feel like you are all so courageous and supportive. I’ve come to really grow attached to this community in a short amount of time. I think that is a sign of how strong and loving this community of fitblrs really is. 

The other day I blogged about a brainstorm I had while working out and that two projects came to my mind. Well one of the projects that I thought of involves all of you in this loving community. It seems like there is a lot of talk lately about loving yourself, being yourself, and not listening to the hate. There seems to also be concern about some bloggers spewing self-hate and being reckless with their eating habits. 

Well I really want to try and distill the amazing love, support, and courage that I see everyday on my dash into a project that can reach out and support people. This is where Project L.O.S.S. comes into play……

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Yepp…299 calories an hour. 

This is about 3 and a half hour of practice alone…My hands hurt, but 1,046.5 calories are g-o-n-e!

I’m still doing tae bo tonight, but I feel way better knowing that I’m burning a significant amount of calories doing something that I do everyday:)  It also makes all this hard shit I’m playing even more worth it!

Which would explain my slight absence.  It’s been three days and I’m completely exhausted.  I have a hate/hate relationship with the school I go to, mostly because the music department is such a shitshow.  What kind of music school doesn’t have seating auditions?!

So needless to say, I’ve been super stressed.  It’s always unnerving coming back and not knowing where I stand.  It honestly doesn’t matter if I work hard or not, my chair placement could have moved, I could be out of one ensemble and into another, or just out all together.  These are all things that have happened in the past, and I ALWAYS work my butt off:\  It’s frustrating to say the least.  Thankfully, everything has been (mostly) sorted out and I’m involved in some pretty awesome things this semester :D

On the plus side, being back at school gives me the awesome opportunity of seeing how much this summer’s hard work has paid off! Parking is horrendous, so my friend and I have had to park super far away from our class everyday this week.  Plus, we are notoriously late for anything that isn’t a music class, so it’s been a power walking-palooza, and the 90-degree temperatures at 9AM are so~ awesome too…I’ve also been taking the stairs anytime I have to go up less than three flights, or I don’t have my 35lb clarinet case on my back:)

With all the walking, stair-taking, and general sweating while doing anything because the music department sucks and only has a/c in one rehearsal hall, I’ve switched up my workouts and now I’m doing the 30 day shred the majority of the time, also due to the fact that I get home so late now, and most of the time I feel like I’m going to fall asleep while I’m doing roundhouse kicks!

OH! Also…no more walking campus in flip flops.  I have the worst kind of blisters right now.

ALSO X’S 2—-I know I’ve said it before, but when I play now, my breath support is AMAZINGLY OUTRAGEOUS. Playing full passages without worrying about having enough air is sooo nice :)

So, I’ll do my goals and things tomorrow…I’m entirely too exhausted<3