Thoughts / Reflections

Weird weekend.

Our spring break finished up tonight -- but only yesterday I learned I had a paper due tonight by 6 p.m. Oops. I spent 6 hours yesterday and 10 hours today preparing for it -- and wrote it quickly. I think it works, but it made the workouts weird and made my spring break come to a close quickly. It also makes me realize that this thing called school will be done in a mere 9 months. And the truth of the matter is summer will be relatively busy, but fall should be pretty easy (only 13 credits).

As for the weight stuff -- amazing, I bought about $80 bucks worth of groceries upon arrival from teh midwest, Wednesday -- and went and spent another $100 bucks tonight. I know I'm eating lots of fruit and juice, but sheesh!

I also noticed today -- during the time pressure cooker for this paper -- that I ate way more calories during the pressure. THere's definitely some sort of emotional "omigod" sort of energy to it. I definitely felt the pressure today -- I was definitely scared the paper would be late -- which could potentially lead to all sorts of headaches. It's definitely something to look at in the future though.

ROWING

I spent a bunch of time rowing since my return from the midwest. In fact, just today I rowed a half-marathon (21,097 meters). I was at the 99% level, because I did it quite easily while watching some TV. I do notice that my current requirement of no TV unless the aerobic machines are working with me on them -- definitely leads to less TV and more aerobic exercise (in fact, Saturday I did a significant cycling and rowing workout and burned 1400 calories according to the print-outs). That's a significant caloric expenditure, and hopefully it will pay dividends!

SCALE

Not sure what to do with my scale now that I've figured out how to manipulate it by up to 10 pounds (I drop my toes over the sides adn press inward on the scale; I think this creates lateral rather than downward force, which changes the downward pressure and lightens the load (essentially from 220 to 210).

PHOTOS / SPEED DATING

The speed dating day has arrived too. Supposed to be Wednesday -- because I received a freebie (evidently they were short men). So, it's impossible to turn down, and I am at the weight I once thought would be OK to do it.

FEELING IN BODY

I definitely get up in the morning and my body feels different. Particularly the stomach area immediately under the rib cage -- this is surely because this fat layer has been reduced pretty dramatically. After all, I have lost about 40 pounds. Although, I am surprised that none of my fellow students have said anything. Nor have my workmates. Although, it dawned on me the other day, I suspect if I show up in size 36 shorts, people will notice. In fact, my apartment manager said the other day when I showed up without a suit -- hey, kc, you look different. . she couldn't quite put her finger on it -- so that probably counts as well.

anyhow. . .

kc