bleh. with the numminess that is azteca fajitas, i swapped out all but .5 AP. i was good with milk, water, and veggies too. not a bad day overall, but i just felt all blah and crap.
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bleh. with the numminess that is azteca fajitas, i swapped out all but .5 AP. i was good with milk, water, and veggies too. not a bad day overall, but i just felt all blah and crap.
12 new songs today. nothing about a 7 foot song. i felt really crappy. i think that i ate mexican food too close to playing. bleh. anyway, all of my new songs were on 4th mix. i played for 50 minutes and earned 9 APs.
so, i did pretty well with my plan for the week today. i sucked with my water more than usual though. i only used 4.5 FP today to make up for my lack of APs. we're DDRing tomorrow, so i'm happy about that. it is good to have a day off here and there. :) anyway, i am much less stressed since i was able to get out of my class and into the next one.
well, i was successful for a 2nd day with my plan for the week. i have swapped out almost all of my earned APs. i still have a couple left. i could have gotten through without eating the last 4 points (salad and a 100 calorie pack). i was hungry though. i don't feel guilty about spending 2 points for some yummy salad. gee, i don't think that i would have ever imagined myself saying that!! :) on to tomorrow. i have a chiropractor appointment, zen goes to have her stitches out, and lunch with jill. also, another day of class. :)
busy day at iz. 12 new heavy songs. 70 minutes of play. 14 APs. i changed how my songs passed are recorded so i can really see what i have in front of me. i've done like 126 of nearly 400 songs on the 4 mixes i play: extreme-arcade, 4th mix plus-arcade, max2-home PS2, ultramix-home xbox. :) i am just going to keep plugging away!!
ah. saturday is gone. i ate 8 of my FPs today. 4 of those were tonight. 2 went to a salad, and 2 went to a WW giant sundae cone. oh well, they were worth it. i sucked with my f/v and dairy today. i think that is because i really didn't eat much. i ate crap though. i had chicken strips and fries for lunch, chicken and shrimp fajitas for dinner, a small caesar salad with light dressing, and that weight watchers brand ice cream cone. it could have been much worse. i felt pretty full all day, so that was a good thing. :)
big shocker. we went to iz. i passed 8 new heavy songs, so that was good. we played for an hour. i earned 11 APs for the time. the only bad thing about dropping in weight is that you get fewer points per day and you earn fewer APs for the same amount/exertion of activity. when i first started, an hour of DDR would have earned 13 APs. :)
well, i was down 1.4 pounds today. i am pretty happy with that. i have decided that i am going to work harder this week to only eat my APs earned in addition to my target points on the days that i earn APs. on the days where i have no APs, my goal is to use no more than a few FPs. i would like to finish the week with no fewer than half of my FPs left. i decided this after reviewing my old journals. i had better losses when i didn't eat as many FPs.
yikes. i ate more than i wanted to point wise. at least a few of the points were for a salad. it could have been much worse. i guess we will see how much the scale hates me in the morning. i hope that it is a non-hater.
another day is gone. i ate most of the APs that i earned playing DDR. i'm not sure how weigh in will go this weekend. i was good on veggies, water, and milks again.
back to iz. it was hella freakin crowded. that really sucked. anyway, i earned 10 APs. i wound up eating almost 100% of them, but oh well. i passed a few new songs on heavy mode today. using data from ddrfreak.com, i compiled a list of all of the songs on ultramix, max2 for xbox, max2 arcade, 4th mix plus, and extreme. there are 398 unique songs.
another day has come and gone. i finished today with swapping most of the APs that i earned earlier. i have found the secret to getting in my veggies: fresh express caesar salad with light dressing. it has about 5 cups of lettuce in it. :) i was sad today because i ran out of pizzas. adam went to the store tonight and picked up a few more. anyway, that's about it. :)
7 new songs for me today. i only played at home for 25 minutes, but that is fine with me. i added 1 new 8 foot song to my list and 2 new 7 foot oni songs. the rest were all 7 footers. i have decided that i suck playing at home because i am worried about the downstairs neighbors. anyway, that is all to report.
well, i finished today with using all of my target points and swapping 8 of the 9 APs that i earned. i did well with my veggies again! i think that it is from my addiction to the fresh express light caesar salad. the entire bag is 5 cups. i've been eating half of the bag with lunch and the other half as a snack later in the day. that has been working out pretty well for me. the only bummer about it is that it is 2 points per serving or 5 points if you eat the bag in one sitting. anyway, i am very proud of myself for kicking f/v butt!!
6 new songs on heavy passed today! 50 minutes of play today.
ugh. another not so good points day. well, i got all of my water, veggies, and milks in at least. :)
well, i played some DDR at home for 45 minutes. i passed the last 5 6-foot and lower songs on ultramix. i don't have much to say other than that. :)
MUCH better day points wise. i am going to try to eat no more than 5 APs or FPs per day. i beat that by .5. yay!
only 25 minutes of DDR today. i was hurting in my leg, ankle, and my asthma was being awful. anyway, i earned 5 APs and called it quits.
ugh. god, not a good day points wise. i used all of my APs and 9 FPs. at least they reset today. bleh.
back to iz. i earned 12 APs for 65 minutes of game play. i passed 4 new songs today including my summer love which is a 9 foot song. it is my very first 9!!! anyway, that's it. :)
well, i was down 0.2 today. blah. this was the first week that i really went into negative flex (-9). i also felt crappy for part of the week, so maybe i can blame it on that. my leader also told me that sometimes our bodies are about a week behind. so, if that is correct, i only got 4 APs last week because of my leg. at the close of this week (last night), i had 50 APs. i hope she is right. :|
i was a point shy of eating all of my target points for today. i had some salad and veggies in my lunch. it wasn't a bad day. i had a ton of water too. anyway, i am nervous about WI. i think it would take a miracle for me to actually be down tomorrow morning. part of that could be from actually going into negative flex this week (-9 for the week) but part could be from going from 4 APs to 50 APs in one week. who knows. blah.
well, back to iz today. i passed 2 new songs on heavy today. i am feeling crappy (my leg, ear, and tummy), so i didn't really want to push too much. we played for an hour, and i earned 11 APs from it. anyway, i am working on the leg, the tummy should be better with the meds that the doc put me on today, and i am going to an ear, nose, and throat specialist because the regular doc says that i have a lot of fluid build up behind my ear drum AGAIN! anyway, we'll probably go to iz tomorrow after WI. i guess we'll see...
wow. i really didn't do anything today. i think that my leg is just really bad today. it could be from all of the DDR yesterday. anyway, i played for 20 minutes. i played for just long enough to pass the 4 final 5 and 6 foot heavy songs on max2 for ps2. i got a whopping 1 AP because i couldn't get my heart rate up. hehehe oh well.
well, i had to swap out 10 of my APs today. i really wanted a honey bbq chicken sandwich and fries from crapplebees. it was worth it especially with the huge amount of APs that i got today. :) i still am sitting on .5 FP for the week. i should be able to get through ok...
well, i passed a bunch of new songs on heavy today, including 1 new 8 footer. i had 2 rounds of DDR today. i earned a total of 17 APs today. i would have played for longer tonight, but i felt all barfy. bleh. anyway, i am tired. very tired.
omg. i was hungry ALL FREAKING DAY. i managed to use all of my target points plus all but .5 FP. yikes. i've been drinking tons of water, so i hope that will offset some of the junk that i ate.
not a bad day overall. i earned 4 APs for my DDR, and i only had to use 1 FP for the day. if i hadn't had that 2 point sundae cone, i wouldn't have even used that 1 FP! anyway, it was worth it. :) i've still bunches of FPs left. i'm going to try not to use any more, but if i need to, i know that they are still there. anyway, on to tomorrow!
so, i played for a whopping 20 minutes at home today (ultramix) before my leg started hurting. now, i have to blame that on adam. he was playing around with it last night, and i saw him set the default to standard. stupid me didn't look at it before i started playing. needless to say, i passed 4 new songs on heavy that i have never played. those 4 included a new 8 footer too. according to the ww activity points calculator and the heart rate on my HRM, i earned 4 APs. not so bad after all for 20 minutes of play.
anyway, that is all that i have to report. we'll probably go to the arcade tomorrow. i think that my leg will do better in shoes for now.
well, i finished the day by swapping all 9 on my APs and 3 FPs. that's ok. it was adam's b-day. we had chili's, a birthday donut, and pizza for dinner. all in all, it could have been *SO* much worse!
back to iz again. i passed a bunch of new stuff on heavy. there are only now 2 songs at 6 feet or lower that i have not passed. i also passed 2 new 8 foot songs. i was pretty amazed at that. anyway, i earned 9 APs. with today being adam's birthday, we are doing pizza for dinner. also, since he didn't have a cake, we went to krispy kreme and each got a single birthday donut. heheheh
i hate 49 points today. yes, i said 49. sure, 16 of that was from breakfast, but i have another week to get it off. i did get some real exercise in for the first time in over a week, so perhaps that explains why i was starving all day. blah. anyway, the day is done. i was able to swap 8 APs, so i still have a bunch of flex points left. better luck tomorrow! it is adam's b-day tomorrow, so i'm going to let him pick a place to go out to lunch or dinner to celebrate! hope he makes a good choice.
well, i played 45 minutes of DDR today. i primarily played on light, but i managed to pass absolute on heavy on my first attempt. i am looking forward to playing again. i was a good girl, and i stopped about 5 steps after starting to experience pain in my left leg.
wow. 20 weeks. i was unsure as to how i was going to do after eating fries with lotsa salt last night. i chugged major water, and i wound up being down 1.6! i just need to drop 1.4 to meet the goal that i set for myself by labor day. i think that is absolutely possible to do. maybe it will even happen next week, and i will be able to drop even more! i'm going to bring exercise back into my routine this week, but not as much as i had been getting pre-injury. we'll see how that goes.
wow. i finished the day using exactly my target points. today i didn't eat that much at all, but i did eat some pointy stuff, like my 16 point fish burger and fries for dinner! i hope the salt doesn't kill me at weigh in tomorrow morning. if it does, oh well i won't do that again! we're going to play DDR tomorrow, and i am hoping to be able to play some stuff on light mode and do the jumps. of course i will see how my leg behaves, but i am going to give it a shot. yay.
ah, another crappy day. i had to use 7 FPs today. :( i have 1 left for tomorrow. if my leg feels any better tomorrow, i might try to play DDR for 30 mins or so. i guess overall the day could have been worse. i have to hit the store tomorrow to pick up some more salad, strawberries, and frozen pizzas!
bleh. 6.5 flex points used today. i had a 5 point breakfast before going to see the princess diaries 2. oh well. i still have a handful of points left to use over the next two days.
well, the day wasn't a waste. i had to use 4 FPs in addition to the 2 APs that i earned for DDR! i still have some left for the next few days. i'm going to try not to use them though. i guess we'll see how well it works out for me. heheh at least 2 of the flexies i used were on a salad!
today was an ok day. i finished up the day using 2 FPs. i guess that i'm doing pretty well since i haven't been earning any APs. i went to the chiropractor today. he thinks that the achilles tendon thing was a misdiagnosis. based on his training and feeling around the ankle and such, he thinks that it is more of a major muscle spasm issue. he did some painful as hell massage to break up any scar tissue today. it does feel better. that makes me quite happy. i can walk more like a "normal" human being too. he thinks that i should be walking normally in a few days. i'm going back in on wednesday to have him check it out again. yay! i am anticipating my return to DDR on light mode as early as this weekend!!!!! YAY!
i did much better today with my points. i wound up having to use .5 FPs today. damn those strawberries! i feel a lot better seeing that i can get through this lack of exercise and stay OP. i seriously hope that i can continue to drop weight. i guess we'll see on saturday. i am also EXTREMELY sore in my arms/shoulders/upper back after walking with the crutches yesterday. tomorrow we have a chiropractor appointment, so we'll see how badly my spine is doing after limping around for the last few days.
holy crapola. my little brother is getting married at the end of april. he called me today and asked if i would stand up there with him and his 3 groomsmen. i am really honored. i've been doing really well on program, i just have to bump it up a notch between now and then. i don't want to be the fattest person up there (and in the wedding pictures). :(
yikes! i managed to eat 16 FPs today in addition to my target points. i know that i made some really really lousy choices that pushed me into using that many FPs. it certainly wasn't because i ate a lot of food! i'm going to really try to be much better for the rest of the week. i'm trying to get some information on stuff that i can do with my injured leg. i'm not sure if riding the exercise bike would be good or bad... hmm... i need to do some more research.
wow. 19 weeks already. the meeting was cool today. i was down 2 more pounds for 35.2 pounds gone. if i drop 3 more pounds before labor day, i will meet the goal that i have set for myself. if not, that's ok as long as i tried. we also got a handout about bananas. some of it looks interesting. perhaps i will have to try it.
bleh. another day has gone. i will finish today by having to use 2 of my flex points. i still have 6.5 left to last me until tomorrow morning. i don't think that will be much of a problem. anyway, weigh in is in the morning. i hope that i am down. i would really like to drop another 5 pounds before graduation.
OMG. today was the worst exercise day ever. i went to do c25k even though my leg was bothering me. i was unable to finish it, and my leg hurt even more. when i got home, i wanted to see what part of my leg it was that hurt. turns out that it was my achilles tendon. i wasn't able to get into my regular doctor, so i wound up at urgent care where i waited for over 2 hours before waiting for another 30 minutes for a doctor. anyway, the doctor was super nice. she said that it was achilles tendonitis and i probably have some small tears in the tendon. anyway, i need to basically keep off of it for 4-6 weeks or until it feels better. i am quite sad because i can't do the exercises that i really like to do (DDR and C25K). this really sucks. if i have to do much walking, the doctor thinks that crutches might be a good idea. i guess we'll see...
not a happy points day. i really wanted a cheeseburger. so, adam went to wendy's. we split a biggie fry, and i had a jr cheeseburger. it was good. i regret spending the points, but i don't regret my choice to have a burger. after the drama of the day, it was really good. anyway, it was a good thing that i had flex points left. i hope that it doesn't have a negative impact on my weight loss at my meeting on saturday. i guess we'll find out then...
not too bad of a day. i felt all dizzy and crappy for part of the day. i also had to lay around with ice on the back of my left leg. that feels a bit better now. anyway, i did ok with my f/v today. it was a better f/v day than normal. i finished today having to swap .5 of my APs that i earned from DDRing earlier. i can't complain too much about that. it was one of the lowest days that i have had recently. i've been really trying to watch my points this week. i hope that it will pay off on the scale. also, i still have 18 (i think) FPs left for the week. it's been a while since i had that many left. i guess we'll see where i wind up for the week later!
so, i played some DDR at home today. i passed a few new songs on heavy. anyway, i was bored so i only played for 30 minutes. i earned 6 APs. my heart rate wasn't as high as it usually is (perhaps since i am feeling crappy), but it was still in the high part of my target range. so, i counted it as high intensity. tomorrow is c25k w2d3. yikes! wish me luck!
yikes! i used 8 FPs, and i used my 4 APs. bleh. i still have FPs left.
well, i finished c25k w2d2 almost. i had to walk the last 30 seconds of my final run. i think after playing ddr for 2 hours yesterday it was just too much. anyway, i felt a LOT better than i did on sunday during the runs. overall, i think it was a lot of progress. next run is on thursday....
after my AP points earning fest, i wound up swapping only 6 of the APs that i earned. taco bell and all. :)
wow. today i earned more APs than EVER. 23 of them! adam and i took john to iz. we played DDR for 2 hours. i felt like i wanted to die after. i can't believe how sore i was after it though. i don't know how i am going to do c25k tomorrow. i guess we'll see how i feel then.
wow. after all of the APs that i earned, i was starving all evening. anyway, as of now i have one of the APs that i haven't swapped. the rest have all been eaten! adam made veggie burgers tonight. we haven't had those in a while. i had forgotten how much i liked the onion buns! oh yeah, i kicked ass with eating my f/v. i had a nice sized salad and some fruit!
busy exercise day. we went to iz and played DDR for 65 minutes. i passed 4 new songs on heavy and earned 12 APs. tonight, i was also due to start couch to 5k week 2 day 1. it kicked my ass. i had to stop a few seconds early and go from a run into the walk a time or two. however, i did complete the entire amount of time plus an extra 2 or so minutes. i am scared for week 2 day 2. maybe it will be better as i know what to expect. on the upside, i wore my new shoes for running. they were awesome. i guess for $100 they should be. hah