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This was a great weekend. My boyfriend’s back from grad school and we took a trip to see a bunch of our friends from undergrad, but the lack of routine seemed to trigger some binging and I can’t even believe how much cereal I ate this weekend. Weird, but it’s totally a trigger food for me. Cinnamon Life, Lucky Charms, Frosted Mini Wheats and a few others were all consumed in quantities far beyond their recommended dose. They’re also a little abrasive and kind of made the roof of my mouth hurt. I don’t even want to think about the calories.

It took a little while to get back on track, but midweek is better than never.

So Sundays are my weigh-in days, at least they were back when I was weighing in regularly, so I’m reinstating that and I found that I’m down another pound this week, so yay!

Yesterday was an awesome day. I spent some time with my housemates by the pool, went shopping (found some gorgeous J Brand jeans at Marshall’s for $40 that I now have the confidence to wear. Yay!), and dyed my hair - “medium auburn” - I love it. Doing all the things I haven’t had any time for was so much fun.

Today promises to be another good day I think. I went on a 5.5 mile run this morning, and was pleasantly surprised that I can still do that because it’s been awhile. I have some homework and things to take care of for the start of ward rotations tomorrow, but if it gets hot I’m also planning some pool time, and a trip to the grocery store, I need vegetables!

Have a great day loves!

I am so excited! It’s been a really rough week and I’m so mentally exhausted I can’t even believe it. Next up it’s a month of rotations, then summer research. Also, my boyfriend is moving here in a couple weeks, just for the summer (he’s in grad school on the east coast), so that’s something major to look forward to. My routine’s going to be changing a lot now so I’ll keep you posted on how the adjustments go, hopefully that won’t include any weight gain.

And again, so excited! I’m a second year!! (basically…I guess I should wait and see if I passed all the tests from this week :/

So I was studying for my finals yesterday and I got a cup of coffee at like 4 pm. I know it’s not theoretically possible for me to still be caffeinated, but I kind of feel like it. I feel super strange, sort of high-energy but blurry at the same time. Caffeine doesn’t usually affect me like that. Hopefully the cumulative final I’m about to take gets some benefit from it. We’ll see.

In other news, I bought a pretty new scale, with body fat and hydration measuring capabilities, and found that my body fat percentage is in a pretty good place. Yay!

It’s test week, and I’m totally obsessed with this song by B.o.B. and Hayley Williams, “Airplanes”

I looked for a link on youtube so I could share it with you guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltt-SVOYW0k

Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now.

Best of luck to you all!

So I’m not saying I think anyone necessarily noticed that I vanished at the beginning of last October, because I wouldn’t say I was a prominent force when it comes to activity on this site, but it still feels good to be back on! To recap (whether you ever read my entries before or not) I’m a med student in california, I gained a bunch of weight while studying abroad in Spain a while ago and I joined the site to get support to lose that weight (about 9 months ago). With the community’s help I got back down to more of an average weight for me a couple months later, and that brings me to my current story.

 It’s been 7 months since I stepped back and stopped weighing in, and the reason is honestly that I had plateaued at what I considered at the time to be a “stuck point” and I didn’t want to keep working hard to drop below it, so I stopped trying to lose weight and I’ve just been maintaining since then. (Theoretically. I’m sure it’s gone up and down, but I haven’t been weighing in.) Now I’m back because I’m getting into new goals of just making my diet much healthier, maybe losing a little more weight if I can, and training for some competitive races.

I’ll be posting about how it goes, adventures in food and fitness and fun, and again, it’s good to be back.

Day 5: Friday was actually a really good day. I didn’t get that hungry at dinner time and I ran 5 miles in the morning so I ended up with some calorie credits, which was great because Saturday….

Day 6: I drove to my college town (about 2.5 hours away) in the morning and just had a snack before I left. When I got there I was super hungry, so my friends and I assembled and made incredible french toast with bananas and strawberries. It was AWESOME, but I had 3 slices, which was definitely more calories than your standard breakfast allows for. We hung out all afternoon and then by like 6 pm we were starving, and decided to make salad, vegetarian chili with rice and sweet potato fries for dinner. It was so fun cooking all together, and it turned out absolutely delicious, but again, I ate far too much. It was just so good! That night we went out dancing so at least I got a little exercise, and there were no alcohol calories added on because I gave that up a few months ago (my friends were totally happy to have me DD But all in all I think I was still several hundred calories over my goal.

Day 7: I drove back this morning after a very sensible breakfast of FiberOne cereal and an apple. I haven’t gotten hungry again yet and it’s 2 pm. I did have some tea, but I would think that I should be hungry by now. I think my body’s all confused because it’s been in such a routine for so long, and I stayed up 4 hours later than its used to and haven’t done the things I normally do in a day. We’ll just see I guess when I get hungry. The good news is that since I haven’t eaten, I’m not super sleepy like I normally would be at this time of the afternoon. So, Study on!!

It’s the final day today, so tomorrow we’ll see if I’ve lost that 1 pound I’m hoping for. Despite my big meals on Saturday, I did have a calorie credit for the week that should more than make up for it (hopefully it’s had a chance to balance out by tomorrow morning). And so far I’m having a very low calorie day, we’ll just see tomorrow.

It’s the end of day 4 of my 1 week challenge to lose one pound by Monday (originally it was Sunday, but that would’ve given me only 6 days of the challenge, and I’m taking a little trip this weekend and won’t be able to weigh til Monday anyway).

I learned this term in med school that your brain has a respiratory quotient of very close to 1 in terms of nutrient metabolism, and that’s because it burns primarily carbohydrates, so why is eating good?

Because your brain needs it!! (Not to mention the rest of you so you don’t fall apart, so to speak.)

So anyway, the report.

Day 3: successful 3 mile run. I set a timer because I was curious about how quick I was doing it, and it turns out I’m faster than I thought, so that was really exciting. In terms of food, it was great. I stayed under my goal and wasn’t too crazy hungry. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t hard, since I eat to procrastinate or when I’m bored, so I just really had to stop myself and remind myself what I had planned for the day.

Day 4: I skipped my run this morning and just did a few light weights instead. I’d been feeling like I was heading for injury and thought my body could really use a day off. The problem with that is that it meant I got to eat less, which was a little difficult, but I planned really well and still came in just about perfect for the day, and never felt hungry.

Day 5: Tomorrow. It’s starbuck’s breakfast friday, a once-a-month tradition I have with my housemates, and I’m really excited about it, I have it planned out to stay on target. I have free lunch with this meeting I’m going to, so that is hard to plan for, but I’m going to go 5 miles in the morning to give myself a good cushion just in case it’s not that healthy. If it is really healthy, I can always eat more later in the day. I’m not at all sad about that idea haha, so we’ll just see. Over halfway done, I definitely feel like I’m going to see the results on Monday!

It’s the end of day 2 and it’s kinda weird. I did great today, but I don’t feel at all skinny right now and I think maybe there was too much sodium in my soup for dinner, so now I’m feeling a little bloat. Sad, but I’m sure it’ll all even out by Sunday (weigh-in).

I bumped up my run this morning from 3 miles to 5, and now my legs are super sore. I want to go tomorrow but we’ll see what I can handle.

Why running is dangerous. This is the primary thing I learned from my morning run yesterday: No matter how important it seems to watch ahead and be sure you run carefully around the homeless guy in the middle of the sidewalk, don’t forget to look out more immediately in front of you, or the sidewalk may reach out, grab you by the foot and scrape up your hands and knees. It totally hurt and I ended up walking the rest of the way home, which was fine because I think I needed a little chill reflection time, so I take it as a sign. I just wish I weren’t reminded of it every time I bend my knee. It’s pretty bruised and scraped, so that’s no fun. Good news is that it didn’t actually damage the internal workings of the joint, so I can still run on it.

So my one week challenge is basically just to lose a pound this week by continuing my morning runs and cutting calories back a little more.

Yesterday was Day 1, and I have so far learned that I could never eat this low a calorie diet permanently, which is fine, it’s just one week, but it is hard (don’t worry, I’m above 1200).

In other news, I made this awesome teriyaki tofu veggie brown rice stirfry for dinner last night, and I definitely went a little over on the caloric goal, but it was just so delicious! Today I’m making up for it.

Day 2 report coming soon…seems premature to report on it now since there’s still so much time for it to go awry…or right!