February 23rd

Happy Saturday! The boyfriend and I had a lovely sleep-in until 8:30, and we're now settling into an afternoon of homework after breakfast at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants, where the owner knows your name and acts like your cool aunt who cooks really good homey Mexican food (think zucchini-corn tamale with an over-easy egg on top) with all-natural and mostly-local ingredients. 

Midterm grades are due this upcoming Monday, which means *gasp* we're halfway through the semester! Starting March 4th, we have our week-long spring break, but I'll be starting my new job so I won't really feel like I have a break at all!

I've been focusing on almost 100% weights for my recent workouts, which I'm loving. I tried explaining it to my boyfriend today - how cardio would make me exhausted and bored, but with my barbell/dumbbell workouts I become sore and yet still feel energized. Instead of dreading going to sit on an elliptical for 30 minutes, I look forward to going and seeing if I can increase the weights I'm lifting or better the number of reps I can do!

I also started tracking my workouts on Fitocracy, which is fun because they assign number values to each exercise and track the "level" that you're on based on points. It also seems to have a very active online community (something that will be nice, but I won't get too involved), and sign-up is free. 

My nutrition has been far from great lately, which frustrates me because I know that food and alcohol are what has been keeping me from seeing any losses on the scale. The only issue is trying to cater to my 24-year-old roommate, who I love dearly but is pretty picky when it comes to food. On top of that, he's paid me to cook for him, so I don't feel right cooking lots of quinoa, veggies, and other foods that he doesn't seem to whole-heartedly appreciate. Still searching to find a happy medium in this department.

On top of this, my boyfriend now works a whole week at a time before having a week off. Since he can't drink while on duty every night, he wants to have a beer or glass of wine pretty much every night, and he wants me to join him. I realize this is an instance of peer pressure I don't have to give in to, so I need to work on telling myself "no" almost every time that I'm faced with a yummy beer or delicious wine. And also practice moderation, as 2-3 beverages on a few nights per week is NOT okay.

Something I AM proud of is my newest plan to do 100 air squats every other day. It's going great! I've done 4 days of it and my legs feel awesome. I like the fact that I can spread the 100 squats over the course of the day and finish them at my own pace. I'm also doing great with my water consumption - 2 to 3 Nalgenes per day for the last week or so!

xo
amanda