Monday the 4th! Third week of workouts.

So, ... some people know me as a pretty crazy or picky eater. Well, I have become to be even pickier when it comes to food. It's not that I wouldn't ever eat it. Don't get me wrong there. I could pull a Chuck Norris on some bbq hamburgers right now. When I was a kid, my mother always tried to feed me different kinds of meat. I would try what she would give me, and I would unfortunately refuse to eat it. I was a slight vegetarian in my younger years. I didn't eat meat because I frankly didn't like the taste or the texture. I still don't like a lot of meat, and I still pick around the hamburger meat in hamburger helper so that I can get the cheesy noodles. Crazy!

For three weeks now, I have been slightly and variantly working out when I got the time. During my first two weeks of school I didn't do too good at doing a regular workout, mainly impart because I had the goal to read every chapter of all my classes. I must say that I did accomplish that goal in a week and a half. 43 chapters of University Physics II on Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics, 7 very long chapters of Thermodynamics of Single Component Systems- neat Conservation of Energy Equations, and 16 chapters of a Chemical Engineering book. WoW! Anyways, so this past week I really hit it up pretty hard in my working out. I hadn't done anything like that before in my life. I started early last week everyday working out for an hour straight. This is pretty hard to do if you have been out of shape for a while. So, I have always, sort of-kinda, had a two pack. It would sometimes dissappear in the holidays and reappear when I felt like getting back into shape. This past year I had actually gained weight. I didn't like that at all. I absolutely had to change that.

Well, my goal now for this semester is to have a 6 pack by finals. I think I am getting there. Lol, this weekend I am already beginning to see the definitions of the 4 pack, and my obliques are swinging in pretty good. However, I did sprang my ancle pretty good Saturday night playing raquetball. It hurts really, really bad. So, you are probably ready for me to get to the point now. Ok, here's how I am doing it. Change your routines up like every two or three weeks, drink plenty of water, and go low calorie/low fat. Basically, eat healthy foods and don't overdo it. You know you have overdone it when you know your full or "to the brim." You should never eat till you are full. So, here is what I say you do if you have this problem. SLOW DOWN!!! Take smaller bites and take MORE time eating. Try it at least one time. Just try to eat slower. I promise that you will "be full" faster than you would if you had eaten everything off your plate. At least think about it just one time. If you save enough food on your plate now, you could have a free meal that was just as good later. That's like getting two meals for one deal. Crazy HUH!!

Also, eat some things you probably wouldn't normally eat like a package of crackers. Everyday for lunch and breakfast I have a package of crackers. NOW, your probably saying that I am starving myself. Well, I am not. I usually make up for the calories that I need during supper. For supper, I usually have whatever I want as long as it is healthy. Sometimes, I will eat a few small things for supper like a can of mandarin oranges and some kind of meat. One thing that you must think of when you are working out is to make sure that you are using the energy that you are taking in. This pretty much goes back to a form of the Conservation of Energy. Think about it. Burn off some of the calories that you take in so that you will not store them for a later day. Try to cut back on the amount of calories that you are taking so that when you are working out, you are burning the stored energy from maybe a year ago.

I know since I have been working out I have felt better when I woke up. Everday last semester, I woke up with a major headache and had to have some form of medicine. I still have no idea what the headaches were from. I know I was fine on the sleep because I am the kind of person that has to be in bed at 11:00pm. I routinely get up at 6:30am on weekdays. Anyways, I guess what I am trying to say is that working out and being healthy gives you a better perspective about life because when it's all done you can be proud of how you look and the things that you have accomplished just because you have felt better about yourself. Don't worry about skipping workouts either, it's not about working out 1 hour on the dot everday of the year. You need to mix it up and have fun doing it. Oh, and when the day is over think of the things that you have accomplished that day and not too much of the things that you have to accomplish because I promise you that you will also feel better about yourself.