Classes Conquered

So I was a bit nervous about maintaining my current levels of exercise, intake, and enthusiasm with the onset of our 150-credit course load. I was pleased to find it to be fairly easy. Lunch is a cinch because the international food court across the street has a place called "health hut" where they have made-to-order salads for $5, served with whole wheat pita bread. Provided, of course, that one actually makes it to this restaurant and not the Korean barbeque joint. In addition, there is a Subway, which has very tasty veggie subs on fresh whole wheat bread that make for a very friendly lunch.

As for exercise, I found myself bringing gym clothes with me so that either before or after class I could just bop over to the gym and haul my fat ass onto an elliptical machine for 30 minutes, which feels really good and works up a healthy sweat. Also, being that my group has a tendency to behave like lemmings, I'm slowly infecting my classmates with the desire to workout. I have a hunch that within the next week or two I'll have a steady gym buddy, if not two or three. I also have been diligent about packing snacks - sunflower seeds, almonds, etc, to keep my appetite at bay between meals.

I've also been thinking about the next weigh-in coming up tomorrow (is it me, or am I starting to sound like The Biggest Loser?). I have indeed been very good this week, still no meat, no dairy, no eggs. I introduced some new things this week including hummus, sunflower seeds, and a homemade pea soup.

Confessions for this week:

• I used a sprinkle of grated Romano cheese in every bowl of pea soup
• I ate a small piece of Gingerbread I made last night with icing. Yum.
• I ate a bow of vegetable Ramen at a noodle shop in Little Tokyo
• I have not given up butter

In addition to this, the one thing I do find difficult while at school is maintaining a healthy level of non-hunger throughout the day. We have classes in large chunks and it's difficult to get a healthy snack/mini meal at proper intervals. Consequently, I came home more than once being very very hungry. And while I didn't binge on bad foods, I still ate more than I normally would have and in some cases at a much later hour. I'm curious to see if the combination of all these things add up to losing less weight this week. Soon we shall see.

Finally I want to report that for the past few days I've been feeling slightly.... clogged. The only thing I can think of that would have caused this is the bowl of Ramen noodles I ate on Thursday night. I of course got the vegetarian option, but they were most definitely not organic whole wheat noodles. Hopefully it will be cleared out by weigh-in tomorrow...