I am getting so excited to start the 30 day fitness challenge next week! I was telling my personal trainer about it today, and he is excited for me as well. There has been such a change in me since the beginning of May when I started working out a lot more regularly. I re-did some measurements recently and found out that I had lost 5% body fat. That is HUGE! I am proud of myself for what I have accomplished so far, and I am really excited to see how much more I can accomplish.
I've added something to the month of September. I'm going to give my body a couple weeks to get used to exercising every day, and then I am going to start a 12 day herbal D-Tox (Wild Rose). I've done this D-Tox before, and it can be hard when you don't have the recipe guide, but thankfully I have the recipe guide! I'm a bit more limited because I can't have eggs, but there is an awesome recipe for scrambled tofu - can't wait to try it!! Tofu tastes like egg-whites anyway, so I don't think it will be all that much different.
My attitude is getting better as well. I really and truly believe that you wake up every day with the ability to make a choice - you can either choose to be miserable and unhappy, or you can choose to be positive, look forward to the day ahead, and try and find good in all that you do. Of course not every day is going to work out to be like this; once in a while no matter how hard you try, you're going to have a day where you just don't freakin' care about making the right choices, and we have to allow ourselves to have a day like that...maybe two. But any more than that would be allowing ourselves to fall down a slippery slope into negativity, self-doubt and low self-esteem. It is harder to actually practice this of course - at least it is for me. But every day is a new day, and I just need to keep putting one foot infront of the other.
Baby steps...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes...
What is it with me and dreams?
When I was younger, I had very very vivid dreams that I now experience in real life - deja vu if you will. Its been a long time since I dreamt one of those dreams and experienced it. But I'm still experiencing whatever is left in the backlog of those first dreams I had way back when.
For most of my adult life, I haven't remembered dreams except for those really disturbing one-offs that just stick with you for a couple days. And when I say disturbing, I mean disturbing. I would wake up in such a state of panic that it took quite a bit of time to fall back asleep. But on a larger scale, I don't really remember my dreams...well, at least until the past year or so.
I seem to be remembering dreams better, at least long enough to interpret them on an free online dream dictionary. Are they your subconcious just sorting out your days events, or is it something bigger? Is your subconcious, sometimes, not all the time, warning you of something big coming? I don't remember what it was I dreamed a few weeks ago, but I remember waking up with a sense that change was coming and it was going to be big. And I still have that feeling. But what I dreamt last night was completely off the wall, and I think it mostly had to do with yesterdays events.
I saw the Hangover, and for anyone who has seen it, you remember how cute the baby in it is, right? Well I did some googling of the movie before I went to it (as I often do) and came to a webpage that had some "behind the scenes secrets" and spoilers. I ignored the spoilers, but one post caught my eye - for some of the movie, they used a doll-baby that looked very realistic in rehearsals for some of the lude things they made the baby do in the movie (those of you who have seen it know what I'm talking about; those of you who haven't, relax, it wasn't that bad, and was quite humorous, and I wouldn't be surprised if many young male parents these days have thought of this...). Well my first dream last night that I remember had me looking after someone's baby. Except that these friends (in my dream, not in real life) had suffered a miscarriage and lost the baby, and they carried around a cabbage patch doll pretending like they had a real baby. And they expected me to care for it as if it were their real son.
This dream could be interpreted 2 ways (and this is just off the top of my head, I haven't looked it up online or anything) - 1-the day's events being sorted out by my subconcious (I have a weeeeeiiiirrd subconcious) or 2-I still feel like my friends having babies isn't real, and that they're just playing house. Maybe it is a bit of column A and a little of column B? Not surprising considering my age, and that everyone around me is "growing up" (thats a whole other post).
So then my second dream happened after I got a text message from a friend of mine - I happened to be concious enough when he texted me that I woke up and we had a brief conversation over text. Then when I fell back asleep, there he was in my dream! Thats a bit easier - I just texted with the guy and maybe was still in a state of sleepiness while texting that my subconcious got confused.
I've always found dreams fascinating. I remember this dream a friend of mine had. For the sake of making this easy, we will call my friends who appeared in her dream A and B - A being her who had the dream, and B being the other friend of mine who appeared in this dream (which is weird cuz they have met like...once).
A and me were in my coffee shop (I don't actually own a coffee shop, but in her dream I did, and it was new) celebrating the opening. I gave A a spare set of keys to the shop for an emergency back-up. B walks in, grabs the keys from her and holds them hostage - he won't give them back. Then he runs away and the chase is on to get them back.
At the time of this dream, I had just started hanging out with B, and him and I were becoming quite close (just as friends, nothing more...), so I interpreted her dream to be that she was a bit jealous of the time I was spending with B because I was hanging out with him more than I was hanging out with her, and that she was scared he would become a better friend to me that she was (NO ONE can ever replace her...NO ONE!)
Interesting, eh?
When I was younger, I had very very vivid dreams that I now experience in real life - deja vu if you will. Its been a long time since I dreamt one of those dreams and experienced it. But I'm still experiencing whatever is left in the backlog of those first dreams I had way back when.
For most of my adult life, I haven't remembered dreams except for those really disturbing one-offs that just stick with you for a couple days. And when I say disturbing, I mean disturbing. I would wake up in such a state of panic that it took quite a bit of time to fall back asleep. But on a larger scale, I don't really remember my dreams...well, at least until the past year or so.
I seem to be remembering dreams better, at least long enough to interpret them on an free online dream dictionary. Are they your subconcious just sorting out your days events, or is it something bigger? Is your subconcious, sometimes, not all the time, warning you of something big coming? I don't remember what it was I dreamed a few weeks ago, but I remember waking up with a sense that change was coming and it was going to be big. And I still have that feeling. But what I dreamt last night was completely off the wall, and I think it mostly had to do with yesterdays events.
I saw the Hangover, and for anyone who has seen it, you remember how cute the baby in it is, right? Well I did some googling of the movie before I went to it (as I often do) and came to a webpage that had some "behind the scenes secrets" and spoilers. I ignored the spoilers, but one post caught my eye - for some of the movie, they used a doll-baby that looked very realistic in rehearsals for some of the lude things they made the baby do in the movie (those of you who have seen it know what I'm talking about; those of you who haven't, relax, it wasn't that bad, and was quite humorous, and I wouldn't be surprised if many young male parents these days have thought of this...). Well my first dream last night that I remember had me looking after someone's baby. Except that these friends (in my dream, not in real life) had suffered a miscarriage and lost the baby, and they carried around a cabbage patch doll pretending like they had a real baby. And they expected me to care for it as if it were their real son.
This dream could be interpreted 2 ways (and this is just off the top of my head, I haven't looked it up online or anything) - 1-the day's events being sorted out by my subconcious (I have a weeeeeiiiirrd subconcious) or 2-I still feel like my friends having babies isn't real, and that they're just playing house. Maybe it is a bit of column A and a little of column B? Not surprising considering my age, and that everyone around me is "growing up" (thats a whole other post).
So then my second dream happened after I got a text message from a friend of mine - I happened to be concious enough when he texted me that I woke up and we had a brief conversation over text. Then when I fell back asleep, there he was in my dream! Thats a bit easier - I just texted with the guy and maybe was still in a state of sleepiness while texting that my subconcious got confused.
I've always found dreams fascinating. I remember this dream a friend of mine had. For the sake of making this easy, we will call my friends who appeared in her dream A and B - A being her who had the dream, and B being the other friend of mine who appeared in this dream (which is weird cuz they have met like...once).
A and me were in my coffee shop (I don't actually own a coffee shop, but in her dream I did, and it was new) celebrating the opening. I gave A a spare set of keys to the shop for an emergency back-up. B walks in, grabs the keys from her and holds them hostage - he won't give them back. Then he runs away and the chase is on to get them back.
At the time of this dream, I had just started hanging out with B, and him and I were becoming quite close (just as friends, nothing more...), so I interpreted her dream to be that she was a bit jealous of the time I was spending with B because I was hanging out with him more than I was hanging out with her, and that she was scared he would become a better friend to me that she was (NO ONE can ever replace her...NO ONE!)
Interesting, eh?
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Solo Show
I went to the movies by myself for the first time tonight. I was expecting so much more! I thought I'd be shunned when I sat myself in that awkward "space" seat between 2 couples...but I wasn't. I mean, the one lady looked a little perturbed that she had to move her purse, but that was it.
So why is it that society looks down on people who do things like that on their own? Why can't I take myself on a date? I know I'll be good company, and there will be no fight about what movie to see. I can even hold my own hand if I really want to...whats so bad about that?
I find myself doing a lot of things on my own these days. Hey, you're not going to have someone around you all the time, so you gotta learn.
What did I see? The Hangover. Hilarious! A bit slow and predictable at parts, but for the most part it kept me laughing.
That all for now...
So why is it that society looks down on people who do things like that on their own? Why can't I take myself on a date? I know I'll be good company, and there will be no fight about what movie to see. I can even hold my own hand if I really want to...whats so bad about that?
I find myself doing a lot of things on my own these days. Hey, you're not going to have someone around you all the time, so you gotta learn.
What did I see? The Hangover. Hilarious! A bit slow and predictable at parts, but for the most part it kept me laughing.
That all for now...
Friday, August 21, 2009
30 Day Fitness Challenge!!
A friend of mine said to me yesterday "You need to do a 30 day challenge. Yoga, working out...whatever it is. 30 days!"
When I got over the initial "How dare you tell me what I NEED?!?" thought, I let it sink in. 30 days straight...some form of physical activity each day, eh? Hmmm...
Then I thought I would need to set some obtainable guidelines for my lifestyle. I'm busy! I work a full time job, a part time job, school is starting again in 20 days, and I have a few musical projects on the go, one of which is my band that meets at least once a week to practice. I don't get a lot of down time because any spare time at the moment is spent at the gym with my personal trainer. Is 30 days straight of physical activity even obtainable??
*Dramatic Pause*
Alright...I am going to begrudgingly say yes.
So the guidelines are:
Happy Fitness!!
When I got over the initial "How dare you tell me what I NEED?!?" thought, I let it sink in. 30 days straight...some form of physical activity each day, eh? Hmmm...
Then I thought I would need to set some obtainable guidelines for my lifestyle. I'm busy! I work a full time job, a part time job, school is starting again in 20 days, and I have a few musical projects on the go, one of which is my band that meets at least once a week to practice. I don't get a lot of down time because any spare time at the moment is spent at the gym with my personal trainer. Is 30 days straight of physical activity even obtainable??
*Dramatic Pause*
Alright...I am going to begrudgingly say yes.
So the guidelines are:
- Physical activity should last at least 30 minutes
- Physical activity must get my heart rate above its resting rate
Happy Fitness!!
First Post!!
Okay, for the first one I am going to keep it short. I'm really not sure who is going to read this, or how often I am going to get a chance to post. I am going to try to post almost daily in September (for reasons you will find out soon)...but we'll see just how well I do that.
Now on to figuring things out and navigating this site...
Now on to figuring things out and navigating this site...
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