A man a plan

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I'm getting better at this. I got all motivated this weekend and formed a meal plan. I implemented this new device today - tracking calories and watching what I eat. I'm working on some basic google research and trying to stick to a muscle building diet. Eating enough calories has so far proven difficult, I'm sure it would be easy if I just went and bought a pizza or two but off of veggies, yogurt and almonds I find I have to eat past full for most meals.... I'm hoping extra food = extra energy which will help me stay alert in class. 

We had really good weather this last week and running outside with sunshine is the bomb!

Life up date, since I'm not good at calling people, I got in trouble last week because I stored a propane tank in my room after the camping trip to Yosemite (totally forgot this was against barracks regs -- but it makes sense, a building crammed full of people and flammables is a bad match) and then while I was not in my room this tank started to leak and someone thought they smelt a gas leak from the building and THEN we all got evacuated while the fire department came and looked through my things....

everything considered I got off really light for it: a few different sergeants yelled at me, I have a written note of it on my record, and I had to give the company formation a detailed brief on our official barracks policy last Friday.

Other than that tests have finally calmed down, I'm trying to stay focused on learning, and I want to book a flight to go camping in August. 

p.s. more of you all need to post every week because even if it's only a few words, I like hearing from you!

p.p.s Stick With It!

To the Beach with You!

So, I'm thinking I'm going to do even better with my exercise points. All of the kitchen construction is making Eli go crazy, as he does not like change, so Mom and Dad sent us down to the beach. I know I was saying "please, please anything but that! Don't make us go and enjoy the beach house for a week while you all live with a make-shift kitchen on the patio, eating off paper plates and trying not to step on anything sharp as you walk across the now under construction kitchen! Don't make me go out to the coast during a week of sun before school gets out so it's not even crowded!" A nice side effect of all of this "suffering" is that playing with Eli and walking to the beach and walking around the mall gets me exercise points :-). Today was the first day of actual contractor construction, though I think there was more destruction today before construction could begin. I hope it's all going well :-)

Ok, so the first week I did the "Lemon cleanse" diet and lost 3 pounds, the next week I was all about Atkins and lost two pounds. Last week I was at Nikki's house and thought I'd just do her every other day thing.  I gained back two pounds as I kept resisting having an on day!. Also the frantic pace of  life with the boys kept me reaching for chocolate on the many off days! I have been looking for a chocolate diet, but that's too much to ask I think.  This week I have no kitchen so I think I'll try the "Subway Diet"    Some guy named Jared lost lots of weight on that one..  Also I did not exercise last week.  Again I'll shoot for 3 days this week. Thanks for all your posts-I like reading them.  After this we should just do a family blog for fun.

Food for thought?

I found a website about food and likely excuses people may have:

	But the doughnut was calling my name.
	But it was my birthday, so I had to eat the whole cake.
	I had to get the bitter taste out of my mouth from eating the so-called dish, so I had an ice cream.
	If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.
	If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, the calories in the candy bar are canceled out by the diet soda.
	If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner.
	Cookie pieces contain no fat -- the process of breaking causes fat leakage.
	Things licked off knives and spoons have no calories if you are in the process of preparing something. Examples are peanut butter on a knife making a sandwich and ice cream on a spoon making a sundae.
	Only eat things that have been broken into pieces; that way, all the calories fall out.
	Chocolate is a vegetable. How, you ask? Chocolate is derived from cacao beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS. Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.

Website: http://www.butlerwebs.com/jokes/diet.htm

Here are some websites that they more about the benefits of eating oranges and apples. These are not necessarily academic sites, but still do contain useful information:

http://www.besthealthmag.ca/eat-well/nutrition/15-health-benefits-of-eating-apples

http://www.healthonlinezine.info/health-benefits-of-oranges-nutritional-value-of-orange.html

 I think we know that eating fruits and vegetables are good, but it is nice to know how they can benefit us.

Here are two sites that talk about broccoli. I admit I like broccoli. I grew up eating broccoli a lot, so I got used to them, and again, I still like them.

http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2011/oct/health-benefits-broccoli-require-whole-food-not-supplements

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=9

Philosophy of Dodge

No joke, today I listened to an 11 minute podcast about philosophy and running. It was the nerdiest thing ever and I enjoyed it very much.

Afterward I tried to track my afternoon run through the "embodiment," "cerebral," "Cartesian," and "I can't remember what they called the last one" stages, but I was listening to Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me at the same time so I lost track. They had Steve Martin as the guest on Wait Wait, so it's not like you can blame me.

Tonight we're playing dodgeball for FHE, but I think I'll just sit back and construct a philosophy of dodge. It will be deep. I don't need the exercise points anyway.

POP CHALLENGE!!!!!

Here fishy fishy fishy, Heeeere fishy fishy fishy, if you drank your water and got your water point on Wednesday, May 1st, then you get 2 extra points.

POP CHALLENGE!!!!

Better late than never :-). So, after giving Julie and Mom a hard time last week, I put it off until today. So, if you got your meal plan point yesterday (Saturday the 4th), then May the 4th be with you and you get 2 extra points :-)