Monday, January 11th, 2010

Today is the formal start of this blog project--the first day of class, the beginning of the semester. For the next four months I will be on mission to bring my life back to center, and it feels to good to see light on the horizon. I feel absolutely terrific today, about college, life, everything. My diet, my emotions, my habits, my tendencies, my flaws, as well as my strengths and good habits, are going to be reviewed. Today is the start of something great.

How this blog plays in: I will be posting on this blog daily, listing what I ate during the day and my reflections on how the day went. Both bad and good will be listed, nothing hidden. Identifying the times I've given into impulses, or returned to prior bad habits is important, because if forgotten, they will find a way to perpetuate themselves through my subconscious. This posts aren't going to be edited, or reviewed, just ungrammatical streams of conscious style--pure. So, here goes.

Food:

Up at 7:45-8am
Coffee with evaporated milk and splenda
Nothing until 3:30pm
-Three small pieces/portions of grilled chicken
-Salad w/ 2 tbsp of Balsamic Vinegar, Chick Peas, Crasins, Spinach leaves, carrot shreds, some shredded cheese, and some cucumbers.
-A bread roll (THIS IS BAD, AND I GRABBED IT ON MY WAY OUT. THIS WON'T HAPPEN TOMORROW)
It's now 9:16, and i'll probably be up till around 11-12 so I think I am going to have some oatmeal now so that I don't get hungry again and snack later, just before I go to bed.

All and all, I did really well, but could have done better. Two pieces of chicken, and the salad, and no bun would have been better than letting my hungry stomache make my mind think I needed three. Since it was grilled white chicken in small pieces, not so bad, but if it were something worse for me that was my option, it could have been bad and taken me longer to work off.

Tomorrow I am getting up around 7:30am-8am and spending the day working on my Boren Scholarship. Going to make a nutritionist appointment as well,