New Month

Hi, all!

Happy Sunday! How are you all doing today? Look at me, blogging two days in a row! It must be a record. I love being able to write again, even though I may not have a ton to talk about, it is still a good release of my emotions. Sometimes I don't even share anything of consequence but emotionally it just releases everything. This is one of the things that I love about writing, you can just let everything go, especially when I'm not worried about other people judging my writing. That's how I'm feeling right now, yes people could judge my writing, but I don't really care. This blog was started for me, to let out my feelings and talk about anything and everything. Go ahead people, judge away, this blog is for personal use and not meant to perfect my writing skills.

Anyways, sorry for my long rant about writing. It is going to be another hot day here in Seattle, close to 90 again. Let me tell you, my apartment has been ridiculously hot without an air conditioner. So much for not needing to bring my air conditioner along because Seattle doesn't get that hot. Oh well, it's supposed to cool down a bit after today. It'll be in the mid to upper 70's for the rest of the week, so that'll be wonderful. I can't wait for the cooler temperatures to get here! Either way, Seattle is amazing and I'll take the heat while it's here.

I can't believe that it's already August, this year is flying by thus far. Since it is August, that means it is my birthday month, it's actually my birthday this week. Friday will mark my 25th birthday, which is crazy. How am I going to be 25 already?!? This life is flying by and I can't wait what else is in store for me.

Well, I'm off. I'm going to try and beat the heat this afternoon. I hope that you all have an amazing afternoon and evening. Enjoy the new week. Until next time!

~Sara~

Stress Relief

Hi all!

Happy Thursday! How are you all on this lovely day? I wish our weather here felt a bit more fall like, but I can't really complain. It's sunny and 73 degrees, so it could be a lot worse. In fact, it will be worse, over the weekend, it'll be around 80. I hate weather that warm, I wish it could be in the 50's and 60's all year round.

I just finished and turned in my final paper and presentation before starting on this post, so I am feeling a lot less stressed. This was something that I was way too stressed out about this week, mostly because I had a lot of other school work to complete as well. I am happy to write that I only have two things left this week and they are the easiest of the assignments. Now I officially only have nine classes to complete to graduate... So that means graduating by summer!! :) Less than a year until graduation, it's a scary but exciting thought. Then off to grad school (hopefully), if everything goes according to plan, I should be able to start my career in 5 years or less!

Last night I screwed up nutritionally, I'm ashamed to admit. But it happens and it was probably a binge of 500-700 calories. Today's a new day and I'm looking ahead. Tomorrow I weigh-in for a challenge I'm a part of and I'm looking forward to sharing my results for the past 2 weeks with all of my teammates. I believe that I will have reached my goal, especially after my 4 lb loss last week, but only time will tell.

I'm relaxing for a little while this afternoon, I think I deserve it after finishing my final. But this evening or tomorrow morning I'll get back to it and complete the rest of my assignments for this week. So I'm thinking that I'll get one more walk in today because I haven't quite hit my 300 calories burned mark today and then I'll do some reading until dinner time. Well, I'm off to do just that. I hope you all have a wonderful afternoon and evening. Until next time!

~Sara~

Getting Back

Hi all!

How are you all doing today? It is absolutely amazing here, our weather here will be in the upper 50's to mid 60's the rest of the week :) This is my perfect weather, not too warm and not too cold. This post is going to be a pretty short one because I have an incredibly busy day ahead, my homework really needs to get done.

Although I haven't been perfect this week, I have improved since the past weeks. My nutrition has been right around my calorie goal every day besides yesterday and I've exercised 170 minutes and over 1100 calories burned. My exercise has only been walking, doctors orders, but every little bit helps. So I am looking forward to my weigh-in this week, to see if I finally have a loss, after weeks of gains or maintaining.

This weekend is also our shopping week, so I'll have more food choices. Before we go, I'm trying to come up with a list of foods I can have for lunch's that are lower calorie and filling. One thing that I'm trying to do is add more protein and fewer processed carbs. I know that I have a carb addiction and pretty much every meal has some sort of processed carb, so I'm trying to cut back a bit.

Before I end this, I just wanted to talk about something that I brought up in my last post. I am in my final year of undergrad work and have applied for graduate school. Honestly, I cannot even begin to describe how excited I am about this fact. My graduate work is something I have been looking forward to for awhile now and it is hopefully less than a year away now. Even though I am excited, I cannot believe that I am at this point in my life. I have only applied to one graduate school and I do not have a plan B but I have faith. Seattle Pacific University is where I have applied to, so hopefully I'll get accepted and be moving out to Seattle in August.

So exciting times are here and will be coming again. My homework is calling me though and there is a lot of it to get done. Until next time.

~Sara~