Danipants

So breakfast today turned out to be Fruity Pebbles cereal and a banana (and three berries off the vine, with, uh, spiderweb above and bee behind so I hauled ass out of there), and you know what? One serving of fruity pebbles, which is about half what I normally eat, actually does a really good job of filling me up. And it has like 16% of the daily serving of dietary fiber, so that's good too. If I was really ambitious, I'd eat cheerieos, but I like flavor.

Yesterday I took four SmartBurn pills: two before breakfast and two before dinner. I don't know if it's doing anything; they taste sugary and make me feel woozy. As it stands, I'm getting a little bit under 1000 calories a day, and that's not healthy (can I count in a milkshake a day now? :D), and I haven't exercised yet. But I'm going to the thrift store in an hour, and then I'm going to walk from there to Kristin's, maybe from Kristin's to Koffee Kat, maybe from Koffee Kat (and the Cornerstone Bookstore) to E-Lane (or Amber and Kelly's), then home (with a stop at Stewarts for the aforementioned milkshake). I think it's a good and workable plan. I just need to put on sneakers before I leave, because it won't work in sandals.

So! Day two of the workout plan, and I'm... not working out so much. Um.

I'm actually still working on cleaning my room, which shouldn't be a monumental task until you realize that I'm a terrible pack rat and keep EVERYTHING. I have pants I haven't worn in months. (I have pants I haven't worn, period. Ah, shoplifting, such a surplus of clothing.) So I'm trying, slowly, to weed through all my clothes and sort out the ones I realistically will not wear and do not need. It's slow going.

At the same time, I'm going through my books and putting the ones I don't think I'll read again on PaperbackSwap.com. So far I've listed almost 50, sent out two, and ordered in three (oops), and I've only been signed up for... a little over 24 hours at this point. I hate throwing out books, but I've even forced myself to do that to the poor water-damaged and coverless books that no one will ever want... I'm a little surprised at how many books I have that don't have ISBN numbers, actually. The ISBN system is younger than my parents; I didn't know how many 40-year-old books I have lying around.

On the workout plan front, I'm eating better (more consciously, picking things with dietary fiber content and calcium and the like, taking a daily vitamin, not counting calories so much as keeping a weather eye on them) and I already feel a little better. Possibly because I'm actually eating, where before I'd forget to do that or ignore my hunger pangs until I gorged on junk food. I've been eating carrots! Mmm, carrots. And raspberries fresh off the vine (bush? What the hell do they grow on? I should know this) from right outside the house. Tomorrow I'm going to try making greek tsaziki. I've had it before, and I'm pretty sure I liked it, and if I can convince my mom to help me out with the lemon pepper chicken part, then this is what I'm going to attempt for lunch:

I found whole wheat pitas, so this is what I did with them - leftover grilled lemon pepper chicken cut up, with homemade greek tsaziki.  The sauce is 1/4 of a grated cuke, mixed w/1.5 tbsp of lite sour cream, a little mint, and a little lemon juice.  Slather that all over inside of pita and on top of chicken.

Mmm. I really look forward to trying it.  :D  And tomorrow for breakfast, I'm probably just going to do what I did today: Fried egg, toast, handful of berries, glass of milk. I might trade out the berries for a banana. Eating breakfast is good because it means I'm not starving when the soup kitchen serves, because... that's not healthy food, really. I had a couple of blocks of cheddar cheese and carrots and a banana for a late lunch today. And my mom bought baby spinach and mozzarella slices and almonds for me, I might make a salad. 

I'm so excited about food. How strange.  xD

1: be a size 18 women's or have a 36 inch waist.

....okay, that's really all so far.  :D Hello. I am Dani, I am 21, and I am trying to lose some weight with a 21-day workout plan. And since I spam my LiveJournal enough as it stands, I think I'll track it here on Vox instead.

This probably isn't going to be hilarious or interesting or anything, it's more for me than anyone else. But I'll use this to comment on other Vox users, once I get to know who has this thing, so that'll be that. And after that first month, who knows?

I'll just repost my mission statement for the next 21 days here.

1) Eat three meals a day. Stop forgetting about breakfast. And for god's sake, no eating soup kitchen food. Practical: go with mom and do food shopping. (note: I have already fucked this up. oops.) Daily vitamins: also good.

2) Six days a week: One hour of yoga / brisk walking. One day a week: Half an hour of jumping on the trampoline purposefully.

3) No drinking. Smoking once a week at most.

4) Keeping things CLEAN. I need to maintain my room as a wide-open and neat space to exercise in (and for my own sanity), so today I am cleaning that motherfucker top to tail, and it is going to stay clean.

5) Pampering myself in a non-food way. I really haven't been doing this much, so: every Saturday I'm going to give myself the closest thing to a mani-pedi I can do, take a nice long bath, candles and bubbles and the whole nine yards. If I lose ten pounds by the end of this, I'm going to go get a real, professional mani-pedi.

6) Mental health. The yoga isn't just going to be for exercise, it's also for balance. Re-reading yoga books = +. Taking medicines every day without fail = ++. No wallowing in emo. If I feel emo, I'm going to go for a walk.

7) Brain exercise. I've been really slipping mentally. I'm aiming to finish two books a week while this is going on. I'd like to get back into the habit of reading.

8) Vegging. This is going to be hard with TV starting back up in the next month, but if I'm going to spend more than 2 hours a day in front of the TV, I need to be spending that extra time doing something useful as well. Low-intensity stretches or something? Have to find something to do.

9) Helpfulness. No excuse not to: if I pass a full, clean dishwasher, I'll empty it. If I pass a full, dirty sink, I'll fill the dishwasher. I can do thirty minutes a day in the laundry room, and by keeping that clean it'll reduce my mom's stress a lot. I won't clean the guinea pig cage, though I will vacuum.

10) Peacefulness. I need to calm down, because I'm angry a lot. So: more counting to ten, more putting myself in someone else's shoes, less wanting to kill them.