until I go back to school. I have a feeling it will be a busy semester for me. I'm going to take Biology , Chemistry , Anatomy & Physiology, College Algebra, and Freedom in American Society. It will be 18 credits, which isn't that much, but they're mostly science in math courses and all the sciences have a lab. Biology will be really easy and I've already taken the second half of anatomy and it was not that hard. Math is my week point though, so algebra and chemistry are going to be the more difficult classes for me. I did really well in Intro to Chem, but that was 4 years ago. I do remember a lot though.
As far as CRON is concerned, I haven't been weighing everything and calculating all my nutrients, but I've been doing pretty well. I am losing weight, so I know I'm not going over calories and I am eating really healthy foods.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Sunday, June 10, 2007
I'm 20!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had my birthday yesterday. It was really nice. I had to work in the evening, but I went out with my mom for Indian food at lunch. YUM!! I ate more than my share, but still didn't do bad yesterday.
Today my mom, my brother and I went to the beach with a friend of ours. It is a gorgeous, but hot day here. The ocean water felt so good. Tonight I'm just vegging out, doing nothing. I did get a movie for my birthday, The Pursuit of Happiness, so I may watch it.
Today my mom, my brother and I went to the beach with a friend of ours. It is a gorgeous, but hot day here. The ocean water felt so good. Tonight I'm just vegging out, doing nothing. I did get a movie for my birthday, The Pursuit of Happiness, so I may watch it.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Eight Random Facts About Me...
Okay, so April has tagged me. Eight random facts about me...
1. I am obsessed with being early. To me, if I am on time, I'm late. I get to work fifteen minutes early every day and when I'm in school, I'm always to class at least 10 minutes early.
2. I am very picky about the silverware I will eat off. We have a few different sets, but I will only eat off one of the sets. If someone sets the table and gives me silverware from one of the other sets, I will get up and switch it out.
3. I love getting down to the nitty-gritty when I clean. My favorite cleaning tool is a toothpick. I love getting all the gross gunk out of little hard-to-reach cracks and crevices.
4. I require a lot of sleep and sometimes my sleep schedule is whacky. Sometimes I go to bed at 7:00 PM and sometimes I don't go to bed until 1:00 AM. Last week, I slept from 7:00 PM until 8:00 AM. I sometimes even take a 2 hour nap a few hours before I go to bed.
5. I love getting sore after a work out. If I don't get sore, I don't feel I accomplished anything. And it's fun to be sore because it feels so good to stretch my muscles.
6. I am a perfectionist when it comes to my school work. If I get a 99 on a test, I will be disappointed that it's not a 100. In fact, this past semester in my anatomy class, I got a 113 out of 115 with everything above 100 being extra credit. I was still disappointed that I missed two extra credit points.
7. My pet peeve is when people walk slowly in the grocery store and I get stuck behind them. When I enter the grocery store, I am a woman on a mission and I speed-walk. I guess this applies to other realms too. I also walk really fast around the campus at college. One time, one of my friends was trying to catch me so we could talk for a minute and when he finally got my attention, he said, "Man, you are on a mission!"
8. I drive my family crazy talking about anatomy and physiology. When my grandma had a fever, I started telling her how fevers are a part of the body's nonspecific defenses and I told her about interleukin 1 being the main pyrogen in the body. I talked about fevers intensifying the actions of the interferons, etc. When I went swimming, I was all excited to tell my mom, upon noticing my fingers being wrinkled like raisins, that the sebum had come off my skin and it was absorbing water, hence the water pockets between my dermis and my epidermis. My brother gets so annoyed at me and one time, he swallowed some water and choked on it and said to me, "Tell me what was going on in my body that caused me to choke." So I started in on how the epiglottis covers the glottis when you swallow so you don't aspirate food or water into the trachea, etc. His response was, "Oh my gosh, shut up!" It's so exciting to me though.
1. I am obsessed with being early. To me, if I am on time, I'm late. I get to work fifteen minutes early every day and when I'm in school, I'm always to class at least 10 minutes early.
2. I am very picky about the silverware I will eat off. We have a few different sets, but I will only eat off one of the sets. If someone sets the table and gives me silverware from one of the other sets, I will get up and switch it out.
3. I love getting down to the nitty-gritty when I clean. My favorite cleaning tool is a toothpick. I love getting all the gross gunk out of little hard-to-reach cracks and crevices.
4. I require a lot of sleep and sometimes my sleep schedule is whacky. Sometimes I go to bed at 7:00 PM and sometimes I don't go to bed until 1:00 AM. Last week, I slept from 7:00 PM until 8:00 AM. I sometimes even take a 2 hour nap a few hours before I go to bed.
5. I love getting sore after a work out. If I don't get sore, I don't feel I accomplished anything. And it's fun to be sore because it feels so good to stretch my muscles.
6. I am a perfectionist when it comes to my school work. If I get a 99 on a test, I will be disappointed that it's not a 100. In fact, this past semester in my anatomy class, I got a 113 out of 115 with everything above 100 being extra credit. I was still disappointed that I missed two extra credit points.
7. My pet peeve is when people walk slowly in the grocery store and I get stuck behind them. When I enter the grocery store, I am a woman on a mission and I speed-walk. I guess this applies to other realms too. I also walk really fast around the campus at college. One time, one of my friends was trying to catch me so we could talk for a minute and when he finally got my attention, he said, "Man, you are on a mission!"
8. I drive my family crazy talking about anatomy and physiology. When my grandma had a fever, I started telling her how fevers are a part of the body's nonspecific defenses and I told her about interleukin 1 being the main pyrogen in the body. I talked about fevers intensifying the actions of the interferons, etc. When I went swimming, I was all excited to tell my mom, upon noticing my fingers being wrinkled like raisins, that the sebum had come off my skin and it was absorbing water, hence the water pockets between my dermis and my epidermis. My brother gets so annoyed at me and one time, he swallowed some water and choked on it and said to me, "Tell me what was going on in my body that caused me to choke." So I started in on how the epiglottis covers the glottis when you swallow so you don't aspirate food or water into the trachea, etc. His response was, "Oh my gosh, shut up!" It's so exciting to me though.
Friday, May 18, 2007
Some pictures...
This is a picture of me when I was thin.
This is me with my Mom (in the pink) and my brother a few weeks ago. I point out to you who my mom is because some people think we are sisters. Anyhow, that's me when I'm chubby.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
I guess it's been a week since I've updated! Time flies. I'm doing well with CRON. I can't say it's been easy. Every night after dinner I get intense sugar cravings and I feel desperate for something sweet. I feel like I'm going to go insane if I don't have something. But if I can hold off for a few hours, it starts to ease up. I'm really proud of myself because I've been waiting a few hours when I get that feeling (even though I feel like I'm going to die without some sweets) and then it eases up and if I can just go to bed, in the morning, I won't even want any sugar anymore. Last night I told myself, "If you can wait until morning, you can have it," because I know in the morning, I will have no desire to eat any junk food. So I'm getting through it all right.
I haven't been using Cron-O-Meter very much lately. I'm trying to live as frugally as possible this summer so I can save most of the money I make for school, so I'm eating frozen bean and vegetable soups out of the freezer. When my grandma was here, she made so much soup we could never eat it all, so our freezer is full of frozen homemade soup. I have no way of accurately counting the calories in it since I don't even know everything that's in it let alone how much of each ingredient would be in a serving. I wish I could get a more accurate calorie and nutrient count, but there's nothing I can really do about it. I am losing weight though and I know I'm not overconsuming calories because I'm not eating that much.
I haven't been using Cron-O-Meter very much lately. I'm trying to live as frugally as possible this summer so I can save most of the money I make for school, so I'm eating frozen bean and vegetable soups out of the freezer. When my grandma was here, she made so much soup we could never eat it all, so our freezer is full of frozen homemade soup. I have no way of accurately counting the calories in it since I don't even know everything that's in it let alone how much of each ingredient would be in a serving. I wish I could get a more accurate calorie and nutrient count, but there's nothing I can really do about it. I am losing weight though and I know I'm not overconsuming calories because I'm not eating that much.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Doing well...
Everything is going well with the job and with CRON. I made my delicious collard wraps today. Oh my goodness! I think that has to be my favorite CRON meal.
Today:
1043 calories
40 grams protein
148 grams carbs
40 grams lipids
Vitamins 74%
Vitamin A 475%
Folate 122%
B1 136%
B2 103%
B3 79%
B5 61%
B6 124%
B12 2%
Vitamin C 124%
Vitamin D 0%
Vitamin E 48%
Vitamin K 644%
Minerals 88%
Calcium 46%
Copper 321%
Iron 64%
Magnesium 151%
Manganese 212%
Phosphorous 148%
Potassium 69%
Selenium 744%
Sodium 141%
Zinc 101%
EFA's
Omega 3 554%
Omega 6 83%
Today:
1043 calories
40 grams protein
148 grams carbs
40 grams lipids
Vitamins 74%
Vitamin A 475%
Folate 122%
B1 136%
B2 103%
B3 79%
B5 61%
B6 124%
B12 2%
Vitamin C 124%
Vitamin D 0%
Vitamin E 48%
Vitamin K 644%
Minerals 88%
Calcium 46%
Copper 321%
Iron 64%
Magnesium 151%
Manganese 212%
Phosphorous 148%
Potassium 69%
Selenium 744%
Sodium 141%
Zinc 101%
EFA's
Omega 3 554%
Omega 6 83%
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
My orientation...
I had my orientation at my new job today. I think I'm really going to like it there. Everyone who works there is so nice and even the managers really put me at ease. It's such a nice environment and everybody is just so friendly. I filled out all my paperwork, learned the policies, learned the table numbers, and even got to try the food. It ended up working out fine with CRON because I was way under calories ( I had only eaten about 445 cals) when I went there, so I had plenty to spare. I sampled a couple different dishes and they were excellent. They serve Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Malaysian, Vietnamese, and Singapore.
So that's my news. Tomorrow I start training. I'm going to be working Monday through Friday from 11:00-4:30, and hopefully once I'm trained they'll let me do a double shift once or twice a week. They seem pretty flexible about that. And they seem very open to letting me try out serving once I'm trained on hostessing. I'm very excited.
So that's my news. Tomorrow I start training. I'm going to be working Monday through Friday from 11:00-4:30, and hopefully once I'm trained they'll let me do a double shift once or twice a week. They seem pretty flexible about that. And they seem very open to letting me try out serving once I'm trained on hostessing. I'm very excited.
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