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.

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.

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.

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%

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.

I start my job tomorrow!

Wish me well. I hope it goes well and I enjoy it. I went to Target tonight to try to find some clothes. I have to wear black bottoms and a blouse. I have lots of casual clothes, but not many dressy things. And not much of anything that fits me since I've gained so much weight in the past year. I used to wear a size 4 less than two years ago and now I wear a 10. I gain weight so easily. But it won't be a problem for long because I'm doing really well on CRON. Anyhow, all that to say that I didn't find much I like at Target. I found one blouse. I'm going to go to the mall tomorrow and find some more clothes and some shoes.

I'm really tired, so I'm headed to bed. I really think I could sleep 12-14 hours a day if I let myself!

I'm home

Finals are over and I maintained my 4.0 this semester!!! Yeah! I also found a job today. I'm going to be a hostess at an Asian restaurant in downtown West Palm Beach in this outdoor mall of sorts called City Place. I'm starting on Tuesday. I'm so glad I found something easily and I didn't have to waste a bunch of time applying for jobs.

I'm doing really well with my diet, though I must admit that I'm not eating enough because I'm simply not hungry. Maybe my body wants to melt off my fat before I will start getting hungry like a normal person. But then, I'm not supposed to let my weight drop too quickly. I'm just so impatient. I know I shouldn't lose weight too quickly, but I just want to be rid of it NOW!!!

Almost done with finals...

Tomorrow I take my last final at 8:00 AM. Then I'm done for the semester. It was really a great semester for me and I learned a lot. I can't wait to be back in classes in the fall. Sounds crazy, I know, but I love school.

As far as CRON, everything is going well. I'm feeling great and I'm looking forward to having more variety in my diet once I'm home from school. I'm very limited in what I can eat in the cafeteria and I basically eat the same exact salad for lunch every day. I'm hungry for some different greens besides spinach (though I love spinach) and I'm hungry for some steamed vegetables. I don't eat the ones in the cafeteria because they're smothered in margarine. Ugh!

All right. I'm going to bed now. I'm so tired. I don't know why I've been so sleepy lately, but all I want to do is sleep. I even took a two hour nap this afternoon and still I'm ready for bed. Good night.