Accomplished

Today I feel so accomplished! I got so many things done. I didnt slack off on my workout, even though I didnt get to do it first thing in the morning.  I have found that the best time to workout is in the morning before you have time to really think about it. The longer you wait to do it, the most likely you are to put it off! Sage words of advice, trust me.

Its kind weird, but it seems like I have been doing Turbo Fire for ages, even though its only my second day back at it. I have retried a couple of times, but I couldnt force myself to keep going after the first day. Like I said before, I really just want to finish this thing to say I did it. Working out 6 times a week is really damn hard, but last time I lost 30 pounds, and thats nothing to sneeze at. I know one day I will have all this weight gone! Every time I restart losing weight, I'm always starting lighter than before, never gaining all the way back, the first was 285, then 279 and now 266, so thats saying something at least.

So anyway, on to my accomplishments of the day. First, I made it though my 8:00 class, which I didnt think I would, and I didnt fall asleep once! Its the longest class every, Graduate Seminar, and its from 8-12, yes 4 hours! And while I love my fellow grads, its a long time to sit on your ass for 4 hours!

After class, I opened a new bank account, the bank that we have in Arkansas isnt down in Louisiana, so I've been just getting by. Thankfully I havent really needed cash that I couldnt get from getting cash back at the grocery store, but I also cant put my pay checks in the bank unless I am going home. So I took care of that, and I'm glad to have it off my plate.

Then I came home, and I was going to take pictures, but I think that I will have to do that tomorrow, just dedicate my whole Saturday to taking pictures instead of vegging out. I need to get to work. I wont be able to on Sunday because I am working for another student Sunday afternoon, its from 2-7 which is an extra hour for my normal work day.
Anyway!
When I got home I called the my insurance company because I had been to my GP for my yearly give me an inhaler refill checkup back in October and I had some lab work done because my hair keeps falling out of my head. And the lab sent me the bill because the insurance company wouldn't cover it, which had happened a few months earlier with another bill from the OBGYN. The letter said that my insurance company claimed that I had another primary insurance provider, which I dont. I did switch to Corey's insurance company in March, because I had gotten married, and my mom's work didnt want to pay for me anymore because I wasnt her dependent anymore. So because we missed the opening for when we got married, we had to wait for the next years enrollment to open up, and that was in March. So I called the lab place first and they told me to call the insurance company because they needed to sort this out. After talking to two people, three if you include the electronic nonsense answering service, I finally have it sorted out, and they are paying all my past claims.

Last but not least, I called to get tickets for Corey and I for White Christmas play/musical, which is playing at the Arkansas Rep all month. Its one of our favorite Christmas movies, and we have made it a tradition to watch it every year. White Christmas and Holiday Inn, its not Christmas without them!

Me post workout, see that light? Its from my halo of awesome workingoutness!

Finally after all that I was able to work out. Thank goodness I did because I feel tired and sore, but great. And I was able to eat a snack because I was starving. I went to lunch with a friend, and we went to Rosemary's Kitchen, which is a block from my house, its an adorable restaurant that has a different menu every day, its really fresh and simple but good food. A lot of it is southern, but some of it isn't. You never know what the menu for the day will be. Today they had honey glazed pork chops, chicken florentine, margarita pizza and chicken salad sandwhich. All of it comes with an awesome salad with dried cranberries, carrots, bell pepper, sunflower seeds, onion broccoli and the good kinds of lettuce. I got the chicken florentine and it was excellent. I'm not sure about the health factor, I googled it and Sparkpeople say around 244 and then the Macaroni Grill chicken florentine has 340, so thats not bad, I would bet not more than 500-600 calories because I had a roll with it. More like a dinner thing, I usually try to stay around 400 calories for lunch, and 300ish for snacks. It was an excellent lunch and good to talk to my friend Meredith who is a fellow grad student. We havent had lunch since last quarter (maybe three weeks ago ;) )

I am going to post a pic of my food journal, just to be accountable for what I'm eating. It has my workouts and a check by them if I did it, also because it was a weigh-in day, my weight.

It's kinda hard to read, because I had a hard time holding the phone and also holding the other page down so the book wouldnt close. 

I wish my scale would let me take pictures of it, but for some reason the iphone wont pick up the lit up numbers on the scale... maybe I need to use my big camera for it next week.

The goal for the rest of my day: Not to eat bad things because its a friday night and also to drink loads of water!