I’m sorry Heather, I forgot, who are you sleeping with?
Ah, that’s right. Thank you for clarifying that for me.
I’m blogging today not about my weight-loss journey, but about LGBTQ Spirit Day.
PURPLE represents Spirit on the LGBTQ flag and that’s exactly what we’d like all of you to have with you: spirit. Please know that times will get better and that you will meet people who will love you and respect…
Week 2 Workout Plan
Monday:
I was originally going to take the day off but our dinner plans with a friend have been postponed. I’m going to hit the gym and do 30 minutes on the elliptical at moderate difficulty (350 calories), lift weights (170 calories), and then another 15-30 minutes on the bike (100-150 calories).
Tuesday:
Volleyball game! About 300 calories burned per hour. I will get to the gym a little early to do some light jogging and warming up or I’ll hit the treadmill for a few before I leave work to go to the game. I will burn 400 or so calories.
Wednesday:
I will head to the gym, if I’m not too sore from volleyball I will lift weights. I will do 30 minutes on the elliptical at moderate difficulty. Then 15 minutes or so on the bike. I might try out the row machine and aim for about 10 minutes on that. I will aim for about 500 calories.
Thursday:
It looks like the weather might actually behave so I will try to head to the batting cage to work on my softball muscles. That’s not a lot of activity so I might try to ride my bike a little or head to the gym afterward and walk on the treadmill.
Friday:
Most likely a day off, if not then an easy day. Maybe a walk around the neighborhood and throwing the football or hitting the volleyball with my girlfriend.
Saturday:
Hopefully the canceled softball game from last week will be rescheduled. Games are an hour with about 30 minutes of warm up, so an hour and a half softball game. That’s about 700 calories burned! If there is no softball, then I’ll hit the gym. Maybe I’ll try swimming!
Sunday:
Usually a hard day at the gym. I try for 60 minutes of hard cardio, I aim to burn about 650-700 calories. I might even try riding my bike to the gym.
Goals for this week:
- 500 calories burned every work-out day.
- Keeping good track of my food, aiming for consuming around 2000 calories per day.
- Making an appointment at the Y with a personal trainer
- Making an appointment with a dietitian
I started a separate blog to track my weight loss and work-out schedule etc. I didn’t want to just start posting that stuff to this blog, because that’s not what you signed up for. Check it out if you’re interested. I also started a separate Twitter as well!
Makings of an excellent Friday
Impromtu lunch out. Greek festival. Baklava. H st. Keg. Rooftop deck. Crisp, clean air. Incredible friends, new and old. Post drinking fried fish.
Fall has absolutely started off on a good note.
It seems that a ten-year break was all I needed for my love of softball to be rekindled and burnout to wear off. If I had worked and hustled this hard when I was playing JV ball, I probably could have made something of myself with it. I worked hard enough to get by and did alright, but I didn’t naturally excel. Then I had one season of shitty coaches and I was done. It wasn’t fun anymore. I dropped something that I spent 7 years of single digits and early teens practicing. If only I had hung in there and worked a little harder…
These are the kind of things you figure out when you “grow up.”
I’m really enjoying this social league I joined. I think it helps that the coach is one of my very best friends, who I played with (well, mostly against) for all of the years that I played. Week one and I’m having a lot of fun.
I’m also ready to meet some new people and get off my ass. This fall is shaping up to be a good one.
Newest Thought About My Future
Welp, here’s the quarter life crisis. What the hell do I want to do with my life?
Ideas this week:
- Non-Profit
- Consumer Psychology
- Culinary School
The most logical and likely being the first 2, better get on the research train… again. It’s scary that I KNEW WHAT I WANTED for so long and now I’m lost. It’s not even that I don’t still want I/O Psychology, but what if I just set my mind to that and never entertained anything else? What if that’s not what I was meant to do?
It feels weird to be without direction. This is rare for me and it makes me anxious. I don’t really WANT to go to grad. school, but it seems like if I want to do anything related to my Bachelors degree at all, I gotta. At least Consumer Psych/behavior would be more interesting (more people-related) than I/O. I just want to not get bored with what I do and make a decent amount of money. Is that so much to ask?
Aries Women Are Cats
- Christy: I explained to him how Aries women are like cats
- and now he understands we only want attention when you're denying it to us
- we like to chase
- but need something back
- we are randomly pissy
- and randomly very affectionate
- and need to be the center of attention
- me: It's ALL SO TRUE
- Christy: too much attention and we run away and hide though
- and give it to someone else
- who is ignoring us
- cats
- me: i'm pretty sure you just figured out the universe.
"Aries March 21 - April 19
For Thursday, July 22 -Things are definitely not exactly as they seem, and someone may be showing off an exterior that’s quite a bit prettier than what’s really going on inside. You’re correct to be as suspicious as you are, but you shouldn’t let on just yet. Just smile and nod — especially if it’s work-related — and file away your feelings for future consultation. Getting energized over it doesn’t do anyone any favors."
For Thursday, July 22 -Things are definitely not exactly as they seem, and someone may be showing off an exterior that’s quite a bit prettier than what’s really going on inside. You’re correct to be as suspicious as you are, but you shouldn’t let on just yet. Just smile and nod — especially if it’s work-related — and file away your feelings for future consultation. Getting energized over it doesn’t do anyone any favors."
— Washington Post
Thoughts About This Week
It’s been a very strange one.
Catching up with a couple of old friends, increased communication with some oldie but goodies, preparing for some bests to move away, conflict with others. Holes in our ceiling. Unusually tired and lacking energy. Car troubles.
Was definitely a down week coming off of a fun weekend last weekend. Just hoping this weekend will bring all the weirdness to a close.
