Grand total 2250
Weekly average was high, I can do better!
7day: 2165
Happy Friday!
Home: kombucha 50
Work 8:30am: banana 120, coffee 50, wrap 100, lox 50, cream cheese 100, rice krispie treat 80
Noon Lunch; brought it...650
Snack 1: plum 50
Snack 2: small rice krispie treat 100
1350
Dinner: TBD - have tons at home...try to make it semi-healthy...will probaby have a drink....puts me to sleep so fast i love it lately. just 1, nothing nuts. yes, high calorie though! like 200 cal per cup! Out to dinner tonight with same girl i traveled with...if get a giftcard there for next time $25 and free dessert if we go there tonight and pay normal - it's worth it!
Jogging TOMORROW. I cancelled the massage on Sunday so i can stay home and do laundry. :) and do gym. sometimes, even a massage must be cancelled! I have a few free ones STILL to use......yes i'm a bad girl, i pay $60 a month to be in a club at massage envy so i get one every time i am charged. it's ok, i'll use them more in November & December. that's all! And soon enough, i'll be in the academy studying.
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Boy has it been a very busy week with things going on most nights. Last night taking off the nails took 1.5 hours at the salon by my job. Way too long a time to sit there. I was home by 7:30pm (half hour drive away from work!). It was a bit much, i was hoping to be home way earlier, but still i got to bed early around 9pm.
tonight i am jogging at the Queens College Track after work. I get out of work at 5pm and by the time i park there and change there, it'll be around 6pm. I'll be done around 7pm. It'll be dark through half the jog at least. I wanted to ask to leave early but i'm trying to at least be responsible and trustworthy with working my assigned times here at work. I don't need to not do the simplest things right..if they aren't giving me work, I should be able to get here on time, leave on Time (as long as i get here on time!), and not ask to be leaving early.
So at lunch, i'll get another coat on my nails, she told me to come back today for free and i do need it!...then walk a little bit more so i don't have to walk tonight / run less tonight. Tonight at the track, I am thinking to stay briefly only for 1.5 miles. (not my 2mi or 2.5 mi run/walk). It'll be dark, I'll want to be home. I'll walk at lunch to make up for the lost time tonight at the track!
I have to buy kombucha sometime between now & tomorrow....
Boy has this been a SLOW day. I haven’t actually had work all week – and it’s good. If only I worked a little shorter hours, tho. But hey, I’m being paid a decent salary and saving like at least 14%...and I think I changed it to 17% of my paycheck now. So I have to deal with the boredom and sitting in one seat from 8-5 with an hour lunch….because it will end in two months. In two months my life will turn around in the academy – it’ll be fast-paced again, but I do believe the academy is one whole hour shorter per day than my current job, thankfully!
I’m so glad it’s Friday too. I was going to go home, but my friend asked me to dinner…and it’s sorta expensive. I’ll pay for my share but it’s just throwing away money and makes me semi-nervous. I just need to calm down & realize that in 5 years I’ll be making good money for the rest of my life and I’m saving what I can now, except I don’t save anything from my paycheck since a few months now. – meaning my take-home pay – I use it all and it tenses me up how I do this – but at least I don’t use my savings – I shouldn’t have to – as my salary is decent even after I put most of the money away. I did this on purpose – I put away the most I can and live off of a more moderate / lower salary bc I want to know the money is being saved for the long run & has time to increase over time – bc I know that the two years starting in January thru 2020, I’ll not be able to save much bc my salary will be at that time 15k-20k less. But then it builds.
I’m still paying off my credit card from the Vegas trip and my friend asked me out to dinner tonight. LOL. I have no money – I’ll have to pay on credit card or cash but then I’m out of cash – the credit it is. I have very little money on my debit – all which is going to be spend tomorrow to pay my rent. It’s not that I’m a careless spender, it’s just that I’m still paying off for the trip – this makes me so anxious and frustrated. I will not be spending much next month – most things I do will be either free or low cost / pre-paid. I must settle down with my spending. ! Oh, there will be one expensive day - $100 expensive at the end of November. Luckily, I also bought my whole family bday gifts. So the reason my cards and money are tight I guess is for good reason this time! Sorry. Very stressed over that.
6day avg is decent: 2150 per day :) very good. I can try to lower the avg by eating less FRIDAY which would be SMART.
Home: kombucha 50
8:30am Breakfast: coffee 50, banana 120, coconut wrap 80 with honey 30 and pb 150:
10am "Fig Bar" one piece in blueberry flavor 110 (i think increasing my carbs is sorta not a bad thing...except for slightly increased hunger).
11:30am peanuts 100...lunch will come late today - Indian I ordered, but i also still have Indian leftovers lol...so much food still. don't need to get too much on weekend plus last week i did buy too much!
Lunch was also a splurge: tuna 70, fried things 400 at least, 150 naan, 200 saag approx 800 and cake 100. for my good friend Jen's bday...the Vegas girlie!
3:45pm Snack:plum (yeah eating too much lately).
4:45 brown sugar cinnamon pastry crisps 100 before doing nails...eating so much today but can't get off it without just starving a few hours and i do not want to.
Dinner: thinking this shepherd's pie i have (microwavalbe) and a drink. really tired. bed early......tired from sitting lol but happy i have NO WORK at all.
Will try to tame appetite not to eat more than 2200 today lol...worked out:
total approx 2200-2250, good.
I got nails off, took 1.5 HOURS of sitting there. left at 7pm, home at 7:30pm! so late lol...
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Doing nails (getting them off) after work today...hopefully as quickly as possible! Absolutely took WAYYYYY TOOOO LONG! Smart to have left my car in work lot, though. i got out at 5pm from work and didn't leave the neighborhood until 7pm. just wow.
also, i had 8oz of an 8% alcohol margarita (in a can) last night and it really helped me sleep...is this bad? to enjoy 1 alcohol drink most nights? i sorta like trying them all out right now....never did except for now (this year). this year i have tasted some varieties of beer also. nice to try new things, sorry Donkey i know you don't appreciate me writing this, but i doubt i'd become alcoholic bc i don't want to drink more than a cup. also it makes it easier for me to go out and drink one. and just to want one also when out - knowing i have more at home and that it's not considered "a bad treat" for me...i'm trying to be moderate with it so that i can drink and not overdrink....
Last night I jogged / walked 1.75 mi which is enough...i'm not in this for distance right now, just for sticking to my goal of getting to the university, parking there, jogging what i feel i want to - when daylight savings time sets in, the ENTIRE jog will be in the dark on the track. Even now, starting around 5:50 and ending around 6:30 in my car, it was fully dark. This is what it'll take if i want to train on the track (i prefer the track to a treadmill)....so that's why it was worth buying a sticker for my car to park at the school :) the less time at the dark track, the better. I can also try to jog once on weekends, so i only have to go 1x in dark during the week - so i might wait till Saturday to jog again...but then again, i might just go and do it Friday after work LOL....choices!
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
For me, to stop drinking was a personal choice for myself, and myself alone. It doesn't bother me to be around alcohol at all. I just don't partake. Most times, it's easy, sometimes it's a little more difficult, but it's a commitment I've made to myself, at least for now, with no immediate plans to change that.
So no need to apologize, at least, to me! :-)
5-day: 2130 per day, decent.
Home: kombucha 60
Breakfast: wrap 100, cream cheese 100, lox 100 coffee 50, banana 120
snack 10:30am 110 fig bar raspberry flavor just amazing. very sweet though...coworker shared with me...tasty. sick of nuts anyway!
noon snack: peanuts 100
1pm Lunch: TBD all leftovers and healthy and i just hardboiled eggs this morning perfectly...650...had a naan Indian bread cooked by coworker's wife...oily a bit and high cal but so good. 650 total for lunch
Snack 1: applechocolate truffle 100 i think it was chocolate with sea salt so good! and apple. 50 more.
Snack 2: bar before jogging and water with stevia special K bar - brown sugar cinnamon flavor 100
1650.
Dinner at home: TBD was decent - popcorn, glass of margarita very strong helped me sleep really really well!, and some light ice cream. 500.
2150 total, great.
jogged / walked 1.75 mi which is enough...i'm not in this for distance right now, just for sticking to my goal of getting to the university, parking there, jogging what i feel i want to - when daylight savings time sets in, the ENTIRE jog will be in the dark on the track. Even now, starting around 5:50 and ending around 6:30 in my car, it was fully dark. This is what it'll take if i want to train on the track (i prefer the track to a treadmill)....so that's why it was worth buying a sticker for my car to park at the school :) the less time at the dark track, the better. I can also try to jog once on weekends, so i only have to go 1x in dark during the week - so i might wait till Saturday to jog again...but then again, i might just go and do it Friday after work LOL....choices!
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next week on 10/31/17 i was assigned my medical test for nypd at 6:30am...just waiting for where to go / special instructions.
***I must walk to bargain store to get balloons for coworker's bday tomorrow :) it's her 30th - the one whos a good friend that i went to Vegas with!...I'll hide the balloons under my desk to put at her desk early Thursday morning before she gets in bc i always get to work half hour before her...i just need to buy the balloons at lunch...or after work...lunch is better.!!!!!! i'll just store them under my desk - the helium type that lasts forever.
All is just fine...studying at my job (lots of free time at the job so i'll study police / law easy terms for now...then i'm planing to memorize all the "10-codes"...things i want to do for me.
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Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
things are looking up!
yes extra time solves a LOT of things!
Donkey copies <out>
thank you...yes, nice my boss has given me this wonderful break...i don't know how long it can last, but it might last the whole time until January or at least till November...lol...he might really give me a break for a couple months...we have a new estimator today come in...a new older lady...he may just want to attend to actual needs of company and decide not to give me much work...however i do assist one guy, and if the guy wants to give me work, i'll have to do it...but i hope it remains a low level and yes i'll use this time to acquaint myself with the verbage haha...love that word...of the police terms....
loved your commet....i know 10-2 is received well...10-4 is you got it...and 10-7 well...let me look: lol, you're outta here in 10 min nice!!!!!!!!!! <3 xoxoxo...when i start using these codes, i'll use them here with you.
Home: kombucha 70
Breakfast: coffee, banana 170, wrap 100, pb and cinnamon 200: 470.
11am Cookie (protein cookie) 150 (sick of nuts right now, taking a major break from them)
12:30 hungry had a few peanuts 50
Lunch and snack: 600 total
1350....
trying for the 1pm lunch: looking foward to my tofu mixed with fried potato and cauliflower (indian style from coworker's wife!) SHOULD BE AWESOME. and also probably some pickled onions (spanish style) that i bought last friday - the should be good still!
Total today Is 1950 - very good !
2125 4day
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Tonight is gym and i counted my sunday workout also for this week's gym so that makes 2x and i can forget about gym until the weekend, good. that's good because i didn't get a chance to run last night. It took awhile for me to get the parking pass for Queens College and by the time I got home to change, i didn't want to leave my place again after 6pm to get to the track around 6:30 and run in dark and eat late and bed late...so it's rescheduled for Wednesday eve since today & tonight the weather forecast is rain.
At least i now have a parking pass which is WONDERFUL as i will not be struggling to find spots in the community and it seems there's always some spots at the college lot beside the track - so although it took time last night to get the sticker for my car paid for & squared away, i'm not set up very conveniently for less time to be wasted for my jogging trainng for the rest of this fall season!
I RAN OUT OF TIME LAST NIGHT (MONDAY) AND WASN'T ABLE TO DO THE JOG - AFTER SIGNING UP FOR THE PARKING PASS, I GOT HOME AROUND 6PM AND IT WAS ALREADY GETTING DARK. I STILL HAD TO CHANGE & THEN I'D DRIVE BACK ( I WOULDN'T GET TO THE TRACK BEFORE 6:30PM AND NOT HOME TILL AFTER 7PM AND REALLY DIDN'T WANT THAT) AND HAVE TO RUN IN THE DARK AND EAT LATE - I DECIDED TO GO TO BED MONDAY EARLY, NOT JOG, DO GYM AGAIN TUESDAY BECAUSE IT'S RAINING TUESDAY AND I CANNOT JOG AT THE TRACK IN THE RAIN (THAT'LL BE 2X THIS WEEK ALREADY GETTING THE GYM IN AND THEN I CAN JUST CONCENTRATE ON MY JOG.), THEN DRIVE BACK WITH NOW MY GOOD PARKING STICKER TO PARK IN THE COLLEGE AND START MY JOGGING ON WEDNESDAY (STILL 2.5 WEEKS ONLY OF REST, GOOD.)
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
Home: kombucha did the trick and so good 70
Breakfast: wrap 100, pb 200, banana 120, coffee 50: 470
snack: blueberry cake...amazing!!!! 150? really fresh from upstate PA i think coworker was there in weekend and bought it on his way home...extremely fresh and moist!
Noon early lunch: healthy things....mostly food from my Indian coworker's wife! so nice of her the one's i walked with upstate with on Saturday!
4pm snack: apple 100
before jog: 1/2 protein cookie and water with stevia...then buying a parking pass so i can park inside the college that i like to jog on the track of...instead of look for parking on the extremely crowded street surrounding it...so i can start the jog fast instead of worrying about parking after work...it's a good deal and will save approx. 20 minutes of annoyance during my weekday jogs. 200
dinner: not sure, maybe seaweed salad and an egg or two. or something microwavable?not sure. maybe a protien muffin - have a few left and they are probiotic...yeah prob a muffin with a scoop or two of ice cream! (LOW CAL EVERYTHING). it'll be around 400 cal i think
2100. is Monday's total. decent!
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Today will be my first Jogging day since before my Vegas trip (around 2.5 weeks i think). good. Looking forward. I RAN OUT OF TIME LAST NIGHT (MONDAY) AND WASN'T ABLE TO DO THE JOG - AFTER SIGNING UP FOR THE PARKING PASS, I GOT HOME AROUND 6PM AND IT WAS ALREADY GETTING DARK. I STILL HAD TO CHANGE & THEN I'D DRIVE BACK ( I WOULDN'T GET TO THE TRACK BEFORE 6:30PM AND NOT HOME TILL AFTER 7PM AND REALLY DIDN'T WANT THAT) AND HAVE TO RUN IN THE DARK AND EAT LATE - I DECIDED TO GO TO BED MONDAY EARLY, NOT JOG, DO GYM AGAIN TUESDAY BECAUSE IT'S RAINING TUESDAY AND I CANNOT JOG AT THE TRACK IN THE RAIN (THAT'LL BE 2X THIS WEEK ALREADY GETTING THE GYM IN AND THEN I CAN JUST CONCENTRATE ON MY JOG.), THEN DRIVE BACK WITH NOW MY GOOD PARKING STICKER TO PARK IN THE COLLEGE AND START MY JOGGING ON WEDNESDAY (STILL 2.5 WEEKS ONLY OF REST, GOOD.)
I'll buy a college parking pass so i no longer have to look for parking at night when i go to jog at the track :)...no need to waste time looking for a spot now...especially as it gets dark faster as well as colder...now i can drive right there & park right away at the track.
Today will be a simple day. Skipping the funeral below bc i have other personal reasons to take off from work down the road....i can't take off for a professor from 15 years ago. oh well..not a good reason and i'm not mentioning to my boss. no need. i have an academy to get into. that's enough right now!
Tomorrow i have a funeral to attend for a sorta young guy around early 70's i think. so sad. he was one of my mentors and one of my nicest, genuine, favorite professors at Hofstra University. He was also the head of the entire Music Dept there. The funeral is not very far and happens to be during the workday...so i'll just go :) My boss will not give me a hard time, no. I may as well go now that work isn't rough and that i can attend and hear the thoughtful things people will say about him...
funeral is being held approx 45min away from work so it's not very far. and during work hours makes me more eager to go, actually. i was going to sleep over my parent's house thinking the funeral was at night, but then reread the info, and was sorta put at ease seeing the funeral is to be at 2pm and not like 5pm or 6pm.
...after funeral i plan to just come home bc i already have tons of food and stuff and shouldn't shop (cool prepared food stores by the funeral, but i do not need to waste money bc i have food at home!)....just going to be there for this man who died too young and who give his heart to me and so many students at Hofstra in the Music Dept.
6am / 10am Hard Cider 130 - really wanted to taste it!
10:30am plum 50, S'mores light ice cream 160
kombucha 50, extra kombucha 50
450...
Arby's Lunch salad 200, gyro 550, fries 350....1050
1500 :-)
Chips 150 and dried apricots 100
1750
Dunkin' Donuts flatbread sandwich light type and glazed donut 60" at 8pm after awesome workout
2350 yummy
2day: 2225 good.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
300 breakfast
Diner food 800
1100-1150
Beer 1250
Dinner 700 1950
Wine
2100 tops :)
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
Happy Friday <3
Home: tasty kombucha 70
Breakfast: banana 130, wrap 100, pb and honey 200, coffee 50.
11am light snack: half a chocolate caramel bar 100.
1pm lunch: wrap 250, egg whites 100, ketchup 50: 450 approx ...later i had chips 100...later a diet coke.
I'll snack on some fruit on the way home from work - 100-150 in melon and grapes.
1350, tops
Dinner back at my apt: will be healthy lefovers and tasty things: peppers in sesame oil 150, plum 50, popcorn 200, veg with cashews 150 wheat gluten 200: 750.
2100, decent!
weekly avg is decent: 2078 per day - fine :)
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Reading at lunch today.
Easy day today with no errands - reading and/or early to bed tonight.
Tomorrow taking a 2-hr trip to walk the Hudson River over a footbridge with coworker and his wife and i'm bringing Ricky.
Tomorrow night I may sleep over Ricky's place (1st time) along with also a movie and dinner at his place.
No plans except laundry and gym for Sunday.
I even have enough food to last thru the weekend into Monday / Tuesday...so i am limiting my sunday obligations so i do not end up skipping out on gym. I'll run for the FIRST time since before I went to Vegas on Monday after work. The last time I ran before this time was I think October 8th. I think, anyways. So, it will be another approx 2 week break since then for me. But now, I'm back to normal after this weekend!
Normal Gym and Jog schedule for last 2 weeks October thru December leading into academy but careful never to overdo.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
That 2 hour walk sounds fabulous, and so does the dinner and a movie at Ricky's :) So glad you found someone who seems so easy to be around...those are the keepers.
Nice balance on gym and jog! Keep it up!
He's so good to me, I love it.
Sorry you spilled the coffee...i hope you were able to get a new one!
and hey, we all need friends, no strings required.
2075 6-day average, thursday was 2150. very good.
Home: small amount kombucha 40
Breakfast at work: banana 120, wrap 100, peanut butter 150, honey50, coffee 50 470.
snacking: 350 - chocolate and peanuts
12pm early lunch, just so hungry!: will have tons of vegetables with it, yes, definitely - 650.
snack 1: apple 50...very hungry this week. more chocolate. 100
snack 2: cookie bar 100
GYM TONIGHT (ended up getting very queasy and dizzy at work, left 15 min early, pulled over to throw up & decided to go to the gym anyways and did pretty good there).
After gym: prob dunkin donuts sandwich.
Bed when i can...hamster is so cute these days :)
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This morning I sent in my college / graduate school transcripts and my license to the NYPD candidate relations department & I am definitely now finishing last steps to get this application finished and final and to be in the January 2018 academy. life is moving & my life will change forever soon. it's really cool and exciting!
In the afternoon, i submitted the rest of the forms they emailed me back in the morning. I guess I'm going into the NYPD in January!!!!!!!! It's not a done deal, but closing up on one now.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
Early morning: I had tons of kombucha but didn't poop. i probably will have to at work possibly after lunch today. bc i had so much (4 cups or two bottles of kombucha). 150.
9 am Breakfast - late at work...coffee earlier 50, banana 120, wrap 100, with cream cheese 100, lox 50. total here: 420.
9:30am snack sorta right after breakfast - nice chocolate caramel bar 150 yum!!!!!!
11am: some nuts 130
lunch ? doritos bag 260, chicken 250, onions fried 100 at least, spag squash 100 at least. total approx: 700.
plan is to read at lunch - haven't read this book in weeks!....want to read even more tonight!
snack: kiwi and granola bar 150. just starving.(i had half a Red Bull after lunch - must break that habit today bc the caffeine isn't aiding anything about my health and my skin has been better and i want to keep it this way!...i think the caffeine also got me hungrier, as usual, like 3 hours after i had it)...
dinner: at home & not sure what...going to have a Subway Sandwich after work...eating there i think.... Mc Donalds. 600 cal.
2300 total on Wednesday
5day:
Bed early again.
Life is so out there, it's good.
I am now in process of reinstating my NYPD application for January 2018. I called candidate relations to start the process and tomorrow i'll scan & email them my driver's license and college transcripts.
McDonald's 6 chicken nuggets and fries 600 and maybe a small bit of alcohol - bed early 2300 today 5day = 2060
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
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Happy Friday! Sounds like you've had a busy week - hopefully you will get to have a bit of a break on the weekend. Good job on your jog!
Yes, i'll make sure to get a little downtime on weekend, at least for Sunday night.
Maybe i'll wake up early Saturday also (not a good weekend to take any sleeping pills...i'd rather be up relaxing and being able to relax than sleeping!)
innerpeace on 10/27/2017:
You took the nails off? So are you just getting them painted then for another coat? I guess I got lost reading that. I had some taken off once and I had to soak for a long time to get that fill stuff to come off And it scarred my nails - well until they grew out. Have a great weekend.
Same here, she put on nail hardener...and i'll keep using it as my nails grow out also. Yes, my nails are WELL DAMAGED from the acrylic nails. They look ok while painted with clear nail hardener tho.
i think i'm playing around too much...i actually have so many plans to choose from my head hurts for this weekend...makes me want to do less or nothing!
Donkey on 10/28/2017:
Your story is exactly why I'm afraid to get nails. But they are so pretty, so I just admire them on other folks who are brave enough.
I understand your anxiety over money issues. You have a plan, but it just takes time. Breathe deep and trust the process. The older I get, the more it becomes clear to me how much "time is money, money is time" rings true...
yes, don't get fake nails. no good.
BearCountryGG on 10/29/2017:
Had a frined with the same acrylic nail problem....took awhile to correct it....I'm just sticking with the polish...but the acrylics do look nice.