Week 13

Well, my roommates brother lives in a dorm and he had so much extra money in his student dining account that he bought a ton of snacks. So there is a huge box of crackers, chips, candy, cookies just sitting in front of the tv. So obviously, I was tempted and I had a bag of cookies and some gummies. It wasn't a huge disappointment in my goals, but I did surrender to the deliciousness of sugar yesterday.

Week 12

This week I bought skinny cow ice cream sandwiches and have been eating it everyday mostly because it was there. So I think if its at reach, ofcourse I will choose it over other things. I also started seeing this guy recently, and he has inspired me to eat healthier and exercise more because he's really into health and fitness. I had a fun size bag of m&ms and i offered some to him and he grabbed it out of my hand it threw it away and yelled simple sugars are bad, i thought that was funny. I'm always busy with work and school and i skip workouts because i get stressed, but he tells me that he never misses workouts because its only an hour and a half of his time spent on himself and he will feel better after he does it. So he has been very encouraging

Week 11

This week I splurged a little bit. Before I left for vegas my friends and I got froyo at yogurtland, which is 10 times better than 21 choices but its further away. I didn't get that much yogurt and I got healthy toppings too. Vegas was a lot of fun, I didn't eat too many sweets there but I had a lot of lattes from starbucks and a lot of sugary drinks. I also went to get drinks at the Lab at USC and they messed up our order so they gave us a free plate of fries and dessert, and it was delicious. My friends and I also bought a turtle ice cream cake to surprise my friend at 12am for her birthday. That was the worst because it was so late at night, and i had seconds. It was so good though. I don't feel that bad about it though because its ok if I eat sweets every once in a while. Usually its on special occasions. All in all, yeah I had some sweets, but it wasn't as much as I used to eat and they were all special occasions I guess.

Week 10: Statistics

I guess eating too man sweets could contribute to obesity. Here are the statistics:

• 58 Million Overweight; 40 Million Obese; 3 Million morbidly Obese
• Eight out of 10 over 25's Overweight
• 78% of American's not meeting basic activity level recommendations
• 25% completely Sedentary
• 76% increase in Type II diabetes in adults 30-40 yrs old since 199

This week I really haven't eaten many sweets. I've been really stressed with exams, homework, papers so I haven't had a lot of time to go treat myself to sweets and I'm going to vegas this weekend too so I've been cutting down. I feel like I've been drinking more chai tea lattes, I think that has been my replacement.

Week 9

Week 9 means I'm down to 1 or 0 sweets a week, and instead I'm supposed to substitute with fruits. I think its safe to say that I met this goal. I really think the less I ate sweets, the less I craved it, and just reminding myself this mentality has really worked out for me. Especially because I had spring break in vegas to look forward to for the past months, I had to cut down on my diet and increase exercise so I could look and feel good. This guy also asked me back in February to go to his formal with him in Vegas which is happening next week. I bought a pretttttty tight dress a while back so I've been trying to tone up for that too for the past month. It really helped that I had events to look forward to and deadlines because it gave me motivation to stick to my goals. And now I rarely eat sweets. I do eat a lot of fruit, I also found that I really like organic strawberry jam on toast and that satisfies my sweet tooth.

Week 8: Challenging Situation

I haven't really been craving sweets lately which is interesting. After last week, I cut out a lot of junk and after a while I guess I get used to not having it and I don't crave it. But this week was my friend's birthday, my roommate bought girl scout cookies, and my other roommate came back from Canada with maple cream cookies. I was faced with many challenging situations this week, mainly because of temptation in a social setting. My roommates offered me cookies, and they were special cookies too, so I couldn't pass on them. On my friend's birthday, she wanted to get 21 choices with a bunch of friends. First, the day before and second, the day of her birthday. I couldn't pass it up because it was her birthday, and I didn't want to just sit there without yogurt while everyone else ate yogurt together on her birthday. We also went to saddle ranch, and at the end they bring out HUGE things of cotton candy, and I just had to eat it, and i ate a lot of it because it was in front of me and it was really cool looking. So basically, its tough in social situations and its hard to pass up on temptation especially when its a special occasion I don't want to miss out on.

Week 7: links

This week really changed for me because of last weeks class. After taking the assessments, taking our weight, waist, hip, and chest measurements, it was a "cue to action" that I needed to overhaul on what I was doing. The past couple of weeks I have been very stressed and frustrated, especially in my dance group. I felt very disrespected and frustrated because a couple other dancers would use my style, which is fine, but then they would take many parts of my choreography I did in my piece last semester, and put it in their own numbers. The directors have been asking me to choreograph the closing number for the show, and its been a lot of pressure to come up with amazing choreography to meet everyone's expectations, in addition to the fact that my style has been used over and over again already. So I just went into the dance room, and I just choreographed a ton of angry choreography which is still my style but different, and i am actually really proud of myself for many reasons.
1. I did not give up
2. I did not take my frustrations out on getting yogurt and venting with my friends
3. I got my frustration out with dance
4. I came up with new choreography that I am proud of
5. My choreography is different

I can't wait until I cast this piece because the I can say, here you go, because you're not going to be original or creative enough as a choreographer so I did it for you so you can steal it and call it your own next semester.

Good news is that I haven't had yogurt in over a week! even when circus animal cookie was one of the flavors at 21 choices. Still, I check the website every single day to see what the flavors are:

http://21choices.com/store.php?st=usc
samoa cookies sounds delicious!

I always read the magazine, Shape. Its always motivating to read about health, nutrition and fitness, and it reminds me to be healthy. I check out the website every now and then:

http://www.shape.com/channel/public/ad