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

Week 6

This week was very bad on my sweets habit. It was my birthday weekend, it was valentine's day, and I was also sick. A lot of things going on. I went to melting pot for dinner on friday and it was absolutely delicious. We just had to get the white chocolate fondue at the end with the cheesecake, marshmallows, brownies etc. Saturday morning I had to work all of that off so I went hiking with my friends. But after, we went to lunch at souplantation, and that was AMAZING. I filled up on salad though bc that was what I've been craving after the melting pot shenanigans from the night before. I was so full I couldn't even finish my frozen yogurt, yay! Later that day, I had my birthday dinner at Yardhouse. By then, I could not really eat anymore. But I got gourmet cupcakes which were so cute! valentine's day I got candy and cookies and all the things I love but hate. It was a special weekend so I got a break with the sweets i guess. Still, after eating all that sugar it wasn't really worth it because i felt like shit after each time.

Week 5: 3 Barriers

This week I've been craving a lot of chocolate and I gave in...a few times. It was pretty bad. It's also difficult because I'm sick, so I can't work out and that usually keeps me healthy and away from sugary snacks. But I've been eating really healthy and I bought dried mango to eat instead of sweets.

Here are my 3 barriers preventing me from quitting my sugar cravings:
1. My friends LOVE dessert especially yogurt, and I love my friends and therefore I love yogurt as well. It's a social thing, where we get yogurt together to catch up, or we get yogurt after dance. I think the fact that I am consistent in getting sweets every week, my body gets used to it and expects it and craves it.

2. I have cravings because its delicious. I have found that I really enjoy sweets when I am stressed because its like a little break and its soothing. Part is because whenever I get together with friends, we usually have some urgent thing we have to gossip about and its usually about stress in our lives.

3. It's all will-power that I have very little of. That is what I am trying to work on

Week 4

Sometimes I just crave sweets but it hasn't been a problem lately because I just get busy and I don't really have the time to indulge. I've been trying to retrain myself to think about the negative things that sweets will do to my body. But on Thursday, I had auditions for a dance company. I used to dance in the USC's dance company and a lot of my friends from that company were at the auditions I went to on Thursday. I caught up with most of them while we were stretching, but we all decided to go to 21 choices after the auditions were over. It sounded like a well deserved treat because we just had auditions and I wanted to catch up with all my old friends. One of my favorite flavors is animal circus cookie. And when 21 choices does not have it as the flavor of the day, they will make it from scratch. I guess the girl helping me was very generous, because I watched her put 3 HUGE chunks of cookie dough, tons of circus animal cookies, and spoonfuls of sprinkles. She topped it off with more cookies and sprinkles. It was a lot more toppings and the portion size was larger than usual. Rather than yogurt with toppings, it was more so cookie dough, cookies, and sprinkles with yogurt as a topping. I got really excited because my frozen yogurt looked like a lot of fun and super special because the girl put so much extra treats into it. But after chatting with friends I ended up finishing all of it, and I felt like serious crap after wards, to the point I felt sick. That experience kind of scarred me for a while and now I can really visualize what terrible things sugar can do to my body and how it can make me feel. I think I see sweets as relaxation break, like my little time of fun and I think that's what I need to change.