Mountains to climb.

This morning, on my walk/run, I went the hilly route.  As I was going up the big hill (walking at the time), a lady came down walking and said "You're brave to go UP the hill."  I laughed, and kept going, and several steps later started running again, running up the rest of the hill, and most of the way home.  Without pain! :)

Almost as soon as my fellow morning-enjoyer made the comment about going up the hill, I realized that my conference talk for today would be Elder Eyring's Mountains to Climb.  It's always amazing how God puts things together for us like that.  He's so good to us.  I go through phases where I feel closer to Him.  Now is one of the closer times, and I want to feel like this all the time.  It's up to me! Study, sleep, running, essentrics, eating right, obeying, music, and prayer all help so  much.

Mountains I've climbed today: running, making and presenting my grad student conference presentation, admitting my weaknesses (and hope/faith) to Janet and Stefinee, working on and submitting my prospectus!


Today:
W: 138
E: 20 minute walk/run, essentrics a/a
B: a banana and an orange
L: almost a quart of green smoothie (spinach, peaches, bananas, water), black bean hummus (black beans, lemon juice, garlic, onion powder, cilantro, chili pepper, cumin) with carrots and mushrooms
D: green smoothie (spinach, bananas, strawberries, water)

Pushing myself

I push myself too much in some ways, and not enough in others.  And sometimes I have a big push at the end because I haven't pushed myself enough in the past...for example, on my thesis!

For years, I've maintained that I would love to be able to sleep for a week, eat for a week, work for a week, etc., being able to focus on just one task.  However, life really is a series of spinning plates, as Elder Bednar taught at a ward fireside when I was at BYU-Idaho before my mission, and we have to run to the thing that's about to crash.  Which, right now, is my thesis.

I'm still slightly afraid that I'm going to crash...what if I'm pushing in the wrong direction? However, I feel fine about it...know that it will work out even though it seems impossible. But with God, nothing is impossible.  That was the phrase that came to mind as I wrote, so I looked it up, and the context is the angel telling Mary that she'll bear the Son of God, and that her cousin who was called barren, is expecting.  God is a God of miracles.  And I am doing this thesis because I love Him, and want to be obedient to Him. I will keep pushing until it's done.  And I will pass my prospectus defense on Monday, but if not...I will keep trying, and keep pushing until I do. Todo Saldra Bien.

Today:
W: 139.4
E: 1 mile run, essentrics l/b, pm yoga
B: bit of green smoothie, apple
L: my classic salad, walnuts and raisins
D: green smoothie and 2 helpings of walnuts and raisins.

Italian Overload :)

Woke up at 7:15 (instead of my intended 6) and did my knee exercises, a 20 minute walk/run, and a/a essentrics, studied my scriptures, showered, and got ready, all of which were good, but I took my sweet time about it, and didn't clock in to work on my thesis until 11!

I got in a good 1.5 hours of work, and then Amy and I went to a training on the Common Core (I'm excited for it!), for which we received $50 gift certificates to Barnes and Noble! :)  Afterwards, we went to Olive Garden, and I ate SOOO much (it was good, and it was warm...I'd been cold since the beginning of our CC training).  Self-sabotaging?  Maybe.  Probably.  But tomorrow is another day, and it was warm and yummy.

Today:
W: 137 :)
E: knee exercises, 20 minute walk/run, essentrics a/a, pm yoga
B: small green smoothie and bites of apple, banana, and some grapes as I made the smoothie
L: rest of the green smoothie...made it with regular greens this time instead of spinach...not as sweet, but still good!
D: salad (with dressing, but I think it was still vegan), breadsticks (maybe had butter on them?), some sort of pasta with tomatoes and herbs.
S: Bengal Spice Tea....love it SO MUCH!

Just do your best, do everything you can.

It's like my body knows that I don't have an immediate deadline.  I tried to get up after 7 hours of sleep, and didn't.  After 8.5, I could.  I worked for a couple of hours, then took a 3 hour nap!  I don't know how I'm going to ever pass my prospectus defense if I can't get into the habit of REALLY working for at least 8 hours a day.  And my prospectus defense is scheduled for a week from today! YIKES!
I think going to the library or to my school for my 8 hours would help.  I'll try that tomorrow.

I did an interval cardio workout from TT today and listened to The Middle by Jimmy Eat World during part of it.   Here's a line I love from that song: "Just do your best, do everything you can..." I've been working hard on my thesis, but I haven't been doing my best, or everything I can.  ARREPIENTATE!

Today:
W: 138.2
E: 16 minutes of TT cardio intervals, essentrics l/b, pm yoga
B: 2 bananas, walnuts
L: spring mix, palta, tomatoes, mushrooms, chickpeas with lemon and bouillon, apple.
D: green smoothie- spinach, bananas, frozen peaches

Meant to Move.

Watching Dance Academy has inspired me.  I need to take ballet again.  It's time-consuming.  It's hard.  It's totally out of my comfort zone (hello tights and leotard and showing more of my body than I feel comfortable with!).  But I loved it when I did it, and I want to do it again.  And be better this time (as in not being done just because the semester is, etc.)

Running is another thing I need to do. My run last night was short, but oh-so-wonderful!
I WAS MEANT TO MOVE!


Excited for tomorrow and running (did I tell you that I've been feeling like my running and my thesis are correlated...that the more consistent I am with my running, the better I think I'll be at focusing on and finishing it?...well, I think there's a connection.) and stretching and MOVING!

Today:
W:137.8
E: pm yoga, walk with Amy
B and L: ayunando
D: spring mix, palta, mushrooms, tomatoes, chili, 2 bananas, walnuts and raisins

It's my night to howl... I mean run.

The moon is looking pretty full tonight.  After a day of playing (movie and lunch with the girls), working, (sent my drafts into Stefinee after some more revision), serving (went to the temple:), and playing (watched the last 2 episodes of DDD with Beth to prep for Monday, then spent an hour at John and Jesse's worshipping the babies), I still couldn't get  running out of my head.  So I went at 12:37am ! :)  It was so worth it, though.  I LOVE the way summer SMELLS...so alive.  And the pavement was still slightly warm, and it was just beautiful.  So grateful to be able to MOVE.

Today:
W: 139 lbs
E: 1.25 mile run, essentrics a/a
B: green smoothie
L: salad at Red Robin
D: chickpeas, a banana, nuts and raisins

AND Jessica K.'s boyfriend is vegan...because of Eat to Live.  So impressed.

Brain dead and sleep deprived.

I have GOT to get used to this having to study all the time thing!  Yesterday I did well, but today, my brain is just fried!  Keep trying to get into my reading and writing and just can't.  So I'm going to go to bed early and try writing in the early am. That always seems to be my most focused time anyway.  And then I'm going to go on my roommate date to see Snow White and the Huntsman, and go out to lunch! Love my girls!

I could tell that I was tired today by how I ate too...my body seems to crave more food when I'm tired, as if it thinks it can get compensatory energy from the extra food.

And so much for my goal to do essentrics every weekday in June...ha!

Today:
W: 138.4
B: walnuts and 2 bananas
L: hummus, carrots, banana(s)
D: green smoothie, can of beans.