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Hi my wonderful followers. So I didn’t blog yesterday because I had no internet but I didn’t exercise either. So I’m going to make up for it right now by running in place for about a hour then doing my regular exercises. Wow. 16/37 that’s further than I thought I’d ever go. If I keep this up and keep increasing what I do then maybe someday I’ll wear those skinny jeans- but by that time they’ll be out of style and I’ll still be a dork.

Here’s what I did today:

40 Leg Lifts- was going to do more but it was late and I think I was making too much noise

350 Squats- New Record!!!

150Arm Lifts- (new low)

300 Sit-ups - omg I hate those!!

I’m mostly writing for my own benefit right now. Tomorrow I know I’ll be extremely busy with homework but my goal is to take a walk. And that dreaded weigh-in!!! Dum Dum Dum…

So tonight I was hungry. Not only that but I was hungry for junk food. So I had a chocolate chip cookie that was a whopping 170 calories! INSANE!! Then after dinner my friend had made a cake and I’m not sure how many calories were in that slice but it was too delicious to be a low number.

I kept planning on going on a walk or something but then the VMA’s came on and I didn’t want to miss that because my favourite band of all time Muse was performing for their first time on American television. So I sat through that entire thing just to see them perform (and they effing killed!) By the way, anyone who saw that WTF was up with Kanye?! I despise Taylors music but that was so out of line! I’m so glad Beyonce let her get back on stage- very classy.

Alright. So this afternoon I already did 150 squats and 150 arm lifts so all that’s left is 150 more of both of those, 300 sit-ups, and 300 stair climber things.  Ahh! I so don’t want to do this but I know I have to if I want to look good in less than a month!

Tomorrow: I’m going to go to my friends house and use their scale for the first time during all of this. I really have no idea how much I weighed when I started but I think it was 155-160. I’m really scared!!

Lazy Sunday morning which means at 12:08pm I still haven’t taken a shower or gotten dressed. But since I’m still grungy I guess it would be a good time to knock out some exercise! My plan for today is right after I write this blog I’ll do 150 arm lifts, 150 squats, 150 sit-ups, and my new exercise I started last night 150 of those step-up things.

Then after my shower hopefully I’ll get out there and take a walk or something and tonight I can do the other half of my four exercises before bed.

I ate a lot of breakfast this morning because Sunday I always make waffles so I had one of those with powdered sugar and a piece of toast and a glass of milk… I know! Waaay too much and not healthy- but it was delicious!

Oh. And since I’ve mentioned the bands I’ve been working out to this morning I’m gonna try Cage the Elephant and see how that works out.

I’m writing this between my 300 squats and 300 arm lifts. —

More workout bands:

So I already mentioned The Offspring and I def. think they hold the #1 spot.

#2 Rage Against the Machine- Definitely not for everyone but it works for me!

#3 Manchester Orchestra- Especially the song I’ve Got Friends

#4 Blink-182- All of their stuff

So that’s all I could think of right then. Not very much.

Obviously I’m not huge on Hip-Hop but to each their own — what do you listen to while working out?

Realization of the day: Working out to The Offspring makes it 10x more fun. Possibly 20x.

Anyone got any other band you like to work out to? Good music can make all the difference especially for a rock junkie like me.

Anyways I  went shopping with my real friends like I said I would and had an amazing time. It’s always encouraging to be with people who love you for who you are. We walked around the city for a few hours but nothing I’d consider a workout. Still better than nothing.

So I’ll do my 300 of each now before bed. No procrastination this time!

Had to force myself through that again. I did the 300 sit-ups first in about 30 minutes which took longer than yesterday which is definitely an improvement. Yesterday I told you I set the timer and forced myself to do it as quickly as possible. Today I let myself take my time and really got more out of them. But I did rush the last 100 just to get done. The squats I don’t know how long they took. Probably 10 minutes. I literally just sat down from doing them and my legs are shaking like mad. I can’t do the 300 arm lifts because I’m exhausted right now (its 2am already!) but I feel alright with that since I’m mostly worried about my huge thighs/ass. Is doing 300 of each of these a day really going to do me any good? I know it’s better than before I started this when I was doing nothing but will this make me more toned or am I wasting my time doing so little? I need some more responses from people. I’ll start branching out to all of you more too. I promise. I just never get on here except right before bed because I cannot sleep until I’ve exercised.

Okay. Maybe I’ll force 100 arm lifts. No. I really can’t this time. I just tried and my arms are jelly. Weird since all my exercising tonight was in the legs.

Are there any good butt exercises besides squats? I want to get rid of this thing!!

1:10am. Still haven’t started. Procrastination is my worst enemy.

Well here it is again. 12:30 in the morning and I still haven’t started exercising. I don’t know why I can’t get myself to exercise earlier than this! But I always force myself through it anyways right before bed so I guess it’s not horrible.

There are so many things that are more fun than exercising like…

1. Eating Celery

2. Calculus

3.  Watching Dances With Wolves in one sitting
I wish I enjoyed exercising but it’s seriously- The Worst Thing.

One time I watched a Ellen special and she was talking about people who call paper cuts the worst thing and she argued that opening a new CD is the worst thing. That might be the worst thing actually-even over exercise- because you buy the CD and you want to listen to it right away but you wait till you get to your car to open it and you can’t get the fricken thing open and there are cars behind you waiting for your spot and you can’t open it so you have to just drive away because you feel bad and you can’t listen to your CD until you get home. And everyone knows music is more fun while driving…

Okay. That’s off topic. But then again nobody really reads this blog so who cares if I stay on topic… … It might be helpful to explain that I had nearly an entire bottle of childrens purple medicine so I’m feeling a bit daffy right now.

So as for tonight. 300 of the usual. I’ll do the push-ups first this time. Get those suckers out of the way.

Tomorrow I’m going downtown for shopping with my friends (my REAL friends) which usually includes a lot of walking so that’s good. I haven’t seen my real friends in a while and I can’t wait to see them.

Alright. I sucked it up and did it. 300 arm lifts- done. 300 squats- done. 300 miserable sit-ups- done! Only problem is I hate sit-ups so much I set a ten minute timer and forced myself to get them all done in that time. So I probably didn’t get the full potential that 300 push-ups could have given me by doing them so fast. But I still feel so happy with myself right now. While I was doing it I turned on some great music on AOL radio and took my weights and just punched as hard as  I could to get rid of all that stress people put on me today.

 I promise never to be like any of my future-ex-friends. And I promise to never quit! I’ve done this too many times before! I can keep this up this time. Even if I don’t lose the pants size by the 6th of October! I’ll feel better about myself if I keep doing this! Next summer maybe I’ll even wear a swimsuit without board shorts (that would save some money!)

Alright. Sorry. I’m sure I blog too much. I was putting all of this in my diary before but I kept getting upset with myself in there because I wasn’t keeping on track and I had no feedback. I can’t rely on my family for support because they would criticize my every move if I told them I wanted to lose weight. Like last summer I told my mom I wanted to lose weight so everytime I sat down to watch TV or use Facebook she’d be like “You could be spending this time exercising.” or if I ever wanted to break my diet and get a scoop of icecream she’d be like “You won’t lose weight if you eat like that.” So it’s much easier for me to get support from strangers like you who don’t criticize me but still offer helpful advice. I’ll just surprise my mom in a few months when I’m suddenly a lot trimmer!

 ***And I need some advice here.

So I’ve been doing all of my exercise right before bed because that’s when I feel the presure to exercise and usually have nothing to do. Is it alright to do it all at once? I know it’s better to spread it out throughout the day but that’s probably going to take a lot more will power plus I get to shower right before bed so I don’t feel gross all day.–

Okay. I promise not to bother all of you until tomorrow with more blogging.

~Edith