Since I'm starting aqua fitness next week I'm on the lookout for a good HRM -- read cheap also :) I saw some dirt-cheap ones on E-bay but hubby says those are always scams. Mind you, I don't buy online and even when I do buy online I pay at delivery and not from my card [after writing abt scams and frauds for 5 yrs you start to be careful lol] .

So I am trying to find ANYTHING in Romania and which is NOT over 200 RON lol I was something at 99 RON so unless I can find something just as cheap in the stores I'm going to order it [payment at delivery of course].

Any ideas?

Compy is still broken so I'm still hanging out at the library, which sadly closes at nine on saturdays, during the week days it's open all night. 

I've been busy today.  Well, I woke up a bit after 11, but then after that I was busy.  Walking to the library, walking to the down town library which actually has some good stuff to read, walking to buy some cereal, walking to the library....

Roomy is out with le boyfriend tonight, so who knows when she'll be back. 

Right now I'm only at 1038 calories and I've burned over 2000, so I've decided to officially make friday my cheat day and get something horrendous to eat before I go back to my dorm.  I need to start thinking of what I want.  I've been craving my old oatmeal mixed with some pb and some nesquik, ooh or better yet, with some granola added in.  This is the problem with school, it feels like I eat a lot, and yet I nearly always run short. 

My self esteem is relativly high right now, although I tend to get depressed around 10 pm.  It's become a daily occurance so I don't think much about it.  It's mainly due to the fact that everyone on my floor completely ignores me...and people wonder why I'm anti-social, it's because people suck. No offense, internet people are wonderful, you never dissapoint me. 

Whatever food I eat I won't be able to add it since I'll be getting it after the library closes.  Or I could just sneak into my dorm's kitchen (which I shouldn't be able to do because they changed the lock so that no one can open it, but my key does)....depends on how crazy I'm feeling.

We had a fab time, walked ALOT and ate ALOT ! Ive had a very busy day, unpacking, laundry, groceries, getting ready for school on monday etc  I cant wait till tomorrow, i might get to relax a little. Its crazy that you need a holiday once you come home from Holiday.

Good news is that my man got all his papers now, so he can legally stay in Canada and work and stuff .. so now he just needs a job ! =) He has a masters degree so it shouldnt be too hard im sure.

Bad news is that i Weighed in this morning at 300.2 lbs, LOL all i could do was laugh and think about how great it was to eat in France, I ate everything i wanted, and tried a bunch of new things i had never had before .. as well as some old favorites.  I dont think my weigh in this morn was very accurate tho... Im very swollen from flying for 20 hours etc, So on monday morning im going to do my first after vacation official weigh in. And starting monday I will be back on track .. Im trying to figure out what was causing the slower loss before we left .. and change that, I still want to lose slow, but at a regualr pace.

I have decided so far that i wont be going back to the Gym, We cant afford to pay both mine and my mans subscriptions, and if my dad pays mine, and i dont go regularly enough he holds it over my head, and if we were to just pay for mine .. i dont think i would be as motivated to go alone.  So that is one thing that will change, Im going to be more strict that i was before too .. with my eating habits and my water intake etc.

Im going to think more about it today and tomorrow .. and then post what i will change, here tomorrow night or monday.

Anyways .. Paris was amazing, we went to many museums, and monuments, bunch of old churches, and we ate so well. We even had a romantic picnic in the park.. we had to share our bread with the little birdies tho .. but it was great ! .. our hotel was comfy, and clean, and was right in the heart of paris, just 2mins walk from the Louvre.  Time for me to figure out about school on monday, Im so thankful that i took my first week off and cleaned the house, all i had to do today was some light refreshing =)

Hope everyone is having a great weekend =)

~k

OH MAN.  This weekend is turning out to be just like last weekend.  Oh well, I swear I'll be good next week.  I think I just need a little time off.

My parents gave the hubby a Belgian waffle maker for his birthday.  It is one of those really nice ones that rotates.  It has a bunch of different temperature settings, and beeps when your waffle is done.

SO, I decided to try out the waffle maker, using the authentic, full fat recipe.  That included 3 eggs, a STICK of butter, oil, and sugar.  THEN, I got heavy whipping cream, and made fresh whipped cream.  I added in sliced strawberries from the farmer's market.  OMG, it was literally the best breakfast I've had in a LOOOOONG time.  Making the fresh waffles with all those high quality fresh ingredients, oh man.  It was so good, I can't even explain it.  I ate 1.5 waffles (so, 6 sections), and I feel so completely full.  It was SO good though, very worth it.

I also dragged out and cleaned my La Pavoni espresso machine that I brought back from Italy.  I hardly ever use the thing cause it is a bitch to clean.  I freshly ground some beans, and we each had a proper cappuccino (you know, with the correct proportions, rather than that crap they serve at Starbucks which is mostly milk).

FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC breakfast.  I'm not logging it, and you can't make me.  :)

My God, my legs hurt.

So, in order to take the yoga and pilates classes at the local gym we now are members of, it was required, for some obscure reason, for us to have a gym induction. Why? I don't know. Still. I got paired up with my dad and my sister with my mum in two one hour slots. In anticipation, I ate extra yesterday. We spent our hour doing a roundabout of the cardio machines. I knew how to work them all, but rolled with it; the (very, very, very cute) instructor also decided to talk us through setting programs and I ended up getting to do a hill program on the stationary bike. Ouch.

Remember that all summer I have only been allowed to walk. Only lately am I being allowed exercise again. So this KILLED me. Hilarity. I can't even use the weights until Monday as weight inductions and cardio inductions are seperate. I do have that one on my own, though.

With the cute instructor.

Sweeeet.

I had a wonderful time, just a quick note to let you all know im back! 

I will update on everything once i get settled in =)

~K

So yesterday as I was going on my computer to do some homework (all of my classes that have homework require me to do work online) and it crashed.  Fatal hard drive error.  So I did what seemed logical at the time, I turned it off and restarted it, only to be greeting with near-stroke indusing images.  Yeah, it was busted.  Some guy on my floor works at the oit office on campus and he confirmed that my hard drive was busted.  I was planning on going down to the oit hardware support office, but then I remembered that it's still under warenty.  So I hiked to the library twice (I forgot my computer the first time, becuase I didn't know that I needed it) and I should have someone coming to fix it soon.  Right now I have to walk 20 there-and-back to the library, which is just 1 1/3 mile, but it adds up a lot.  My computer already got fixed once this summer, I wonder if he did more harm than good....

Now I just have to wait to let some guy into my dorm room to fix it for me. 

Oh, yes so I'm back at college.  I'm not eating enough, again, and I'm burning too much, again. However I'm never sure of the exact quantity of things that I'm eating so if I'm hungry then I eat.  I've been eating really healthy stuff.  At school I can be a vegetarian, but I just discovered that my miso soup has fish in it.  I'm not all that upset by it though. 

I have a wonderful new roommate, well she's wonderful when she's not coming into my room at 1 in the morning and deciding that now's a great time to eat chips and do homework, damn it I like sleeping people!

I have never seen anyone eat so much in my life.  Honestly.  I went to dinner with her once and she had four full plate fulls of food, plus a bowl of soup, and ice cream.  It took her an hour and a half to eat it all, and I'm fairly certain that she would have kept on eating, had I not been there.  I should mention that she's asian and really skinny.  She's also taller than me...but hey, at least I'm a lot smarter than her. 

I really like her because she's out of the room for most of the day and I really only have to deal with her at night, not that she's not nice to deal with, she's permantly happy.  I sort of wished I knew chinese to understand what she's saying on the phone....  She also has a boyfriend who's probably going to visit every weekend, but her mom yelled at her enough so he isn't sleeping over in the dorm.  I'm rather glad, and I hope I made it clear that I always stay home for the weekends, and my weekends always involve sleeping. 

Well now I'm in the wonderful airconditioning because it's still miserable outside.  I'm going to go and watch a double feature of the new indiana jones and one of the older ones, assuming that I can find out where it is....

Quick entry, it's pretty late on a Friday.... so most people will miss the entry anyhow.  BUT, they are trying desperately to find someone to split my caseload with at work.  I have about double the children on my caseload than I should.  Fingers crossed, maybe next week! 

Weight was up but I have had some pretty salty stuff lately and been super sore from the trainer.  Went to the gym and trained with her again yesterday and will possibly get another session in tomorrow. 

I am sleepy today!!!  Well, I need to run... have a great evening!

WELL. I am not impressed with the antics of my scale this week at all. It is back in my bad books.

Saturday I was a glorious 251, for a brief moment in time. I tried again and it said 255, which was also very acceptable. I was pretty giddy about the 251 though.

Then Sunday it said 253. Cool! Reinforcement that the 251/255 readings were in the ballpark, which was a much improved ballpark from the previous 257 standoff I have been seeing for the last couple weeks.

So Monday was the official weekly weigh in , as well as first-of-the-month, so it was doubly important to me to see something good. It said 256..noooo....tried again it said 254. SOLD!!

Well it's been all downhill from there. Tuesday back to 256, and would not budge from there. Wednesday 257. Thursday 258/256. And today....258. NOOOO!!! It's not fair to tease me with lower numbers then just take it back. Not fair at all. I am very cross. Also PMSy. Hmmm perhaps they are related....and I am having a strong sense of deja vu....and a memory of saying that I would not get on the scale the week before TTOTM because it just leads to misery....

I am going shopping to the outlets in the U.S. this weekend. I don't really want to buy much , actually I don't want to buy anything but I feel obligated because my mom and dad kinda arranged their travel plans to stay in Tulalip this weekend so that Joel and I can come stay with them in the motorhome and shop. We had discussed this many months ago, and this is the first opportunity we've had, it just so happens to be poor timing because I just got all those clothes from my friend, and Joel bought me some things a few weeks ago as well, and I really want to hold off buying anything more until I am a smaller size. I already feel like some of the things we bought are wasted becasue I hardly wore them and they are getting too big, and will definately be too big by next summer.

What do you guys think of deliberately buying some clothes in sizes that are too small? Like try stuff on to make sure it looks good, then buy it a size or two smaller? I know it's a bit risky, I may not like the way it looks when I am small enough to fit it, since of course lbs come off different areas. But I am thinking this might be the way to go...I can't go and buy nothing (plus I don't think I am actually capable of that lol), so I gotta do something. Plus, I am really trying to be conservative with my money right now, so having something to wear in a couple months will save me buying it then. Theoretically.  

Have a great weekend eveyone!!!