I wanted to find an app on my phone for counting calories and for searching up food with the calories in them. I ran into My Fitness Pal, it was free and it had good ratings. I gave it a try, and I really like it!
You enter your goal weight and many lbs you want to lose in a week, i put 2. and u put in ur present weight and it will calculate your calorie intake per day.

You can also log the food you ate and keep track of your calories that way. you can also input your workouts and how many calories you've lost! it's so very useful! you can also sign up online for it!
www.myfitnesspal.com.

a quote that i really liked from the website is
"If you want it you'll find a way; If you don't you'll find an excuse"


Today was my 3rd day of insanity round 2. I did pure cardio today instead of core cardio and balance.
i felt really good today. I came home from school feeling all tired, and wanted to take a nap. But i resisted temptation and I worked out and now i feel better and awake!


I also made myself a meal today. I made whole wheat penne pasta with ground turkey with seasoning and some baked asparagus.

Trying to make better habits!

My suggested these running shoes by ASICS which were the kayano ones. We're all going to run a 13.something.. lol marathon sometime in October I think, it's the Nike Woman Marathon for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society. We're running it in honor of my brother who passed away from leukemia when he was 3. So we're going to form a group filled with cousins and run it.

I went to Lady's foot locker and saw some ASICS shoes. I tried the Kayano and the Nimbus and both we're comfortable! The gel cushion is sooooo comfortable! Except, I had to get a half size bigger which were in stock for the Nimbus but not the Kayano. Gosh, these shoes a just unbelievably comfy!! I can't even explain!!! I can't wait to start running in these.

I haven't got around to updating this blog. i've always been updating my other blogs, but that minimized since i started my first semester of nursing school. To be honest, I haven't been exercising as much as I did, which I really really missed because I was getting somewhere with my goal weight. But I'm not gaining all that much weight either. i'm trying to control what I eat and all that since i'm not working out as much. I'm going to try to fit in workouts here and there so I can look even better during the summer and especially for my 21st birthday! lol!

Since i felt so unactive and haven't worked out in a while, i did Insanity Pure Cardio! and Oh boy, that is not something you would do right off the bat after being away from exercise. I mean If i did plyo cardio circuit, then i think I can handle it since there are breaks. But pure cardio had no breaks, and I started to get light headed almost at the end. But overall it was a good workout and i felt so good and energized to start my day!

I also want to tell you all about my cross training shoes that I got last May which I love and are comfy for me. I think they are called the Nike Zoom. And I also wanted to show you all a picture of the insanity shirt I worked for, for sending in my before and after pictures and measurements!! What an accomplishment!

Oh yea, sometime this year, a group of my cousins and I are going to run a 13.2 mile marathon for the leukemia and lymphoma society in honor of my brother who passed away from leukemia. I really need to start training because I've never ran more than 2 miles. lol! and 13 miles? oh boye.. i'm motivated tho.
Does anyone recommend any good running shoes by the way?


Here's me after my workout today






I got this shirt back in July, but i never really got to flaunt it. lol! proud of my accomplishments!

It's been so long since I've exercised. I've been holding off on it because of school, but I really want to get back into working out again. I need to lose another 10lbs to get to my goal weight. maybe 12lbs because I actually gained 2lbs.. :/ and of course I need to be aware of what I eat now.
I did Insanity Plyometric Cardio Circuit. I was surprised that I can still keep up with the warms ups. I thought I would struggle a bit like the first time I ever did insanity, but luckily I still got it in me! The horrible part though was the pushups.. man I really hate pushups!! LOL!! overall, the workout wasn't as bad or as hard as I thought it would be. I thought I'd be having a really hard time keeping up. There were times where it felt like my heart was about to jump out of my chest tho. LOL I'll work on my endurance again!!

I forgot how good of a high I get from exercising. It's like it boosts up my self-esteem and gets me more pumped up for the day! It feels really good.. Getting up to exercise is just darn hardest part!!

me a few mins after the work out.






Got this water jug at walmart for $2.00. drinking that much is your daily serving of water. I needed this to keep me on track with drinking my water, because i'm horrible at it! good thing is that there is no BPA.



While I was exercising, my little cousin Karley came over with her dad and she came upstairs to see what I was doing.









After the workout, I made myself a green berry shakeology with froze peaches,, orange strawberry pineapple juice, a lil bit of water and ice and the greenberry powder. Haven't had a shakeology in a while, I should have it more often. i like mines blended with ice, but at my apartment, we dont have an instant ice maker.. but I guess i can just mix it with water. Drinking shakeology reminds me of the summer time! ahh I miss the summer!

CPR certified, girl i gotchu! lol!


This morning I attended a CPR class for health care providers in San Ramon. It's a requirement for transferring over to the nursing school in the Spring, and therefore I had to get it done b/c all the forms and everything are due in October. I don't understand why they won't let us do it the semester that we transfer b/c it expires in 2 years.. and I'm going to have to renew in my last semester there.. :/

Anyhoo, the place I went to was HEARTSTART CPR. link is HEARTSTARTCPR.NET
I left pretty early from Oakland b/c i didn't know if there was going to be traffic on the way.. So I left around 7:45am ish and got there around 8:20. LOL! the class started at 9. It was rather tricky finding this place bc you have to really go in the street to find it.. but It wasn't too bad. The class wasn't actually as long as i thought it would be. we started around 9:10 and it ended around 11:50.

The instructor, whose name is David, was really great. He was humorous and made the class go by really quickly. That's a plus for me b/c I like things that are straight to the point and important things we needed to know. After watching a few videos and practicing along with the videos with the dummies, we then took the test. It was a 20 questions test which wasn't too hard and we were allowed to only miss 3. However, we correct the test at the end and we can change our answers. To him, he said the test doesn't really matter, but what does matter is the skills part. As long as he saw us doing the procedures, that's all that matters. Then after the class we instantly received our cards, which was so convenient! I think there was only seven of us who attended that day, and I was the youngest one.. lol!! It was pretty interesting and fun, then I headed back home to Stockton.

(I really recommend this class b/c they were very nice and it wasn't boring at all.. the class went by pretty quickly and we got out cards that same day. price is $60)

I was so happy to come back home.. I got to see my boyfriend :D that really made my day, and made me more relaxed. Seeing him after a stressful week is so relaxing!! Next week is going to be even more stressful and I wont be home until Saturday which is the day of my Teas.. -__- so scared.. we'll see..

My boyfriend and I just hung out and bout some food lol! Sonics, Wendy's, Mcdonalds sweet tea, you know all the unhealthy things! and we napped together afterwards.. Which felt really really nice :D I love him terribly much! After we woke up from our nap, all of a sudden all the electricity went out! it was around 9:30pm ish. It was out for a good 2 hours and went back on around 11:15 i think? I was just glad the toiled did not require any electricity! This makes me really want to consider getting SOLAR POWER!! It's eco friendly, and you wouldn't be stuck in a situation like that.

And I dropped my boyfriend off and that was basically the rest of the night!! here are some pictures..

Foot long coney, happy hour drinks: Blue powerade & strawberry limeade




Chili & 99cent Spicy Chicken Nuggets.




Taking pictures of him during the "black out"


Street lights came back on

alright, so it's sorta healthy!! lol.. except for the butter part.

Ingredients:
Chicken Breast
Long Grain brown rice
Asparagus
Potatoes
Broccoli
Onions
Olive oil
Salt & Pepper
Garlic Powder
Cayenne Red pepper
Butter





Preheat oven to 400 degrees F


lol old school oven..


PREP the rice.
I added 2 cups of brown rice.




Rinse rice well. I rinsed it about 3 times


Add water to the 3rd line


Let that cook in the rice cooker


Prep Veges. Wash em well and break of the hard stems of asparagus


Cut potato




Do the same for asparagus


Cut onion






Put all in a tray


Drizzle a bit of olive oil into the mix


Add some salt and pepper




Prep your chicken. Wash your chicken well!! Then pat it down with some napkins and SEASON! Make sure to wash your hands well after handling meat! :D




Place chicken in tray on top of the veges


Add butter on top, this is optional..


Throw it in the oven.. Put timer on for 35 mins, or until the chicken is well cooked! Make sure not pink is shown.


After that's in the oven.. CLEAN YOUR SURROUNDINGS! ahh so refreshing.. I'm pretty anal about cleaning up and being clean when I cook.


Brown rice is done


Old stove.. Only two of em work.. lol


Voila! the finished product!


I slit the chicken open to see if there were any redness or pink




Fist full of rice.. is my proportion size okay? or is that too large? lol