SeptMEber

I have obviously slacked off recently on the blog.  And to make up for it, I'm going to try and post every day for the rest of the month.  Why?  Because it's SeptMEber.  What is SeptMEber?  I've decided to make this month about me.  Concentrate on doing things that make myself happier and eliminating things that don't.  

To start, I have decided that I HAVE to work out more.  One of the get healthy groups I'm a part of decided to start this today:

So I decided to join them, but add some things of my own.  I will admit that I wasn't good today with the food.  I volunteered this morning and I was bored and exhausted, so when I got to work at 9, I broke down and got a Diet Dr. Pepper.  Just one and I admit that I didn't even drink the whole thing.  But as for food, I also didn't do very well:  bagel slim with low fat peanut butter (not horrible), Apple Cinnamon Nutra Grain bar (also not horrible), Vocelli bread sticks (VERY BAD), a small fudge pop (forgot about the no chocolate thing), 3 frozen fruit bars.  I wasn't feeling good today - when I am sick I tend to eat a lot of frozen stuff.  On a good note, other than the one DDP, the only other thing I drank today was water.  

I did some light exercising tonight as well.  I walked the trail behind my house (it's about 1.5 miles) and stopped 4 times at each of the benches along the way to do a set of 25 squats and 10 pushups on the bench.  So 100 squats and 40 pushups and a 1.5 mile walk.  Not too bad for not feeling well.

Now for the somewhat embarrassing part...  I weighed myself when I got back from the walk and weighed 194.8.  Why is that embarrassing?  Many reasons...  That is not the weight I want to weigh.  Who knows who might read this...  I do know that it's probably higher b/c of the breadsticks and that I weighed myself at 8 pm, but still...  Here's a picture of me after the walk.

Please ignore the messy bedroom.  :)

Other than working out, I'm also not going to drink (other than for the WVU vs. UMD game) this month.  I'm going to work harder to organize my life.  I need to get rid of/sell a bunch of crap that I have, but don't need/use.  It's also time to surround myself with people who make a positive impact on my life.  I've met some amazing people this summer.  No reason to keep people around who bring me down.

Until tomorrow...