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In Which Things Are Getting Figured Out
Posted by justme
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9:32 PM
Hi guys,
Things have gotten kind of insane since I last posted. Most of the chaos has to do with housing - to make a VERY long story short, let's just say that I got ditched by the people I was going to room with next year because one of their boyfriends came and screwed everything up... after my grandparents were more or less locked in to an apartment that we wanted to keep at all costs. It's that nice. We're talking 1000+ square feet, with access to a pool, sauna, exercise room, BBQ and sun deck here! And it's right across the street from campus. The boyfriend felt that the price was too much though (even after my grandparents subsidized it down to below-average student rent rates for the city), so he basically backed out and took the other 2 with him, leaving me to find new roommates for September. Grr.
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The other thing I've been figuring out is my diet and exercise. Things are going really well on the exercise front; I'm starting to go on more and more "long" (around 15km) bike rides. I'm not expecting to do any races soon, but it's definitely a start and it gets easier the more I do it. Here's hoping I can stay in the habit!
The diet thing, on the other hand, isn't going so great. I'm still monitoring my points... which means I can see how consistently I'm going over my "allowance". Something needs to change, and I'm really starting to see that carbs are causing me the most difficulty. In fact, the more I think about it the more I realize how addicted I am to them. So I'm going to try to drastically reduce my carbohydrate intake over the next few weeks, mostly by watching how much sugar and bread products I consume. If anyone has any tips/ways to help me do this, please share!
Ciao for now,
K
Things have gotten kind of insane since I last posted. Most of the chaos has to do with housing - to make a VERY long story short, let's just say that I got ditched by the people I was going to room with next year because one of their boyfriends came and screwed everything up... after my grandparents were more or less locked in to an apartment that we wanted to keep at all costs. It's that nice. We're talking 1000+ square feet, with access to a pool, sauna, exercise room, BBQ and sun deck here! And it's right across the street from campus. The boyfriend felt that the price was too much though (even after my grandparents subsidized it down to below-average student rent rates for the city), so he basically backed out and took the other 2 with him, leaving me to find new roommates for September. Grr.
</rant>
The other thing I've been figuring out is my diet and exercise. Things are going really well on the exercise front; I'm starting to go on more and more "long" (around 15km) bike rides. I'm not expecting to do any races soon, but it's definitely a start and it gets easier the more I do it. Here's hoping I can stay in the habit!
The diet thing, on the other hand, isn't going so great. I'm still monitoring my points... which means I can see how consistently I'm going over my "allowance". Something needs to change, and I'm really starting to see that carbs are causing me the most difficulty. In fact, the more I think about it the more I realize how addicted I am to them. So I'm going to try to drastically reduce my carbohydrate intake over the next few weeks, mostly by watching how much sugar and bread products I consume. If anyone has any tips/ways to help me do this, please share!
Ciao for now,
K