August 20th was a totally historic day for me. That day, the day after, and weekend were out of control. I have to move in 15 days.

I recommend coffee diet for those who want to lose weight immediately.

I have gained so much weight. I no longer like myself when looking in the mirror.

Recently, I wake up around 6:30 due to exessive stress of teaching. I woke up 6:15 am today as usual although I am not teaching on Friday. I started to surf the net bur after about half an hour, all of a sudden I decided to go for running and I DID it.

I ran/walked for about 2 miles from 7 to 7:23 am and I am so proud of myself.

I have gained 8 pounds over the last 10 months. I was 115 last September. Yes, I was really busy over the last few months and unfortunately, I could not sign up for my Yoga classes that I planned for at the beginning of the summer. But today, I decided to start working out again even if I have only 15 minutes. So here is my report:

20 min walk n run  (Wed)

30 min walk  (Thu)

40 min walk  (Sat)

Only 9 more days to go...... I must enjoy the last days of my graduate school.

Week: Feb.11-Feb.18

Monday

Calories: Cereal, Soy Milk, Soup, Soynut, Rice, Gheimeh, Waffle, Pineapple Cream Cheese, Puff Corn,

Steps:  12312

Workout:  One hour and half at the gym: 25 min Walking, Rowing (80 cal), 30 min Elliptical (320 cal), 70 Sit-Ups

Week: Feb.3-Feb.10

Thursday

Calories: SpecialK Cereal, Soy Milk, Corn beef, Bread, Provolone Cheese, Loobia Polo, Yogurt, Fish Sandwich, Mayo, Lettuce

Steps:  3259

Workout:  100 min standing (teaching)

Wednesday

Calories: SpecialK Cereal, Soy Milk, Banana, Corn beef, Bread, Provolone Cheese, Bagel, Cream Cheese, Feta, Hummus, Lettuce

Steps:  8238

Workout:  120 min standing (teaching), 20 min dance

Tuesday

Calories:

Steps:  5866

Workout: -

Monday

Calories: SpecialK Cereal, Soy Milk, Feta Cheese, Barbari Bread, Sugar, Loobia polo with brown rice, Hummus, Lettuce, Starbucks green latte

Steps:  

Workout: I went to the gym but the parking lot was closed and I had to go back:(

Sunday

Calories: Pancake, Bahar Narenj Jam, Cream Cheese, Chicken Breast, Apricot Sauce, Gyro, Pita Bread, Yogurt, Lettuce

Steps:  -

Workout:  ~60-80 min Bowling

Week: Jan. 21-Jan.27

Saturday

Calories: ?,   Steps: ~2000,   Workout: Ski (=3:30 hr)

notes:

Tuesday

Calories: 1490,   Steps: 8050,  Workout: Run/Walk (=2 mile), Cycling (=25 cal), Situps (=40)

notes: I am totally unmotivated. I do nothing ...........

Monday

Calories: 2009,   Steps:1519,   Workout: Stepper 30 min (=2.15 mile), walked 1.22 mile, total = 4.03 mile

notes: It is exciting to see that I can run/walk for 5k anytime without any specific trainings. It is good to be light, makes it easier to move around.

Week: Jan. 14-Jan.20

Sunday

Calories: >2500,   Steps: 2111,   Workout: -

notes: I had Mongolian Barbeque.....

Saturday

Calories: 2071,   Steps: ~1000,   Workout: -

notes: I slept almost all day........ I need some time to overcome the Wednesday incident. It was out of our control.

Friday

Calories: 2001,   Steps: 5233,   Workout: -

notes: I had an apple at lunch time and did not feel hungry for a while.

Thursday

Calories: 1888,   Steps: 5432,   Workout: - (walked and played in the snow for about half an hour)

notes: I had Zoolbia and Bamieh with my tea :((((( It was snowy all day. I am not doing well at all. I am tottaly disappointed with my advisor. He is so slow and I cannot take it anymore.

Wednesday

Calories: 1846,   Steps: 4016,   Workout: -  (walked with my heavy backpack for about 10 min)

notes: a terrible day researchwise but I did a great job keeping my integrity and finish my fortran code

Tuesday

Calories: 1471,   Steps: 11846,   Workout: Cardio (kickboxing) - 50 min

notes:

Monday

Calories: 1971,   Steps:4902,    Workout: -

notes:

I have been on vacation for the past seven days. We drove down to North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and finally Florida. It was fantastic to lie on the beach in late December. I am telling you it is nice and at the same time somehow disappointing to experience summer and winter in only one day. We were in sunny Daytona Beach in the morning and in snowy Blacksburg in the evening.

Unfortunately, I gained 2 pound although I walked a lot. I was eager to eat southern food while I am there and as you know they are pretty oily and mostly fried. So it is not surprising to gain weight. I have to work on my healthy eating habbit again. I have to concentrate on my dissertation too.

I am so stressed out to see the load of the work for this semester.