The Fun Times of College

I've always lived by the rule if it's not done by 2AM then go to bed. Well I officially broke that rule! I'm a senior in college and it's taken me THIS long to break it! :) Some how I'm still not tired. It may be the over dose of sugar from Dunkin Donuts or maybe it was the carbs form my chicken parm & ziti dinner. Or maybe it's some pretty great company with Matt and Lauren. We're all sitting here trying to write papers... none of which are professing at a rapid rate. Just talking and laughing - these are the memories that will remain. Not the hours of boring class lectures or the anxiety from exams (even though I will remember them collectively). It's moments like these. That's the true fun of college. Now back to that paper?? Maybe or maybe not...

Keys to My Heart

Your Heart Craves Love

You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free. In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you're told that you're loved. You'd like to your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change. You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please. Your ideal relationship is open. Both of you can talk about everything... no secrets. Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment. You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred. In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You'll do anything for love, but you won't fall for it easily.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

Ultimate Color Test

Your Colors Say You Are Quirky

When you are at peace, you are: Thoughtful and sensitive When you are moved to act, you are: Unorthodox and idealistic When you are inspired, you are: Spontaneous and adventurous When your life is perfectly balanced, you are: Totally in the moment Your life's purpose is: To find contentment

The Ultimate Color Test

Total Health & Fitness Update

I just realized that I hadn't been blogging my progress on my fitness plan that I'm doing with a professional nutritionist and health expert. His name's Porter Brinton. Awesome guy! Just a little background information:
At the beginning of the program I was 173.3 lbs and had a 34.8% body fat (that translates into 60.31 lbs of fat) and a lean body mass of 112.99 lbs. My health goal (that probably won't be reached 100% during the 12 week program) is getting to down to 130 lbs, 20% body fat/ 26 lbs of fat. Essentially I need to lose 43.3 lbs., 14.8% body fat, and 34.4 lbs of fat.

Anyway... here's a four week late update:

Week 2 (we weigh in at the end of the week - give or take a few days)
I didn't loose any weight on the scale (still 168.2 lbs) but I lost 1.5%/2.5 lbs body fat while gaining 2.5 lbs of muscle. Hence why I didn't change numbers on the scale (+2.5 + -2.5= net loss of 0)

Current stats: 168.2 lbs, 31.8% body fat, 53.5 lbs total fat mass, 114.7 lbs lean body mass.
Still to go: 38.5 lbs, 11.8% and 27.71 lbs


Week 3:
I was a little nervous about this weigh in since I didn't technically loose any weight last week. Porter asked me to start weighing myself in the mornings. My new low is 166. At the office I

Weigh in: 167.2 lbs., -1.7%, -3.2 lbs body fat, +2.2 lbs of muscle. Lose/Gain of 1 lb this week.
Current stats: 167.2 lbs, 30.1% body fat, 50.3 lbs total fat mass, 116.9 lbs lean body mass
Still to go: 37.5 lbs, 10.1% and 24.51 lbs


Week 4:
This week was more difficult for me because I had a "cheat day" where I had a bridal shower, a graduation celebration & a wedding reception. Essentially whole a day of non-healthy eating.... great... but I recovered nicely from it. I saw a new low of 164.2!! I was excited! AND that was after my cheat day! :)

Weigh in: 166.0 lbs, -0.9%, -1.9 lbs body fat, +0.4 lbs muscle. Loss/gain of 1.5 lbs.
Current: 166 lbs, 29.2%, 48.5 lbs total fat mass, 117.5 lbs lean body mass
Still to go: 36.0 lbs, 9.2%, and 22.61 lbs


Well that's it till next week! 6 days!!

Batting 1000

Today's been great! Not only did it end with a giggle fest at family prayers and me falling off of the couch, but I had my two week appointment with my personal trainer. I've lost 4.8 pounds and 1.5% body fat from last week! :) I was SO excited! I'm hoping that I'll have similar results in weeks to come! I'll be posting my progress every week so check back to see! Sorry so short! Long day tomorrow!

Toodles

End of Another Chapter

Friday was the last day of classes for my junior year. I can hardly believe it! It doesn't feel like it should be the end of the year yet! I'm officially registered for the LSAT in June! SCARY!! I'm actually going through with this! I have no clue where this is going or what I'll end up doing in the long run but this is the first step in my plan. This summer I don't have any real plans which, for my extremely Type A personality, is the absolute antithesis of what I think I should be doing. But I think it's going to be alright... No more than alright. It's going to be just great! I orginally was looking at this summer as a waste of time and thought that I was failing at this game called life. But as I started thinking about whether it was something I really wanted to do or not. I realized that this is the first time in my life - and very likely the last time for a while, if not for ever - that I won't have any responsibilities or things I HAVE to do that take presidence over myself. I'm going to use this time for a massive dose of self improvement. I'm going to work on becoming not only what I want to be but who I want to be. DZ gave us Maria Shriver's book "Just who will you be?" as a good bye gift. It honestly couldn't have come at a more oportune time! So now I'm excited about my post-LSAT summer! It's going to be a blast!

Easter in Palmyra

Happy Easter to all! I completely forgot about having this blog! :-/ oh well... I'll try to be better at it. I'm in Palmyra visiting my grandparents who are missionaries for our church here right now. I love being here and spending time with them! They're wonderful! I'm glad the weekend.

Last week was General Conference and in the Sunday morning session Elder Jeffrey R. Holland gave a beautiful dissertation on the atonement and resurrection of Christ. Completely fitting for the Easter season. I had forgotten that it was Palm Sunday.

Quickly my mind flooded back to all of my Easters growing up. Every year my mother gave each of us a little plastic egg every day from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, with some object to remind us of something that happened in the last week in the life of the Savior. I thought back to the plastic palm leaves, the three dimes, little tack nails and finally the empty egg that we received on Easter morning. I didn't ever look forward to that last egg. There was no surprise. Sure, I understood that the egg was empty because Christ's tomb was empty and he was resurrected. But as a child I still liked the thirty pieces of silver better...

As I was sitting in conference last weekend thinking about these object lessons that I had year after year after year. I realized that that little empty egg was by far the most expensive and most valuable gift over all the other eggs. It really wasn't empty. It was completely full of life! Eternal life! It's because that tomb (or egg if you're going with the analogy) was empty that we are able to live again. That's unconditional. It doesn't matter who you are or what you've done or what you do or don't believe. The fact of the matter is that we are all going to be resurrected - an eternal uniting of body and spirit after they've been separated by death. What a wonderful gift!

I don't know if I can accurately convey the real joy I feel about that. It's just so miraculous the whole thing! The greatest gift truly!

I hope that you all have a wonderful and blessed Easter! Until next time!