May 2011
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So I think it’s come to this. I need to integrate thoughts on my weight loss with thoughts on my personal life, and not have one overtake the other. I feel like that’s why I shy away from this blog: because it’s single-handedly focused on losing weight, and there are a lot of things that I feel are more important in my life. I’ve created a new blog that hopes to …...
Yesterday, I went grocery shopping, & spent $50. Fifty. Dollars. Like, ahh!!! That’s a lot of money for a girl on a college budget, but I did it, because I needed to. I also threw away (or gave away) everything that I had in my fridge / pantry that wasn’t going to do something for me, either nutritionally or otherwise. Like freezer-burned chicken breasts. Or yogurt that had been in...
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Do you ever have weeks where you’re on top of everything, and everything’s great, but then you just … well, then you just want to eat everything in the kitchen the next week? UGH because that’s been me. Listen. I know that … well, a whole wealth of you have unfollowed me recently, and I honest-to-god don’t blame you, because you want to read what you want to...
April 2011
12 posts
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177.0!
Start Weight: 200 Last Week: 179.4 This Week: 177.0 (-2.4) Total Loss: 23lbs!
HI! I was 177.2 on Tuesday, so I was hoping for a bit more, but uh. When I’ve stayed up until at least 6am almost every night this week working on projects or studying for exams (also, eating), I think this is truly, truly all right with me.
I hope you’re well!!! :’)
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here is a list of things that i used not to do...
(or: Some Pretty Fucking Sweet Victories involving Self-Confidence)
(or: Lessons I have Learned from the Fat Acceptance Community)
Go out in public wearing shorts. Not bermuda shorts. Shorts. Denim shorts. I noticed today while I was walking to campus that my calves are killing it in the best way possible. They were unexpectedly muscular, and I dig it. I dig it a lot.
Go out in public wearing...
passing-bird asked: I'm so, so glad you're back! I've missed your sarky sarcasm & fabulous posts. You were one of the first people I started following on tumblr (back in june '10!), so, without being a Creepy McCreep, I'm rather attatched to your face. x
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WatchLOOK AT MY NEW BATHING SUIT!
It’s the first two-piece I’ve ever owned, & I am in love with it. Also, the video sneakily cut out before I intended it to, but I suppose you get the general gist. Also, I’m ridiculous.
I hope your weekends have been swell!!! :*
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179.4!
HEY GUYS GUYS HEY I AM BACK IN THE 170s!!!
Start Weight: 200 Last Week: 180.6 This Week: 179.4 (-1.2) Total Loss: 20.6lbs!
Okay, okay, okay, so it’s not too much. Uh, at all. But I am really thrilled about it, and there are a lot of factors (i.e. the fact that I’ve been on the rag for the past week, I’ve been doing a lot more muscle-y sorts of things like the 30DS, etc.)
I AM...
here is a list:
I have eaten well ALL WEEK - with the exception of a slice of pizza yesterday, but whatever whatever. Water under the bridge. Thumbs way, way up.
My Lady Time is lasting longer than normal, so. That’s stupid.
Still sore from the 30DS. :’)
This is the worst post ever.
I hope you’re having a tremendous week!!!
today, i:
Was successfully vegetarian, but not successfully vegan. Dark chocolate chips got in the way. And, um. Cheese on my Eggplant Parmesan. Heh. Not bothered. I ate really well, and that’s what I’m more focused on right now. Baby steps.
Started Week 2 of C25K. YOU GUYS I HAVE NEVER GOTTEN THIS FAR, & I HAVE “STARTED” THREE TIMES. AT LEAST. (Week 2, Tyler? Really?! You give...
libbylivinglife asked: Hey Tyler!
I saw your post about trying a Vegan diet, and just thought I'd chip in, as I'm a lifelong vegan.
The thing is though, I think it's important to note that it's not just switching to a vegan diet that makes you healthier. You can be vegan and be unhealthy (case in point: overweight me!), lots of crisps, snacks, sugary items are still vegan. So I think it...
I saw your post about trying a Vegan diet, and just thought I'd chip in, as I'm a lifelong vegan.
The thing is though, I think it's important to note that it's not just switching to a vegan diet that makes you healthier. You can be vegan and be unhealthy (case in point: overweight me!), lots of crisps, snacks, sugary items are still vegan. So I think it...
veganism - thoughts?
(Two posts from me in one night? Am I being a real, live blogger?! ALERT THE PRESSES, EVERYONE.)
I am thinking about & truly considering a primarily vegan diet. (Why, Tyler? You love turkey! You love chicken! You love cheese! A lot!) I do! I really, really do! And I don’t want to do it for animal rights reasons … although I imagine if I felt stronger about animals, it would be...
la la la la
So I’ve re-started the 30 Day Shred with one of my roommates, and we’ve just finished day one, and um. Um.
I thought that since I’ve been going to the gym pretty regularly & being otherwise active, etc., that it wouldn’t destroy me as hard as last time. Man oh man was I wrong. I am currently sitting around in my undies trying to avoid moving as much as possible....
180.6!
Okay, so I guess I was waiting to come back to y’all with some semblance of success … and while I was hoping that I might have maybe sort of kind of possibly been back in the 170s today, when I weighed in at 187 (!!!!) last week after a particularly ridiculous awful food bender, I figured that 180.6 is Good Enough for me.
So, uh. Yep. 187. That’s how far I let myself fall...
let me tell you about the best feeling ever:
The best feeling ever is being freshly-showered after a really, really good work out.
I feel so tremendous & satisfied with everything in my life right now, truly.
:’)
March 2011
7 posts
hiya team hiya hiya
I have eaten extraordinarily well all day!! :’)
This may or may not have been motivated by the fact that my belt (which I have not worn in a few weeks) was tighter than normal when I got dressed this morning. :|
I have two art projects due this coming week, and I truly just cannot bring myself to do them right now. Gooooosh. Procrastination station at its finest, I suppose.
My...
libbylivinglife asked: hey Tyler!
i've got a health&fitness question for you...
what are your favourite things about eating healthily and keeping fit.. apart from losing weight?
:) Libby
i've got a health&fitness question for you...
what are your favourite things about eating healthily and keeping fit.. apart from losing weight?
:) Libby
:')
Here is a list:
It is currently 84* outside. Eighty. Four. Degrees. Have we skipped over Spring & directly into Summer? When did this happen?! (I’m not complaining, for the record. It’s brilliant.)
I have realized that I am completely, hopelessly addicted to caffeine. I had a raging headache this morning until I went by the B&N to get an iced coffee. Headache: gone. I have a...
let me tell you about dinner this evening:
It was tremendous!! I made turkey burgers, and they were superb.
I wish I had taken a photo, because um. Yum. Here is what was in:
a package of extra-lean Ground Turkey Breast
~ 1 cup of black beans
1 tbsp of Sour Cream
3 tbsp Sweet Pepper Relish
a heavy squirt-drizzle of Sweet Hot Mustard
I mixed all of this together with my fingers (which felt oh so deliciously gooey & disgusting),...
happy st. patrick's day, friends!
I’m not wearing green. Fingers crossed I don’t get pinched.
ANYWAY, let me tell you about yesterday. Yesterday was good. Yesterday was not bad. Well … in some cases. It was better, which is what matters. Yesterday, I didn’t eat anything until … 5:45 in the afternoon, which was a monumental mistake (& an accident!)
Dinner was Chicken Francese (which, to be...
poop & all his friends
I feel awful. I had planned for this entry to take some sort of … better turn, but for right now, here it is: I feel awful. Last night, I ate half a box of Thin Mints. This morning, I finished the other half. Two nights ago, while under the influence of a certain substance that can often encourage you to munch down on some snack food, I ate a WHOLE BOX of Tagalongs. (Granted, I feel like, to...
January 2011
11 posts
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@smaller-n-smaller
smaller-n-smaller replied to your post: aaaaah!
sillyness. You could always run in little circles around your living room for a mile.
Hahaha! I could do that, I suppose, but I would probably get dizzy & die. Okay, not die but y’know. Kind of die. Mostly be dead.
here is my life lately:
1: I am adding either a graphic or interior design major on top of my advertising major … eeeek! This means two things: that I will not be able to apply for my advertising major until next semester, & that I am going to have to take art classes. This semester, I’m signed up for Color & Composition, Drawing I, Art History, Philosophy, & Spanish Literature. Um … and did...
aaaaah!
I HAVE A PROBLEM. I had planned on being able to run the mile for the Fitblr Races yesterday, but gosh I just cannot! Stupid things have sprung up, making me unable to go to the gym until tomorrow, & the majority of the sidewalks around my apartment are still icy. :( What poop.
So, even though I am not officially able to participate in the Fitblr Races, I am going to still run my mile...
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@materialista
materialista replied to your post: SNOW!
me too. Where are you? I’m in Augusta!
I’m in Athens! It’s like a straight-up winter wonderland here. I love it so, so much. How much snow did you get in Augusta?
SNOW!
There are currently somewhere around … oh, maybe five to six inches of snow on the ground. IN GEORGIA. This is cool. This is really, really cool. I mean, treacherous as hell (especially for driving! My truck got stuck for an hour & a half last night in the middle of a road. It was pretty great … & by “pretty great,” I really mean “fucking terrifying”)...
solsticechaos-deactivated201104 asked: Hey, I just wanted to tell you that I absolutely love your blog! It's so hard to find health blogs that aren't clogged with naked thinspo pictures, you know. I like it so much more when I can read people's thoughts on their weightloss and whatnot and not just have to scroll through 1,000 depressing thinspo pics. But anyway, keep up the good work <3
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new year's resolutions (sort of...)
That is the correct apostrophe position … right? ANYWAY, OKAY. Here are things I am going to attempt in 2011 — not necessarily resolutions, per se, because those always seem doomed, but goals, perhaps.
Phase out of artificial sweeteners in my tea & coffee. Right now, I can’t handle tea or coffee without Splenda in, and that just cannot be good for me in the long run. Start...
hi, friends!
Okay, so I wanted to make sure it wasn’t a fluke before I posted, BUT — I’ve been to the gym two times in the past two days! Okay, so you might be thinking, “Coooool, Tyler. That’s nice.” But … it is! It’s so great. I’m so very thrilled about it. This coming semester, my schedule isn’t nearly as busy, which is going to really help me,...
December 2010
7 posts
happy saturday!
HI HELLO :’)
So I am no home, home - not Athens, home - which is excellent. I don’t have to pay for food, my dogs are here to keep me company, etc., etc. So, um. Get ready for some real, actual food posts. Hopefully.
I’ve asked my dad if he can renew my gym membership for the rest of the month, but he says that it’s not worth the $60 or however much when I’ll be...
hello, hi, how are you, etc.
I am finally, finally, finally finished with this semester & all of the crazy/hectic/terrible/ridiculous everything else that went with it. I am so thrilled. So, so very thrilled.
Expect more from me in these next few days. :)
happy tuesday!
Because Tumblr was down yesterday, the bastard.
Saturday night, I, uh … well, I had a bit too much fun. Real talk. And I am retaining water like a sonovabitch, because it is that time of the month. And I cannot wait for finals to be over. And I cannot wait until I’m home for Christmas & have time to go to my gym. And I cannot wait until Christmas. And I cannot wait until I get a...
pinkzzthelast10 asked: So i browsed your blog before like a while back before i even started posting myself and following anyone and i just wanted to say that im happy i found your blog again!!!lol!!
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176.2!
Start Weight: 200.0 Last Saturday: 181.0 This Week: 176.2 (-4.8) Total Loss: 24.8lbs!
Wooooooooo!
Okay, so yep. It’s Friday, and I am weighing in, and these are my numbers. Now you know. I just had a ridiculous freak out re: my advertising class group presentation, and yep. I am just really, really, really ready for the weekend. :)
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happy december!
HOW THE HELL IS IT ALREADY DECEMBER?! This is a terribly important question. This whole entire semester has just … yeah, flown the fuck by. So, uh. December goals! Ready, go!
1: Go to the gym two to three times a week on average. (Starting small, okay.) And I’ll have to see about my gym membership at home, too … whether I can just re-instate it for a month. That would be...
today is weigh-in-wednesday
& I’m not going to do it. Phew, glad I got that off of my chest. Yep. Nope. No weigh-in for Tyler. (WHAT WHY TYLER UGH YOU NEVER DO WIW ANYMORE GEEZ GOSH, etc.) I know, I know, I know, I know. I. Know.
I’m moving my weigh-in to Fridays.
Why, you might ask? Because I tend to, uh … fuck up pretty badly on the weekends (hah) and I would like to be able to get it back in gear...
November 2010
18 posts
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@smaller-n-smaller
smaller-n-smaller replied to your post: gracious
Me :-) smaller-n-smaller.tumbl…
WHY ARE YOU SO KIND TO ME ALL THE TIME :’) Gracious, you’re lovely. ♥
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gracious
Where are all of you followers coming from!?
I CANNOT HANDLE ALL OF YOU, MY HEART FILLS WITH LOVE & THREATENS TO BURST, ETC., ETC. ♥
Pinky promise, I will get around to looking through & following you back, but I just cannot right now afjksa;jlkjd;slkaj as much as I would like to.
Also, I made a delish trail mix today! It’s got the almonds & Craisins from yesterday (with more...
relgetsright asked: yes yes yes you're posting! don't disappear again beautiful!
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tuesday shmuesday
1: I WOKE UP THIS MORNING & WEIGHED 176.0 :D This is no good in comparison to the 170.8 that I weighed a couple of months ago, but it is much better than the 181.0 that I weighed last week. So there’s that.
2: There is this delicious sandwich at the B&N that I have started getting like a fiend lately. It’s a Tuscan Turkey Focaccia sandwich, & the whole, ENTIRE thing only...
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WatchOkay, so I just posted this on my personal tumblr, but I figure that you wonderful folks are all fashion-forward & whatnot … or, I mean, you’ve got eyes & ears & opinions. So. I am asking your assistance. :) I know, I know. This is 100% not health-related … unless we are talking about the health of my hair. (Heh heh.)
Basically, this is 1:44 of “If you were me,...
happy monday!
(I feel like this is always my title for Mondays. WHATEVAH.)
Okay, so today:
I woke up on time, but ended up getting to Biology late anyway, thereby missing half of the attendance clicker questions. Boo.
I brought a huge bag of almonds & Craisins (“Dried Cranberries” says Trader Joe’s. I say Craisins.) for breakfast & snacking, so I don’t break down & buy pop...
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fhajksldhkah
I have decided that the holidays are - pardon my French - a complete & utter bitch.
Seriously. I ate my weight in food on Thanksgiving … and let’s be honest, I haven’t really done anything proactive. Yesterday, I weighed myself, & … ugh, 181. That’s ten - 10! - pounds that I’ve put on since a couple of months ago. Not acceptable, Tyler. Up until a...
happy monday!
Here are good choices I have made today:
Instead of getting a $4 coffee beverage, I have brought with me a mug & tea.
Also, I am going home for lunch so as to avoid eating fast food.
Double also, I have just volunteered for a shift at work tonight. Holler, money.
ALSO, I went shopping on Saturday! I can officially, really, truly wear size 12 pants. That might not sound like a terribly...