female, 25 years old
Kent, OH
| Recent Journal Entry ArchiveMarch 21, 2010, 8:30 am detoxing... | because louisville did a number on my pages! i didn't eat terribly, and i made sure to eat fresh foods, had fruits and good calcium sources. ate a lot of cheese. lol.
now, i'm home, and i'll be detoxing from that last nite where i probably drank a bottle and a half of wine with my giant helping of buttery mashed potatoes.
today started well with a smoothie, and i've planned my day so that i might even have some chocolate before bed.
for anyone looking at the new jillian micheals yoga video, it's pretty great! my heart was REALLY beating, ... |
continue reading 1 comment March 15, 2010, 4:57 pm This is what you get |
 All this is GREEN GREEN GREEN!
I'm perpetually amazed at how very much "good food" i have to eat to get my calories in.
Check out this dinner! Sweet potato courtesy someone on this site...can't remember but suggested oven, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon and DELICIOUS!
Peas, asparagus, and steamed shrimp :-)
can you say yum? and LOOK HOW MUCH FOOD IS ON THAT PLATE.
I get to eat this for dinner. :-) ALL OF IT.
and an apple and a cookie for dessert to boot!
w00t! srsly ;-)
~lili
edit: i now realize this isn't a great picture. but my plate is OVERFLOWING with delicious green-ness :-) i ... |
continue reading 4 comments March 14, 2010, 7:48 am "Help me in my disbelief" | I was raised Roman Catholic. My mother stopped taking us to mass after I was confirmed. I didn't really understand why we stopped going, and I still don't.
I have always been fascinated by faith, religion, and theology. As an undergraduate, one of my majors was in religious/theological studies, where I quickly found out Catholics are pretty hated by a lot of people! That was kind of a surprise, considering I grew up in a predominantly Catholic area. But, I still loved my classes, and I grew intellectually and spiritually.
I came across this man: Deitrich Bonhoeffer, a pretty *famous* theologian, ... |
continue reading 13 comments March 13, 2010, 4:53 am a new day of balance | today will be better balanced in many more ways than yesterday.
not only do i pleg to eat green and within weight loss calories, but i also pledge to go spin for an hour. i also pledge to spend no more than 4 hours shopping. i pledge to get my shoes fixed. I pledge to finish my book and do all my online homework. i pledge to have a dinner of sweet potatoes and fishes :-)
it's going to be a good day. ... |
continue reading 2 comments March 12, 2010, 7:16 pm *SIGH* and applebee's recommendation | well, i went waaaaay over maintenance today. :-( after i am down a few pounds and feeling normal, i got sucked in by easter candy! it was the easter basket cakes that put me over--i just LOVE them
after i logged all the crap i ate (and feel just TERRIBLE about it all....), i'm REALLY glad i didn't eat a second package of them!
well, tomorrow is spinning. for now, i'm going to make some tea, and go to bed. i'll even do some yoga tomorrow. i wish i would have been able to gym today, but i think the mani-pedi ... |
continue reading 2 comments March 11, 2010, 5:04 am hey witchdaddy (and witchfam)! | somehow, i missed when you added your latest profile pic. i love it! :-)
how's tejas treatin' the fam? i haven't been in the journal room much lately, so i feel all out of the loop! ... |
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March 10, 2010, 12:29 pm Excuse the messy bedroom.... |
 But look at my NSV of the day!
I feel like a "skinny bitch" in this dress (ps. it's a title of a book! and it is a good thing to be labeled in some regards! clean, vegan living.).
no, i'm not a vegan, but in celebration of my faith, I have become a pescatarian (for at least a little while), and i feel clean and happy :-)
this dress looks better on me now than when i first bought it even! I'm psyched to be wearing it today, in this glorious 60 degree weather!
~lili ... |
continue reading 12 comments February 27, 2010, 5:28 am goin to be absent and red | This week, Brendan is on spring break and visiting me. i find it extremely hard to do NM while with him. :-/ So here's some things:
1. i'll be mostly absent from the journal room this week.
2. HOW do you do balance when you're with other people? it's fine when i'm on my own. it's VERY hard when i eat with him.
ppl with partners who don't do NM that have been successful, please help me! i don't want to be off track for a whole week....
:-(
~lili ... |
continue reading 6 comments February 24, 2010, 4:09 am NSV--very reaffirming! | So two things today made me wake up feeling good.
One: I got to hear Susan Faludi give a discussion and answer questions, then she signed two of my books (written by her) and chatted with me, gave me her email address, and went on from there.
If you don't know who Susan Faludi is, she's a pretty outspoken feminist journalist (second wave feminism), and she wrote a ton of really cool books--Backlash is her best known. She's one of my heroes, and after taking that domain rhetorics class that just hurts my soul in so many ways (it's a feminist ... |
continue reading 4 comments February 23, 2010, 8:09 pm KarynD | It seems like every day, you find some way to make my life about 15-50% better than it previous was. srsly ;-)
thanks for your comments, encouragement, and love. :-) it's so wonderful to have friends like you on NM :-) ... |
continue reading 2 comments February 23, 2010, 6:17 am yuck! | i LOVE pumpkin and pumpkin flavored things.....
but my smoothie this morning was DISGUSTING! lol.
DO NOT try this at home:
c. pumpkin
small banana
c. vanilla soy milk
tbsp molasses
tsp vanilla extract
probably could have used more milk, but srsly. it was not a pleasant taste. shame, too, bc all of those things separate taste YUMMY!
~lili ... |
continue reading 8 comments February 22, 2010, 6:58 pm ate myself into a better mood | Yes, i did. and i ate waaay over maintenance calories *sigh*. it's this damn domain rhetorics course.
it's making me reface a lot of very painful life memories, and i'm having some real difficulties facing it and working within the confines of the class, which i feel is overall very hostile towards me in some regards. it is not a safe space for me, especially with this content.
i ate a whole box of fruit snacks :-( and a whole lot of chocolate.
i feel full.
and better, honestly.
i probably shouldn't say this, but i'm glad i emotionally ate today. ... |
continue reading 5 comments February 21, 2010, 4:45 pm fiber getting you down? | So, I've seen a lot of people over the past months ask on the journal room about controlling the, ahem, side effects of increasing your fiber.
I found this neat pdf today, you can access it at this site .
Anyway, it's a short fact sheet about why fiber is helpful to us!
It also recommends that you should gradually increase your fiber in take to avoid the side effects. Additionally, it suggests you remember to increase your fluid intake--the more fiber, the more fluid! I don't know if there is a good "parts fiber to parts ... |
continue reading 2 comments February 21, 2010, 8:59 am greek yogurt? | I have looked for this at the local grocery store (acme, giant eagle, and walmart) and can't seem to find it.
what section is it in? does it look very different from regular yogurt? ... |
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February 20, 2010, 5:15 am for those on a budget | Whole grain pasta is pretty much my best friend. It's cheaper than some of the awesome ancient grains, and i can find it at more grocery stores. the price has been coming down noticeably, and more and more pastas are being offered in whole grain form (point in fact, it used to be that i couldn't make my mom's famous lasagna with whole grain pasta--now i have several boxes to choose from!)
well, grocery shopping at walmart yesterday (hey, i said budget, didn't i?), i see that there Great Value brand now has WHOLE GRAIN PASTA! with the exact same nutrients ... |
continue reading 5 comments February 19, 2010, 8:44 am scale moved up? | i have never had this happen to me before. not in all of the months i have been using NM. not since june!
i have been mostly green all week (slight red), have eaten well under maintenance calories, have been exercising (a lot) daily, have been eating all of my weight loss calories (and maybe a little over on some days). my weight was nicely settled at around 146.5.
today was my weekly weigh in, and i'm up a pound?
i don't really understand that. i weigh myself the same time every time i weigh myself, without any differences in how i weigh ... |
continue reading 10 comments February 18, 2010, 1:16 pm snack needed | Does anyone have an idea for a well-balanced snack that will be less than 40 calories? :-/
i'll need one when i get home from the gym tonight, but i will only have 40 calories play room.
additionally, it'll be late (9pm ish), and i won't really want to eat a ton of stuff..... ... |
continue reading 8 comments February 17, 2010, 6:20 pm WitchFamily (and everyone *wink*) | Thank you!!!!!
for your "lesson" that is :-) (and for being awesome, but that goes without saying).
today, as i was walking to class, thinking about the snow and the myriad reasons why Easter is one of my favorite holidays, i was thinking about the comments WitchMomma and WitchDaddy left for us all.
how cool is it that so many spiritual groups have such interesting (and overlapping!) thoughts about this time of the year?
i was thinking about how cool it is that so much cosmic energy seems to settle around this season.
does that happen in the lower hemisphere, too?!?! when it ... |
continue reading 1 comment February 16, 2010, 8:12 pm easy mile | today, i ran a 9-minute mile......
and it was EASY!
ok, i don't know that i could have done 2-3 9 minute miles, but 1, 1 i did and it was awesome. i was amazed. i didn't even have any music in my ears! (used to be a must for my workouts, and still usually is). i was astounded at how awesome my body was.
AND it was after a 45 minute zumba class :-)
so, after zumba and then the run (and a 1/3 mile quick cooldown walk), i'm walking down the stairs to the locker room, and some guys says ... |
continue reading 1 comment February 16, 2010, 6:40 pm WitchFamily! | almk42 has written a post about Lent.
I the lenten season is an important time for many christians and for some jewish sects, too. i have no idea about practitioners of islam.
i also don't know about wiccans!!! i know a few things about eoster (is that how you spell the name?) and her (right?) festival, but not very much.
i would love a quick lesson :-)
what is this time of year like for you in your spiritual-year?
~lili :-) ... |
continue reading 4 comments February 16, 2010, 3:34 pm treat | treated myself to a hamburger tonight. and fries. i should have skipped the fries. if i had skipped the fries, i'd have been just fine in terms of everything. but i didn't. i wasn't going to go to the gym, but now i definitely will. i meet even run after zumba to try to burn some more of the calories that i just ingested. SIGH! oy vey, too many calories :-( well, at least i enjoyed it. at least it tasted good. but the donuts (since it's faschnaught--spelling?--day, i just had to have donuts.
meh. i don't feel awesome about ... |
continue reading 1 comment February 15, 2010, 3:16 pm
updated Feb 15, 2010, 4:29 pm need positive vibe | i have felt kind of funky since the start of the semester. not only am i having trouble with ppl i thought were my friends, but i find i really care less about the things that used to be important to me.
it isn't that i care less, it's that i'm somehow not wanting to put any effort into anything. part of me thinks this is senioritis, as this is my last semester of coursework. part of me thinks maybe i'm depressed. part of me thinks maybe i just wish i was finished with this and living where i want to ... |
continue reading 8 comments February 11, 2010, 8:00 pm You know what would really rock? | Printable food logs that you can type into.
you know, you can create pdfs where users can just type right into the fields
wink wink
hint hint
i guess this shows how lazy i can be, but i don't have the right program to switch it! lol.
i guess a word document will work, but i want a fancy NM one! ... |
continue reading 7 comments February 11, 2010, 7:58 pm wow that was a dousey! | is that how you spell dousey?!
today, after being snowed out for soooooo long bc the gym was closed bc of snow, i got to the gym! it was a LONG day and "friends" have been on my case.
so, after this long, horrible day of ppl walking all over me and me being the one to feel bad, i went to Women on Weights. I built my bar. I did two full circuits. I nearly died doing squats and lunges. I did crunches. My back feels great. I did yoga.
it was an AWESOME hour.
and then, 45 minutes later, ... |
continue reading 1 comment February 11, 2010, 4:40 am hoping | It has been over a week since the last time I exercised. This is due to two things: the snow (gym has been closed) and the disaster that is my apartment. bc i haven't cleaned, i literally have no space to do my yoga :-(
So today i'm really hoping that the gym will not be closed! the massive amounts of snow here are crazy. but i'm hopeful because classes and offices are open today. so we'll see what happens! maybe weight lifting class and zumba. we'll see!!
send me good vibes! ... |
continue reading 4 comments February 9, 2010, 6:06 pm i am so unhappy--warning: WHINING!!!!!!! | today, i am terribly unhappy. i miss my brendan so very much. long distance does not ever ever ever get any easier. i feel like eating all tons of ick because of missing him and being cranky that i have to live in this silly little town.
top it off, the snow outside is beautiful in the clear night, and i don't live in bethlehem to take advantage of it--where b and i would go walking about in the night time snow and end up sitting on the ledge overlooking the river and the bridge and the city.
my laundry ... |
continue reading 7 comments February 9, 2010, 4:43 am Choices | Today, I am making the choice to eat everything I have logged on my page. I am making the choice not to eat anything other than what I have logged.
I will work out today, as long as the snow doesn't keep me from the gym.
If the snow keeps me from the gym, I will do Yoga in my room, set up my wii and do some boxing.
Those are my choices for today.
What are your choices for today? ... |
continue reading 4 comments February 8, 2010, 3:53 pm need recipe | I want to make something unique and tasty for my bf on valentine's day.
things i've made in the best include outlandish cakes, decadent cakes, outlandish angel food cakes bursting with berries, white cake with gummy sugared hearts everywhere, etc etc.
i want a light, fun dessert that incorporates both vanilla and chocolate flavors (he isn't a huge huge chocolate fan, but he does like chocolate).
how about a giant cookie cake, or perhaps a cookies and cream cake (white fluffy cake with oreo bits interspersed). what kind of icing for that last one?
or is there something else you guys know ... |
continue reading 5 comments February 8, 2010, 2:58 pm Today I am Hungry | I have been making bad choices for the past two weeks. weekend was not logged. and the day i did log made me feel bad for the bad decisions i made. the week before, well, i cheated myself and did not log everything i ate.
this morning, i missed my spinning class due to lack of sleep last nite.
today, i am going to spend 30 minutes walking and jogging, but i don't have many calories left for dinner. 3 ounces of pasta, 1 cup of peas, a bit of parmesan.
sometimes, it sucks to have to suck it up and ... |
continue reading 4 comments January 30, 2010, 9:44 am dear NM family | Thank you so much for helping me to get to a place where I love myself and am able to think critically about what matters to me in life and what does not, who is hurting me and who is loving me back, and what helps me get through the day and what hinders me.
i feel really lucky today to have found this website and all of the truly outstanding people who use it.
thank you thank you thank you.
*HUGS* to my family :-) ... |
continue reading 9 comments January 28, 2010, 6:05 pm wii question!!! | so! guess what lili is getting for valentine's day? a wii! of COURSE i'll buy the wii fit.
should i buy the wii fit plus? the regular wii fit? what "games" are the best...
AND. question. i live on the third floor of a third floor apartment. ppl underneath me can pretty much here everything i do.
is the wii fit going to be a lot of bouncing etc? if so, i won't buy it. i can't risk getting thrown out of my apartment. i really really can't.
so, are there games that i'd be able to play that don't make ... |
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