before i get too old.

My first attempt at blogging today was a little preachy. So I erased it all and I'll stash it in my memory for a future time (read: never).

I've been snippy with boyfriend about his eating/exercising. My bad.

Despite all my laziness and indulgences these last six weeks (oh lord), I'm proud to say that I've been holding steady weight wise. My heart breaks for boyfriend when he eats ten tacos... for lunch. And he's still hungry. And he spends the rest of the afternoon trolling for "snacks" which ends up being entire bags of chips and six cans of diet coke.

I'd like to at least congratulate him for picking diet, but he has hypertension and I'm not sure diet coke is the way to go.


I'm starting to do that really annoying thing that girls do, where I look at something delicious and say "I'm going to have to run five/ten/eighty thousand miles to burn that off." The super cool thing that I learned about weight loss is that it takes approximately 3500 calories to lose a pound, and 3500 calories to gain a pound. So, being reasonable with math, let's assume that I'm taking in 2500 calories a day to maintain my weight (true story: I should be at 2700 for my height/weight, but I like multiples of 5's better), so in order to GAIN a pound I would have to eat 2500 PLUS 3500. 6000 calories is a lofty goal for a single day, non?

Don't get me wrong, I've done it before. But it's pretty hard to accomplish now when I can't even finish 20 ounces of green tea in less than 2 hours. Seriously, I've been working on this bottle ALL DAMN MORNING.



PS - I just downloaded the LoseIt App. Sometimes I feel stuck, and sometimes I feel like my progress is appropriate. I wouldn't mind having a clear guide on the issue.