My Saturday

My Saturday consisted of this... (don't be jealous now)

-waking up at 4am to go to work
-home from work at 1 pm and head straight to the gym
-30 minutes on the elliptical, 40 on the stairmaster, 15 on the treadmill and 5 on the rower
-come home, shower, get ready to go
-head to Matthew's house to clean which took about 4 hours
-home by 10 pm
-exhausted

What a grand weekend

And a picture of a banana leaf to make this post even more exhilarating

Ciao!

How I Lost 20 Pounds

It was quite simple really. I didn't try.

When I left for Australia I was about 20 pounds heavier than I am now. Once I started living on my own I subconsciously started eating three meals a day. I actually ate breakfast (fruit and yogurt), I would eat lunch before going to work, than I would bring leftovers with me to work for dinner. I wouldn't say that I ate really healthy. I love stirfry so half my diet was that which in return gave me lots of vitamins etc from all the veggies. I still ate a lot of icecream and candy but it didn't seem to matter too much. I also cut out snacking, besides the icecream and candy. It really seemed to help. Oh.. I might mention that I ate out about 5 times in 9 months.

The second thing I did was walk more. I had no choice since I didn't have a car so I walked to work everyday. I wouldn't drive anyways since it was only a 5 minute walk. But if I wanted to go anywhere, I had to walk or wait for the bus which only came everyone 1.5 hours.

I never really set out to lose weight but it happened naturally with just two minor lifestyle changes. Not complaining about it that's for sure! I am glad I was able to lose the weight because I feel so much healthier now.

Eat proper meals. Cut out snacking. Eat in more. Walk more. Take the stairs. It seems too easy but if you have the right mindset and want to get healthy, you can do it. I'll be honest, its been tougher maintaining it since I have been home since I don't have a gorgeous beach to walk down as motivation and its hard to get out when its raining. I have just been going to the gym a few times a week to make up for it.

Enough ramblings.... just thought I would share those thoughts!

Have a happy week

54 Days

My boyfriend Barney booked his flight to come visit me and is coming in 54 days! Needless to say I am very excited. I have not seen him in 4 months and that is just lame if I do say so myself.

In other things, life continues to plug along. I haven't really worked at all since the end of November due to VANOC doing all of their preparations for the Olympics. I hope to be back to work full time next week. I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy this much time off of work but I tell ya, I sure don't. I thoroughly enjoy working and am eager to get back. I am too bored at home. My room can only get so clean. I may change my mind in the coming weeks about having this time off since as of January 12, we are open 7am-7pm and as of January 28, we will be fully operational 24 hours a day. Working at an Olympic venue (or two - the International Broadcasting Center and the Main Press Center) will be crazy busy but I think it will be a lot of fun. We are estimated to serve 80,000 meals in the 16 days of the Olympic games. Not to mention we will have 12,000 people working in the building daily who need to eat and I'm sure will consume gallons upon gallons of coffee. They actually built a McDonalds inside my building along with a bank, massage parlor, laundry facilities, gift shops, thousands of offices, two coffee shops and 2 food courts just to name a few. The unreal thing is, is that they are scheduled to take everything apart and have the convention centre open for regular business just 2 weeks after the Paralympics are complete.

That is just a taste of what my life is going to be like for the next two months. I will be living at a friends house downtown Vancouver for the month of February which is a blessing. Thankfully my boss has given me 10 days off between the Olympics and Paralympics for Barney's visit. I'm sure it will be a much needed break.

That is all for now! Wish me luck... :)