Ok, so it has been quite a while since I posted. I have been extremely busy with my classes, my health, and my boyfriend. Amazingly, I’ve managed to do pretty well with continuing my workouts. Currently, I am up to about my 42nd workout. I started volunteering with the local humane society (mostly walking the dogs, which adds to my activity level). It’s really cool to spend time with the lonely animals.

Besides my workout, I have recently started keeping much better track of my daily caloric intake. Although I was moderately keeping an eye on it before, I believe I will have greater results now that I am carefully tracking my food intake. Eventually, I may link my food journal here, but I am not currently sure how to do that. Also, I have taken up the practice of “calorie cycling”. I decided to do this since I have read many great things about it (of course, the theory behind it is reasonable) and, more importantly, have read nothing bad mentioned about it.

The only bad thing I can think of is that I have now officially had a cold for two weeks (and it is the 4th cold I’ve had in the last 2-1/2 months). Fortunately, I’ve minimized the number of classes and workouts I have missed. However, I hate feeling horrible in the mornings, and that is what has been happening every day for the last two weeks. I am seriously hoping this cold finally goes away soon. After all, finals are only a week away, and I have 4 of them to deal with (not to mention this week is full of final homework, projects, and lab experiments that give me hardly any time to study for my finals).

One great thing is that my boyfriend and I are getting along very well. I am very pleased at how our relationship is progressing. Hopefully, things will keep going well.

Another great thing is that I am down to 307 pounds. I’m not losing weight quite as fast as I’d like, but I am definitely losing, which is great! Hopefully, by calorie cycling, I’ll continue to lose pretty regularly, without hitting any major plateaus.