She's so shapely

I have a hard time sleeping earlier than that. So everyday I’ve been waking up at 2 or 3 pm which is really bad, haha. My usual day consists of waking up, get on the laptop to look for jobs, freshen up, eat, workout, job hunt some more, and spend the rest of the time playing games. Ugh, job hunting has been a drag so far. I’ve gotten NO calls at all and I’m about to run out of money. I hate to ask my parents for money but it has to come down to it in a few days. 

Zumba starts back up again later today and I’m excited. I haven’t been to a real class in a month. I can’t wait to have my assed kicked. :p

I’m on my fourth consecutive day of working out. I can feel a little difference from exercising when I wore the crappy sports bra that I bought from Walmart in a pack 4 years ago. It did not feel as tight as before. :) Today I did the Banish Fat Boost Metabolism video and…I had a hard time going through it. I forgot how crazy the cardio exercises were, I had to pause it a few times or stop and wait for the next move I can do. It felt like it took forever to finally get to the end because it feels like every move has jumping in it.

Tomorrow I’m going to strength train again which would make it 4 days this week. I’m going to focus on building muscle this summer instead of just losing weight. It seems like a much more positive goal to me. :)

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So, I have finally graduated 2 weeks ago. Now I’m in the majority of unemployed graduates trying hard to find any job. On Wednesday, I got a call from this hospital that had the perfect position I could fill. They required someone with skills that I acquired for my Psychology degree. But I screwed up that impromptu phone interview when I asked a really stupid question about what their research program was. She told me to call back when I have researched their company and confirm my qualifications. Bad move on my part. I did call her back and did what I was told, but I really doubt that she would consider me after that. D: Aside from that, I’m just going to keep sending out resumes and contacting temp agencies. 

Since I have nothing else to do, I should be working out. I’ve been taking it easy this week by doing workouts that aren’t too strenuous on my body. But tomorrow, I’m pulling out the Jillian Michaels No More Trouble Zones DVD and have her kick my ass. Since I have not done any sort of strength training, my body is going to be really sore the next day. After many summers of trying to get in shape, I have learned many things of what to do and what NOT to do:

- Do NOT do intense cardio (ie. HIIT) everyday. I did TurboFire workouts every day for a month last summer. They did help raise my metabolism, as in, I was always EXTREMELY hungry after the workout than normal. The last thing I wanted to eat was something healthy because I felt that it would not be filling at all at the same.

- ALWAYS incorporate some type of strength training into the routine. Two summers ago, I would do the NMTZ twice a week. While the scale did not drop, I lost a lot of noticable inches.

- Do NOT get obsessive about counting calories. I understand I have to eat a certain amount of calories a day so I could lose weight, but I do not want to feel like crap if it tends to go over a bit. I can’t live life by wondering how many calories are in food all the time.

I know I haven’t updated in a month. I know I lost a couple of followers, but it’s okay, I don’t blame them. I haven’t attempted to go back into any exercise/diet routine thus no posts about any progress I’m making. I’m just waiting for graduation to come and then start. The semester ended on Wednesday and I just have one final and one paper left until I’m freakin’ done! I have no jobs lined up and no plans to go to grad school. But you know what, that’s okay too. I always had some sort of plan when I moved from one stage to another stage in my life, but it never really works out in the end. So this time, I have no plans to fall back on and I’m fine with it. I will find my own way in life eventually. 

These are things that I’m going to do after I graduate next Friday:

- Finally cut my hair to shoulder length because long hair is getting annoying. Its also really thick which takes a long time to dry when its wet and it feels heavy. It would be easier to work out with not so much hair getting in the way.

- Get my ass back into an exercise routine. I would definitely need a lot of stamina to get through all those master classes at the Zumba convention. 

- Get a job to fund that ridiculously expensive convention trip.

- Finally travel somewhere out of state.

I haven’t really weighed or measured myself lately, but I know I need to exercise SOON. Sometimes I feel like I can’t breathe when I’m in certain positions and that’s a really bad sign. I met Wong Fu Productions a few weeks ago and had a picture with them. That picture was a huge reality check for me and it kinda made me sad about how I look now. :( My friend is throwing a huge birthday party tomorrow night and he wants it to be an all white clothing party. I have a lot of problems with that. One, white is not a flattering color on my body type. Two, this party will be obviously have a lot of alcoholic drinks. Drunk people + colored drinks = lots of spills on white clothing. Three, the time of the month has dropped today so usually wearing anything white or khaki is out of the question. I just wish he would put all those reasons into consideration. But nope, for some reason he wants everyone to dress in all white. Blegh, it makes me not want to go. I’m just extremely PMSing today.

I haven’t posted in almost two months. Today is the last day of spring break, and I have done nothing interesting at all during it. TBH, I truly let myself go. I haven’t weighed myself in 3 months because I didn’t want to see how much weight I gained. I can tell that I am because my pants feel tight and I hate that feeling. Hot weather comes quick in Florida, and light clothes is what I should be wearing to not die when I go out. But light clothes do not look good on my body, and wearing black feels like death in humid heat. Its not officially spring yet, but the highs are already hitting 80s-90s and it sucks. I have limited comfortable clothes to wear in this kind of weather right now. All I have been doing since the beginning of this year is school work and playing video games. Damn you Final Fantasy games, why do you have to be so addicting? I beat 7, 10, and 13 all in less than 3 months. That’s how bad the addiction is. I could barely bring myself to exercise past Tuesday Zumba once a week. I cancelled my gym membership and personal trainer because I have no money to afford it. As for my good eating habits, its all out the window as usual. I can’t seem to get into a routine like I used to over the summer. All I can do is keep trying. Trying to start back up the usual routine tomorrow.

I’ve intended to at least incorporate weightlifting into my routine twice a week. I wanted to try a power pump class for the longest time aside from my personal training session. The reality is that the only time I lift weights is with my trainer for 30 minutes once a week. Although I have 6 other days of the week I can choose to do another weight lifting session, those days are taken over by my love for dance fitness. Aside from doing zumba, my gym added a new class called hip hop street fusion and now that is another class that I want to add to my workout routine. Now that I have my instructor license, I spend a lot of my time and energy learning new routines and figuring out how to use visual cues to my (imaginary) class. So I never really feel like lifting weights aside from personal training because of this. :p

I try to keep a regular work out schedule running from Monday through Friday. But on Monday I was too tired to do anything when I got home from school. So I figured I would make up that day on Saturday. On Tuesday, I went to the first Zumba class at school for the semester where my favorite/intense instructor teaches. But I hate how its always packed in a small aerobics room because this is the only Zumba class there. Anyways, I got a good workout to the point where I was too exhausted to put anymore energy into the last few songs. My hips are still sore. Then yesterday was my personal training session and we did arms. My arms are still weak and they are seriously sore today. I did not work out today because I was too tired. I lost a few hours of sleep even though I’m off today and could have slept in. Why didn’t I sleep in? I have been having a serious gaming addiction to Final Fantasy 13 lately. I’m on Chapter 12 out of 13 and I think this may be the first Final Fantasy I will beat after 10 years of playing other versions haha. I’m so exhausted but I can’t fall asleep because this game makes me too alert. Gah this is why I try to avoid getting into any games because I can’t stop once I start! :x 

So I thought I would take a week or two off from exercising because I thought I would feel like crap from not eating enough food because my wisdom teeth were taken out. It turns out I only used the painkillers on the day of the surgery because it didn’t hurt after that. I started to eat more substantial soft foods sooner than I thought. I weighed myself a few days ago and it turns out I gained 10 lbs since summer. :( Grrr. I’m going back to the gym today to get back the endurance I had in the summer. I haven’t stuck to exercising 5 days a week since school started again. I go back to school on Wednesday but I should have a lot more free time to fit that exercising in there now. I have so many resources for exercising that there should be no excuse to not do it. I’m contemplating on whether to find another job or not while I’m still in school, because I hate going broke by the time the semester ends. I’m so tempted to buy more Zumba wear but I need to save a lot of money until I find a new job. :( Then again I also need to focus on graduating too. Here are some goals I have for this year:

- Find a place to teach Zumba

- Attend the 2012 Zumba Convention 

- Drop back to a healthier weight

- Use more weightlifting routines in my workout schedule

- Try to travel to more places