20 pounds down!

that's right, finally found a scale and HOT DAMN, i weigh 231.6 lbs!!! that's twenty fucking pounds down! oh my goodness blogworld, this is too too wonderful! i mean, despite all that's changed in this last month or so: i left jenny craig, i moved to korea, i started a new job; and i STILL lost weight! thank you hotel major for the in-room dvd player! im so insanely happy: i really like my new job, i like the kids, i like it here in korea. and having lost a couple more pounds, that's just like gravy. man oh man, i have got to hurry up and buy a tv/dvd player, i havent done my step set in like a week, since i moved into my apartment. i have to buy, like, everything... oh my gosh, you know what too, blogworld, this also means that i am out of the 240's forever. im not even playing with 237-239, im firmly in the 230s. im bout to be firmly in the 220's, and One-derland is right around the corner! well, ok, it's down the street some, but you know what i mean. ah, it's a great day.

Weight loss so far: 20.2 lbs
Biggest temptation: so much wonderful dark chocolate in every convenience store i pass... and they're everywhere.
My treat: dark chocolate peppero sticks.
My best discovery: i can do anything!

hello blogworld! nothing important to say, just typing. it's 8:30 pm korea time. im at the pc bang, hung out in the hotel all day, it was great! this is how i knew i'd be aiight in korea, b/c i really do enjoy just chillin. oh how i miss my cats, tho *sniffle* jeez, anyways Cat-Lady, i did do my step workout today of course. really, nearly every single day i've done it. man, i want that scale! i havent used a riser since the last time i wrote about it. i dont know what happened; like those two days i used it knocked me back a few and i huff and puff through the whole thing now instead of slide through like before. well, not quite, but point is that it sure does feel like a full on workout again, even without the risers. my lips are chapped, the cold weather here is drying me out. today ive drank like two liters of half coke zero, half water concoction.

celebrate!

hello blogworld. nothing to report, just stopping in to say im still stepping near everyday and i dont have a scale yet. i'll be moving into my place mid to late next week, and top on the list of things to buy is a scale. and a blood pressure monitor. and a bed. and groceries.

my clothes feel no different than when i started this journey in november. jeez. but it's only february. and i know i wont really notice until it's at the point that i need a belt or something. regardless, ive not gone more than 2 days in a row without doing my step workout and that exercise buzz has kept me up and moving here in korea. it's really helped with the time/body adjustment.

it just occured to me a couple days ago that i havent had any ankle pain in forever. not since i wrote that entry about it, actually. well hey, right on!

dunkin schmunkin

ooooooh my goodness i barely made it through the step workout just now. i put the riser on and stuck it out through the warm up which wore me down, and then took the riser off and sluggishly finished the dvd. i was so tired! i didnt even want to finish! well, many factors here: i've been waking up at 3am since i got here last week. i cant get back to sleep so i get up and do the step set to be sure i DO get a workout that day, around that time it's 4am. i shower and lay my clothes out and im ready to go by 6am, but my training doesnt start until 12:30! so i think overall tiredness contributed today. at first i was so alert and awake despite the hours, but everyday i get increasingly tired. so maybe today was the catch up day. i also blame not enough water yesterday, my lips were so dry. i also blame the two giant ramen cups i had for breakfast, and the chocolate chocolate chip muffin and whole milk i bought at dunkin doughnuts for lunch. hey, they only had whole milk! i didnt want it! i actually really didnt, i shouldve bought a water. i took like 4 small swigs and tossed it. ate the muffin, tho. it's only a one hour break between the training classes, and dunkin doughnuts is on the bottom floor, so i was chillin and oh how i love chocolate muffins! im never buying from there again tho, fo real, the muffin and little ol' milk cost me like 2,600 won! i could've bought a whole meal with steamed rice, kimchi, and fish or chicken from the lunch counter guy down the street! i found out that i'll be teaching in pyongchon in seoul, and the school is working on finding housing for me. another couple weeks, i think. it's only 6am. i may nap right now... jeez im tired...

stepping up

i've been doing my step workout in the hotel just about every morning, save for yesterday b/c i'd gotten so lost the day before and did so much walking around trying to find my way that i just said f* it when next morning came. anyway, today i thought i ought to add one of the risers b/c i notice how easily i get through the warm up and first combo now that ive been doing this for a while, and WHOA does that one riser ever make a difference! i thought "eh, 4 inches, let's see how this works out" and man did i get a workout! i got through the warm up and part of combo 1 before i had to pause the tape and take the riser off, i could barely talk! ha! it was, tho, the challenge i wanted, im going to try it again tomorrow. i STILL dont have a scale, the teacher training takes up all my time and energy, but it ends on saturday and then we get a week off, so hopefully i can make my way somewhere and buy one. i think i've been losing: i exercise everyday, i'm avoiding all junk food, im not drinking my calories... we'll see. the walking from getting lost alone, i'd better be in the 230's dammit. for real, finding the right exit off that subway is tricky! ok let's do a guess. i'm going to guess that when i step on the scale, it'll say i weigh... 236. ok we'll see next week.

no ramen today!

hey blogworld. and hello Kole, who is maybe my sole male reader! (im so tickled that people read this website, tee-hee!) today i had lots and lots of water and coke zero, some crackers & peanut butter, and juice and sushi, green tea, a hard boiled egg... *sigh* man i really really want to start my own shopping. well, this is a good exercise in dealing when you dont have your usual tools at hand. i dont know exactly how many calories are in everything i eat here, nor do i know if i'm eating enough protein/carbs/fat, etc, but i kinda know it... and if anything, im aware enough to not eat when im just bored, and am sure TO eat when i realize i've had nothing but some ramen that day. and im not running off to burgerking or pizza hut which is very visible here and looks appealing if only for the ease of ordering food alone. got to find some little carts that sell produce or something. and jeez, i wish i could figure out which milk is the non dairy! i have all those wonderful jc complete start cereals sitting in my back taunting me! :) pero anyways, i did my step workout again this morning, and OH i didnt count on all the extra exercise i'd get climbing all the stairs on the subway here! especially when you keep getting off on the wrong stop and have to keep climbing up to see where you're at, and then back down to hop back on the train :) i think the stepping helps me to climb all those stairs, and has been just in general keeping me alert and in fair health thus far. i really REALLY want a scale; i did daily weigh ins back home and my fingertips were grazing the 230's, i want to know where i am now. im in an internet cafe right now, the guy at the counter is so cute. he speaks no english but helped set me up on the computer. i wish i could say, "you are so cute" in korean. when i learn, i'll come back and tell him.

eating ramen

hello blogworld! i went around for a walk around the neighborhood today, around 3 hours or so, and i DID NOT get lost :) i drew a little map as i walked, i was so proud to have found my way back to the hotel! the tv here has a dvd player, so i was able to do my step workout last night. my eating has been hard, b/c everything is in korean (of which i dont read or speak a word of) and im not always sure what is a restaurant or not. i went into one place today to try to eat, and the guy just said "no." i was so embarrassed! im sure that it was a restaurant, but im not sure if the "no" was b/c im a foreigner, black, or couldnt speak korean. after that, i was too embarrassed to try anywhere else! *blush* i went into a convenience store and bought ramen. was yummy, tho. hopefully i wont live on that for the week, but it was all i could muster myself to do today. i cant figure out the calories of anything im eating b/c i cant read the labeling, but still im writing everything down to keep me conscious. once i get a place of my own, first on my agenda is figuring out how to grocery shop, and buy a scale.