Camping Shlamping--I Missed Y'all!

OM-GEE!
Hello ladies and gents! I'm back from the gorgeous North coast of California and BOY does it feel good to check up on your lively lovely and lascivious posts and comments!

I had a great time and the eating was pretty under control (500, 1000, 700) with the exception of a hot dog and tempeh on the first night. I have to say the iPhone/iPod app, "Lose It" has really been saving me day-to-day. I have an iPod touch that I got free as Apple's student gimmick-"buy a Macbook get a free iPod bla bla bla"-and its transportability is great for keeping track of intake/exercise/calories in general.

Mom and I stopped at American Apparel on the way home and squeezing into a potential-buy bikini was NOT so much fun as lounging on a sandy, pebbly beach with no mirrors within a 20-mile radius, I have to say. Mom was also verrry offended by the presence of many butts, and also Butt in Am Appy though. C'mon mom, it's BUTTS! Silly BUTTS! Although I don't know how I feel about their advertising schemes myself, I feel like the unisex/androgyne/butt-tastic appeal is OK.

I am going to the beach with friends tomorrow. I am KEEPING INTAKE DOWN AND JOGGING ON SANDY BEACHES HIGH

also NO S'MOREZ Y'ALL

also HI! new followers! thanks and nice to meet you!
xxxooo Eva

Lady GnawGnaw

If all of our blogs were aggregated onto a graph of "yay me" and "FUCK MY LIFE" with all the little bumps in between, I feel as if many of ours would form similar erratic and jumpy patterns between the polar opposites.


o hai, beautiful skinnies

Today was not so good, as you might guess from the title.

Fast being officially broken as of yesterday, I had today:

1/2 c fiber one and soy milk 100 cals
2 small nectarines 60 cals
1 cup yam and lime soup 180 cals
1/2 tomato 30 cals
2 tsp peanut butter 75 cals

but then...friend's party! DREADDDD:
1/2 brownie with frosting 150 cals
cake slice (thin) 40 cals
peach cobbler 100 cals

total: at least 555 calories
without any REAL HARD exercise.

Speaking of...
Has anyone ever dealt with a knee injury? I over-worked my running and haven't been able to jog for over 2 months. This is unfortunate since the lack of aerobics is sucking my muscle out and replacing it with flub.
Exercise suggestions please...what's the next best calorie-crunching fun you partake in?

Hope everyone's weekend is fun, and successful.
Much love and WELCOME NEW FOLLOWERS! 24 Lovely Lads and Ladies!
xxxooo Eva

Beijing Bonanza

I went to a yoga class with Mom today! It was great. I didn't eat at all beforehand, and then was absolutely starving after. It was a hard class too though most of the participants were uppity grannies...

INTAKE FOR WEDNESDAY

1/4 canteloupe ~70 cals

2 celery sticks ~5

1 rice cake ~70

some berries ~40 cals

SO MUCH GUM (jawz are sore y'all)

--sautéed beans, zucchini, mushrooms ~100, there was olive oil

--OMG and I tried making zucchini "noodles" ~10

i saw this on a wonderful blog recently but can't remember whose...anyone? anyone? I wanna cite my sources here.

and they were effing amazing. Zucchini noodles, everyone. I just used a zester to peel them, but you can also just use a veggie peeler. Insta delish.

1/2 artichoke (these things are fiber magic, I swear...and we're stopping there.) ~60 cals

teeny cake slice (fiber one batter) ~150 cals

I think I mighta snacked a little bit extra too, so I'll say 600 calories total today. Not too shoddy...

Also I drank a SHITTON of water. Like 3 or 4 liters maybe?

It's strange because not eating makes me feel like I'm missing something. Like, I have zillions of activities I could do: garden, make more art--paint, printmake, draw, clean, practice piano, sell clothes on eBay...

but these things are more difficult to do than to eat, ya know? There's some psychological theory that says we always tend towards the easiest path. Nommin' is definitely the easiest path, for me at least.

I want to apply for MFA programs. I need a good strong portfolio to go anywhere that meets my standards...this is scary. Especially since all I seem to be doing these days is puttering around, blogging, and playing The Sims 3 (highly recommend this as an alt to eating...it's addictive though...).

But FIRST. I'm going to Beijing, in less than a month. For a whole year. With my boyfriend. We're teaching and living together and I think it'll be absolutely wonderful. I am, however, worried about 2 things:

1) Chinese buffets and cheap, cheap, food and drink

2) Chinese beauty standards. My friend from Taiwan says that she'd be considered "a huge fatty" although she is probably 5'7" and 130ish.

The next year will definitely be a challenge. Esp. since the bf is tall, skinny, and possessing the highest metabolism known to man. Jealz.

Liu Wen...Chinese model par excellence! What a gorgie.

(does anyone know who the other girl is? Hye Park?)

"communism makes a good worker and a skinny girl!"

-a wise person

(all of these quotes are bullshit, of course)

AM Surprise

So I woke up this morning to my boyfriend calling me (he's in SoCal, and I'm in NorCal since June, but I'm going down for his birthday, and none too soon!!!). Hearing his voice started my day out great!

The second lovely surprise was my stomach...I had eaten way too much last night (and really just throughout the day) because it was my Mom's birthday, and I cooked like a bunch of veggies: artichokes, squash, cilantro pesto... I also a birthday cake of course--but made the cake with Fiber One pancake mix (added blackberries and some Splenda too!). It was, needless to say, a fibez-exxxxplosion. Haha.

So I had an awful time last night, crying and all because I felt incapable of changing my eating habits. My waist was like 29, almost 30 inches. This morning after the coffee and warm water ;) it was down to 27, almost 26 inches. Keepin it that way ALL DAY yo.

I read a great tip on Skinny Gossip about exercising in the morning, and I think I'm about to sign up for a 9 am aerobics class...so that means, NO TIME FOR BREAKFAST! Feeling good today. Let's hope it sticks.

xxxooo