100 things about me 16-30

Moving on with this little list of things about me....

16. I have no favorites. I like most music, I like most books, I like most movies. I have no favorites.

17. I like to knit. I'm not very good at it and I don't know how to make much more than hats and scarves but I'm pretty darn good at making those.

18. I firmly believe that it is better to be a first rate version if yourself than a second rate version of somebody else. It's not worth your time and effort to pretend to be someone else.

19. I prefer cheetos puffs over crunchy cheetos.

20. I don't like it when it gets too hot which is why I like washington. That and I just adore the rain and the green and the mountains and the ocean and everything is here. You want town, city, country, rivers, lakes, ocean, mountains, and if you prefer it, it's warmer and dryer right over the mountains. Everything you could want is here.

21. I am smart but I'm not overly ambitious and I'm kind of lazy actually. About school and stuff. I hate that you repeat everything over and over and over. Boring.

22. I don't like wearing skirts but I will if I like them or have a reason to. If I do, I always wear shorts underneath it because I'm not ladylike.

23. Dark chocolate is heavenly. Milk chocolate in any more than small amounts makes me nauseous. White chocolate is my least favorite.

24. I liked the twilight books. And the edward cullen in my mind was way hotter than robert pattenson will ever be.

25. I cry at disney movies. I cry every time mufasa dies. Toy story 3 made me cry. Actually I cry at any sad movie. However, I didn't cry when dumbledore died.

26. I don't like cut flowers because they die. I like plants but I kill them. You're better off not going that route with me.

27. I think that everything in the world will eventually turn out alright if we could just agee to disagree about everything and respect basic human rights.

28. I believe in human rights for all humans, even those who have yet to be born. And I think that anything designed to prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg is wrong. If you are responsible enough to have sex you are responsible enough to realize that a baby may result and you should be responsible for making sure that baby is born, whether you raise it or put it up for adoption. I do not believe abortion is in any way right or ok except if someone's life is in danger.

29. I've never been outside the united states, not even to canada which is only a 3 hour drive north.

30. I like to play sudoku number puzzles and have an app on my phone to play them.

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100 things about me 1-15

Do these have to be interesting things? I've done this before in a class my freshman year of high school. It was part of this class we had to take whee we learned more about ourselves only I still don't really know who I am in the truest sense. We were supposed to learn how to be amazing people. Anyway, my list...

1. I was born on June 15, 1987. I think this should be my first fact as it was the most important event in my life. If I hadn't been born I'd have no life.

2. My son was born november 22, 2009. Not the most interesting fact, but again, significance is everything.

3. I graduated high school 2 months early despite having failed 6 classes my freshman year and 2 my sophomore year and being rejected from the "normal" high schools for my junior and senior years.

4. I used to catch garden snakes when I was little and tried to bring them in the house. My brother did too. Our mom wouldn't let us.

5. I was attacked by a ladybug. My brother and I were playing at the Algona park and I saw a ladybug on the bar at the top of the slide. I put my hands on the bar on either side of it and it flew down and landed just above my knee and then I just remember it hurt really bad. My brother got it off me and there was a red spot with a green dot in the middle where it had been.

6. I make up songs and sing at random times when I think nobody is listening. I never remember the songs and they are usually about whatever I'm doing at the time. I get very embarrassed if anyone is listening and finds out.

7. I once hit a softball with the bat directly into my own face. I have nothing more to say on this subject.

8. I rode a bike without training wheels on my own for the first time in the rain on thanksgiving. I rode it down the driveway, turned around, and rode back straight into the back of my grandma's pickup.

9. My middle name is anne after my mom's best friend in 6th grade who died when she was swimming in the green? river when the flood gates were released.

10. I can't tell the difference between coke, pepsi, and store brand cola. Same goes for all other types of pop except barq's root beer. I also can't taste the difference between diet mt dew and regular.

11. I lived in my grandma's house for about 14 years of my life. That's over half of my life.

12. I took japanese in high school because I thought anime was really cool and all my friends were taking it and then I failed first semester. I only failed because I didn't do the homework. I had a 34% in the class at the final and I got 100% on the final, finishing the class with a 56% failing grade anyway.

13. I like peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches. If you've never tried it don't even say "ew" because it's good. Unless you don't like pickles or peanut butter. Or you're allergic.

14. I like little kid songs. I sing along with my son's toys. I sing him silly songs all the time. I just like them.

15. I got credit for a P.E. Class in high school for sitting in the teacher's classroom grading papers for him while everyone else was in the gym. But he understood me. I can't play basketball. I have no hand eye coordination for it.

(posting now, will write more later)

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DDR Exercise? Ok

[655+(4.35*195.4 current weight in pounds)+(4.7*61 height in inches)+(4.7*23 age)]*1.375 lightly active=2613 (rounded up) which basically means I consume more than a 2000 calorie diet. Lol

Actually that's not very funny if you think about it. To maintain my current weight I have to be consuming 2600 calories a day. Um... I don't eat that much so I must be eating or drinking really bad high calorie foods.

Oh, and that formula is only for women, read back in my blog for the post titled the science of weight loss if you'd like to know the equation for men. So my goal is to lose AT LEAST 1.5 pounds a week? I could almost do that only cutting my calories back to 2000... If I did that and exercised enough to burn 140 calories a day, I could lose 1.5 pounds a week. Or change that to 400 calories a day burned and cut back to 2000 calories and that's 2 lbs a week (until I have to recalculate)

I don't feel like counting calories and most things that are good for you don't have labels anyway. Does an apple come with a table of contents? A nutrition label? A suggested serving size? Lol

I'm just going to try to eat healthier and try to exercise more. I found out that 1 song on ddr on light or basic mode seems to burn about 10 calories, so 15 songs on the dance pad a day seems like fun easy exercise. Heck, once I get going I could play way more than 15 in a day.

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Up to date weight loss

I've lost 18.2 lbs since I started my blog. That's less than I expected but higher than I realized. I know I have high expectations for myself with this weight loss thing but that's how I've always been. Expect the greatest and try my hardest to achieve it.

The downside is that this isn't even a pound a week. It's about 3 pounds a month since august which is good. It really is. I know it is. But I know I can do better than good. I know I can put in more effort. And I know I will.

This last week I lost 2.2lbs and that tells me that my "lofty" goals aren't really that lofty because I did that trying to lose 1.5 in a week. And I only installed that app I wrote about on friday.

Some days I make more effort to do things than other days and some days I make no effort at all. Everyone has their lazy days. My favorite days are the ones when I get to do the things I love.

The funny thing is I don't hate exercise. I actually enjoy going for walks and swimming and dancing (when nobody can see me >.>) but I don't make time for it. I played ddr (dance dance revolution) today which is one of my favorite video games. I use the dance pad, I own 2 so if anyone wants to play with me they can <3 but it makes me sweat and my heart beat faster and I drink more (tea, juice, or in today's case, root beer) and it's fun to me still. Even if I fail a song or can't get higher than a d on a light mode song I still love it.

I'm also practicing so come sakura con I won't totally suck in front of other people. At the anime convention most people are nice and tell you that you played well, but again this is my "i have high expectations for myself" speaking. I know I'm better than a d on a yellow song on light mode on ddr supernova. Does that make me a protectionist?

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Monday Weigh In

Today I almost ran to the scale. I downloaded an app that reminds me to workout and keeps track of my weight loss, even measuring it in loss from cutting calories and loss from working out. The best part? It's a free app!

So my weigh in today puts me at 195.4 which sadly is 0.9 higher than the lowest weight for today on my chart, but on the plus side means I'm losing weight. Not that this is thanks to exercising a lot so much as (kind of) changing my diet. I'd lose more if I exercised more and I realize that.

My loss is loss no matter how small or large, and for that I'm happy despite my lack of sticking to my chart. And I'm still under 200 which makes me happy with my progress as well.

Until next monday, this is tiffany signing off (for weight updating)

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