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Yesterday: easy 4 mile run

Today: athletic conditioning and 2 mile run after dinner!

ya hoo!

beauty-and-fitness:

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So here are the products I got from the yoga festival!

CocaVia Daily Cocoa Extract Supplement

Nature’s Bounty Optimal Solutions Complete Protein & Vitamin Shake Mix in Vanilla Bean (whew that I was mouthful)

Aveeno Active Naturals Nourish and Strengthen (Shampoo & Conditioner)

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So as you can see, the CocoaVia came in two packets- Sweetened Dark Chocolate and Unsweetened Dark Chocolate. I have a wicked sweet tooth so I liked the “sweetened” a lot more, because the “unsweetened” kind of felt like I was putting straight cocoa powder in my oatmeal and who wants that, really? (oh and I primarily used this for my oatmeal, though the suggested uses are: coffee, milk, yogurt, and oatmeal)

The Nature’s Bounty Complete Protein and Vitamin Shake Mix I mixed with iced water and it tasted like booty. Just really unpleasant texture and kind of icky flavor, I didn’t like it at all.

The Aveeno I really liked! Nice and light for everyday and a pleasant scent. My hair is very thick, wavy, coarse, and occasionally (who am I kidding, most of the time) frizzy, if that helps.

Health: CocoaVia is vegetarian, but may not be suitable for vegans because it is produced with egg, and dairy (in addition to wheat, nuts)

Nature’s Bounty is “suitable for vegetarians,” and contains no preservatives, artificial colors, gluten, wheat, yeast, or fish. it does, however, contain milk and soy ingredients.

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It turns out procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth.

You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything.

But in real life, you can’t avoid doing things. We have to earn a living, do our taxes, have difficult conversations sometimes. Human life requires confronting uncertainty and risk, so pressure mounts. Procrastination gives a person a temporary hit of relief from this pressure of “having to do” things, which is a self-rewarding behavior. So it continues and becomes the normal way to respond to these pressures.

Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them. Their older siblings may have been high achievers, leaving big shoes to fill, or their parents may have had neurotic and inhuman expectations of their own, or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.

David Cain, “Procrastination Is Not Laziness” (via pawneeparksdepartment)

Good morning! (and Happy Fathers Day to all those fathers out there who religiously read my blog!!!!)

Friday’s workout was a three miler and some body weight exercises (that I added weights to so..). Yesterday I was at work training for 9 hours, so I considered that sufficient exercise. Today is pretty much open- my dad is lazing around, and I’m waiting for my mom to get breakfast going-but I’m thinking: outdoor run because it looks deliciously ominous outside and then perhaps some hot yoga because I would really like to sweat off this week. —-> I feel like I have been in a negative, anxious rut that has kind of diminished my interest in eating well and socializing (usually two rather large components to my happiness). A conversation yesterday brought it all crumbling down, as conversations with this friend tend to, and I was reminded of just how lucky I am despite the minor frustrations that manifest themselves as roadblocks in my day and in my life. Despite this past week, I think I’ve been pretty ok. It’s funny, sometimes during random day-to-day activities or interactions, I’ll just stop and think “I’m happy,” which is a big deal (not that I’m depressed or anything, I just tend to disallow personal happiness a lot of the time because of inhibition or uncertainty)! Yeah! Ok, enough of that cheese.<—-

In respect to my body: I’m the lightest I’ve been in 4+ years, meaning that I’m basically my weight freshman year of high school, before the 20+ pound blitz began. I’m happy about this. It is gratifying to see hard work pay off. However, I’m more mindful of the lack of correlation between my weight and my fitness, my overall health, etc. My body is still massively under construction. I plan to lose *hopefully* around 8 more pounds, and add a bit of muscle. I know there is no specific “runner body,” I am definitely aiming to slim my legs/hips/arms so my “muscularity” is more defined.

To Do: I got a bunch of freebies at a Yoga festival I attended (w/Elif and her sister) and I thought I’d do a review of the products I tried, might be fun, right?!?

-Decide which training program to do next….(i.e. bikini burn, insanity, etc, etc) Suggestions?

-Upload “before” pictures. I was cleaning out picture folders from my mom’s computer and there are a heinous amount of my progress pictures circa 2009-2011. They were honestly almost disturbing to look at because of the state of my body, but also because of the countless miserable expressions on my face. However! They were a reminder that I’ve come so far, and that that is something to be proud of.

If you took the time to read this, thanks! :)

Hope you all have a relaxing Sunday!