On Again, Off Again. Hopefully More of the Former.

Seriously, my lack of commitment to weight loss and blogging is beginning to look like that on again off again boyfriend that you can't shake off. And I'm getting annoyed.

I haven't blogged for more than a month and my weight loss has been...zero pounds. Well, to be fair, at least I didn't gain any weight. But I did stop going to the gym and watching what I ate, and I did start eating more and more takeout Mexican and Chinese food. However, about a week or so ago, I decided that enough was enough and I was bored of not feeling healthy and not being able to run up the stairs to my room.

So I went to the gym twice last week and have started doing my random calisthenics routine. It's sort of this random mix of exercises I remember from gym class plus things I read in magazines and on the internet or saw on TV or whatever. Nothing's too intense, although if I work at it, I can get my heart rate up and feel all sweaty and worked out and sore the next day. The routine also varies depending on my mood, my surroundings, my time that day, and what body parts I feel need addressing. Last spring, I was hardcore on toning my stomach. I did 100 crunches a day for about a month and they worked! (Along w/diet and exercise) I still do crunches sometimes, but right now I'm focusing on getting rid of some arm flab. It's times like these that I think about buying dumbells, but then my thrifty side comes out and points out the water bottles and other makeshift weights already lying in my reach.

I have a new (single!) room this year, which is a bit small, but enough room for me to breathe in. It's the furthest dorm from campus, which is a pain, but at least I'm getting some more walking in--and uphill at that! However, the distance makes me less inclined to walk all the way down to Wooden, the official UCLA gym that's stocked with every machine you can think of and has a swarm of TV's and multimedia things to make working out as fun as possible. So I resort to the workout rooms in every building. The one for my building now is larger, mainly with more floorspace and mats for yoga or whatever. There are two treadmills, 4 ellipticals (2 types, one of which is new to me), and two cycling machines. Which is all fine and dandy, but I really do miss the workout room in my old building, with the stairmaster and the weights machine and the rowing machine. *Sob* I have a strange unnatural love for this machine out of all the exercise machines available at any gym. So much that it's actually made me walk down to Wooden for my exercise last week, just so I could visit it. Apparently, the erg burns a lot of calories for what seems like fairly light exercise. I mean, you're sitting, so it's easy, right? I love that the rowing machine works out every part of your body at once, instead of just focusing on legs like treadmills and bikes. Sure, ellipticals work the arms too, but most of us know how effective ellipticals are for weight loss. I also like that even when the gym's packed and there's a twenty minute wait for the treadmills, I can almost always still find a free rowing machine. Most people don't know how to use the thing properly, so I always feel like I'm in on some hush hush secret.

Anyway, enough professing of my love to the rowing machine. This post is long enough as it is. I'll write more tomorrow. And this time I actually mean tomorrow, and not two months later, k?