Good weekend. Nice and relaxing, kept up with my weights routine. I’ve made it one week with this routine. Awesome! Looked in th mirror this morning and I was lookin’ pretty good I thought. The weights that I added in addition to yoga and aerobics must be paying off.

So I think I have found an alternative to my soda ‘addiction.’ Friday on cmapus a truck pulled up near the student center where I was running some errands for my campus job and these guys, in the rain, were handing out these energy drinks. Monster Energy drinks, it was an advertising thing I guess. Now normally I would totally be like “Ick!” But they handed me the Low Carb version, made with splenda and only 10 calories per 8 oz. Do I have “I’m trying to loose weight” written all over me? Is it that obvious? Oh well. Anyway, so I tried it at lunch and it was pretty good. So I may make the switch from soda to this energy drink. I’ve picked up some more at the convient store up the street for this week. No way would I drink more than one a day, I’d be way to wired. But Friday it did give me a good boost of energy, and I didn’t crash and burn later like I would with soda. Maybe it’ll help me get throught the late nights in the forcast with all the projects I’ve got going on. 

I have been energized all day. Must be that new energy drink Got up and did my yoga, got to the gym early to warm up and stretch, and then hit aerobics class like no tomorrow and I’m still ready to go. Beautiful weather, it was so nice to not be bundled up. I just fell awesome! What a great start to the week! 

Yesterday was bust with 2 migraines, but i did get in some yoga with some meditation and an extra long savasna. Last week I had meditated on the question “Who am I?” This time I decided to meditate on “Who do I want to be?” and “How do I want to feel?” I just really took some time to relax and refocus myself (and try and get rid of migraine #2). I’ve been running around like crazy with so much going that I really need that refocusing. It was really worth it.

I revised my yoga sequence again to include more aspects of kundalini yoga. I added some spine flexability kriyas, a Bhandas exercies, and an 11 minute Kritan Kriya/meditation. So now it goes: Centering Chant, Spinal Fexibility segment, Sun Salutations, Feature Sequence-Happiness and Hip Openers, Bhandas Exercise, Backbends/Chest Openers segment, Inversions segment, Restoration segment, Kritan Kriya/meditation, and Savasana. Lasts an hour, its great. I did it this morning. the Kritian Krian/meditation was really nice. It’s a meditation for evolutionary change and cleansing.

Can’t wait fro summer!!! I’m so excited to be done with the semester and move and just have an awesome summer. Just the thought of summer has really kept me going through all the craziness as the semester is ending. 23 Days until my summer starts

Wow talks of summer already, and it’s hardly Spring here. 

Hope you are feeling better and that the migraines go away soon.

paula9717 - 18 April 2007 03:50 PM

Wow talks of summer already, and it’s hardly Spring here. 

Hope you are feeling better and that the migraines go away soon.

Thanks It is only Spring here too, but summer starts Thursday, May 10 at 10:00 for me, that’s when I’ll be finished with my last final for the semester. Of course I should be starting summer classes July 10.

Well, I got the May issues of Yoga Journal, Fitness, and SELF today. Some good reading. That’s where I found the WOMAN Challenge. I had been thiniking about reworking my work out schedule; I’m kinda tired of what I’ve been doing. Fitness magazine had a three week thing that I’m going to do. Should be fun.

Details?

Bree

Bree - 22 April 2007 12:02 AM

Details?

Bree

About which thing?

Wellness day

At the student center atrium today thet had wellness day where you could get you blood pressure taken, cholesterol checked, weigh, BMI, etc. It’s been a month since I had my BMI and stuff checked and a year since I had my cholesterol done.

Weight: down 2.6
BMI: down 4.1
Fat%: down 14.8? ( don’t know if they were measuring the same thing, but it looks good)
Cholesterol: 3 pts from target range
BP: 113/78 good

I need to lose just 0.2 Body Fat% to be in my range, and just 1.3 to be in my BMI range. Awesome!!! I’ll have to see where I’m at in 2 weeks when we remeasure for weight crashers. My cholesterol was much better this year too, just 3 points from where I need to be now. I’m definately headed in the right direction and its good to see progress. I definately know that my scale at home is no good, its a cheap one from Wal-Mart (go figure). I think I’m going to start weighing my self at the gym. I was getting kinda discouraged since my scale wasn’t budging. It’s time to throw it out and move. Well, this good news just made my whole week. 

Woo hoo… way to go Jenni!!

14.8% fat change would make sense if you went from like 32% to 27% body fat percentage.

Healthy mind, healthy body.When you accomplish one the other is sure to follow

You can come down here and use my scale anytime you want. And I was looking for details about the contest you’re in, but I found the thread that you started for it. So, nevermind. 

Bree

K, will do

Ethical delimma

So yesterday my Instrumentation project group got together to work on our presentation. The one guy said the day before that he’d finish it that night since he’s done lots of presentations. Well, he couldn’t hardly navigate MS Power Point, so I don’t know what he was thinking. Needless to say it was a disaster. Then we went to lecture, which was about making a good power point and presenation for this lab. We had lots of work to do. We then went to the ME bldg to conduct our test. The instructor had told us to do it like 30 times to get some really good data to analyze. Well, we ran through it 3 times and then the guys in the group just said make up the rest of the numbers. I really don’t feel comfortable makong up numbers, its not right. Not for a stupid project and not in the real world. Completely unethical. Then again that guy was trying to say he’d do the whole power point. Well after early the rest of the group really didn’t trust him with that (he’s the guy I wanted to beat with my umbrella; I have great restraint), so one of the other guys said for me just to send out an email and divided it up. Well I did I gave myself all the data analysis. I end up getting a multi meter, recalibrating the whole thing, and running it myself. I only got up to 20 runs and that’s all I’m going to do, it was making my back hurt to run the tests. Now I just have to analyze all the data and put together my slides. So I’ve emailed the instructor to fill him in on the situation, plus to get some help on my part. I want to be ethical about things, and I think I have, I also don’t want a backlash from the group before I’m done with them. What a pain this has been.

I actually have to be out of town Monday, the first day of presentations for our lab section, so I had to let the instructor know that and request that our group go Wednesday. I kinda hope since I’m not going to be there he calls out me group for the presentation anyway and asks them some tough questions about the data and just really calls them out on it. So bad of me? I just don’t want them to get credit for their lack of effort. Their excuses are that they’re busy with other classes, but so am I. I’ve got another project due next week that we haven’t even started. Grrrr.

Yesterday it just seemed like everything was out of control and so frustrating. I was able to keep my cool, the yoga has helped with that. I took my frustrations out on the stair steeper at Weight Crashers, what a nice distraction. I did get soem good studying in though. I’m really going to make an effort to do some yoga meditation today and refocus. I’m not going to let this whole lab thing get to me.

I just hope that I’m doing the right thing here and am not going to be burned later. I keep telling myself that if this happened in the real world that making up numbers would result in a firing. Not to mention, I would like a to be able to put this project on my resume a long with my other projects this semester.  I’ve never been faced with such a delimma; this will be a learnign experience for sure. Updates to follow…

Jenni, I completely understand your frustration and I used to deal with similar circumstances when I was in college (Business major). We had a couple of people who were completely loafing on a group project (e.g., not showing up at the library when the group got together) and we called out these people also.

What happened is that we had to do a lot of extra work (like you are doing) but our main objective was to make sure that the two people who were not putting in their share of work didn’t get the same grade as us. Our professor was very understanding and had us all document our experiences working with these people so he could justify giving the loafers a lower grade.

Unfortunately, this is a harsh reality about the real world… some people in group projects tend to lead and do the majority of work while other tend to loaf. In the real world, you also should bring up issues to your bosses attention when you feel something is being done unethically or you feel there are individuals not carrying their weight. If you express your concerns in a diplomatic fashion, I don’t thing anyone is going to look negatively at you bringing up your concerns (except, of course, the loafers who deserve to be called out).

Way to use exercise to channel your frustrations!