August 2, 2011

• Trying Again

  So last week I decided to go on the HCG diet again. June was a bad month to try and do it and I had to wait another month before I could try again. Your body get's used to the HCG drops after about 5 weeks, or it starts to anyway. When that happens you start losing weight slower. So that is why you do it every other month. It get's pretty annoying eating pretty much the same thing every day for a month so even if I didn't have to do it this way I probably would.  I am doing my two day load, I'm on my 2nd day now. I am pretty sure nothing will come up at least for a  few weeks that will stop me from following it perfectly this time.  I am really looking forward to losing more weight. I am also starting my yoga and Palates routine again to help a little more.I am on my 2nd day of my load. Pretty much for the first two days you are on HCG you make sure you are never hungry. You can pretty much eat anything you want for the first two days. After the first two days it becomes harder though. I think I explained it in a previous post. I went to a buffet we have here, this place called "Chukarama". It's a really good place to eat. I went there for my load today. They have really good food. I had a little bit of everything. I started out with potatoes, corn, a scone, and something else that slips my mind right now.  I had ham, a roll, and some peas for my 2nd plate. After that I had a pretty big salad.  For dessert I had strawberry shortcake, and strawberry frozen yogurt. All around it was a pretty good meal. I usually don't eat that much, but when you are loading it's a good thing.

  I've been kind of neglecting my jogging, I know that isn't good. I have some motivational issues sometimes and that is pretty much the biggest thing that has stopped me from making more progress than I have made this summer. I will become good at running eventually, I just have to fix some personal issues first though. I love to run a lot it just takes a lot of effort and dedication.  I am positive that sometime soon I will be able to get into it for real. I did go jogging a little bit a couple of weeks ago but it wasn't much. I was just figuring out a good routine, how much I should run, etc. 

  I got contacted by my counselor at Vocational Rehab a couple of weeks ago, and also got sent a letter. Vocational rehab is a place where people with disabilities can go and get job counseling. I haven't seen my counselor for a while, probably in a couple of years, which I'm not supposed to do. I managed to get away with it this long somehow.  Anyway, we were informed by letter that I should probably set up and appointment with my councilor. We did that sometime last week.  What happens at vocational rehab is you basically discuss what you think you want to do for a job and your councilor can make suggestions, tell you what you should probably do and probably should not do as well. We talked about possibly finding me some kind of computer related job while I am at school working towards my degree in English. We came up with the idea that I would probably do good in some kind of technical support job, helping people solve problems, something like that. I'm pretty sure my first job will have SOMETHING to do with computers that is for sure. I'm not quite ready to start working with a lot of people, for now it's better for me to find a job where I don't have to work / interact with a lot of people. That kind of job would probably overload my brain and make me really stressed.  it was really nice seeing my councilor, even though I was skeptical at first, and I didn't really want to see him all that much it turned out okay. I'm not sure if I will see him again any time soon but we will see.  I have a feeling that in th end I'm going to end up finding my own job, I'm not sure though.

  it has been raining a lot the past couple of weeks. It seems like every other day the day either starts out cloudy, and then gets sunny half way through, or the exact opposite. I have really liked the rain though, because it has been really hot inside my room sometimes. I have been finding myself wanting to get wet a lot lately.  Yesterday when I went to Vocational Rehab, before I left it was only raining a little. Once we got to our destination however it was raining like crazy and I got my wish finally while we were running to the building, I got completely soaked. by the time we got inside, both me and my dad were both dripping wet. It felt really nice quite honestly, to me anyway.  I hope it rains like that again soon.

  So you know I have been working on the Star Trek episodes lately. I am on Deep Space Nine now, on season 6. I am almost on season 7. I have been spending a lot of time lately just watching Star Trek. I have always been a fan but never really watched the episodes as seriously as I am now. Star Trek is something I never get tired of.  It has been nice just watching it again. I was really young when it was on TV. My favorite character from TNG is Data, my favorite character from DS9 is Odo, my favorite character from Voyager is 7 of 9. I haven't watched the original series or Enterprise yet. Honestly I'm not sure I will ever watch Enterprise, it just doesn't have the same feel to it.

  Besides this stuff that has been happening, nothing much has happened the past couple of days. i should probably note that I added some of the entries I did not post to Xanga. I had them on google docs, but I didn't get them posted on Xanga, I was feeling a bit lazy. I have most of them up now but I stil have a few more July entries to add to my blog.

  I guess this is all for now. I will make sure to keep you updated more now that I have my energy back. If I forgot anything I will add it in tomorrow's entry.

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