Beautiful times in San Francisco

Woo down one point five lbs this week. Sorta. Homer (my Homedics scale) couldn't quite make up his mind today with how much I lost this week, but 1.5 seems pretty safe to claim. Which is nice, especially since the opera this week has made my schedule so crazy. What is nice is I've still managed to eat semi-decently and get a bit of exercise in my days. It has been beautiful out and the opera theater is right in one of the most beautiful spots in SF, so it's been very pleasant walking/jogging/failing at running around the area.

Don't believe that it can be not foggy in San Francisco? Let me prove it to you!

Golden Gate is in this picture I swear

Alcatraz from the curvy pier

Fisherman's Wharf / Beachy area by Ghiradelli Square / Bay


These were taken with my phone so the quality isn't the greatest, but note how blue that sky is. Sometimes I love where I live. You know, when I'm not around the crazier parts of Market Street.

GOOD NEWS! (that has nothing to do with food)

The plan today was originally to go to the gym before rehearsal, since there's a lovely 24 Hour Fitness right by the theater, but then I realized that I left my sneakers in my locker at school, which would take me a solid hour out of my way to retrieve. So instead, I had a dance party in my room while watching season 3 of "Angel". The result? 3 PointsPlus Points. Fantastic.

In other news today was also a day filled with cookies and desserts and not the best choices. Good things happened yesterday so I bought a cookie to celebrate, which I did knowing I could afford it and wanted to treat myself. And then...I got to the theater. And someone had made mint brownies and someone else brought the most magical cookies ever filled with like 15 different kinds of chocolate chips and peanut butter and marshmallows and it was basically a cookie designed with me directly in mind. I love hodgepodges of flavors. So...there's that. Bad choices.

ON TO THE GOOD NEWS! Which has nothing to do with my diet but much to do with my self confidence. So you may remember how I said I made the finals of a local opera competition? And how I was just excited to right "Competition Finalist" on my resume? WELL I WON. And not like I placed and won some money (which would have been very awesome in it's own right) but I came in FIRST. Which is AMAZING since that's the first time I've ever even made the finals. I'm pretty psyched and feeling pretty damn fantastic about it. Also my voice lessons for this summer and change are completely covered financially, so that's a load off my mind. I basically flipped out when I read the email that listed me in first place. Like...seriously. Dancing, crying, cheering in my room. By myself, at 1 am when the email went out. Craziness. But I'm so happy!!! It was seriously the pick me up I needed at this point, so thank you, Universe!

Little tiny loss

Ah ha! A slight stall! I knew it would happen eventually. After my random new weeks of -3 lbs per, I hit a week of only losing about half a pound. FINALLY! I'm so weird to be okay with this, but I am. I was losing weight so weirdly fast without really trying that the scientist in me kept wanting to experiment. Just how much can I slack off on this program and still lose weight? And now I more or less have my answer. I think this is also the last three weeks catching up to me. So get on track with veggies a bit more and we'll be fine for next week. I'm okay with it.

Back to being a rehearsal slave today. My shining moment in this opera involves moving a bookcase and singing "Oh." Yup, that's where I am right now.

It's official

Ok people, I'm officially dieting. I just ordered a side of steamed veggies as a snack at the mall. Something is completely wrong with this picture but I'll be damned if it isn't satisfying.