Hehehe..

So first things first. As of today, Friday the 21st. I've lost 20 pounds in two weeks... and I also had feelings of.. anger toward naturally skinny people. On that note.. I'm okay with it now, some of us just have to work harder.


Today I decided to work out after work. I jumped on an eliptical for 15 minutes at some pretty good results.

I did 5 minutes at resistance 5.
2.5 minutes at resistance 8
2.5 minutes at resistance 10
4.9 minutes at 5 for cooldown
and..10 sec of resistance 10 to mess with myself.

So yeah, all in all I had fun with it.

I also wanted to post something a friend sent to me.

 "I love how people think that I am naturally skinny /sarcasm/.  In honestly I don't really care what people really say here, but I do not have an easy ride to being small, let alone having only 5%-6% body fat. 

 

If people would've realized back at the end of summer, I had increased my body fat to 13% (approx).  Many people would have never guess, until I ran around shirtless.  But only those up in Santa Cruz would've noticed had I still been living there.  But in actuality I have to have a pretty rigorous diet and exercise routine to be able to from the Freshman 15. 

My diet excludes the following foods over 90% of the time or more:

- Desserts

- Sodas

- Most foods that include high fructose syrup

- Fried Foods

- Most red meats

- Hydrogenated oils / trans fats

- Most fast food

- Corn based cereal

- Starch only foods (meaning only gold fish for a meal/snack, or chips only for meal/snack)

 

Then I also try to keep a ratio of 60% protein, 30% carbs, and 10% fats.  But depending on the food, say avocado, then I will exceed that (because I love the food, and contains good fats).  Though I try to stick to that ratio, I probably don't do it very often.  It really is just sticking to the above for what foods to avoid, and ensuring that I get enough vitamins/minerals.

And anyone who thinks I don't eat enough, I eat A LOT.  I can eat a 2 person course meal at the local Korean restaurant, in one sitting.  When half an hour passes by, I am already hungry again!  You can think of me as a mobile garbage disposal these days :).

Protein drinks?  I gave those up a while ago because they didn't do that much and real food is much more satisfying. 

 

Oh.  I run almost every day.  If I am tried, I force myself to run, and when my legs feel like they're exhausted I push myself to keep going until there's no energy left.  Then after running I go to the gym and lift weights for about 1-2 hours.  This is about 4-6 days a week, every week.  And I only rest one day between running and then start again.  The most difficult part is telling myself to exercise when I really just want to be at home relaxing, eating junk food and being a sloth. 

In reality, this routine that I have is not simple nor easy.  It would be nice if people realize that me not ballooning up to the size of that of the average American is no easy task.  I work at it everyday.  I work very hard to making sure I am fit.  It's only that people fail to realize this or fail to see the efforts I put into keeping an active life style"