New Years Resolutions + Tips on How to Stick to your Goal (and why I hate them)

I hate new years resolutions so much. I love making goals it is just the idea that we have to make goals at the end of the year for the beginning of the new year is just arbitrary and let's face it--- just setting the goal doesn't work.

It never works. You can't just say "I am going to do ______" and then do it, you need to create measurable, actual steps towards that goal. Not many people realize this and therefore their goals are not completed.

Goals are amazing. Nothing is really ever completed without a goal, unless it was a fluke or opportunity. But you aren't going to lose 50lbs by fluke, I'm sorry to break it to you. I love goals. But too many goals created around this time are left unfulfilled and it drives me crazy. The idea of only being able to create goals around this time is also not the best because you can create goals at any time in your life, not just at the end of a year.

Although, I have been procrastinating actually writing out my own goals so I am doing that now and here. I am taking advantage of the mob of people writing resolutions to write my own.

So here are my tips to complete your goals:

1) Write it down.
As unoriginal as this sounds, your goal becomes more real when written on paper. Put it somewhere you will constantly see it and be reminded of it.

2) Create reasonable and timely steps.
Do you remember "SMART" goals from school or work? Yes, yes they are fucking annoying. But guess what? They work. If you do not know what "SMART goals" are, click here for a good resource.

3) Be REALISTIC.
In the word "SMART" the "R" stands for realistic. I think this is a very important step to be taken seriously. Don't set a goal you can't attain. Maybe you want to run a marathon by the end of the year but then you think 1) Marathons in the winter are cold and I don't think I'll be ready by fall, 2) I need to lose weight first and 3) My eating patterns need to change, then you are probably setting something currently unattainable. If you change the time limit to a further date and make baby steps and create smaller goals like losing 10 pounds in 6 weeks, then you can work towards a larger goal.

4) SMALLER GOALS
Even if you think it is hard to come up with smaller goals to complete for apart of your larger goal do it! Write a minimum for 15 small goals to do your big goal and write one of those small goals to be completed immediately. For example, if you want to eat healthy in the new year, a first immediate step could be to research what your body needs in the way of fruits, veggies, calories, carbs, etc. A lot of people's problems are that they don't follow through with these goals. You may have decided to get in shape by getting a gym membership, but as a gym member I can't tell you how it pains me to see people pile into the gym for the first few weeks and then disappear. Force yourself to do personal training, write in advance for the whole year what days you will go to the gym.

5) Don't rush
Don't rush through your goal and make a lot of progress in January to be forgotten about the rest of the year. This goes along with the creating of smaller goals.

6) & Don't forget!
Keep your goal fresh in your mind. Write it everywhere. Put reminders on your phone. Tell your friends to remind you. Do whatever it takes to not forget to complete your small goals in order to achieve your larger goal.

7) KNOW WHY!
Why are you even completing your goal? For example, many people just decide to lose weight because they should and it's been on their mind but then they forget the reason. Is it to be healthy? To run a marathon? Write the significance at the end of your goals and remind yourself of it daily.

I really encourage everyone creating goals to follow these steps and the steps of "SMART" goals. Do what it takes to get what you want.

Anyways, so here are my goals. You can use my goals as sort of a template to write your own as well.

1) I will run my marathon in under 4hrs 30 mins. I have signed up for a marathon for early May and it is my first marathon. I hope to run it in under 4hrs and 30 mins. I am going to complete this goal by running a minimum of twice a week. I will also be able to run 32km by the end of March. I will stretch after every run to avoid injury. I will eat properly by getting the right amount of carbs and I will hydrate properly as well. I want to complete this marathon because I want to know that I can run 42.2km and I want to be healthy.

2) I will have an average over 70% in university. I will accomplish this task by completing the majority if not all of my readings, leaving enough time to study before each exam and test, fully editing my papers, participating in class discussions, visiting profs when I am having issues, prioritizing what needs to get done and completing all tasks. I want to accomplish this goal because I want an honours BA.

3) I will get a job before the summer. I will accomplish this goal by applying to places, not giving up and looking twice a week online for new openings. I want to get a job so I can earn money to not deplete my education fund too much.

4) I will manage my money and not overspend. I will create a budget and I will stay in my budget by tracking my spending and prioritizing my needs and not buying things that are unnecessary too often. I want to do this so I can come out of university with no debt and without needing a loan other than OSAP.

Good luck on the creation of your own goals! Let me know your goals in the comments.

Updates & Where is my blog going?

I used to be able to think in a certain pattern and usually that would be the way my blogs were written but I cannot think in those patterns anymore.

I realize how insane that sounds but I just don't feel like myself anymore. I find it hard to think, not in general, but just about the things I used to think about. Do you ever look back on photos or videos of yourself and feel different about yourself there? I feel like that with a lot of my blog posts.

I think it's just because I've stopped trying to figure things out. I have things mostly figured out, or at least I haven't started re-questioning them yet. My blog posts were trying to figure things out. They were opinion pieces about philosophy and psychology.

But I've lost that sense of my person. I feel so differently now. I have changed so much since I've started university.

So now I am not sure what direction to take this blog in. I was thinking of taking it on a route to focus on ideas in education because that is what I am mainly passionate about but I also want to talk a lot more about psychological disorders and whatnot. A lot of things that I want to write about I don't want people in my life to find online, so I find it hard to put what is actually in my thoughts out there to the world.

In a way I want a teen-directed blog about body image and depression but I also feel like that is too mainstream. Although I have gone through that and I realize it is mainstream so I feel like I could put a different spin on it.

Maybe my blog will just be life anecdotes.

I don't know. But I have decided to do some goals. I am going to work on writing up some new years goals and I will put that up on the 31st or 1st.

Now, I will provide some people with a few updates on my life in general.

I am in my first year of university now, I keep switching my major but what I am currently hoping to do is a double major in psych and english with a minor in philosophy.

I have a boyfriend now. We have been dating for close to 4 months and we are very happy.

I am going to be getting tested for learning disabilities soon. I'm not having any major issues, it's just I think I may have ADHD or some other learning disability that medication could help and I need a diagnosis.

I signed up for a marathon which I will be running in May next year!

I am just going to come up with a public list of blog ideas for me to write in the future, just so you can see potential things I will be writing about:

- Things I miss about high school
- A post about my view on art
- Bullshit, money & university
- Differences between high school and university
- Things that bug me
- How I view my body
- Idolization and celebrities
- Money making the world go around

If any of those topics appeal to you, please tell me in the comments because I will be sure to write about something that interests readers.

For now, I wish you a Merry Christmas. It is Christmas eve, after all.

Are you sure you want to go to post-secondary?

It has become a societal norm to go to college or university after high school. Is this necessarily a bad norm though? In my opinion, not at all. Education and learning are the most important things in one's life. It's all we really do. We learn things all of the time. We learn to communicate with others, we learn to do new things, everything we do has been learnt at one point in our lives. But the problem is that universities and colleges aren't as focused upon this idea of "learning" anymore.

Anyways, let me approach the actual question. Are you sure you want to go to post-secondary?

Reasons to go:

You really cannot get a job without it... that is a lie. You can. Many people do. You can even probably find a fairly good job without it, but you do need to make connections to get a job. So unless you have connections before entering post secondary to give you an amazing job in which you can still move up in to better salaries and this job will make you happy, you are set. But as it stands, more people do not have these connections, so you need to go to university/college to make these connections.

It actually isn't that bad. Despite what I said earlier, you do learn some valuable lessons. Although considering the fact that I am in english/psych/philosophy you can't do much with those degrees without a PhD unless you want to be a teacher. So I have learned valuable lessons but the classes and programs that teach you these valuable lessons aren't going to get you as good of a job. Liberal education doesn't prepare you for the monetary world we live in. I was representing the english department at my school and a grandmother was finding out information with her granddaughter about the program because she is a really good writer but she wants her to get a job and was wondering what a BA in english could do for it. I told it to her straight up, "Not much". It is an extremely valuable education... just not in terms of money.

It is a norm. Simply, post-secondary is just something we do. Although your liberal education may teach you to operate outside of some of the norms, and I am also telling you to, both of us will also tell you that is really hard. Acting against the majority is hard. This is why you should go to school after high school.

Reasons not to go. Instead of giving you actual reasons, I'll just tell you what I have learned so far in university.

1) University is completely illogical. I want to become an english & philosophy high school teacher and I am planning on doing a double major in English & psychology with a minor in philosophy. At my school I need to have 6 credits of science. So to attain my BAs in english and psychology to become a high school teacher I am taking geology. This makes SO much sense... not.

2) I have learned how to take bubble sheet tests. I am learning how to learn. I don't learn the material; I learn what the professor wants and I give him/her that said thing. So if the prof is going to give me a multiple choice test I do not study the material to learn it, I study the material in a very minor way in which I slightly understand it enough to be able to know which answer is correct. Can I give you specific definitions of things from psychology? Nope. But I can tell you the correct answer if you give me 4 options. It is much, much easier. Learning nothing is much easier.

3) It is all about money. This was one of the first lessons I learned in my english lecture. Universities and colleges live off of your money, that is how they stay around. But they really do not care about the individual students' success, even if they say they do. Well, they care about the top students because they want them to go out and advertise the university for them to get more students to give them money. University is a business.

So should you go?

It is your choice.

I would tell you not to go, but then again, I am not dropping out because it is all bullshit. Why? Because I have a goal.

I want to become a high school teacher. I want to become a leader. I want to become a philosopher for education. I want to show people how messed up the education system really is. The easiest method would be to finish university, word towards my MA and PhD in education and then get right into the belly of the beast of education to fix things. 

I just haven't decided whether I want to fix high school or university education systems. 

I keep using this word "fix" to describe what I want to do as if things are already broken. It's a weird word-choice. I don't necessarily want to fix things, rather, I want to change things. Not for the better, not for the worse, just for the logical. What is happening now makes no sense to me. People are doing things they hate to do more things they hate just so they can earn money. All of this unhappiness is unsettling to me. I also hate happiness, well, I don't HATE happiness, I just think that there should be a limit to happiness. I just think individuals are too stressed in society and they are too stupid to operate outside of the norms so what I need to do is change the norms so their stress levels go down.

If that makes any sense.

What is your opinion of post-secondary education? Are you going? Are you in it? Did you go?

My 5 Qualms with University

I have some qualms with university life. This isn't specific to university classes and academics, more of the atmosphere, things surrounding university and residence, perhaps.

#5: Money

I feel kind of weird complaining about money but it is a common belief that people in university really are scraping by financially. Many and arguably most people come out with loads of debt and with no jobs available. But I am not here to complain about the government, loans or the unavailability of jobs, I am simply stating that it is ridiculous. Something does need to be done.

The other thing is that getting even a part-time job during university it hard. Everybody is trying to. I have a pretty good resume for an 18 year old, I have applied at a few places, I have not received any calls back. Although I haven't tried too hard. Still, I applied at probably 5-10 places over the course of the past few months and I have heard nothing.

It is ridiculous that people should even be working during school. It should be just time for study. If you add a social life to work and school it is insanely stressful. But more on that later.

#4: The Prestige
I hate how some universities have prestige over others. Does it really matter? It is about course content and good professors. Just because a university has a good rep doesn't mean that it has professors that are passionate and love their subject. Of course professors like that can be discovered at prestigious universities.

I just don't understand why one is better. Just go to the more inexpensive one and don't waste thousands of extra dollars.

#3: The Usage of University

That is a weird way to title my argument.

Many people go to school to attain a certain career, but that shouldn't be the only reason. So many people forget that university is a school and the purpose of a school is to learn. Yes, I understand earning money and attaining a career is important to many people but deep, deep down the ultimate purpose of school is to learn.

I just want students to realize this.

#2: The lack of adaptability

In high school education is becoming much more tailored to the individual with IEPs, specialized programming for advanced students, levelled courses, etc. University isn't like this. What you have is a lecture hall, exams, essays and readings. That is your structure. Sometimes there are labs. Sometimes there are co-ops. But it is all the same. You take 5 courses at once from Sept-Dec and then Jan-April, or at least this is my school.

There are no options to do things like take one course at a time for one month. I hate it.

Personally, I know I don't learn best by the university lecture method and having 5 courses at a time. I would much rather spend 3-4 weeks on one course at a time and not have lecture and just have everything in a book or online. I submit assignments and work within my own deadline. This is how I work, but not how university does.

#1: Stress

Everyone is stressed. Everyone is stressed. Everyone is stressed. It is constant. It is all of the time. Why are we stressed? Money, friends, school, grades, money, family, money, work, time, effort, assignments, readings, school, school, school. Sure, we have centres that offer counselling to help with time management and money management and emotional counselling and what not but so many people require these services... and they barely help. If people need these services to reduce stress maybe we shouldn't be trying to "fix" individuals and we should be fixing the entire school system.


What are your qualms with university? College? High school? Education in general?

WORDS ARE OVERUSED

Ancient philosophers decided to write down their thoughts only when they were important.

We decide to write down what we were pooping in on twitter.

Well then, as I see, things have changed.

We just carelessly use words. We throw them around without meaning. All of the sentences I am typing I am using the first word that comes to my mind when I could use diction and select better sounding words to make this sound better.

Well that is not happening.

As a society we have overused words. Just look around, on every single advertisement, there are words promoting useless crap. Useless, useless words.

We use words to communicate, obviously. The written word is the easiest to communicate because it can be seen everywhere by people who speak that language. Sure, we could communicate through videos now, I suppose, but there is never a video to support words, yet there are words to support videos.

I am obviously overthinking this concept.

Words have lost their special meaning, though. Words used to be special, they were used to write down things that we may want people in the future to know. They were used to record history and tell stories. We use the written word for communication, now, too. We wrote letters, but even then the use of words was much more artistic.

Do you ever just look at something and think "Why? Why the hell is that there?". Words are being used without a single shit, again.

We overuse some words.

Words lose their meaning after overuse. They gain a new meaning after a while. For example, the word "bully" used to be a term of endearment. Words just change.

I think we also use too many words. So many thoughts can be conveyed in a smaller amount of words. Implementing things like word minimums in essays is kind of redundant if you can explain your thought in less words. If you are able to convey an idea, explanation or argument in less words, that should be rewarded! You aren't droning on and on and on. Political science is like that. A lot of the political science texts I have read are repetitive and circular. Michael Ignatieff's book The Lesser Evil could probably be half the length. Convey your fucking idea in less words.

This blog post isn't going to turn into a book because it's a fairly simple idea. We overuse words to the point where their meaning is lost. The purpose of words has changed from being maintaining history to communication and now we are maintaining pointless history and having pointless communication. Does the "Hey" "hey" "Sup?" "Nm, you?" "Nm" conversation sound familiar? Pointless.

Anyways. That is all for now. What are your thoughts?

Eating disorders and Body image

Time to revisit this thought.

In the class I peer tutor, we've been talking about eating disorders and body image. I relate to this a lot, and therefore have been thinking about it a lot.

In past blog posts I have talked about my struggles with body image and food, but I have a lot to add, now.

I've struggled with having a negative body image since about grade 8. You hit this stage once or even more than once during puberty where you start gaining more body fat. In grade 8 I used to wear a lot of skinny jeans and I felt okay about myself, but I always sort of thought in the back of my mind that I should be aware of this part of my life when I start gaining weight, so I can counteract it by exercising and dieting.

I started thinking about dieting in about grade 6 or 7. I remember one day I just thought "If I eat fat, I'll get fat!" so I thought I should restrict the amount of fat I take in by looking at nutrition labels. I had no idea how much fat I was supposed to have, so I think I made up some random number like limiting my fat to 20g a day, or something like that. My mom saw me looking at a label on some cookies at my grandma's house, and asked me what I was doing, I told her, and she said that fat really isn't a huge part of losing weight. So I stopped looking at labels.

Until a year or so after that, I was on yahoo.ca and I saw this article that was titled something like "The best way to lose weight", so I clicked on it. Essentially it just said that calories are essential to watch, when you are trying to lose weight.

So there began the counting of calories. I never knew that counting calories could actually be a bad thing, because I thought I was just being healthy by watching it.

But then I remember getting closer to grade 8 grad, and limiting my calories more and more. I found a website that told me I should have about 1,600 calories. I read somewhere else that you need at least 1,200 calories (as a girl) to be able to function somewhat healthily. I read somewhere else that you require 800 calories in a day to live. As I got closer to grad, my calorie intake of 1,600 was soon limited to 1,200, but 1,100, wouldn't hurt, so I strived for that.

Just so you know, this is what I looked like at grade 8 grad (on the left):

I was probably about 5'5'' and somewhere around 100-110 pounds (I forget).

I am naturally skinny, naturally thin I should say. I saw pictures from my childhood, and I looked thin. I never really had that baby fat thing going on when I was 3/4 that kids usually lose. I never really was chubby at all. But I actually did find a few photos of me when I was 7/8 and my stomach was a little chubby. So maybe I am not naturally skinny?

I know I did lose weight during this time. I forget how much, but at one point I remember seeing the scale, and whatever the number was, it freaked the hell out of me (but really, it was a normal number, it's just since I was growing, I was gaining weight). I do remember that I got my weight down to 102. I think I saw a number like 112-115. I was 12 or 13.

Then high school started. The counting calories became insane. I had so many foods calories memorized. I wrote it down. Frequently throughout grade 9 and most of grade 10, you would probably be able to ask me how many calories I ate that day, and I could tell you a pretty precise number.

It got worse though. Even though I ate the right amount of calories (usually), I started going insane counting calories. I would look up calorie info on my phone and my laptop when nobody was looking. One time, I even went to the extent of taking the recipe my mom was making for supper, typing in all of the ingredients, and figuring out exactly how many calories were in it, and how much I would eat based on this.

My mom didn't ever really notice what I was doing. When we went shopping at the grocery store, I would go down aisles by myself, so I could look at all of the boxes of cereal, etc., so I could compare calorie amounts and get the best box.

I usually tried to eat 1,600 calories, but I did lower it to 1,500 and 1,400 time to time when I got more scared I was gaining weight.

I don't think I ever obsessively weighed myself.

Then there is exercise. In grade 8 or 9 I discovered that there were workout videos online. I was too ashamed to tell my mom I was doing them, so I would do them when my mom wasn't home. I soon started riding my bike a lot too.

I didn't excessively exercise, but combined with the food I was eating, I definitely wasn't doing my body too good.

I wasn't really anorexic, ever. But I wasn't healthy, that is for sure.

It is good to count calories and workout, but you can't be obsessive about it.

The only times I ever actually starved myself, were on days I was either wearing a dress (semi-formals, grade 8 grad, etc.) and when I went to the beach. I did this so I wouldn't be "Bloated" and I would look thinner just for the day.

My friends didn't notice, or at least they didn't say anything, when it was really bad. In grade 10 I feel like they noticed more, but I was slowly getting out of my bad habits at this point. I wasn't out of them completely, but I was slowly getting out of them.

Although I was eating the right amount of calories, and working out a decent amount towards the end of grade 10 and beginning of grade 11. I did try to be bulimic. I attempted probably 5-10 times in my life, to throw up my food if I thought I ate too much. I couldn't do it though. I tried so many different methods, but for whatever reason, I wouldn't allow myself to. I knew what I was doing, and I knew the consequences. I like to think that my subconscious just wouldn't let me.

In February 2012, (in grade 11) I joined the gym. Finally. I decided that food wasn't cutting it, and I would have to workout more. I honestly was very healthy about dieting at this point.

Most of the time from February 2012-now, I was pretty good.

Although I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder, counting calories obsessively can be considered a form of anorexia.

I had relapses of eating problems. I stopped counting calories by this point. But I did have eating problems still. Just last year.

If I missed a day at the gym, or I felt like I didn't have a good gym session, I wouldn't eat as much as I was going to. I would still eat, just not as much.

I feel like some people may think that I workout too much. I did have some days at the gym where I would just go completely crazy and workout really intensely. I go to the gym 5-6 times a week, for 1.5-2 hours. I usually do 45 minutes of cardio, and the rest of the time is weight training.

At one point I claimed I was "cured" of my eating problems, because I didn't want the number on the scale to drop anymore. I wanted it to go up because I wanted to gain muscle. So when I hit 127 pounds, I was happy! But I actually dropped back down to 117, which I was sad about. But then I realized I just lost body fat %.

Learning about body fat % is definitely not my best friend.  Your body fat % is the % of body fat in your body, compared to your weight. I have become obsessed with this, within the past 5-6 months. I am trying to lower my body fat % and gain muscle. This, I don't want to call an eating disorder, and I don't have a negative body image anymore. This is just a body goal I have, that I am working towards in a healthy manor. 95% of the time.

The thing is I am still not 100% "Cured" as I once thought. Trying to get my body fat % down means that I eat less carbs, or burn more calories/fat. This is hard for me because I eat so much (not too much, just a lot). I want to have a nice set of abs, which I can tell I have abs, it's just my body fat is too high to be able to see them. I want to be able to see my abs. But I can't.

This still isn't the point. My point is that on occasion, I am really stupid about food. I eat everyday, I eat a LOT everyday. Sometimes if I miss the gym, I will eat less, which I guess isn't totally bad, because I do eat extra food to be able to work harder at the gym.

The problem is with running. I will go for a big run, and I won't feel like eating. I will think "I just burned 1,200 calories! Awesome! That's like half a pound!" then I won't eat. YOU NEED TO EAT AFTER YOU RUN. It doesn't help that you physically aren't that hungry after you run. I need to force myself to eat after I run. You need to eat to replenish your EVERYTHING so you can function and rest and heal properly.

I am mostly fine now. But I still on occasion look at my body, and I think my stomach has too much fat, or my butt, or my thighs. I look at my arms and think I'm a twig. I just can't win like this.

My doctor told me I am healthy. My mom thought I was working out too much. I told my doctor and she just said "That's a lot" and that "I wouldn't have that kind of time in university". She called my body type "slim".

Oh, and with my body fat %, I keep avoiding figuring it out, because I hate seeing it. I hate doing my body fat % because the number changes so frequently, and if it goes up, it drives me crazy.

Disadvantages of being Thin

I was lying in my bed taking a quick 10 minute power nap/break from reading my psychology textbook when I realized that my bony knees are touching each other and it kind of hurts. This drew upon previous information of mine. I am in love with Tina Fey and her autobiography Bossypants, in fact, I listened to the audiobook while driving to university this year, so it's pretty fresh in my mind. Anyways, this "knee touching" experience reminded me of one of the chapters in Bossypants  entitled "Remembrances of Being Very Very Skinny" in which she had a list of disadvantages of being "very very skinny". One of these was "Sometimes I had to sleep with a pillow between my legs because my bony knees clanking together kept me awake". I highly encourage all people to read her book, even non-lovers of comedy. I just love her though, I am a little biased.

Anyways, during my "nap" (which is really more like a "freethinking" session while lying down) I started to compile my own list, granted, I am probably at the highest body fat % I have ever been at, which is only about 23%, which is really, really good. I am a thin girl, I run half marathons (I just signed up for my first marathon) and I lift weights. I got my body fat percent down to 16% once and it was amazing, although, upon reflection I realized it isn't all gold. It isn't the best thing ever.

So here is my list of Disadvantages of being Thin:

- You reach a certain point while losing body fat that you can't eat anything unhealthy or else it affects you
- People call you "skinny" or "thin" and use statements like "Wow, you're so skinny!" and "I wish I had your body" and as good as this may sound to someone else, it is really awkward when you are that person
- The people that don't say that say things like "Eat something" to you and that is worse because it makes you want to punch them
- People assume you are anorexic. This is how that goes:
Anorexics are skinny
That girl is skinny
Therefore she is anorexic
Nope, not at all.
- People expect you to stay thin. This isn't totally a bad thing, but it's easier to lose fat and become skinny than to gain 10 pounds of fat
- More people try to lift you up. Sometimes it's okay, it's romantic, whatever, but other times random friends of yours just try to lift you. Not sure why.
- You know what angles work for you. You know that you can't sit in chairs a certain way because it makes your thighs look larger, you know how to pose for the camera. If you weren't thin, things like this wouldn't take up space in your mind and you could actually occupy your thoughts with important things like school rather than sitting in class being like "my thighs look different like this"
- Tina Fey said this, and I agree. You are colder.
- People assume you are healthy. This isn't totally bad either, but many skinny people are not healthy. I hate people who look at someone skinny and go "man she's healthy", no, it could just be her body. I know many people my size that eat like animals and I have met people who are considered obese that are running half-marathons


That is about it for my list, for now.

It is not bad to be thin in any way shape or form. I am not going to turn this into some kind of "Body pride" post saying "love your body no matter what", mostly just because that shit is everywhere on the internet, but also because I think it is corny. It's not a bad thing to have pride in your body but if there is a single girl or boy out there that doesn't hate at least one thing on their body, kudos. Even if it's just a little freckle that you hate.

In general I like being thin. I am a runner, I like looking thin in the things I wear, I eat healthy, but I will tell you that I will never try to get my body fat % WAY DOWN ever again. I literally couldn't even eat a scoop of ice cream without it doing something to me. I like where I am now, mostly eating healthy, working out regularly but still being able to sit on the couch and watch TV while eating a healthy amount of sweets and chips.



Side note:
I have been having issues coming up with blog post ideas so if any readers of mine have any suggestions, please comment them below. I've been busy with school but I still want to post about 4-5 posts a month. I used to be able to do like 8-12, but university is hard, man.