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Saturday, 28 April 2012

  • It's Kind of Funny..

    You spend a few months in one of the biggest slumps you've had in a while, and you realize that everything sucks.  You realize that everyone around you sucks, and you can't do anything about it because no matter how hard you try it will still suck.  You try to figure out if you're the one who's changed.  It's funny because you don't realize that you have.  You have changed, and it's taken months for you to realize it.  You want to know what happened?  You realized that everyone was changing including yourself.  You've been slowly burning bridges.  Isn't that scary?  It's kind of funny, and now I'm actually laughing.  

Thursday, 29 March 2012

  • Well It's Prom Season After All..

    Tips on how to lose weight! Yippee! 

    1. Have you tried to give up sugar and haven’t succeeded? Instead of forbidding yourself certain foods - just eat less of them. If you must have sugar in your tea, cut it down from two spoons to one.

    2. Ever notice how if you eat when you're ravenous, you tend to overeat? So try eating more regularly, even if it means more frequently. Eat an average of 5 small meals a day, instead of 2 or 3 large ones, where you stuff yourself.

    3. Be conscious about what you eat. Keep a food diary and note down everything you eat. You may be shocked at the results.

    4. Eat or snack only on the dinner table, not on the couch in front of your television. Once you make a policy out of this, you'll cut down on snacks tremendously. Don't get too comfortable while eating. It’s always better to eat on the go. Always sit straight on the chair.

    5. Make rules for yourself. If you experience cravings, give yourself ten minutes before you attack the refrigerator. In most cases, the craving would just die down and you'd walk away.

    6. Drink a lot of water. This reduces hunger pangs and gives you more energy.

    7. When you decide to finally attack your weight problem, you want it gone by the weekend. But realise that that is just not a realistic approach. If you want it off permanently, you've got to take it slow. It may even take up to a year to get to your desired weight - that's fine, because you've got more of a chance of maintaining it.

    8. Join an aerobics class. It's more disciplined and it's always better to work out in a group.

    9. Stay busy. Don't just sit around wasting time. Chances are your mind will wander to that delicious chocolate cake… Partake in activities that are not conducive to eating. Join a singing class, take up oil painting or gardening - cultivate a hobby.

    10. If you have to snack, try this. Put your hand in the packet of wafers and take out a fistful. Finish off whatever you get your hands on - and that's it.

    11. Don't stack up on fattening yummy foods. It’s easiest to control food intake if you just don't have it around. If you feel like chocolate cake, buy a pastry so it doesn't hang out in the refrigerator all week till you polish it off. Similarly, don't keep tubs of ice cream in the freezer. Buy a cup or two and eat it when the mood strikes.

    12. When you reach for the refrigerator, stop and question yourself. Are you just bored or are you really hungry? In most of the cases the answer will be the former.

    13. Stick little post-it notes on the refrigerator saying, Stop! Or Reach for a glass of water.

    14. Buy clothes a size smaller and work towards fitting into them.

    15. Don't beat yourself up or lose heart just because you've slipped up a few times. You need to keep a positive outlook and keep encouraging yourself.

    16. Visualise how you will look without those extra kilograms.

    17. Take up yoga.

    18. Find new and different ways to measure how far you've come. Don't just stick to the weighing scale. Scout around in your cupboard and try on old clothes that are big for you – excellent motivation.

    19. Find a partner to work out with or to support you. Enlist the help of a friend and go for activities that don't involve snacking. Take up tennis, go cycling… don't just meet friends over lunch or dinner.

    20. Get motivated. No one is going to lose your weight for you. You're going to have to do it all by yourself, and if the motivation doesn't come from within you, no amount of friends and family pushing you to lose weight is going to help.

    Credit to this person on Yahoo answers: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060711194836AAU38i6

Friday, 02 March 2012

  • Sick Day.

    I've been sick this whole week.  Since Monday, I've been asking my mom if I could stay home.  She finally let me stay home from school today.  I seriously have the worst stuffy nose and sore throat.  Wow.  I just realized that this is the first time this whole year that I've actually stayed home from school.  This excludes educational absences like field trips.  I'm so dedicated..  Well, since I've been home, I ate the shrimp fried rice my sister made and made myself hot chocolate.  It was amazing.  I was going to eat the beef ramen, but then I remembered that I can't eat meat on Friday's during Lent.  Yep.  After eating, I just went on Youtube and searched up nude lipsticks because the Revlon Nude Attitude that I have is just bothering me.  It makes my lips look 100x drier.  I let my friend try it on too, and it did the same to her.  I went on Youtube to look at reviews again and one of the gurus said that she absolutely hated the lipstick because of how it magnified the dryness of her lips even after using lip balm.  Lesson learned.  I think I'm just going to buy some Revlon lip butters and the Revlon Soft Nude.  Those look good.  Oh and I'm starting to miss my long hair again.  I guess it is my fault for looking back at pictures over the summer when I had long hair and was happy.  Womp.  I'm going to go clean or something.  Maybe doing something productive will make me feel better.

     

    Lol.

Thursday, 01 March 2012

  • Oh Ingrid. You musical genius, you.

    Her new album, "Human Again", is just too amazing.  I will always love her. 

    One of my favorite songs off of her album.

    Ribbons by Ingrid Michaelson

  • Confessions.

    • I don't think that I want to be friends with you.  I don't even think that I want to be acquaintances with you.  I feel that you are only going to bring me down, and people like that are the ones that I've been trying to avoid my whole life.  You have no sense of originality.  You're a follower.  You're one of the most hypocritical and egocentric people that I know.  I wish that I could say these things to you, but I can't because I promised myself that I would not get into any drama.  Not this time around.  Nope.  Not going to happen.  I only have to deal with this for a little while, and I believe that I'm strong enough.  Also, you need to start making your own friends and not take mine.  Sound good?  I don't like you.  Welcome to my bad side.
    • Remember when we were best friends?  We talk every now and then on Twitter or whatever, but it's not the same.  I know that we haven't hung out since the eighth grade, but I really do want to hang out when I tell you that I do!  I believe that we can rekindle the friendship that we once had.  You were one of my best friends for ever and ever, practically sisters.  Remember that?  I do.  Those were the good old days.  I just miss you, okay?  Come back into my life.  It's been way too long, and I miss my best friend.
    • You're my guardian angel.  Thank you.  I love you so much, okay?  I hope you never ever forget that.  I hope you know that I think about you everyday, and that it still hurts.  I'm waiting 'til April so that I can change my profile picture to the one of you and me.  I hope that you're proud of me up there.  I hope that you're watching over us.  I hope that you're happy and that you're being treated like a queen because you deserve that and more.  I miss you so much.  I wish you were still here with me so I could talk with you and tell you about my day.  I wish we could still take walks around the neighborhood in the early moments of the day, but I know that we can't.  I know that it's been about five years, but I still cry.  I love you.