It Has Been Almost a Month…

Hello Lovelies!!

Told you that I wasn’t very good at doing daily updates for my blog. Although I did think about it, as well as thought about only doing weekly updates. Needless to say, as you can see, that didn’t work out in my favor either. Considering in two days, it will be a month since I have started on this intermittent fasting journey. So I will give a general update as to what has been happening with it.

For the most part, it has been fairly easy to keep to the 16/8 schedule. Once I rearranged my breaks at work to help accommodate my new eating schedule, it was easy. There has only been really one day that I went outside the parameters of the 16/8. That was because J and I had gone out for breakfast and it was still early. He didn’t quite understand what I was doing, even though I explained it to him. On the weekends, I would make breakfast for him at around 8:30 and then I would eat after 11:30 as per my schedule. For the most part, it worked out for me. Lately, I have been wanting a snack later in the evening after my 7:30 deadline for eating has ended. It can be a bit frustrating, but I haven’t given in to temptation, no matter how much I wanted to.

I haven’t really had any negative effects from doing it. Although, I did have a couple migraines near the beginning, however, those could be have also been from the changing weather (which is when I usually get my migraines) during that time. Other than that, I haven’t noticed any other negative effects.

I still need to check my weight again, which will most likely be tomorrow if I can get near the scale at work. Yes, I use the scale at work to weigh myself, as I don’t own a personal one. It is an industrial scale (as we have to weigh the dirty laundry that we send into the wash so that we are not over/under the weight limits for the washers/dryers), but works pretty well for weighing myself also. From the last time that I weighed myself about halfway through, I hadn’t seen any difference in weight (bearing in mind I’m fully clothed and have extra weight from my steel-toed shoes). My beginning weight in this journey was 233lbs. It was still sitting there at the halfway point for the month. However, I have noticed that my work pants are not as tight as when I started doing this.

Last week, at work, it was about 10am and my plant supervisor (K ) had made a comment to me about eating. I can’t remember exactly what he said to me, however, I remember that I had replied back saying that I hadn’t eaten anything yet. He got mad at me for that, wanting to know why and that it wasn’t good for my metabolism. I told him that I was intermittent fasting and then he asked me what my window was, told him that it was 11:30-7:30, which was why I changed my breaks around a bit. Then he said that his window was 11-7, so not only did he know what I was talking about, he is also currently doing it also. He mentioned that he had fallen off the wagon for a little bit but was starting again. Thankfully, I haven’t fallen off the wagon yet. Although, I have been tempted to quit at times. But I keep powering through.

I think I will continue this trend onto another month. Although, I should probably do my measurements to see if/where I am losing my inches from.

Until next time… xo

Days 2, 3, and 4

Hello lovelies!!

I was going to update each day, but I figured it would be easier just to combine a few days together. Seeing as it is reading this week at school, it is slightly easier to update at the moment as I’m not distracted by doing school work instead. Anyways, here is my updates…

Day 2

As I get up at 4am for work, I was a little bit hungry that morning, having not eaten since 7:30 the night before. Today was definitely a difficult day. I’m used to eating my lunch at 9:30, so having to wait another two hours was a little hard for me. I was very tempted to eat my lunch at 9:30, but I held out and waited until 11:30. Day 3 I will have to change things up…

Day 3

Well I changed things up today. I was still hungry at 4am, however, I stopped at 7-11 and bought a new bottle of water instead of making tea in the morning. The mug that I use for my tea works too well, and stays really hot for a long time so I don’t end up drinking as much as I should be through the day. So with the bottle of water I was able to fill it up a few times throughout the day and that kept my water level up, as opposed to avoiding my tea because it is still burning my mouth 4 hours after I made it. As for changing things up, I have switched around my breaks. I don’t really have  set time that I have to take my breaks. So instead of taking a 30 minute break at 9:30 for lunch, I now take 15 minutes at 9:30 and use my 30 minutes at 11:30. This way I have more time to eat during my last break. I wasn’t as hungry during my first two breaks today as I was on Day 1 and 2. I am slowly training my body of this new eating schedule.

Day 4

Continued on with my new schedule for breaks today. Although I did screw it up a bit as I was too busy to take my 15 minute break at 9:30, as I had 3 trucks come in for my to unload plus I had to take mats into the Mat Room. In the end I ended up having a 45 minute break at 11:30 because of that. I didn’t really feel hungry at my normal eating times. Except, as the clock ticked closer to 11:30, I really started chomping at the bit to have something to eat.

Being at work has really helped with my eating schedule for this few days. The real test will be coming up, being the weekend. Hopefully I am able to keep to my schedule as well this weekend as I have been doing this past week. I have already noticed that my work pants are a little bit looser than what they normally are. It most likely is me just loosing water weight, but even with it being water weight, I will take it as a good sign.

Until next time…xo

Welcome

Hello everyone!

Welcome to my new blog!

I have had two different blogs before, however I am going to give it another go and hopefully this one I can actually keep up with. My other two blogs were mostly just generic blogs about anything and everything. Whereas this one I am going to try to keep strictly pertaining to 1) my pursuit of becoming a professional archer and 2) my current schooling to become a Legal Administrative Assistant. If you are at all interested in reading either of my other two blogs, they are here and here. I also, technically, have a third blog. However, I haven't made any posts for it at all. I was going to attempt to have a photography blog/business; it just never took off though. It was going to mainly focused on event photography, such as galas or sporting events. With school though, I just haven't had the time to do it at all. I did do some photos of my boyfriend and his friend riding their dirt bikes, and I think I might have taken some photos of one of the races that my boyfriend was in (he races his dirt bike on single track). Other than that though, I haven't really done anything with it.

Alright, that was a bit long and drawn out. Now that you know the horrible history that I have trying to keep a blog, let me tell you a bit about what I hope to achieve with this one.

So with having my other blogs, I believe that my number one problem was that I didn't actually share my blog with anyone. Aside from people randomly finding it on Google or through the "next" button on BlogSpot, no one knew about my blogs. This time I want to change that. I plan on sharing the fact that I have a blog on Facebook. And I might, possibly, share the link to it on my Instagram account also. This way I can attempt to be held accountable for my actions (or lack of action) in regards to the purpose of this blog. With that being said… Here is the purpose of this blog!

I have two huge aspects in my life currently, aside from family and work. Those two things are school and archery (in case the title of the blog wasn’t clue enough). Within those two aspects, I have a few goals in each.

For school – I am currently attending Capilano University part-time online to get a certificate as a Legal Administrative Assistant. My fourth semester will be starting shortly, which means I only have 3 semesters left (half way done). My goals for school at the moment are:

• Continue to be on the Academic Merit Honor List
  
• Graduate with Distinction
• Get my Bachelor of Legal Studies in Paralegal (a few years off)

I have already been on the Merit list for my 2nd semester and I have not yet found out if I have made it for the 3rd semester, although with the grades that I got, I’m pretty sure that I’ll be on it. As for Graduate with Distinction, I am currently on the road to doing that. The main focus would be to not get any grades under a C+. Although, seeing as I am currently sitting at a 4.06 GPA (highest is 4.33), I don’t think it’ll be that difficult to accomplish. My GPA would be higher if it wasn’t for a course in the first semester that pulled it down – got a C+ in that class, all my other classes so far have been A’s and A+’s. As for my Bachelor, it’ll be a few years before I can start looking towards that goal. I need to get a few years in a law firm first before I go back for this. Although I’m not too sure how it would work to continue to work and go to school full-time to pursue my Bachelor. At least I’ll have a head start with my certificate in LAA.

For archery – I have been doing archery for about 7 years now. My boyfriend first got me into it, and I have surpassed him in skill now. He no longer participates in local archery shoots as he gets really bad target panic and cannot seem to shake it at all. So on the weekends, I’ll do archery and he’ll go dirt biking. My goals for archery are:

• Participate in the 3D Provincials
• Participate in the 3D Nationals
• Get onto Team BC
• Participate in the 3D Worlds
• Start shooting the IBO tournaments in the USA

Essentially, I want to try and go pro with my archery. I really love the sport and with the right headspace, I believe that I can go far. My main focus for now will be fitting in additional archery practices (aside from local shoots) with my school schedule. So the majority of these goals won’t be achieved until after I graduate from CapU. School is my number one priority, however I can continue to practice and get better at archery so that once I graduate, my archery goals will be easier to achieve.

So that is my main reason for my blog. Accountability. Along with posting about my schooling and archery, I will also post other things that are happening in my life. Such as hunting, fishing, general fun with the girls, etc. Need to make sure that I keep that work/life balance.

Until next time… xo