my little lamb

When I got home from school on Friday I blogged and decided to make a little lamb to sit on top of my iHome. I knit all day and finished on Saturday with the assembly, and now I have my very own little lamb that was made with LB Fishermen's Wool in Nature's Brown and Natural!

I'm Bored Already...

For many people around the world, today is the last day of the 2010-2011 school year! Exciting right?
I for one was super excited until I got home from school today and I am sitting in my house. Alone. With nothing to do. My sister isn't here and I have no friends :(



Just kidding, I have friends.

Anyway, summer is here and I have an entire week until I get to go to summer school! I don't HAVE to go, but I am, so I don't experiance the boredom I am experiencing today. Anyway, I will probably end up knitting for hours on end for the next week, but I'm okay with that, because my Aidez is nowhere near finished, and I started it in January.

Good news, though... I'm almost done with the first side! I just did my second decrease at the 11.5" mark, and I am working my way up! I love the pattern and the look of the sweater, I just have no motivation. But now, I don't have anything to distract me, so I am going to renew the love of knitting to my brain/heart and I am going to finish this sweater so I can wear it in the fall! I really am excited about it.

Also, I was at the Kirkwood Knittery the other day (a month or so ago...) and I got some new yarns to make something random sometime soon! I am going to work on a little sheep guy one day probably this week because I want him to sit atop my iHome so I can see him every day! Just wait until you see the pictures! Maybe I should set apart a day this week to do that, because he won't take long, and that would be a good break from the big projects going on right now!

Hopefully I can blog more now that I have more time for yarn! I also have some fishermen's wool set aside for dyeing sometime this summer so I can make my teacher his scarf he has been begging for. Orange and Brown is only good hand-dyed, so that will be another summer project!
 Maybe I won't be lonely like this for the next two months!

the goal of a healthier me

I have been struggling with my weight and body image for a while now and I have finally decided to actually start trying to improve myself. I am not one of those self haters that is anorexic and everything, I just have a goal of feeling healthier and liking the way I look in pictures and stuff. I am only 5'3", so it's difficult enough to find clothes that fit, and my extra flab is not helping that at all.

Anyway... I found a website/iPhone app combo that has been helping me to achieve my goal of a healthier me. They are called "my fitness pal" and the app and website are both free. The basis is calorie and nutrient counting, which helps me to visualize what I am eating and how it is composed (fats, carbs, protein). The website gives me a calorie, fat, carb, and protein goal for the day and I try to be conscious enough of what I am eating that I can stay in those areas. I tried a similar app for a few months before now and I wasn't loving the setup and the range of foods, so I switched, but it was working very well.
I feel like when I was using the other app, I wasn't really thinking about what I was eating much differently because of the app and the calorie restriction, I was just trying to pick healthier options. I am honestly trying to be a healthier person, because habits made now in my life will impact me forever, and I want one of those habitual lifestyle choices to be healthy and happy.
I just wanted to share this with you because I have seen gradual results in the app before (about 5lbs lost) and I am looking forward to even more progress with this one! I am loving the setup and I am happy with my choices lately. I feel like I have been snacking less and when I am, I am snacking healthier, which is awesome!
If you are struggling to be healthier and want to maybe shed a few of those extra lbs, I highly recommend that you check out my fitness pal!

my fitness pal: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/

I have a little thing at the bottom of the main page of this blog that shows my progress as far as how many more pounds I have to lose to get to my healthy goal weight for my size, it will update as I log my weight loss on my fitness pal!