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OMG I feel so good!
To be free again! To be able to finally FOCUS on the things that matter to me! To be able to sleep! Oh my god, it is just beyond bliss to have my health back, my sanity back, my mindset back, my happiness back, my training back, my time back, my freedom back, just my whole life back right in the palms of my hands.
I made the right choice and I could not be more happy!
I am just absolutely euphoric! And what makes me especially happy, besides all of the above, is the confirmation this gives me that I know exactly what is right for me, and exactly what I need and what I need to do to make myself satisfied with my life and happy all through out it. That’s something I feel very lucky to have and I am so glad I do.
I am myself again. Welcome back to life, Noa! Oh god it feels great.
Packing for YAGP New York
And failing miserably at packinglightly!
It’s all good, though - I’m going to NEW YORK. For Youth America Grand Prix. When I wake up. I can’t complain about anything right now! :D
*Happiness*
Anonymous asked: whats you weight loss plan?
My weight loss plan is not to have a weight loss plan. My need to lose weight is a result of an incorrect lifestyle and mindset that I modeled my life around until relatively recently; now I’ve changed my way of life, so I am losing weight. But it’s only my life, it’s not some special plan. There is no need for a special plan if the life you live is lived in a way that shapes you the way you need and want to be. So I cant say that I have a weight loss plan, because I’m just living my life. It actually IS as simple as that!
My To-Do List Before YAGP NYC
Deposit checks
Verify teaching private lesson on Sunday
Find a sub
Errands with my mom on Saturday (dresses for the galas, swim suite, dance bag (?) etc.)
Organize dance stuff, room, and closet
Order pointe shoes, ribbons, jet glue
Return a pair of flats that don’t fit right
Go over schedule
Make a list of contacts and make sure I have everything planned out and organized
Order shuttle service from the airport
Print out plane and hotel confirmation and info
Re-sew ribbons
Blog post
Q&A Video
Keeks
365
Pack!
I’m a busy gal…! I have no doubt there is more to do that I’ve left out ^_^
The Real Reason Eating Only a Little or Nothing at all at Night Helps Me Lose Weight
Because then I wake up hungry, which is awesome because I can enjoy my breakfast and my lunch without fearing being too full for ballet, and then I’m not completely starved by evening/night time.
In contrast, if I eat [more than just a bit] at night, then I wake up not hungry enough for breakfast. Then I’m not hungry enough for lunch. Then things get complicated, because I don’t want to be too full for ballet but I also don’t want to be absolutely famished and a) have no energy and b) come home too hungry so that I want to eat in the evening (thus continuing the pattern).
That is all.
Dear everyone!
A friend and I have been working on a project for an Honors Colloquium class (“Art and the Environment”). The project is nearing completion, and we would love your support! The purpose of our project is to promote the consumption of locally grown, non-GMO food by demonstrating ways in which it benefits human health, the environment, and the local economy.
Our website will be going live on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18!
Please help spread the word - this is more than just a school project, we really would like for it to make a real difference!
Use the QR code below to go directly to our website, or go to http://www.notphood.webs.com
Happy Almost Earth Week!
It’s hard when you feel fat. It’s harder when you let that feeling define you!
It’s so hard.
I’m doing fine now, doing everything as I should be doing, and it’s just absolutely a bummer that despite this, I feel pretty bad because of gaining some weight (not much, but enough to make me feel it, obviously! A week’s worth of overeating, to put it that way).
But you know what? It’s just something I’m going to have to live with for the next few days or week or two until my weight gets back to a comfortable one for me. It sucks, but that’s how it is!
I should have prevented it in the first place, but there’s no use in having regrets now. What’s done is done and all I can do is put my best foot forward each and every time from now on and move on and get back to being happy and free and me!
I guess I’m just writing this because I know what to do and I know that I’m doing the right thing, but I just needed a place to vent about how it’s just hard because of physically feeling/looking not as thin as I did a week ago. It’s upsetting, understandably so, I assume. And there’s nothing more to it! Maybe sometimes things just suck :(
I’m not trying to be a debbie downer! I realize (contrary to my irrational, emotional, depressed mood in the morning) that my life is NOT all over, and that it’s not a big deal. So maybe I gained a kilo or two. Ok. I can lose it again. But there is so much more to life than weight!! And food! I have family to love, friends to be with, memories to make.
I need to take care of myself!
So I REFUSE to let this control me and make me depressed!
Yes, I am incredibly nervous for Monday, because I know what to expect. I know I will be swallowing down tears about my body, and I will feel humiliated, and I will fear what my teacher will say or do to me. But you know what, I WILL NOT let me do that to myself! I promise myself now that I will not cry over spilled milk, I will not ruin my day or my week or my anything over something as trivial and silly as this!
So I will move on. We all will.
But I still won’t pretend that it doesn’t hurt, that it’s not hard. It IS hard!
But it doesn’t have to last. I will not let this fleeting affair define me, destroy me, depress me, taunt me, humiliate me, or haunt me.
I want to live my life. WITHOUT any demons!
So I will do that! Because I can! And I feel much better already for deciding that. It’s all in my power.
