i'm heading over the gym right now to do my squat/push-up/rows/split squats/jack prone-knife series. i'll eventually start mixing in new moves - i've already started incorporating bulgarian split squats as well as split squats with the bar.

i met up with my friend yesterday who was interesting in learning more about the weight training program that i was doing. this is my friend who i lived with for one summer while her husband, then boyfriend, was in cambridge. we lived off of one piece of toast for breakfast, then edamame for lunch and tuna salad and a couple of saltines for dinner. we also dropped our classes and pretty much worked out all day -- did two step classes in a row and went swimming in the afternoons. sometimes i would even go running in the morning. at night we would go out, go dancing somewhere. to say the least, we dropped tons of weight that summer. i think that was the time i was at my thinnest, a size three. she was a size zero. we had this unspoken competition of who could be the thinnest. we were so deprived of food, i would dream of things like carrot sticks.

anyway, we would always talk about the summer of 1995 like it would never happen again. i'm hoping to reach a reasonable goal without screwing up my metabolism and without so much deprivation. i weighed myself this morning and i've lost somewhere btw 3-5 lbs since the start of our group competition. this is especially encouraging since i've lost this weight while strength training and while enduring some pretty stressful times at work. stress has derailed any eating or exercise program i've done in the past. this time around, i'm just working through it.