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I’m feeling really fat tonight. I don’t think I even ate dinner tonight because I filled up on chips and ice cream. I have no motivation when it comes to eating the right things. I actually feel really bad about eating the chips, but I’m not really sad that I ate the ice cream. I’ve had a sore throat for the past few days and the ice cream is soothing to my throat. Besides, it was “light” ice cream so it had half the calories and fat as regular ice cream. That has to mean something!

I hope to get back on the right track as soon as I feel better. I won’t use the sore throat as an excuse to eat ice cream every day. When I do get back on track I’m going to have to be really strict with myself because it’s so hard to lose weight when you don’t have fat burners, a gym, or anything like that to help you out. I’m pretty much trying to lose weight all on my own. That’s going to be hard.

For some reason my body decided to get sick once again. I go through this every few month or so. I think I got sick this time because of the weather. One day it was in the high 80s, cool and raining and the next day it was sunny, humid and in the high 90s. Weird summer weather! I hate summer colds because you can’t ever get comfortable. The things you usually do to get rid of colds in the winter are not really helpful in the summer. Who wants to drink hot tea and eat hot soup every day when it’s almost 100 degrees. Not me!

I really need to figure out hat’s wrong with my immune system. I hoped that by taking vitamins every day I could keep a lot of things at bay. I guess some things you just have to deal with. I’ll never stop taking vitamins though because they do help me a lot. I notice a difference when I don’t take them. They really are a necessity to me.

I’ve been doing a lot of research online trying to find more information about proper health, nutrition and weight loss and I feel more confused than when I started. There’s so much to learn and unfortunately there’s so much conflicting information out there. One website says to eat low fat and sugar free foods because they’re healthier, but then another website says the artificial sweeteners are no good and that you’re better off eating the regular products. It’s hard to know who’s right.

And I won’t even get into the whole sugars and carbohydrates debate. Which sugars are good and which aren’t. It makes me so crazy. I just want to know what I have to eat to be healthy and lose weight. I would love to learn more about health and proper nutrition, but I want to be able to at least apply what I’ve already learned so far. It’s too confusing!

I was looking at my arms in the mirror last night and boy are they gross. I’m way too young to have such ugly arms. It’s not so much my arms as it’s the “bingo flaps” or “bat wings” under them. If I’m waving my hands, there’s no reason my arms should be waving too! Lol. Of course it’s not really that bad, but it’s not far from it either. That’s why I plan to get back into lifting weights. I wasn’t lifting much, but I would do aerobics with 5 to 10 pound weights every day.

I could really feel the burn in my arms when I was done. Actually that was pretty painful. I read online that you shouldn’t lift weights every day, so I’m thinking that pull up bars may be a great option on some days. I know those strengthen and tone your arms and build muscle. That’s what I want. I don’t want arms like Madonna, but I also don’t want arms like Oprah!