Clarys

I'm so late for this party... You are rocking this challenge! Holidays are on track!! Congratulations on the job!!

I'm having some swings in my mood recently. Let me explain this better. I'm not being attacked by the black dog. In the big picture I'm happy with my life. The better word would be introspective. Lately I was a seing the glass half empty, I was thinking a lot about my life, where I thought I would be by now and where I'm. All the things that I want to do, and why I'm not doing it. I was thinking about all the choices I did since I finish high school. CrhistArtist and Chris-Tien can attest to you that I'm a cheerful (joyful, happy, I don´t know the best word here) girl, almost like a little child. The glass is always half full! You can see in the first post of this challenge that I was in a phase not so joyful. Today, writing the post above, I realize that my optimist side is back. I can't change what I did in the past, but I can do a better future for myself. I can do the best I can with the time I spent in this world, and be the person I invisioned. I´m not to far from what my teenager self imagine, I'm about 3 years late (at this point I should have finished my PhD), but I have more experience outside the Academia (I worked for our EPA for 2 years) than most of my competitors, and this can be a advantage in the long run, or at least, it is good for me! And there are other thing that I don´t like to admit, but none of my friends read this, so I can say it here. I would love to find someone to share my life with. I like to think that my happiness isn't linked to other people, I don´t need a boyfriend to be happy as many women think. It don´t bother me that I'm single for a long time (my last relationship ended 5 years ago) But would be nice to have someone to share my happiness. with, a partner in life. But for now, I will be glad with a marriage with my thesis, that is what I have now!

Brigadeiro is the portuguese equivalent to brigadier, a high patent in air forces. In the 1940's one brigadier was presidential candidate and some ladies invented this amazing candy to sell and make money to the campaign. There are some variants to who invented it, but all of them is linked to the brigadier. It is just a trivia. I don´t know the prevalence of obesity in Brazil, but I know that it is not too bad as in USA but bad enough to be a concern. We have a good thing here, that I think is different from USA, we are encourage to see our PhD as a job (we are in the same category as the undergrads in the law point of view), so we are expected to work the same amount as professors and other employees, that is, 8 hours/day. Of course that most of us work more than that in some periods and less in others. But we supposed to have time to do other things, including take care of ourselves. Many colleagues use fitness (gym, swim, run) as a way to decrease stress. Overall I think that we are in a better place than the US or UK, but of course there are points to improve. Tomorrow (27th) Tomorrow I will not be a young adult anymore, just a adult. When this challenge started I knew that it would be a rough one, so I set my expectations appropriated low!

I keep forgetting to write here... ops... I'm doing relatively well. The first two weeks I was in class, It was really tiring. This week I'm working on the papers for these 2 courses. But, now I finished my course credits! No more classes for a while!! Regardless my goals, I failed all of them. I'm better than I expected. I'm having lunch at the university almost all weekdays, but it is a good restaurant, with real food, not fast food. In the first week I ordered pizza once, and in the second I remember that I ate something bad too. My problem was the afternoon snacks. I know that I'm walking, but I don´t remember where I put my pedometer, so... Today my mom will came to visit me, I will clean my home and I hope that I find it! I didn't any strength workout. Not a single one. I need to work on this, I need to find out what would be the better time to do a BBWW at home. Overall things aren't as expected, but I'm feeling well with the choices I made, they are better than I used to do. And some people told me that I look thinner.

You are doing so great! Your gratitude entry is inspiring! And Divergent is awesome! I watched the movie in the beginning of the month and became instantly obsessed. I already read the 3 books. The first is awesome, the second is pretty good, the third one is slow till the end. But they worth the time.

Gutshot and me hit our goal probably more than once. Here a photo of nothing for you

Thanks! But I will call it stubbornness!

I don´t know if I´m strong or just stubborn! But give up isn't part of my vocabulary! I will keep going till the end! Olá!! I try to adapt my goals to what I know will happens. I'm always doing more than I should, but my biggest problem is perfectionism. If I can´t do perfectly why bother!? I'm learning that with health/fitness, even a little bit piles up! You are probably right. I like this photo too. I think it is the only one that I am in the photos of camp! You found why it is called brigadeiro that candy!? It is the best pms confort food ever! And the first thing that most children learn how to cook! I was talking with some friends, and all of them struggle to keep with the health life. I will keep going! I definitely happier in the new one! The old one was on a seminar, a good one, but still a seminar. The new one is at Camp NF!

You are doing great!!

Take care of yourself!

I thought about to join you, but log every day will be much for me this time... I will show up from time to time to cheer all you and get some motivation! Eating veggies for me it is easy, but not eat sweets and candys... that's hard! You all are doing so great! Keep the pace steady, I want to celebrate with you in the final square!!

Cirque di Solei! I'd love see them some day! If you follow the same pattern from CNF, you will pack way more things that You need! And you will be fine with the nerds! Such amazing people are this bunch!

I'm already in the list!

Thanks for asking! I would forget to tell! I'm doing a course this week, class from 8:30 to 18:00. The topic is interesting, but out of my comfort zone, I have to study a lot at home. There aren't any good coffee in the Uni, there aren't any drinkable without sugar... So I drank 2 cups of cappuccino. And a coke with lunch. Even with all that I walked more than 10.000 steps! My meals were the best that I could do, real foods at least. I think that I did good! Today I'm not so good. After a good lunch (chicken breast, salad and rice) with a soda too, I ate a brigadeiro. I forget my pedometer today, but I will probably walk the same amount. I will need to limit my time on NF, I know that things slow in the second week, but it's too many people to follow...

Do I have super powers??? I love you too!! Without surviving we can't be awesome later, right!? It is very difficult be away from you! NF is my family now! All you help me just letting me being here and be myself! Yes! The photo is from CNF, before the rubix cubic party! Interesting that I don't see any difference between the photos in terms of "size"of my face. Thanks! Thanks! High Five!? Thanks! It is this support that made me come back! Even with super simple fitness goals, I'm here, because I know that you are here for me! This community is amazing! I love Pilates! It is gentle, but it is madding me stronger. It will not help me loose weight, or be super strong, but it will stabilize my weakness, like my back and knees.

Subbed!

Why I didn't fallow you last challenge?!?! Wow, that´s a lot of walking! It´s a workout on itself!

Yay! For finishing the master thing!! Subbed

Subbed!

As always I'm late to the party! And you, as always, being awesome! I have to comment this, birthday on December 24th! That sucks! My birthday is one month before Christmas and as a child I hated when I got just one gift for both!

What a crazy schedule! Simplicity is trend this challenge! I will be following you.

When realized that the boat would crash, Clarys jump in the water, so she wouldn't get in the middle of the splinters. She swim south, even in the dark her elf's eyes can see something, and she is in her element in the water. My brave thing for all this month is participate on the NaNoWriMo. I´m afraid of writing, and I have a thesis to write soon, I have to conquer this fear. I´m discovering a creative side of me that I didn't know I have! I will add everyone, but I can´t promise that I will comment anything, I will just lurk!

Hello!! My last week update I overspent both in foods and fun things. Amazon trick me with the free-shipping over a certain price... about 10 more than my budgeted, in the first week of the month... And I overspend about 30 in food. It was exactly a dinner out, that I wasn't anticipated. I will try to compensate this week! I feel a improve on my control already. What it is really good!

I realize that my first post was with a sad voice. It didn't sound like me. I just edit to increase the size of the letters and to add color to the goals. I will not change the words. I had insomnia past night, and class all day long, about a topic very strange to me, I wrote that in the lunch break. I was (and I'm as bedtime arrives) tired. Now, after read some others thread, I get the new challenge bug. I want to finish this one! I want to be able to rest in the holidays break without worry that my work in behind, that I didn't finish anything this year. And a little about myself. I'm almost 30 years old (11/27 my birthday), PhD student in Ecology and Evolution. I have some health issues as result of stress from my master course, that I defended in february. I'm still fighting it. I stopped Crossfit because of logistics, I will get back in january. I do Pilates to stabilize my back (that I twisted 10 years ago) and because my knees, that hurts without a proper reason. I spent 10 months with the same weight, I dropped a little in September, but I think that I eat the weight again. I don't want to weight myself... I don't like the city that I live, I'm 1000km far from my family, and I don't have any real friends here, some colleagues. I'm a books nerd. My new obsession is the Divergent saga. That is me in a nutshell!