My problems stop at my finger-picking

4 weeks, 2 days till Nightwish!
-OP: yes
-activity: yes

I think this might be the first time I've made a post on this journal here at school. I'm here with F keeping her company while she does some work. I needed to make a trip to the grocery so I called her today to see if she was going to be on this end of town and since she had to come in to the U she fetched me and brought me to do my shopping beforehand. I was suddenly low on or out of things that are heavy and too cumbersome to carry on foot. It's so depressing how much money I have to spend on food, I feel like I'm constantly having to buy more, like nothing lasts any amount of time. Maybe I just can't get past the mindset that I should only be spending 50 dollars a week on food. I should try to find some spare time and take a look at my receipts and try to figure out what the cost of what I am eating per week would amount to, perhaps it would cheer me up if it is less than what it seems like I am spending. I did pick up a spegetti squash today, I've never heard of it before this week, but I would like to try it and see how that goes. I'm very interested in finding cheaper foods and/or food that will go farther. I also wanted a zuchini, but they were out. I don't know if those types of veggies are cheaper year round, or if they are just cheaper in the winter, but I want to learn. I spend part of my days off browsing websites and blogs that have to do with weightloss, exercise and healthy eating, it's usually what I do in the morning while I wake up before breakfast. I found a good one last week with simple recipes that I would like to try. I keep seeking out information on these things because I want to know as much as I can so I can apply it. There's so much info out there, and I've found a lot of stuff I find useful. I don't always agree with what I read, but I sift through what I find and pick and choose what I think I can use and what makes sense to me. I was on a particular health blog today and the fellow believes that grains are bad and should be cut out of your diet. He has a lot of good info, but I don't agree with cutting out the grains, no matter how many studies he cites to support the idea. I suppose it could be true, but I'm not interested in cutting grain out of my diet. The times when I make decisions like that are oddly satisfying to me; it almost seems like some sort of affirmation that I am not getting fanatical or weird about my healthy lifestyle. I'm interested in making improvements to what I am doing, but I still have my limits. I've become more concerned about getting protein in, and with my sodium intake. I'm also becoming concerned with form while I exercise...I spend so much time at it, I really don't want to be wasting my time on exercise if it is not going to do much for me. I want to maximise the benefit I am getting from my meals and my activity. I find it all encouraging; I'm still in this nice place between stressing over being perfect and losing interest/becoming bored with it all. I do sometimes wonder whether I will reach a point where I will lose interest in being healthy, when I've 'learned all there is to know', so to speak. I like feeling like I can still learn things and make changes to my living, most of all probably because I am already living pretty damn healthy and I'm just fine-tuning at this point. It's nice not feeling like I have to make such huge changes to my life in order to get where I would like to be.

Earned 11 APs today: 30 min walk aerobics, 20 min core, 15 min lower body, 50 min shoulders, 35 min biceps/triceps, 15 min chest