Happy New Year 2012!

Alright, I just switched to the new Blogger interface? It's horrible. Which means, I'll probably love it in a couple months but it is hard and uncomfortable right now. I spent 6+ years on the old way of publishing, okay? I'm allowed to be weirded out by this. And now I understand the older generation's distaste for cell phones.
I made four New Years Resolutions that Josh and I discussed and if I actually spend a whole year doing my best to reach them, we're buying a Dyson vacuum for Christmas. Ready to read them? OK.

1. Make 1 loaf of bread (or one bread product like rolls) every week for a year. 52 loaves total.
2. Say morning and evening prayers daily. This is one I've had on my list probably every year since 2005 because I have never been a good morning pray-er. This year is the year, guys.
3. Be at my happy goal weight by my birthday 2012. This one I find to be fairly reasonable since Baby D is due in May and I'm not planning on gaining more than 30 lbs for this pregnancy, but heaven forbid I gain 70 this one will be a piece of work.
4. Track my exercise and fruit/vegetable intake for 52 weeks/the whole year. I am using the "Healthy Living Guidelines" handout that I created for job/internship at Y Be Fit. It's below so you can look at it and print it off if you want. Of course, I still have edits I want to make on it but this isn't a blog about my handout so I'll save that for another day. Just know, I'm tracking on this thing for a year, and I'm four weeks down.

So far I have done fairly well on all my goals. Like I said, I've tracked every week so far and I've made 3 loaves of bread, so I am behind 1 (or 2 if we count this week) and have to catch up this weekend. The goal weight by birthday is something I can't really work on right now (pregnant...can't lose weight) so I'm focusing on staying active and not gaining weight like crazy cause that worked fairly well with Henry. The prayers thing is always tricky because HOW do I get myself to remember when Henry wakes me up most mornings and my day simply begins? But don't worry, I'm trying, and I plan on getting this DOWN before Christmas. Good luck to everyone with New Years Resolutions! And to those who have none, I hope you have some goals anyway because it's good to have a goal.

Y-Be Fit

This semester I got the internship of my dreams. It. Is. Awesome.

Ya'll know of my dream to be a dietitian. I sorta gave up on it after I didn't apply the first year, then I didn't want to take 2 additional rigorous years of class and then I got pregnant and had a baby so things worked out great. My major is Exercise and Wellness and my goal eventually is to go back to school and become an R.D., but not today.

Back to my internship. I am a Health Counselor at Y-Be Fit at BYU. My job duties include: body composition testing (check this machine out); fitness, flexibility, and strength testing; and working with clients for 3 month periods to help them set and achieve goals. The last duty is my favorite, and it's the reason I originally wanted this internship. It really gives me the opportunity to connect with people who want to improve their lives. Personally, I know what it's like to start from nothing and try and make lifestyle changes. It's taken me years to get this healthy living stuff into my head, and I love helping others do the same. More than anything, this internship really affirms that I want to go back to school eventually to be and R.D.

So anyway, I could talk a lot more about it. Ask me and I'll be happy to, but I'll try to tone down the boredom for now. Cheers and happy 3 day weekend.

Day 12

I sort of wish I didn't have to blog "whatever tickles my fancy". It's hard. That's why I stopped blogging. Tomorrow is Josh's last class of his undergraduate career. I sort of wish it was mine, but I'll have to wait another year to experience that. My Exercise and Wellness major has been great for this semester, and I can't wait to take the rest of my classes for this major. I get to take some seriously awesome courses like: Substance Abuse and Addiction Behaviors, Exercise Physiology, Personal Training Strategies, Obesity and Weight Management, and Sports Nutrition. Some of them are gonna be hard, but I can't wait to learn this stuff that I'll actually find interesting. Most of my GE's are done so I'm onto major requirements. I seriously get so excited thinking about some of the classes I have in my future!

Josh and I had two main goals for this year. 1) Learn how to make sushi (accomplished on 1/1/10) and 2) Go to the gym/get 40 minutes of aerobic exercise 4 days a week. The first two months were sorta rough, but we've definitely been getting our 4 days in each week since at least the beginning of March. It's been easy because Mal and I decided to go to a few classes in the mornings. I never thought I'd say it, but I looooove gym classes. I love the instructors and I love learning new things about exercising, and I love the pain after working muscles I didn't know I had. It is so satisfying to see myself and my poor muscles getting stronger. And lest you think it's a weird/gross kind of strong, I'm still probably 1/2 as strong as most women out there. I am a weakling. Ask Josh.

That's all for my fitness. I love exercising. Not running. Exercising.
Enjoy some Calvert Family pictures we just got in the mail.



PS. I forgot to mention I get to take Greek and Roman Mythology. Booyeah.