Shrinking

So I've been on this weight loss journey for the past few months and it has been a very arduous path. I'm trying to get down to my ideal weight, and for the first time in my life it is actually working. For my height I should be about 130 lbs to be in the mid range of a normal BMI. While I don't know if 130 lbs is achievable for me, I figure I may as well try while I am on a roll. I think originally in the beginning of March when I started out on my diet and exercise regiment I was 158 lbs. Now it's been 4 full months and I have lost 12 lbs and am down to an incredible (for me anyway) 146! It has been a huge success. Huge. It keeps seeming to be very slow going, as if I've been trying for a million years and not making very much progress, but 4 months really isn't a long time at all. I guess I've lost about 3 lbs a month, which seems measly, but I guess they're adding up. At this rate in another 5 months I should be at 130. But what can I do to speed this up a little bit?



I exercise close to every day. I usually do a combination of walking and running anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour, and I count calories like nobodies business. I usually eat between 1000 and 2000 calories (I try for 1500), it depends on whether I'm having a good day or a bad day. I also do weights and sometimes I even walk/run twice a day. Short of starving myself to death and exercising nonstop, I feel like I am putting out a huge effort here. I know they say that people can lose up to 2 lbs a week...how is that even possible??!! Seems insane.



It's slow at the hotel today.

I am trying to make some art but I only have 2 full days to work on it and Elise's Eschatology show is on July 17th. I am going to Colorado the week right before the 17th and I have to work almost every day up until I leave....So far my materials are an assortment of plastic dinasaur toys, spray paint that makes things look like stone, little black and white cut-outs of dinasuars, a dinasaur pop-up book, and 2 antique/decorative bird cages. I feel very confused as to where I am going with this. I'm kind of just going with the flow and hoping I end up somewhere at the very least entertaining, and best case scenario, incredible.

In the mean time I'm just going to cut out some more dinasaur pictures and let my mind meditate on what I should do.

In disapointing news, I have recently discovered how incredible the Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender truly is. It is funny, smart, wonderfully animated, and has a beautiful plot, amazing characters, humor, and grace. I have been looking forward to the live-action movie for months now and was sorely disapointed to see that it got only 6% on Rotten Tomatoes. I know M. Night Shymalan is horrible, but I was hoping he wouldnt' be able to mess this up as badly as he did. My friend John said that M. Night is like a reverse Midas, everything he touches turns to poo.
Damn you M. Night!