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Friday, 6 April 07 :: the daily plate

so, when i got here to sunny logan, ut i was in pretty good shape. not as good as i'd like to be, but certainly not the worst ever. and, considering where i was just 3 years before, so much better than that. but then the phd program started. and the stress of being here in logan kicked in. and, well, lots of ands. and i have probably gained about 10 - 15 pounds since i've gotten here. i can still fit into my jeans, but not very comfortably at all. i've tried giving up sugar (my biggest demon) but that really has only lasted for a day or so. so, now in order to actually get accountability of the calories i'm consuming i've joined
the daily plate, in hopes that the accountability will get me to stop consuming as much and work on taking these pounds off. yes, part of it is looking better, but most of it is that when i can fit comfortably in my clothes. for the most part i'm happy with the size i am (though, admitedly it would be nice to knock another size off the clothes i'm currently wearing, but that's not a requirement), i'd really just like to be in better shape. i'd like to take advantage of living in utah, at the mouth of logan canyon. i'd like to be able to hike the trails so close, and maybe even bike some in the canyon. anyhow, so we'll see how it goes. there's a group of people in my lab that are doing the same thing, so i've joined their little group, and frankly, i don't want to take any shit from them for gaining weight when i should be loosing.

posted by brooke at April 6, 2007 09:59 AM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.