I'm doing 26 things
I have always been pretty healthy, more relying on my soccer & lacrosse exercises to mediate any unhealthy food I might eat. However, I found a website called www.caloriecount.com that changed everything. It’s not just a calorie counter, but an exercise finder, a team weight loss website, and a positive place to record how healthy you’ve been. I started using it daily before my Winters dance because my dress was really tight, & the results were amazing! I got healthier, began thinking more about my body in the long-term, & my dress looked great! I plan on continuing to eat healthy, and not focus on weight loss. If I simply keep up being healthy & exercising, the weight will come off on its own :) Good luck!
Erin McD's Life List
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1. tell my best friend i like him
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2. have more fun
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3. Kiss in the rain
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4. To live instead of exist
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5. take significant steps to becoming more outgoing and less shy
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6. believe i am beautiful
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7. write fanfiction
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8. Paint a wall mural
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9. smile more
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10. write a great song
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11. be happy
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12. see more sunrises
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13. go to australia
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14. Appear in a movie
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15. go outside more
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16. do the splits
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17. Get my backhandspring
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18. dream lucidly
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19. go to a remote field at night to stargaze
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20. Get rid of fifty things
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21. get a job at school
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22. Find steady volunteer work at school
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23. Go a week without dessert
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24. Beat a 25 minute 5k
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25. Get an A in Organic Chemistry
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26. decide on a major
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So all the Senior guys this year decided it would be cool to ask the sophomores, so most of us are left without dates. We’re still gonna go, because the remaining seniors didn’t ask anyone. But I got this perfect dress – it’s actually my friend’s sister’s, but we were at her house helping my other friend decide what to wear to Homecoming & she tried it on & then my other friend tried it on & then I tried it on & they said i looked amazing. So I’m going to try & not really eat that much this week so I can look good :) & I have really high heels & awesome jewelery! So I think maybe things’ll turn around at Homecoming.. :)
Hahah okay so I know this is kind of the cheating way to do it.. but whatever. So all summer I had conditioning for soccer every day, & it was really intense, but I still didn’t have a completely flat stomach. At the beginning of the school year, I contracted mono & was out of school for two weeks. The thing was, my throat hurt so much that I couldn’t eat a thing. So I went like 3 days with eating basically nothing except ice cream, & then I fainted when I went to the doctor’s. Once I got medicine it got better but I had a completely flat stomach!! A little bit of it has come back now that I can eat, but now that I know it’s possible I can just reduce my caloric intake along with my soccer workouts. Hopefully in time for Homecoming!
