Jena's Journal.

[MissJenaKay]

Cheap foods.

Eggs I don't really like eggs unless I'm baking with them.

Baked Beans. Not as cheap as you think since my grocery store only sells brand name things

Large biscuit cereal in the big boxes. Better than flake, bran, muesli or small biscuit type cereals as it's easier to monitor consumption levels. You get the same consumption rate per day guaranteed. Plus the larger the box the more cost effective it is. I don't eat cereal, I eat yogurt.

Bread. got it

Turkey or Ham in a packet. 4 dollars a packet . . . . not cheap.

Bargain bin items Don't have those.

Food priced down on the use by date. Don't have those either

2 for 1.

3 for 2. I grab these deals when I can.

Discounted sale items, or red sticker items, blue sticker items, managers specials.I get sales the best I can.

[MissJenaKay]

Stress just got worse. I have two really difficult midterms to prepare for, 2 hours of sketchbook fieldwork, an 18x24 drawing to finish, a 200face model to make, laundry and dishes to do, cleaning in the apartment, and I only have Saturday and Sunday to do most of it, with two of the works due Tuesday. SO LITTLE TIME. Today is completely filled already, I'm going to be out of my apartment almost all day. Also, preparation for one of the midterms involves re-reading all the articles we've read in class so far to be able to pull quotes from them, reading three new articles, watching a film, going over power points, and rereading notes. I hate this class. Not because of the workload, but because it is highly uninteresting and the professor is almost incompetent. I'm not sure that I've really learned anything other than gazes. Which is not that hard to figure out.

On top of all this, I got rejected yesterday. I'm so sick of even bothering. I already know the answer every time I ask, so I don't know why I bother. I guess I just psych myself into doing it in hopes that I'll be proven wrong. Never again though. It never works out, so I'm not going to bother wasting my energy convincing myself to just try. Ugh. I need more hours in the day! Blahhh.

On a "good" note, I'm not eating terribly, I'm trying to remember to eat, but I'm not sure how good that has been going. Also, I keep forgetting to write down times. I'm not going to even say I'm going to try, because if I do, great, if I don't, I don't feel like I've broken promises. Anyway, I have to go to class now, so I'm off.

[Boss Man]

Rejected in what way?

[MissJenaKay]

Decided (against my better judgement) to ask a guy out for coffee or lunch sometime.

When it rains it pours, I've currently got 42 dollars and change that I can spend until the end of the quarter or I have to start using my savings. FML.

[MissJenaKay]

Okay guys. I ate pretty terribly today, so I'm not telling you what I ate. Haha. But I'll give you numbers. I did however go to the workout class with my roommate. Then when I got home I got overwhelmingly dizzy and nearly fainted while I was washing my face, thankfully I caught myself on the counter instead of cracking my face on it. Today has just been really terrible. My whole weekend was a mess, actually.... Oh well. I don't care.

Calories - 2025
Exercise - 501
Net Calories - 1524
Fat - 72
Carbs - 246
Fibre - 12
Sugar - 124
Protein - 102
Sodium - 3115

[Nokie173]

Make sure to drink water... sometimes if I don't drink enough, i get light head or feel dizzy.
Or sometimes... I don't have enough food...

Are you doing ok now?

[musculArgirl2]

Don't do what i did Jena and go off course if you can help it. You will regret it, believe me i know all about that. Like boss said pregret would work much better in these instances. I know your busy and with friends and in college but the quicker you try to get on course the better you will be! Even if you can't exercise because of time you can control your diet at least most of the time. I know it's hard though. If it was just a day that you went over calories just forget what i just said. Saying it just in case.

[MissJenaKay]

Make sure to drink water... sometimes if I don't drink enough, i get light head or feel dizzy.
Or sometimes... I don't have enough food...

Are you doing ok now?

The scary thing is, I didn't feel sick, and lighteheaded until I had finished my class, finished my water and gotten all the way back to my apartment. I'm okay now, I've got lingering tummy upsetness though, like it just feels sick. :/ :/

Don't do what i did Jena and go off course if you can help it. You will regret it, believe me i know all about that. Like boss said pregret would work much better in these instances. I know your busy and with friends and in college but the quicker you try to get on course the better you will be! Even if you can't exercise because of time you can control your diet at least most of the time. I know it's hard though. If it was just a day that you went over calories just forget what i just said. Saying it just in case.

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It was just one day. Haha. I didn't have time to find a decent dinner and I had a Venti Caramel Frappuccino and I made cookies for a friend so I had one or two of those. It was just one crappy day. Haha.

Today is interesting. I've decided that I'm going to change my major. I'm switching from Media Arts to Animation. c: Today has been pretty good. My dinners for a while though will be canned things like soup and chef boyardee, because that's what I have and I have no money to change that. I'll keep within my calories the best I can though. c:

[musculArgirl2]

Today is interesting. I've decided that I'm going to change my major. I'm switching from Media Arts to Animation. c: Today has been pretty good. My dinners for a while though will be canned things like soup and chef boyardee, because that's what I have and I have no money to change that. I'll keep within my calories the best I can though. c:

Good luck with the new major. You could design casino slot machine games than. I would love to do something like that. The new machines are pretty neat that they come out with although i think you win less on them. I'm not going to the casino for a long time just saying.

You should try Lipton noodle soups in a box. They are pretty cheap about 240 calories a soup. They are my fav soup. I would think you could add veggies to it and make it a little healtheir although i haven't tried that.

[Boss Man]

Casino slot machine games might be a future for you, as you could tap into the burgeoning native Amerinca Indian Casino trend.

Though if it's animation, then perhaps a career with Warner Brothers, developing new sidekicks for Bugs Bunny to humiliate.

[MissJenaKay]

Way to aim low for me guys. Lol. I want to do cinema animation. Something in the line of Disney or Pixar would be absolutely amazing. c: As for today, ate pretty well. I forgot to write down times of eating again... so blah... Also, because of the coffee I got today, I went over on calories.

Calories - 1695
Fat - 60
Carbs - 235
Fibre - 17
Sugar - 93
Protein - 60
Sodium - 4190 (really high for some reason)

[Nokie173]

I LOVE Japanese animation!!!! Of course, cinema animation with Disney & pixar are ok too.

Do you eat frozen food? Or packed ramen? They have pretty high Sodium.

[Boss Man]

That's not aiming low Jena . Look at Aardman animations. Their first animation circa 1973, was about a useless superhero called Aardman, who was drawn with a crude pencil technqiue.

Hard to believe years later they were doing things like Flushed Away, Wallace and Gromt series and Chicken Run, because if you saw that early animation for the first time and were told nothing about it, you'd never know they'd done it.

I tried to source the original animation on You Tube, but if it's there it's dififcult to find and i'm not wasting 3 hours looking

So presumably in 20 years you'll be doing Toy Story 4 then. I'm assuming they'll have done at least a 3rd Toy Story before then.

[musculArgirl2]

I'm assuming they'll have done at least a 3rd Toy Story before then.

Boss they already did a toy story 3. It's out on DVD. Still haven't seen it yet but i hear it's good.

[Boss Man]

I've never seen the first 2, so that's probably why I didn't realise this fact.

I mean logically who pays a lot of attention to things that don't interest them that much anyway .