Finally summer :)

A lot has changed lately. School is finally over! I officially made it through my first year of college. Brain injured and almost blind! :) I kept my GPA high enough to keep my scholarships. I have an apartment lined up for next semester with a real bed, my own bathroom, a living room and a full kitchen! I'm so excited to finally be able to cook. This year my weight has been up and down like crazy and it's been DRIVING me crazy. Last semester I was eating fruit and crystal light and 100 calorie packs and working out like a fiend.. only to gain more weight. (Now I understand why haha.) Every day since then I've researched and bought magazines and found recipes and seen nutritionists.. and I think I finally have it down. :) And then there's exercise, which I hated before. I've been working just as hard if not harder on that. I've had a few trainers from last June until now, almost a year. They've helped me out a lot. They all teach me so many things about my body I never knew before. I also did CardioPoint and CaloriePoint testing at Lifetime Fitness and got blood taken to make sure the accident didn't mess anything else up lol. The coma left my metabolism at pretty much zero, so I know that's to blame for most of my weight problems. They gave me a calender of cardio to do for three months and told me the range of calories I should be eating each day based on how active I am. I was eating SO much less than I should've been! And plus with how much I was working out, it was like hello.. no wonder! I lost almost 10 pounds in the first couple weeks and then I kind of leveled out for another week.. which really bothered me lol so I started the Elimination Diet. I figured if I'm doing all this and there's still a problem then maybe I'm allergic to something I'm eating. You do one week following a really strict diet and then you gradually add things in to see if you have reactions. I just finished my first week and added in corn today haha. Corn obiously isn't the problem. I'll be keeping up with that and hopefully by my birthday I'll have lost another 10. Hopefully! I may be getting a job at a gym next month, too. I really hope that works out. All this has consumed my life this year, so it's nice to be heading in the right direction. I feel like I can relax a little now.. peaceful. :)