Best day EVER!!!

So, today was pretty awesome I must say ;)  It all started with some oatmeal...

Sorry, no pic.  It was 5:30 in the morning!  Great fuel for a ride though, it included a banana and some almond butter. y.u.m!

Then was the ride, and boy was it HOT today!  It was like 86 when I left at 6:00 :/  I felt good though, and did my best climbing since I have been out here in Arizona :)

Then I got home, had a toasted bagel with cream cheese, avocado, and ham.  It didn't look pretty, but it was tasty!  Really, cream cheese and avocado=to die for!  Try it...

Then, the highlight of my day, I met up with the wonderful, amazing, fantastic, Annie!!!!  We met at LUX, because we both LOVE coffee.  It was both of our first blogger meet ups, and I had so much fun!  We just sat and talked, and talked, and talked some more :)  Bloggers are the most amazing people ever don't you think?? ;)  We even got a free latte, cause the barista was cool :]  He said "this will be the best latte you have ever had!"  and I should have got a picture but I didn't :(  Use your imagination;) Thanks so much for a great time Annie!!

So, things are going well at school, I am meeting friends and feeling great :)  And, I am so happy because I am bought a new espresso machine!  It was on a super sale, and I just couldn't pass it up!  Here is a pic of somebody else's that is the same model...

Photos are from Home-Barista, a forum I read :)

Doesn't it look like a tin man??  So cute :)  It will make delicious espresso as well, I can't wait for it to come.  I promise I will share!!  

  I also ordered this to go with it.  It is a tamper to pack the coffee, doesn't it look cool?

So, I have to go, we are going to go out to eat now, so I am going to have to leave it at that.  I hope you all started your 3 day weekend off well, and I hope the rest is fantastic!  You deserve a wonderful, fun, relaxing weekend :)

Sending happiness and prayers your way!

Scott

Thank you

I don't have time for a very long post tonight, but I just wanted to let you all know how much your comments mean to me.  Every single one of them.  You are all so kind and insightful, and I get something out of every single comment to better prepare me to continue this fight against ED.  For that, I thank you :]

Today, I didn't do much.  Another free day in band.  Yes, that is 4 in a row, 6 hours of free time in band class.  What a lazy teacher right?  Well I got a lot done though so I'm not complaining ;)  Then in German we are writing our Märchen (fairy tale) so that was a fun class.  I promise to share it with any of you that know German ;)

Then tonight I rode the training ride :]  It was so fun!  We had so many people there that I know!  Graham was there, and B and his dad and J and it was great!  Unfortunately I didn't feel great because I had a cold and asthma (not a good mix)  but it was fun.  I did well enough, stayed with the pack, and felt good about it. 

Tomorrow I have a busy day :/  as long as it doesn't rain I will ride my bike to school, then after school to work, then to church, and get home at 8:45.  That is almost a 13 hour day!!  We will see though...

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Scott

Monday 3. April 2010

Hello everybody!  I hope you all had a nice Monday :]

My day went pretty well.  I guess it started a trend when I had a sub in math :]  It was still kinda really boring, but at least we didn't have to deal with Ms. ####  that is so awful!!  Then we watched a tv show in second period called Intervention.  Have any of you seen it?  It is pretty good in my opinion.  This episode was about a crack cocaine addict and a heroin addict.  They always have an intervention at the end (hence the name of the show)  and both of these people had been sober since 2007, so it ended on a positive note.

Then in third period (band), we had a a free day!  Third one in a row! :p  I just sat around and talked and memorised some stuff for German class.

Then German was fun as usual ;)  we always do so much in each and every day!  Today we talked about another fairy tale and started working on our own.

After school today, I planned on going on a bike ride.  So I got ready and left the house by about 5:30 to get up to the starting point by 6:15.  My mom was going to drive but I wanted to be sure I got there on time.  I am paranoid about being late, but I am always early!  Anyway so I got there and no sooner than I did, a storm blew in :(  We were deciding wether or not to ride and there was a huge cool down so we decided to leave.  It was a good decision because we got a royal downpour a few minutes later.  So I was glad to have gone home.

This however, brought with it a minor problem:  I had already eaten my bar to ride :/  I know it shouldn't really matter if I ride or not after eating it, but it is such a routine for me.  I have a hard time going above and beyond my usual meal plan (I use this term loosely, I don't have a MP so to speak, more of a pattern of eating that is possibly a bit more rigid than the average person).  So, the ride home was a bit stressful because of this, but I decided to ride indoors instead.  I am happy to say that I didn't ride indoors for very long at all.  Way less than I would have outside because it is so boring.  I think that earlier on in my recovery I would have done way more on the spin bike and this change in schedule would have bothered me tremendously.  But it is OK.  Will an extra few hundred calories kill me or make me a slower cyclist? NO!!  ED lies, I tell you what, are SO irrational, and each and every time I notice this, the happier and more independent of my ED I feel.

On to some eats to finish up this post...

A snack some day. Aren't these tiny carrots? So long and skinny! with blue corn tortilla chips

A cup of yogurt-filled to the brim :)

A smoothie I made tonight. I always seem to make too much. So I get to have some tomorrow ;]

Make tomorrow a great day!  I promise to give it my all :]

Scott

The end of a long week...

WOW has it been a long week!!  I wish I could say that I have a boatload of pictures to share with you, but I don't :(  I am so sorry!!  I really must get back to a regular nightly posting routine because I absolutely love it!!  Your comments brighten my day and I just don't want to go without that.  So I am going to try next week to do my best to post more than only Monday and Friday!!

So, because I have neglected my blog for the entire week, here are a few highlights of my week :]

• I have been talking to Megan over the past week while she is being admitted to IP.  Such a sweet girl, and she really could use all of your support.
• I got to ride Tuesday and Thursday on the training ride!!  Ya, it is pretty much the norm, but after this past weekend I was a bit worried!  This weekend looks like it will be a bit better but with a bit of rain still :/
• School was CRAZY!!  Tests galore and ugh I am so glad to be through with this week!
• Finished my German project over the Indianapolis 500, in (English and German!) for my exchange trip (I can't wait to see you Pascal, Ich freue mich sehr viel daran!!)
• Got my skype working again so I was able to talk to my dad in AZ, and I am right now too!!  (I keep missing Maddi!  Darn time difference...)
• got my Lego project mostly painted for IED (intro to engineering and design)  We are making a School bus with custom parts on a 3D printer!!  I will tell you more when it is finished ;)

So that is pretty much all I did this week.  Insert a bunch of school garbage important school work and you have my week!  Now the fun part, my weekend!

Tomorrow I am planning on racing in the late afternoon as long as it doesn't rain (crosses fingers pleasepleaseplease!) hehe I am going to see my sister on Sunday in her new house on campus!!  She is taking my furniture to put in there because it isn't furnished ;]

I am off to read your posts and try to get caught up!  I will leave you with a random picture I took today...

Can you believe it‽ <-- (I just remembered that symbol, it is called an Interrobang isn't it great‽)  Edible grass for Easter baskets!  And it is from Germany!! 

Have a great Saturday everyone :)

Scott

Nebo ride and a tricky question

Hello all!

First I will update you all on yesterday sound good? The only major thing that happened in school was I gave my presentation in health over ED's! I was nervous, especially because my partner was really upset from her class before :/ It went really well though and i think we portrayed the disease in a very clear light so I was really happy :) And I got my homework done in band so it was a good day for me =D

Then I got home from school, and I found an email from the owner of the bike shop I interviewed at. He said he wanted me to work there, and he would pay $8 an hour. Great!! But then I realized that I will be moving over the summer :/ So I told him I would love to work for him until then, but I would understand if it wouldn't work out...

So today, I had extra time in engineering today and I got to look up some cycling teams in Arizona. I found quite a few, and one that is a U23 team (under 23 years old) that is sponsored and looks so awesome. I am going to apply tomorrow :]

Lunch was a tofu and avocado sammie! Yummy!!

In Chemistry I got a quiz back and I did OK (79) I was pretty happy because chem is SO hard!! The only really interesting thing that happened was that my friend B saw me eating a few food should taste good chips left over from my lunch, and asked what they were. I told her what they were and let her have one. Then we got talking about trader joes and stuff, and she asked me how I got to like eating so healthy. I was like "....um...... It is a long story." She wanted me to tell her but I don't know what to say! I told her I would think about it. Ya, awkward, but i didn't know what to do! I can't just be like "oh yeah, I had an eating disorder for the past year and a half" and then just stop talking! What would you do?

Then NEBO training ride tonight! (Nebo Ridge is the name of the bike shop it starts from.) I felt so awesome today! I rode with G again, and it was so much fun! I ended up in the front group of like 12, and we started out with around 50 riders. I was so happy because I think they all had to be at least cat 2-3. It was exhilarating!! I got another comment from one of my teammates. He said that I have made some major gains (performance) over the past two years. WOW! He is such a strong rider, so for him to say that, I was really happy :]

overall today was a good day for me. I hope you all have a Wonderful Wednesday!!

Scott

a new realization

I just want to thank you all so much for all your insightful and uplifting comments :] It is really interesting to hear what you all have to say about complete recovery. I have really learned a lot from you guys! After reading these comments, I really feel that it is possible to fully recovery from an ED. If nothing else, this realization is so encouraging that we do not have to live with this demon inside of us for the rest of our lives! And I will never find out if it is possible for me if I do not try it for myself. So that is what I want to do, what I must do. This is what I am going to do :)

Book Update: I read the beginnings of both books from my last post, and I really like Regaining Yourself, but Inside Out is a bit upsetting :( I just want to warn you that it may be triggering to some.

Today was awesome!! Nothing really special happened, but I was just so happy from reading all of your posts that I read throughout the day ;] I had math, ugh :/ but I got a lot of homework done, so that was good. Then I had health with a sub and we watched the. most. boring. video. EVER!! it was about fad diets, and was just a woman talking on the tv. borrrrringggg!!! Then we had band, which wasn't too bad. German was better than usual because we actually had our real teacher. Frau B ist sehr nett und cool! (das ist fuer dir Alexis ;)

Then the highlight of my day, the training ride =D It was so beautiful, and I felt so good! After being weak a lot of last year from ED, and continual discouragement because of it, I felt so awesome to be able to keep up today! We had a really fast ride and I ended up taking a flying sprint up the right side when the road opened up near the sprint point =D I think I may have one, but there wasn't really a "finish line" so to speak. Either way, it was such an accomplishment for me, and further encouragement that ED LIES because he never would have let me believe that I would be faster if I gained weight. Rigggghtttt... i gained XX pounds over the past year and a half and am faster, stronger, and feel better than ever! Take that ED!! Also on the ride, one of the guys I really look up to (he is amazingly fast) told me good ride and that it looked like I gained some muscle over the winter :] I was so proud, and I took it for what he meant it to be (a compliment), and not what ED thought it was (something to put me down) So it was quite awesome and I am so happy, and thankful for you and my family and all my other support, because I know all of you have helped me see things like this!!

Dinner was nothing to post about. Some take out chinese for the fam while I had a boca burger with a bit of chinese. good though!

So that was my day! This week is going by so fast no?

Have a great wednesday! You more than deserve it!!

Love you all!

Scott

That was pretty much my day,