Saturday, August 7, 2010

This afternoon I had my swim test/interview...and they were so desperate for people that I didn't even have to swim for them. They just hired me. I still had to get tested to prove my abilities, and even so, I saw that I had mostly C's and some B's...how can this be?! I guess 5 years of competitive swimming only gives you speed, and what they were looking for was technique. The guy said I'm only good enough to teach lower level children...and the parents are always watching, so I'm a little nervous.

I also have to go through this dumb 40 hour training where I'm not paid (that's $400 T_T)...it's like coaching but without pay...like a test, or, in other words...training. After that, they test me and on a scale of 1-10, if I get above a 6, then I pass and can start teaching for pay. If not, then I'll have to go through 10 more hours of training and try again, this time with only $7.50 pay. If I'm still not good enough, I try a 3rd time for another 10 hours and if I'm still not good, then they fire me :( I'm so nervous!!!

Breakfast: Had a light breakfast...I think.

2 homemade green bean steamed buns, about 250 calories

Lunch:

1 sweet potato, about 100 calories

4 crackers, 120 calories

Snack:

2 more crackers, 60 calories

Dinner:

California Pizza Kitchen...about 1,000 calories...

Total: about 1,530 calories T_T

Exercise:

Biking to and from Van Saun Park, about 5 miles.

Swimming interview/test, not much swimming done though.

Biking at home with mom, about 2 miles.

I'm not going to put calories that I burn from now on, as that is not in the least bit accurate. For all I know, I could be off by hundreds of calories! So now my only goal is to get under 1300 calories per day, before 6 o' clock. This is still a lot of food :)

Tomorrow's goal is waking up early to go for a run. I want to be able to do as many miles as I can, but I'll be going slow so I won't get too tired too easily.

My goal for tomorrow is 5 miles and up. I would like to do 11 miles, but that's crazy as the most I can run with some walking in between is 3 miles...but that's going fast. I'm going to go slow on this one. No more eating out for me! I've been doing that way too much this Summer. I hope that was the last time for at least a month! It seems that I've been going out for dinner every couple of days, which is really not good for my diet, plus with the crazy amount of sodium and MSG in all the food that I consume as well as grease and fat.

I'm calling it a day. Good night!

BTW, I'm going to try and take a picture of all the food that I eat throughout the day. It'll be hard as I tend to forget these things while enjoying my food ;)