Meanwhile, I’ve lost 20 pounds
I've dropped 20 pounds since I started taking Celexa 3 months ago. Usually Celexa makes people gain weight, but in my case, I'd been self-medicating my anxiety and depression with emotional eating/overeating and beer. So once I stopped doing that the pounds quickly dropped off. The last 5-10 came off this month as I began exercising and subsisting off a steady diet of calculus problems, Adderall, and stress. 
If Neal's goal is to look like Hugh Jackman in time for the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2, then I suppose my goal should be to look good in skintight black leather, right? Because I already have a similar cut and color as Jean Gray in X-Men 2. Then Neal and I can go home after the movie premiere and act out all those naughty fanfiction stories. 
Tomorrow I'm going to add some strength-training exercises to my workout. Not sure yet if I want to follow the Sexy Female Training program or just use the machines in the gym or what. I'm not very comfortable using the free weights area of the UNLV gym because it's always full of intimidatingly fit 20-year-old guys and I doubt that they'd appreciate a fat older woman getting in their way.
June 26th, 2010 - 04:58
I vote for just using the free weights area. Who cares what the guys think? I lifted a lot of free weights when I was a student at Michigan. Almost all of the time, I was the only girl in the room, and I was definitely lifting the lightest amounts. My main thing was to go when there were some empty benches so that I didn’t have to wait around for one.
I’ve read before that free weights are better because you have to use all your other muscles to stabilize yourself. Plus, I know that I built muscle better when I was using free weights. I bought “Smart Girls Do Dumbbells” to help me with my weights workouts. It’s a nice book because it not only covers exercises but also puts together a month long lifting rotation.