Never do one-legged jump squats when you haven't done any training besides biking for a week. Just so you'd know :/. :D.

Crazy stupid student life. vol whatever

My bag with my laptop and brand new phone got stolen last Tuesday. It's been a week and I still don't want to write about it. And I dont have my own laptop to use for writing it :(.
Anyway, I was biking home from work late in the evening when three young arab guys came and just took the whole bag from my bike basket while I was biking and then ran away with it. I got the bag back later but not the laptop or the phone.
Now I guess, need to stop dreaming about new winter boots and running pants and stop partying and all other sorts of expensive entertainment, work hard and get myself new ones.

It's sad that all my notes from the university were in the computer. I have copies of assignments and exams I've written but not of all the notes.

Poor mum, who this week has to eat what I ate last week. In psychology, there's an emotional hypothesis suggested by Herman and Polivy, who basically say that people lose motivation to focus on their eating patterns whenever something emotionally disturbing happens just because a more urgent focus arises. I have to say that I completely agree.
I've noticed, whenever something big happens to me, I completely lose interest in what I eat. First, usually, I hardly eat anything cause I just feel bad and sad and sick, and then from somepoint on I start eating and just eat and eat.
A good tip about what to do in situations like that, is to try to take emotions out of the eating situation. That can be done by plans. It's good to have ready made plans for eating and exercising. So it's not necessary to think about them much - just trust the plan and do what it says - that way you can feel however but still be in line with those other goals that at that moment might not see so important, but probably will matter again after the 'more urgent' problem has solved.
This week I have it better, though, as Im eating what mum ate last week. That feels almost like home and is definitely healthy. Hopefully my more urgent worries will also go away soon.

Another crazy thing about being a student - In July two Estonians coming to Aarhus contacted me, that they need a place to stay in Aarhus until they find their own place. So now, in my little 2-room apartment, there's four people living. Im not complaining, as all the people are fun and fine, but huuuuuh, this lack of privacy and quietness. Especially when I get a bad mood and want to be alone. Then again, I can always take a walk and thats healthier anyway. And if someone doesn't steal my things, I usually dont get bad mood or wanna be alone. I just think that living like that as a student is a great motivation to grow up :D

At least going to school is still exciting and cool and makes me happy. Im glad about that. And go to work now :).
Keep an eye on what you own and have diet and training plans ;)

k.

Go cooking

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Questions and no answers. Obesity

It probably makes my blog a little confusing, that sometimes I write from a health professional's (or at least soon to be) point of view and sometimes I leave all that out and think as a private person. This post is going to be written from my own thoughts.

As my new semester is all about obesity, I have thought about it a lot lately. It puzzles my why some people are obese and some aren't. Basically, overweight only occurs when you eat more calories than you spend. But why some do and some doesn't?

I believe all people wan't to be slim. It's in human nature to want to feel comfortable and as good as possible.  And I don't believe that it is very practical, nice or easy to be overweight or obese. But then again, it's not very rear to see a completely fat person eating something that one just can't consider healthy. Is it then, that they have just given up? They have probably tried losing weight at least once. I mean, I would, if I'd be so big that it disturbs my everyday life and makes me uncomfortable. Maybe they failed and got disappointed. Lost belief in themselves and just gave up. Maybe they managed to lose weight, but then gained it back....
And then, is it so that they feel socially stigmatized, are sad and disappointed in themselves and just in general, lack positive emotions in their lives; and (it might sound cruel) the only good thing in their lives is food so they just eat?

Several studies have shown that if food is not very tasty (not bad, but just okay), people of normal weight tend to eat way more than people who are obese. And obese people only eat more, if the food tastes good for them. That's usually foods high in fat, salt and sugar.
So if the only good thing in life is food and they only like unhealthy high calorie foods, everything just gets worse and worse.

That's how far my thoughts have gone this far and I think that's my best guess.

But how do people become obese? Yeah yeah, they eat more than they need. But some people don't and some do. Is it obesity, then, a psychological problem and got to do with mental health? Well..to say obesity is a mental problem, seems at least a little strange, doesn't it?

I think it has to do with society and the same thing I described before with obese people, happen with (especially) girls who are normal weight. As being skinny is basically "the thing to be", even people who are not fat, get into the circle where they try to lose weight, fail and eventually give up. 

Still, society is the same for many people but there are only some that get obese and the others doesn't..

Therefore I have no answers to my questions.
But it makes me smarter to know what I don't know, right? :). 

So I just continue with my student life and try to find out as much as I can. 

However, it is not easy for most of the normal weight people, to stay like that. It requires some thinking, planning and regulating. As the only thing in what I've PR-d lately is my body weight, I have to think a little more too. And I think, I've thought of a real cool way to stay okay :). Me and my mum are going to do this thing where during one week, we write down everything we eat, and then on Sunday we'll switch the menus, so during the second week I eat everything she ate and vice versa. In that way, I hope, we're safe, as I would never starve or overfeed my mum and hopefully neither would she do that to me.
I think it'll be fun and easy, I'll let you know :). And if you find someone who has the same goal as you, you can try it out :).

Have fun :)

Making chocolate cakes and world class memories (21.08.2012)

It’s wrong to write in English. Oh it is so wrong.  First of all I have to say there’s no place like Estonia. And no other nation so normal.  Though during different times I’ve thought differently, I am oh so sure, that it’s the best place to be.
Of course it’s largely due to my bestest best social surroundings here. I’d be so sad to sit here on that boat and leave, but I cant. Instead im all charged with all good emotions and just feel. Good. (that doesn’t mean that I didn’t cry like a baby about leaving)
It took some time and solving some problems..or just letting them go, for me to really start liking coming back home (guess that’s what you get when you kind of escape), but Im all good now and haven’t felt better in a long time.
I love Estonia and I like good people. J.

I don’t know. What else to write. But. Time to leave all that here and go back to back to real life, school, work and Denmark.
I don’t mind. Im happy. 

25 days later

I trained and I worked and I spent time with my friends. Got a new job and quit it :). Have my bags packed, gonna sleep at a friends place tonight, and tomorrow I am going home. 

Thats a long story short. :)

It's sunny outside :), hope none of you reads this post cause everyone's enjoying the summer :)

xoxo see u soooon

Kirsi :)

Everything changes

Everything changes.
For example four hours ago I was sitting on my window shield eating a banana, because my brother was sitting in the chair Im sitting now. And his girlfriend Marit was in the kitchen. Now Im sitting alone and they're back to back their own action.
Im sitting here and watching EM in Helsinki on TV even though there's some old black and white movie and Desperate Housewives on the other channels. I would never have thought something like that could happen to me. But I so like to watch it that I cant even imagine that I'd change the channel.
Just a couple of months ago I was the furthest far from different types of (professional) sport and didnt know anything about it. Now I find myself analysing their technique and comparing the results with the guys I know doing the same thing. And recognizing names and faces on TV at the EM.
Just a week ago I was Simon's intern. Now I'm just me. 

I was getting so sad about the last change. But apparently I did fine and then it just so happened, that they asked me if I could continue training my favorite boxer Dennis and helping him with his eating habits. So I still go to the gym with them three times a week all the way up to the Games, as his coaches don't think it's a good idea making changes in the team before something so important. Very very fine  by me :P

So I had a nice last week as an intern, an AMAZING weekend with my brother and Marit - sightseeing, driving around in Denmark and socializing :) and now ready for the new kind of life. I have three weeks to spend in Denmark before I go home to Estonia. Plan is to turn more attention to myself - work to get the financial life back in shape :D, train to get myself back in shape and turn more attention to recovering from the shin splint, spend time with friends who I've completely left without attention for the last two months and chill and rest a little bit, read books, take walks and watch good movies :).
Plus at some point (as soon as possible) I NEED to go shopping. During this weekend I've discovered and been convinced that I really do not have any normal clothes or footwear anymore - only sporty ones. And when having a normal life, that's not nice at all :D. 

So thats the plan for now. I really like life :).

Have fun!