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Wow has school been a heap load already. Taking an Illustrator class along with a Color (paints) class is just terrible. The exercises/assignments take several, several hours, depending of course on the students interpretations of his/her art. Not cool.

Since I haven't been able to document each day of my photographed meals, I'll post them as a group here.

If you were wondering, my daily calorie goal on Livestrong is 950 which is set at "losing 2lbs/wk". I could choose to lose 1 or 1.5lbs/wk, but the 2lb goal keeps me in better control of my food no matter what. I still go over here and there so I don't exactly lose 2lb in a week, but it's the developing discipline I'm focusing on. I need to buy a weighing scale.

Obviously I ended early on the drawing challenge. I wasn't too interested in the topics, so I just stopped.

After months and months, I'm finally publishing a new post which usually means I am up to something again: I decided to try and do some kind of ongoing blogging of photos of my meals. Yeah. At least whatever I take photos of. Since mid last year, I have been sick on and off. A lot of it has brought me to some occasional depression, anxiety, and dissatisfaction in my life. I came to many realizations that I could possibly and eventually be transforming into some insane hypochondriac (seriously/no offense to anybody either). I won't go into much detail on my sicknesses, because I don't even want to dwell on those anymore. Anyway, towards the end of 2010, I realized my negativity in my health was not helping me whatsoever. Additionally, my lack of complete trust in God was failing to bring me back up. It all affected many aspects of my life..

I'll come clean and honest with you all that I struggled a lot with the battle of fear and spiritual dryness for a long time during many of my sick days (sometimes months). I just wanted to be healthy again and feel normal. But I needed to take better care of my body and my health. Change up some things in my life. This includes my eating habits most importantly, more body activity, more positivity in my life, basically more self-discipline. Since I started getting sick a lot, I've been eating less and gradually healthier. Had smaller appetites when I was sick, it kind of stuck with me most of the time. I even looked into new diet plans. Which brings me to my point, months later, tonight, that I would like to share some of my healthy yummies with all of you. I'm not the most perfect health freak out there, but I feel it would be something to help me in my journey to feeling better about my health and my journey in continuing to praise God in all circumstances — all. Hopefully even gain a few feedback from some of my readers, especially any kind of positive accountability as well.

So besides this crazy health life! I am also currently working on some new art (not digital this time!). I wanted to spend a lot of time during my Winter break getting back into hand drawing and painting. I will be starting to sell some items hopefully soon, but literally nothing big. So to whoever even reads this blog, keep an eye out for those (possibly on my Flickr as well). :) Oh yeah, and I made a new donate button (located on there on the sidebar) so feel free to feel generous! ;) Just kidding, but thanks to anybody who is willing to support financially. Any contribution is greatly appreciated, you don't even know..

Let's make sure I don't give up on these challenges this time! Keep me in touch, people.

I hope you guys can look at these experiences of mine (or any for that matter) as a refreshment, a more positive outlook on life, and of course a chance to rejoice in the mercies God has yet to bring each new day.

PS - Check this out. And this, too.

So this is me. I really don't look like this, but of course whoever I draw turns out to be a total different person. My lips also look weird. I used Prismacolor Premier pens and my Expo Fine Point. (flickr)