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Leaving Minnesota August 5th, 2011
Me at the top of Kilimanjaro!
New pixie cut! July 9th 2011
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Forming Healthy Habits for a Lifetime
I joined SparkPeople back in 2010, I think. I started grad school in 2011 and have not been on Spark regularly since! Yikes! The last two years have been crazy busy and stressful, especially this year. Things have really started going downhill for me in the health and fitness department as I've been getting less sleep and putting in long hours at lab. I haven't been weighing in regularly but I can tell I have gained weight! I want to get back into healthy habits and get to my goal weight! I ...
I joined SparkPeople back in 2010, I think. I started grad school in 2011 and have not been on Spark regularly since! Yikes! The last two years have been crazy busy and stressful, especially this year. Things have really started going downhill for me in the health and fitness department as I've been getting less sleep and putting in long hours at lab. I haven't been weighing in regularly but I can tell I have gained weight! I want to get back into healthy habits and get to my goal weight! I need SparkPeople for all the wonderful advice and motivation everyone has here!
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Member Since: 9/10/2010
SparkPoints: 10,254
Fitness Minutes: 11,959
My Goals:
*Get 8 - 9 hours of sleep every night.
*Replace my munching habit with a tea-drinking habit.
*Stick to the 1500 nutritious calories I plan to eat every day.
*Stick to my workout plan for the week.
My Program:
20 minutes of yoga Mon - Fri mornings, 30 min of biking or rollerblading Mon, Weds, Fri, 1 hour of yoga on Saturday and 1 hour of biking or rollerblading on Sunday.
Personal Information:
I'm a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill working on my Ph.D. in toxicology. However, my thesis project is on the effect of ozone on the microbial communities in the nasal cavity and how that modulates the immune response. I have an interesting side project going with the NC Jaycee Burn Center on the lung microbiota and how inhaling smoke affects it, which could potentially lead to improvements in treatment for burn patients.
Other Information:
Fun fact: I have been to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro!
I love horses.
I love biology and want to spend my life doing research that will benefit those most in need of health care.
I like genetics and growing bacteria!
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Happy Fall 
If you believe it you can achieve it! 
