GYST

Today the 420 House started our GYST chart. GYST stands for Get Your Shit Together (credit, Mike).  While GYST could apply to many aspects of our lives, school work, cleaning, temperament, excessive sports anxiety, etc, this chart applies to our new goal: getting healthy.

As far as living a healthy lifestyle, our house has been riding the fail boat to say the least. With my mac and cheese and candy addictions, Jeff's booze addiction, and Mike and Cynthia's affinity for fried food in combination with our vast amount of stress and lack of time; our house has struggled with being healthy. It's hard to choose salad when your roommates are making cinnamon sugar donuts in the deep fryer. Scratch that, it's hard to choose anything healthy over anything deep fried. Not to mention the large supply of cookies, candy, and cakes.

We have decided to change our lifestyle in order to achieve the following goals:
- be stronger so we are better able to fight for the remote or the last piece of pizza
- law school may have taken everything else (sanity, etc) but it can't have our bodies too!
- to look good NAKED
- to increase our chances of getting laid (just kidding mom)
- to use the gym time to procrastinate doing homework
- to sell our bodies to pay off loans (again, kidding)

The chart has several different color stars which can be earned for cardio, strength, and calorie counts. The goal is to work out 5 days a week and if that goal is met, you get to participate in the Friday cheat meal. The cheat meal is most likely pizza, booze, and something desert like from the deep fryer. Calories don't count from 4pm-12am on Friday's- but you have to earn it!

The plan was to start the chart on Sunday but then Mike and Cynthia declared today the start of GYST. At first I was upset about the change of plans because my plan for the day included eating potato chips and pasta until I no longer felt the hangover from the overindulgence of chocolate and alcohol last night.

 By starting GYST today I was forced to go to the gym, which was nice. New building, new machines (no pool or anything overly exciting or cool, or even soap in the bathroom) but still pretty awesome. I mean anything is awesome compared to the shed we were in. Personally I won't miss the spiders staring at me from the ceiling while i do my ab workouts or the treadmills with no side bars or place to put your ipod.

From now on the 420 house will be up in the gym just workin on our fitness. We need your help! If you see us eating unhealthy things, slap it from our hands and give us a look of shame. If you see us overindulging at wing night or trivia, feel free to give us the shame face and express your deepest disappointment. Also, support us here on the blog, that way we will hate ourselves if we have to post that we failed.

So cheers to being healthy! With water of course. (and by water we mean vodka)

Much Love,
The 420 House