Wednesday Weigh in Week 36

This week I held steady. I'm kind of impressed. I'm really just glad I didn't gain anything. Haha. It's just hard ok. I mean I really want to find something to blame. But I know the truth. I'm still eating foods that my body doesn't agree with and I'm still not working out. Those two things will cause me to not lose weight. And those are things that I know. The sad thing is once you fall out of the habit of working out it gets so much harder to start. But I know I have to. The weather is starting to cool off again so it's not going to be so hot after school to go running. I feel like I am going to have to start over completely with the Couch to 5k. Hopefully not. I know I'm probably going to need to start out with some more walking and running intervals. But really what I need to do is just start it. I had my running stuff packed yesterday and I was gonna go for a run until I realized I left my belt and my headphones at the house instead of my car. And I was already short on time, so I just came home instead. Little things like that.

So yeah. I gotta bust a move. Literally. :0)

Wednesday Weigh in week 35

Whew I'm back from my trip to California. That was a very fun week away from home. I had some great times of relaxation and just hanging out and some great times at church. I feel like it's my second home for sure! I am pretty sure I consumed more coffee in the last 4 days than I have in the last 4 months! That might be a headache to get rid of LOL! But I made it. I didn't work too much on eating well. And I can feel in in my body. It's so hard to get back to where you know you should be taking your body. Especially when those other foods just taste so good ;) I even tried some Lebanse food this weekend. Which is mainly made with cheese and garlic. So I just decided to try it, since I never have before. Not that I'm going to be able to eat it a whole lot due to the cheese and bread and garlic. But hey. It was alright ;0)

So after a week of being gone and eating crazy I only ended up gaining 1.5 pounds. And I can tell part of that is just bloating from all of the foods that I ate and things like that. So I was pretty happy with being gone and pretty much staying at the same weight.

I head back to school on Monday. This summer break has gone by really quick it seems. I don't feel like I've been off since June. But hey. It will come back again next year! And it's been nice to get a break and get back and ready to play with those 4 year olds!

Wednesday Weigh in Week 34 ( On Tuesday :o) )

Oh look! It's Tuesday and I am doing my Wednesday Weigh in ;) I will be out of town tomorrow on my way to Redding, California to visit a friend for her birthday. I'm very excited to get out of town right before I have to head back to school next week. I am driving by myself for a 11ish hour trip so it will definitely be an adventure! Haha. I'm looking forward to it actually. I am leaving this afternoon and will be making a stop in Oregon before heading down all the way tomorrow. It's been a year since I have seen my friend and I can't wait.

So that's why I'm weighing in a day early. Only up .6 pound. I figured it would happen since my dinner last night consisted of carmel corn and cashews. That was a huge mistake. I have a feeling I'm gonna have to be careful with the cashews. Something was setting my throat off last night. Not that I haven't been eating the best for the last week. But I've been seeing cold like symptoms with a slight sore throat and cough and this time I know it's food related. Plus a bad headache last night. But we were also surrounded by little wildfires and I could literally almost see ash hazing all over the town last night. It was so hazy and I smelled like a campfire when I came home. Craziness.

So I'm off for the week. Can't wait to see my friend, go to a concert, go to church and just hang. In the 105+ weather. Haha. Can't seem to get away from it!

Wednesday Weigh in Week 33

Zero. Nada. Nothing. That's what I lost this week. I seriously just thought about posting the same picture from last week but I did actually take another one. Just to have something to show.

I'm just glad I didn't gain anything back. I mean, yeah, I didn't lose anything. But I've got this figured out here. See. I exercise, and I will lose weight. Every time. I don't exercise and I won't lose weight. So what I haven't figured out is how to spark this into getting back into a workout routine. I was gonna workout like ALL summer. And live in my workout close and be skinny by the time I went back to school. Eh. I might have lost a whole 6 pounds this summer. Which I guess isn't horrible. I mean. I'm back at the weight I was at when I was in the wedding in March. I pretty much wasted a good 5 months of this year back in the yo yo of gaining and losing. I didn't let myself go too far this time. I gained less than 10 pounds back. And now I have slowly gotten it all gone.

I'm pretty positive now that I won't be losing 100 pounds this year. I still have 76 pounds more to go! I feel like I would have to go like, extremist to accomplish that! But I am dang well gonna make sure I hit at least 50. That would only be 26 more pounds this year. And that is extremely do-able. That would be a little over a pound a week. I think I have 20 more weigh ins to go this year. I've just got to get back into working out. I have been promising the boys all week that we would go to the track, but it's just been so hot by 7 am that I didn't want to go. But tomorrow looks promising. It's supposed to be about 10 degrees cooler than what it's been. So I think we are gonna go :) Not that I will get a whole lot of running in while watching them, but we will go till they get tired :)

Wednesday weigh in week 32

                                                       

It might seem gross. But sometimes I just need a reminder. So I only lost 1 pound this week. But looking at that picture, it makes me grateful for my one pound :0)

So today I became one of "those" people. That decide to just go out and do a 5k without any sort of training. I had signed up on Sparkpeople to do a virtual 5k this week and I was trying to decide the best time to do it. Well the week doesn't really have any morning that I could go do it, and it's been hot around here, so I knew I would have to do it at night. I got to the track right as the sun was setting around 8:30 and proceeded to run/walk for the next hour. I was happy that my first official 5k time was 59:29. I was just excited that it was under an hour. Only 30 seconds shy...but still. Under an hour.

I haven't been running most of the summer. My wisdom teeth have gotten the best of me and I just have a hard time running in the heat. So yeah. I've used it as an excuse. I think the longest I've run recently is about 2 miles. Several. Weeks. Ago. So I lost track of how many times I actually ran around the track tonight. But I think I ran about 2 miles without stopping and then walked the rest. I always start out with a warm up lap, but I think I walked 3 laps at the end? So yeah. Still. I did it and that's all that matters. No matter how sore I will be tomorrow haha! I am supposed to go walking with a friend, so we will work out those sore muscles tomorrow :0)

This year and this summer have just downright escaped me. It's just gone by so so fast. I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I wont be losing 100 pounds this year like my goal states. I mean if I got severely hardcore about this I could probably still swing it. But I absolutely don't want to set myself up to crash and burn. I have about 76 more pounds to go before I hit the 100 mark. I mean if I made about 3.5 pounds a week I could do it. I have basically lost all the weight that I regained after the wedding I was in. So I took a little detour I guess. I wasn't expecting to have to get my teeth out this year either. :( That was another detour. And this whole allergy thing has really thrown me for a loop. But I guess I can't really complain about losing 5 pounds in two weeks because of it right?

And so now we are gearing up to start school again at the end of the month. And getting ready for my mom to have another surgery. She's gonna be out 4-6 weeks. But I'm not gonna let it set me back like it did last time. I need to come up with a better plan of attack and get some workouts in still. Because really if I start working out, I will start losing weight. It's just what my body does. Oddly enough ;)