Wednesday Weigh in Week 18

Sometimes I really just don't understand my body. Yep. Gain of 3.8 pounds. I know for sure I didn't eat 13,000 extra calories. So I'm not playing mind games. That's what the scale said. But I worked out 4 times last week, and yeah I ate things I shouldn't have. So maybe that's what my body is holding on to. But it's not going to cause me to quit. Just time to keep going :)

Hottest day of the year and I decide to run!

Yep. That about sums me up today! LOL! Hey it was a scheduled run! I'm not going just because its 90. Now that's I've done it I might very well change my mind hehe..But. Off I went. Even after a transformer blew somewhere around the school and we were out of power for 3 hours. No seriously. Do you know how hard it is to make preschoolers go to the bathroom where there are no lights? It was a (kind of) hilarious day with no lights. And then I went running.

I was trying out the garmin today! I was definitely excited to compare the two and see how close they were and they were only about .04 off of each other. And no I didn't really go trying to PR in 90 degree weather. I was just trying to finish! It was really funny. I had just been thinking to myself about how irritating it was for the people on the bike to not tell me that they were passing me. Now just because I have headphones in doesn't mean I can't hear you say "to your left" or something like that so I know you are there right before you whizz past me. I'm pretty sure it's what the sign says when you come into the park. Let the slower people (aka me!) know that you are coming up on them so you don't scare the bejeebee's out of them! So this one guy passed me rather unexpectedly. But he yelled "Keep it up!" at me. And totally made me smile. I was almost to 1.5 miles and ready to stop, but I kept going. Then almost to 2 miles these other people were like"Good job, way to go!". It made me smile.

But I did stop right after two miles. Well I started walking. And you know what. I walked the whole third mile. And I was absolutely ok with it. It was so stinking hot. I didn't want to overheat myself and pass out on a trial with no one around. So I made the decision to do what was best for me. And that was to walk. I did about two more spurts of running, but my body was pretty clear it was done running for the day. And I still ended up with about a 17 minute average :)

So my two thoughts for the day are: Random encouragement is fun :) Be nice to crazy people running in the park. They might need a way to go, or a smile from you. And two: I gotta start planning different running times in the summer. I don't plan on running too many more 90 degree runs.

And now I am off to try to catch some of this lightning that I hear the thunder rumbling from. It's getting close, so I better get the computer off!

<3

Perspective

It's so funny how our minds can really mess things up. We always tend to look more at the negative of things. Like instead of saying Oh I've lost 25 pounds this year, It's Oh I have 95 more pounds to go. I mean c'mon. Really? Why can't I seem to wrap my head around the fact that hey, I've lost 25 pounds. I mean that's a really great accomplishment. But really all I want to do is go OMG! Look how much I still have to lose by December!! I'm feeling like it's crunch time already, and it's only April. Which I suppose could be a good thing considering I am generally such a last minute person that I wait until I absolutely need to do something. But you can't really do that with weight loss. You gotta take it day by day. When really. I am 1/4 of the way to my goal. Well of losing 100 pounds. I mean I really want to lose more than that. But I will settle for 100. Not by any means will I not be happy in December if I don't hit 100 pounds. But I will do everything I dang well have to to be at 140 or under by December 31.

Including running in 90 degree weather tomorrow. Yikes! I was looking at the weather for tomorrow. And realizing there is absolutely no way I will be running in my pants that have pockets. And I haven't been able to find any capris that have a pocket that will hold my phone. So I improvised. We have these passport belts laying around our house, and it pretty well happens to look just like the running belt that I have been looking at buying. I tried the phone in it tonight, and it should work :) I don't think it will fall off while I am running. But we shall see tomorrow :) It might just help me by putting off purchasing a belt at this moment.

I'm charging the garmin to take it out on my run tomorrow :) I read the tutorial that Katie sent out, and already changed my info and stuff. So I will be comparing the mapmyrun app and the garmin tomorrow. I just have to remember to pack everything! Geesh!

I got to go shopping with a friend who met one of her goal weights yesterday. We had a great time trying to create an outfit for her. We had originally started with a red outfit she had seem put together. (Kinda like the ones on Pinterest). Yeah we totally ended up with this green open shoulder shirt from the junior section. I was highly amused because as a friend I was able to say, No. You don't wear a large now, you wear a medium. Try the smaller shirt on. And it worked. She fit into the smaller sizes of course ;) I can't wait till it's my turn and she makes me try on some clothes that I normally would never. Although I don't think that's gonna be a problem with me :) I can't wait to get into the smaller much cuter clothes!

Whew. It's already feeling hot in my room. I better get to bed and get started on next week!

It's here!!

I am so excited!! Katie's Garmin got here for me to try for a few weeks. Of course it came after my run this morning and right as I was walking out the door. So now I can't wait for my run on Monday to test it out. It's gonna be dangerous for sure as I already know I am probably going to want one. I will have to settle for my mapmyrun app for now ;) I'm pretty sure I am gonna use both of them and see how they compare.

I love Katie's blog by the way. She has lost 120 pounds and is maintaining it. She's so real, and crazy enough to send her Garmin across the country and even into Canada for absolute strangers to try. I read her blog every day :0)

So a funny thing happened on my run on Thursday :0) My app told me me average pace was 16:23. Um hello? Who am I? Running that fast. I was super excited that my 3 mile run was done in 49:14!! And it said my first mile was done in 15: 24. I mean did I break it? I really had no idea that I was even running that fast.

I honestly thought it was a fluke. 

Until I went running today.

I get back home and logged on. My app told me my average pace was 15:37 (!!!!) and that my 3 mile run was done in 46:55. And I even ran a mile in 15:00 even. Now for real. Once again, I didn't even think that I was running that fast. And today I even was running around the track at the middle school. (They were having a 5k race at the park I normally run at, a boat/rv/camping show at the second park I would have started at, and a pet adoption at my 3rd option. Keep my away. I will bring home an animal!! So the track it was.)

I'm really just quite shocked. I mean even from one run to the next, I seemed to have taken off almost 3 minutes. I mean, I know I have lost 25 pounds this year. And yeah. I have to keep telling myself that's a lot. But I have never been able to imagine running a 15 minute mile. I go back and forth over whether I want to maintain it for a while or just press on and try to keep running faster. I mean I know I did get some cross training in this week, but seriously. Does it help that fast? I don't know, LOL!

And since I'm being quite random in this post, I will just also tell you that I did 4 of my 6 planned workouts this week. I count this as quite a success :) I managed to run 2 times and do 2 other workouts. I'm happy that I was able to get some workouts besides running. It's nice to be able to work out at home sometimes too. Even if the bike killed me ;)

I think I will stop here for tonight. I have other thoughts swirling in my head, but I am going to keep those for tomorrow :)

Wednesday Weigh in week 17

Um yeah...Did you see that? 3 pound loss!!!!!!

I really have no idea how it happened. I didn't exercise. I ate things I shouldn't have. And I still ended up losing 3 pounds. Ok. I guess I will take it :) I did stop drinking coffee and started taking some apple cider vinegar pills. But still. My body might just be catching up with me.

Yesterday I did work out at home. I rode on the bike for 20 minutes and did a few weights, and some crunches. Um yeah. I get pretty dang tired of the bike in about 6 minutes. I have to say it hurts my butt incredibly! I am gonna see if I can angle the seat a little differently for tomorrow when I get back on it. It's definitely a change in workout. I can walk/run for an hour with no problem, but put me on a bike for 20 minutes and I feel like I am going to die! It's good to change it up every once in a while ;) Right?

So today of all days one of my wisdom teeth decides to come protruding on out of my mouth. Right in the gums above my last tooth. This is a little irritating since less than a week ago I went and saw the orthodontist to start braces again to get my teeth re straightened before I get the implant where my baby tooth used to be. The orthodontist asked me if my dentist was concerned about my wisdom teeth at all, to which I cheerfully said, nope. It didn't seem like a problem and we were gonna do the braces first. Lo and behold it decided to be a problem. Trouble is, they don't have an appointment until May 2nd to be able to look at it. Grr. Well they did. Today at 3, which conveniently I had already taken off from work because my mom had a doctor appointment. So that didn't work. I am going to be on a call list to see if there is an earlier appointment that I can be seen before the 2nd. Otherwise it's ibprofen my friend until I see the dentist.

So, now we are off to pick up my little brother for school! Woo-hoo for 3 pounds this week :) 

slightly too detailed?

Ok so I didn't realize deleting comments from my dashboard would completely delete them all from blog too. So no I didn't mean to delete all the comments? Lesson learned.

This morning I literally sat and planned out all my workouts until the end of the year. Detailed? Anal? Crazy? I don't know. LOL! I actually ended up doing it twice. grr. The first template I got was a legal sized paper and I couldn't get it to print out on letter correctly. SO then I got a different template and tried to copy and paste things. It wouldn't do it a week at a time, looked funky. Oh well. So I sat there and month by month copied and pasted all my workouts in.

As I should have been actually working out ;) Haha! Yeah, about that....

It was another crazy no workout week :( This is part of the reason that I actually sat down and figured out a schedule of working out, so I can just say hey, I'm busy until whatever time. I want to lose 98ish pounds by the end of the year. And I need a plan to do that or it wont be happening. So along with planning comes determination. This will happen this year. Even if I have to become incredibly anti-social for it to happen. Or if I happen to show up to different events all sweaty. That may have to start happening too. A lot of times I won't exercise because I don't think that I have enough time to shower and get redressed again before whatever I have to go to. For some reason in my head in the summer it will be easier to work out, but then again I'm sure I will have to talk myself out of trying to not workout in 90-100 degree weather. My plan was to be going in the middle of the day right after my mom gets home from work and I get done watching the boys. But that is actually only 2 days out of the week, 3 other days will be working out downstairs in the gym, and the last one is on Saturdays. And I can get up and get outside before it starts to get too hot on those days :)

So far the no coffee is going alright. I did end up with a headache yesterday, so i took one exederin. But today so far no headache. I did just have a slight, I wish I had a cup of coffee moment a few minutes ago, but I am gonna go fix some lunch and get over that moment. Haven't done a whole lot this morning, in fact I am still sitting in my PJ's.

Time to go find something to eat! My stomach is starting to growl. Have a great weekend!

Wednesday weigh in week 16

Once again, sorry for the blurry picture...but after all it is just a scale ;0)

Oh hey look! I've seen this number before! It's what I weighed 2 weeks ago! Ok Can I just say that I am still slightly irritated that all week every time I have weighed myself it was 217.6 and this morning it jumps up? At any rate I now weigh still what I was when I graduated high school. Still a motivating factor to me, so that's what I'm going with! Now I just need to get it down to two other things. 1) What my license currently says (199...um yeah about that....hey at the time I was actually only 20 pounds heavier!) And 2) what my first license was when I was 16( which was *gulp* 195) After that I don't think I could tell you any points of I weighed this when I was this age because honestly I don't think I ever weighed myself. I'm gonna just have to say when I get down to 120 that it was close to 5th grade to Junior High when I weighed that little. :0) So anything after 195 is just icing on the cake :)

So yesterday I didn't actually end up having time to have my "last cup of coffee" and ended up with the worst dull right across the head headache a person could have. I finally had to take some Excederin to make it go away. I have a feeling it's gonna be my friend for the next week or so while the caffeine gets out of my body. So today I enjoyed what I thought was going to be my last cup and lo and behold there is enough syrup for one more cup :) So looks like tomorrow will be the day. LOL I keep saying that. But it's true.