Friday, June 19, 2015
New Blog Updates!
I am new to blogging. I am not new to technology, but definitely new to the inner workings and advanced things of all things blogger. I am super excited about the fact that I managed to add social media and email contact buttons to my blog. Doing this requires HTML code. All of this to say, I dabbled in teaching myself some HTML code this week. Funny story: I have a masters degree in IT...(MBA-IT) this is the first time i've actually used it for something, I have yet to actually use it for career purposes. Go check out my new handy dandy social media and email buttons! (Their pink of course!) TGIF Y'all!
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Where i've been
Its been awhile..as usual...Im still alive! The half marathon didnt kill me!...but nothing new to report, except that im super excited to have my handy dandy little mini computer back! It cost an arm and a leg to get it fixed thanks to some monitor cable inside the guts of the computer... but im super glad to have it back! So on to the stuff thats actually important!
Like I said there's nothing really new to report. Since my last post i've ran a few 5k's. I ran some pretty easy courses (other than the heat), so I had really good times! Im averaging around 30-32 minutes for a 5k! ) I ran a 5k in my hometown and as usual I won my age group (this is not meant to be bragging, this was a really small flat 5k with not a lot of young people).
I am feeling really great! I mean I always feel great but I am feeling on fire! I weighed in the other day and had lost 6 pounds since my previous weigh in! Ive been working my butt off! I went to North Carolina for a wedding back in the middle of May, and let''s just call that week the lost week. That was the first time probably since I started loosing weight that I just didnt care at all what I ate that week! Some of what I ate was beyond my control due to wedding festivities where food was provided, but I made some really bad food choices that week! When I got back I made the mistake of weighing myself! According to my scale at home (which everything I read says scales at home are most likely inaccurate) I had gained 10 lbs! I was so upset with myself! I was so upset with myself that I literally felt guilty about the bad choices that I made that week! But there was nothing that I could do! I made those choices an had to get back on track, get back on the wagon and work hard to get rid of the extra pounds I gained from that week! Looking back I dont regret what I ate that week, but hindsight is 2020. I shouldve balanced out my bad eating. There were opportunities where I controlled what I ate and I should have made better decisions, but I there was no need to beat myself up about it! So all of that to say I was really thrilled that the scale had shown progress and not that I had gained weight...Those of you that know me know I mustve really been paranoid about the weight gain from NC bc I actually got up early before work and went to the gym..this is unheard for me...but now that ive gotten into that routine and pattern, its not so bad!
Warning Brutally honest paragraph here:
I am not sure the fear of gaining all of my weight back will ever go away. For example, my birthday was the 3rd of June, and I had some amazing family friends take me to dinner at Maggjanos for my birthday. That whole day I was totally freaked out about what I was going to eat and what healthy dish I was going to eat! Finally I just had to let go and loosen up and have a little fun. I made sure to get a run in that day, and I couldve skipped dessert but it was my Birthday! I am so glad that I let go enjoyed myself and ordered what I wanted on the menu and not what I felt like I had to! I felt better and actually enjoyed myself instead of beating myself up about what I ordered (which was the lighter portion fettichini alfredo by the way). Back when I did weight watchers around the holiday, the leader made an excellent point regarding getting off track eating wise around the holidays. While my birthday is not a holiday (Id like to make it one :D), the point still rings true. He said that thanksgiving dinner is 1 meal! Christmas dinner is 1 meal! Meaning dont beat yourself up for not staying on track for eating for 1 meal. I have to do a better job of remembering that it really is just one meal and the next day go back to eating right and exercising to balance out that one meal. I am learning balance! I am learning not to have too many of those just 1 meal moments....
I am LOVING my running group! This is a sub group of the larger group that I trained for the half marathon with. Just because I have completed the race I was training for does not mean that I stop running. I have kept up with my running and I am running 3-4 miles on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays with my group. On Mondays I am working out with another running group at a track doing some speed training. The speed training is definitely a challenge! It may be all in my head but I think it really is making me faster and I am starting to see a difference.
Last summer I really got my start running with a group called the Lasty Nasties (get it...I live in Nashville...lasty nasties...) anyways...this group follows the couch to 5k schedule. This is what got me running last year and turned me into a runner! Runners are divided up based on their approximate one mile pace. Last summer I was completely clueless as to how fast my mile was because I had never really done any running before....nor had I ever really kept up with my time for the little bit of running I had actually done. Last summer I ran in the 13-14 minute mile group. This summer I have set a new goal for myself! I joined the 10 1/2 minute mile group! I am so excited! This will definitely be a challenge but I am excited to run a new fast pace.
This is a yearly summer running program put on by the community. At the start of every summer when the program starts, everyone can get measured and get their blood pressure taken. At the start of last summer I was 6 months into loosing weight and had lost a good amount. Today was the kick off for this program and I got measured, weighed, and my BP taken. It was so cool to compare this summers measurements and weight to last summer! In a year I have lost 10 inches in my stomach area! Holy Cow! I googled how many dress sizes is 10 inches. According to google, to loose 1 dress size, you have to loose 1 inch from the bust, waist and hips. 1 inch is equal to 10 to 15 pounds. This makes total sense. Before I started loosing weight I was a size 22. The last time I bought pants I was a size 12. The last dress I bought from Old Navy was a size Large! I have gone down about 4 sizes, From a 22/24 to an 18/20, to a 14/16 and now im in between a 12/14 and 10/12. Really cool random information! Woot Woot!
Thats pretty much it, youre all caught up again...My current weight loss total is 91 pounds!!!! I know this is bad and I really should not reward myself with food...but when I hit the 100 pounds lost mark (soon), I am going to have a cupcake collection cupcake..I know thats an oxy moron....those of you that live in Nashville and have been there...you understand...Those of you that dont live in Nashville...well you'll just have to come see for yourself if you think its worth it!
Stay tuned...hopefully my celebration and sappy post of hitting the goal of 100 pounds lost will be coming soon!
Like I said there's nothing really new to report. Since my last post i've ran a few 5k's. I ran some pretty easy courses (other than the heat), so I had really good times! Im averaging around 30-32 minutes for a 5k! ) I ran a 5k in my hometown and as usual I won my age group (this is not meant to be bragging, this was a really small flat 5k with not a lot of young people).
I am feeling really great! I mean I always feel great but I am feeling on fire! I weighed in the other day and had lost 6 pounds since my previous weigh in! Ive been working my butt off! I went to North Carolina for a wedding back in the middle of May, and let''s just call that week the lost week. That was the first time probably since I started loosing weight that I just didnt care at all what I ate that week! Some of what I ate was beyond my control due to wedding festivities where food was provided, but I made some really bad food choices that week! When I got back I made the mistake of weighing myself! According to my scale at home (which everything I read says scales at home are most likely inaccurate) I had gained 10 lbs! I was so upset with myself! I was so upset with myself that I literally felt guilty about the bad choices that I made that week! But there was nothing that I could do! I made those choices an had to get back on track, get back on the wagon and work hard to get rid of the extra pounds I gained from that week! Looking back I dont regret what I ate that week, but hindsight is 2020. I shouldve balanced out my bad eating. There were opportunities where I controlled what I ate and I should have made better decisions, but I there was no need to beat myself up about it! So all of that to say I was really thrilled that the scale had shown progress and not that I had gained weight...Those of you that know me know I mustve really been paranoid about the weight gain from NC bc I actually got up early before work and went to the gym..this is unheard for me...but now that ive gotten into that routine and pattern, its not so bad!
Warning Brutally honest paragraph here:
I am not sure the fear of gaining all of my weight back will ever go away. For example, my birthday was the 3rd of June, and I had some amazing family friends take me to dinner at Maggjanos for my birthday. That whole day I was totally freaked out about what I was going to eat and what healthy dish I was going to eat! Finally I just had to let go and loosen up and have a little fun. I made sure to get a run in that day, and I couldve skipped dessert but it was my Birthday! I am so glad that I let go enjoyed myself and ordered what I wanted on the menu and not what I felt like I had to! I felt better and actually enjoyed myself instead of beating myself up about what I ordered (which was the lighter portion fettichini alfredo by the way). Back when I did weight watchers around the holiday, the leader made an excellent point regarding getting off track eating wise around the holidays. While my birthday is not a holiday (Id like to make it one :D), the point still rings true. He said that thanksgiving dinner is 1 meal! Christmas dinner is 1 meal! Meaning dont beat yourself up for not staying on track for eating for 1 meal. I have to do a better job of remembering that it really is just one meal and the next day go back to eating right and exercising to balance out that one meal. I am learning balance! I am learning not to have too many of those just 1 meal moments....
I am LOVING my running group! This is a sub group of the larger group that I trained for the half marathon with. Just because I have completed the race I was training for does not mean that I stop running. I have kept up with my running and I am running 3-4 miles on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays with my group. On Mondays I am working out with another running group at a track doing some speed training. The speed training is definitely a challenge! It may be all in my head but I think it really is making me faster and I am starting to see a difference.
Last summer I really got my start running with a group called the Lasty Nasties (get it...I live in Nashville...lasty nasties...) anyways...this group follows the couch to 5k schedule. This is what got me running last year and turned me into a runner! Runners are divided up based on their approximate one mile pace. Last summer I was completely clueless as to how fast my mile was because I had never really done any running before....nor had I ever really kept up with my time for the little bit of running I had actually done. Last summer I ran in the 13-14 minute mile group. This summer I have set a new goal for myself! I joined the 10 1/2 minute mile group! I am so excited! This will definitely be a challenge but I am excited to run a new fast pace.
This is a yearly summer running program put on by the community. At the start of every summer when the program starts, everyone can get measured and get their blood pressure taken. At the start of last summer I was 6 months into loosing weight and had lost a good amount. Today was the kick off for this program and I got measured, weighed, and my BP taken. It was so cool to compare this summers measurements and weight to last summer! In a year I have lost 10 inches in my stomach area! Holy Cow! I googled how many dress sizes is 10 inches. According to google, to loose 1 dress size, you have to loose 1 inch from the bust, waist and hips. 1 inch is equal to 10 to 15 pounds. This makes total sense. Before I started loosing weight I was a size 22. The last time I bought pants I was a size 12. The last dress I bought from Old Navy was a size Large! I have gone down about 4 sizes, From a 22/24 to an 18/20, to a 14/16 and now im in between a 12/14 and 10/12. Really cool random information! Woot Woot!
Thats pretty much it, youre all caught up again...My current weight loss total is 91 pounds!!!! I know this is bad and I really should not reward myself with food...but when I hit the 100 pounds lost mark (soon), I am going to have a cupcake collection cupcake..I know thats an oxy moron....those of you that live in Nashville and have been there...you understand...Those of you that dont live in Nashville...well you'll just have to come see for yourself if you think its worth it!
Stay tuned...hopefully my celebration and sappy post of hitting the goal of 100 pounds lost will be coming soon!
Monday, April 27, 2015
13.1 Done
Im still alive!! I survived!! 13.1 Miles done! I officially completed the St. Jude Country Music Half Marathon with a time of 2 hours and 38 minutes. Ideally I would've like my time to be a flat even 2:30 (Im OCD like that..I like even numbers), but i'll take 2:38 because those hills were hard! I am so glad that the rain held off! Thank you Jesus! It would not have been fun to run that race in the pouring rain! Yesterday (The day after the 1/2) while sitting on the couch doing nothing ( a well deserved do nothing day I might add!), I came across this quote while looking for picture frames to frame my medal & finisher photo. "She believed she could, so she did." That quote totally sums up my 1/2 marathon. I believed I could do it, so I did! Woot Woot! Pictures below...not sure why my mom decided she wanted to snap 10 million pictures in front of the porta potties...but oh well....at least there is photo evidence that I finished!
Finished!!!
Showing off my medal!! (Its heavy!)
Mom & Me (I have no idea how to rotate this picture)
Picture taken by my best friend (Heyheythirdgrade.blogspot.com)..Pretty sure she asked me if I was still alive...
So excited to see my BFF at the finish line! This was my reaction when I saw her at the finish!
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Strong 10 miles - 1 week til 1/2! - High School Prom Dress
Nothing really new going on here. I made a great quiche this week to reheat for breakfast this everyday...so there's that... Here are my most recent non-scale victories:
1) I ran 10 miles this past Saturday. While its not the full 13.1 that I will run a week from this Saturday, this was the first run all season where I thought to myself, I might actually be able to run this half marathon! I had never previously had the feeling of a good strong run until Saturday. I felt accomplished and ready to take on the world! (Or 3 more miles on race day)
2) I was in Atlanta this week. (thats where I grew up). While I was home for a few hours this week I stopped by my moms house. Just for fun I tried on all my old sorority and prom dresses. From the time I was 18 til about my Junior year of college, I bought a new evening gown once a year, either for prom or for sorority functions. While home I tried on all of my old gowns that were in my closet just for fun. All of them were too big! While this shouldnt be a surprise, it was shocking to try on these dresses and them literally fall off of me! These gowns were always a struggle to put on! It used to take spanx, and body shapers underneath my dresses to get them to fit & that was even after I had them altered/taken out to make them bigger. My favorite dress was my pink senior year prom dress. I put it on this weekend and IT WAS TOO BIG!!!!!! This dress was the tightest of them all, and the seamstress worked magic to get me in it.! here's a picture my mom took of me in it. You can't see it, but the back is super big! I will have to find my actual high school prom picture.
1) I ran 10 miles this past Saturday. While its not the full 13.1 that I will run a week from this Saturday, this was the first run all season where I thought to myself, I might actually be able to run this half marathon! I had never previously had the feeling of a good strong run until Saturday. I felt accomplished and ready to take on the world! (Or 3 more miles on race day)
2) I was in Atlanta this week. (thats where I grew up). While I was home for a few hours this week I stopped by my moms house. Just for fun I tried on all my old sorority and prom dresses. From the time I was 18 til about my Junior year of college, I bought a new evening gown once a year, either for prom or for sorority functions. While home I tried on all of my old gowns that were in my closet just for fun. All of them were too big! While this shouldnt be a surprise, it was shocking to try on these dresses and them literally fall off of me! These gowns were always a struggle to put on! It used to take spanx, and body shapers underneath my dresses to get them to fit & that was even after I had them altered/taken out to make them bigger. My favorite dress was my pink senior year prom dress. I put it on this weekend and IT WAS TOO BIG!!!!!! This dress was the tightest of them all, and the seamstress worked magic to get me in it.! here's a picture my mom took of me in it. You can't see it, but the back is super big! I will have to find my actual high school prom picture.
Today is Thursday i'm headed to Gatlinburg for the weekend with the church. Country Music / marathon is one week from Saturday! For the 1st time i actually feel like I can do this!!!
Monday, April 6, 2015
Almost 1/2 Time & Recent Before & After
Today is the day after Easter. Easter was great! But my healthy eating went out the window this weekend! Its Easter tradition that I always go over to my Best Friends & Aunt & Uncles house. They put on a remarkable spread that looks and tastes amazing! I had a little bit of everything! The Mac and Cheese & Sweet potato casserole are to die for! I really enjoyed the food & fellowship with these people are my Nashville family! Unfortunately I paid for that food on the scale today. I weighed in at my weekly Monday weigh-in for Fleet Feet's Ton of Fun (their version of biggest loser). I gained almost 3 pounds :( I wouldn't trade that Easter meal for anything! Good news is today is a new day & I am getting back on track!
There are 2 weeks until Country Music 1/2 marathon! AHHH!!! There are only 2 more Saturday runs until Race day!! I ran 9 miles with my group this week & I feel pretty good about it. The 9 miles were hard, and I was worn out afterwards, but I am learning that I need to slow down & pace myself so I can actually finish the race. This weekend we are doing 10 miles! 10 seems like nothing after the 14 we did 2 weeks ago! I found my Couch to 5k shirt from this summer. Its crazy to think that almost a year ago I could hardly run for 8 minutes without thinking I was going to die! Now I have a 10 1/2 - 11 1/2 minute mile! Craziness!!
Yesterday was Easter! He's Risen! He has risen indeed! So its tradition to take Easter pictures at church on Easter Sunday. Here is a before and after. At this point last year I had already lost a decent amount of weight, but was (and still am) a work in progress! Sorry for all the before & After pics lately, but this is the way I judge my progress.
Current weight loss total: 84 Pounds!! Woot Woot!!
There are 2 weeks until Country Music 1/2 marathon! AHHH!!! There are only 2 more Saturday runs until Race day!! I ran 9 miles with my group this week & I feel pretty good about it. The 9 miles were hard, and I was worn out afterwards, but I am learning that I need to slow down & pace myself so I can actually finish the race. This weekend we are doing 10 miles! 10 seems like nothing after the 14 we did 2 weeks ago! I found my Couch to 5k shirt from this summer. Its crazy to think that almost a year ago I could hardly run for 8 minutes without thinking I was going to die! Now I have a 10 1/2 - 11 1/2 minute mile! Craziness!!
Yesterday was Easter! He's Risen! He has risen indeed! So its tradition to take Easter pictures at church on Easter Sunday. Here is a before and after. At this point last year I had already lost a decent amount of weight, but was (and still am) a work in progress! Sorry for all the before & After pics lately, but this is the way I judge my progress.
Thursday, April 2, 2015
NSV'S and 1/2 Training
So...my brand new super duper wonderful computer is still dead :( ...but on the bright side my old laptop has mysteriously started to work so I am back in business.
I am EXTREMELY proud of my best friend (heyheythirdgrade.blogspot.com), she started a program called whole 30 & has stuck to it and took to it like a duck to water & I could not be more proud of her. The Whole30 diet is super hard because of everything that you cut out for 30 days straight! Super proud of her because there are no cheat days on whole 30! If you cheat you start over! AHH !! So Way to go Theresa!!
While Theresa is killing whole 30, I am working on getting back on track after two weekends of what feels like nothing but eating! My mom and I went to Savannah GA for their annual St. Patt's day parade. There are so many good places to eat in Savannah! For the most part I stayed away from fried food, but did allow myself to have fried shrimp & hushpuppies one evening for dinner. My mom & I also ate at Paula Deen's restaurant which was AH-MAY-ZING, but im sure everything was cooked in straight butter! I refused to miss out on my favorite Savannah foods (& coffee). I didnt really get any workouts in while in Savannah, but I did not a lot of walking! so hopefully that counts for something & the number on the scale wont be to high! I also got the chance to go visit some friends in NJ last weekend. They live about an hour from Philly, so after a concert we went and ate a real Philly Cheeseteak! It was awesome!! You cant go to Philly & not get a Philly!
Update: I officially dropped out of Weight Watchers at work, this was more due to my work has picked up so much and I am working so many hours I simply do not have time to stop my work and go attend a meeting, so I dropped it. I will miss the group, but I haven't tracked points in a long while and I was pretty much over it! This also goes back to the same thing of I am doing well enough on my own just trying to avoid eating junk food that I don't really need weight watchers.
Non Scale Victories:
1) 14 Miles!!!! You read that right 14! So this was pretty much an awful run! I should be proud that I ran 14 miles but this run was tough! I took a nasty fall at mile 6! Im ok and I got back up and kept running, but I was so tired and sore by the end of the route that I ended up walking the last 5k portion of the 14 miles...I was disappointed that I walked so much. I am hoping that on race day the excitement of the race will keep me going. There is officially less than a month until the 1/2 marathon! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
2) I avoided cake at the office twice this week! Good grief! what is it about spring! There is food everywhere! Junk food everywhere! Not only was there a retirement with cake this week, someone else just randomly brought in cake and sent an email to everyone telling them to come get cake! I am proud I didn't eat the cake! Not even one piece! I went to the party, said my best wishes, but didn't eat a piece of the gorgeous carrot cake that was calling my name!
3) Being healthy is contagious! My co-workers are starting to catch on! One co-worker is drastically cutting back on the amount Coke she drinks & another is simply trying to eat healthier! Its not really my goal to inspire people, (That sounds bad), but everything i'm doing, im doing it for me and no one else but it is exciting to see it rubbing off on others!
4) In a previous post I told you about the biggest loser game at Fleet Feet and their group workouts at this gym called Quest. Quest is kind of far away from me, its a good 45 min drive with traffic. For the first time since the biggest loser game started ive finally had time to go all the way out to brentwood to quest. Im glad i did! The class I took was an hour long and was super HARD! Crazy thing was...apparently this was the easy class..........Holy Crap! I survived!
On deck for this weekend: 15K, 9 miles and some change. Here's hoping that 9 miles goes better than the 14 from last weekend.
I am EXTREMELY proud of my best friend (heyheythirdgrade.blogspot.com), she started a program called whole 30 & has stuck to it and took to it like a duck to water & I could not be more proud of her. The Whole30 diet is super hard because of everything that you cut out for 30 days straight! Super proud of her because there are no cheat days on whole 30! If you cheat you start over! AHH !! So Way to go Theresa!!
While Theresa is killing whole 30, I am working on getting back on track after two weekends of what feels like nothing but eating! My mom and I went to Savannah GA for their annual St. Patt's day parade. There are so many good places to eat in Savannah! For the most part I stayed away from fried food, but did allow myself to have fried shrimp & hushpuppies one evening for dinner. My mom & I also ate at Paula Deen's restaurant which was AH-MAY-ZING, but im sure everything was cooked in straight butter! I refused to miss out on my favorite Savannah foods (& coffee). I didnt really get any workouts in while in Savannah, but I did not a lot of walking! so hopefully that counts for something & the number on the scale wont be to high! I also got the chance to go visit some friends in NJ last weekend. They live about an hour from Philly, so after a concert we went and ate a real Philly Cheeseteak! It was awesome!! You cant go to Philly & not get a Philly!
Update: I officially dropped out of Weight Watchers at work, this was more due to my work has picked up so much and I am working so many hours I simply do not have time to stop my work and go attend a meeting, so I dropped it. I will miss the group, but I haven't tracked points in a long while and I was pretty much over it! This also goes back to the same thing of I am doing well enough on my own just trying to avoid eating junk food that I don't really need weight watchers.
Non Scale Victories:
1) 14 Miles!!!! You read that right 14! So this was pretty much an awful run! I should be proud that I ran 14 miles but this run was tough! I took a nasty fall at mile 6! Im ok and I got back up and kept running, but I was so tired and sore by the end of the route that I ended up walking the last 5k portion of the 14 miles...I was disappointed that I walked so much. I am hoping that on race day the excitement of the race will keep me going. There is officially less than a month until the 1/2 marathon! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
2) I avoided cake at the office twice this week! Good grief! what is it about spring! There is food everywhere! Junk food everywhere! Not only was there a retirement with cake this week, someone else just randomly brought in cake and sent an email to everyone telling them to come get cake! I am proud I didn't eat the cake! Not even one piece! I went to the party, said my best wishes, but didn't eat a piece of the gorgeous carrot cake that was calling my name!
3) Being healthy is contagious! My co-workers are starting to catch on! One co-worker is drastically cutting back on the amount Coke she drinks & another is simply trying to eat healthier! Its not really my goal to inspire people, (That sounds bad), but everything i'm doing, im doing it for me and no one else but it is exciting to see it rubbing off on others!
4) In a previous post I told you about the biggest loser game at Fleet Feet and their group workouts at this gym called Quest. Quest is kind of far away from me, its a good 45 min drive with traffic. For the first time since the biggest loser game started ive finally had time to go all the way out to brentwood to quest. Im glad i did! The class I took was an hour long and was super HARD! Crazy thing was...apparently this was the easy class..........Holy Crap! I survived!
On deck for this weekend: 15K, 9 miles and some change. Here's hoping that 9 miles goes better than the 14 from last weekend.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Lots to Catch up on!
Im back with lots to tell you & a lot of non scale victories! First things first: its been awhile..Why? because my brand new computer that I got for Christmas inspired me to start blogging...died an early death...and its incredibly hard to blog from my iphone...I was the recipient of a brand new Samsung Tablet (thanks mom!). I attempted to blog on that...its super cool...but the number of typos however...not so cool...So thats why this post will be so long...because we have lots to discuss! Im currently at my moms house in ATL so im using her dinosaur of a computer (literally this computer was my HS grad present 10 years go...) So on to more important things.
Currently I feel like I am rocking an rolling! I haven't officially dropped weight watchers, but I have stopped tracking points. I am still going to meetings and weighing in every week. I really love the meetings. I get so many good ideas from the meetings and the accountability is great!
Ive had so many non scale victories recently that I am on a NSV high! The NSV's are why I feel like ive been rocking and rolling with my weighloss lately...even if the numbers on the scale haven't shown drastic improvement lately! So here at my Non-scale victories, so I woudnt forget them when I could finally blog again..Ive been keeping a list on my phone!:
1) This is random..but ive really started to like red pepper lately! Why I have no idea...I really wish I could like red pepper with hummus...but it just hasn't happened.....Anyways...I've been eating red pepper on all my salads lately & i'm loving the flavor and color it adds to everything! Not quite sure why I was a red pepper hater before!
2) Last Saturday I ran 8 miles! Thats the farthest ive ever ran! Not only did I run 8 miles but I didnt feel like I was dying at any point in that 8 miles! I dont know what it is but there is something energizing about the downtown Nashville route we ran! Which is a good thing that I think its energizing because that route was part of the half marathon race course! I really felt like I crushed those 8 miles!
3) I deserve a medal for this one! I found out last weekend that I have really awesome neighbors! They came over to cut down the tree that had fallen on my garage while I was on vacation. So as a way to say thank you I made them cookies! I really hope the cookies tasted good because I did not sample a single cookie! I didn't even have a piece of cookie dough! This is a huge non scale victory for me! That takes an incredible amount of will power! I'm totally patting myself on the back for that one!
5) I ate a salad at a Mexican place here at home this weekend (Called Willy's..so wish they had a willy's in Nashville!)..& i had a really great salad and it had roasted red pepper on it! Wait a minute...did I just say I got a salad at the Mexican restaurant...yes...and it was amazing! I didn't even need any salad dressing a combination of the pico and the guac made enough of a dressing I didn't have to add anything...This isn't the first time i've gotten a salad at the Mexican place recently either! I dont know why im on a salad kick lately, but theres just something about a good taco (w/o the fried shell) salad that's refreshing!
6) I am in love with meal planning..I bought a groupon for emeals and signed up for one of their plans. Emeals sends me a list of recipes and a grocery list every Wednesday. So far my two favorite meals have been the Crockpot Pork with apples & sauerkraut, and the crockpot Lamb Shanks with tomato sauce..I'm pretty much in love with having pre-panned meals...and my crockpot, these meals make enough for two so I always have leftovers for the next day which is so handy!
7) I saved the best for last! Guess what size I am...Drumroll please.........I went into old navy last night and tried on jeans for the first time in awhile..and guess what...I bought two pairs of size 12 jeans..SIZE 12!!!!!!! I have never ever in my life (ok maybe when I was a kid) Been a Size 12! A little over a year ago when I started working out and changing my eating habits I was a size 22! I cannot believe I am a size 12! I have been thinking for awhile that I was down to a 14/16 and I was super pumped about that! but realizing i'm a size 12...it makes all my frustrations about life (like why is food at whole foods so expensive..). Im not done yet I would still like to loose about 40 more pounds to be at the recommended weight for my height, but this is HUGE Progress and a HUGE Non scale Victory!! WOOT WOOT!! Before and after pic below.
8) I forgot about this one..so I guess the other one is really the one im most excited about but this one is awesome too. I ran a St Patty's day 5k with my mom this weekend. It was a small race with not a lot of people..especially not a lot of young people. But I totally won my age group! First time ive ever won anything in my life! (now there were probably only 3 people in my age group...but it still counts!). It was pretty awesome to get this cute little shiny medal just for running 3 miles! Me with my medal and really cute "kiss me im a runner shirt" & st pattys day headband are below, its the other part of the before & After pic.
So the left was Feb. 2014 & the right was yesterday 03/14/15! (Pi Day!)
Currently I feel like I am rocking an rolling! I haven't officially dropped weight watchers, but I have stopped tracking points. I am still going to meetings and weighing in every week. I really love the meetings. I get so many good ideas from the meetings and the accountability is great!
Ive had so many non scale victories recently that I am on a NSV high! The NSV's are why I feel like ive been rocking and rolling with my weighloss lately...even if the numbers on the scale haven't shown drastic improvement lately! So here at my Non-scale victories, so I woudnt forget them when I could finally blog again..Ive been keeping a list on my phone!:
1) This is random..but ive really started to like red pepper lately! Why I have no idea...I really wish I could like red pepper with hummus...but it just hasn't happened.....Anyways...I've been eating red pepper on all my salads lately & i'm loving the flavor and color it adds to everything! Not quite sure why I was a red pepper hater before!
2) Last Saturday I ran 8 miles! Thats the farthest ive ever ran! Not only did I run 8 miles but I didnt feel like I was dying at any point in that 8 miles! I dont know what it is but there is something energizing about the downtown Nashville route we ran! Which is a good thing that I think its energizing because that route was part of the half marathon race course! I really felt like I crushed those 8 miles!
3) I deserve a medal for this one! I found out last weekend that I have really awesome neighbors! They came over to cut down the tree that had fallen on my garage while I was on vacation. So as a way to say thank you I made them cookies! I really hope the cookies tasted good because I did not sample a single cookie! I didn't even have a piece of cookie dough! This is a huge non scale victory for me! That takes an incredible amount of will power! I'm totally patting myself on the back for that one!
5) I ate a salad at a Mexican place here at home this weekend (Called Willy's..so wish they had a willy's in Nashville!)..& i had a really great salad and it had roasted red pepper on it! Wait a minute...did I just say I got a salad at the Mexican restaurant...yes...and it was amazing! I didn't even need any salad dressing a combination of the pico and the guac made enough of a dressing I didn't have to add anything...This isn't the first time i've gotten a salad at the Mexican place recently either! I dont know why im on a salad kick lately, but theres just something about a good taco (w/o the fried shell) salad that's refreshing!
6) I am in love with meal planning..I bought a groupon for emeals and signed up for one of their plans. Emeals sends me a list of recipes and a grocery list every Wednesday. So far my two favorite meals have been the Crockpot Pork with apples & sauerkraut, and the crockpot Lamb Shanks with tomato sauce..I'm pretty much in love with having pre-panned meals...and my crockpot, these meals make enough for two so I always have leftovers for the next day which is so handy!
7) I saved the best for last! Guess what size I am...Drumroll please.........I went into old navy last night and tried on jeans for the first time in awhile..and guess what...I bought two pairs of size 12 jeans..SIZE 12!!!!!!! I have never ever in my life (ok maybe when I was a kid) Been a Size 12! A little over a year ago when I started working out and changing my eating habits I was a size 22! I cannot believe I am a size 12! I have been thinking for awhile that I was down to a 14/16 and I was super pumped about that! but realizing i'm a size 12...it makes all my frustrations about life (like why is food at whole foods so expensive..). Im not done yet I would still like to loose about 40 more pounds to be at the recommended weight for my height, but this is HUGE Progress and a HUGE Non scale Victory!! WOOT WOOT!! Before and after pic below.
8) I forgot about this one..so I guess the other one is really the one im most excited about but this one is awesome too. I ran a St Patty's day 5k with my mom this weekend. It was a small race with not a lot of people..especially not a lot of young people. But I totally won my age group! First time ive ever won anything in my life! (now there were probably only 3 people in my age group...but it still counts!). It was pretty awesome to get this cute little shiny medal just for running 3 miles! Me with my medal and really cute "kiss me im a runner shirt" & st pattys day headband are below, its the other part of the before & After pic.
So the left was Feb. 2014 & the right was yesterday 03/14/15! (Pi Day!)
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