I weighed in at 190.0 this morning!! Wow! Faster than I thought, this week I just dropped a lot of weight for some reason. So that's 90 pounds officially lost, 360 sticks of butter!! WOO HOO!!! It's so surreal, so exciting!! And yet...I am so excited to get the next 10 pounds off to hit my 100 pounds lost mark. That will be such a party, I'm so going to have a party. A big one. Maybe give everyone a stick of butter. :) Actually no, cuz 100 pounds of butter would cost like $300. I don't have that kind of cash :D
YAAAYYY!!!! 190 pounds. 90 pounds in less than 8 months. Less than 8 months ago my life was TOTALLY different. I thought totally different, felt totally different, and holy crap, looked totally different. It's changed everything. AAAHHHHHHHHHHH it's so awesome :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
A little progress
Well, last time I blogged I had stalled out despite my best efforts. Since then I have had a little progress. Weighed in yesterday at 192.8. Not much progress but then I have not been perfectly vigilant either. It seems that I have to be perfectly vigilant to get results now. So it's definitely more of a challenge now. And I don't wanna be perfectly vigilant all the time. Some days I do great, others, like today, I just kind of let it fly. So it is what it is, try to string together more good days than bad days and keep at it.
I am only 7 weeks away from my 5k. I can now run 10 minutes at a time! Never thought I'd be able to do that. I ran 2 sets of 10 minutes each in my last training run, and that was tough but I felt amazingly proud of myself afterwards. I am not in love with running so I doubt this will be my new passion or anything but it's great to be ABLE to do it.
I'm onto Jillian Michael's Ripped in 30, but it will take me more than 30 to do it cuz I am alternating it with the training runs and I get a day off every week. So I've only got one more day on Level 1 then on to Level 2. It will probably take 2 months but that's okay. It keeps me working on my muscles and stamina and I love that.
Haven't measured in a while to see how many inches I'm down. probably do that on my 8 month anniversary on the 18th. I really hope to be down to 190 by then so I can celebrate 90 pounds lost in 8 months. A tall order but I'm going to really try to keep my hand from going to my mouth with food and work harder on my workouts. Even if I got to 89...that'd be swell :) Ultimately, every day gets me closer to my big milestone of 100 pounds lost. I had to modify my goals because of how slow things have been going. My goals are as follows:
Weight 190 (90 Pounds lost) 3/18/12 (8 month anniversary)
Weight 185 (95 pounds lost) 4/28/12 (The day I run my 5K)
Weight 180 (100 pounds lost) 5/18/12 (10 month anniversary)
Weight 175 (105 pounds lost) 6/18/12 (34th birthday and 11 month anniversary)
Weight 170, (110 pounds lost) 7/18/12 (1 year anniversary)
Weight 160, final goal weight (120 pounds lost) 9/18/12 (14 month anniversary)
I would hope it would go a little faster than that, but I have to be realistic. I had wanted to be at goal by my 1 year mark but now I need to adjust based on how it's been going. This last pile of fat is STUBBORN!!
I have found that the attention I get for my size from people I haven't seen in a long time has gone from really fun and cool to absolutely mortifying. I don't know what to say and I feel awkward about it. Last night I saw a bunch of people I hadn't seen since last summer and I kept my coat on for a while to try to kind of hide. I just feel weird, idk why, I should be more proud maybe? But it just feels weird to have that kind of attention on my body - i always wanted to draw attention away from it and now it just is kind of a big change to people who have not seen me in 7 months or more. So it's just something I have to get used to. I'm anxious for this to be normal now and the attention going away. Now that's not to say that I don't look at myself a ton more nowadays :) I am totally enthralled wtih how I can see some of my bones and just how different I look. I am constantly feeling my muscles and just totally in awe of it. So I am enjoying it myself, but I guess it is weird and feels really self-serving to accept praise or compliments from others for it. Like I'm bragging just by walking around or something. Idk hard to explain. But anyway. It's all part of the process and I wouldn't change anything at all so whatever. :)
Onward!!
I am only 7 weeks away from my 5k. I can now run 10 minutes at a time! Never thought I'd be able to do that. I ran 2 sets of 10 minutes each in my last training run, and that was tough but I felt amazingly proud of myself afterwards. I am not in love with running so I doubt this will be my new passion or anything but it's great to be ABLE to do it.
I'm onto Jillian Michael's Ripped in 30, but it will take me more than 30 to do it cuz I am alternating it with the training runs and I get a day off every week. So I've only got one more day on Level 1 then on to Level 2. It will probably take 2 months but that's okay. It keeps me working on my muscles and stamina and I love that.
Haven't measured in a while to see how many inches I'm down. probably do that on my 8 month anniversary on the 18th. I really hope to be down to 190 by then so I can celebrate 90 pounds lost in 8 months. A tall order but I'm going to really try to keep my hand from going to my mouth with food and work harder on my workouts. Even if I got to 89...that'd be swell :) Ultimately, every day gets me closer to my big milestone of 100 pounds lost. I had to modify my goals because of how slow things have been going. My goals are as follows:
Weight 190 (90 Pounds lost) 3/18/12 (8 month anniversary)
Weight 185 (95 pounds lost) 4/28/12 (The day I run my 5K)
Weight 180 (100 pounds lost) 5/18/12 (10 month anniversary)
Weight 175 (105 pounds lost) 6/18/12 (34th birthday and 11 month anniversary)
Weight 170, (110 pounds lost) 7/18/12 (1 year anniversary)
Weight 160, final goal weight (120 pounds lost) 9/18/12 (14 month anniversary)
I would hope it would go a little faster than that, but I have to be realistic. I had wanted to be at goal by my 1 year mark but now I need to adjust based on how it's been going. This last pile of fat is STUBBORN!!
I have found that the attention I get for my size from people I haven't seen in a long time has gone from really fun and cool to absolutely mortifying. I don't know what to say and I feel awkward about it. Last night I saw a bunch of people I hadn't seen since last summer and I kept my coat on for a while to try to kind of hide. I just feel weird, idk why, I should be more proud maybe? But it just feels weird to have that kind of attention on my body - i always wanted to draw attention away from it and now it just is kind of a big change to people who have not seen me in 7 months or more. So it's just something I have to get used to. I'm anxious for this to be normal now and the attention going away. Now that's not to say that I don't look at myself a ton more nowadays :) I am totally enthralled wtih how I can see some of my bones and just how different I look. I am constantly feeling my muscles and just totally in awe of it. So I am enjoying it myself, but I guess it is weird and feels really self-serving to accept praise or compliments from others for it. Like I'm bragging just by walking around or something. Idk hard to explain. But anyway. It's all part of the process and I wouldn't change anything at all so whatever. :)
Onward!!
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