Wednesday Weigh-in: Birthday Edition

Womp womp womp.....

Today I turn 31 and the number on the scale this morning read 216.8! :)

A tiny bit of loss, which is good because I had not one but two  pieces of my birthday cake.

Let me explain that we had my birthday dinner and cake on Sunday in hopes I could maintain my diet during the week.

Problem is that it is my run-on week, because I had drill past weekend, I don't get a day off.  I have (had) two tests this week, and the myriad of other crap I've got going. Plus my birthday, which makes me realize I'm getting older.  So needless to say all day Monday I heard the cake calling my name, and I gave in and had another slice

This FAT KID LOVES CAKE, SPECIALLY SINCE ITS MY BIRTHDAY!

But.....I digress.

I am getting older and I am probably in the best shape of my life.  I may be clinically obese still for my height and stuff, but I am a runner and I workout consistently.  I'm glad that I re-discovered the love of running because I want to carry it with me so I can be that fit 60 year old.

The hubby and I just finished week 2 of C25K and our pace this morning was 8:50! I am out of breath by the end of our run, but I recover pretty quickly so I know that if we keep this up (albeit a tiny bit slower once we are consistently running for the 30 minutes) that I can have an overall faster pace and I can kiss the 10:00 pace good-bye! 

Happy Wednesday all!!!  Weekend is coming up soon, and I know mine is going to rock! Hope yours does too!!



Made of Tuff Stuff

I hate snow!  Have I ever mentioned that??  I hate it even more now that I'm a runner.

Woke up this morning to do my Body Revolution with Jillian workout before the hubby got up for us to go on our run.  Checked FB as I always do to wake myself up, and someone had posted a picture of snow. 

Picture me whipping off the covers and running to the window in our room. "Son of a bitch!"  Yep, then I went back to bed and wanted to cry.

As I layed there for a few minutes I contemplated waking the hubby up and asking if he wanted to bail.  Then I looked out the window in the bathroom and realized it was only like 1/2 an inch. Effff this!! We can do it!

Cue in the hubby coming downstairs as I'm huffing and puffing through the last 5 minutes of my workout.  Look at him and as "We going to do this?" he says "Hells yeah!"

So we started Week two of C25K. In the snow!!! Yup!! We kicked some butt!!

On another note, my husband runs a lot faster than I do, even though he is NOT A RUNNER, so I find myself huffing and puffing a little more than I should.

Hmmmmmmmmmm......

Sub-30 5K here I come!! :)

Happy Friday all!!! Enjoy your weekend!

Blog Makeover

For my 6 followers (really want more!) you will notice I have given my blog a makeover!

I merged my blog I had started writing a long time ago and kind of left in the dust to add to this one. I was tired of staring at two and only writing one. I also want to write about more in life in general and not make it whiny I'm not losing weight blog.

I'm excited, because to me is like a journal for everyone to read. I have many things that run through my head all the time, keeping me up at night, and I need a way to release that.

I read so many other blogs and it's interesting to see how other people live and how they do things. I don't imagine to become popular but I would love to connect with others. Heck when I started this I found an old friend, Evelyn, and we have been blog/facebook talking for a couple of years now! We even met at a race and finally got to see each other again.

I hope to meet and maybe inspire others like, fatchicktofitchick, Mama Laughlin, and skinnymeg.

Enjoy and leave me some love!

Wednesday Weigh In: My Hubby is the Best

Weight this morning: 217.4

Looks like I lost that weight from the prior week.

Thank goodness because I was feeling about my minor Super Bowl Pig out and the Chick Fil-A I had on Monday.

I confess that my hubby wanted Chick Fil-A, and I could have been good, but the spicy chicken sandwich is the only thing I can stand.  But...I only ate a few fries instead of a whole order!

I think that some of my motivation is coming back because I started running again!

Yes that's right the single digit temperatures are gone, most of the snow has disappeared and so I have been able to BE FREE!!

The best part????  The hubby started running with me!!!! Eeeeeeep!!!! It makes running so awesome!!

I told him I would be with him every step of the way so we are doing the Couch-to-5k running program. Dan likes it because it has a zombie app included. We just finished Week 1 this morning and other than having a head cold which makes it hard to breathe, he actually likes it.

We aren't completing the program because the St Patty's Day 5K is in 6 weeks and the program is 9 weeks.  Hope I don't kill him to bad!!

Weigh-in military style this weekend. I just hope I show some improvement from last month. Not sure, because I haven't done measurements.

We will see.....

Wednesday Weigh-in: Hanging my Head in Shame

219.2 this morning.
That is actually better than my 221.6 from Monday.

I went on a mini vacation this weekend to a winter festival in our area.

I actually did not eat as much as I though I would because I wound up making most of the meals.  But I snacked a lot more than I usually do and drank a few cocktails.  I also didn't drink nearly as much water as I usually do. 

The caveat to all of this, is that I walked all over the place on Saturday and Sunday lugging around a toddler, so I'm not sure what is going on with my body.

To much yo-yoing is my problem. I eat fine Sunday evening through Friday evening and then it's all downhill from there.  I even work out all of those days too.

Urrrrggggg.....I hate this so much. Most of the time I feel so along with this struggle, because my family brings so much junk in the house and eat it.  I thought I had everyone on board with keeping the crap out of the house, but there it sits taunting me.

I read all of these weight loss journeys from other people who are doing so awesome, but it seems that they have people supporting them, which may make it easier.

I started this blog to hope to connect with other people like me and I feel like I'm just writing this for my own venting (which may not be horrid). 

I still seriously miss running, and I feel that it would pull me out of this rut.  Stupid snow won't go away soon enough.