Update

Hello All,

Life has been rocky lately, and I think rocky is a nice way of putting it.

Life has been a whirlwind.

In July I signed up for a kickball league, which was so awesome and fun…….untill I pulled my quad muscle. It was throbbing and pulsing for two weeks. I would put ice on it, and also put a heat pad on it. I was thinking the heat pad would help the muscle to relax. Finally after two weeks of not playing any kickball, I said I was going to play again. I stretched out my legs before the game. When it was my turn up, I kicked the ball and BAM pulled the quad again! I was so angry. For two weeks I couldn’t workout at all I rested. I went on walks just to get some form of exercise in. Then all over again it was starting. I was so mad at myself.

Then i did the most stupid thing….I kept playing!

Who does that! (oh…apparently I do) I didn’t stop because it felt good to be back on the field.

On top of having a bum quad I have poison ivy. ALL OVER MY LEGS!!! At my house we have a path to the canal. I love going on the canal for walks, runs, and bike rides. The path was getting overgrown so I decided I would stop that….and widen it. Apparently we have poison ivy back in the woods. I have had poison ivy for 2 months now and it wont go away! I am taking any suggestions on how to make it go away!!

On the marriage front: Saturday is my bridal shower, at my house, which is great and horrible. Starting in August I have been cleaning, de-clutering, shopping, making things, ect. to get ready for this event. I re-did the landscape at the house, Painted the whole deck, cleaned all the windows in the house and so on. My back is killing me!!! (apparently I need to get back and focus on my abs more!)

Also me and Rob are shopping for a house! It is a really exciting time but also adds on some more stress. My life is busy enough. I have work everyday. I normally come home, pick a new room to clean, workout, eat dinner, crash and do it all over again. Then weekends are filled with going to houses and open houses and so on.

Summer is nice though. I have had a bunch of different weddings to go to. Family members from Australia came to the states and stayed with my family for three weeks. I also had family reunions to go to. Along with going to the family cottage and just relaxing.

Needless to say I am exciting for summer to be over and for a steady fall schedule to fall into place. Along with my bum quad to heal. I still can’t really workout. I may need to go to the doctor to see if I did something else besides pull it. I can see my body losing some of it muscles, especially in my legs. I gained weight as well. (icing on the cake right!) This morning when I weighed it said 167 pounds. Which I mean is not a huge weight gain but because I know I am losing muscle it feels huge to me.

This morning when I was getting dressed for work I felt uncomfortable in everything I tried on. It was just one of those mornings where I wanted to crawl back into bed and have the day restart over. I just feel disgusted with myself but I don’t know what to do because I can only do light activity for working out. I can’t do the p90x like I am used to.

Never have I pulled a muscle in my life and I pray that I never again will!

It sucks!

I hope you all have an amazing hump day!

Wednesday

Today is a Weigh-In Wednesday Report, but it also is a very special day as well.

In my post yesterday I talked about my best friends Alyssa’s brother who passed away due to cancer. Well today is his birthday. If he was still alive he would be 23 years old!

My heart goes out to all the people of Oklahoma and the heartache that is there. I know the feeling of losing someone so young!

 

Weigh-In Wednesday….

I weigh 161.6 lb.

For the crazy week I had, I’ll take it.

It has been very beautiful here, I believe today is supposed to get up to 80 degrees. I plan to use the best of it and spend most of the day outside (after work of course)

I am really nervous this weekend because I am going camping. I love camping. The only reason I am nervous is because I don’t know how the diet is going to go with camping. I am normally more active all day long when I go, but on the other hand I am eating more than normal. I eat more chips and snack food/processed food. I am a little nervous on how it is going to effect my body.

Does anyone have any tips on how to avoid such things when camping?

Weigh-In 8-5

“Well that’s not what I wanted to see”

I deserved to gain weight this week!

Honestly, I did.

I did not eat the right kinds of food and I also have slacked a little in my workouts because was not making them more challenging.

When you eat food called a garbage plate, you are just asking for trouble.

I ate the most processed foods this past week then i have since the beginning of this year…and that people is why I gained.

This blog is for me to share my journey to become a better me, I don’t think it would have been fair of me to not post the ups and the downs. I post a lot about the good things of weight loss and transformations but that did not come with a lot of hard work and bad times.

Starting weight: 190 lbs

Last Week: 161.2 lbs

Current Weight: 163.8

Total Gain: 2.6 lbs. (ouch)

I deserved it and there is nothing like a slap in the face to keep you going. I really needed that reality check.

 

Transformation

 

This was me about 1 year ago

Here is me today….

This morning April 30th 2013

I have the same skirt on in both photos!

Here is the difference….

Little “wins” like this make me NEVER want to look back!

 

 

 

Motivation

Mall Trip!

Today I paid a visit to the outlet mall near my home and picked up some good items. My main goal was to pick up a pair of Nike sneakers, but I decided that would be a reward I give myself once I hit 155!

Here is a picture of the loot! I went to the Nike store but i was not to impressed with anything i saw. So i went to under amour and Reebok instead. 

At Under Armor I purchased a new zip up sweatshirt. It is a cobalt blue color and really warm!! It was originally $64.99 and I got it for $27.89!

Then at Reebok I purchased two pairs of their regular fit capri. One in all black and another in gray and blue! They were originally $34.99 and I got them for $19.00!

I saw a pair of really sweet Nike sneakers that I wanted so I am now motivated to lose the weight and stay on track!

Sometimes you just gotta find that thing that will get you through and make it worth it all. Today apparently it is Nike sneakers calling my name!

Sore Day…Yoga Day!

When I woke up this morning and rolled over in my bed  I believe I felt every muscle in my body! I am so sore from running the 5k yesterday.

The morning of the race all I could think about was quitting. I had not trained to run the 5k. I actually haven’t run in five months. I have been working out other ways, though. All that was going through my mind was “You are going to make a fool of yourself” “You already gave the money and helped a great cause, just stay home and do a workout” I made the choice to go. I made the choice to run.

I am glad I did! I am sore today but it is better than feeling sorry for myself.

Sometimes we just have to take a deep breath and do the things we don’t want to do. Today I am one step closer to my goal because I made the choice to run the race.

Do something today that is going to get yourself closer to your goal!

Ran a 5k!

 

 

 

I DID IT!

I ran the 5k and my number was 3!!!! My number being 3 might not mean a lot to you but it meant a ton to me! A good friend growing up was diagnosed with melanoma cancer when he was 14 and he passed away at 16. His family started this race to raise money and create awareness. His favorite number was 3!

I did this 5k last year…. I don’t even think you could say that I did the race because my time was 57 minutes and 57 seconds. That shows you just how bad of shape I was in a year ago. I walked 90% of the race.

Now move forward a year… I ran 98% of the race!!! My time was 32 minutes and 58 seconds. I averaged at a 10.28 minute mile. I am so proud of myself for just getting through the race! This was a huge accomplishment for me!

As I was going on to the third mile all I could think about was not wanting to put a horrible time up on my blog! I was thinking if I was going to post it, I might as well make it good!

Here is what I wore to the race! It was about 45 degrees, which was nice, but I was dying of heat as I ran.

 

Thanks for the motivation to keep running!