Wednesday Weigh-In

Well...I knew it was gonna be bad, and it was. I KNOW it takes hard work and I need that discipline again to make the right choices.

So here's the dreaded scale pic.

I think the most upsetting part is last Thursday it said 196.  Five freaking pounds. FIVE!!!!!  It also hurts that it starts with a 2.  I said good bye to the 200s. I thought.

I know last weekend did a number on me (five numbers) but this wknd will be tough too.  Tomorrow is our anniversary and we'll be at Silver Dollar City...I've GOT to make healthy choices and load up on water.  Then Saturday we are celebrating which will mean dinner. I WILL make good choices. Maybe I need to start posting my MFP daily food journal here too.  Who knows..I just gotta do it. 

  I also haven't worked out since Thursday last week. Ugh.   With a new month maybe its time for another sticker calendar and goal setting.  Tomorrow I will definitely work on monthly goals and have those posted here. 

Until then,

Weekend Recap

Well...nothing too exciting or positive to post here today. Ideally I planned on posting a weekend recap on Monday but it was a holiday still (Memorial Day) so technically it didn't count as a Monday, haha.

This weekend ruined my work from this past week.  HUGE disappointment although not shocked.  I last weighed-in on Friday at 197.   When I weighed-in on Monday it said 200.7. HUGE disappointment.
But I ate like crap...all weekend.  And I mean CRAP. And I mean ALL weekend.

We drove back to the farm on Saturday. I had full intentions of being mindful and trying to do my best.   FAIL.   For lunch at mom's we had homemade sub sammiches.  Not a huge problem and I thought I could handle myself with that...and I did.  But then she brought out some butter pecan cookies.  *read: HUGE downfall*  Those suckers were yummy.  I ate too many -not sure how many, at least 8 I would think.  Either way, too many.  And then there was dinner.   Id on't know where I went wrong -- we had grilled hamburgers. I had some potato salad, BLT pasta, deviled eggs and a Blue Moon.  So it wasn't horrible (although I had 5 deviled eggs) but it wasn't moderate portions either.

Then Sunday we we had breakfast at the farm before heading to Ethan's family. Mom made B&G with sausage.  I actually didn't eat that much - just wasn't what I wanted I guess.  At his family's we had rotisserie chicken, pasta, and corn on the cob.  Again - nothing horrible.

So I guess I can't blame this weekend on the food. I know I haven't exercised in a while either...last week I worked out twice and was seeing a loss. And once I stopped so did the weigh loss. Coincidence? Doubtful. I also was tracking on MFP and losing. Stop tracking ... stop losing. Coincidence? Hardly.

Verdict?  Time to get back on MFP and the treadmill/road.   Here's to a "normal" day tomorrow.  Whatcha got for me Wednesday?

Just an update

Ethan made it possible for me to go running last night. Yay! 

I really wanted to want to run, but dreaded actually doing it.  I couldn't decide on outside or treadmill....and here's why. If I run outside I have to actually get dressed and run all up and down the hills. But yet if I run on the treadmill I hate running on the treadmill its boring and there's nothing to see.

But I got out and ran and I did it down and back on the road, just a mile. What I'm coming to realize is that a mile is a mile. I'm only competing with myself but yet I still get frustrated when I'm not as good as I was.

I usually listen to a podcast called PodRunners where you can listen to music based on beats per minute but this time I decided to go back to my Runners music playlist. I think I might have liked it better not quite sure yet.

Anyways I ran down half a mile actually  0.54 miles and then walked for a little bit and then jog the rest of the way back up the hill. I was excited to see that my time at the end was a 12:30 mile average. Not too bad. I wish that my music had a beat per minute play option on it but i think that music was a good thing.

So it seems so far I've been able to get at least a mile in every other day. Granted this is day 3 but I'm hopeful. I did hurt my ankle, well more the top of my foot. Really hurts to walk on it. keep an eye out and see how it goes. Hopefully today I can get in a little bit of Jillian while AbbDabs is asleep this afternoon.  

Here's to Thursday!!

Weigh-In Wednesday

Ugh...the dreaded weigh-in.  Since I've been soooo off the wagon lately, I wasn't sure how I felt about today's number. It was still under 200 (barely) but it at least was under.  I wasn't tooooo discouraged, knowing that it was a restart - that I was ready to start over and from here on the number would go down...a lot.

So here it is....

I started back on My Fitness Pal again and WOW I go way over on calories! It's easy to see where my eating hasn't been the best lately, a lot of snacking, thoughtless seconds, unhealthy choices.  So today for lunch it was baked chicken with roasted broccoli and zuchini (who knew I liked zuchinni??).   It's been hard to not snack, because I REALLY want something sweet, but it's not happening. Not because i have amazing will power -- nope, we are ALL outta sweets today. 

I also haven't gotten in a workout today.  The game plan was to workout while AbbDabs was napping but that didn't happen.  Yesterday was crazy hectic with an impromptu trip back home and so today has been schedule recovery -- meaning it's mass chaos here trying to get everyone back on track.   Hopefully once E gets home I can get in a run.  *fingers crossed*

Determined....Again

So here I am....back on blogger. Only this time it's not a family blog, it's not a school related blog. Nope. This one is just for me (unless anyone else happens to find it -- hello! Hang in there, it might get ugly!). It's just for Me, about Me, and by Me.

Before I get all mushy and give the background info on what's been happening, here's what's going on right now.  Saturday I finished my 4th 5k (finished in 37 minutes, too!).  Yep, four.  That's one in Nov, one in Dec, one in March and now one in May.  My friend Julie was running her first half that day (she's my inspiration)....and it was the first time any of my runs included a half marathon. THAT was massive inspiration, to see those runners finishing.  I longed to be with them, I teared up seeing them finish, I felt for them and also wanted to feel that sense of amazing-ness.  Ethan and I discussed running a half at some point, since it has been on my bucket list since last November.  Then today he texts to say that he and a friend are gonna start running together and want to run the BPS Half in Nov!   Talk about emotions flying on my end.  Running is MY thing. The Half is MY bucket list item.  He doesn't even LIKE to run, I've begged him for years to run with me but now HE wants to run..  This messed with my head for hours until I finally hopped on the treadmill while Abbs was sleeping, determined to not let him run this half without me.  I talked to Julie and some other half-ers on MLFC for motivation and support and here I am.

Setting my first FOR REAL goal that I WILL hit:   

Run the Bass Pro Shops Half Marathon on Nov 3, 2013.  

Notice it doesn't say run it in 2:30hours, or beat Ethan, or even run the whole thing.
I will be at the BPS half, I will finish it, I will get that medal (it's all about the medal...not really (but kinda)).

Here's my blogger goals while I'm at it:  Weekly weigh-in, monthly progress pics, weekly recap of workouts, and linking up with other blogs as I figure out how to do it.

Hopefully by having the summer off and less demanding schedule, i'll build in the routine of posting here every few days so that once school's back in the swing this fall, it'll already be a habit.

So here's to setting goals