Friday, January 27, 2012

Weekly Weigh In

Wow, I have not done one these in quite some time.  As mentioned before, sticking to a plan that I know works has proved to be challenging for me in recent weeks.  I've become lazy at tracking and therefore lazy at eating well.


To reach my goal of 140lbs, I have to lose 29.2 more pounds and at the rate I am going now, it will take me wayyy longer than I had anticipated  a few short months ago.  I am hoping that by signing up for the Dirty Girl Run, adding exercise to the mix will only help.  I mean if I can lose over 30lbs without exercise, imagine what I can do with it!

The last weigh in I shared with you was back for my Dec. 2nd weigh in.  Let's catch you up:

Dec. 9th        -1.0 lbs (this brought me down to a new decade! 169.8)
Dec. 16th      +1.2 lbs (this brought me back to the old decade. Boo)
Dec 23rd      -1.2 lbs (back to the 160s)
Dec. 30th      The only time I intentionally skipped a weigh in b/c I didn't want to see the scale : (
Jan. 6th         +2.4 lbs (biggest gain since being on WW)
Jan. 13th       -0.8 lbs
Jan 20th        -2 lbs (FINALLY back to the 160s.)
Jan 27th        -0.2 lbs

So a lot of + and - in just a couple of months.  I'm sad that I wasted so much time but there's nothing I can do about it now besides letting it serve as motivation. 

Monday starts my exercise challenge.  What's the challenge?  Actually exercising!  I will report back : )

Thursday, January 26, 2012

I'm a Dirty Girl

5 months and 4 days til I get down and dirty as I run, scale walls, and jump in pools of mud.  Or something like that.

I have signed up for the Dirty Girl Run with 30 friends for June 30th.  The event which supports cancer research is designed to be a fun, noncompetitive, challenging and team building course through mud and obstacles.  

As soon as I heard about it, I knew that I wanted to join on.  After all, I've needed something to motivate me to exercise and get back on the weight loss train.  This would be perfect!  Sure, I have no upper body strength so scaling a wall may be a bit of a challenge but why not? Plus I have been having a mental crisis surrounding friendships lately (more on that in an upcoming post) and figured that being a part of such a large, supportive team would do me some good. 

But then I thought back to my journey towards a 5K during the Summer of 2010.  I started off training very strong.  Then I well, quite frankly stopped.   I still went through with the 5K but walked a vast majority of it.  I never really realized just how long 3 miles is until I passed the Mile 1 marker and thought Seriously? That was only 1 mile.  Shit.

So I called dear husband James, my biggest supporter. This was our conversation:

Me: Okay, so you know how I get all excited about something.  I get all into it but then eventually I lose interest and fail miserably?

Him: Yea.

Me: Okay so I want to join this Dirty Girl Mud Run thing.  You run through mud and go through all these obstacles. I've been looking for exercise motivator and it's not until June so I have plenty of time.  What do you think?

Him: Mud wrestling? Cool. I'll be there.

So I was in!  And since I have kept myself so accountable here with my weight loss, I figured I could hold myself accountable via this blog for this exercise crap that I'm gonna have to do so I'm not left gasping for air before I even hit the first obstacle.

The group of girls I am doing this with is comprised of all fitness levels so this makes me feel much better.  If I die, I will not be dying alone.  At least, I better not.  I'll bring someone down with me. 

My plan is to actually utilize the free gym at work.  I can't tell you how long I have bitched about not being able to afford a gym so I just can't work out.  Yea, the free gym at work has been open a couple months already.  Have I gone?  Yes granted it was only to look at the equipment. It's a small gym but at least it can get me going.

I want to start getting up early (this is the part I have difficulty with) and starting my work day early so I can get to the gym and have a work out before coming home at my normal time.  My gym bag has been packed but it has been forgotten the past 2 days so I will start this tomorrow (okay, it will likely be more like Monday).

To find out more information on the event, check out their website: Dirty Girl Run

Looks like fun, right?


Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Re-Starting Myself

Ok, let's get me back on the blogging horse, shall we?

Hello! 

I have 20 minutes before I have to start to actually "work" again but I figured I would take the few minutes to get my blog rocking again.  I have so much to catch up on and share.

Quick recap on life:

* My little girl is 5! We had an awesome dinosaur themed birthday party that I will dedicate a whole post to because it was so full of  awesomeness.                                                        

*My first class towards my Masters was successful - I got an A!!  I am already in the midst of class #2 - Medical Sociology.

*Weight loss has not been great. The scale has been going up and down.  It's my own fault and I need to re-dedicate myself to Weight Watchers. And I suppose I should exercise here and there too. 

*Finally, bad news, is that James was let go from his job that he held for 10 years.  It is nice to have him around the house at night again but I just wish it was under better circumstances.  I do think this may be a blessing in disguise as I know he deserves (and will get) a better job.  Any prayers you have to send though would be greatly appreciated
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Ok, that's it for now! I need to catch up with blogs that I haven't been reading!