Week 35

Great week. I did my own version of a juice fast.
My normal fruit smoothie for breakfast. A juice for lunch & dinner. An afternoon snack was typically a protein bar.
Don't have much to say. I'm writing this 3 days after weigh in day. I've eaten horribly the past 4 days. Haven't worked out in 3 days. Monday is usually a rest day for me but I'm gonna do something. And the house has to be CLEAN for next weekend. So I'll be burning extra calories all week cleaning.

Week 34

So I haven't posted in 3 weeks. I don't feel confident in my journey right now. I haven't been losing weight. I have eaten complete shit food. Yesterday alone I ate 5 (FIVE!!!) frosted rice krispy treats. That is ridiculous and I know better.

Today I did pretty good. A smoothie with soy milk for breakfast. For lunch a juice with carrots, kiwi, spinach, apples and grapes. Snack was a protein bar and then I cheated and had a few Colby flavored Cheezits. Dinner was another juice with zuccini, apples, spinach, grapes & kiwi.
Before I came up to bed I weighed the same as I did this morning. So that's a good sign.

Week 31

198

I've had a rough week. Eating lots of crap food. Made an excuse to stop at T.arget over the weekend just to buy candy. So so bad. It needs to stop. I've been ridiculously lazy. Still doing my runs and workouts. After that I just feel like sitting on the couch all day. Not good. We're going to have a ton of people in our house next Sat for my daughter's Bday and I have zero motivation to start cleaning now. Even though we'd just just cleaned for last weekend. It's ridiculous.

Tomorrow morning I go pick up my first race package. I'm so excited! And nervous. Although, mostly just nervous about making sure I get up early enough and parking in downtown.
I've heard The Color Run is crowded so I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep my normal pace.

Week 30

Thursday I over slept and couldn't workout. Normally I still would have tried to do a 20 DVD or something but I had two kids to get ready and out the door for swim class by 8:30a. And it affects my weigh in by a couple pounds so that's why it matters. But with clothes on I was only 198.4. Had I worked out I probably would've been 196/197. I ended up working out Fri instead, but still couldn't weigh myself because family was visiting. I really don't feel comfortable weighing myself naked in the kitchen with other people in house.
Hopefully I'll see 195 or 196 this week.

Week 28 & 29

29: 198.0
28: 199.2

Man, I'm really slacking over here. I don't feel like I have much to say.
I did 4.33 miles yesterday (Sat, 8/4) and only walked the first 3 minutes.
I ordered an elastic waist size M skirt from Old Navy and it fits perfectly.
My first 5k is in 3 weeks.
I've lost 43# total.
I did a fast 1 mile run today in10:37. My normal pace is around 13:00.

Week 25, 26, 27

I've been MIA. Stating the obvious, I know!
Week 25: 202.5
Week 26: 204
Yep.
Pretty bad, right?
I did better this week. And reached a major milestone. I finally got into the 100s. It was probably high school the last time I was in the 100s.
This past weekend we bought a juicer, but I don't have it yet. It's our belated anniversary gift. Long term I want to include juices as meal replacement option. Maybe a 1 day juice cleanse once a month. Something I want to do soon though is a 7-10 day cleanse. Will I make it that long? I'm not sure. But I'm going to try. One day at a time. I need my body to crave fresh, good food. I did what I'm supposed to and went the Dr. I knew it wouldn't hurt to have some blood work done. Everything came back great except my thyroid is slightly out of range. It's not something she want to medicate, but its something to be mindful of.
We also bought a new scale since the one we had stopped working.

Week 24

(Sorry for the upside-down pic.)

As you can tell, I got my ass in gear this week. I temporarily dropped my calories down to about 1300. Some days it was closer to 1500. I'm paying a lot more attention to what my body wants. I started puting spinach in my breakfast smoothies again. I'm watching my portions more.(Umm, except for the 1/2 watermelon I ate on Mon. Nobody got fat eating too much watermelon though.)
Some NSVs....Tues morning I ran 22 min straight. I combined my 4th & 5th intervals. So what used to be my 4th, 5th & 6th intervals are now all one interval. I was telling myself as I was getting to the end of my 2nd interval that maybe on Sat I'd combine my 2nd & 3rd interval. But I got to the end of my 4th interval and I was just feeling it so I kept going. My 3.47 mile route took me 45:30 and I ran 37 min of that. My other NSV is that I officially promoted my size 12 jeans into the drawer. And hung up a pair of size 10 khakis on the curtain rod. (I hang my motivation size pant up on the curtain rod so that I see them when I go to hit snooze. Reminds me why I need to get my ass outta bed and workout.) My good problem to have is all my size 16 jean shorts (that I've saved for 10+ yrs for the when I can finally fit into them again) are too big. 16 is the smallest size I've saved. I'm guessing that I'm between a 12 & 14. I really don't want to buy more shorts. Hopefully I'll be smaller next summer and this summer is 1/2 over already. I just wouldn't get my moneys worth. Guess I'll make due with what I have. I have been buying lots of workout clothes and running gear. Maybe I'll do a separate post on that. I might be obsessed. Buying tops in size Large and bottoms in size Medium. (Fucking Medium!!!!!!) And I swear they aren't so tight that it looks my ass is eating my shorts. They pull right up and don't have to do a dance to squeeze into them. On my shopping trip I tried on a size Large jersey dress and it fit great. Probably the highlight of my week.
Great week for me.