Tuesday, September 10, 2013

In other news

I probably should have posted this when I started running, but whatever!

Mkay so if you go way back in my blog you'll see that I was keeping track of my weight and hip to waist measurements. Well I was doing that every week and it got a lil tedious. So what I was thinking of doing is keeping track of my hip and waist measurements every month. I feel like if I do it every week or even every other week there's not going to be a lot of change to monitor.

But I would just like to say that when I started working out this summer I weighed 186. And even though I wasn't eating as well/ drinking more mtn dew than I should have, I came back from summer vacation weighing 180. Well I just spur of the moment checked my weight before taking a shower this morning and I'm down to 177.

Yay!

I know it's small, but it shows that I'm making progress. My long-term goal is to lose 40 lbs. I don't remember the last time I weighed 140....Probably back in junior high? Idk. I've always looked ok because the weight is all displaced well across my body. I'm thankful for that. I don't have a huge pudge in the middle of my stomach to work around. It's just all in that lower ab/thigh area for me. 

But yea my goal is to eventually lose 40 lbs. I'm thinking of doing something for myself each time I lose 10 lbs. I dunno :) 

Oh! and my roommate got me this dress last year that buttons from top to bottom and it was too small :/ The top part buttoned fine but it was too tight around my middle and thigh area. Well last night just for shits n giggles I tried it on and it buttoned! There was some room to move in it, but it still puckered a bit where the buttons fastened. But hey! I could wear it :) So that dress is gonna be my milestone marker. I'm gonna keep checking myself in it from time to time to see how it fits/how much weight I've lost. 

I guess I could post a pic of me in it....I'll do that later lol

Monday, September 9, 2013

New plan of action

My original plan of action had been to get up at 7 every day, which I do, and then go for my run before my first class at 9. That would give me just enough time to run, shower, and get out the door. But.....the problem has been that I'll wake up to my alarm and then proceed to hit snooze again and again and again until it's like 8:30 and I've got just enough time to put on pants and hop on my bike.

Today followed that same suit. Wake up at 7, stay in bed til 8:30, and then class. But then as soon as I got home I put on my workout clothes and got out the door. I went for my run, took a shower, and had enough time to lazily put on makeup and fix myself my meal replacement shake from Advocare.

The new plan of action is to wake up at 8 and go to class then come back and run, shower, make a shake, and go to my next class. It's still early enough to kind of be considered morning. But really what I'm looking at is I don't want to run in front of people. Yes, I'm insecure. I'd just like to not really be judged for this and so I don't want to run in front of a lot of people. Today there were a few people out but it wasn't that bad because it was still morning and no one likes morning classes.

So I'm gonna try this out and hopefully this should work fairly well.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Breaking in my running shoes

Got up and ran another 2 miles!
Woot!

Making sure to take my Advocare products. I'm through the Cleansing Phase and into the Max Phase. I really like the meal replacement shake. Tastes like chocolate!

Breaking in my running shoes :)