A Few Old Gems

Last week (The first official week of Ass Kickin’ April) was a success. I stuck with my planned exercise and it was awesome! Friday I ended up walking 3.45 miles and Sunday I got in 3.01. I really love my walking and I really love this warm weather.

My weigh in Sunday was the same as last week. I am okay with that because as long as I did not gain. I do not have a set goal of how much I would like to loose this month. I want to stick to my work out schedule and see what my body decides to do with itself.

I am already trying to think of what to do for my challenge next month. May Madness? Many as you can May? Hahaha I am just making these up as I go.

I found a few old pix from when I was at my heaviest. The pic in the pink shirt is from when I went to Vegas on Labor Day weekend of 2011. This is the ONLY pic of me in Las Vegas because I was so disgusted and uncomfortable with myself. I only took pictures of the sites.

The other pic is when I came home to surprise my best friend in June 2011. Again I was so ashamed to see anyone this weekend because I knew how gross I looked.

 

June 2011



Vegas -September 2011

4/9/2013
 

 

 

April 2013 vs June 2011

 

 

Anyway. I am so glad these are from the past because I am MUCH more comfortable with myself now or days.

March Madness was a success!!!

March Madness was a success!!!

I lost a total of 9lbs in the month of March! The boy lost 10lbs! I was shocked when I saw the scale yesterday morning!  Spring has only just begun and I have started off fabulous!!!

Tomorrow “Ass kickin’ April” starts, and for this month’s personal challenge I have decided I am going to kick my ass with exercising. I am not going to have a goal of X amount of pounds lost. Instead I am having the goal of sticking to my planned  exercise regimen.

-I want to walk/jog three days a week to continue to train for my 5k.

- I want to commit one day to Jillian Michaels.

-I want to commit one day to the gym.

I hate paying for the gym and not using it, (even though it is only 10$ a month.) The weather is so nice out now and I want to take advantage and get outside, so one day a week in the gym will lessen my guilt of not using my membership. Also, I can burn a shit ton of calories on the crazy machine, and I think once of week of crazy machine falls perfectly into Ass Kickin’ April’s challenge.

Saturday after work I hit the track at the local High School. I walked around it 10 times to make 2.5 miles. My app on my phone ended up telling me I actually did 2.8 and I am very pleased with that.  I noticed while on the track how much I have improved over the past year. I can jog for a longer period of time, my body doesn’t start aching as much or as quickly as it used to, and I am really starting to enjoy walking more. I think having this 5K to look forward to has helped me a lot.  Seeing I can do almost 3 miles has me feeling very good about the fact I still have over a month to train!

Hope everyone is having a great Monday!

BBQ Cracker Chips

I am so excited that Special K Cracker Chips has FINALLY come out with the Barbeque flavor!  I know these things can be worse then rice cakes and are boarder line cardboard tasting, but I have half a serving with my lunch everyday and it defiantly helps play the part of a chip.  

I did not plan to exercise today due to my work schedule but I decided last minute to grab my gym bag this morning. I think I am going to walk on the track at the local high school when I get off work. It has been lighter later and since I don’t really waaant to do it - my plan is to walk as fast as possible. I would like to do 2.5 miles which would be 10 times around the track. I am not sure trying to rush that distance is a good idea but I will see how I feel when I get there.

Walking outside

Yesterday I did a walk outside with a few hills. The walk ended up being 2.20 miles. My legs were tired and I felt good. I realized I should probably walk outside as much as possible to train for this 5K. I defiantly don’t feel as tired on the treadmill as I did yesterday and that was only ¾’s of the distance.

The weather man says things are looking pretty good so I am definitely going to try my best and get outside at least 3 days a week. I don’t burn as much calories as I would like with just walking,so I am going to try and hit the crazy machine at least once a week.

Thankfully I still have all of April to work on this. The 5K is not until May 16^th.

I have been peeking at the scale and I am holding strong at my current weight. I am not able to exercise as much as I would like this week but I am crossing my fingers Easter Sunday’s weigh in will have me smiling from ear to ear!

Great weigh in

My weigh -in yesterday was amazing! Since I started my March Madness challenge I have lost 8lbs! Bringing me back down the 25_ ‘s.!!!  I have not been able to exercise as often as I would like so I can really only give credit to Weight Watchers points.  My March Madness challenge ends on Easter Sunday.

 I hope everyone had a great weekend. Here are some pictures from a Maple Tree Farm. I had to show the boy the cool things about New England!

Mint Frapp

I have been doing my best to stay on track with WW points. Although my work schedule has been a little funky this week, I have been doing good. I have to work 9am – 11pm today (Saturday) and I am realizing how pissed I am that I scheduled myself like that. Not because I am working an 12hr day, but because I wont get to hit the gym after job #1.

For some reason (and I think I have said this before) I get amazing work outs in the gym on Saturday. I don’t know if it is because the gym is dead at 4pm on a Saturday….Maybe it is because I am not in a rush to get home for dinner. I don’t know what it is but I am defiantly going to miss it today. 

I was only able to make it to the gym on Tuesday and I ran/walked for a little over 2 miles. I have slowly been increasing my distance on the treadmill to practice for my 5K in May.

On Tuesday I ran for a total of 13 times  30-45seconds each time, and for the past two days now my right hip and left knee have been feeling like they need to crack. Today it is feeling much better but I think I may have pushed it a bit.

I got the second piece of my tax refund in the mail and I have decided I am going to take some of it and go to that professional running store and get proper shoes! I am very excited about this because I feel like proper shoes are the missing piece to my running puzzle. J

I hope everyone has a great weekend. I plan on painting my bathroom a Mint Frappe on Sunday. What chya think?

 

Mint Frapp

Not my bathroom--- just and idea of what I am looking for.
 

 

No more beer!

I was down another 2lbs for my weigh in this weekend.      !!!!!!!

Saturday night I went out for a night on the town and drank a little too much. Sunday being St. Patty’s I unexpectedly went out “day drinking” and last night I went to a Celtic’s game in Boston.  Of course I had a few beers. My body is so mad at me and I can’t wait to hit the gym tomorrow.

I am craving a walk/jog on the treadmill. I am sure these past three days of being on a “bender” is going to screw me for this weekends weigh in,  but I have not lost my motivation or mind set.  Tomorrow my schedule is back to “normal” and I have nothing planned anytime time soon as far as going out partying or going on any trips.

We have been getting our bathroom ceiling fixed up so I have had men working in my house for almost a week now and I cant wait until they are done so I can let Jillian Michaels verbally abuse me and tone my body.  I am hoping I can squeeze her in this weekend.

Here are some pictures from the game last night. I am running on about 4hrs of sleep so I apologize for this post being all over the place.  I hope everyone is doing well!

 

Champs

Born and Bread in New England