Weigh-in; Round 2

Hey there! Tiffster here! I have had a ridiculously busy day. I started a new job at Smoothie King today and I love it! I'm so happy to be working for a company that has great product that I know works! Hopefully it will roll out nationally soon!

I'm down 1.8 pounds in the past two weeks. Am I disappointed? Sure. Am I happy I lost? Absolutely! A loss is a loss is a loss! I'll take whatever I can get! At least it isn't a gain!

I'll have a picture added of the scale tomorrow, it's on my phone and my phone just told me to plug it in or it will explode. ok, not really, but it is dying and therefore I can't play wordfeud or send picture messages to my email to upload to my blog! LOL

Love you all!

Jen's Weigh-In #2

So, today's entry could have multiple titles.

1. Yeah, What She Said....

So yesterday Tiffany posted about how the past 2 weeks have been just ridiculous, and I have to agree. My weight was not really gone down much. It's pretty much just bounced around the same number for like 10 days. Not cool for my ego.

On top of that, I'm broke. I've applied for countless jobs and had a few interviews and I am still unemployed. What's worse is that the interviews both seemed promising. But one said that they found someone they felt was a better fit, and the other just never got back to me. Yet another blow to the ego. And not great for my bank account either.

Then there's been my diet for the past week. Maybe "lack of a diet" would be a better way to say that. I have eaten junk since Thursday. Thursday was the Relay Kickoff, where I had an eclair. That actually didn't send me over the edge on my diet, but it didn't help. Friday I had a volunteer luncheon that was basically nothing buy carbs and fat. Delicious, but not good for my calorie count. That evening, my cousin came to town and we went out to dinner. Yeah, I really didn't even try at dinner. I mean I didn't go crazy, but I didn't really care one way or the other. Then I descended into a weekend of REALLY not caring what my diet looked like. I ate BBQ, coleslaw, fries, and cake. And I felt crappy about it. But that's really all we had in the house to eat. It's the end of the month, so we don't really have a lot of options, period. And my diet foods are long gone. Since I'm not contributing to the household or the grocery bill, I can't really complain about the health quality of the food. And yes, I could have said no to the cake. At least I limited myself to one piece...

Additionally, I didn't really get a lot of support at home regarding my exercise routine. When I got home from the gym on Saturday, my cousin informed me that I didn't look like I'd been to the gym. I'm sorry, what am I supposed to look like after an hour of Yoga? Relaxed, I should hope. And later in our conversation she told me I need to eat a cracker. Uhm, I'm more than 70 lbs overweight. I am trying to work towards being a healthy weight. I really don't think I need to eat a cracker, thankyouverymuch.

So my eating has been very junky, and my mood has been junky, too. I'm not sure which came first, but regardless it's not been fun. :-(

2. I Did WHAT??

So as you know, my secondary goal was to complete a 5k in less than 45 minutes by the end of March. I have been doing a Couch-to-5k program for the past week or so to help me reach that goal. Well, when I was running this morning, I happened to look at the mileage on the screen (I usually just look at the time so I know if I can please stop running yet). I am pleased to tell you that this morning I did a 5k in about 35 minutes! A 5k is 3.1 miles and after 40 minutes on the treadmill, I went 3.782 miles. That extra half mile was basically my warm up and cool down. I didn't have my phone with me this morning, so I don't have proof, but I know I can do it again tomorrow.

I'm so proud of myself. That doesn't mean than I'm stopping the training. Actually, it means that I'm even more excited about the program. If I feel this great now, how will I feel when I can run 30 minutes? I feel a runner's high coming on!

3. The Weigh-In

Well, I know the real reason your here. I guess you want to know how I did with my goals. So without further ado....

240.2. Only down 2 pounds. So I didn't reach my goal. BUT I did lose weight. At least I didn't gain. I need to focus on that. I also have proof in my pants, lol. When I was jogging yesterday, my pants kept sliding down. It felt great, except for the feeling that I was mooning people at the gym. :-)

Because of the emotional drama that was associated with this week, I have decided not to weigh myself every morning like I have been doing. It's just so discouraging to see my weight bouncing around like that. If I had just seen the overall loss, I would have been much less annoyed. So I think I'm going to just weigh in on Mondays for now. I might weigh myself more often later, but we'll have to see.

Ok... I think that's enough for now. I'm going to find something else to do.

-Jen

Annoyed. Just plain 'ole annoyed.

Here I am, Sunday afternoon, and I am just annoyed.
With a lot of things.
The fact that I'm sick. annoying.
NCAA Football for playstation 3. annoying.
Scale numbers not moving. annoying.
Sunday dinner and a workout canceled. annoying.
I have to work tomorrow and husband doesn't. annoying. (hasn't happened in nearly 2 years.)
The fact that it's gorgeous outside and I have no idea what to do. annoying.
Bickering about stuff that is inconsequential. annoying.

Tomorrow is our 2nd goal weigh in for the game with Jen and I and my 5th weigh in for the competition I'm in with the local girls. I have to say that weeks 3 and 4 are not as high yielding as weeks 1 and 2. I must also say that it has been incredibly hard to have my husband home for a week and still maintain a workout and eating schedule that is beneficial to my goals. He's just not into it. He likes the results I'm getting because I look good and feel good, but he's got no desire to just eat one snack a day and that consist of 16 wheat thins or 10 baby carrots. That's tough to deal with for a week. Another hard part about this journey is that week or so before payday, especially when you've bought all the food you thought you'd need at the beginning of the pay period and come to find out, you were short. So now you're short on money and short on food and we all know health food is more expensive than not so healthy food. So to put it plainly...these last 2 weeks, overall, sucked. Sure, I had ups. Size 12 pants...hellooooo! Inches lost all around....hell yeah! Got a job.....woohooo! Spending time with my hubby......hubba hubba! But in the grand scheme of things I'm just really disappointed in the turn out of weeks 3 and 4.

Hopefully week 5 is better.

A Quickie...

I'm about to head out the door but I thought I would really quick before I need to get ready to go.

I am so tired today! I think it's because I've made myself start waking up at a decent morning hour lately, but my brain doesn't want to shut off at the corresponding decent bedtime hour. This whole "unemployment" has not been great for my sleep schedule. I am so tempted to stop by the Exxon and get a Rockstar Juiced on my way to the Hall of Fame. But I won't! Because there are like 600 calories in a can and that's over 1/3 of my calories for the day! Nope nope nope. So not worth it. As I wrote that, that little devil in my brain reminded me that I also don't usually eat when I drink one of those, so it could be a meal replacement. NO! I'll just have to rock out in the car. I know once I get to the event the other people will help et my energy up.

For those of you who don't know, I volunteer with the local branch of the American Cancer Society. This year I'm the Online Chair for the Downtown Knoxville Relay for Life. Tonight is our kickoff party at the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm also a little nervous. I have to be there at 3:00 to help set up, the event is from 6:00-8:00, then I'll have to help break down. Does anyone notice a meal time in there? I know that the ACS is planning to provide food, but most of the time our food is pizza and sweets. I'm not really sure if there will be anything "safe" for me to eat. I already admitted that my first major caloric "oops" was at an ACS event! I'll just have to try to do better this time!

Ok, I guess I need to pack up my laptop and hit the road. Hope Everyone's having a great Thursday!

- Jen

Grrr! and Encouragement

First of all, let me say how super happy I am for Tiff about her size 12s! That means she can fit in my favorite dress ever (if she still has it) that I gave to her when I got too big to wear it. I'm super happy for her and also a little jealous. I loved that dress. :-)

That being said, I'm so freaking annoyed right now. I have been bouncing around the same pound for almost a week now. I weigh myself every morning to record it on Calorie Count and my workout journal. So a few days ago I was 240.0, then it went up to 240.8 then 240.6, 240.4, 240.2, and 240.0 yesterday. This morning, I was 240.8 again. Are you kidding me? I'm not getting discouraged, but annoyed is definitely in there.

One encouraging thing is my 5k training. Today is the last day of the first week. Well, technically tomorrow is, but it's a rest day. I'm about to go to the gym to complete today's workout. But I can already tell that it's helping. Every Tuesday night I go to a comedy show and I usually park on the 4th level of a nearby garage. Previously, walking back to my car has made me out of breath and I'm practically gasping by the time I sit down inside. Last night, however, I felt just fine. I probably could have parked on the 6th level (there are only 6 levels lol) and been great.

I think it's awesome. The first day I ran, I texted my boyfriend and said "hey! I just did a walk/run and it didn't kill me!!" to which he responded with the proper accolades of "I'm glad you didn't die." So the next day when I ran I sent him one that said "the 2nd time didn't kill me either!" which got a "very good." Now that we know this whole running business isn't going to kill me, I guess I better keep doing it.

Alright, off to the gym.

-Jen

Holy freaking Hallelujah!

Guess who's struttin' in her size 12 jeans?! Yeah, that'd be me! They are still a little snug in the waistline, but hey! I was in 16's 3 weeks ago! Such an awesome feeling, especially since my jeans were falling off my butt this morning so I dug these out hoping I'd find a pair of 14's. I didn't so I tried the 12's and bam!

=D

PS We received a grill from our roommate (awesome?!) and are now thinking of marvelous and healthy things to cook on it!

PS I got a job at Smoothie King! Free Smoothies for me! LOL

Zumba

Tonight I have Zumba!

I had to just walk today, I had an injury to my MCL a few years back and it started to throb today so I didn't run. I did however walk fast and on a 9 incline!

As for Jen's Couch 2 5K program...i say do it! I've been on it for 2 weeks now. I'll probably do week 2 again just because I need to build up a little more endurance!

<3 you all!