One Year Later...

Stumbled upon my own blog and I can honestly express my disappointment in myself for not doing absolutely anything. I dramatically quit that job that I was working at; the management was poor, the hours were awful and nothing was keeping me there but guilt. 

I can say that I tried Insanity with Shaun T. and I couldn't get into it. I think it was a mix of not being able to do all the workouts without thinking I was going anywhere and lack of motivation.  Lack of motivation is my number one killer! Today I set 3 alarms, 6:30, 6:45, and 7:00, I was going to get up and be out the door at 7:00am and I actually did it! I did a nice 2.03mile jog at a snails pace but I was moving! I had a back up route that I know only takes me 30 minutes instead of 40 or so. 

I'm going to be running the Color 5K on September 29th and that's super exciting! I'll be running with one of my good friends Lauren. Currently, my plan is to keep running 5K's as I continue to add time and distance onto my running in hopes of getting to my half marathon sometime in the next year. Of course there are going to be landmark achievements between here and there but that's the goal for this year. 

I didn't make it to Philmont, as you might have imagined. I bit off a little more than I could chew with prepping while in school and balancing two jobs, now I work at the bowling alley. My specs are roughly the same which is depressing over a year later, but by this time next year I will have run multiple 5K's and hopefully a 10K or two.

Good luck fellow fitness enthusiasts!

Hopefully

I had a huge accomplishment today! I was able to pull back my hair! Alright, I had my hair black, blonde, red, and then I wanted it natural. At that point my hair was just barely long enough to pull back and then I cut it to one inch or so...just as long as Kevin's. Since then I've been tempted to dye it but I've refrained. Now, almost a year later I can pull back my hair with a rubber band, bobby pins, and a hair thingy (descriptive, I know).

To do along with my hair achievement I have a physical achievement and a Philmont update.

I've made it back to my pre holiday weight of 209lbs.! This is exciting for me cause now I'm 2 pounds away from the absolute max for Philmont. I can make it down to that without a problem but I'd like to make the 172 recommended weight. This is 37 pounds. I was truly surprised by the scale this morning cause I thought I had been slacking this week but this is good.

On the topic of Philmont, I contacted the Venturing Crew Advisor out of Missouri and I think that it's almost official that I will be returning to Philmont this summer. This means I will literally working my ass off to get in shape. Wish me luck!

Philmont

Motivation? All time low.

I hit sprees here and there where I will work out every day for a week and then BAM! suddenly it's three weeks later and I haven't lifted anything heavier than my back pack.

This is one of those weeks. Sunday I got my ass down to the White Building for a class, Power Remix I think. That was a good one. I was uncoordinated and clumsy but I managed huffing and puffing through the whole thing, feeling good by the end. Today, I was gonna try a Zumba class but my motivation was lacking something hard core. I've figured out that unless someone is going to be next to me the whole time or I'm motivating someone else it just ain't gonna happen.

But I got this text today from a girl I was in a Venturing Crew with in high school and she told me that she had a friend who needed another person to go on a trek to Philmont Scout Camp in New Mexico. I've gone before and it was fantastic. I was in shape, strong, healthy and I didn't realize it then because I was a 16 year old girl with body image issues, not that I don't have them now, but I looked sexy!

I can get back into that shape again and I know it. Here's the catch, if I don't then I'm not allowed to go on the trip. It's a safety hazard not only for me but for the rest of the crew. I need to be able to keep up with them and have a certain skill set that will be useful. 

Last week I weighed in at 213 pounds. The height to weight requirement that they hold everyone to is unisex and for a 5'7" person I'm recommended to be between 121-172 with an absolute max of 207 if a special exception is made. It's currently the end of January and the trip is in June/July with my physical due a month ago. Granted there's no confirmation that I'll be able to go on the trip yet but I'm not going to let myself know that yet. I think that if I cling to the idea that I'm going to Philmont and that I required to do this that I can get it done.

Instead of Zumba I went on a 45 minute walk run with Kevin. It was around a track and of course me being the birdbrain that I am forgot to count how many times I went around. I broke a sweat and that's good so I just need to work up to carrying 50 pounds 13 miles a day for 9 days straight...I can do this. 

Woops

Alright, so much for sticking with it. So after Week 0 I went on vacation for a month or so and came back weighing in at 210 lbs. After realizing that wasn't working I contacted my bestfriend's boyfriend who had been helping me. after two weeks of telling him everything that I've been eating and getting back into the routine of exercising I'm down to 206 lbs.

There are new rules that I have established for myself:
1.) you must have two bottles of water before any other kind of beverage
2.) any mocha must be made with skim milk
3.) I can have a "bad" drink but I can not have multiple types of "bad" drinks a day (i.e. soda, coffee, smoothie)

I'm sure there will be days where these rules will be broken cause my will power is that of a puppy but we shall see. I wanna thank Artie for helping me because whether he knows it or not, he is a big help.

Week 0

          I have honestly spent the past week trying to figure out how to combine these photos and then upload it. I know, I'm kinda pathetic. So after taking a look at what I'm eating and my life style I know that something has got to give. 

          Currently I'm working two jobs and after the second one of the day all I want to do is fall into my bed and never get up. Since this isn't good and I really have no free/personal time anyway, I have decided to quit one of my jobs.

          This is me at 202 pounds after one of my jobs. Hopefully with more time and more energy I will be able to drop the pound I want to this week. Wish me luck!

Week 0

There's a lot of weight loss blogs out there all telling you their amazing stories and I'm sure there's a lot of truly dedicated people literally working their asses off and telling you all about it. I'm starting a blog to keep me accountable for working out and eating correctly. I'm not dieting, I'm eating healthily. I'm not cutting anything out of my diet, I'm readjusting my portion sizes and eating habits.

I'm debating exactly what I want to divulge to everyone about me. I know I'll be posting pictures each week of my progress, and my weight, but I'll also be promising myself not to step on the scale except once a week and that's right after I take the photo. I'll try posting what I'm eating that day, cause I doubt that I'll post more than twice a week it shouldn't be too hard. 

So here's my dimensions: I'm 19 years old, weigh 202 lbs. (this morning naked without any food), 13 in. arms, 38in. bust, 32in. waist, 42in. hips, 23in. thigh. My goal: 52 pounds in 52 weeks. That will bring me down to 150 pounds which would be a healthy weight for my height. I have asthma and hypothyroid, these aren't excuses but the are obstacles.

Wish me luck.