Two Squishy Girls
things i am going to do in february:
what are some things that you are going to do in february? =]
one of my favorite people in the world, h, is coming from st. louis to run this in may. she asked me to join her, and i really want to, but i’m not sure if i’ll be able to run 10 miles by may. the finish line is at the 50 yard line of soldier field, how frickin awesome is that?! do you guys think i would be able to run 10 miles by may?
scrabble night with my bestie and play parents was a great way to end this weekend. we had some super yummy pizza and chocolate chip cookies, and i don’t feel guilty at all about it =]
my fitness plan to keep me on track this week!:
monday - strength training biceps & triceps before work; 2 mile run after work
tuesday - strength training shoulders & chest
wednesday - 3 mile run & strength training core
thursday - strength training legs
friday - strength training biceps & triceps
saturday - 4 mile run
sunday - strength training shoulders & chest
i’ve been sleeping better since i’ve made exercise and eating healthy as part of my rituals. it’s easier for me to wake up in the morning, and it’s helped regulate my sleeping schedule. i used to not be a morning person, i could sleep in till noon if you had let me. today i woke up at 7:30, and i had to make myself go back to sleep for a coupla hours. this is so weird to me.
starting weight - 187.4 pounds
last weigh-in - 161.4 pounds
current weight - 159 pounds!!! =]
squishyness lost since last weigh-in - 2.4 pounds
total squishyness lost - 28.4 pounds!
why hello 150s, i’m happy to see you again =]
farewell 160s! for some reason, i kept on going back to you. but i think we’re through.
it’s been about ten days since i’ve emotional/stress/binge eaten, and i’m hoping to make it another ten days. i’m pretty happy with my weigh-in today, and i’m hoping that this weight loss will last.
i also can’t wait till i get to say that i’ve lost 30 pounds. i’m excited to see what today and february brings! happy sunday yalls.
my room is a mess, and it kind of makes me happy. there clothes strewn about, jewelry scattered on my little dresser, shopping bags from charlotte russe and forever 21 on the floor, and shoes without their pair.
i’ve been sitting at my highest weight these past two years and a half, and that weight gain made me feel like a different person. i didn’t want to or have the energy to go out dancing. i had really low self-esteem. i just didn’t feel pretty, or feminine, or like a girl … i felt like a sea monster.
i know this is super cheesy yall, but this weight loss journey is helping me find myself again and find that girl in me again. being able to wear cute clothes and going out dancing with my girls doesn’t define me as a woman, but it makes me have a little more confidence in myself. i’m 24 years old, and this is the time for me to be a little vain, a little materialistic, and a little careless. the past year that i was in grad school, my room was filled with research articles and social work related textbooks. my room right now looks like a girl in her twenties lives there, and i’m starting to love her more.
In my twenties, I was very determined to lose weight. I would go to the gym a lot and try to eat very healthily most of the time.
And I made very little progress.
Here is really what was going on in my life at that time:
- I was stressed out by some difficult issues in my personal life
- I was stressed out by things in my professional life
- I was getting about 3-4 hours sleep every night during week days
- I was stress eating at times
In short I was miserable and chronically stressed.
Strangely enough however much I went to the gym, whilst my fitness levels would improve, I just wasn’t shifting fat.
Over the past year I learnt a bit about how stress (in its myriad forms) affects your body’s ability to lose fat. And of course I would get more stressed and frustrated because I wasn’t losing fat, and feel more miserable.
So, if you are stressed out and unhappy, working out, eating right and not seeing the results you want… do some research into stress and weight loss. Then make the changes you need in your life.
If I could, I would tell my younger, angrier, 22 year old self that. Since I cant do that, I will just have to settle for the hope that the above helps someone else out.
thanks for this post! i definitely agree with ya on stress and lack of sleep affecting weight loss. i think getting enough sleep really has an affect on my weight loss. i can feel all my bodily systems slowing down, and i don’t have the energy to work out, and i definitely don’t want to eat healthy when i haven’t gotten enough sleep!
lately i’ve been stressing out about my weight and my appearance in general, and i needed this post as a reality check to just kind of explore where this weight loss journey takes me.
i just ran 4 frickin miles!!!
my endorphin high is kind of ridiculous right now.
i had aimed to go for a 3.6 mile run, but halfway through, i realized that i had miscalculated my route and that it was really 4 miles. and i figured hey, what the hell, i can at least try. and i did it, what what!
4 miles in 55 minutes, which is a 13:25 pace. ima dust my shoulders off.
i’m feelin pretty awesome right now, especially since last night, some boy drama made me feel a little not awesome.
i like this sparkpeople motivation article. it talks about setting smaller weight loss goals in order to not get discouraged. and to be happy with any weight loss or non scale victory!
i’m about to go find a cute top for tonight. here’s to finding something slimming, pretty, and flattering, and here’s to me not feeling too bummed out as i see my dimply flabby self in the dressing room. oh those bright lights and mirrors.
i’m not a pill taker, never have been. now i have to take prenatal vitamins everyday. i have the worst gag reflex of all time and this proves to be challenging to me. More on gagging at a later time.
I have to take a multi-vitamin and a fish oil suppliment. i can’t seem to pass gel cap type pills and those omegas are all gel cap. hubby found me some chewable kind and man are they gross!!
I have to do this everyday and i avoid it all day until right before bed. sometimes i fall asleep and forget to take them. i mean geeze, i forget to wear deodorant sometimes.. that’s just how bad my memory is… what is my problem!
thank you for posting this because it reminded me to take my vitamin! =] also happy happy pregnancy!
thehealthexperiment said, “you’re so lucky! i want a workout buddy..i get all lonely working out by myself” in regards to my last post about my new running buddy.
i go to the gym in my neighborhood, and although it’s a chain, it has the feeling and atmosphere of a neighborhood gym. it’s pretty small. the other week i passed by an l.a. fitness and couldn’t believe how huge it was. and at first i didn’t like that my gym was so small and that it didn’t have all the latest equipment. but the price and the community there totally trumps all that.
i’m usually the only girl in the weights room, and i think that at another gym, i would feel intimidated. but there aren’t many meatheads at my gym, and the guys are usually pretty kind and considerate to help me out with pointing out my form and showing me different exercises.
and that’s how i met m! he helped me with an arm exercise that i wasn’t doing properly and the next few times that i saw him at the gym, he would always show me a different exercise or give me a pointer. he’s lost 50 pounds since he started at the gym, and so i feel as though he can relate to my own weight loss and healthy lifestyle goals. i told him last week about the shamrock shuffle and asked him if he would run it with me, and he said he would! and so that’s how we became running buddies =]
so mayhaps you could find a workout partner at your gym? or even post a craigslist ad looking for a workout partner that goes to your gym? i’m also doing a sort of spring shape up challenge with my girl A. we live in different states, but it’s been helpful to have someone to exchange emails with every sunday when we weigh in together and go over our goals. and having tumblr buddies, like you =] have been super helpful. let me know if you find yourself a “in real life” workout buddy!
i thought my new running buddy had punked out on me monday night, but i guess he didn’t get the text that i had sent him and thought that i had punked out on him! we went for a 3.2 mile run tonight. and i’m kind of proud of us because it was snowing, and both of us had wanted to stop and walk during the run, but we kept on going because we saw the other person keep on truckin.
we went to the gym afterwards, and i did some strength training with my core. this is my least body part to train, but it is probably the part that needs the most work. i’m an apple. carbs and fat go straight to my belly and my face. not cute. he showed me a cool oblique training move that we did together with a ten pound medicine ball.
also!, today was the start of the second week of theodora’s spring shape up challenge.
my goals for last week:
fitness - run 3 miles (i ran 3 miles twice!)
nutrition - stay under 1700 calories (i did except for 2 nights)
healthy thinking - write two things that i’m proud of myself for accomplishing during this weight loss journey and post it next to my mirror (didn’t do)
my goals for this week:
fitness - run 3.5 miles once and 3 miles twice
nutrition - stay under 1700 calories and not eat my feelings
healthy thinking - same as last week’s since i didn’t get it done =]
how are you guys’ spring shape up challenge going?
my first weigh in wednesday!
161.8 pounds.
up from 161.4 on sunday, most likely from eating all the junk food last night. i’m going to try not to be too hard on myself because since then i’ve run 3 miles without stopping!
i don’t think i’m going to include weigh in wednesdays into my official tally since i weigh in on the weekends usually. but i like having weigh in wednesdays because it helps keep me on track during the week by serving as a reminder and you guys do it =]!
whoopsy. so one thing that i like about working out, especially in the evenings after work, is that it helps control my appetite. today was my rest day, which my body and mind is thankful for, but um, i kind of just ate my weight in junk food. not going to let this throw me off though, especially since tomorrow is weigh in wednesday!
“tuesday - strength training core before work; 2 mile run after work
wednesday - strength training legs
thursday - rest!
friday - strength training biceps & triceps; 2.5 mile run
saturday - 3.5 mile run; strength training shoulders & chest”
this was my original plan for the week, but i decided today was going to be a rest day!
theodora had a great post about recalculating your weight loss journey plan when things don’t go how you plan. she writes:
Even if you don’t have a GPS you have probably been in a car at one time with one. If so, then you know what happens when you go the wrong way…
Suddenly Tomtom (or whoever is directing you) says, “What the hell you loser?! I told you to go left, why did you go right?! You are stupid…”
No. That is not what happens. The GPS actually says, “Re-calculating” and finds you a new way to your destination.
What do you tell yourself when you go the wrong way on your diet plan? Do you calmly re-calculate and get back on track or do you berate yourself?
i’ve been trying to remind myself that slow and steady weight loss is lasting weight loss. lately i’ve been stressing out about weight loss and my appearance in generally, and i probably would be berating myself for not sticking to my fitness plan. but i’m going to try not to be my own worst critic and enemy.
so here’s my rescheduled fitness plan for the week!:
today: rest day =]
wednesday: 3 mile run & core training
thursday: 2 mile run & strength training legs
friday: 2 mile run & strength training biceps & triceps
saturday: 3.5 mile run & strength training shoulders & chest
morning yalls =]
my name is h, and i am a salt fiend.
i was heating up some of my leftover tofu scramble, and i tossed in a few more seasonings, mostly garlic salt. i love the hell out of garlic salt, and while i’m usually good about measuring out serving sizes, i hardly ever measure out seasonings. i took a look at the nutrition label for the garlic salt, and it provides 10% of your daily sodium intake in just 1/4 of a teaspoon. yeah, i definitely use more than just 1/4 of a teaspoon. i’ve been writing off my too high sodium intake by telling myself that i have low blood pressure so it’s ok, but i really need to start reducing it because i don’t want to worry about high blood pressure in the future. so i am going to go to the grocery store either tonight or sometime this week to buy other types of seasonings that are yummy and won’t make me miss the salt!
any suggestions for yummy seasonings?
but its 11pm for me and im drucking funk. i mean fucking drunk. excuse my french. two bottles of wine and a d and m later and im down to the root of my problems. I DONT BELIIEVE IN MYSELF. how do I fix this?
i’m definitely my own biggest critic, too. and i know this sounds super cheesy, but mayhaps start fighting back against your own negative self-talk. think of one accomplishment that you’re proud of, big or small, and tell yourself that. write it out on a post-it and place it somewhere where you’ll see it, or email yourself, whatever works =]
i just ran 3 miles without stopping to walk! i stopped at a few traffic lights of course =p
and it’s flurrying! and stupid cold especially after the 40 degree heat wave that was going on here in chicago last week. since it’s snowing, i ran slower, and my run was around 47 minutes i think.
i really can’t believe it =] and i’m giving myself a little gold star. when i first started running in october, i could barely make it a minute without stopping. i don’t think i’m just in like with running anymore, i’m beginning to fall in love with it. it’s amazing how fast you can see yourself improve. AND as you lose weight, you get faster, and as you run more and faster, you lose weight. i like this kind of cycle!
i think there were two things that fueled my workout: a bowl of cinnamon puffins cereal & soymilk right before my run and talking to my cute new co-worker before i left work and ran. he just started, but he’s already leaving! this is his last week and he’s moving to another state! le sigh. and he’s so cute, i could cry. ohs wells. goofing off with him at work gave me a little energy boost for my run =] hope yalls are having a good start to the week!
