Month: June 2010

But these things I plan won’t happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, do not despair, for these things will surely come to pass. Just be patient. They will not be overdue a single day!

Habakkuk 2:3

I discovered this quote in a draft blog post from last year – I don’t even remember where I saw the quote, but I found it beautiful and inspiring.

Lunch

Lunch

It’s crazy what taking off mayo, cheese and only using 1 slice of bread will do to your total cal/fat.

My boss wanted Jimmy Johns for lunch and I had never been so I went to their website and you can customize your sandwich and craft a nutritionally sound one. So I opted OUT of mayo (I’m not really a mayo fan anyway) and I did the 7 grain bread over a roll (but the sandwich open faced). I couldn’t sacrifice the cheese, but still I took a sandwich that was 729 cal and 31 grams of fat and transformed it into a 360 cal and 11 grams of fat sandwich. Holler.

Reward

Since I’m .8 pounds from having lost 25 pounds (CRAZY!) I booked my massage which was my 25 pound loss reward.

I LOOOOOVE massages and I have been a bit sore lately from my increased running regiment and being on my feet for work so much lately so I am pumped for this reward.

When I lived in Texas there was a massage school in town and massages were like $25 so I went pretty regularly. The spa at home that I LOVE is like $80 so I only do that once in a while. I had a gift certificate to a spa here for a massage and it wasn’t only meh. So I’m trying the massage therapists at the Medical Clinic at the college I work at. My appointment is Monday the 14th and I CANNOT wait!

I have had some serious will power the past 2 days. Usually it’s so hard for me to say NO to bad food when it’s free, but I’ve turned down a lot of stuff…I hope I can keep it up. The decreasing numbers on my scale are a hellava lot more enjoyable than junk food.

4th of July 10K – REGISTERED

In honor of National Running Day I signed up for the July 4th Music City 10K (I also ran 3 miles this morning to celebrate as well even though the humidity nearly killed me).

I am SO pumped.

Race day is ONE month and two days away

Race day is ONE month exactly before my 27th birthday

Race day us hopefully TWO months-ish before my first half marathon (still need to figure out which one to do)

Said half marathon will be ONE-ish month after my 27th birthday

God I’m so high on life today.

WIW

So as you may remember last week was my first official WIW and I wrote:

I’m jumping on the Weigh in Wednesday bandwagon!

Alas I am holding steady at 200.6 AKA where I was A MONTH AGO. This month was a little crazy with a long weekend in Baltimore/DC/PA and a quick trip to Boston in addition to training my orientation leader staff for ten, 10+ hour days.

I know this month I hit around 205 at one point, so I’m glad I’m back down I’m just bitter. I WANT NOTHING MORE TO BE OUT OF THE GODDAMN 200s and I’ve had to look at a friggin 2 longer than I’ve wanted. Next Weigh in Wednesday IT’S FREAKIN ON…MARK MY WORDS THERE WILL BE A “1” IN FRONT OF MY WEIGHT.

Well guess what kids today I weighed 198.4!!!!!!!!!

I have to admit after a pretty kickass weekend of working out and eating well I couldn’t wait so I weighed myself yesterday and was at 199.0 I was THRILLED. So needless to say I am not only PUMPED, but really proud of myself for hitting 198.4. It feels great after a  major plateau in May that me and my body are battling through.

Happy WIW to all of you and don’t be down if you’re not thrilled with this week’s number because we have all been there and we are all in this together.

Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don’t think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made.

(via weightlossismygoal)

Honestly, in the beginning, I had to force myself on both accounts (I’m trying to brush 2x-3x a day), however now 5 months into my journey I can say I completely agree with this quote