Month: July 2010

WIW

Last week: 193.7

This week: 194.2

Change: +0.5

Nobody loves a gain, but considering 2 banquets and some other celebratory indulgences I feel okay about it. I also missed an 8 mile run last week, so I’m pretty confident that I can be down 4-5 pounds in TWO WEEKS which is my birthday. I honestly hope to have a good loss for next week’s WIW because I head out of town that afternoon and I feel more confident in my ability to maintain than lose while home/on vacation.

In college I had an unhealthy addiction to Arnie P or Arnold Palmer half tea half lemonade beverage for those of you who don’t know him like I do. 

Well since I started this Journey I’ve had a case of mini Arnie P’s that I haven’t touched since January (well I had half of one watered down once and it wasn’t the same). mainly because I was HORRIFIED to see it had 80 calories and 19 sugars (and those are for mini 12 oz Arnie P’s the regular ones are like 24 oz)

So today I’m in the grocery store and I see these.

Arnie P packets. With only 10 calories and 2 grams of sugar. YES PLEASE.

They taste just like the real thing. <3 <3 <3

Non Scale Victory

This journey is so much more than just about my body, it’s about my soul. This weekend we concluded summer orientation and had an end of the year banquet for our orientation leaders. They organized little books they wrote notes in – what beautiful things they wrote and saw in me.

Below are some quotes from my college students:

  • You certainly add some spice and excitement to the office.
  • Your individuality has made me see it’s okay to be different and love it.
  • You are so unique and encourage the freshmen to embrace who they are and be proud of it.
  • I think I want to label you the rebel from FYE! You do your own thing and I feel that is very admirable.
  • I love your New York accent. Every time you give a speech I am a lot more inclined to listen just because of it.
  • I admire your uniqueness so much. I love that every day I could look over and see a spunky, new, exciting touch.
  • You may be from Long Island (pronounced Lawoohng Ayeland), but you’ve got the congeniality and wisdom of anyone born “Southern by the Grace of God.”
  • Some people don’t get you…but for some reason I do! Your uniqueness is refreshing and needed.
  • Thanks for showing us what that NewYork swag is all about.
  • I’ve truly enjoyed your spunky, hilarious ways all throughout the spring and summer.
  • I love your blunt honesty, even if it’s hard to hear sometimes.
  • I absolutely love you! I think you are hilarious even though you are sometimes mean.
  • I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the diversity you bring to the program because it adds so much.
  • I love your sense of humor because it always lightens the mood.
  • I love the way that you embrace your individuality. It has definitely inspired me to be more confident with my uniqueness.
  • You always brought spunk to staff which was much needed. I will always remember your shoe strings, earrings, and hair colors and how you always walked around with style. Keep running and working on those killer legs.

I sometimes forget I’m a New Yorker in Alabama because I love the people around me so much. This year I’ve really fully embraced who I am from my hair to jewelry to clothing and it’s great that small things like that are impacting my students. It’s reassuring that people LOVE the me that I LOVE!

Also a few other people alluded to my running and races and how it motivated or inspired them. It was so thoughtful for my head orientation staff to buy me a Dick’s gift card so I can buy more running clothes. I really don’t have words to express the love I have for my students and staff.

Reboot

This week was crazy and exhausting, but I managed to run 16 miles. However the plan was to run 24 miles. I wasn’t able to run my 8 mile run yesterday (I knew with my schedule I wouldn’t have).

I thought about running the 8 miles today and kind of tag it onto this week’s running tally, but I don’t want to over do it. Especially how in the past 5 days I’ve gotten VERRRY little sleep. I decided I’m gonna reboot last week and “re-do” this week of half marathon training.

To the plan for this week is:

  • Mon – Rest
  • Tues – 4 miles
  • Wed – 4 miles
  • Thurs – 4 miles
  • Friday – rest
  • Saturday – 4 miles
  • Sunday – 8 miles

I’m a few days behind on tumblr, but I plan to catch up tomorrow. Tonight I must sleep so I’m not a zombie all week.

This was the dress I wore to last night’s banquet…I felt like a million bucks. I’m also pretty excited about tonight’s dress. 

PS – at last night’s banquet my students got me a $50 gift card to Dick’s Sporting Goods to help fund my running habit! Many of them mentioned my running/racing and how inspired they were. I have more to post about my student perhaps tomorrow, but my heart is too full at the moment and I miss them all already.

Ooopsies

It’s not really an oops moment I suppose when you KNOW what you are doing. With today wrapping up our last of 8 orientation sessions I indulged a tiny bit with some of the foods and treats that I limited this summer. I also have two banquets this weekend that are known to have fantastic desserts. I will make the best decisions I can, but I also deserve to celebrate as well.

I’m most excited about my banquet dresses for this weekend, they are waaaay cute. One I haven’t worn in a year so I’ll be curious to see how much better it looks on me now! Don’t worry I’ll post pics…

Say Cheese

Hey Tumblrs and Tumblettes…miss me? Well even though it’s been like 30 hours since I got on I missed YOU.

We are wrapping up our final session of orientation here and to honor it I got up this morning to do the 6:30am parent running tour of campus that I did a month ago. I’m happy to report the run went much better this go ‘round and I actually had a bunch of moms with me at my pace that I got to point buildings out to. Solid run.

I set my alarm this morning for 5:55am (despite getting home from work at 1am) and actually woke up at 5:25am (thanks to my dog). So prior to heading to campus I made some overnight oats, changed my sheets, laid out all my clothes for the day and TOOK PICTURES OF MYSELF IN MY SPORTS BRA AND SPANDEX SHORTS. Like I’ve mentioned in a previous post I was too “scared” to take “before pictures” but regardless I’m glad I’m recording myself at this weight and to see my progress from here. I don’t want to share these pics just yet…but in time.

I took them on my cell phone and I’ve been like terrified all day that I’m gonna accidentally send them to someone or someone is going to look at my phone and see them. So after I finish this post I’m emailing them to myself and then deleting any trace of them off my phone.