WWWI

189.4 at my weight watchers weigh in today

I’m .4 away from being down 15 lbs since I joined at the end of January! 

This is my lowest recording WW weight in so far (I blame drinking coffee and wearing clothes haha).

Took my measurements today after falling off the measurement wagon for a bit.

My hips and arms are ones that I can really SEE.

In terms of scale

  • Last week: 188.0
  • Today: 188.5
  • Change: +0.5

Not the end of the world, I’m coming off of my period and a lot of beer over the weekend. The plan is to push hard today and tomorrow in terms of getting my steps in and eating well before heading back out of town on Friday for some southern fried fun! 

Brothers Osborne Doing “While You Still Can” on the Bobby Bones Show

Brothers Osborne Doing “While You Still Can” on the Bobby Bones Show

God, I love radio – it’s such a powerful format.

Despite being a devoted Elvis Duran listener, I do sometimes flip to Bobby Bones when Elvis is on vacation. I flipped to Bobby yesterday following the Vegas shooting because he’s on the country station and turns out Bobby and his band played the Harvest 91 festival Saturday night. Bobby was super raw yesterday. I listened to him this morning because he had a ton of artists come into the studio to play songs to honor all the victims and fans. 

I’ve never heard of the Brothers Osborne before, but this song SHOOK me. I needed to like decompress in the car before coming into the office. 

Working for the Weekend

This Friday I am headed down to where I used to live in Alabama for my first visit in almost 2 years! 

This place is very special to me for many reasons, but especially so since it’s where I started running. It’s where I lost 45 lbs. It’s where I was finally able to take control of my life in more ways than just fitness. 

I moved away in 2012, in fact, I pushed my started date at my new job in DC back a few weeks because I had the LA Marathon on the books. When I left my full-time Alabama residency I was arguably in the best shape of my life since my last day of work was the week following the marathon. 

I’ve been back to visit 4 times since I’ve left. All of which in pretty good shape albeit not marathon shape. Getting back on the Weight Watchers train at the end of August and having a kick-ass September of working out has very much been extra motivated by the fact that I have my visit coming up and I’d like to be in the best shape I can be. I know that quite a few people got inspired to start running/working out/losing weight watching my journey while I was there. So I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel a little “pressure” to not let anyone down and to continue my success story. However, I’m also well aware that this is a lifelong journey. I’m just glad to report that 5.5 years later (or really 7.5 years since I started) I’m still fighting my daily fight to make good choices.

I had a pretty solid 1st half of the week fitness-wise: long walks x3, body pump x2, and pilates. The rest of the week is more fun-filled so less time for fitness

Tonight: My bestie S is visiting for the night from Baltimore and we’re going to binge season 3 of Fuller House (per our tradition). 

Tomorrow: Headed to Raleigh to visit my old roommate A. Also my boo, David Cook, has a show in Raleigh tomorrow night so it’s a double win.

Sat: Tailgating, Pool, girl time.

Sun: Head back home and hopefully get a long walk in.

WIW

Last Week:188.2

Today: 188.0

After a decent drop last week I’m totally fine with a little one this week, plus my period just started so that always throws off my weight some. I’m feeling F-I-N-E though. 

Weekend Plans

Tonight I’m using an Open Table $20 reward voucher at a restaurant that a lot of people love, but we had a meh experience with. Still, it was the closest and most reasonably priced option I could use the reward at. So we’ll see. 

Tomorrow the plan is to wake up early enough to get to Body Combat class at 9:30 then I have a noon hair appointment. I keep wanting to CHOP all my hair off because it is SO long, but I’m going to have her put it in a bunch of layers and see if that helps weigh me down less! We also have a friend’s housewarming party to go to tomorrow – we haven’t seen the couple since their wedding in May so it will be nice. 

Sunday Lazy morning with T since he’ll be out of town for work most of next week. I also want to get a long walk in with Freddie and maybe yoga. Then I plan to do some Home Goods/TJ Maxx shopping in downtown Silver Spring before going to see HANSON (yes, THAT, Hanson) in concert with a friend. My sister was supposed to come, but her company just got sold/changed hands and she didn’t want to ask for time off so soon. Luckily my work friend who gave me the final push to join Weight Watchers is a music junkie and she’s pumped to come!