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GPOYW – First Day of School

Okay so it’s not ME that’s starting classes today, but still I wanted to look cute for the university’s first day of classes. I also looked pretty sassy yesterday as well. One of my students told me I was “disappearing” today!

I got this dress as the consignment shop for like $9 this summer when I was selling fat clothes. This dress is a MEDIUM, but it’s a generous medium 😛

Went on a 9.25 mile run today in some of my new running clothes. 

For those of you that aren’t wearing legit running clothes and doing distance running you REALLY should. My clothes completely change my run. I used to be a tshirt and yoga pant type of girl, but now I’m dri fit tanks and compression shorts. 

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.

I love playing with my hair and hair color.

March was the first time I put blue and purple in my hair and I LOVED IT.

This time around I decided to amp up the purple a bit more.

I’m gonna be sweating purple for a month when I run!!

Days like this I really wish I took a "Before Picture.“ I think I was too afraid to see what I looked like and then would have had "proof” that I was that unfit.

Regardless I’m on my path to fitness and I can’t believe the confidence that has come with it.

I actually bought this dress in DECEMBER (I know random) and planned on wearing it with like leggings and a long sleeve shirt underneath. Well I never did. The dress hung in my closet for months, I even packed it to wear on my DC trip, but never wore it. When I packed for this trip I put it in my suitcase because it was red, white and blue. I showed my friend the dress and she told me to try it on. I warned her that it was too short and I wasn’t going to wear it, but I put on the dress for the first time in months and I didn’t hate how I looked in it. The dress was actually a normal length and looked cute. I didn’t feel self-conscious wearing it. I don’t know what got into me, but at one bar I decided to do karaoke. Ummm I’ve only done that once and I was BEYOND drunk. However I only had one beer and thought why the heck not. Was my singing terrible…I’m sure, but I had fun and got lots of claps and high fives after.

All of this really makes me think of the posters in my gym that says:

Change your body. Change your life.

Those words are becoming truer than I ever could have imagined.

My test run in my 10K outfit went REALLY well yesterday. I think dri fit clothing has changed my life. Seriously though I felt so good in my gear and not like an overheated, sweaty, soggy mess. I actually PR’ed by nearly a minute on my treadmill 5K.

  • BCG dri fit tank
  • Nike Pro dri fit compression shorts
  • Adidas sweatband.

Also please note the pigtail buns!

No spanx required. I thought about wearing them, but it’s so hot out today that I’d really rather not. I think I look cute, although I’m pretty sure my macbook camera has like built-in photoshop because somehow the pictures look better than I think I do and I didn’t like picking out the good ones, I just took a few and threw them on here…we’ll see. However I can promise you my chub or jelly to quote Beyonce is waaaay less cute in the seated position.

Maybe I’ll be brave enough soon to take some pictures in my undies and chronicle weight loss/body change – I really wish I had done that from the start, but I still have a long way to go and once I hit my GW and UGW it will still be excellent to see the progress