Tag: MLtransformation

Window Shopping

As I sit here today in pants I first bought my freshmen year of college (cira 2001) that are nearly falling off of me I decided that this weekend I am going to do some serious window shopping. I’m going to go to the mall sans credit/debit card and try on clothes. I haven’t gone shopping for pants in MONTHS (since now I can fit in all my “skinny” pants I’ve had plenty to wear). I’m more than curious to seeing how close I am to a size 12 or medium shirt. I may bring a small amount of cash with me incase there is something too good to be true to buy, but at the moment I have clothes that fit and I’d rather wait and buy 12s instead of more 14s.

Aunt Flow JUST rolled into town…like 4 days early. Hence my WIW – thanks for all the love everyone.

I swear running has changed my insides – my period schedule and bathroom habits are all out of whack. ORRRRR maybe they are “in whack” (?) for the first time ever since I’m the healthiest I’ve maybe EVER been.

Also I’m still tweaking yesterdays blog post re-creation…it’s chock full!

Closet Purge

I’ve been purging my closet of clothes every month for the past few months to get rid of the stuff that’s too big. Sadly some really cute clothes that I’ve NEVER worn or wore only a few times are now too big. It especially sucks when you bought the clothes when you could barely fit them and now I’m swimming in them. I missed my window to wear them. As much as it bums me that I’ll never wear such cute pieces, I would MUCH RATHER be too thin to wear them and to fat to wear them.

Umm also I can fit into jeans from my sophomore year of college. Like 2002 American Eagle jeans. I have to say I’m comfortably now in size 14 jeans/pants. I can’t believe 12 is next. I swear I was a size 12 for like 2 weeks in college and that was the thinnest I ever was as an adult.

As per usual I’m going to the consignment store to see if I’ll get any money for my fat vclothes. I know I have $25 waiting for me for clothes I put on consignment last month. Anything the store doesn’t want I’ll gladly put on the shedandshare site.

8 and I feel Great

I ran pounded the pavement for 8 miles. I ran a lot of it, but I took walk breaks as well. I ended up leaving my place at 7:12pm and the weather wasn’t terrible, it actually started to cool down fairly quickly and there were some lovely breezes. What wasn’t so lovely…trying out a new route for the first half of my run that had more hills and valleys than I would have liked.

There were points in the run where my legs were tired, but I never felt overheated or that I couldn’t finish. I told myself before I left that I wasn’t running for time, I was running to knock out the distance. I actually got home at 9:02pm so a 1:50:00ish run. I feel good about that time, especially since it was my first long distance run in 2 weeks (I missed my long run last weekend due to work). Also my 8 mile run burned over 1,000 calories. CRAZY!?!

Just now I took some preemptive advil and stretched, but I know I’ll be sore tomorrow, but it’s a rest day so I’m good. In hindsight for a better run, I shouldn’t have laid out in the sun today so much – it’s draining, I shouldn’t have tried an unknown route, and I should have brought a little more water – I could have used another 8oz. However you live and learn. 

Random observation: I wore my 10K outfit for my run today and it’s interesting to see how the top is getting a bit looser on me and how my love handles aren’t as terrible in my shorts as they were.

I soaked up some (in a Victoria Beckham accent) MAY-JOR sun today. However I am a lobster who is officially 30.2 pounds lighter. I know I’m a bad girl and jumped on the scale before Wednesday, but I have been sweating my buns off this week and just haaaaaad to know.

It’s also a great motivator because I have an 8 mile run tonight as part of my ½ marathon training. I’m kicking off my run at 7pm CST –please Jesus don’t let me die of heat stroke..– I am currently hydrating like whoa and am planning a shady course. I will listen to my body and not overdo it. Wish me luck!!

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.

Less Fat = Less Shopping?

I was talking with my mom today (who I am not close with, but she has been really supportive of my weight loss and also kinda inspiring -but don’t tell her Isaid that- because she lost 50 pounds last year by really cutting out sugars and making better food choices. My mom looks pretty great and I have told her that) anyway we were talking about how my clothes look so much better on me now. She was talking about her “ohhh that’s how that’s supposed to look” moments with clothes of her own. However then she said something that really struck me. 

When you’re thinner you buy less clothes.

She went on to say she doesn’t need to go shopping to buy something that makes her look 30 pounds thinner because she IS 30 pounds thinner. Or she doesn’t need to buy clothes to make her feel good because she feels good PERIOD.

It was a little epiphany for me because I was SO guilty of buying clothes to make me feel good, when they really don’t because I wasn’t happy with my body under the clothes. It’s so interesting minus running clothes and a MEDIUM dress that I got for $10 I haven’t bought clothes in TWO MONTHS. I don’t need to find THAT outfit to make me feel good, because I FEEL GOOD.

Editor’s Note: I still have a looong way to my GW or UGW, but every day and every pound makes me feel better and better about myself.