A new adventure ( I hope )

I applied to work for Weight Watchers the other day! It would only be part time, maybe a couple meetings a week. I'd start as a receptionist, and weighing people in. Kind of exciting. I haven't actually had a call or an interview, but my leader has been trying to get me to do this for a while now (even though I wasn't within my weight range until a few weeks ago). 

It's exciting and stressful all at the same time. I will be looking forward to helping people reach their goals, but then at this job you have to make sure you maintain your weight... So, incentive for me to keep it together and help people all at the same time.

Should be an interesting change in my life. Sometimes I think about my job (RN) and how I take care of people every single day of my life. It's exhausting. Don't get me wrong, I love my job and can't really imagine myself doing anything else... But you get kind of tired of always worrying about other people all the time. Sometimes I forget to take care of myself. Physically, yes I do, by working out and eating right, etc. But I think emotionally a lot of my time is invested in other people. Even when I'm not at work, I feel like I want to make sure everyone else is feeling ok, if they need anything, or what I can be doing for them.

I think it's a good resolution to start thinking about myself a little bit. I'm going to do what I want to do... for the rest of tonight anyway. Like watch some Grey's Anatomy. Ten minutes away! See yaz!

Another year older...

Happy birthday to me on Saturday the 24th. I turned 25 years old. I celebrated, and boy did I feel old the next day, ha!

I am weighing in tomorrow, pretty excited about that because I feel like it's going to be a good one. OK, it should be because I totally cheat and weigh myself every day. Unless I do totally bad in the next couple of hours, I should lose at least a couple of pounds... I am getting soooo close to my goal weight I can hardly even wait!!! I will try and update tomorrow after weigh in.

I'm just working this week, working out with my trainer, and looking forward to my niece's birthday party this weekend! She's turning 2! I can hardly believe it. Love those little girls sooooo much. They are ridiculously sweet.  :)

The final countdown

I weighed in today finally, after not weighing for most of the month. Down 2 pounds baby!! I am now at my lowest weight ever of 159.4, which is a total of 93.2 pounds lost, and 9.4 pounds until I get to my goal weight. Can't believe how close it is. It's just within my grasp and I am going to get there.

I will get there.

I went to a different weight watchers meeting today, with a different leader. I have to say that I love my leader, Krissy. She lost over 100 pounds and she is such a ball of energy! It just makes me so much more excited when I go to her meetings! Next week I should be there. Just have to stay on track the rest of the week and hopefully get some workouts in. I ran on the treadmill today, about 30 minutes. I didn't run the whole time but it felt good to get sweaty! :)

I feel like running on the treadmill is such a mental battle. I have to make sure I change the options so I don't see the time elapsed/time remaining, or the miles. Put my headphones on, crank up the tunes and get going. I hate watching the clock, it makes me obsessed, and say "I can't do it." but your mind is so much weaker than your body. Your body can do amazing things if you just let it. :) Inspiration for the day!

SIZE 8?

That's right. First pair of single digit sized pants bought the other day. Now I'm sure they just run big but that's OK. I'm still pretty proud that I could fit in them... Feels amazing. Never worn a size 8 in my life and NEVER going back there.

I told my mom today that I will never ever be fat again. I promise myself to never go back there. It has been nearly 2 years since I started this journey of weight loss, and I feel like I have made the permanent changes necessary in my life. I want everyone to keep me on track, focused on my goal :)

Breakfast time!

Today's breakfast: Kahlua flavored coffee from my beautiful Keurig coffee maker, a banana, and oatmeal... I never used to be a fan of oatmeal for a couple of reasons... One is when you make the correct serving size, it ends up to be a terribly small bowl. I found this recipe from Hungry Girl (http://www.hungry-girl.com/) and adapted it to my liking.

HUGE OATMEAL BOWL
1/2 cup old fashioned oats (quick/instant oats don't work)
1 cup water
1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk

Add above ingredients to a pot on the stove, stir and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer for 12-15 minutes. When it's all said and done, you get a huge bowl of thick, creamy oatmeal. I add some cinnamon, splenda, and sugar free maple syrup to my bowl just to sweeten it up a little bit. So good. You can add other things, too. It seriously makes the world's largest oatmeal bowl. I guess the trick is to add double the liquid you would normally add and cook it for twice as long.

I'd post a picture, but most of the time I find food pictures gross looking unless you're a gourmet chef, which I definitely am not!

Enjoy the day peeps... It's a chilly one here in ND which means fall is coming! Love fall but definitely not looking forward to winter. :(

Body PUMP!

It's really a love/hate relationship that I have with weight training. When I was running more, I would occasionally be sore through my butt/thigh muscles. Now that I've been doing more intense weights and things like that, I am sore almost every day. Some people at work have asked me why I'm limping, HA... I'm just so sore I can't walk right.  and I walk a lot at work. Miles upon miles.

I did Body Pump last night, and today I'm not as sore as I was the first time I did body pump. Maybe I didn't do enough weights or maybe I just didn't put enough effort in... Or, I'm just getting used to the weight training. But really, body pump is pretty intense. If you haven't done it before, I highly suggest it. It really makes you feel powerful. My class was led by a woman, and it was a group of women so I didn't have to feel intimidated!

Training day again tomorrow. I have to feel good about what I'm doing, even on my fat days. :)

On another note, I went to a wedding this weekend and had a blast! Literally danced all night. So happy I can do that without getting a side ache! Had a fun fun time with some old friends I hadn't seen in a while. Although it is always a little disappointing to get back to the real world after a fun weekend!

Retail therapy

It has been an insane weekend/week at work, so today I plan on buying me some things to make me feel better. Here's what's on my list:
1. Something to go with my leggings
2. a pair of shoes to wear with my skinny (!) jeans
3. Possibly some other miscellaneous items

I'm a little nervous about the skinny jeans. I haven't had them on in public... yet. They kind of remind me of when I was gaining weight and my pants got too tight. HA! Not exactly sure why anyone wants to put themselves through that, but I guess I bought them more or less just to say I have a pair of skinny jeans. haha.

Wish me luck.

I have to admit...

I'm a little disappointed in myself. I was doing really great running at the beginning of the summer. Ran my first 10k, running 4 times a week almost. I stopped when it started getting really hot. We had quite a few days this summer where the head index was 110. High humidity. Yuck. Not good for a runner. I got a little lazy.

It's so hard to get back into running after being able to run long distances. I feel so disappointed when I only go a couple of miles. Yesterday I did 3.6 but I walked some. I have to tell myself that it's better than nothing. I have found, though, that my miles are faster than they were before. I ran one mile yesterday in under 11 minutes which I've never really done. I guess maybe that's why I get so tired so fast too. It's hard to control your pace when you're outside, though. I listen to music, and it makes me feel good. I feel like I'm going at a decent pace but maybe I should try slowing it down a little bit. At least for a while.

A friend of mine posted a quote on Facebook a while back that said something like this: "No matter how fast you're going, you're running laps around that person sitting on the couch!" Not exact, but close enough.

Here's my committment... Back into running! At least until the snow falls... yikes, I can't believe that's coming.

Update on life...

Well, I was with my parents all week helping my dad recover from back surgery, and here was my gift from them...

Ain't she a beauty?!?!

A KEURIG!!!  YAY!!!! I've been wanting one of these for quite a while, and for a few good reasons... I enjoy coffee, but hate the hassle of making a full pot and rarely drink more than 1 cup at home anyway... Plus, Keurigs are super cool and you can make all kinds of hot or cold drinks! I hope mine works well...

MY FIRST CUP!!! Sorry for the fuzziness, I took this picture with the cell phone... I hope this cup of coffee gets me amped up for my work out this morning. I have 45 minutes until it starts. Got to get amped up. The last workout with my trainer was terrible!! I was just so tired and didn't do very much.. Waste of money, that's for sure...









Well, anyway... I'm off to get the rest of my coffee buzz... yummmmmm...