Scared of the scale

Congratulations on being FINISHED! What an amazing feeling. I can't wait to experience that feeling next April. :D You look so beautiful in your pictures. You deserve to be so proud of what you have accomplished in both school and fitness. You look truly amazing! And so happy too. :)
 
Brand New Day

It's a new day and yep I've got more bike riding in store for tonight. I'm really liking it a lot. I'll be posting up the before pics of myself tomorrow. So far, my summer challenge is going well. I've been limiting myself to roughly 1700 calories a day. I'm also taking in lots of water. My dad made this delicious tasting fruit juice that's made of strawberries, bananas, mangos, pears and water and it tastes really good. Has the consistency of a milk shake and fills me up. I like it, and I'm able to drink it without feeling guilty because it's home made and it's made from all natural things.

I'll be back to a regular gym routine next week. I'll be going with my dad to join the fitness center at the rec. place this weekend. $75 for a years membership is music to my ears. I love it. I didn't get a chance to do my new fitness dvds yesterday, I got caught up in filling out job applications and sending in my resume to various places. Here's hoping that someone will bite and I'll be gainfully employed by the end of next month. Well that's about all I have for today. Not much to report.
 
Hi there!

I LOVE the pics, what a good-looking family you have, I like the contrast of the Dashiki and the suits.

Hey, it's amazing you had to GAIN 5lbs to fit into a dress!! All muscle I bet. What a relief to graduate, huh?

20 lbs in 3 months!! Whew, good luck to you!
 
Can't wait to see those pictures. :D
Sounds like you're in for a busy time, trying to find employment and all. Best of luck with it! I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you to gainfully employed by the end of next month.
 
Yep, 20lbs in 3 months. Seems like a lot that's cause it is. I'm actually hoping to lose somewhere between 8 and 15lbs within that 3 month time period, but I put that 20lb goal down as kinda like the brass ring. Just to see if I could actually do it. I won't be disappointed if I don't make the 20lb goal. All I wanna see are results. The pics will be up later today. I have to get batteries for my camera and then I can upload them.

But good news, I actually have a job interview coming up this Monday with the Bank of America. I'm trying to be a research analyst...fancing title for calender bitch. I'd be setting up all of the appointments, general faxing, copying, filing, booking flights, travelling a bit the good stuff. The lady that gave me a phone interview and asked how I felt about doing something like that. I told her it was nothing new because I already did all of that stuff for my dad for free.

I'm going to be mailing out more resumes today and see what things I can get lined up. Thank goodness for Craigslist. I've had really good luck using their want ads section before and I'm hoping that it'll work out for me once again. I've got another round of bike riding scheduled for today. I'm having a lot of fun with it. I feel like a kid again. I'm thinking I may just bike across the Brooklyn Bridge today. If not today, then definately this weekend. Not much else to report. I've got my first officially weigh-in coming up this Sunday. See how things are progressing. Alright it's 3:25am and I'm going to try and get some sleep before I get up and go for a quick jog around the neighborhood.
 
Good morning (reali early!)

I'm hoping to lose abt 20 too.
hope to see the pics soon!
and all the best for the flood of interviews to come!:jump:
 
Finally back online!! We had a massive telephone and internet outage that verizon was finally able to fix yesterday. I've been without a working phone or internet for over 2 weeks. But I'm back online. I have the pics and will be posting it tonight. So far so good. I'm a bit disappointed because the weight is coming off as quickly as I had hoped, but I'm not unhappy. Over the last 2 weeks, I've managed to lose 5lbs. A little more than 2lbs a week not too shabby if I do say so myself. So I'm back at 175. I finally got to go back to the gym today. It's small, but decent and the equipment is nice; not as high tech as my school's facility but I can't complain.

I suffered a really bad wrist sprain 3 weeks ago and I haven't been able to lift weights or really push myself as much as I wanted, but the doctor finally gave me the go ahead to begin weight training again. I'm excited. Tomorrow will be a good day. I'm trying not to disappear again from the site. I really do believe that blogging everyday has kept me focused about my weight loss goals. Not having it, seems to diminish my commitment to weight loss. Sad but true. Alright, I've got to go and make dinner. I'll be back on tonight so I hope y'all are ready for some not so flattering pictures.
 
The pics

So here they are. Me at 180lbs. Hopefully, by August there will be a significant difference. I'm focusing on toning my stomach and arms and losing some inches in my thigh area.
 

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Great to see some more pics! You have a beautiful shape. I think you look wonderful! With your natural proportions, it shouldn't be hard to get the body you want.
 
Bum ankle

So I don't know what's up with the month of June, but it seems as though I've become very accident prone. I was riding my bike towards the gym when I got into a slight accident; I was making a turn when my front wheel hit the curb. In order to stop me from falling I put my left foot down and I felt a slight stinging, but I didn't think anything of it. I went to the gym, but they told me to come back later because they were doing something to the gym. I head on back and I realize that walking on my ankle doesn't feel too good but riding my bike is alright. Unfortunately, I've royally jacked up my ankle. It's a bad sprain and my ankle is almost as swollen as a pregnant lady's. I feel like crap and I'm just getting frustrated by the set backs. First it was my wrist, and now its my ankle. Will the injuries stop? I'm hoping that next week will be better. I've iced it, and now I have a heating pad on the sucker. It's elevated but I still feel a dull ache in it. I'm going to the doctors office tomorrow so I'll get the results tomorrow I'm hoping that all the swelling is a bunch of hype, and it's not as bad as it looks. Alright then, good night folks. I figure if anything, I'll just do my ab workout dvd and at least get some type of exercise in. All I know is that this sucks.
 
Alright. Just finished working out. I did 30 minutes of my crunch ab workout dvd and while hobbling around the backyard shed, I found two 5lb weights. Awesome. I got in some arm workouts as well. I feel good, but my ankle is still swollen and hurts. Sleeping yesterday was horrible. I feel like I woke up every 3hrs and got no kind of rest at all. Ah well, in other good news, I'm down 1lb. So now it's 174. I won't be official until I've weighed in Sunday morning.
 
Be careful with that ankle! I'm sorry you're accident prone this month. lol Poor girl. If the ankle is bothering you, it's really best to stay off it. And don't forget RICE - rest, ice, compression, elevation! Do it!
 
Congrats on your weight going down! :)
And I'm so sorry about that ankle. I hope it gets better real soon. You seem to have found ways to get past it though, exercising despite of it. Good for you! :D
Julie
 
The ankle is feeling a lot better but still isn't 100%. I've decided to lay off the gym until I'm completely healed. Tomorrow is another interview and I'm really nervous. I'm wearing a navy suit with a black dress shirt, but now my mom and dad are like that's not appropriate for an interview and that I should wear a white shirt...I'm like darn, maybe I should have sucked it up and paid more for that white shirt instead of getting that black one that was on sale. Oh well, I just hope my personality can sell me. Oh FYI, I would never recommend scheduling 4 interviews in a day, but I'm a glutton for punishment and will be attempting just that tomorrow. Oh yes it's official I'm 174lbs as of this past Sunday.
 
4 interviews??? Ohhh the stress! But you'll do great. Good luck with all four! Just sell yourself and feel confident. I'm sure weighing 174 will help boost that confidence a bit. :) And I'm sure the suit and shirt are just fine.
 
Well the interviews went really well and I got 2 offers and 2 "we'll call ya back". Unfortunately for me, I didn't really like any of the work opportuniities being offered so I don't think I'll be be taking of them. I'm actually seriously considering being a social worker for child protective services. I'd at least feel as though I were making a difference and it wouldn't be something hum drum. Hopefully they'll call me back. But I'm getting nervous because I submitted my application about 2 weeks ago and still haven't heard back from them.

Ah well, in other news the diet is going ok. No big losses. Lack of really being able to exercise is curbing my progress. But the good news is that my ankle is feeling really good. Don't get me wrong, it still hurts, but is feeling a lot better
than a few days ago. I think I'll be heading back to the gym on Monday. I stay away from the treadmill and just do a lot of low impact cardio. I've only been able to use the weight facilities once, by the time I get there, it already been taken over by a bunch of hulking men and I'm not comfortable being there so I just do my cardio and call it a day.

Ok, I'm going to go out back and enjoy my back yard. Try and beat this crazy heat that plaguing NYC right now. You know it wouldn't be so bad if it were just dry heat but I've gotta deal with the humidity that makes it feel about 20 degrees hotter than what it actually is outside.
 
Wow, been reading your threads and you do a lot of exercise and eat so little. By the way the scales are your best friend because they alert you to something going wrong. I weigh myself several times a day and always see the same pattern which is a plateau with a 5 lb. fluctuation then it drops again, kind of like this:

187
184
186
185
188
186
189
185
183
181
179
180
182
184
183
182
184
182

Now I know if it goes 5 lbs. over my low that something is wrong but if it stays within that range I start dropping again within a week or two.
 
Too bad none of the jobs are what you're looking for. I hope you hear back from CPS soon. I think that would be a very challenging, but very rewarding career. Good luck with the continuing job hunt.
And here's hoping that your ankle is completely better by Monday so you can get back into your workout routine! Take care of yourself.
 
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