The amazing shrinking woman (I hope!)

Flumes said:
what I don't know doesnt bother me.
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This is exactly what I was thinking when I went for my run last night! So I didn't put the monitor on - just ran. I figure if I don't feel like I'm about to die, I won't, right? And if it doesn't kill me, it'll make me stronger!

I just finished lifting weights - it took FOREVER! I didn't feel like doing it at all and just wanted to veg out in front of the TV after the day I had. I told my husband just this once that maybe he should nag me to get my workout done. But JUST this once. If he ever nags me again, I'd have to hurt him.

It was probably a half assed effort because I would do 1 set of each thing that I do during a TV commercial, then I'd stop and watch TV till the next commercial break, then do the next set. Normally I go pretty constant and work up a pretty good sweat - not so much this time. But at least I did it!
 
I was actually looking forward to my run tonght and jumped on the treadmill first thing when I got home. I had a limted amount of time because I had to go back into town to pick up my dauther from basketball practice, so I was only able to go 3 miles, but I had it cranked up to maximum speed. Man was I sweating! I have to say I can never get used to the feel of sweat running down between my butt cheeks - it gives me the willies! Feels like bugs walking down my butt crack. EEWWW!!!!

After my run I stepped on the scale quick - and guess what??? I got to see ANOTHER new number!!! YIIPPPPPEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! 142.2 baby!!!!

:party: :party: :party: :party:
 
WHAT THE HECK?!?!?!?!?

Stepped on the scale again this morning before my shower (because I'm anal that way) and it's gone down some more! It said 141.8!!!

WHOOOSH!!!!!
 
Tigpuppy said:
Man was I sweating! I have to say I can never get used to the feel of sweat running down between my butt cheeks - it gives me the willies! Feels like bugs walking down my butt crack. EEWWW!!!!
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TMI!!!!! :puke:


Tigpuppy said:
After my run I stepped on the scale quick - and guess what??? I got to see ANOTHER new number!!! YIIPPPPPEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! 142.2 baby!!!!

:party: :party: :party: :party:
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Tigpuppy said:
WHAT THE HECK?!?!?!?!?

Stepped on the scale again this morning before my shower (because I'm anal that way) and it's gone down some more! It said 141.8!!!

WHOOOSH!!!!!
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Holy fack!!!! I'm gonna jump on that scale with ya!!!

:hurray: Way to go Tigger!!! You earned it! :hurray:

140 is just around the corner! Woohoo!!!!!
 
Well done and as Flumsey said so well deserved. Everybody seems so lethargic lately that it is really motivating to read your postsl :)
 
Thanks guys!

Today was a pretty good day! I was on cloud 9 all day after seeing what the scale said this morning. Then this afternoon I had a meeting with a fairly new customer. Most of our dealings have been over the phone or thru e-mail, but I'd met with her face to face about a year and a half ago. At the start of the meeting she came and introduced herself to me because she didn't recognize me! LOL!!!

It gave me the incentive to stay on my calorie budget for the day when we all went out to eat at Olive Garden afterwards. Almost everyone had the endless soup, salad and breakstick deal. I ordered the grilled chicken off the kid's menu. Boy did I get some strange looks!

A coworker came up to me this afternoon and said that seeing how much I've lost has given her the incentive to try and lose too. She wants to drop 50 lbs by the time she turns 50 next summer. She figured if I can do it, she can too! She wanted to tell me so that I could help keep her accountable, or she might not make it.

All this was well and good, but what REALLY made my day was my mom called me tonight to ask what she needs to do lose weight and start running like me! I have inspired her apparently. She went out and bought a treadmill this week. Only problem is that the treadmill has a weight limit on it, and she's over it. So she'll need to lose a fair sized chunk before she can even start to use it. My mom is 5'3" (couple and is starting out about 100 lbs heavier than where I first started. I would so love to see her achieve her weight loss goals!

Now it'll be nice to have 2 weight loss 'buddies' IRL so that we can help keep one another motivated!
 
I'm supposed to lift weights tonight, but I've had one hell of a WHOPPER head ache all afternoon. I've taken something for it, and it hasn't helped. I think if I were to lift right now, my head might explode.

I'm off to go lay on the couch so my 7 year old can give me a back rub. I'm thinking she wants something, otherwise she wouldn't offer to give me one out of the blue like that. I'm not against taking advantage though...
 
How nice not to be recognized. I've had a few people do double takes when they see me which is great. I'm really learning to accept compliments gracefully now.
I love it when people that I know are encouraged to lose weight because of my success especially when they are willing to listen about how to do it the proper way.
I hope that your headache has gone away now.
 
Well, I woke up Saturday morning and STILL had that darn head ache! It stuck with me most of the day on Saturday. I was cranky from that and also in full PMS mode because of that TOM due to start any day now. I think I ought to plead temporary insanity for that whole day.

So I was bad - very bad. I didn't exercise and I ate crap. I didn't drink any water at all. Not a single fruit or veggie passed my lips all day long. Lots of chocolate was consumed through out the day. For supper I was craving this salmon cracker spread that I make (has salmon, dill, light sour cream, a little light mayo, garlic and onion in it). I like to spread it on low fat wheat thins. So I counted out the number of crackers I could have normally (except by then it probably didn't matter with all the other crap I ate) and sat down at the table to put spread on them. The kids asked if they could have some and I said I didn't care. But I meant for them to get their own out of the box. One of them snitched a cracker off my plate and... I. COMPLETELY. OVER. REACTED. As in I totally lost it. I was screaming at them for taking my crackers after I just counted them out...blah blah blah. My husband looked at me and started laughing at me and goes "you actually count crackers?" So I started screaming at him about how the hell does he think I've managed to lose over 40 lbs?!?!?!?!? Some freakin' counting is involved!!! I looked around at my whole family staring at me with this look on their faces that said "who the heck IS this person?" and decided I needed a time out. I went and locked myself in my room for a while.

My husband put the kids to bed, then came in and kissed me good bye because he was going over to a friend's place to help him wire his garage in exchange for getting to use the guy's torch to cut out the steel targets that get used on the shooting range. I got up after he left and went down to the family room to watch TV. I watched a really stupid movie made more bearable by the 3 glasses of wine I had, then finally went to bed around 1:00 a.m. Then I couldn't sleep because one of our dogs was outside the bedroom window barking at something. So I got up and made her come into the entry where I locked her in her kennel. Finally got to sleep around 1:30.

So of course the kids came and jumped on me a little before 6 a.m. the next morning. Oh my goodness! Did I feel hung over! But my head ache was gone, and so were my crankies. I thought what the heck where you thinking yesterday girl!!?!?!?!?

So I ate well all day, drank LOTS of water (I think that's why I felt so crappy in the morning - dehydrated) and got lots of laundry done. AND I even managed to get a nice long run in!

I felt SO much better - more like myself. I swear I don't know who the heck that other person was on Saturday....
 
LOL I absolutely hate it if I've got food measured out and somebody takes a bit but don't remember having such a crazy reaction :D. I'm sure you were all able to laugh about it later. My mum had 4 kids all fairly close together in age and I remember her losing it once for what at the time seemed to be for no reason at all and after freaking out locked herself in the bathroom until my dad came home. We teased her about it for years :D
I'm glad that your headache is feeling better.
 
WHEW! Just finished my run and this time around it was HARD! I tripped on the steps tonight when I was running in and out to the grill like a crazy woman trying to get supper ready (italian grilled chicken, grilled garlic and onion green beans, and grilled potatoes) and totally ripped up the toenail on my big toe. I bandaged it up as best I could and put on my running shoes. It was sore, but not too bad. But it must have really thrown off my stride because I hadn't gone more than a mile when my knees, ankles and feet started to hurt. I pushed thru, but I wanted SO badly to quit. And now that I'm done (went my usual 3 miles) I know that parts of me are gonna be sore tomorrow that aren't normally sore. And I have a big blister on the ball of my left foot. It's been a long time since I got blisters from running. I think it's rather interesting what babying a sore toe does to mess up your rhythm while running, causing you to use your muscles differently.

I read something when I first started researching how to become better at running where this guy recommended taping a split pea to your heel before running because it would hurt just enough to make you train yourself to run on the balls of your feet, so that you ran lighter instead of hitting heavily on the heels of your feet. I thought then that it was a bunch of hooey, but now I'm not so sure.... Maybe there was some truth to it?
 
hello! just checking in to see how you're doing, that's awesome that you had one bad day AND THEN got back on track the next day! that's something i'm trying to do! making those quick 180 degree turnarounds..hehe

good luck dipping into the 130s, I'M SO JEALOUS! :)
 
Aww, sorry to hear about your crazy day. I had one of those a few months ago, where I was so crabby and overreacted to everything. I totally screamed at my daughter because she tripped and fell into me almost making me trip. It wasn't even her fault, total accident. When my hubby pointed that out to me (in a very gentle and cautious way), I totally lost it, thought they were all against me and hated me and locked myself in the bedroom.

I almost wonder if it's not related to weight loss a little. Like eating at a deficit for a while can mess with your moods or something?

Glad you are feeling better and I hope you aren't too sore today!
 
Congrats on you scale reading of 141, I'm so jealous! Sorry to hear about your bad day, and just wanted to stop by and check you out and how you have been doing. Keep up the good work, I love how consistent you are even when you don't feel like it.
 
Yummy! Grilled garlic and onion green beans! I think you just put a little idea into my head for tomorrow nite!

Well done on the run....and the weight! My legs and ankles are soo sore from shingling the cottage, I am havin a hard time walkin'. But I do enjoy hearing about your runs. (except the part anout the toenail! Ouchie!)

Hope you heal quick and look forward to your bon voyage party for the 140's!!!

Take care!!!
 
WoW sounds like you've got this running business licked...JUST RUN THROUGH THE PAIN!! hehe

141 is fantastic! Whoooosh! I am jealous too!! And inspired obviously!! As are your mum and co-worker - that must feel great that you are changing their lives too :D

I get really mad if someone nicks something off of my plate after I've worked out exactly how many calories it is. As my daughter always says "ask before stealing my food"!
 
FRIDAY IS HERE!!! YIPPEE!!!!

It's been a few days since I've had time to post here. Work has been REALLY hectic this week, especially the last couple of days. It's the start of that TOM for me, which is good and bad. I always get a burst of energy right before it and always manage to tackle big crappy projects that I've been putting off both at work and at home. But it also puts me in a pissy mood - so I have no tolerance for putting up with people's crap. I am way more blunt than normal apparently, and in the last 2 days have managed to piss off a coworker and my youngest sister because I didn't bite my tongue like I normally would and instead spoke exactly what I was thinking.

Tonight I was digging thru my jewelry and ran across my wedding ring. I haven't worn it in 10 years (since I was pregnant the first time) because it no longer fit. Well, I tried it on and it fits now! I've had it on all evening - it feels weird to wear it again. But every time I look at it, it makes me smile and remember falling in love and running off to get married. Oh the scandal we caused! :reddevil: Lots of people have asked me why my husband never wears a ring, implying that it should bother me or something. Well it doesn't. Besides, he can't wear a wedding ring because I never got him one. I got him a wedding gun instead!

My weight has been hovering around 142-143 the last couple of days, but I know I'm bloated right now. I'm supposed to take my new beginning of the month photos, but I think I'm going to wait a day or 2 until it passes. Even with that, I think I've only lost 4 lbs this month. :cry: Which means I need to kick things up a bit in order to meet my goal of 135 lbs by Halloween. I want another 6 lbs gone by then!

I've been pretty good food-wise this week, until today that is (I had a medium strawberry shortcake blizzard for supper tonight - BAD GIRL!). I've managed to get my run in on my scheduled days this week, but I skipped out on my weight lifting day earlier in the week because my daughter had a basketball game and we got home late, so didn't really have time. Plus I just didn't feel like it. I'd much rather run than do weights lately. I think I need to find a different routine for that because I'm bored with it. It's getting to be more and more of a struggle to make myself do it - and it's only 2 nights a week! I'm supposed to lift weights tonight, but have been putting it off all evening.

I'm as bad as the kids with the whiney "But I don't wanna...." I guess I better just get my butt in gear because those weights aren't going to just lift themselves!
 
Thought I'd pop in here quick and read a few journals and post in mine before I go run. It'll also give my supper time to digest a bit. If I run after I eat I always get a pain in my side (I think it's called a stitch?) and feel like the contents of my stomach is coming up into my throat all the time. BLECH!

I did end up lifting weights last night. I figured I had better considering what I ate for supper. It was REALLY good though.... :drool5: I changed the routine I usually do, and boy am I sore today!

*********** 2 hrs later...

Well, got interrupted in my post, then I decided to get my run done before coming back. WOOO that felt GREAT!!! And then I felt even better after I toweled off all the sweat and stepped on the scale and it said 140.8! <insert happy dance here> That's exactly 45 lbs down from where I started! It's amazing to me to know I've come this far. And I don't think I should have any problem getting down to my original goal of 135 by Halloween.

I'm pretty sure I'll keep going all the way down to maybe 125 or so. I don't think another 5 lbs will get rid of all the squishiness that I still have all over me. Maybe my next goal will be 125 by New Years?

Tomorrow I'm going to a baby shower for my sister and her new son. I'm kind of looking forward to it because there will be a lot of people there that I haven't seen in a long time. It'll be a huge ego boost to see their reaction when they see me and how much I've lost. My sister hasn't even seen me since June except for when I went to visit her in the hospital at the beginning of September when she had her baby, but I had my coat on the whole time, so it pretty much hid my newly emerging figure.

I know that being healthier and more fit should be enough in this journey, but if I said that I'd be kidding myself. I love the attention I get lately when people see how much I've lost. That REALLY makes it worth it, improved health or not!
 
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