Sorry for the Delay

Howdy Howdy folks! sorry for making you wait so long inbetween posts, I know how all 3 of you hang on my ever word ha!

This last week has been intense and WAY busier than I would hope a week to be. Did not do as well with food choices as I would have liked to but overall not a terrible food week. I really need to kick my exercise into high gear though, because that is looking sad!

I am excited because a co-worker and I are going to be doing the Shamrock walk the day after the parade in Downtown Indy, should be FUN! This also gives me a good goal again :)


Starting Weight: 216 lbs
Current Weight: 188 lbs

Tomorrow I will:

- spend an awesome day with my momma
- take little miss H for a walk
- make sure my foodie blog is ready to launch on Wednesday/Thursday!

Wellness at Work

So today was the kick-off of our workplace wellness program. Nothing too crazy yet, just a few simple changes:

1. we were all given pedometers .... one co-worker might try and make us all competitive about number of steps a day :-)

2. we were split in "groups" based on the answers we gave to a wellness survey before break

3. we will be having monthly "lunch and learn" sessions on different topics to keep us all in the know. next week is the first one and we will be discussing e-resources to meet our goals.

4. we will be publishing a wellness newsletter every month for the staff to read

*note: when I say "we" I mean a group of staffers that make up the wellness committee*

I have also sent out a little note to members of my group about walking for 30 mins at lunch (we get an hour) twice a week to help with our fitness goals (and keep our daily steps average high ha!). So far things seem like they will be fun .... although I do eventually want to find a way to make this competitive ... because that is who I am!! ha!


Starting Weight: 216 lbs
Current Weight: 189 lbs

Tomorrow I Will:

- walk 30 mins at work
- have dinner with the family
- work out with mom
- try not to go overboard at lunch (pizza, yum yum!)

2013 .. OH YEAH!

Okay ... 2013 and I are friends ... so far, ha! I have been having a great year, starting with a fun Great Gatsby themed party with awesome people, food, drinks, and games. Spilling over into a day with mom's pancakes for lunch, and then a day of lunch at Yats and shopping with the bestie while she's in town. Which of course leads to the unveiling of the goals:

1. Do one thing every week to make me feel special
2. Do one thing every week to make others feel special
3. Get to goal weight (I can feel the universe laughing/plotting as I type)

So far the weight journey isn't too shabby. Not as active as I should be but doing pretty okay calorie wise.

Starting Weight: 216 lbs
Current Weight: 191 lbs
Goal Weight: 130-140 lbs

Tomorrow I Will:
- get into the gym while people are at work so I can SUPER sweat
- have fun at wine night with my Theta loves
- start my work on getting tax stuff together and make my 3 budget options to show dad

2013

I have been thinking a lot about the coming year. I'm hoping to hit my goal weight, I turn 25, I will hit my 2 year anniversary of working for an awesome place, Harley turns 3 (or 21 lol), and I I will visit Vegas for the first time. As I think about the coming year of course I have to reflect on this past year. Lots of highs and lows, but I feel more and more like the me I'm supposed to become every day. So I have decided to make 3 large goals for the year and make a promise to myself that I will do one thing every day to get me closer to me goals. I've been tossing around a few ideas... And won't decide until Dec 31 but some of the ones I've been tossing around are:

1. Record/Remember more events
2. Feel more confident in my own skin
3. Make more dreams into reality
4. Be more adventurous
5. Love, Laugh, Live

Food has been hard while on break from work but not doing terrible. Harley helps by keeping me active even during the blizzards and snow lol

Starting Weight: 216lbs
Current Weight: 191lbs

Tomorrow I Will:
- have fun with my sister before she leaves
- clean and organize the apartment
- grocery shop with some of my Pinterest finds
- make a daycare plan for Harley for the next 2 weeks

5Ks and Cookies

So the 5K DID NOT kill me (although at times it felt like it might lol). I did enjoy the time with my family, and I did not hate the "alone" time as much as I thought I would. Yes I ran most of it alone because my brother in law was sick so my nephew stayed home with him. Which was sad but in a way nice, because the whole thing was at my pace.

So last night, during my "I Finished!" high, I decided to get back on track about my eating. I have been allowing too many snacks to slip through the cracks. Either I track them, but don't exercise enough to cancel them out, or I don't track them and secretly pretend they didn't happen.

So of course today we got two more gifts at work (chocolate covered pretzels, and cookies!). and I am sorry, I am not really the "just say no to desserts" kind of gal! Thankfully I had a sensible breakfast, a light lunch (beans, salsa, cheese, and blue corn chips), and plan to have a light dinner (not really that hungry .... just have to keep the boredom snacking at bay.


Overall .... feeling pretty shiny today!

Starting Weight: 216 lbs
Current Weight: 191 lbs (got my new scale to use ALL THE TIME)

Tomorrow I will:

- behave at lunch at McCalister's Deli
- run/walk 3.1 miles on the treadmill before picking up H at daycare
- have fun at work ... gotta figure out something :)

It's on!

Today has been a good day so far .... I was nervous about not being able to fill H's stocking this Christmas (yes I am AWARE shes a dog ha!) but today one of my co-workers shared a "groupon-esq" deal with me $25 for $50 at an online store PLUS a 25% off code PLUS FREE shipping and garunteed to get here before Christmas!!!! I am one happy momma!

This weekend will be fun as well ... my big sister, brother in law, and nephew are coming for a visit and to run a 5K as a family on Sunday. I will be participating, and I am NOT looking forward to this. I am NOT a runner, so I shall be walking, and while I am happy to do this for my mother (the organizer/master guilt trip artist) I have no want or need to be a "runner" or compete in atheltic challenges with large groups of strangers lol

Saturday though will be a highlight day ... I will be spenidng all afternoon/evening celebrating one of my friends as she preps for her big day (wedding of course!) which is one week from Saturday!! We will be having her shower in the afternoon, and then off to the bachelorette party at the Jazz Kitchen!!

Overall ... I lead a pretty charmed life folks .... now I just have to keep it a slimmer charmed life as I prep for VEGAS in May!!!!!!!!


Starting Weight: 216lbs
Current Weight: 191lbs

Tomorrow I will:

- have fun!!
- watch my calories as I party
- find a good about being in the 5K (other than time with my family since they will be .5-.8 miles ahead of me lol)

New Challenges ... New Rewards

So I am back attempting this "dating" business again .... I'm not terribly sure about this but I'm gonna give it my best shot lol Most of my uneasiness does come from this weight loss journey. It's hard when you know some people in the world still see you as "big" or "overweight" but all you want to scream at them is I LOST 25 LBS BITCH! lol

Other than that things are going well, loving the new apartment, and miss H is getting used to living away from grammy and grampy ha!

Also I am trying that 50 challenge thing again .. a little different this time, I got rid of the "no scale" section and that is not in my plan lol Also I made my own tracker sheet because theirs was not easy to mark progres son and actually see where I was.


Starting Weight: 216lbs
Current Weight: 187lbs

Tomorrow I will:

- eat a more protien rich breakfast
- talk a longer walk in the morning and after work rather than just at lunch
- I will get excited for my date ... thats right I have a date tomorrow evening *crossed fingers*