Jul 4
Well, It is the 4th of July. Happy Birthday America.
In celebration, I give you this cat. In an American bow-tie:
(cat photo from here)
In other news, I went to Old Navy today to get a patriotic outfit and soon found out I had dropped a size in both Read more
I am going to be honest. I have been really slacking these last few days. The last 2 specifically were my worst yet. I didn’t track for the day (hardly), and ate…. whatever. Who knows how much damage I had done. I feel really “meh” about it.
Last night though, I couldn’t sleep because I started feeling so guilty about this mindset I seemed to have acquired. I was thinking, “Oh man! I should just get out of bed and do 1,000 sit-ups just to make up for lack of discipline!” I didn’t, of course, I just promptly fell asleep, but I really have been legitimately stressing about it.
It doesn’t help either that I have a holiday coming up. After 5:00pm today, I am a free woman until next Monday. It’s going to be tough staying focused while I am at home. It seems to be the time I am a little more casual about my eating habits and gym routines. I need to stay focused though. One time I read this comment on one of these weight loss forums. It was something to the affect of, “when you want to quit, look at how far you have already come. Is eating poorly now worth trading what you’ve lost?” It’s true. I have lost 15 (or so) pounds, and it has been TOUGH so far. I am not willing to eat badly, and start from square one again. It’s not a TON of weight, but it’s enough to keep me from justifying quitting.
On that note, I need to update my weigh-in page.
Alright, which cute animal shall I choose to accurately portray my emotions about this week’s weigh-in…..
Ah yes, here we go:
(cute animal from http://attackofthecute.com/)
So, I gained a pound. However, I can’t say I am all that surprised or disappointed about it. I know that I hadn’t moved a pound all week, and then on Sunday, I had gained one…
I have been really lackadaisical about my eating this week. While I have been tracking and everything has been coming relatively close to my 35+ (now 36+) point goal, I feel like I have been really lazy about my produce intake and just… generally caring I suppose. It’s hard to explain.
Also, I have been at the gym, pretty much constantly, and while I am there, I do a lot of weight training, because it’s easy for me and I hate cardio (however, I also do cardio though, I would like to note). So, who knows why I gained that pound, let’s just chalk it up to not being surprised about it.
I am inspired though to work hard this week. I feel like last week was a nice little vacation on the whole food issue, but now it’s time to step it up!
Alright, it has been far too long since my last post, but I am going to attempt to make up for that with pictures of my weekend! WOOOO!
So, as I mentioned last week, I went to California this weekend.
(photo pulled from the same place this incredibly accurate article about California from Cracked came from)
Jun 29
Hello! Sorry I haven’t posted anything in a couple of days, I have been going to a lot of work events and what not. Well, tonight I am leaving for California. I am currently working on my mom’s house, trying to spruce it up for her. I’ll go ahead and get a little tiny bit personal to explain. My nana (my mom’s mom) passed away last November, and my mom still lives in the house. The house basically looks like my nana is still there, and I think it makes it harder on my mom to emotionally get through this difficult time. So, I am trying to be a good daughter, and help her with that.
Last month, we started on one of the back rooms. It’s become somewhat of a catch-all for when my mom is feeling a little overwhelmed. I thought it would be a great place to start. Here is the before/during/after (I am quite proud at how much we accomplished in 1 weekend):
I was able to incorporate a LOT of my nana into that room, because I didn’t want my mom to feel like we were trying to forget her. We used her love of shabby chic and San Diego as inspiration and kept a lot of her old furniture and decorative pieces in the room. I think it turned out lovely, and my mom seems to be really pleased with the result. So, tonight I am packing up and heading back down to finish up this room (notice I didn’t take any photos of the other wall – it’s about 3/4 done), and starting on the entry way (pictures will happen, I promise).
It will be a nice time to hang out! And hopefully still working on my weight loss whilst painting all these walls ;)
Happy Friday!!
Jun 26
Ok, first of all, I LOVE being a bridesmaid for both selfish and non-selfish reasons. The selfish reason is I sometimes like being a “one-upper” (you know, someone who feels like they need to one-up you. For example, when someone says, “Oh, I caught a 5 lb fish” someone like me will have to add, “Ya, and I caught an 8 lb fish, so there.”) and when I’m at weddings I play this terrible game in my head where I rate how well I know the bride, because for whatever reason, it makes me feel cooler. Being a bridesmaid like automatically just shoots me into the winning category (in my brain), so I feel GOLD STAR level cool.
The non-selfish reason, is when someone asks me to be in their wedding party, it’s of course someone that means a heck of a lot to me. I am definitely so excited that they are getting married to someone awesome, and I love that I am being included in that super special time. I also turn into the, “So, do you need me to design you some invites?!” monster when I am added into a wedding party, because I like to help….
Anyways, all of this is alluding to the fact that I will be in one of my friends wedding party in December. She is wonderful and awesome and so is that cool dude she is marrying. However, back to being selfish, this also gives me a goal. To look awesome at her wedding.
Chara is awesome (that’s the bride) and is letting us choose our own dresses as long as they are grey (and not shiny, just grey).
And now every time we hang out, I’m like, “Oh man! Hitting that gym so I can look hot at your wedding!”
So, there isn’t much more to that story except that I get to pick a grey dress, and I have a goal (which I think both of those things make it a fitting topic to post about).
Aren’t those dresses cute!? How will I ever choose? Good thing I have until December.
Jun 26
Alright, I went ahead and snapped a photo of my current “progress” this morning. I personally can’t completely tell the difference, however, I did have someone at work this morning ask me if I was losing weight, because she could tell…. Which made me feel awesome, because that is officially the first person to ask without me saying that I’ve been working on it :)
But, enough talk, here is the first 15 pounds:
(excuse my mirror, it’s extra gross and desperately needs to be cleaned)
Like I said, it’s not a SUPER dramatic progress photo, but hopefully with time, it will get better :)
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