The Skinny on Me
I'm just a girl (well, 22-year-old girl) trying to find my happiness through running and healthy eating.
Height: 5'7"
Starting Weight: 176 lbs
Current Weight: 166.9
Goal Weight #1: 161 lbs (-15)
Goal Weight #2: 151 lbs (-25)
I wrote this on my way home from work today:
Routines. All they take is a little effort, and before you know it, you’ve found yourself enveloped by it. What’s my routine you ask? Bringing my computer to work. Bringing my computer to work so that in the mornings I can edit and draft cover letters for my next job (read: better paying, better benefits, better commute) and in the evenings I can do this. I can write.
I haven’t done a weigh-in this week, because we’ve had company. Tomorrow, that’ll change. Though I doubt I’ll be happy with the number.
One routine I haven’t been able to accept is that healthy lifestyle I tried so hard to adopt. Tried. Trying. Meh. It’s a lot harder than you’d think. It’s definitely been more difficult than falling into a routine of lugging around my macbook.
I’m hoping I can change that. I’m hoping I can hop back on that running bandwagon. I still have my hopes and dreams of running a half marathon. And last week’s Bunny Rock 5k only fueled the fire. As it turns out, there are a few this summer.
Chicago Women’s Half Marathon — June 22
Rock n’ Roll Half Marathon — July 24
It’s a little over 10 weeks until the 22nd of June. Can I do it? Can I go from couch (well… not really couch) to 13.1 miles in 10 weeks? Can I afford it? $65 ain’t cheap.
But then again, neither is being overweight.
10 weeks. 10 weeks of waking up at 5am, or 10 weeks of postponing social activities until after my run.
10 weeks of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday runs. 10 weeks of shin splints and ankle pain.
Hmmm. I can do 10 weeks. I’m broke anyways, so it will be 10 weeks of saving money cause I’ll stop at 2 drinks in hopes of squeezing in a run the following morning.
10 weeks of sacrifices….
10 weeks of a new routine. 10 weeks of being healthy. 10 weeks of feeling better about myself today than I did yesterday.
I can do this; I will do this.
You say, 10 weeks ain’t too much time. I say, bring it… I’m liking this new routine.
Carpe Diem.
Then, I came home and did that… Seize the day, indeed.
It’s been a wee little while since my last WIW. I’m going to start getting on track again, and I’m going to make this work. It’s the beginning of April; I’m just shy of two months until my Memorial Day weekend getaway to Vegas. I will be in the 150s by then, mark my words.
SW: 176
LWIW: 166 (Feb. 21)
CW: 166.9
Difference: +0.9 lbs.
Total WL: -9.1 lbs.
This weekend, I’ve registered to run the Bunny Rock 5k. Though I haven’t been running consistently since mid-January, I’m excited to get into it again. I might (keyword: might) even go ahead and pre-register for the half-marathon in June/July, just to get myself motivated.
The trouble is money. I may say I want to run it, but when it comes down to those gosh darn registration fees, my motivation goes out the window. I should start a run fund. Or maybe, when I move, the money I save on taxi cab fare (to but mostly from bars) can be put into the piggy bank reserved for running.
Just a thought.
What do you do to save up for race registration fees?
What up, Fitblrs? I apologize in advance if I start to sound at all glum or down in this post. I’ve been trying to keep my good ‘ole happy-go-lucky self out and about these days (especially when blogging), but sometimes you can’t always fake it till you make it.
In a somewhat shocking turn of events, I managed to lose 1.8 pounds this week. To be honest, I felt that I would at least lose something, but not that much. Why? Well, in addition to my tendencies to drink more than I should, chow down on yummy sweet potato fries and mac n’ cheese grilled cheese sandwhiches (really good) and giving in to the occasional urges to skip running that day, I also was a bit down in the dumps this week. Being the emotional eater that I am, that meant dragging out the peanut butter and chocolate chip morsels left over from my roommates cooking adventures. Never a good combo.
Word to the wise, don’t keep that shit around the house. Hopefully my roommate doesn’t need anymore, cause I’m tempted to throw that stuff out (the chocolate chip morsels at least).
At this point, I’m a mere two-tenths of a pound away from being out of the 170s. Only .2 lbs! Because of this so close, yet so far dilemma I find myself in, I know I can do better. There’s a reason I’ve been pushing myself so hard the last few weeks, and I can’t lose sight of it now.
My goals for this week:
- Finish Week 8 of C25k: 1 run down, 2 to go!
- Sign up for the Polar Dash 5k (January 14)
- Throw out that damn bag of semi-sweet chocolate morsels
- Have fun (but no too much fun!)
- If (not when, but if) I fall of track, get back on it right away.
- Exercise video it up (as much as I love running, that’s not what it’s all about)
- Start the month-long push up challenge (see next post)
Run and dress up as Santa … I think, yes!
I’m thinking about signing up for my first 5k. It’s on New Year’s Day. In Chicago. How I plan to survive the cold while not slipping on ice is beyond me. But I’ma gonna try.
27th Annual New Year’s Day 5k Run/Walk
This may mean I need to a) not slack off on my running like I have been and b) stock up on cold weather running gear (which I’ve been meaning to do anyway).
Lucky for me, New Year’s Day is about nine weeks away, so I have just enough time to kick major couch to 5k ass. #justsayin
Wish me luck?
Yesterday I finally made it the Saturday morning yoga class at Gold’s Gym. My main problem with yoga is that I always feel like I am being judged by the Yoga-litests who think I am disrupting their world and that I am not immediately good enough. (For the record, I judge people, ALOT, so I always think they are doing the same to me) When I walked into the long and narrow class room it was a bit like that. Everyone was already there and set up, each person accompanied by THEIR own yoga mat…vs. me the girl who doesn’t own a yoga mat and had to borrow one. And then there was the problem of finding space. Once again, I felt the Yoga-litests judge me as I came and interrupted their space. Instead of a nice ample space of 2ft on either side of them, I now cut their free space in half.
Anyway, after that. I rather enjoyed it. It was a lot more strenuous than I remember it being (I used to take yoga classes at this yoga gym place in Orange County last summer). But I pushed through the stretching and strengthening poses to come out a bit tired, but feeling good. Yoga=Intense.
After this whole experience and after I remembered how much I enjoy yoga, I have decided I am going to buy my own mat. There’s a new ross close to my place that I will have to go check out today. Once I have my mat in tow, I will try to make it to yoga every saturday…with the exception of next week cause it won’t be going on.
Tonight, I’m starting week four of my running program. To refresh you, it’s:
- 5 minute warm up
- Jog/Run 3 min (1/4 mi)
- Walk 90s (1/8mi)
- Jog/Run 5 min (1/2 mi)
- Walk 2 1/2 min
- Jog/run 3 min
- Walk 90s
- Jog/Run 5min
For a total of 21 1/2 min (26 1/2 with the warm up)
It’s hard to believe, but in a mere week they expect me to run a complete two miles with no walking. We’ll see how that goes. Might have to ditch the doggie for that run, having to pull her along the way is no way to preserve strength.
Wish me luck!
Two possible running plans to get me goin for the 5k my brother and I are going to run in October. I will probably give the first one a try or else do a modified version of the second one, cause i definitely do have some running stamina already. I’m just not quite sure how much.
Yesterday was the workout from hell. Today is the aftermath from hell. Goody. It would almost be an understatement to say that everything hurts. (Quick Time-out: THIS STUPID DOG OUTSIDE WILL NOT STOP BARKING. I’M TRYING TO WRITE THE WORLD’S BEST COVER LETTER BUT I ALL I CAN DO IS LISTEN TO NON-STOP BARKBARKBARKBARK) My back hurts (muscle pain) from dead lifting 20lbs (straight back, straight legs lean all the way forward and back up and repeat) Plus, bicep, tricep, calf muscle etc workout.
Tonight I have good news and bad news:
Good news: I am planning to run a 5k with my brother. We decided the The Great Pumpkin Race, Oct. 24 sounded the most interesting. I added it to my calendar. Then I realized….
Bad news: OG I thought it was on homecoming weekend. But that’s not true. It’s on the weekend I was planning on going to visit my dad. As in it was the weekend that worked best for me, but i hadn’t actually run it by him yet.
For now, I’ll plan for both. So i’ll keep running but I’ll also keep searching for good airplane deals.
**FYI the dog stopped barking**
I feel like I had something else to ramble on about. Oh yeah, I’m supposed to be writing a killer cover letter right now. But nothing is coming to me. Just thought you ought to know.
How do you stop the post-workout aches and pain?
