Observations/Goals/New Commitments

Happy New Years Everyone!   I hope you all had a great NYE and a wonderful Christmas holiday with your friends and family. 

I haven't posted in a while due to being busy and having a bit of writers block.   However I have been reading and commenting on all my favorite blogs and in the past few days it has really gotten me thinking about my life and plans for 2013.    

I have been reading A Merry Life for  the last several months and I really enjoy her writing and her honesty.   She recently wrote a post about being embarrassed about showing her before and after pictures because she is still not where she wants to be.  I personally think she shouldn't be, because it shows how far she has come and I am glad she kept the pictures up.  You go girl!   Because of her I decided to post pictures monthly of myself sporting my lululemon sports bra and booty shorts.  I got my lovely boyfriend Rob to take the pictures.  It is hard to see the pictures but I want to be brave and I believe this will be a great way to show my progress along with my monthly weight in.  I will put the pictures in a tab but here is a preview, please be kind.  One day I would love to rock this outfit in a yoga class.

January 2013

 

January 2013

 

January 2013

 

 

Another thing I would like to write about is The Scale! In order for me to do the  December Challenge I needed to borrow my sisters scale I usually weigh myself on the Wii.   It has been interesting to have a scale in my apartment.  I have been weighing daily sometimes twice once in the morning and once at night.  I was curious to how much my weight can fluctuate during a 24 hour period.  Boy oh Boy my weight sometimes can fluactuate 5 pounds from the morning to night.  Which I found to be shocking!   I am not sure if this is normal or not?  I know one to two pounds is but 5!  Does anyone else have this problem?  I find weighting daily keeps me more accountable.  I am not a slave to the scale and I am trying to make sure the numbers on the scale doesn't define who I am.

 

 

The past month I  have eliminated bread, chocolate, ice cream, donuts,  and pastries by default I haven't eaten any pasta until two days ago.  It is not one my trigger foods, it is something I just don't eat very often.   Anyways after I ate it I felt okay but the next morning I felt bloated and my face was all puffy!!   I had a reaction to the pasta and I will not be eating that again and it makes me happy to me more aware of my body. 

 

 

2012 Recap of Goals

 

1. Ran two 5 km Races

 

2. Travelled to NYC and The Dominican Republic

 

3.  Can do 20 half push ups

 

4.  Have more definition in my arms

 

5.  Tried Golf for the first time

 

6.  Paid off three of my debts I still have a long way to go but it is a start! 

 

7.  Completed a 100 miles in a month

 

8. Tried Yoga outside for the first time

 

9.  Had my one year anniversary on my blog

 

10.  Getting closer to dealing with my emotional eating. 

 

 

 Goals for 2013

 

 

1.  To weight 199

 

2.  Cross off 5 things on my long term goals list

 

3. Pay off 5000 towards my debt

 

4. Complete my biology course

 

5.  Get accepted into nursing

 

6. Take more yoga classes (once a week)

 

7. Read 40 books

 

8. Run three 5 km races

 

 

I have noticed a lot of my follow bloggers have been also doing a recap and setting new goals.  It is so great to see!  

 

 

What is your number one goal to accomplish? 

 



 



 

 

 

Lost 1.5 pounds this week

I am always happy to stand on my Wii and see a loss of 1.5 pounds.  (By the way the Wii fit board is the only scale I have in my home.   If you don't have one it is kinda of a big process to get weighted, First you have to step on the scale and it tells you its been so and so days since the last time you were here,  next it asks you a series of questions Do you want any fitness tips?  How much do your clothes weigh? ,  it then wants to check your posture while it weights you,  Finally it shows your lovely chubby avatar and your BMI.  And your Avatar grows or shrinks based on your weight.   I am still considered obese according  to my BMI, I cannot wait till the day it say I'm overweight lol)

Here is my Wii Avatar:

I had the stomach flu for three days so I was only able to workout once.  It made me frustrated not to, but I know my body needed to rest so I gave it what it wanted.   I am much better now and I am in workout mode again. 

I was at work today and one of my  supervisors is always buying sweets.  Today he bought a black forest cake, he knows I am eating healthy and that I don't eat any sweets but he still offered.  I said "no thank you".     Then my co worker says " one little piece is not going to hurt you"  my supervised piped in "once and a while it is okay"    I said "no" again and told them "you guys are like crack dealers!,  I can't have just one piece or I will want the whole cake"   They laughed.  Although I was trying to be funny it  bothers me that some people don't get food addictions.  It has been two months since I have any sweets (unless sugar free)   I am really proud of that but man there is a lot of people who LOVE to sabotage and try to test my dedication and will.

On a positive note I do have a lot of friends and family who do support me in my choices.  A couple of weeks ago I went to my friends house for dinner and she actually called to ask me what I can eat. I thought it was really sweet.  I never want to be a bother to people when I am at their home for dinner there is always something I can eat like protein, veggies and whole wheat carbs.   I just say no to sweets, fried foods and the white carbs.

Until next weigh in!