| Well I am on my way to the gym but I knew if I didn't start this now I would continue to put it off later when I got home.?So it's been three months now it seems like so much longer.??It's also halfway through pac now, not sure how I feel about that at the moment.Randomness here last night I was sitting outside on the front step on the phone and waiting for Lauren to pick m up and I had an encounter with a raccoon.?It ran over about 5 feet away from me and I said "Hi Mr. Raccoon.", because I talk to animals like that.?Then he ran away.?A few minutes later when I was off the phone I heard a rustling in the bushes behind me and the raccoon walks out and sits about 3 feet behind me on the steps and just stares at me. ?So I kind of wanted to pet it but California is not a rabies free state so I decided against it.?I wanted to take a picture but as soon as I turned a little to unzip my purse and grab my camera the raccoon ran away.?Still I have never been that close to a raccoon before, they are not as cute in person as they are when they are stuffed animals.?Ok done with that.So three months I am up to 81 lbs lost now.?It's crazy to me because I look in the mirror and I don't see it, I just see the only me I have always know.? |
| ?It's crazy to me because I look in the mirror and I don't see it, I just see the only me I have always know.?I look at pictures and see it more but I guess it's still hard.?I don't even know the last time I weighed this much, it had to be junior high or very early high school.?Also my body has changed so much in the last few years from birth control and hormone fluctuations that I just still see all the "more padded" parts that I didn't have the last time I was around this weight.?Right now I look and see the things I just want to fix rather than how far I have come.?I still have a long way to go.Everyone at support group tells me one day I will wake up and stuff will just be gone but that hasn't happened yet.?The loss is coming slower and slower; I am at about a pound every 3 days or so but sometimes not even that.?No more waking up 6 lbs lighter hehe.?When I think about how women generally lose for about 18 months it's almost scary though because where will I be by then?I am still going to the gym about 6 days a week and trying to get a walk in every day.?The trainer at the gym has become my new friend even though he thought I was 16 or 17 and lived at home with my parents haha.? |
| ?The trainer at the gym has become my new friend even though he thought I was 16 or 17 and lived at home with my parents haha.?I've wanted to ask questions before but I didn't feel comfortable so now that he's friendly and talks to me maybe I will feel more inclined to.?I've added rowing to things I do, but I don't do it everyday.?I need to start doing different things so my body doesn't get adjusted.?I also need to hook up the TV again so I can do Yoga Booty Ballet again.?Oh and my flexibility a few weeks ago I discovered that I can flip my legs over my body and make my toes touch the floor behind my head.?Then I lay there with my knees on my nose and stretch my whole spine.I am running now though!!!?I can't run that far or for a long time, but Lauren and I have started running intervals during our walks.?I had to go buy some shorts because when we first started my pants kept falling down.?They're super short so I have to pull them down every 5 seconds but they don't fall off.?We downloaded the "Couch to 5K" podcasts where they start you running 60 seconds with a 90 second walking intervals for a week and then it increases over 12 weeks. |
| We downloaded the "Couch to 5K" podcasts where they start you running 60 seconds with a 90 second walking intervals for a week and then it increases over 12 weeks.?Mainly we just try to set distances along the path and say we will run from point A to point B. ?I am starting to be able to go a little further each time and I feel less out of breath and have a faster recovery each time.?At this point I can't imagine running multiple miles but a month ago I didn't think I would be running now.?It feels good to run, now I am less scared about a homeless person attacking me hahaha.?Really though to me it's more of a milestone than hitting a certain weight or fitting into a smaller pair of pants.?I love the feeling that I can be more active and do more things.?I want to start playing tennis I think because I like it and racquetball is not as fun.?The Bay Bridge Run is in 14 days and I think it will be the first race I actually run in.?I won't be running uphill but once we start going down I will be running I think.I've decided that I want to go skydiving for my birthday this year also.?I've always wanted to and in Hawaii I passed up the opportunity because I felt I was too fat and now I feel like I can.?So by the middle of September hopefully I will have! |
| ?So by the middle of September hopefully I will have!?Ok that's all, time to get my butt to the gym. |
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