Chasing away Chubby

It’s been a year ladies. A year since I started this last weight loss endeavor. Overall I would call it a success. I lost 27 pounds, gained all but 12 back. However, that is 12 less than what I weighed this time last year…so that is progress. This time last year I couldn’t run 20 feet. Now I can run 3 miles! That’s progress!  Last year I was riddled with fibromyalgia and arthritis pain.  Now I am almost completely pain free. That’s progress!  Last year my stomach problems were holding me as a hostage to food.  I literally was trying to eat the pain away!  Not anymore!  That’s progress! This year I plan on stepping it up. I have to make my fatbet goal!!! I am back to running and plan on my first 5K in September. The girls in my classes are going to do a half-marathon in May in celebration of graduating. I think most of them plan on walking it, but another girl and I will run it. The other girl is a super athlete, probably only weighs 115 pounds soak and wet, she was Miss Ky basketball in 2000, and she runs quite a bit. But that is okay I just hope that they all get moving so we can make it happen.

I am upset because I got up and the scale was up 4 pounds!!!! I have been pretty good food wise. I even logged my calories most days. I don’t understand where the 4 pounds is from! UGH! I am going to get through this holiday (Family cook-out tonight) and then tomorrow I am going back to one meal a day. That is the ONLY way I seem to be able to lose weight. Grrrr. Not happy about it though.

I have to go register for the PRAXIS 2. It is going to cost me well over $200 to take it, but I have to take it to be a teacher! It is costing me waaayyy too much money to get my degree so I can be a teacher and be one of the lowest paid degreed individuals in the nation. Which makes no sense because we are the most important!! Teachers make all other professions possible, people!! Then if this damnable rain ever stops I am going to go run. Today is suppose to be 1.5 miles but since i had 2 days off in a row i might do 2 miles and save the 1.5 miles for Sunday. Then I am dying my hair and getting myself all dolled up for the picnic tonight. My sis hosts this every year and I am a litte peeved because she didn’t invite my cousin. All she invited outside of the immediate family was her (not to sound like I am still in high school) preppy-@ss friends! I don’t know I think I am feeling insecure because Sis3 has been putting me down lately. It is really getting to me.  She is always talking about me like I am a bad mother!  Which I am not! (She has no kids btw, yet she thinks she is an expert) and the last 2 times I have been around her she has referred to me as “trashy.” She acts like she is joking but I definitely think that there is some underlying meanness there.  I am not trashy.  I don’t even want to go to her stupid picnic now.  Well ladies Have a fabulous Fourth! 

Posted on July 4th, 2008 by lodyangel
Filed under: General