From 203 pounds to 1 Fit Chick!

Quote of the week: “You can only stumble if you’re moving.” ~Roberto Goizueta

Glad that’s over with. I had a great time at our beach fire Sat night. Made up a jug of frozen margaritas to guzzle. Oh don’t ya love that sensation, the old brain freezer. Take too big a gulp and it feels like you just had a ice pick lodged into your noggin! Apparently, after all these years, I’m still a slow learner ! Anyways I wasn’t feeling all that peppy come Sunday morn and that day had to be written off. Shhhhh..and Monday, too! How do people do that every weekend? I tell ya that was enough for me for awhile. Geeze, I got shit to do! Bright side is that me little leggys are the most rested ever and I’m thinking maybe tonight for that “timed run”. I think I’ll go on the treadmill and get sort of a feel for a 5.5 mph pace. Idea: find a tune to keep in my head that I can fit to that pace. Sometimes it’s easier to fit faster steps in between the beats of a slower tune. This will be an experiment that’s for sure. Fun, huh?

Weighed in yesterday and 178 it is. Ahhh no changes! Relief!!! No major damage control to be done here! So far so good. Thank-u-oh-thank-u!!!

more to come…

178.0 pounds…is one hellava happy

chick!!!

4.5 pounds gone! Good riddance and don’t come back!

Here’s me singing it with Tom Petty, “Hey! Don’t come around here no more. Don’t darken my door”.

182.5 That’s a 3 pound loss for this week and down 20.5 pounds total. Great gravy I’m back on a roll!
“Lull Hell” is over.

I don’t have to worry about temptations this week because there’s no way in hell I’m going to put anything in my mouth that will keep me from the 170’s. By God look at how close I am One minute it seems I’m fighting to keep from slipping back into the 190’s and then “poof” I’m fighting to break into the 170’s. Something about it seems so strange, like the 180’s is the 10 lb barrier between the heaven and hell of how I feel about what I weigh. The hell of it is the 190’s are too close to 200’s and are not weights that I whisper aloud, not even to myself. The “I hate being like this” pounds.
Now the heaven. The 170’s and less are a whole different story. I can almost imagine squeaking out a number depending on who I’m talking to!
Really though, these are the pounds that, along with working out, you can wear really well. People will say “You can’t possibly weight that much”.
I intend to make the 170’s a damned attractive weight to show off! I intend to be showing it off next week!

Had a great weigh in this morning. 0.0 pounds lost! Yay me! Okay, okay I’ll back up a bit here. I went to the nicest outdoor wedding on Saturday morning and trust me I’m not a big ‘goer’ and yet surprise…I really enjoyed it! They had a BBQ after and a great spread of chow. I had a burger, salad, 3 kinds of macaroni salad and some taco salad. After that I went back for another burger!!! Yes bigprof, I too have a weakness for burgers Honest to God I could have stuffed them into me till I was in agony they were that darned good. Did I mention the wedding cake? No? Yup…I did…cake and coffee. I have no idea why the scales were so kind to me and I’m going to have to work my ass off this week just in case there’s a delayed reaction.
Also, we went to a party Sat night and I had two drinks…not bad huh? I didn’t feel much into drinking, boys it sure seemed like a long time for my burgers to wear off, and I didn’t get my afternoon nap…awww! My guy was working late as they had to have all of the lobster traps up by months end. We ended up going late and Little Miss Social Butterfly me, who feels lost in large bunches of people, couldn’t wait to get the hell out of there almost as soon as we arrived. It was an back yard party at friends of my guy’s. I say his friends, even thought this is a very small place and we all know each other, he’s 7 years younger than me and as I lived away for 20 years he has more history with them. And I’ll admit that I’m a bit of a recluse I guess that’s what you’d call me. Now I don’t mind a small gathering for an evening here and there, but a whole yard full of squealing, screeching and giggling women (yes there is this one f***ing giggling chick and she giggles sober. I just want to cuff her a good one!) and staggering, mumbling and hardy har-haring men and I had people overload. All peopled out! That sounds awful, doesn’t it? I did have a few good laughs, but Oh I love my mellow life so much!!!
That was my weekend and now it’s back to work and I couldn’t be happier about it. I just want to concentrate on my weight and fitness now…pahleeze!

This morning the fog was thick as pudding again which equals a great run morning! I find the cool wet weather soothes my muscles and I run a lot better. Once I get that first mile under my belt, my warm up mile as I call it, then it get quite easy. Not easy with a capital E, but easy compared to what I used to struggle through. Baby steps!

Can’t believe it’s time again to try and earn some money periwinkling. A whole month has sailed by and how is that possible? Jeeze did I stumble into a time machine or what? The older ya get the faster it goes, stupid saying and this is ridiculous. Slow down Time! Mellow out! Chill a spell.

Oops forgot…ran 6 miles!

Well, I’ve done it again! No tentative testing of toes on the scales this morning. No slowly easing my fat a$$ on in hopes of preventing the pointer from skyrocketing up a few extra pounds. Not today. I attacked those dammed scales, by golly, I pounced on ‘em and decided it is what it is. What it is is down 3.5 pounds this week! Say HELLO 185.5!!! I stood there in front of the mirror in my undies and did the old eyeball critique. Wow, I thought, I’m impressed!!! Agog! 17.5 pounds total since I started my blog on April 23rd.I’ve managed to whittled away most of the fat I was mortified to discover on my knees. I was running and noticed my kneecaps jiggling. FAT!!! I felt horrible, then I was scared cause I wondered if I had “old people knees” already. Oh God No!!! Not at 49. Funny how now I’m relieved it was the fat knees I’d first been mortified over. My thighs almost don’t touch. And something that has bothered me most of all is disappearing. My side fat. Yes side fat. I pack on weight on my upper body like it’s nobody’s business and I had fat rolls making creases on my sides. I am ready to wear form fitting tank tops…sans rolls! YAY! Finally I’ve got something that appears to be working for me! Fingers crossed, toes crossed ahhh hell, eyes crossed, too, but only briefly!
Got in a 5 mile run this morning and it surprised me as I was only going to do about 2 just to top off yesterdays 6.5 miler. I can’t express enough how much the cross training on my bike has helped towards improving on my distance and also, aided my recovery after running. LOLOL wish I had stumbled onto this months ago, but I had read how a lot of stretching afterwards is enough. Should have known old oddball here was going to have to do it her way! Just goes to show that we should keep an open mind to stepping outside “the boxes”.

I’m in the 180’s! Let the bells ring and the banners fly “I’m here”! I made it! I’m here! I’m pumped! Say hello, 189 pounds! I can’t believe I forgot to weigh in yesterday! Had a busy day and NO WAY I’d weigh in later in the day. I’m 189 and I don’t give a rats petunia about the scales later today. I’m 189 dammit!!!…calming breath…mellow…tranquil…WHOOOFREAKINHOO!!!

I did a most amazing w/o last night. Biked 14 miles and then ran 4.5 miles, stretched real good and biked another 4 miles to keep the legs from seizing up. Now I wasn’t sure about the run part after yesterdays break back into it run, but I went for it and other than stopping 4 times to briefly stretch I have to say it went quite well. I also have to say I’d be an idiot not to take a rest day today. So, seems I’m not an idiot, that I’m aware of, then rest it is! I will do an upper body w/o and abs and should be doing it more than I have. Oh goody, something else to work on. Get out those big girl weights and drive the body. Maybe I’ll snivel, whine and blubber a bit throughout the w/o like they do on ‘Biggest Loser’. Must have helped with the weightloss, they did so much of it! Grrrrrrrowl I’d have to slap myself silly. Damned whining!!!

Looks like rain today. Yay. Who can tell I garden? And that’s where I’m off to…catch ya later!

Hi all!

I’m in for a sec to catch up on everybody and holy crappydoodle you guys sure got busy while my back was turned! Will I ever catch up?

Worked my butt off, about 3 lbs worth, a great bonus to go along with my pay, and decided to go out this morning, just once more, cause I hit a good spot and hopefully the low water tide this morning won’t have worked it way back up high enough to where I can’t get at them.

I’m sure looking forward to getting back here later today and taking the time I want to read and comment. Not much support from me lately, huh? Well by the old hairy Moses, that’s gonna change right quick like!!!

Now I’ve got to stick my feet into a pair of cold, wet rubber boots and get going….boo hoo ‘ahs a missing my runners!