7 Pound Stretch

Weighed myself this morning...Folks, we are looking at a 7 pound loss!

Big News, Big News! Especially since Monday and Tuesday were such lack luster workout days. And by lack luster I mean I literally did not move unless necessary for every day living.

But eating right really does pay off and I am learning that slowly. It is hard to avoid those Cadbury creme eggs though so I have created a reward system that enables me to still eat them because, let's face it, avoiding chocolate is not my strong point. Jeff even bought me one the other day just to be sweet. Isn't he just the greatest?:)

Shout out to Meg and Megan for dragging me to the gym. My ribs feel like they got repeatedly kicked with karate-like enthusiasm. I am told this is a good thing. Who knew?

Anyways, 7 POUNDS! So pumped. I needed a little boost this week too and that really helped. This puts me at 170 (or 168 depending on the validity of Megan's scale, ha) and I am feeling good about hitting the 160's in the next two weeks. Let's go 1-6-0! Woo Hoo!

Enjoy your weekend and go buy some Cadbury eggs. But just one. They have 150 calories per little devilish egg of goodness!

Bloggers Block

I am suffering from Bloggers Block. For those of you who don't know what this is, it is the inability to think of anything clever or remotely interesting to share with the blogging world. It's a tragedy really.

In an effort to get over this block I will share with you the only good news I have and that is the fact that I ran 3 miles at the Greenway on Sunday afternoon with some friends from work and it wasn't too terrible.

Other than that, I have still only lost my 5 pounds- which is still great, don't get me wrong- but I would have liked to have lost another pound this past week. But that is okay, sometimes you have slow weeks, right?

I hope everyone answered that question with a, "RIGHT!"
Yes?
Awesome.

In other news, I have yet to start my two-a-days. It seems my body might be a little worn out from my working all weekend. All I want to do is sleep, sleep, and oh yeah, sleep some more. But I took a power nap after Jeff and I played a quick set of tennis this afternoon and I am hoping that will carry me over until after Megan drags me to the rec center.

OH! We have discovered that Megan's scale might be 2 pounds off! By "off" I mean it might make you two pounds heavier than you really are. While this won't change how much weight I have actually lost (still my baby 5 pounds) it will change my starting weight to 175 which means I am actually at 170 right now! This has yet to be confirmed though, so I will keep you updated on these exciting events happening in our very own home. Ha.

 Hope everyone had a Happy Wednesday!

5 LBS!

Lost another pound this week. We are looking at 5 pounds per month, almost to the day. I started on January 17th, so it is kind of incredible what a lot of watching what you eat and working out can really do. Yay! Lucky for me, all this work at Olive Garden helps because I literally go hours without even thinking of food. You just get so busy...the breadsticks are hard to turn down though....

Ladies and Gentlemen, It is Wedding Season!

Well folks turns out I have double the motivation to get thinnish for some weddings this next year!
Nicole has asked me to be one of her bridesmaids and I am so so happy to do it!

But now I have to throw myself into high gear for wedding season. No half-ass attempts, I am going to have to get serious. And how might I do this? Read below...

I did something I have never done before. I woke up at 6:30am, dragged my drowsy butt out of bed, put on tennis shoes and went to the rec center. I don't even know who I am anymore! There is some stranger who is a work-out-aholic inhabiting my body. It felt good to get going and be done with it for the day though, so I might have to start doing that a few more times throughout the week. Good bye lazy mornings lounging in bed, which -after reading what I just typed- I realize I never have those kind of mornings so I might as well wake up thirty minutes earlier and go for a run or something. Such is the life of a chunky woman on a thinnish mission.

I will also be starting 2-a-days 3 days a week. I begin that next week. Woo hoo. I cannot wait! If anyone would like to join me on this little endeavor, feel free. I like company! You don't have to do the two-a-day with me, but if you want to jump in on workout #1 or #2, I wouldn't hate it:)

Still at a steady 173 today, so no improvement but no fall outs so I can't complain.

Kristen is sitting in the living room eating tacos. Lordy lordy, please grant me strength to at least go running before I stuff one in my face!

In honor of all these weddings (and thanks to Samantha for finding it!) I have posted a new movie that is coming out. Yay for bridesmaids!

News Flash

Breaking News!

I didn't gain any weight this weekend!

 Just weighed myself and I am

back to the good old 173.2 lbs.

WOO HOO!

2 Pounds of a Top Notch Weekend!

The Bad News: I gained 2 pounds from Thursday to Sunday.

The Good News: Nicole and Rob are engaged!

The Good news has nothing to do with my bad news, but I thought it would make me feel less terrible about gaining two pounds in 4 days. And I do believe it did the trick! ha.

This weekend I ate my weight at Maggiano's.

Some might read this and say, "Oh geez, she is such an exaggerator."

Let me tell you this and only let me tell you once, I seriously ate my weight at Maggiano's this weekend and not one part of me is apologizing for it. It was delicious and wonderful and everything I hoped it would be and I am glad I did it. So there. Sorry "healthy intiative" police, I am guilty.

Tack on the fact that I got to eat dinner with not only my most favorite and wonderful Jeff but also the newly engaged Nicole and Rob and you probably have one of my favorite evenings ever spent in college. How lovely!

What a wonderful way to spend a Birthday/Valentine's Day weekend!

On the health front, tomorrow begins again my routine work outs and eating habits. I am going to get serious and only eat 1300 a day, no matter what I burn. I need to hit the reset button from this weekend and getting strict is the only way I know how. After I have proved to myself I am serious, I will let up a little and get back to my old plan. Until then, please do not offer me Valentine's Day chocolates or cookies. I cannot have them and the pain of turning away any type of sweet food/object is just too much for my overloaded heart to bear. Thanks:)

Word to the wise:

Don't eat too manyboxes of Whitman's chocolates or those nasty chalky candy hearts tomorrow!

(Hint Hint to Jeff: Just an apple slice in the shape of a heart will do for this girl. Love you!)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Birthday Love

(I know I won't have time to post tomorrow so I am doubling up today!)

So everyone I am here to announce it is my BIRTHDAY WEEK and the week before Valentines Day! Unfortunately "healthy initiatives" are the last thing anyone wants to be thinking of on their birthday, but such is the life of a girl on a weight loss mission. I actually made my friend Gretchin a birthday cake tonight and managed to only eat a smidgen of icing and one spoonful of batter. Baby steps my friends, baby steps.

But since it is my birthday week and the week coming up to Valentines Day I have decided to change the music on the blog to all my favorites so I can click on here and just listen to everything I love. Here is the play list and the rundown on why they were chosen.

• Someone Like You by Van Morrison: This is Jeff and I's song. Makes me happy in a way no other song can.
• Waterloo by ABBA: Makes me think of my mom and I can't help but laugh. We do love Mamma Mia and everything ABBA!
• Sunday Morning by Maroon 5: Is a part of the soundtrack for one of my favorite movies Love Actually. I listened to that cd on repeat for about 2 years.
• Banana Pancakes by Jack Johnson: Who doesn't love sleeping in and eating banana pancakes like it's the weekend?
• Crocodile Rock by Elton John: Had this on a the Four Weddings and a Funeral soundtrack back when we still had the Venture minivan! Had the kids I babysit listen to it a couple weeks ago and they loved it. Something about it is just classic.
• Wouldn't It Be Nice by The Beach Boys: Such a happy song.
• Marry You by GLEE: I like the Bruno Mars version too, but either way, Kristen and I listened to this song for about a week straight and all the way to Kentucky and back.
• Almost Like Being in Love by Frank Sinatra: This one I just heard the other day when I was watching Groundhog Day, you know, the one with Bill Murray and he relives the same day over and over? It plays at the very end and I thought it was perfect for Valentine's Day!

Have a great week and stay away from cookie brownies, they are the devil in wonderful chocolate gooey disguise.

If You are What You Eat, I Would Be a Cookie Brownie.

Ate my weight in cookie brownies today. I did a kick-A work out though so it kind of evened it out, but still, no good cookie brownies, no good.

Math-ercise

Let's do a math problem

 (I know, I am shocked too, who ever thought I would do math just for the heck of it?)

If there are 16 ounces in 1 pound and I have lost 4 pounds, how many ounces have I lost?

If you came up with the answer 64 ounces, Congratulations!

 You are either really good with numbers or you quickly clicked on calculator in your start menu and did some swift typing. Either way is fine, I am not one to judge. 

Let's do another math problem

If there are 67.62 ounces in a 2-liter of Coke and I have lost 64 ounces, how many ounces do I have left to lose before I have lost an entire 2 liter's worth of icky fat?

3.62?

CORRECT!

But yes, it is true. I weighed myself this afternoon and I registered at a pretty sweet 173!

 Such good news!

Especially after my exhausting weekend and my depressing post, it makes me happy to see that my eating is really making a difference.

With all this great news it might lead you to ask, "Anna, how did you award youself today?"

My response?

"By eating a cadbury creme egg, a serving (or two) of the cadbury candy eggs, and rotel!"

Luckily I dragged my butt out of the house and ran two miles before I dug into everything I have been pining for these past 3 weeks, thus making feel much less guilty for my slight relapse of overindulgence.

Oh well, what is done is done. I will just have to clean it up this next week. 

So here is to another week of losing weight!

Tonight I leave you with a little food for thought:
This is what I a few ounces short of losing.
(The biggest bottle, obviously.)

But I am "Le Tired"

There is a video called The End of the World and it is a cartoon and it's funny, but anyways, in the video they go to the France and he says, "Fire Ze Missiles!" and this French woman says, "But I am le tired..." in which the French man says, "Well take a nap, THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!"

It is funny. You should watch it. But only if you are okay with cuss words because if memory serves me correct, it has a few in there.

But the point of this rattling about a cartoon video is the fact that I am le tired. And it's awful. I have barely had a chance to lay my head down this entire week and it is affecting my workout schedule. While I have worked out every day this week (except for today, but there just wasn't enough time or energy to do it), I feel like I am slipping--which is no good. I am keeping my calories down, which is good news, but I don't have that awesome feeling I have had the past two weeks. My body is tired, my eyes are tired, my head is just pooped and my brain is just trying to make sure that I remember to put on a bra and brush my teeth before I walk out the door. (No worries though, my breath is always clean. Kristen will agree with me when I say I brush my teeth all. the. time. The bra thing is possibly going to become an issue.)

Tack on my new job and I am just stretched to the max. I didn't drink any coffee today which is why I think I feel so blah. I think my body is going to start needing me to feed it coffee intravenously because these 12-13 hour work/school/clinic days are just too much.

But the top part of this post is depressing, in better and happier news,

TODAY IS BRITTANY BECKMAN'S BIRTHDAY!

HOORAY! She is the big 22. And I am proud to announce that she has been kicking boo-tay at some P90x up at Knoxville. What a trooper! P90x is some serious stuff and she has been sticking to it. So proud of her:)  But anyways, if you know her/see her/or happen to facebook her let her know you wish her a happy birthday.

Hopefully a more interesting and happier post can be delivered to you soon. Until then, feel free to drop off any type of coffee on my front door step. I am not opposed to heating it up in the microwave. Which is kind of icky when I think about it...but I don't care. Happy Weekend to you all and eat plenty of your fruits and veggies, the flu is running amuck!