5k Results: I DID IT!

So my goals for the 5k were to complete the entire thing in under 35 minutes. I did it in 33:18. And to do the entire thing without stopping. Check.

Pretty proud of my time and ability to meet my goals. It was pretty hard because about 75% of the course was on a steady incline which I was not prepared for.

The course

My bff Jen (left) and I (right)

Start of the race

Somehow I managed to smile 

BFF's hubby (left) and my man (right) showing their support

After the race

Victory beer!

PR & A Loss!

April 2, 2011

Yesterday was a damn good day. To start the day off right, it was my weigh-in day. I am down to 154.3, which is 2.1lbs dow for the week and a total weight loss of 9.7 lbs. Only .3lbs away from a 10 lbs loss, and taking new progress photos! Yay! I want to see if I can lose 4.3 more lbs before I leaving for Vegas on the 14th. If I am diligent, I think I can do it.

My 5k is tomorrow and I went for a quick 1 mile run after work yesterday just to keep my body in "running mode." My time was 8:57 which is a personal record! And shockingly enough, I wasn't pushing myself that hard. Looks like all this training is actually producing some results. I am still pretty nervous for my 5k tomorrow. I know I'll be able to complete it without stopping, but I would really like a time under 35 minutes, but history has shown that when I do a longer distance, I start to slow down a lot. I guess all I can do is my best.

And last but not least, the dresses that I ordered and that were "delivered" (in other words - not delivered) to my house last week, will REALLY be arriving on Monday. Probably going to call UPS in a few here and see if I can just pick them up at the UPS location they are currently at. I am sick of waiting.

I am sure I'll be posting after my 5k tomorrow. Hope everyone has a fun weekend planned!

Rachelle xx

Prepping for Sunday's 5k

March 30, 2011

We are only 4 days away from my 5k and I am starting to get pretty nervous. Tonight I ran 3.22 miles and again was able to complete it without stopping. Rather than running on the treadmill, I ran outside because I find the treadmill easier to run on for a few reasons: it kinda sets a pace for you and I find myself "spacing out" on the treadmill and suddenly a couple miles has already gone past. I wanted to prove to myself that I could run a 5k without those treadmill "aids" and I was very glad to see I could do it. I tried to go a bit slower tonight and so my time wasn't very good (35:22) and actually pace was pretty lousy (11:03min mile) in comparison to what I have done in prior weeks (sub 10min mile). But I think slowing down was necessary to be able to run the entire time.

Between now and Sunday I think I will only do a quick 1 mile run on Friday just to keep my body fit and ready.  I can't wait to cross that finish line. Did I mention there's a beer garden on the beach after the 5k?!? Yeah - best 5k EVER!!! ;)

Rachelle xx

A Few Things

March 29, 2011

A few things:

1. Last night I ran a 5k at the gym without stopping! woot woot! I wish my time was better, but I was happy to have been able to do the whole thing running nonstop. (Time 33:53)

2. My 5k is on Sunday....nervous and excited!

3. I am thinking of switching to WW online. I have such a hard time making it to weigh-ins and I literally haven't been to an actually meeting since January. I figure I should switch to the online WW and save the extra $20 a month. Does anyone else use only the Online Tools?

4. Vegas is 16 days. Still waiting to find out what's going on with the dresses I ordered.

5. Coconut Grove Jewelry Give-Away ends Thursday at Midnight! Don't miss out! :)

Rachelle xx

Bad and the Good

March 26, 2011

Let's get the bad news over with:

1. The dresses I ordered for Vegas were apparently delivered at 4:00pm on Thursday and left at my front door. Were they at my front door when I got home from work an hour  later? Of course not. Now it's going to take UPS and the place  I ordered them from up to 8 business days to process a "Lost Package Claim." I have no idea if I'll get my money back, or a new product sent to me. Just my luck....

Now for the good news:

1. I did a 5k at the gym Thursday night. I'd been really sick for the week prior, so I was very impressed at what I was able to do accomplish. I was able to run 2.8 miles of the 5k and only had to walk .3miles of it (in 0.1mile increments). My time was 34:50min, which is not good, but for being sick, not having run in a week and walking a portion of it, I'll take it! ;)
2. I didn't make my weigh-in this week - my parents are visiting from SF and I had to go in early to work to get off early in order to pick them up from the airport. I did weigh myself at home and I was at 156.2, which is a bit down from my last WW weigh-in, but still not where I wanna be. I've been having a hard time lately being motivated :/
3. Matt and I just booked our Caribbean cruise for later this year. I am so excited! Neither of us have been on a cruise before so it will be an awesome trip. Also, gives me another date to set some weight goals for. We leave for our cruise on October 30th and I'd like to be at my goal weight of 120 by then. I think it's manageable if I buckle down and get serious about losing this weight!

5k is in 8 days.

Vegas is in 19 days.

At this point, I would like to weigh 150 for Vegas. That's about 6lbs in just under 3 weeks. Can I do it? Probably not, but I am sure gonna try.

Rachelle xx

Sick and Frustrated

March 22, 2011

Friday as soon as I got home from work, I threw on my workout clothes and headed out for a run. At what turned out to be 1.4 miles, I had to stop. I was exhausted and my body literally just gave up. I couldn't understand and was so angry with myself for not being able to go further. Actually in all of my training for my 5k, I had never once stopped during a run.

Well by the end of Saturday, I was in bed sick and my pathetic run finally made sense. I've been one sick girl since Saturday and the timing couldn't be any worse since my 5k is in 11 days. CRAP. I've been trying to rest up and get well, but my head is so full of sniffles and crud that I am really really worried about my 5k. I have been working sooooo hard to get myself conditioned to run the entire thing and pull of a half-way decent time (been averaging sub 10min miles lately) and to have it all messed up due to this cold just days before is really disappointing. I am planning on going to the gym tomorrow night regardless of how I feel and am aiming to do a 5k on the treadmill even if I have to walk some of it.

UGH.

On a more exciting note, VEGAS is in 21 days and I just ordered a few dresses from gojane.com for consideration (we'll have to see if they look good on me at all).

What do you all think? I am nervous to see what they look like on me. I HATE my legs and dresses always make me nervous for that reason. 

Rachelle xx

I Suck

March 14, 2011

I'm pretty disappointed in myself. At my weigh-in on Friday I was up 0.6 lbs. I wasn't expecting a big loss since I technically lost over 4lbs the week before, but I wasn't hoping for a gain of any sort.

Where I think I went wrong: I'll admit, I was intentionally not eating all my daily points and I know that's something you are not supposed to do. I think my body was in "starvation mode" and clinging to every calorie and gram of fat that I did eat.  This week I am going to focus on drinking lots of water and eating all of my daily points.

However, I am even more disappointed in myself because not only did I not run my 3miles on Friday, I didn't run at all last week since my lame 1 mile run on Monday. I haven't run in a week. L.A.Z.Y.

My 5k is in 20 days and there is no excuse for this.

Today I am going to run 1.5 miles, Wednesday 3 miles and another 1.5miles over the weekend (aiming for Saturday).

I pledge to all of my fellow followers that I will make these distances happen this week.

Hope your week went and is going better than mine.

Rachelle xx

Nervous

Thursday, March 10, 2011

I weigh-in tomorrow and I am hoping for a loss. After losing over 4lbs last week, I am expecting my body to be a bit resistant this week. I have been on point with counting my points and I want sooooo badly to reach 154. At 154 I will have lost 10lbs and get to take new progress pics. My goal is to reach 154 by March 25 (when I have some visitors coming into town that I will reveal later), and with the rate I am going, I expect that I should not only reach, but pass that goal up with no problem. *knock on wood*

Tonight I am heading to the gym and plan on running 3 miles straight in preparation for my 5k training. As my title suggests, I am pretty nervous because the most I have so far 2.6 miles and I don't want to disappoint myself tonight. My 5k is in 24 days and I am really hoping for a sub 35min time. If I keep my pace up as it has been, I might adjust that to be more like a 32min time. Right now I am pulling off sub 10 and 10:30 miles....just don't know if I can keep that up for 3.2 miles.

Anywho, I will report my weigh-in tomorrow. Best of luck to everyone!

Rachelle xx

Good Girl.

1.6 miles done. 10:35 pace. Not too shabby considering it was freezing cold and all I wanted to do was sit on the couch.

Repeat after me: Vegas. Vegas. Vegas. ;)

I Mean Business...

I weighed myself today after weeks of not counting points, weeks of saying "I'll be better next week/tomorrow," weeks of blowing off my WW meetings and weigh-ins for whatever reasons.

After all of that, I weighed myself at home and my scale read 160.1.

UGH. That's 4 lbs up from my last weigh in at WW X-amount of weeks ago. So til I weigh in on Friday morning, I am counting every last point. Running EVERY single day that I have already set in my schedule:

Tonight: Running 1.5 miles
Wednesday: Gym Run: 2.5 miles
Saturday Run: 2 miles

I've got 34 days til my 5k.
And 45 days til Vegas.

I MUST weigh 145 by Vegas.

45 days to get down to 145...

...It's time to get my a$$ in gear.

Epic Weekend, Epic Fail

So the past few weeks have been an epic FAIL (in the diet sense).

This past weekend I had the most epic weekend visiting my family and friends from home. I ate. I ate ALOT.

Crap. Bad. Damn it. Crap.

Today I have started focusing on what I eat again, and counting, counting, counting.

My 5k is in 39 days.

Vegas is in 50.

I MUST weight 145 by Vegas.

Any suggestions how to "get back on that horse" ?

Don't run after pizza

February 10, 2010

Yesterday morning I was convinced that between my taco Tuesday hangover and just feeling fat and lazy, my ambitious plans to go to the gym that evening were canned.

Well, the hangover was gone by the afternoon, still felt fat and lazy by the evening, but that was really even more reason to get my round butt to the gym. My bff and I were going to go to a yoga class after hitting up the treadmills (in preparation for our 5k in April), but we opted just to run last night.

I wanted to run 2 miles straight, but considering everything aforementioned, I didn't know if 2miles was really going to happen. (Did I mention my boyfriend and I had pizza for dinner right before going to the gym? I know, genius.)

Well I managed to push through the side cramp and the stomach ache (thank you pizza) and run 2 miles (straight!). I was even more impressed with my 21 minute completion time: a 10:30 mile pace. I'm no speedy runner, but I don't think a 10:30 mile is too shabby. I'd like to get it under 10 minutes, but that will come with time.

After writing my bad.Bad.BAD entry, I certainly feel better having stuck to my gym goal for the day and stay on track with my 5k training.

Maybe not such a BAD day after all :)

xx Rachelle 

bad. Bad. BAD.

February 9, 2010

So this week I have been bad. Bad. BAD. Started with the weekend and eating a few naughty things without too much remorse. (bad) Then on Monday I got promoted at work, so my man and I went out for my favorite Sushi dinner. (Bad) Then yesterday was taco Tuesday and well since I had just gotten promoted, it was time to celebrate with my friends with $2.50 margaritas and guacamole. (BAD).

I am terrified to get on the scale, I feel sooooo gross and I know I won't like what it tells me. I know I should not worry about it too much - I have to live life once in awhile and indulge when it's appropriate (like celebrating a promotion), but I hate feeling that the hard work over the past month can so easily be lost. I hate the my body is so stubborn to shed any weight, but so eager to gain it back after a day or two of less than I ideal eating.

Ugh. I am supposed to go to the gym tonight with my boyfriend and bff to train for my 5k followed by a yoga class. Honestly, right now all I want to do is eat some nasty greasy hang-over breakfast.

It's probably a blessing in disguise that the McDonald's drive-thru line was too long this morning for me to be on time for work. I guess my hangover will just have to be satisfied with my 4pt+ oatmeal....

xx Rachelle

Missed the Weigh-In

January 24, 2011

So I missed my weigh-in this past week. Partly because I had a lot going on and partly because I had a feeling I would see a minor gain and that would be detrimental to morale. So I guess we'll just have to wait til this Friday to see how things are paying off. It's been pretty hard getting my training in for my 5k, but I think Matt and I have come up with a gym/exercise schedule that works well with our busy lives. My last run had me doing 1.25miles without stopping and I am feeling pretty good with my progress. I don't see any problem being able to complete my 5k on April 3rd (and then head to VEGAS a week later!!!) My BFF is supposed to be signing up for the 5k with me and that would be an awesome motivator - having someone do it with me.

xx Rachelle

Week 2 Weigh In

January 14, 2011

I weighed in today and while WW says I gained 0.2lbs, let it be known that when I weighed myself at home stark naked, I was 159.7. So I am going to keep telling myself I have officially broken 160. Either way, I am just grateful that my weight wasn't a worse number this week. After spending nearly a week and a half with Matt's (mid western) parents, it was VERY difficult to eat the way I wanted to. I am proud of myself to pretty much have maintained and not gained during that time.

This week I am going to focus on eating more chicken and drinking more water. I've been bad about training for my 5k the past week, but I'll be up first thing in the morning to go for a run.

xx Rachelle

First Week: A Loss!

January 6, 2011

So I had my first weigh in after being on WW for a week and I lost 3.6 lbs. Pretty exciting considering I have been on a pseudo vaca with my boyfriend's parents all week and they are from the Midwest and don't eat anything like me (or how I should be eating). But I tried really hard to eat lots of fruits and veggies and very small portions of the "bad stuff." Seems like it worked. My mini goal for myself was to be in the 150's by today's weigh-in and I was only .5lbs away...not too bad. Should definitely make it by next week's weigh-in. Already I can feel a difference. I am only 5 feet tall so even a few extra pounds feels like a lot on my little frame.

I started to training for my 5k and am doing ok so far for being so out of shape. I was about to run .8 miles the other night without stopping and tonight (or tomorrow morning) I am shooting for a full mile. Remember...baby steps :P

I found the most amazing way to start my day and I will tell you all about it, as soon as I can get some photos together for you. It makes me feel AMAZING.

You're dying to know now aren't you? :P

xx Rachelle

And so it begins!

December 31, 2010

Hello fellow bloggers, dieters and fitness fanatics!

Tomorrow is 1.1.11 and it's time to start working on those resolutions. My weight has been up and down all my life and this year that stops. I joined Weight Watchers again - did it before and lost over 55lbs. I've also set fitness goals for myself; on April 3rd I have registered for my first 5k and tomorrow I begin my training. My goal is to run in a 10k by the end of the year and a Half Marathon sometime next year.

Anyone have any similar resolutions/goals?

Share your blog links, I'd love to hear your stories!

xx Rachelle