Where does the time go?

September 24, 2011

I am the worst blogger ever! It's been a month and so much as happened. RECAP!

• Only made it to Day 6 of the Master Cleanse, but lost like 7lbs.
• Got promoted at work! I am now someone's boss - kinda scary ;)
• My 27th bday is in a week and a half - VERY scary!
• Leaving for our cruise in 5 weeks and still have 8 lbs to lose to make my goal
• I have hit a plateau in my weight loss (although I haven't been making to much effort to lose)
• I bought some new clothes cause a lot of mine are now too big - I am officially a size 8 again :)
• I've hit my 15lbs loss mark and need to take new progress pics

Whew! I've gotta blog more often!

Hope all is with everyone else! 

-Rachelle

Up and Down

June 10, 2011

The past week as been insane and brutal with my weight loss. Last week I was down to 152.2. My lowest low so far. At one point over last weekend I even saw 151.1 on the scale. I bought myself a pair of jeans 2 sizes smaller that the ones that were currently hanging in my closet. I then proceeded to pull out my "Skinny jeans" - not because they are the skinny jeans style, but because they are actually a size 8 and I haven't fit into those in well over a year. Well I pulled on the "skinny" size 8 jeans and to my astonishment they actually fit. I am not saying they fit perfectly, but even a bit snug, I almost wore them that day but opted for the jeans I just bought instead.

So my week started off well. Then Tuesday was my anniversary with my man, and I ate. Alot. Then Wednesday my company was hosting an all-day business seminar, at which I started off watching my eating (even brought my own breakfast and lunch!) but then I lost all control during the networking reception afterwards (free drinks and delish apps!). THEN, yesterday my company was sponsoring a hole at a BBB Golf tournament which meant my coworker and I were out on the green from 10am-5pm yesterday with beer, snack food, and then were treated to a delicious dinner during the awards ceremony.

CRAP. CRAP. CRAP. Let's just say, the scale didn't say 152.2 when I stepped on it this morning for my weigh-in.

I am getting so frustrated with this roller coaster crap. One week my weight plummets and then the following week, I gain like 4 lbs! How is that even possible? It's not like I have been eating an entire pizza every meal, everyday for the past week.

UGH. As I have mentioned recently,  I am flying out to Nebraska with my boyfriend over 4th of July to visit his family. I was hoping to be 145 by then, but at this rate and this roller coaster pattern, I am just praying for anything in the 140's.

But today is a new day, right? So far so good :)

Hope everyone else has a good weekend!

Rachelle xx

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

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

Today is a GOOD Day

January 27, 2011

So tonight I will go to my WW meeting, but I don't weigh in til tomorrow morning (yes-I go to two different meetings because I adore the leader at the meeting tonight, but want to weigh-in first thing in the morning without anything in my tummy).

However, I weighed myself this morning at home and the scale said 158.3. So, even though WW tends to weigh me in a bit higher than my home scale, unless I happen to eat my body weight in conversation hearts between now and tomorrow morning, I should have lost weight since last weigh-in. Yay.

ALSO...and perhaps even more exciting was this fantastic discovery: I had bought this really nice pair of I.N.C. pants for work a few months ago knowing full well at the time that they were too small. I bought them anyways cause I got an awesome deal on them and knew I would eventually fit into them. They have been hanging in my closet since...until this morning when I tried them on and they fit PERFECTLY! BOOYAH! Would have worn them to work, except they need to be hemmed since I am vertically challenged.

Hopefully I'll have good news to report in the morning.

xx Rachelle