One Pound Again

Well damn I gained a pound again this week.........That really sucks I'm really not ok with that......So way to end the Spring Shape Up Challenge gaining I think probably 2 pounds from where I started. What the hell is my problem for real? It doesn't make me feel any better considering the bf told me in 3 weeks he's lost 9.5 pounds. Ugh this challenge is not working out for me at all! I have to start working out more and eating less two things I hate.

I did go snowboarding for the first time yesterday though and it was super fun. I'm definitely a fan now. I'm going to be one of those girls that goes all the time and becomes a snow bunny haha. Good thing I have big thighs to control the snowboard because I think I picked it up pretty fast which I was pretty proud of myself.

So on top of gaining weight I found these pictures of Kim Kardashian. Ugh this isn't making my Monday very amazing right now. One day I will look like this though!

Pictures

Here's some pics of random things just for fun.

A night out on the town in Rome!

The Colloseum

St. Peter's Basilica

Vatican Museum

Carnival Party with co-worker

UGH the eternal struggle

Well I think between my post last week and this week I had gained a pound to 145 then lost it again to 144 on Wednesday and now I'm back to 145. I think my body is trying to tell me that it really likes to be at this weight but I really don't like to be here! If I could just get rid of my love handles..... I have decided that when I get back to North Dakota this fall I'm going to run a half-marathon in September. I think that would be a good goal to work towards all summer and stuff. I'm really not seeing so many results right now before I go to Greece but I'm still hopeful that I can kick it in the ass before then. I totally have to beat my boyfriend with our bet. haha Oh and he said he would buy me a new swimming suit woot woot so I need to find one....hmmmm

On a better note it's actually sunny here today and kind of nice weather. That doesn't really happen ever here. Or now that it's sunny it will probably snow tonight that seems to be how it always works here. I like to say that the weather has PMS because it's seriously changes like every 5 hours. It's annoying more than anything and kind of depressing. I'm SO looking forward to summer.

Week 14--145 AGAIN

Well the last week has been good other than the fact that I absolutely know I need to not drink and eat whatever I want and did it anyways. This my friends leads to me gaining a pound since last Wednesday. I'm disappointed because I just haven't been able to get myself on track and I know this is what I say all the time. I have excuses for everything. "Well it's just this one time" or "It's a party so I have to eat and drink something" or "I just feel like partying tonight." All of this is not helping me get to where I want to be in time to go to Greece and I will be so disappointed if I don't lose any weight and am exactly the same.

To make it more inviting to workout me and my boyfriend have a bet to see who can lose the most percentage of body weight by the time our vacation rolls around on April 30. He's already lost like 3 pounds and I gained one so things are not looking so good. If I lose the bet I have to carry the backpack with all the stuff in it during the day for our entire vacation. That would really blow so I'm trying to keep that motivating me. I don't know what I get if I win though. There is a really nice necklace from Tiffany's that I've been eyeing haha. Don't get too excited it's only like $150 which is pretty reasonable for Tiffany's. They are totally worth the money too because they make some high quality stuff.

I got the book "The Eat-Clean Diet Recharged" by Tosca Reno and I'm trying to attempt to start it now. It seems like there is a lot of good info in it and all the people in one of my favorite mags "Oxygen" swear by it so it can't be that bad right? I'll have to see how it goes.

Spring Shape Up Week 5 (I think?)

So instead of rewriting everything here's basically my email that I sent for this week's Spring Shape Up. Also after I worked out I got on the scale and it said I had lost 2 pounds. Woo even though it's only water weight I like that it lies to me for a little bit anyways :)


I've been doing much better this week than the past couple of weeks. I've been trying to push myself a lot more and have actually been accomplishing it for the most part.

My goals from last week were:
Find healthy food that I like (my taste buds don't seem to enjoy any kind of food lately healthy or not)
Lose one pound
Go to the gym 4-5 times
No drinking!

The taste buds seem to be coming back although the food here is just still gross. I'm debating about buying a blender to make smoothies for meals. I think it would be a good change.
I actually did lose one pound so I'm pretty proud of that I have been trying to cut back on my food and eating healthier snacks. I went to the gym 4 times in the past week and one walk for 3 miles outside. I will admit I had two small glasses of wine Thursday and two beers Saturday. Giving up alcohol is hard! I think it's smarter for me to just drink a lot less of it instead of totally banishing it completely. I was trying to drink a soda or water in between them too and it seemed to really help.

Goals for next week:
Go to the gym 3-4 times
Run outside 2-3 times
Change up my workouts a little and create some new routines instead of the same things everytime
Blog more--I've been really bad at it lately
Buy new running shoes

Just as an extra incentive for my vacation to Greece my boyfriend and I are challenging each other to see by the time it comes around to see who can lose the most percentage of body weight (like they do on the Biggest Loser) and then whoever wins will get some kind of prize but we haven't come up with that yet. It's a really good thing for my boyfriend and gives me some motivation because I don't want to lose. I have realized that since I've been trying to be serious about weight loss for the past 3 months I've only lost 5 lbs. That really is disappointing me but I'm trying to get serious about it again and kick it in the butt. I say that a lot in these emails and also to myself but I want it to finally be true. I expect too much too fast and get down when it doesn't happen. I know I can say that I've ever been horribly overweight but I'm just not happy with myself and want to make a change. The only question I have for you is how did you keep yourself motivated when you were losing weight? Even a trip to Greece doesn't seem to be motivating me but perhaps a new swimming suit would................

Week 13

Well ok sorry everyone for completely vanishing from my blog for the last 3 weeks. They been busy and I've been all over the place literally and figuratively. I've gone through have pneumonia to going to Rome all in a span of 2 weeks so I pretty much didn't do much as far as healthy eating or working out. I'm officially back into the swing of things now and I've been trying to push myself even though I really don't feel like doing anything lately. That actually has been pretty much applicable to all areas of my life. I just feel kind of blah. I really have been thinking about it and thinking that my sluggishness and such has been caused probably by a poor diet and lack of exercise so I'm working on it. My vacation is in two months so I need to kick it in the butt now!

Speaking of my boyfriend and I are going to try and have a friendly competition of who can lose the most percentage of body weight by the time we leave for our vacation. Kind of like The Biggest Loser style. Not sure what all the conditions will be but I will definitely let you all know.

I will try and post some pics soon of Rome. The food wasn't very good and the best was super fattening at the Hard Rock Cafe but I was starving!

Oh my weight for today was 144. I think when the scale was saying crazy things like 141 and stuff I think it was just off or I've gained a couple pounds. Not sure but still trying to use the same scale consistently anyways which everyone thinks I'm crazy for but whatever! Also I bought a body fat caliper to measure my body fat percentage. I think it said I was like 26% or something I'm not sure I need to do a better test instead of just messing around with it. It also helped when I was looking at the women's chart and not the men's. Ha oh well anyways until next time........