The little things

What a wild ride my month has been. I have had lots of new things happen. The first thing is that I put on a size 11/12 jeans- and they looked pretty darn good! And the second new thing is that I am wearing a size medium t-shirt!! HOT DOG!!

On Monday morning I decided to push myself and see how fast I could run a single mile- 9:16 not too shabby! Considering I started out at 15 minute miles!

As for running I have not done much- after the 1/2 marathon I took time off and have run a little- I have a bunch of races coming up rather quickly so I better be ready because I am running them ready or not. I have the Monster Dash 5k this weekend- I was going to try and set a personal record but after taking time off I am not so sure- so my goal is just to have fun!

This past week we received our new school pictures, it was really cool to see how I have changed just in the past year. It has been a week of gentle reminders that the hard work is paying off! (the picture with dark hair is last year, and I am currently blonde :-) 

week three

What a ride this has been! I am on week three. It has been a rough ride but one that in the end will payoff. These past 21 days have taught me so much. After week one I was a bit discouraged I finally saw how food can really show up on the scale the next day. I had eaten a big carb meal and the next morning I was up 2 pounds...talk about knocking me down a peg....I stayed under my calories but those carbs make you retain water...then you add that time of the month and water weight and that added another 2. YUCK!!! I can now say I am down 3.5 wooohooo. So I am back at 183.5, 3.5 more and I will be at 180!! THANK GOD!!! The past two days have been rough I ran last night for the first time in 3 weeks with the running club and wow was it hard! It felt as if it was impossible! I feel like I barely ran at all! I am never ever aloud to take that much time off from running! This morning my trainer added to this craziness and made me run stairs, not just a few flights..the same flight 50 times- that equals 600 stairs...talk about hard! 

Anyway this discouragement had me looking through some old pictures and I found another one that reminds me why I am doing all of this. (This picture is also the picture my trainer wants to use as my before! He has an after but my after is still a work in progress....so I guess he has a mid way picture :-) So this is the before picture- this is what keeps me going 

 

Here is the mid-way picture (aka current) 

week two

Wow what a long two weeks it has been. I will be weighing myself next week so that information I do not have. But I can say that I have been working my butt off. I have eaten well, loaded on the protein, and done my part at the gym! Some of my clothes are starting to fit differently which means I am loosing inches :-) always a great feeling. I am determined to make it through these next two weeks and do my best...if I can be below 180...that would make my day!!!

Funny story- so a student of mine saw this picture of me and my family from my college graduation. She asked me who it was a picture of. I told her that it was a picture of me and my family from my college graduation. She says "wow Ms. Rogers you were really fluffy, like a huge marshmallow." I was partially laughing and the other part of me was dying inside....wow I did not look healthy! I looked huge!

After I laughed with her I asked her "what do I look like now?" She said, "Ms. Rogers you are no longer a big marshmallow you are now a tiny one, not very fluffy at all." Kids are so funny and say anything they think! 

My goal is to get out of the marshmallow stage all together :-) I am not sure what I would be called after I am no longer fluffy.....I will keep you posted because this student is sure to inform me :-) As much as no one wants to be compared to a marshmallow it sure was a complement to go from huge to tiny!! I can do this and this was the little reminder I needed that the work is paying off!