I'm back!!!

Well I am back from a month of emotional and mental drainage due to work, and from a great week off for my brothers graduation and boy was it necessary!!! I feel much better now! Before I left I was struggling mentally to not lose myself on people at work. The workout endorphins were not causing me to be happy, my exhaustion from work was too much.

Though my workouts have not made me happy they have kept my weightloss up!!! I'm down 10 lb and 7 inches!!!! Woot!!!! I am very happy with these results but know that this is not over yet. I have at least another 13 lb to lose if not more.

Today dawns the day of the burn phase. Yikes! This is the phayse where every workout will be a challenge and be painful. Where i will hopfully lose a good amount of weight fast. All i have ti di ti succeed is keep going and control my emotional eating. That has been something i have been struggling with during the past month.

I will bring you new photos soon, but here are some from the past month. I am really hoping for the best in this phase as well as more self control! Hope everyone is having a good summer!!!

7 lb down

One week late

Ok so I've been going a bit crazy recently with school and work so I haven't caught up on my blog from the ten k. So here you go.

I DID IT!!!!! Time was 1:22 which I found amazing!!! Especially with only 2.5 weeks training. I was very impressed with myself. Don't get me wrong it was not easy! I was doing great up to the 7k mark when my body was finally like "I'm done" and started to slow down. But I kept going and made it!

The weather was great, there were a ton of people in the run. Found a few friends in it too! All in all I am feeling good and do not regret doing it!

Wait for it, Wait for it............

4 LB DOWN!!!!! Yes there has finally been some weightloss! I found out on Friday but it was confirmed by the gyms fancy scale yesterday! So yay that is very exciting to finally see some results!!!

What an encouraging week this has been! My running has been really good as yesterday I did 5k and I ran more of it then I walked and did it in just under an hour! So my 2 hour time limit for the 10k on Sunday should be good. I have also had people encourage me in a variety off ways. This morning I woke up to a text that included a free bag of Visalus!!! (Thank you brooklyn!!!) not to mention I am very very happy every day thanks to the exercise endorphins haha!

This week I start school...tomorrow actually. So I am really aiming to keep my focus on my course and my workouts. Lots to do! I am excited but also worried about falling into traps food wise while I'm doing homework and working full time lol. A bit scary but I believe I can do it!

My main goal for this week is the TC10K. To not get discouraged, to keep my focus on my breathing and get through it feeling good! I am excited to do it but also terrified. I will bring you updates after the run!!! Until then, have a good week!!!!

PROGRESS!!!!!

No weight loss yet.....BUT I have definitely made progress in my fitness! Trent decided to be sneaky and add weight onto each of my machines without telling me haha. It worked well because I noticed a difference but wasn't aware that it was actually heavier. So that is progress!

Yesterday he did a lot of core things with me like bicycles and crunchies and leg lifts (I loath leg lifts) and I was dead after! But today I woke up and was not sore and met with him again and he worked me even harder then yesterday and I feel great that I did it! I also ran for 10 min straight on the tread mill!!!!! I used to go to the gym back in the fall and I could only run for 2 min tops on the tread mill so for me this is huge!

I have had a few food slip ups but have not been giving into pop or really sugary things and have been noticing that I don't feel the need to eat really sugary things! I had a rough couple days with an incident that took place at work but i was able to keep the emotional eating under control!!! I'm really excited about all the small changes that have taken place in the past few weeks. Now if only my body would get smaller!!!!

Here are some photos....

2 weeks in

Well I donno about you today but all my muscles are very sore! Guess that means I was working out properly! I have been enjoying my training sessions with Trent and look forward to them but they definitely do not come without some pain and suffering haha.

In 2.5 weeks I'm supposed I run a 10k but I will most likely be walking most of it as the dr only recently cleared me to run haha. I am a bit afraid but am focusing a lot of my energy towards positive thinking during my workouts and positive motivation.

I haven't seen any weight loss yet but it hasn't helped that I've had my cycle and that tends to make me look like I'm pregnant with my bloating :( but hey! Once that's I've ima look like I lost 20 lb! Hahaha.

My cycle comes with the challenge of eating properly. I have NO control over myself when that time comes. I need my junk food or ima kill you! But i was actually Fairly good with myself! I did give in to a few things but I said no to ice cream and a cheese burger and chocolate bars. So that was alright. However, I have to stop letting my veggies rot in my fridge and instead eat them! Opps!

My goal for this week is to pick up my running but since I will be in Vancouver for the weekend I will make this my goal for the next 2 weeks in preparation for my 10k. This is the first step to that half marathon goal in 2014!!!

A week and a half in

Well I'm a week and a half In to my physical change and Im feeling pretty good! My challenge last week was to avoid temptation and though I didn't succeed completely, I feel as though I did pretty good. I only had 2 pops, and some Easter chocolate, but I did not give in to the cream egg!!!!! Yay!!! So overall I feel as though I did very well.

Today will be my third session with Trent and although I'm not looking forward to being stiff and sore, I actually look forward to them each time! He has been focusing a lot on building muscle, but I'm hoping to start cardio soon as well!

This weeks challenge will to be to start running again! I am supposed to be doing the TC 10K in a few weeks, and though I plan on walking 98% of it, I would like to run some of it as well! So that is where my focus will be in the weeks to come!

GO FITNESS!!!!!

Goals over the next year.......

Lose 6" around my waist

Gain confidence

Wear jeans again and feel good in them (I stopped wearing jeans about 6-7 years ago cause i felt too fat)

Have my dad notice my weight loss (personal issues but even after  my first 30 lb weightloss a year ago he didnt notice)

Enjoy eating healthy food

Control unnecessary cravings

Be bikini ready by summer 2014

Day 1 of Many

So today was the day when I found out who my personal trainer would be. I was very scared, right to the point where I forgot my shoes in my car haha. But he was pretty cool. His name is Trent, he looks pretty young, and he is good looking but not so much that he would be distracting me from my ultimate goal hahaha. I felt good going in as I was warned that almost everyone falls when they are doing squats at first and I have done them before so I figured I was good. Sure enough I did not fall (few) but after the workout I could barely walk hahaha. Not looking forward to getting up tomorrow!

The rest of the session was really just to look at my physical abilities and see where my limitations were. After a few planks, crunchies, some chest curl things and something else that I forget now I was told to go home and get ready for a full workout on Monday. WHAT??? That wasn't a full workout??? Oh crap. Guess I better get used to having sore muscles!

I have been focusing a lot on eating. Last weekend was a write off thanks to a very very bad weekend at work but I'm a lot more focused now. Learning how to turn off your emotional eating is very hard so that will be mainly where I am focusing as well as eating breakfast no matter how small and not drinking my ginger ail which I am addicted to. Lets hope i find the strength within me to resist temptations! That will be this weeks goal.

The Beginning

Well....here I am in the place I have been many times. "I am going to lose weight!" Ok sure, you said that last month and a few months before that and a few months before that as well. Heck, you have said that for 11 years now! What is different this time? What makes you think you are actually going to succeed?

I was given the opportunity to have a personal trainer for a few months thanks to my dad. Recently I have had a lot of knee problems which stem from having very very tight hip joints which leades to loads of pain which leades to an unhappy me. I had been doing some physio, but as I have discovered that this is a fitness problem I decided to see if I could get some help in the gym. My dad offered to support my decision for that as a personal trainer is not cheap hahaha. I do not want to let myself down or my dads money at that. I am prepared to finally, once and for all, lose the last of my weight that I have had on me for over half my life.

I cannot do this alone. I need support and encouragement as I know there will be days when I dont care. So I decided to start this blog to keep track of my weight loss and use it as public support. I believe I can do this and I am ready to take on the challenge!

This is my weight loss journey!
(Please note there are and will be pictures of me in shorts and a sports bra)

           
           Weight: 187         Inches around stomach: 40"      Total LB lost: 0       Total inches lost: 0