What Happened?

To my motivation?


At first I was doing so great, and then something changed.


This week has been bad. Really bad. I ate pure crap, when I knew I was eating crap. I didn't work out. And I was stressed to the max from work.


I blame it on work.


The only salvation is that I have been tracking. All of it. Good & Bad. And looking up nutrition information online. Even if I still did order the worst choice. oops.


I'm going to run today. And do some kind of strength training (free weights). I just need to get back into it and stop being lazy or using excuses. I did great, I know I can do great, and I just need to stick with it!


To motivate me a litte more, I bought a groupon for bootcamp for a month! Classes are M-W-F & Sat! I'm really excited to have someone pushing me and working out with other people again. I am however SUPPPPPPER nervous about looking  like a fat, lazy person who can't even do a push-up. uh oh


My other motivation? MY WEDDING DRESS! It has officially been ordered! I wish I didn't have to wait until Oct, but it'll be great motivation to see how much I can lose from now until then, and then just have my Momma take it in! yay!


I've been trying to feel better about the skin I'm in at this moment, and work on my self-esteem. I've been looking for better fitting clothing and more flattering styles. I found this dress and I <3 it! It makes me feel great (almost as good as THE dress!)

So I'm off to go water my neighbors plants and then run (& hopefully not get sunburnt!). Time to take action!

Why thank you weekend...

....for being so tempting and making me want to drink (longest short work week ever) and eat like crap (TOM).


I have been good so far today!


I baked some FiberOne banana nut muffins this weekend for something quick to grab on the go and am going to make some healthy dinners this week. The lunch plan is salads and soup!


I'm going to committ to Couch 2 5k (again) starting today, around 6pm (hold me to this!)


I really want to take some before pictures so I can compare them as I go, as well as measurements. Sometimes I need a little more then just the scale (especially when it's not going down!).


Those will be posted when I find my camera cord :) i.e. today after I clean up everything!


How do you handle the weekends and not splurging all the time and working in exercise when you just wanna do nothing?




**UPDATE**: I did 20mins of pilates (thanks ondemand!) and then W1D1 of C25k! Feeling energized & accomplished, yet sleepy!

Post-run

Today I ended up with 5 extra points + 4 from working out. If you're not hungry, do you still try to eat atleast the daily? Or do you just try to rework your menus (full fat stuff instead of non/low)?

Day 1 Recap

So, today wasn't toooooooo bad.


I started off great, and then went to Target, got a new scale and some healthy foods for the weekend. Then I got Hostess Cupcakes.

Source

When I got home I made one of those bags for 2 and ate half with a diet Dr. Pepper. So, good dinner. I was filled.


And then, stuffed myself with the cupcakes. They shouldn't even have been in the basket. Ugh


To top it all off, I was like "ok Nicole, put on some exercise on demand and work it out!" then I found Secret Diary of a Call Girl aka my guilty pleasure.


So now I'm all caught up on season 4, still feeling blah from overeating (and btw, red lighting my points).


Before bed I will do something (right after the finale)!

Wedding Diet

Since being home I've been such a huge waste of a life...health wise anyway. I have a job after a week of being here (yay!), a car and have caught up with most of my back-home friends!

So life looks great. HOWEVER, I've gained like 10lbs. This has forced me to use that hard earned back in the workforce money.

I rejoined Weight Watchers today. I need to get serious about this.

I got a swift kick in the butt when I tried on wedding dresses the other night. While the dresses still looked great, I just wanna feel  as great as I look.

I've found the dress and I can't wait to walk down the isle and look amazing!

I haven't admitted this to many people, but I'm now at 173lbs. This needs to go down about, oh, let's just say 43lbs! When I came home I was at 162. HELLLLLLO Amazing food I haven't eaten in 2 years and no more walking everyday in the crazy sun!

Oh well. It happens. Atleast I'm taking control now :)

My plan of action is:

Stick to WW
Get in lots of exercise & tone it up!

While still enjoying being young and going out!

I wanna knock the socks off of Geiner's feet :)

Here's to a (healthier) me!