Mama Laughlin and Fit Camp made me do it!!!

Okay, so thanks to my wonderful inspirational friend in "real" life, Megan  turning me on to the awesomeness that is Mama Laughlin . I am now committing myself to blogging about my weight, fitness, and whatever other randomness I want to talk about. I only have 1 follower at the moment (which is absolutely fine) but hopefully I can get other readers.


I don't necessarily want to reblog about my weight loss journey and fitness, but in a nutshell here it is:

March 2009-weighed 230, started Medifast couldn't walk a mile in 20:00
December 2009-weigh 155 training to run half marathon
January and February 2010-ran 2 half marathons (in under 2:25) weighed 152
March 2010-weighed 150, landed dream librarian job.
June 2010-weighed 155, started training for a marathon
November 2010-weighed 160, found out I was pregnant.
January 2011-weighed 178, was told that I would no longer be able to a librarian :(
February 2011-weighed 189, had to stop the majority of exercising due to pregnancy complications
March-June 2011-depressed with no outlet for my stress I turned to food and gained all the way up to 221 on the day I delivered.
June 2011-came home from the hospital weighing more than I went in. 225.

Spent the last year and a half not really committed, but managaing to lose 30 pounds. I hover around 191-195 at any given time.

I am currently on Weight Watchers, and I am really liking that plan so far. I weighed in at 195 on Monday, hopefully I will lose.

I have walked/jogged at least 2 miles every day (except today).

I am bad about posting/taking pictures. I don't like to be photographed or spend the time uploading them.

Cooler weather!!!!!

It is September and that means three things for me: back to work, cooler work out weather, and FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!

Finally made room in the budget to get some new running shoes (Saucony Ride and they are sooo comfy!) and now I am trying to get back on track. I am want to run the 3M Half Marathon in January, so I had better get after it!

I joined Weight Watchers on Monday. The new program is great because you can eat all the fruit (unless it is juice or in syrup) that you want without it counting towards your daily point values. I am hoping that this will reset my palate and eating choices.

The Olympics

I have not ran in a week and a half or eaten what I should for the last two weeks. I blame myself and my addiction to all things Olympics. I seriously LOVE watching the Olympics. I can't help it. I have been this way since the LA games. My husband told me to just DVR and watch them later. We are already 5 hours behind London and I am staying off Twitter and Facebook to just avoid finding out what happened before it airs. Hopefully when the closing ceremonies are over I will feel like going out again in the evening for a jog.

I am soooooooooooooooooooooo dreading school starting. I am lazy. I don't like getting up early. I am having serious doubts about my ability to juggle work, home, and exercise. I have been very good this summer with fixing dinner almost every single night and cleaning up the kitchen each night as well. Once school starts I won't have the luxury of leaving the baby at the sitter while I do my housework and cleaning. Ugh.

Where I am fitness-wise

Last night my wonderful husband decided we needed to meet up with a group of local runners for a social run..at 6:30 P.M....in 100 degree heat....good idea, right??? Not really. We didn't have anyone to watch the baby, so we took him with us. Usually when the sun is bright I just walk with the stroller backwards to keep the kiddo happy. I didn't this time and about a half mile into it, he was DONE, well done and very red (it faded and thank goodness I applied liberal amounts of sun block on him). We ended up at playing in the fountain until the other runners came back to the pub.

My current level of running fitness is only about a 13:00 -13:30 pace for 2-2.5 miles. I don't even think I can run a 5K right now. This evening it kept looking like it was going to storm, so I didn't go out. I am really regretting that now : (

The "before" picture

I can't believe I am about to put a picture of me in a bikini on the internet for people to see; but it must done. Sorry for any retina damage or nightmares that might result from viewing this picture.

There I am, July 2012 at 192 pounds.

Pictures of me...

This was me in June 2011







December 2011, 200ish





June 2012 (190ish)

Wanting to be an "after"

annnnnnnnnndddd once again I am blog failure or I guess the word would be blogfure. I think I posted last time in January. Not much has changed. I was doing really good with my exercise and diet-then summer happened, then the intense heat happend, and then laziness happened. So, here I am trying to find a balance between being a mom, wife, teacher, proper nutrition and exercise. I am not registering for any more races, because I don't have the money to fail. I am running/walking a little bit more. My diet is my big hurdle; I really believe that if I can get the eating under control then the exercise will come naturally.

I finally updated my profile picture, because that is how I look now. The pink jacket/running medal picture was taken in February of 2010 and I do NOT even resemble that person. Today I weigh 190 something (I didn't weigh in this morning because I am trying to break the habit of daily weigh-ins) and I took a picture of myself in a bikini. I don't want to frighten anyone yet,  but I am going to upload it and post it.

In a few months I am hoping that I can post a better "after" picture and by this time next year I will look like the woman in the pink jacket again.