Vacations Workout Update: Week Recap

This week I did pretty well. I worked out every day this weekend and this week I worked in some way almost every day. Last night I went to town lake with Harry and Janet. It was so smokey and dusty out there it was probably not a good plan.

Diet wise I am doing pretty well. I have a yogurt and granola every morning with back tea. In the afternoon babybel cheese with crackers and for a snack I have a small able and Greek yogurt. Dinner this week was not unhealthy, but it's probably the reason I am not loosing pounds.

Tuesday night I had a Junior League event so I ate some fruit and stuff they had there. Then Wednesday I cooked fro some of my JLA friends. I made fresh pea pesto crustini:

Then I made broccoli risotto:

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We had a great salad and s fruit tart as well. Supper fun night really. And sort of healthy. Operative words being, sort of.

Then last night I worked out with Janet and got home around 830. Stuffed my face full of leftover risotto and a piece of wedding cake. Woops.

Tonight I am going to my first BUNCO night with the girls. I have no idea what it is but I am sure I will be fun!

Have a great weekend and please keep in mind those who gave their lives for our country on September 11th and since then. I will never forget where I was on that day  and I hope none of us ever forget.

Vacation Workout Update: It was the weekend

I worked out every day this weekend. Mr. A and I took the pup to the lake and we went to the gym.

I ate very well except for Sunday night, when I went to town on dinner at TRIO at the Four Seasons's hotel for our 1st anniversary. More on that later.

Today I am eating my usual healthy breakfast and lunch and then for dinner I am going to probably have a frozen meal after my first JLA meeting. It's not ideal but it will work.

Trying to keep it up!

2 Posts, One Day. 21 Day Challenge Begins

As of today I have 21 days to get my butt in shape for our anniversary trip to Italy. I can’t wait for the trip and I know I am going to eat my face off whilst there so to counteract this I am going to challenge myself to do some sort of workout every single day until then.  My first anniversary is this weekend and officially since my wedding day I have only gained 10 lbs, but the muscle and definition I worked so hard for is all gone. Time to take things up a notch around here.

Here is my plan:

60 minutes of exercise every day. This can be lifting weights, yoga, swimming, walking the pup, walking my office hallways, taking a jog at lunch (even though it is 1,000 here) or anything else I can think of to get my butt in gear. 

Three healthy meals a day and one light dessert. This is where I will be challenged, but I know I can do it. All of my meals will be good healthy vitamin rich meals. I will report to this blog every day to tell you what I have had that day. Kind of like a weight watchers notebook type thing.

You might be asking yourself why I am being so crazy. Clearly if you are asking this you are not really my friend.

I am working hard to fit into my cute honeymoon bathing suits and dresses. I want to feel beautiful in all the outfits I got for my honeymoon. I don’t want to ever think about how bad a meal is for me when I am in Italy; I want to eat with no regrets or hesitation. Plus, Italian women are gorgeous, and I want to be able to keep up.

So there you have it, I have put this out there for the world to see. Now to take action:

Day 1

Workout – Sand Volleyball with friends at Zilker Park

Breakfast – Yoplait 100 calorie pack of yogurt and ½ a serving of granola with wheat germ

Lunch – Baby carrots, small granny smith apple, 100 calorie pack of Greek yogurt with honey and 2 wheels of baby belle low fat cheese

Dinner – Unknown quite yet, but the plan is a veggie burger with thin bun and veggies. Maybe some pirate’s booty and some strawberries to end the night. Ohh with fat free whipped cream and neutella! This is all fairly healthy dammit, I get my neutella!

Skinny is My New Fat

About 2 years ago I stared my WW's journey with my good friend Kelly. I weighed about 165 pounds and was a size 10. I never thought of myself as FAT per se, but I knew I was not as skinny as I was when I moved to Austin. On weight watchers over the course of a year I lost a total of 30 pounds. I am now a size 4 or 6 depending on the store. I feel so much better and I am so proud that I have been able to keep the weight off for another year. On top of that with my injury I was not able to keep up my workouts and I still only ever gained about 5 pounds back.

For my wedding I of course stepped up the weight loss and working out. I will be the first to admit I was a little too stressed out and I lost another 10 pounds and was a size 2, I was for sure really super skinny. I have never shot for that kind of weight loss and I never really thought I would maintain that weight long term. But I will also be the first to admit I freaking LOVED being a skinny bitch. I have never felt sexier or more comfortable in my body.

As a result I went out bought lots of new clothes for my honeymoon (let's face it we all use the excuse to buy a whole new wardrobe). Well this weekend I took all of those clothes out of winter storage this weekend and CRAP I feel fat now. I weight my goal weight that I had set two years ago. I work out and eat right but still feel horrible about myself in these beautiful clothes!

So now we come to the title of this post, what was once skinny to me is now kinda "fat". Not that 135 pounds is fat by any means but man! So I am going to be working out as much as possible and eating even better. I will be tracking my weight watchers points and gosh darn it I will fit into my honeymoon clothes again!

PS - we have a big announcement that will make this post make even more sense! :-)

Me about a week before I started WW's.

At my first goal weight. I felt so skinny back then.

Me at my most skinny. I can't find many pictures of me other then from my wedding from then. If I had only known I would have been naked all the time.

Gratuitous skinny shot of me in a wedding dress. I know.

Went to the gym, and I learned how babies were made

This past week in the company of two amazing girlfriends I finally tried out the latest work out craze, Zumba. If any of you don't know that this class is it is a mix of hip hop and Latin dance with a sprinkling of stripper. I have to tell you I thought I was a pretty good dancer till last night!Awesome moves = FAIL.

Imagine me looking as awkward as the dude in the green pants does in this picture. That is how bad this was.

I in no way want this to come off bad but I am sure it will, I have no natural skills or rhythm when it comes to shaking my ass. Some people it is just part of their makeup. Me? Not one part of me can make my as bounce the way the instructor told us to. There was a lot of giggling and shaking my flat chest that night. At one point heard Janet say she should have taken this class before her honeymoon so she could have learned some new seduction moves. I proclaimed I finally understood how babies were made. The moves these ladies were pulling off were totally hot!

Make matters worse the class was actually kind of hard! I was sweaty and un-cute and stinky at the end of the class. But it was a lot of fun. I am not totally sure when I will take the class again. I am thinking next time I need to laugh my ass off... literally. :)

Confession

I may just go to the gym tonight so I can keep up with my friend Kelly who worked out twice today already. I dont want to look bad at pool time next to her skinny butt!

If not for her, I had fully planned on ditching all healthy living today for sangria at Glorias. Damn you Kelly!

I don't want to look like a science experiment gone wrong

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I am considering trying out airbrush tanning for my wedding. I have been working out really hard and have noticed that my arms have begun to tone up a bit. BUT in pictures and such I never see any difference. It is like my arms look like twins of the marshmallow man from Ghostbusters (an American classic BTW).

Months ago I was told I should try airbrush tanning because it will help make me look better (skinner, cus I am vain) on the day of the wedding. I am nervous about this because I don't want to turn out blending in while standing next to WF when he wears hit favorite UT burnt orange t-shirt! All these places assure me that this is perfectly safe for fair skinned people and that they will customize a color that works best for me. I am very skeptical of this. Who is "they" really? Some chick who did not graduate from college is going to customize the perfect tan for me while carving out abs on my stomach with a paint brush? REALLY?

I don't know. I want to try it because I am super desperate to look hot on the wedding day, and for the honeymoon but I just don't know if I can trust it. I am willing to try it out in the next few weeks when no one will be seeing me. Any recommendations? Janet, Amelia and Kelly I am looking at you!

Getting my butt moving!

WF and I joined Golds Gym last night. We got a great deal on our membership and I am really looking forward to getting started. The gym is freaking really nice and I know I will put it to good use. I have not mentioned this in my blog really but I have been having a lot of knee and foot problems. A week or so ago I bought new running shoes to help with some of this pain. It has made is better temporarily but I have a podiatrist appointment tomorrow morning. I got fitted at RunTex and bought these shoes:

Apparently these have the highest arch you can get without having a custom insole made. So I will try it out. I have liked Mizuno running shoes in the past. We will see if these babies help. They freaking better for how much they were!

I am hoping I can get to the root of my problem at the doctor and they will give me some exercises to focus on. I have had horrible knees since I was in high school. I am thinking I might have been walking funning to compensate for this pain over the last year or so and now the pain in my foot has developed. We will see what the doctor says. In the mean time I am going to get together a work out plan and start hitting the gym 3 to 4 times a week. My main focus will be toning, mainly in my arms and back. I must look hot in my wedding dress!

Kelly has told me a lot about swimming and I think I want to try that out as well. I am a big believer in working around an injury, I just don't want to make it worse. I am hoping that swimming will be the key to this! In the mean time I now have a great reason to go buy a new Speedo and swim cap!

Ouch, ouch really ouch...

The girls kicked my butt the other day and I am still reeling from the workout. They put me on circuit training and some light cardio. It was a lot of fun though and I am hoping that this might be come a weekly meet up.

The first day after the workout I was not that bad. I could tell I was hurting but ehh I could walk it off. I felt like HA see I am not out of shape I am just not toned. So this morning I woke up and OUCH! I hurt everywhere! I tried to got pee and it hurt, and I tried to step into the tub and I hurt, I tried to hug WF and it hurt. Oh my gosh, the workout was not THAT bad. I feel so silly that I am this sore.

I am hoping that I can walk down the stairs if there is a fire later tonight. In the meantime I am keeping my fingers crossed that the next workout will not be as bad.

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Two of my bridesmaids have decided they would like to kick my ass tonight and I am a bit scared. Kelly and Janet both work out quite a bit. Kelly is some sort of freak Olympic swimmer who on her off days lifts weights and runs. REALLY? And then there is Janet, who is like 10 feet tall, looks like a model and kicks some ass at the gym on a regular basis while still looking totally hot. REALLY? REALLY?? Then of course there is me. I have not gone to the gym in a year. Yes I know it is shameful but that is how I roll. I used to walk my dog at town lake almost 4 times a week but now nothing. I got on WW, lost almost 19 pounds and was like well this is MUCH easier than going to then gym. So I gave up on the gym totally. Well now i have gained 4 lbs back, and have totally hit a wall. I know it and so does my butt.

Well with my last post on their minds Kelly and Janet have decided to "help" me get back on track. We are meeting at my apartment's gym, that by the way is super nice and brand new. They are going to show me how to really kick some butt. We will see if I can walk tomorrow...