Week 6 & 7 Weigh Ins

Sorry about that long break I took! I wasn't really in the blogging mood, so I just skipped a week:) It might have something to do with my weigh in two weeks ago, or the fact that I've just been super busy!

As I said in my last blog, we went to Ocean City for the weekend. August 12-14. It was SO FUN! We had a blast! As you can see from the picture lol. Unfortunately the weather wasn't the best. Friday it was pretty hot and sunny, but Saturday it was overcast, and even rained a little bit. But that didn't stop us from having fun!

Unfortunately, I did not control my eating habits AT ALL. I tend to go overboard when I "cheat" and I just go crazy! I figure "well, I've already eaten this, so why not eat that!" which isn't good!!

In one day I had a bacon cheeseburger from Five Guys, 2 pain in the asses from Seacrets, a chicken quesadilla from Mackey's along with another pain in the ass, a bucket of grapefruit crush and a shark attack! Then, later that night, I had pizza and candy!!! OMG!!!!!!! Too much!! I literally felt sick!

I also noticed now that I'm thinner, when I eat too much, I can seriously see my stomach get big and bloated! It sucks!! And my clothes feel tighter! lol Ughh. I need to not do that again. Luckily it's not a regular occurrence.

Unfortunately, it did have an impact on my weigh in. I figured it wouldn't be TOO bad. Even if I didn't have a loss, I hoped I wouldn't have a gain. We got back Sunday and I busted my butt working out every day till my weigh in on Thursday. Apparently I did not do enough!:(

Previous Weight - 169

Current Weight - 170.4

Weight Gained - 1.4 Pounds

Total Weight Lost - 61 Pounds

Grrrr!!! I was so mad! I guess I wasn't expecting it! I basically gained what my previous loss was! It was especially disappointing because I had finally made it into the 160's, just barely! And now I was back to the 170's!:(

I always hate to have a gain, but I try not to let it bring me down too much. I have to remind myself how far I've come! 60+ pounds! I mean, I NEVER thought I could do that all on my own! It still amazes me sometimes!

This past week was pretty good. It was really busy, with a few ups and downs. Friday was good. I got my hair cut and colored, and I love it! After that, I went over to Phebe's house and picked her up for Sushi, for her birthday! Mmm! It was dericious! Yes, I meant that in an Asian accent;) lol. We split a fried cheesecake, mmmm! Amazing! I also went running on Friday, with Charlie! He's doing so great:)

Saturday was my CPAT orientation. Basically we got to do all the stations that you do during the CPAT. It was fun!! Such a good workout too. Glad I wore my HRM! I also went for a short run beforehand, so I got in a great workout that day!! Burned 1,203 calories!:) But then we went to Charlie's parent's house for his Mom's birthday, so I ended up eating almost all my exercise calories back! lol Oh well, at least I was still under!

Sunday I had to work. I had set my alarm for 1PM to get up and go for a run, but as soon as I woke up, I heard LOUD thunder. So I decided to go back to sleep till 3:30. When I woke up again, it was still raining. So I decided to do a workout video instead. Then I realized the power was out!!! So the rain eventually stopped which left me with 20 minutes to work out! I just decided to take Chief on a quick walk since he doesn't get to come out with me too much anymore:)

Monday was bad... then good later in the day. When I got home from work that morning, I had gotten an email from PGPD saying "Thank you for your interest in the PG county police department. Unfortunately there were many candidates who's qualifications better suited the needs of this department, therefore you are no longer being considered for the position of Police Officer." Wow.... oh, and did I mention that my interview was THE NEXT DAY?! WTF! I was pretty pissed!

I don't want to get into too many details. But apparently I was disqualified because of the polygraph test, which is dumb, because I DIDN'T LIE!!! It's stupid that they would disqualify me based off of that. Those things aren't even 100% accurate. But I'm over it. Now I can just put all my effort into passing the CPAT for PGFD!

Anyways, Monday night, Charlie and I went to Outback Steakhouse! I just decided to go all out and splurge. I was planning a long run that night anyways! It's usually easy for me to eat a lot when I already see my exercise calories there. But when I haven't even burned them yet, it makes me nervous!

So I had the Victoria's Center Cut Filet with the steamed vegetables, half a loaf of bread with butter, a house salad with ranch dressing, and we split a Chocolate Thunder From Down Under!!! Ahhh!! Can't believe I did that! But it was so worth it!! I ended up going over my daily limit of 1,200 calories, by 1,304!! OMG! Terrible.

We got home and lounged around the house for awhile. Digesting and what not. Charlie installed our new sump pump. What a handy man!;) Now our basement won't flood! We also took Chief to the dog park!:) He had fun:)

Around 8:45PM I went out for my run! This time I put band-aids and tape on the inside of each of my feet where I always get blisters. It really helped!! Didn't feel a thing! It was still kind of light out, so I headed pretty far from the house and just started running up and down the streets. Laurel is pretty much a big grid, so I just run from one end of a street to the other end, and back up. I did that on 3 different streets, then headed back towards our house!

I was soooo in the zone! I truly did get a "runner's high." I was aiming for 5 miles at first. Then I figured I might as well do 10k since I want to run one anyways. Once I looked at runkeeper, I noticed I was at 6.35 miles, so I figured... how bout 7?! lol so I just kept going till I eventually stopped at 7.11 miles!!!!:-D Such a great feeling!! This was the first time I've ever stopped running because my legs actually hurt, not because I was so out of breath!:) I looked at my HRM and I had burned 1,298 calories!!! Almost how much I was over by from the Outback! I just started doing some push ups, crunches, and jumping jacks! lol. So I finished my day under my calorie goal! haha:)

Tuesday I had to work, so I just did some walking and running. I was also starting to feel sick, so I couldn't do too much. Oh... and there was an earthquake!! Yes... in Maryland. Crazy!!! :O

Wednesday! My weigh in. As usual, I don't eat or exercise on the day of my weigh in... or drink! Doesn't bother me too much since I sleep the whole day. I'm just starving when I wake up! So I usually splurge and get something bad because I need to eat 1,200 calories between 7PM and midnight! So picked up a pizza hut personal pan pizza on my way in to work, with some bread sticks too:) Yum! Here's how my weigh in went...

Previous Weight - 170.4

Current Weight - 166.6

Weight Lost - 3.8 Pounds

Total Weight Lost - 64.8 Pounds

Yay!!! I got back to my previous weight from two weeks ago, and then some!!! So happy! I guess that 7 mile run really helped me:) Hopefully I can hold onto that and have a good weigh in next week as well!

Well, that's about it... I'll try not to miss next weeks weigh in! I'll be leaving for North Carolina on the 4th of September, so I will miss that weeks weigh in.... darn! Hopefully I don't gain too much!

April 2011

August 2011

Wow... can't believe the difference!!!:)

Bye bye!!