Thursday, April 26, 2012

Home for the Summer! - Allysin's new entry

WELL HELLO EVERYONE!

So it's been a long time since I've wrote... Which usually means I haven't been doing all my running. Which is true, things got really busy between quitting my job (to come home for summer), major papers, exams, and moving back home, all of this kind of paid a toll on my working out and running. So that means I really need to step up my game now.

It kinda sucks not having run for the past couple weeks because that means that starting up again is going to feel like starting over! UGHHH no fun, but completely possible. And now that I'm home I do not have the comfort of using a treadmill anymore. And for those of you who don't know, I live in the country on these nice hilly roads... So running is going to be sooooo much fun (sarcasm). Nah I'm just having a negative attitude and I need to change that. Unfortunately the weather is not exactly in my favor. This past weekend we had SNOW! it was a SNOWSTORM at the end of APRIL! (That doesn't usually happen) and then it's been rainy and just gross out. But I'm praying for some nice weather that will help motivate me to go outside and run.

If you guys have any encouragement or motivational things to say to me, now would be a good times to say it haha.

I hope you guys are all doing better with your goals than I have been the past two weeks.
infinite x's and o's
- A


Monday, April 9, 2012

Roxanne - Week 13 Update

Hey Everyone!
I hope you had a fantastic Easter weekend :) Here is my weekly update:
Longest Run: 2min 30seconds. - Truthfully I think in the past and even now it's my mind that keeps me from running longer. I get bored and mentally think I'm tired, but I'm still breathing, so I should be able to push longer. I'm hoping that running outside during the summer will help me with this.
Time Run During A Workout: 4 min. 30 sec. during a 20 min workout
Distance Walked/Run This Week: 1.02 miles + generic walking outside to stores and friend's houses
Total Weight Lost: 16lbs
Last Week's Weight: 221.0lbs
Weight Loss: 2lbs
Current Weight: 219.0lbs
Goal: 200lbs by May 20th

So you may be wondering how I picked the date May 20th as my first goal date.
The reason I picked this date is due to the fact that on that day I will be standing in my good friend Brittany's wedding. This wedding is not the only reason I want to lose weight, obviously my current weight is a detriment to my health, self-esteem and relationship development and would need to be lost either way. However, this wedding did give me a fairly significant marking point and this is why I picked it.
And I'm really glad that I've lost the 16lbs and 3 inches that I have managed to lose up until this point.
But this weekend brought me news that makes my weight loss even more important.
My friend Brittany emailed me and informed me that the order for our bridesmaids dresses had never been processed, and they had never called to inform her. Instead with only just over a month left before the wedding Brittany had called them to figure out why we hadn't recieved our dresses yet. And this is a huge bummer because they were gorgeous dresses. And with ordering them I was gaurenteed that it would fit as I had sent in all of my measurements.
So now with the time crunch and the lack of my bridesmaid dresses, my best friend is now having to buy them in store and bring them with her when she flies in 6 days before her wedding.
I won't get my dress until 6 days before her wedding.
Now all you thin girls out there may be reading and thinking - what the heck is wrong with that?
When you're overweight you get used to things not fitting. So you often don't have the cutest clothes, and I tend to dread dress shopping as dress sizes tend to be smaller than other sizes. So now I'm absolutely paranoid that my dress won't fit when she brings it which would be awful.
So I'm going to be working extra hard to lose weight. Cutting out as much junk food as possible and excercising as much as I can motivate myself to. If I can actually meet my goal of 200lbs by this wedding I would probably be one happy, happy person.
Wish me luck!
-Rox - @RoxyWiedemann #2012fresh


The dress we were supposed to wear except in coral . . .

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Roxanne - "Oh Jill, you're killin me . . ."



Today I was at my friend Katie's house and thus participated for the first time ever in the Jilian Michael's 30 Day Shred, and man is it good.
Sure I am totally exhausted,
My arms hurt,
My thighs hurt,
I had that weird thing where I almost fainted again . . . BUT, I actually feel accomplished, and I feel like I actually had a really great workout.
Jill herself struggled with weight issues as well before becoming the fitness guru that she is today.
So - if you're working out at home, grab some hand weights and try the 30 Day Shred. My friends say that it actually really works and you can really see a difference in a short amount of time.
And with this wedding coming up in May, that's just what I need, so you may hear more about Jilian in my future posts :)
Keep taking steps - it's worth it!
-Rox #2012fresh @RoxyWiedemann

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Roxanne - Back to Running :)

So today I finally ran again.
And I absolutely loved every second of it.
Man I love the feeling of moving my body.
I guess somedays I just forget. . . .

This is what I want to do to celebrate my birthday this year :)

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Roxanne - Week 12 Update - The day I discovered breakfast :)

Hey Everyone.

So, here's my update for the week . . .
Longest Run: Umm. . . Non-existant. Oops.
Time Run During A Workout: See above
Distance walked/run this week:  3 miles
Total Weight Loss: 14lbs
Last Week's weight: 222lbs
Weight Loss: 1lb
Current Weight: 221.0lbs
Goal: 200lbs by MAy 20th, 2012

Okay so as you can see by the stats the end of the year crunch is catching up with me. Last week and this week are my two major paper weeks, however, by Thursday all of my major papers will be completed and then one fairly normal week - one week of exams then a couple weeks of glorious freedom at home before starting my job at the camp for the summer.
However, with my running stats being low, and weight stats still plateaued between 220 and 222lbs my life stats are high. This past week I started eating breakfast everyday, and quite seriously - it has changed my life!!
I have so much more energy, and I don't get crazy cravings to eat in the evenings (although I somedays do - but it's more out of habit than desire now.) I don't need sugar the way that I used too. And on top of all that I eat a lot more calories in a day now that I eat breakfast, but it doesn't seem to effect my weight the way it used to. At the beginning of the week when I first began eating breakfast I was a bit concerned because I was gaining weight, but in return I gained so much energy. But I knew that losing weight is part of my end goal, and I couldn't put that in jeopardy. So I told God about my conundrum - the fact that I loved the energy, but that I couldn't continue eating breakfast if I couldn't lose weight doing so.
And voila!. Not that I'm losing weight at an incrdible rate, but I can eat breakfast and lose small increments of weight. And the best thing is that this system is maintainable :)
My friend Chris explaained to me that the reason I now have so much energy is due to the fact that eating breakfast in the morning is what starts your metabolism for the day. . . I think that at the beginning it just took a couple days for my metabolism to speed up to compensate for this new routine - as until this past week I haven't consistently eating breakfast since I was like 11.
Anyway, that was my lesson for the week.
My goal for this week is to work on not snacking in the evenings and see what happens.
All the best this week friends!
Sorting out my life one step at a time.
-Roxanne <3