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

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 :)

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

Roxanne - Update week 11 (with pictures! :P)

Hey everyone,
So this week I shot some pictures of friends from school and at the end there were obviously a couple shots with the photographer. And I can actually see the difference :) My legs look so athletic, and I can see I've lost weight.
Next 20lbs - you're coming off too!

This first picture is from our family photoshoot in August right before I came to school:

This second one is from this week's photos.

And here's to more progress in the future. This week may have been a complete write off, but all of my hard work is not going down the drain!

Roxanne's Week 10 Update

Update:
Longest run: 1min. 30 sec.
Time run during a workout: 6 min
Distance walked/run this week: 11 miles approx.
Total weight lost: 15 lbs
Last week's weight: 219.4
Weight Lost: none 0.6lb gain
Current weight: 220.0lbs
Goal: 200lbs by May 20th.

It is also sweet to note that I have lost about 3 inches since my bridesmaid dress measurements a couple months ago. Unfortunately I'm not sure that I'm going to hit my first goal mark of 200 lbs by May 20th - but every little bit helps. I just wish I could get my butt off this plateau lol.
Anyway, I'll keep you all updated. Hope that all of your goals are going well.
-Roxanne

This is a picture of my friend Caitlin who has lost 65 lbs in the last year and a half . . . definitely inspiring.

SPRING IS HERE!

Finally!
                I've been waiting for soooo long to say that! And finally I can! Spiring is here!...Sort of. haha.
It was plus 14 degrees this past Wednesday, however last night (Friday) it was minus 13 so... that wasn't very spring like. But tomorrow it is supposed to be plus 11 and stay around that temperature for the rest of the week! Like I said SPRING IS HERE!


                Now I love spring. And there are a lot of reasons why. First, I love summer and spring means summer is almost here. Second, my birthday is in the spring. (Not till May 20th, but still it's spring) and thirdly, it's like everything becomes alive in the spring. Animals come out of hiding, flowers begin to bloom, things start to become green again. And even people just seem more alive and excited and happy, love often comes in the spring. I just really like Spring a lot!

              But now I have something new to look forward to in the spring. Running! WOOHOO! On Wednesday I went for my first run outside. It wasn't as good as I hoped it would be, but not as bad as I expected. (if that makes sense) I did like a five minute warm up walk, twenty minute run, and then I just walked for a while and enjoyed the scenery which altogether was an hour. Running not on the treadmill is definitely harder than the treadmill let me tell you that! But there are things I really enjoy about running outside, I like the wind, and I like the scenery. It's weird I have never been much of an 'outdoor' type of a person but lately I love outdoor activities. Like I really want to go camping. I joke around with my friends and tell them I want to be more adventurous. They just kinda laugh at me when I say it, but I really mean it. Like I want to go on portage trip, and I want to go kayaking really badly (I used to teach kayaking, but just stopped for no reason) and I want to eventually go on a 850 km bike trip of the whole niagara escarpment. I don't know I just want to do more. And not just say that I want to do these things. I really want to go and do them!

Anyways, the run was tiring, but good. And I'm glad I finally got to go outside and with this week being warmer, hopefully I'll be doing my runs outside a lot more!

Infinite x's and o's,
Allysin

You can do it!

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IF YOU JUST BELIEVE!
            So basically I think you can do anything. You just need to believe you can, and put some effort into it and BAM you did it!

Take running for instance. Our bodies are made to move. See its all in our heads. Our brain likes to mess with us and tell us we can't do it. But you know what you start thinking you can and ignoring that voice in the back of your head saying you can't and then you get up and start putting one foot in front of the other. Then you move your feet faster and faster and suddenly WOW LOOK AT THAT! YOU ARE RUNNING!
I actually love going for runs! I mean before I go I'm like, man I don't feel like it. And you know even when i'm running I'm like ughh I don't want to do this. BUT AFTER I'M DONE I'M LIKE, I FEEL SO GOOD! I JUST LOVE RUNNING!

So I started taking these vitamins the other day, and I think they are giving me side effects. Like at every meal I take two bites and I'm just like no.. I don't want this. I just don't feel hungry. And then I keep getting these headaches, and other weird things.
                I mean maybe it's not the vitamins, maybe I'm just overreacting... I'm not sure. I'm going to give it a few more days and see what happens, but then after that I might have to stop taking them. What do you guys think?? Do you think I'm feeling this way because of the vitamins??

infinite x's and o's
Allysin