Never stop believing...

Hello Everyone :)

The holidays are coming woo :)

 

Anywho since I last wrote a few things have happened which have made me a very happy Weight Watcher :)

1.       I can finally say I weigh within the 11 stone bracket – how frickin’ awesome is that! Two years came and went with me trying to get back into the 12’s so now it is ‘bye bye 12’s I’ll hopefully never see you again’.

 

 

 

2.       My page on FB * Adventures of a Melting Diva * reached over 100 likes…well  129 now ;) I am very thankful for this as I started the page a little bit after the blog as I felt I could contribute and update it more and I am so happy that my ranting and raving is actually accepted ha :)

3.  I turned 23 AND I was a weight watchers pro on my birthday – no cake until the day after *My birthday was Thurs the 28^th, weigh in was the 29^th*

 

*we had no '23' candle so I was reliving my youth :P *

4.I had a major (to me) NSV when shopping yesterday. I need to explain first to show the relevance of the NSV to me - I am very odd (and yes I really do need to use that word) when it comes to many things such as what I wear. When I was larger *or obese whichever you prefer* I wasn't probably as odd and would have worn a few things that probably didn't help me but now that I've lost the weight I've gone really crazy into ensuring I don't wear anything that I perceive will make me look awful. In reality I am still in the mind set of being that obese girl, I don't see myself as me the slimmer size 12 Grainne and because of this I won't allow myself to get out of my comfort zone, something I am working on. Anyway the NSV involves boots - I only like boots when they firstly have a heel ( my mother would shoot me if she saw me in flat boots and I would too) and have to be just under the knee because well as I say to myself 'Grainne you have thunderous legs and would look horrific if you ever dared the *now in fashion* casual heeled ankle boot type things* but yesterday the pretty boots I wanted were not in my size and I had the outfit planned...anyway moving on I came across said ankle boots and said 'just try them on to prove how massive they make you look' to be totally taken back when I looked in the mirror and said 'OMG your legs looks slim....oh God you look great' and it involved looking in the mirror at different angles for around 10 minutes to be sure :P Then I had to buy them, I came home and was so excited to show my mother because like 'OMG this was a miracle'. I know sounds totally stupid and silly but was such a proud moment for me, as good as zipping up those size 12 jeans! I am finally near goal, I am finally getting happier with my appearance....Life is good :D

 

I’ve had a good couple of weeks, okay these last few pounds haven’t been coming off as quickly as I had hoped but I’m only 3.8lbs to goal now so I am getting there, slowly but surely. I’ve been training lots, doing lots of weights and my upper body strength has greatly improved :)

I was eagerly counting down to last Friday’s WI as I was hoping to get into the 11’s and I even sacrificed the god dam beautiful tasty cake my mum made me but I was determined! Then Thursday night comes along and well I suddenly begin to feel like a bloated hippo *ladies you know why* so anyway I nearly cried…wait….actually I think I did…the last time this happened I gained 2lbs at my WI AND it took TWO weeks to lose it so I just felt so deflated and said there was no way on this god given earth I was getting weighed on Friday morning.

 

I headed off for my personal training session with this mentality…until I saw the owners jeep outside and I just said ‘oh screw it I’ll get weighed he’ll get why I’m up’ so I went in and said my speech ‘I will be up probably a stone because I’m like a fat hippo but don’t you dare think it is because of food it is the OTHER thing’ lol he just smiled and I hopped on the scales…I somehow managed to be down 0.4lbs…I was like an excited child and then I declared ‘Oh god now I’m staying for the spinning class too’.

Moral of the rant – go to your WI even when you have a bad feeling. Turns out I must have had enough lost over the course of the week to cover the gain during TOTM and still come out with a loss, however small it was it was very significant to me.

 

While I have been literally working my ass off training I actually haven’t ran since Nov. 14^th, the day after my first 10km. Oh course I’ve been meaning to but you know the usual excuses ‘I’ve already trained today’, ‘Oh it is soo cold’ well yesterday as I was having my usual scroll through my reading list on here I noticed John Q’s new post :) He mentioned a challenge for December which was set up by AKW. The challenge is to run 30mins (or more) each day for the month of December.

I saw this and was so thankful for JQ’s blog, if there was a challenge I HAD to do it and could have no excuses. This was needed as I have my second 10km on December 26^th.

I ran my usual 4.45km route today and it felt AMAZING so good to be back out running however my legs were a little bit like ‘Grá what are you doing, stop GODDAMMIT STOP’ but there was no stopping!

I'm evening planning my Christmas dinner right now as I plan to track...I've a wedding on the 29th which I don't intend to track for :) *That is a lie I probably will end up trying to track that day - old habits die hard*

So here is to a successful and happy month ahead!

 

I'm soo excited about going to the Netherlands on the 9th to see my boyfriend. Things like this keep me motivated to work my ass off. I'm going to try and be as good as I can, food-wise when I'm over there. The last time I went I managed to loos 1lb but I was a saint so here is hoping again. I'll be missing my WI when I'm over so I actually only have two weigh in's left until Christmas. I would love to think I could get to goal by December 19th but if it happens it happens but I will get to goal in January 100% *fingers crossed I'll start 2014 maintaining though*.

 

Until next time,

Grá :)