Weight loss journey

Megan and I were looking at pictures earlier from my trip to Athens (details to follow) and she commented on how much weight I've lost in the last couple of years. I've been meaning to do this entry for awhile so I figured why not go ahead and do it tonight? These pictures show the weight loss journey I've been on for the last couple of years.

This was taken in December of 2006 at Christmas time at Disney with my parents. I'm not sure how much I weigh here, but it definitely made me unhappy and uncomfortable.

This was taken in July or August 0f 2007 when I went to visit Megan in Baltimore. We had spent the day in D.C. and this is me sitting at Arlington Cemetary. This was my highest weight I've ever hit at 272, a weight I hope to never see again.

This is Mike and I during my graduation from OU in June of 2008. At this point I had lost about 25 pounds and weighed in around the 250ish mark.

This is Dave and I at my graduation party in June of 2008. This one is really just for Erica, since she says I talk about him a lot and she's never seen a picture of him. :-P

This is Vince and I on my birthday in October of 2008. I look like I've lost weight since graduation but I'm pretty sure my weight had stayed the same.

This was taken on New Year's Eve this year and was right after I had started working out at Fitworks. My starting weight for the gym at this point was 253.

This is Betsy and I last night at OU waiting in line for the OU version of Price is Right. My last official weigh in for March (I haven't done my April one yet...whoops) had me weighing in at 235 pounds, which is a total of 37 pounds lost since August of 2007 and a total of 18 pounds lost since joining the gym in December!

This picture was also taken last night at OU. We had decided on a whim to go out to the bars for a couple of drinks but I hadn't brought any dressy clothes with me. Monica kindly let me raid her closet even though I was convinced nothing would fit. Imagine my surprise when she brought out this cute pink tank top from Old Navy and made me try it on. To my shock and excitement, it fit! In the last two years I've gone from having to wear an XXL at Old Navy to wearing a large! In fact, just about everything I own in XL is too big so I'm slowly adding new clothes to my wardrobe. Last night was one of the first nights I've been able to go out on the town with the girls and actually feel pretty! We had such a great time!

And that, my friends, is my weight loss journey thus far in a nutshell. I'm sure I'll share more as I continue down this long, bumpy road towards a healthy me.

Weekend bullets

So this weekend was decent. Friday was rough but the rest of the weekend was fun, minus what woke us up this morning at our hotel in Columbus. Since it's late (yes it's 11:45 and I think it's late-shocking I know!) here are bullets of what happened. Details to come Tuesday since I'm going to the Reds game after work tomorrow.

• Road tripped to Columbus with Carolyn and Micah for her dance competition.
• Went to see Hannah Montana the movie during this trip. Not gonna lie-I loved it. :-P
• Had yummy pizza and watched more Disney channel in one night than I have in awhile.
• Got a 6 a.m. wake up call from the front desk saying Carolyn's car had been broken into. They took our gps and my sunglasses.
• Found out when we checked out at 10 that we were only one of three cars broken into overnight.
• This fact made us paranoid for the rest of the day so all valuables got taken into the competition.
• The competition itself was tough. Micah did well though. She took top first for both her jazz and her acro routines. Overall, acro took 8th place and jazz took 6th. We were surprised but she competed against teams from across the nation so I think that's pretty darn good in my opinion. I'm proud of her!
• I went for a run after I got home from Columbus and survived to tell about it.
• Had some sister bonding at the grocery store.
• Now it's bedtime.
• I had to edit this post three times for grammar and wording because I'm exhausted. :-P

Night world!

Spoken from the heart

Do you ever wish that just once you could tell someone how you truly feel but know you can't because they'll get upset and offended?

Welcome to my everyday life. If you're privy to it, I have a FO entry over on Bloop because I can't spill how I feel into the blogger world.

I need some time to clear my head. I think getting out of Cincinnati for the next two weekends will be good for me. I need some time away to figure things out.

Ok, time to go pack. See ya Sunday.

Run

I went on my first official run today after work with the two directors of my preschool and one of the other teachers. My co-director Brandy is my gym nazi (as I lovingly call her...no seriously I love that she's my gym nazi!) so she's holding me accountable for wanting to run the half-marathon next year. We've decided to go walking/running every Wednesday after work.

Today we would walk for five minutes and then run for a couple minutes. I am so ridiculously sore it's not even funny. Everyone says the day after is worse so we'll see how tomorrow goes. :-P

Even though I'm sore, I'm proud of myself for sticking it out, even as my lungs screamed at me. Slowly but surely I'm going to be able to do this!

Oh...and I got puked on today. Wonderful. The weekend can't get here soon enough.

It's official!!

I just got off the phone with the Hampton Inn registration people and it's official: Megan and I are going to Raleigh, North Carolina July 10-12th for Bethany's wedding!!! :-D

I haven't seen Bethany since she graduated from OU and I miss her like crazy! I wish I could get the time off of work to go before the wedding but that's okay. She's going to make a beautiful bride and I'm so stinkin excited to attend her wedding.

I told Megan I'd do some searching because we're going to have all of Friday and part of Saturday to explore and hang out before the wedding. I'm just excited for a road trip with Megan! Anyone who knows us knows that the two of us in a car could be asking for trouble but we're going to have a blast!

Ahhhh I am sooo excited! Finally something to look forward to this summer!

Spring spring spring

I love when spring comes. I sometimes wonder if I suffer from seasonal depression during the winter because I'm always so bummed. When the sun finally comes back with the warm weather it's like I'm a whole new person.

It's so beautiful out today. I had some errands to run and I did so with the music up and the windows down! I think I showed my age though because while other people were blasting that crap rap that people call music I was blasting LFO and singing along. :-P

The original plan for tonight was to go down to Newport and enjoy the first nice night of spring at the Levee but since Britt is traveling for work tomorrow we decided to stay in West Chester and just go get pizza and hang out. I'm just excited for a girls night.

I still haven't heard from UC yet. I'm officially sending an e-mail tonight because it's been over six weeks since I interviewed and we were told 2-3 weeks at most. One of the girls I met at the interview got her rejection letter two weeks ago and I still haven't heard anything. I'm assuming this means I'm wait listed but it would be nice to know for sure so I can start figuring out how to defer my loans and stuff again.

Alright, I'm off. I think I'm going to go grab a book and go out and enjoy this beautiful weather!

So you had a bad day

Love love love that song. It sums up my day today. Today had to be hands down one of the worst days I've had in awhile. It was so bad that as soon as I walked out the door of the school I got in my car and started crying. I haven't done that since Lighthouse. Hopefully this is one of the only times work will make me cry.

I made my day better by going to the gym. I met for an initial consult with a personal trainer tonight and he worked me out big time. After doing weights, I went and did 20 minutes on the elliptical so now I at least feel good.

I'm about to go out with Megan, Tym, and Amy for a bit. I really need a friends night so I'm grateful they agreed to my last minute plans.

I better go get ready. See ya.