Go Becky Go
This is not a weight loss blog, it's my blog and I talk about whatever I want including weight loss and food and boys and running and drinking and lots of pictures of myself. I have little to no filter when it comes to the things I say, I am kinda opinionated, so sometimes I'm awkward, but I'm pretty awesome.
Height: 5'1"
HW: 174 lbs
LW: 142 lbs (Sept/2011)
CW: 172.4 lbs (3/11/13)
Goal: to run fast and be healthy.
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I went to see Bruins @ Rangers in game 4 of their conference semi.
What a great game! Two soft goals allowed the Rangers to get back in the game...
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Am I the only one in my family who considers cereal a viable option for dinner?
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Today’s trail run, an 8 mile single track leading to a giant rock formation. I love Idaho :)
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Grandeur Peak - 8299’
Coworker: Your legs are going to be dead. It’s a tough hike. Really steep.
Me: Oh, my legs are already dead from...
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I've been given permission to spill my secret...
and since I still consider some of you my friends, I can spill it here.
I’m gonna be an aunt, you...
Another run this morning with the group around Garden of the Gods!
Today we ran about a mile further than Tuesday, it was so hard! I was definitely slower than Tuesday, however, given the distance and the fact that my average pace was still faster than my average pace on flat land even from a week ago, I think I did pretty good!!
And I talked to even more people and even though I was the very last last person running in the group the group leader still came back for me!! It was so nice!!
Plans for today’s day off:
Sleep
Laundry
Go to Apple because my stupid iPhone 5 charger stopped working
Cook
and sleep!
Also today’s weight:170.2, about .4 higher than last week, but whatever I’m working hard and weight fluctuates.
Never been so excited to see the 160s. Provided things stay as good as they are it’s just down from here.
That is all.
Today was a good day.
I weighed in today, decided to start with the “weigh in Wednesday” thing again. I will mark this as week one, take 2 (since its been so long since week 1 the first time). I weighed in today at 170.6. Higher weight than I’ve had before, but still. It’s a loss considering I was at like 176 two weeks ago.
I also ran today after a work. An “easy” 5k for most. For me, not easy. I was dying. I decided to see how I’d do if I ran without stopping. Which as you can see by the time of my Garmin, is quite slow. But it’s a baseline. I could only get better from here.
I also tried out my new Montrails and my new running shorts that I bought the other day. Loved them! So excited. It was a nice run besides it hurting, once I push through this “running sucks” hump it’ll all be good.
Also: wow I’m pale. I really need to get out more!
Hopefully more happy posts like this from now on!
So I worked out today. That’s 4 days in a row today.
Didn’t do too much, because its my lifting rest day, but I did enough to make the sweat drip off my face!
I did:
Box jumps: 3 sets of 15 on the 24” box
Burpees: 3 sets of 10
Rower: 5:26, 1008 m
Handstands: 2 sets of 5
Cartwheels: 7 each side
And 6 each side of some capoeira things: meia lua de compasso followed by piao de mao.
Overall, good workout. The gym is so quiet in the middle of the day. It was nice!
Also, my weight is up to 162. What. No it’s not muscle, it’s only been a few days. Boo.
Going out tonight with girl boss again for her birthday and some other friends. Should be fun!
The goal: make these muscles significantly more visible by the end of the year :)
Pretty sure if I keep it up with capoeira and my eating the way I’ve been I’ll be able to…
156.6 lbs as of today.
I’ve been less than awesome at training since last week. I worked out on Monday and Tuesday, then did the mountain on Friday but that’s it.
No outdoors stuff though this week with the fire going. Most of the trails are closed.
But I’ve also decided to be more weight loss focused for the time being. WIll still run, but I want to lose some more pounds before I get any more serious. My running times since I’ve started again have been much slower than usual, and I think it’s at least partially from the weight I’ve gained.
If I can at least get back to where I was at the end of summer last year I’d be happy.
I was on this website that helps you calculate what weight you want to lose and what day it could happen by if you lose it safely, and if I start now, by August I could be back where I was.
Weighed in at 157.6 today. At least it’s still down from where I was starting June 11th.
It SAYS that if I were to lose 2 pounds per week all the way through August that I could get to 139. Which has been one of my goals since forever. I doubt that will happen, but to get to the lower half of the 140s would be nice. So if anyone wants to join me that would be cool. Not gonna make it a “challenge” or anything because I tend to drop off on those, but still a goal.
I don’t know why, but I felt this picture needed to be posted. I feel like this is how people in the 80s would look like after just waking up. I dunno, either. I’m just a crazy person.
SoS weigh in today 6/13: 155.4 lbs! This is probably mostly water weight that’s coming off but I’ll still relish it.
6/12: 157.6
6/11: 159
Why hello, awesome haired and pretty looking Becky.
Just came from my first day of actual class (my only lecture, the rest are online). It’s English, so obviously I’m dreading it. It was meh.
But I’ve been great today! I weighed in at 157.6 this morning, which is pretty good.
I did my 6 mile run, it was the longest it’s ever taken me to do 6, it took me an hour and a half. There were just so many hills! And I blame my acclimating again to Colorado altitude.
After my 6, went to the gym and did NROLFW day 1:
Squats: 2x15 @ 45 lbs
Pushups (modified): 2x15
Seated Row: 2x15 @ 40 lbs
Step ups: (24” box) 2x15 @ 12.5 dbs
Prone jackknife: 2x8
Also, day 1 of 100 pushups. I put in the lowest you could put for the test, so this was my setup, and I did it fine:
2-3-2-2-3
And I swam in the outside pool! It was sooo awesome! And full of small children!
Did 4x100 yds (or maybe meters, not sure). So hard! But I loved it! Loved being outside for swimming.
Now I promised my nephews I would take them to do the Jack Quinn’s run, though knowing them they’ll just walk it which is fine by me.
Then I get back home and do homework! Hooray!
And in honor of that and my vacation ending, I’m setting up some goals.
School Goals:
Stay on track with homework
Avoid procrastinating
Do at least an hour of school related work a day.
Training Goals:
Gonna start New Rules of Lifting for Women again.
Run at least 3x a week, and try to follow the training plan as close as possible because my running needs to catch up to where my training is supposed to be.
At least one run a week has to be on a difficult-ish trail.
I want to try the 100 pushups thing. Not go through the entire program, but I want to get 20 real pushups in a row again.
It might be a lot, but maybe 0 to 1650 again? Now that we have the outdoor pool going it might be more fun.
Finally, weight loss. It’d be nice to lose some pounds/inches. I weighed in today. Post vacation weight: 159 lbs. Not as much as I thought I had gained, but crap that makes like 15 pounds gained over just a few months.
Social life goals:
No more alcohol for the rest of June. At least. I don’t foresee that to be a problem because I won’t be having much of a life for quite awhile.
And..that’s pretty much it.
Gun show Thursday!
It’s not much considering my arms are like, never worked out anymore, but I’m okay, today’s upper body workout was intense.
My notebook with my workout feels heavy!
Also, weight today: 153.8. Down a pound, so at least that’s good, right?
Since ShortMom and a lot of other people are doing it, perhaps this might be good for me.
4n4 Challenge: 4% Loss Ending on 6/18
Starting weight of today, May 21: 154 lbs
4% goal: ~6.2 lbs
Also I guess this would mark Day 1 of Summer of Scales.
This should be nice to give me something to look forward to.
I woke up early and hit the gym!
Went to spinning class for the first time in well over a year! So hard. I was dying the whole time. It was hill day, and we ended up doing like 6 or 7 climbs.
After that, I hit the weights, did the first day of Jillian Michaels’ Making the Cut exercise program (AGAIN), it was hard. I normally don’t do weights after cardio, but since I showed up late to spinning and I didn’t want to be super tired for my first day of spinning anyway, I did it after.
I was hoping to go to Zumba tonight because my favorite instructor was teaching, but I’ve been having car trouble and I finally got a guy to look at t it and he was fixing it.
Who would have thought having to replace your power steering fluid every ten miles was bad (well, I did but didn’t do anything about it)?
Also, since it’s Monday I will mark this as official day 1 of working out again and trying to do what I can to look good for Miami, I weighed in today at a horrid 154.6. Also hadn’t seen that in over a year.
A few things, actually.
1. Before my marathon this weekend, I was pretty set on just doing the half. It wasn’t til I got to the expo that I decided I wanted to wear that shirt that said marathon with pride, and decided I’d just do the full even though it wasn’t the best idea.
2. I weighed in today for the first time in who knows how long. The verdict: 153 pounds. I hadn’t seen that weight in…almost a year and a half. This is not good.
3. I’m still hanging around Wes even though we’re pretty clear that we’re not in a relationship. We just spend a lot of time together.
4. Last night was the first time sleeping in my bed in well over a month.
5. I have 20 weeks until my 50k ultra. Scary.
6. I really have not liked what I see in the mirror for awhile. Nothing really fits anymore.
7. I’m 10 pounds up from my lowest weight but it makes such a difference being so short.
8. Once my tattoo is healed enough I’m going to start running, and join that overpriced gym. It just has everything I love in it! Hopefully I’ll be looking better by the end of the month, because I’m going to Miami for 2 weeks starting the 31st.
I’ve really fallen off the wagon big time.
Letting a boy take up all my time, my valuable training and studying time. No bueno.
So today I get my shit together.
I have a couple of big days coming up.
Kalamazoo marathon May 6th, Colfax marathon May 20th.
And the one where looks matter the most to me: I’m flying to Miami on May 29th.
Even though I know weight loss is not a big thing to expect while marathon training, I know there are ways to do it, it’s just about being smart. And FOCUSED. Just to get on the lower end of the 140s again.
Today’s weigh in. 148.2. Actually surprisingly good considering all the facts. But my body has really lost a lot of muscle.
Not sure what plan i’ll be doing involving weights and stuff, but I’ll work on it tonight.
Today’s plan. Jack Quinn’s run with my team and then no dilly dallying and I go to capoeira afterward.
62 days. 62 days to look hotter than I already do.
Also, I think I’m going to go brunette again!
Today I weighed in. And I also took measurements because I haven’t taken any since I was at my lowest weight (read: last September). I was comparing numbers between then and now.. I’m definitely bigger. I gained 3 inches in my chest alone (no wonder my boobs have been looking bigger). I gained inches in pretty much everything. Except somehow I have 2 inches less in hips. Odd, but I’ll take it. I won’t even show you the comparison of the measurements because it’s too sad.
Week #68
Official SW: 168 lbs
No excuses challenge SW/Last weigh in (Jan. 30th): 149.2 lbs
CW: 147.4 lbs
-1.8 lbs since last weigh in
-20.6 lbs since official starting weight
I’ll take what I can get. Every day I get a little better, regardless of what the scale says.
Measurements 2/10/12:
Bust: 39.75”
Shoulders: 41”
Hips: 37.75”
Waist:31.25”
Thighs: 23.5”/24” (R/L)
Biceps: 11.5”/11.75” (R/L)
Forearms: 9.5”
Calves: 14.75”
Neck: 12.75”
I’ve been avoiding these measurements for a reason. Hopefully I’ll see some progress though!
