Getting back on track!

This week has been a lot more active for me.  Derby started back this week, and I felt I've had more energy to do work outs this week.  I got new work shoes, and my feet don't hurt so much after standing for hours.  That makes it so much easier for me to want to be active.

I think the main reason why I didn't workout or take advantage of my 3 week break from roller derby was to give my feet (Mainly my left foot because of the plantar fasciitis that had developed early last year) some rest to heal.  It worked!  I haven't had any pain in my feet in a while.  I also recently found out that I have been wearing the wrong size shoes for the last decade or so.  I finally have a pair of shoes that fit, and I feel a major difference, and I've only had them for a week and a half.

So this is my word of advice: If you've never had your feet measured, get them measured!  It helps a TON.  Also if you have lost weight, get them measured again.  Your feet shrink, and your size my shrink as well!

So I weighed myself this morning, and I weighed in at 254.0.  That means I lost 1.2 pounds from last night.  I'm excited.  Within the next couple of weeks (Mostly when I can afford it), I want to start going back to the gym.  I am looking into various gyms, but I feel like I am going to go back to the gym I went to before I joined roller derby.

So until next Friday!  Have a healthy week!  :)

DFTBA

~Alicia~

New Years weigh-In and my intentions for the year!

Hello everyone!  It's been a couple of weeks.  I didn't post on the Friday after Christmas, or any of the other days following that because I was stupid busy.  Having two jobs that are both primarily weekend jobs can be kind of hectic, but when you need the money, you kind of have to get over that.  Also that Friday I didn't weigh in.  I woke up basically an hour before I had to go to work that day, so that was completely at the back of my mind.

ANYWAYS!

I did weigh in this past Friday, and with no surprise to me, I rang in the new year at 255.2 pounds.  I knew I was going to gain.  Next year, I think I am going to ask to not get candy in my stocking because most of the weight I gain was from having too much candy.  I tried to limit my candy intake, but it was just too much of a temptation for me.  But all of that is in the past and I have to focus on the now.

It is the new year, and with the new year comes New Year's Resolutions.  If you have watched any of my videos in the past, you'll have learned that I really don't like making resolutions.  Resolution has a very negative vibe about it because almost everybody who makes them, never really follow through with it.  Most of the people set these goals for things they never do in real life, and the moment they feel uncomfortable with it, they immediately say "I'm done."  I just don't like the feeling of setting up something that I will fail at eventually, so I just never make them.

I just read the perfect article about this very subject.  I finally found somebody who is very like minded about resolutions as me.  Here's a link to that article if you want to read it.  The long and the short of the article is that instead of making resolutions, she makes new year's intentions.  She says in her article, "Intentions are more about progress rather than a specific end point."  I like the idea of focusing more on my progress.  That's why I'm not so adamant about making a goal weight because I'd feel really crappy if I could never get there.  

She also says write them down, so I am going to do that.  So here are my 2015 (and beyond) intentions:

• The 27 laps in 5 minutes are my bitch! 
• Fried foods and sodas can kiss my grits! - I feel so much better when I don't eat fried foods or drink soda.
• My videos are sweet! - I really want to make videos again!
• Working out is my best friend for life! - whether it's at a gym or at home, I want to work out more.
• Finally my book shelf holds more read books then to-be-read books! 
• Water is fabulous! - I just want to drink more water.

Have you all made New Years intentions?  I'd like to know!  :)  

I hope you all have had a wonderful start to the year.  Now that derby has started back, I am going to be a busy bee.  I'm excited!  It's going to be an awesome year!  I can feel it in my bones!  

"You didn't post last week!"

Yes I know.  I didn't feel right posting my video from last week.  I weighed in at 248.2.  "That's great!" I bet you are saying, and yeah it's amazing.  HOWEVER!  Tuesday I was sick and throwing up, and Wednesday I was weak, and didn't feel like eating.  So yeah, I'm not very proud of that weight loss.

It is a new week though.  And I have decided that I am no longer going to video my weigh-in's anymore.  I am going to be going based on the honor system.

I weighed in at 242.0, so that means from two Friday's ago I lost .2 pounds.  I am just getting started.

I have a break from Roller Derby for the next two weeks, and I promised myself that I would work on my endurance the next couple of weeks.  We will be working on assessment stuff he week we get back, so I really want to pass!

That's it for this week!

Love you all!

~Alicia~

Friday's starting weigh-in...four days late.

Whoops!

I was mostly just waiting for the video to render, and today was the first day since it processed that I could post a blog.  *waves fist*

So the video is flipped upside-down.  I am going to play around and see if there is a better way to film so I don't have a flipped video.

So my starting weight is 252.2  with a fat percentage of 44.5% and water weight of 39.7%.

So if you followed my weight loss from 2013, you know that I am only 3 pounds less than my starting weight at the beginning of that year.  Me no likey.

My body measurements were:
Left Arm: 15 inches
Right Arm: 15 inches
Bust: 43 inches
Waist: 39 and a half inches
Stomach: 51 inches
Hips: 49 and a half inches
Left Thigh: 30 and a half inches
Right Thigh: 31 inches
Left Calf: 18 and a half inches
Right Calf: 18 and a half inches

I will only be measuring myself at the beginning of each month.  It's easier that way, and I feel like I don't lose a lot of inches week to week.  Hopefully this Friday, the video will process faster, so I can have it up on time!

Love you all bunches!
~Alicia~

Here's what's going to happen.

I have fallen way off of my fitness and well being.  I hate it so much because I feel it a lot worse than I have ever in my life.  My body never acted negatively to weight gain, but recently it seems to be the reason why my body is not liking me right now.  Playing roller derby and practicing on a regular basis is helping gain the weight faster than I would have without it.  However, with how intense the practices have been getting, my weight is making almost impossible for me to give my all that I know I have in me.

So something has to give!

So here's whats going to happen.  I am going to start filming my weigh-in's again.  That seemed to help me a lot when I did it at the beginning of 2013, so I'm going to see if that helps me again.  I felt like it kept me accountable because I was making them public for the world to see.  I am going to be super embarrassed by what my starting weigh-in will bring because I have basically gained all the weight back.  :/  Though instead of the videos going on my youtube channel, I am just going to post the videos straight to here.  No talking, no excuses, just the weigh-in.  I'm keeping it short and sweet, and any comments I need to make I will type out as a blog.  I will measure myself at the beginning of every month like before and post the results as separate blog posts.

I will stick to this.  I really want to get better at roller derby, and I can't really do that if I don't actively try to better myself.

DFTBA everyone.  <3 you!    

On the road to start running again.

I am bound a determined to start running again.  I felt like when I was running last year, it was a great and healthy way to kind of release built up tension and anger.  I might be the only one who's like that, but I always felt happier after I ran.

One of my derby team mates, UpTa No Good, posted on our facebook page about this 10K/5k/mile run that's going on in August, and she was looking for other people to join, and was thinking it would be a good place to advertise and possible recruit for our team.  The place it's going to be held at is an untapped derby mine, and we are the closest team to this area.  I thought why not?  I have been wanting to get back into running, but all I needed was the motivation to push me to doing so.

Not only do I have this as my motivation, but my friend, Hayley, also is just now starting to run.  I told her if she needed a jogging buddy, I would definitely would be down to join her.  Luckily she said that would be awesome, and we have planned to start running together at least one a week.  We were going to start today, but as we got out there it started to rain pretty heavily.  We got one lap in, if that counts.  

I'm really wanting to start doing the couch to 5k program.  I've heard good things about it, but I wouldn't have any way of keeping track of the time.  

Has anybody done the couch to 5K program without the use of the smart phone app?  If so, please let me know how you did it because that would be very helpful!

I hope you all have a great day, and DFTBA

~Alicia~

Rethinking Things/A New View.

     I am in desperate need of stepping back and rethinking how I am doing things with my fitness.  I have fallen of the deepest of ends, and I need to fix that big time!  Trying to do the ab challenge (Which I completely failed at if you haven't noticed) made me realize something: I don't like doing the same thing over and over again.  It bored me to dead, and I lose interest in it really quickly.  Because of this, I have not been doing may exercises, excluding derby, and it has resulted in me gaining weight again.  I HATE IT!  So one change is that I am no longer going to be doing any more of those workouts that make me do the same exercises everyday.
     I am very lucky that I still have Roller Derby and love it to my core.  It has definitely kept me from gaining the weight back quickly.  We always do something different, and to me that keeps it exciting and fun.  I am definitely progressing as the time goes by.  We had our minimum skills assessments this week, and I still have a couple of things to work on, but all in all I am ten times better than I was when I went through the assessments for the first time.  Luckily we will be going over what I need to do at next practice, and maybe I'll pass those things next week, and I'll get to participate in my first bout in a month!  I love this sport and the team I'm apart of, and I think that is what's keeping me coming back!  I wish I would have joined when I first got my car!
     Outside of practices, I do need to start working out again.  I'm not going to get better if I don't put my 100% in everyday.  I just need to add some spontaneity to my workouts to keep me interested.  I think I might go through and watch a bunch of workout videos, and write down all of the ones I want to do.  I will then number them, and use a number generator to choose which one I want to do.  I'll see how that works.  I also want to start running and dancing again.  I need to build up my endurance (more so that doing my laps will be easier), and those are the two things that I have enjoyed doing endurance wise.  It's still too cold for me to run outside, but I have access to the rec center, and I have plenty of dance videos that I want to learn.  It helps that I have a boyfriend who likes to do things and be active.  We have been wanting to play tennis for the longest times, but snow and other weather elements have kept us from doing that.   He also likes to be outside.  He likes to fish, hike, and just enjoy nature, and I love that!
     As far as my food consumption goes, I have not been doing so hot.  And yes I refuse to call it a diet.  Diet makes me think of failure, and failure sucks!  I have been eating fast food more often than not, and I haven't really been making my meals like I should.  That's one habit I need break fast.  In fact I decided to give up fast food for lent.  I did really good last year giving up friend foods for lent, so I'm hoping for the same success.  I also have been eating bigger portions, and boredom/emotional eating have also been a habit I've taken back up.  I have done that since high school.  Soda is also something I need to cut back on hardcore.  When you work at a movie theater with a soda fountain that's always tempting you, It's very hard to not give in.  Though I have re-found my love for water in the past couple of days, so that might help.
     I've also decided that in order for me to make my fitness not feel like a chore is to not have scheduled blog posts.  It's the reason why I didn't completely stick with the weekly vlogs I did last year.  It started feeling like a burden, and it also started getting boring.  I want to have fun with this, so I am going to post when I feel inspired, or when I find a workout or recipe that I absolutely love and want to share.  I feel like it will be more real, and maybe make it more fun.
     Until next time, I hope you all have a great day!

Best wishes and DFTBA
~Alicia~