HCTSGIFF

Holy Cow Thank Stinking Goodness It's Freaking Friday is my title :)

This week has been rough so I'm fairly proud of myself that I have managed to not eat the worst and I have gone running these last two days :) done with day 2 of couch to 5k! This morning I had raspberries for breakfast and soup for lunch with a vente water I'm halfway through. Bought a super cute dress last night that's BARELY too small for me. Everything fits perfectly but the zipper has issues the last 2 inches :) it's my Hawaii dress so I have some work to do! I think I can lose an inch or two in a week and a half. I'll do my darndest.

Not much to report. It's been a crazy day at work today. We had maybe a 30 minute break where the calls weren't back to back but been crazy besides that since this morning. I wouldn't be able to make it without my crazy co workers who make me laugh! Princess...you just crack me up. All day erryday ;) Michelle...sorry you're in pain today but know that you help make my days go by :) and Sam...what can I say. Locked bathroom doors and crazy bipolar married people :) 1 hour and 15 minutes to go for me.

I literally just looked down at my chair and thought to myself...why am I not wearing my seatbelt?!

Yes...I'm sitting at my desk. Not in a car. Apparently I feel like I need a seatbelt to deal with the crazy people I do all day :)

Anyways, James is going to Canada Sunday through Thursday....so I'm gonna work out and eat well so he can tell I'm skinnier when he gets back :) I'll be dog sitting for him so his dogs might be skinnier too!

Here's me today! I put make up on for once. Wearing a super cute skirt I got too ;) date night maybe? Let's see what I can talk James into!

Love, Me!

The Day Before Friday

Yesterday as a day was terrible....however I didn't do terrible on food after work which is good. I had a bagel w cream cheese for lunch and dinner was my favorite chicken enchilada with tomato soup. I ate about half the number of chips I usually do with it, and was able to stop when I was full instead of stuffing myself like I usually do with that meal (since it is my favorite). Did not eat anything else the rest of the night....

I COMPLETED DAY 1 OF COUCH TO 5K!

This is apparently my pre run look.

And this is Jenny's dog post run.

Felt okay after the run, my lower back hurt...so massage today maybe? My mom says if I exercise she will pay for my massages :)

Not too sore today which is good :) and started off the day with a bowl of honey bunches of oats...yes I was up early enough to eat them! Amazing. I've been monitoring my sleep so that should be interesting to see how that's working. I don't get very much sleep. I seem to have this subconscious thing where I find things to do up until around 11 pm before I force myself into bed and my morning alarm is set to wake me up during my lightest sleeping between 5:15 and 5:45. Which at the most is less than 7 hrs assuming I fall asleep right away. I'm going to try going to bed at 9 tonight and see what happens :)

Love,

Rachel

Bump on a Camel's Back Day

Today's post is all about perspective. 

Let's start with the fact that it's a Wednesday. Here we can go with the glass half empty glass half full scenario. Some people see it as the week being halfway over. Others see it as still having half a week to go. There's still the same number of days from Wednesday to Saturday...but your perspective will have an impact on your decisions. 

On my way to work this morning while driving around teeth clenchingly bad drivers...I was thinking about the saying going a mile a minute (since I was going 60 and was trying to figure out how long it would take me to get to certain exits :P) and I realized that going a mile a minute can be looked at with two perspectives. Normally this expression is used in reference to humans and busyness, and since it is not a normal human trait for us to physically be able to go 60mph without a car, you could be saying that someone is doing things unnaturally fast. Or for someone who does not know our strange English expressions that we have an abundance of, I would imagine for the saying "going a mile a minute" to make sense, it would require someone to get in a car and speed up to 60 mph. 

For some reason...this morning that seemed like a revelation especially when I think about my goals. How I strive towards my goals each day is a matter of perspective. If I look at my diet with the here and now perspective that I usually have...I eat too much. I'm hungry, I'm not satisfied, this tastes good so I'll eat the whole thing. If I look at it with the future perspective....like if I eat the 4pc fish and chips from burgerville then an hour later eat a Wendy's chicken sandwich, burger, and frosty...I will gain two lbs overnight. Let's just say yesterday was even worse than Monday and I tend to my "wounds" with food as a salve. And now I look back and say to myself "why did I not think of today yesterday?" now that my belt is buckled one hole looser than yesterday.

So frustrating. 

I have a firm belief that ANY diet will work if you have a future perspective. But how do I get there?

Everything in this culture is about the here and now. Just do it. Do what feels good. Buy this now (on credit but we aren't talking about my spending issues today!). Live in the moment. 

Let me tell you...if I lived in the moment my whole life, I would be 400lbs!! So obviously I have the capability to do it...I just don't. Why? No freaking idea but it drives me nuts.

If you have a secret to solving my problem let me know :)

Had coffee this morning...also have a large water and my normal bacon egg and cheese biscuit.

Not bad. Could have done without the coffee...oh well. I'll have subway for lunch instead of Taco Bell. 6inch.

Grrr.

Rachel

Tuesday is Better Than Monday

Starting the day with a large water and bacon egg and cheese biscuit.

Have raspberries for snacky type foods and more tomato soup for lunch. 

I've found out that I tend to fail after work so that's when I need to start paying super close attention to what I am eating. When I'm at work...I only have so many options of things I can eat. On the way home, the possibilities are pretty much endless. Taco Bell happened on the way home yesterday and after how bad of a day it was...I ate too much.

Also....no more Girl Scout cookies. I apparently can't control myself around them!

I was about to say "here's to hoping today is different" but that's my problem...I can't just hope. I have to actively DO something about it. Today is allergy shot day so exercise is out of the question..so gonna have to focus on my food intake. 

These idiots are the best diet plan ever :)

That's all for now folks! Tune in later for more riveting posts in the life of Rachel :P

Rach

 

Dreaded Monday...

I hate Mondays. Yes...I know everyone hates Mondays so I'm really not unique in that :) But Sunday nights then become torturous to me because I begin what I have termed "pre-dread" which is where I dread the dreading. It gets quite complicated from here :) Needless to say...today should be interesting. 

Update for the weekend....

Saturday:

Cheese and bacon bagel (yummy and not too much food) for breakfast...

Then nothing until garlic cheese bread, minestrone, and crab stuffed ravioli and spumoni ice cream all of which I ate waaaaaay too much of at dinner at the spaghetti factory. So thankfully I didn't eat lunch :)

Sunday: 

Blueberry scone with large water (instead of coffee like James got)

Shredded beef chimichanga and rice for lunch with my favorite 3 month old and her amazing parents :)

Also had a few Girl Scout cookies while hanging out with the best nephew in the whole world.

Aaaaaaand left over chicken enchilada with a few chips at 9pm since my stomach was yelling at me by  then.

Overall Sunday was better than Saturday. And I started out this morning getting up too late to get breakfast so I had 5 lemon Girl Scout cookies which is actually only 140 calories. I have more tomato soup for lunch. Mmmm. Which means no Taco Bell. Yay! If I don't bring lunch, Taco Bell is my go to because it is cheap and fast since I only have a 30 min lunch...so bringing my own food is a good start for me :)

That's all I have for now. Will post either later today or tomorrow if I have nothing exciting to say ;)

Love,

Rachie

Friday

Today started off on a good note. Woke up in time to have breakfast. Had a bowl of honey bunches of oats. And I brought my lunch today! Tomato soup from my favorite restaurant of all time Billy Blues in Hazel Dell. I'm there probably three times a week...it's bad :) It actually is bad though because I always get a chicken enchilada and eat waaaay too much of it. I'll need to start boxing up most of it before I start eating...

In between calls this morning I've been working on my new app called "spending". Appropriately named, it tracks my income and spending. I matched it with my primary checking account to start yesterday which was pay day. That way I can track my spending patterns. Here is my pie chart for spending in the last day :)

Will post more later! 

Rachel

Decisions and Outcomes

I've decided I need to start blogging. There are a few changes I am wanting to make in my life and am finding that while I'm not lacking accountability necessarily...since James and my family are all very supportive, it's just too easy to hide things from them (like eating a whole box of Oreos in an hour...) where it's harder for me to hide stuff when I write it all down :) maybe that doesn't make sense...but then again when does life make sense? 

My other reason is that while I enjoy Facebook...there are certain things I don't want to post for everyone to see and would prefer that only people who actually care would see it. So obviously if you're reading this right now you must love me ;)

I have a couple different goals that I would like to state here so me (and you) can track my progress over my posts.

1) I would like to lose 60-70lbs (yes guys I really need to lose that much)

2) I would like to become more financially stable, I would like to have an emergency fund of $300 to start, my goal is $800-$1000

Hoping that this second interview I just did yesterday (2/20/14) will result in me getting a job with Rebound Physical Therapy! That would give me an automatic 10% raise since I wouldn't be paying lame Oregon taxes anymore!!!

Today's first goal didn't go so well....have only been drinking water which is good and I had a bacon egg and cheese biscuit from mcdonalds which actually isn't bad for me as long as I don't get coffee too. But for lunch.....had a bean and cheese burrito aaand a crunchwrap supreme :/ such yumminess...too much food and not even good food....

Second goal isn't doing too bad. It's payday and I downloaded a few expense tracking apps that I'm going to set up tonight!

Nothing else exciting to report for the day. Will post tomorrow how my goals are going :)

Love,

Rachel