Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Is it August already?

It's been a long time since I've written, and I feel like I miss writing so much. I really want to get doing this again every day, but it's so hard when you're not in the rhythm to make it a priority. I'll try for September's challenge I suppose. Though, we're going to the shore Labor Day weekend, so I don't know how that will go (if we'll have wifi or not).

Life is going quite well. Things with Dylan are great, I've been having fun with friends and coworkers, I'm actually genuinely excited to try new things at work, and I'm about to go see my family for the third time this summer. I've decided to stay in my place for another year or so, even though Dylan got into the University of Pennsylvania. Both cats have been to the vet and are healthy. And I've been great with going to the gym and have even dipped below 200 pounds, though with eating a half a pizza last night, we'll see how I fare on the scale today!

So all these good things ought to make me the happiest girl in the world, right? Well, for the most part I am. But I still feel really anxious some days (usually Mondays), and I had a day on Saturday where all I wanted to do was sleep and sleep and sleep some more. I didn't want to watch shows or do things, I just wanted to nap. Dylan gave me kind of a hard time about it, and I don't know if it was from exhaustion or from a minor bought of depression, but it was hard for me to snap out of it. This upcoming weekend, going home for the summer picnic, is going to be more busy and crazy, so I won't have time to sleep the day away, but when we come back, I want to make an effort to get up by 9AM on the weekend and maybe do some light exercise to get my body going. Maybe write! Wink wink nudge nudge. I'd love to get into more of a routine on the weekend and maybe get stuff accomplished, but it's hard when Dylan's there and there's not much for him to do at my house except watch TV.

Anyhow, other than my anxious days and the occasional super sleepy day, life has been good. As I said, Dylan got into Penn and I couldn't be happier for him. He's already invested in lots of Penn gear - 2 sweatshirts, a polo and a cute sporty T-shirt for me! We decided to put off moving in together for the time being, since he doesn't have a job aside from tutoring and it could put a strain on us for him not to have an income and us having all sorts of expenses. I think it's smart, but there's still part of me that's yearning to come home from work each night and get to see him. Even if we don't hang out all night, just to be able to give him a kiss or make him dinner would be lovely. But all good things come in time. So I'm sure whenever it does happen, it'll be worth the wait. And by then, we'll be even more sure that it's right.

Work has been pretty exciting, as I said. I've been spending lots of time after work with other coworkers as well as investigating new avenues of work itself. I rented a car and took a trip up to Morristown to meet with our resident social media expert on Monday. She told me a lot about what it is she does - profiling and auditing clients social media presence, sometimes in a crisis, to find out what people are saying (good and bad) and then making recommendations based upon this to help them engage with their customers or investors, whoever their audience might be. It's all incredibly interesting to me, and it's in a space I feel very comfortable in, since I've been involved in social media for the better part of 10 years on some level. I'm going to have one other chat today, with someone else in a different department. But I'm actually getting excited about new opportunities to learn and grow and work with different people!

I'm about to dive into my last full work day before my trip, and there's a lot to do, but I'm glad I could take a few minutes to write. I've owed it to myself, at the very least :)

Friday, August 10, 2012

Week 32

Got to the gym FIVE TIMES THIS WEEK. AND going to body combat Sunday. Hopefully that makes up for the fact that my 30 minute run on Monday consisted of 19 odd minutes of walking and jogging. Oh well. Lots of good things happening- dinner out for Kate's last day Thursday night and another dinner out to celebrate Dylan's getting into school Sunday night.




I also met with the fitness manager this week, Artis, who not only was shocked at my weigh-in, but told me that my body fat has gone from 31.8% to 26.9%! I was amazed.

So I'll try not to ruin this over the next couple of weeks by eating too much, and keep up the gym workouts. Here's hoping for more success!

Weight- 197lbs
30 Min. Run- None! :(
Pounds from goal- 13lbs

Friday, August 3, 2012

Week 31

Only got to the gym twice this week, but one was a great 30 min. run- getting back into the swing of things- and the other was an awesome and ass-kicking session with my trainer. I had a trip to NY Thursday and a very sleepy Amanda on my hands today (Friday), so hoping to get some activity in over the weekend (circuit on Saturday, dancing at a concert Saturday night, maybe body combat or treadmill at Dylan's on Sunday), and keep up my healthy eating habits. ASIDE, of course, for our plans to have ice cream and wine tonight.

Last I checked at the gym, I had lost another .2 pounds. Not much to speak of, but it wasn't a gain and MAN, I've lost a ton in a month and a half, I don't want to get greedy.

Thanks to all my facebook workout friends for their support and my other awesome facebook friends for cheering me on as I hit 100 pounds lost and beyond!

Weight- 198lbs
30 Min. Run- 2.62 (only .13 away from my highest this year!)
Pounds from goal- 14lbs