A great find including an NSV!

Posted on May 28, 2012 by makingovermerbear

I was searching everywhere for my padded bike shorts. I went through every drawer, clothing bin and even cleaned out my closet. I didn’t find them inside and went to check if I had any more boxes in the garage. I did, they were even labeled “good exercise clothes to be saved til skinny.” Okay, that sounded kind of promising! I opened the box and I giggled with glee as I saw running shorts, wicking tops, warm up pants and sports bras! Nope, no bike shorts, but who cares, I am going to save tons of money now! My workout stuff is getting a bit big so I’m super pumped! I ran in the house and tried stuff on and the mediums all fit! Oh and I saw another box labeled “small, keep for later,” and I brought that in, too. The box had my cute Victoria’s Secret bras & bottoms as well as my assorted bikinis! Uuuh people….THEY FIT! Omigosh, I’m summer ready!

So….I never did find my bike shorts, I swear they are somewhere tho….but I saved lots of shopping dollars!!!!

w00t!

<3 Merbear

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Love & Life!

Posted on May 27, 2012 by makingovermerbear

I’m getting married!!!!!!

I have 15 lbs or so left to lose on Slimgenics, I’m running in a marathon relay on June 3rd and I’m getting married!

I’m not going to post all about getting married or making this a wedding blog or anything like that here…but, its a big life change and obviously affects me so here and there you guys will definitely hear about how my wedding plans tie in with my weight loss, future weight maintenance, running, food, etc etc!

So first…here’s some engagement pics from Ryan proposing to me last night (May 25th):

 

My love

Happy Girl!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Engagement Ring

 

Wedding Band

 

Other than this amazing development in my life..

….I’m going to run 5 miles on Memorial Day with Kelly she brought my Minneapolis Marathon Relay team together! She is such an amazing friend and an inspiration in determination to achieve goals. She’s been training since 2011 for the Grandma’s Marathon this summer. I am so proud of her, Follow the link and check out her blog!

My other relay team friends are Amanda and Corryn!

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Who’s legs are those?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by makingovermerbear

On Sunday afternoon, I was waiting in the car at the mall while Ryan ran an errand. I was sleepy from the warm sun and a tasty, healthy ahi tuna salad lunch.

I was in the passenger seat in the front of the car. I kicked off my shoes, moved the seat back and put my feet up on the dash….Aaah naptime.

I opened my eyes in the middle of my dozing and looked up….Uuh, aré those MY skinny legs? Well, I can feel when I touch them. They have familiar scars, definitely my pale color.

Dang! I HAVE SKINNY LEGS!

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40 lbs down!

Posted on May 10, 2012 by makingovermerbear

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Yesterday at Slimgenics I officially hit the 40 lbs down milestone.

I’m not done yet, but I’m almost there. I’ve learned so much from Slimgenics about healthy ways to quickly prepare meals at home. I’ve overcome cravings and how to make healthy “treats.”

The foods I miss have changed since I started back in January. I was missing pizza, ice cream, mac ‘n cheese and chocolate.  It’s not like I will never eat those again…but what I’m truly hankerin’ for now are healthy foods that just aren’t part of the Slimgenics plan and I’m not worried about adding them back like avocado, melon, cheese, carrots, white onion, and whole wheat pasta.

I’m also excited to be able to run more and train to be faster once I can pre-fuel and re-fuel runs a bit better. Right now my carbs are limited so I run out of steam at about the 45 min mark. I don’t have to stop, I just slow down quite a bit. I can’t have Gu, Gatorade, Bananas, Chocolate Milk, or peanut butter on Slimgenics so you runners can see my difficulty.

Fortunately, due to my weight loss and training I have done I can get a lot further in 45 mins than I used to!  A 5K used to take me 50 mins, now its more like 37 mins! Woo!

Thanks for all your support everybody! Here, on Twitter, on Facebook and on Daily Mile!

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I was only up 1/4 lb! Phew!

Posted on May 5, 2012 by makingovermerbear

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Aah! I don’t feel guilty, stop it brain!

Posted on May 5, 2012 by makingovermerbear

I told you guys about the jelly beans a couple weeks ago.  I made that decision..it was a few jelly beans…and it didn’t affect my weigh ins the following week…but even if it had..I was cool with it…I made a purposeful decision to have a few jelly beans.  My boyfriend made a decision to have some lemon heads…and we moved on….it was cool..and its in the past.

So, last night I was out to dinner with my girlfriends…at a mexican restaurant…we picked it as our version of a little Cinco De Mayo get together.  We went to A La Salsa at Midtown Global Market…great place, lots of choices…lots of authentic mexican food..you can have chicken, fish, steak, grilled veggies, cactus leaf stuff, tamales, rellenos, enhiladas…they have the stuff americans want..the mexican classics…and some fabulous traditional mexican dishes.

I made my decision….a mole covered 1/4 chicken (white meat) dish. It came with corn tortillas…I was going to have one (that is on my plan)…not eat any rice and have grilled veggies and no beans.

Well….then there was corn chips in front of me.  I went over the menu…looked at the corn chips…my friends can vouch for me, I didn’t dive into the tortilla chips as soon as we sat down…I stated “let me look over the menu and see if I can have some chips”.  I shouldn’t have even done that….fried, fatty corn tortilla chips DO NOT equal a fresh corn tortilla Meredith…WHY are you even thinking of switching them out….

..but I did…I haven’t had a CHIP since January..I decided I could have a few…instead of the corn tortilla…so I did…and I didn’t feel guilty..and I moved on.

Well…now its the next morning…I dunno if I’m guilty, or if I’m sorry that maybe the scale has “caught me in the act”.  I don’t feel like having a few chips..and honestly it wasn’t very many, my friends could tell you that…not even half of the little basket…I counted, I had maybe 10-15…honestly.

I think I’m just PISSED that the scale isn’t down like it normally is on Saturday mornings…UGH, I depend on my Saturday mornings as a nice loss as a push through the week….I lose  little during the week, too..but its Saturday mornings that are my big loss, the one I officially record, etc.

I’m the same as I was last night…and MORE than I was last Saturday…like by almost two pounds. I also have TOM coming up so that’s fighting me as well.  So I’m sitting here saying “why did I do that? why did I have chips?” but its not because I don’t think it was okay to have chips, but because its making me mad at my weight and the scale. YES, I’m still down just shy of 40 lbs…..but UGH…stupid scale.

I’m going to have some cleansing tea, a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, drinking hot lemon water now..maybe it’ll take the “edge” off some of this bloating….going to weigh in at Slimgenics in about 3 hours…wish me luck…..

<3 Merbear

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Owie my hip

Posted on May 2, 2012 by makingovermerbear

Turns out I walk a little funky, which wasn’t a huge issue….until I became a runner. Now, running 3x a week and sitting at work 5 days a week make my hip joints and related muscles sore.

My personal trainer is helping me by giving me ways to focus my posture when walking, standing and running. Basically I need to make sure my hips are “locked in” tilted forward. Those who do yoga or even who know correct form for able crunches should know what I’m getting at. The correct form makes my hips, pelvis and feet point forward and even a little “out to the sides” more than my normal, incorrect posture.

She and my chiropractor also gave me stretches and exercises to strengthen and stretch out my legs and hips. I’m currently working on getting in and out of a chair with only one foot on the ground and no holding on! It’ll strengthen my glutes and help my hips stay pivoted forward.

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That’s my main focus right now is no more hip pain. It shows up right after I run and persists at least a day, which is no bueno.

Anyone have anything to add?

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A bit bummed

Posted on April 27, 2012 by makingovermerbear

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So I haven’t run since Sunday…I did 4 miles that day, it went really well. Then on Monday night I was tired, on Tuesday I did pilates in the morning and got too busy at home. Wednesday morning my hips were super tight and hurt, I stretched but no running. Wednesday night, still ouchie. Thursday morning dentist, Thursday night lots of stretching and yoga cuz I was still super tight.

Since I missed two training runs Smart Coach downgraded me back to 3 mile practice ones. A decent time for 6 miles on Jun 3 is still predicted in my training plan, but I really need to get my butt in gear and run EVERY training run no matter what!

I think one of the reasons I was so tired this week is cuz LAST week was a high protein extremely low carb week on Slimgenics and I got so sick of eating meat that I didn’t eat even when I was hungry and had more food available for the day. I ate all my allowed carb things and then stopped eating. So that 4 mile run really drained me, oops.

Here’s to running this weekend AND my two runs this week! (I hope)

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Oops….or maybe not?

Posted on April 22, 2012 by makingovermerbear

This weekend was excellent!  Friday night sushi with good friends, Sunday pedis and lunch with another good friend, date night on Saturday night with Ryan, a 4 mile run with a 12:30/min mile average and a great family birthday celebration for my sister. 

Slimgenics had us limited to raw green veggies and unlimited proteins on Saturday and Sunday this weekend. But, the kinds of proteins we can have are opened up to some items that are not normally allowed like ALOT more shellfish….Ryan and I definitely took advantage on date night! We went to Bubba Gump and had the steampot….which has  crab legs, mussels, shrimp and clams! Yum yum!

 

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Okay so for the oops…on our date night we went to see Cabin in the Woods…if you are a Joss Whedon fan, go see it! Dont’ listen to the reviews, just see it.  Aside from that we decided that we’d allow ourselves a movie snack….I didn’t go for popcorn, pretzels, hot dogs, nachos or anything along those lines…..I chose to have cherry Jelly Belly’s.  I figured..they are fat free and I have never EVER gone off plan. I needed a sweet treat, SERIOUSLY!  So, is that an oops..or an I planned it and that’s life?  I felt guilty this morning…but then…after thinking about it, I don’t. I didn’t have very many jelly beans, I truly enjoyed them, I run my butt off 3x a week and it was a special treat. (I’m not going to put them on my food log for the Slimgenics staff though, shhhh)

Today at my sister’s birthday dinner I didn’t have ANY cake or ice cream, I just ate salad and protein just like the weekend’s plan told me to I didn’t even eat any non-plan veggies or anything, I’ve been a good girl! I also ran today, too! So I am SUPER hungry. 

I feel good :)

<3 Merbear

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Shopping….

Posted on April 17, 2012 by makingovermerbear

….in my closet amd storage bins! Yeah baby!

This week I had to admit that another two pairs of pants were way too baggy. I know I shouldn’t complain….but that left me with just two pairs of work pants…and I thought I’d have to go shopping. I didn’t want to because I’ve still got about 25 lbs left….and a bunch of pants that I was sooo close to fitting in last week. Now, in actual lbs I lost 3 since last week….that doesn’t really sound like enough to be able to fit into pants in just a week! But….it was! I went from saying goodbye to two pairs of pants and hello to SEVEN MORE PAIRS OF PANTS!

Also, these pants are some of my favorites and they are average sized….12!! From some of my fav stores….Express, Ann Taylor Loft and NY & Co!

Onward and…downward? :)

<3 Merbear

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