I’ve been watching What Not to Wear again, so when I tried on clothes today to see what in my wardrobe went with what, I tried belting the waist over top of the blouse with a skinny belt, like they recommend. With the right bottoms (waist band at the waist and not lower), it really does dress up an outfit and make me look taller. Taller is good. I came up with about a dozen dressy outfits with just a pencil skirt and my cuffed crop pants. I think they all look good on me, and it is important to me when I’m trying to lose weight that I have clothes that I can wear NOW that I feel I look good in. You might think it would make me not care whether I lose weight or not, but actually it makes me feel that it is possible that I could look REALLY good, so I am willing to try harder.
Anybody else feel that same way!
How are you other gals doing on your food control and exercise? Still motivated to make this the summer we all do it? Wouldn’t it be cool if, by the time we meet in August, we lose an entire person (in weight, of course). It might be a small person, say 60 or 70 pounds, but we should see if we can do that together. I hope to contribute 20 pounds lost and Dad will contribute at least as much. He is really motivated to lose now, too.
By August, I would LOVE to lose 15 lbs. Nathan says he will go for 15 too 🙂 Let’s do this!
We both ran about two miles tonight.
And I really like the show “What Not To Wear”. Having clothes that fit well makes such a big difference.
I went for a jog this morning and yesterday morning–I’m “training” for my 5K on June 7th–and I’m starting to get some endurance back. 🙂 Plus the kids just LOVE going out with me (Chloe on her bike and Josiah in the stroller). I’ll jump on board the goal to lose 15 pounds by August too. I think that’s doable.
I absolutely love that show!
I was secretly (not so secretly now) hoping to lose 30 more pounds by the time we saw everybody. It’s one of my summer goals. I also have a dress that I would really like to fit into for a date night with Luke before the end of summer AND I would like to do a 5K.
Too optimistic?
Krista
Maybe a little optimistic, but that’s okay as long as you don’t give up if you start to fall behind the progress you hope to make. You should be able to lose about twice what I can just because you are that much younger and your body burns off fat faster. I lost 10 pounds in one week when I was your age. And I was eating, not starving myself. I did eat a lot of fish!
I wonder if there’s a race that we could all sign up to do over the weekend of the family reunion? Not all of us would be running (I would not) but if there’s a walking side of things, then even us non-runners (for the moment) could get involved.
I think that would be a lot of fun!
My main hesitation is the cost. Around here, it is hard to find a race that is less than $25. EACH. I’m not THAT interested in being part of a race, particularly since I’m not at a speed where I’d have any chance of placing. Maybe we could arrange our own “race” and have tee shirts made and Erica and Tim could invite some other people, so it isn’t just us! Doing the event together sounds fun. I’m just not up for the cost.