Thursday Update!

I have LOTS to talk about today, so let's get started, shall we??  Happy Thursday to you, angels!

Olympics

I believe that because of my Memorial Weekend hiatus, I neglected to blog about my Olympic ticket request results.  Not the best, I'm afraid.  I hadn't received a response, but I logged onto my account on the website and it indicated that my results were in.  Out of the 5 events I requested (3 swimming, 1 diving & 1 random beach volleyball game), I only got the one random beach volleyball game.  At first I was devastated, but then I got over it.

Turns out that they were only able to fill about 4.5% of the swimming requests.  Apparently they were only about to fill .5% (that is point five, not five) of the requests for the opening ceremonies.  I didn't request them, but I thought that was interesting.  Anyway...I'm not sure if that is indicative of how many people are REALLY going to go or if people were just requesting them for sale or maybe would only go if they got tickets.  I don't know.

Regardless, I'm going.  I spoke with my SIL and she agrees that we are moving forward.  There are still a couple of ways we might be able to get tickets before we go and we will exhaust those options.  But as I told my SIL, if my worst case scenario is watching Olympic events with actual Olympians on a Jumbotron in the middle of the actual Olympic Village...and then when we get tired of that, we can visit Westminster Abbey?  That just DOES NOT suck. 

Onward!  That said, if any of you all have any Olympic connections, email me!  :)

CrossFit

For those that are curious, this video is a good, quick overview of what CrossFit is.

Obviously there are things that I could not currently do, but like it says, it is scalable and I can work up to it.  I emailed the gym yesterday morning to tell them about myself and ask them their thoughts on me joining the program and I'm disappointed to say that they have not returned my email.  I had a bad experience with my last personal training (basically I thought he was a douchebag), but I want to give it another shot.  It would be nice to get some enthusiasm.  Oh well, maybe they are on vacation.  I'm just one of those folks who needs to walk through things first.

I have received so much amazing feedback on the program from anyone I ask.  My SIL's sister, B-Doo is a fitness beast and she highly recommends it.  I think that might have been what clinched it for me.  If my body could somehow looks like B-Doo's, that would just be unbelievable.  But I have to go for it, right??!?

** As I was finishing up this post, I got an email from the gym.  They said absolutely everything I wanted to hear.  She said that her twin sister had gastric bypass which comforts me so much!!  She also said that they will work with me on the Fundamental class schedules.  Looks like I will be going on 6/11.  ::Deep breath::  I have tears in my eyes right now which I know is silly.  But I so much want to be that badass fitness beast girl.  I'm terrified, excited, and impatient.  :)  I'm doing this!

Birthday

My birthday is next Tuesday, and we are going out Saturday night to celebrat.  Some girlfriends including the Debster and I will be headed to the amazing Fuzzy's Taco Shop for dinner.  After a few of us are going to see Bowling for Soup.  I LOVE that band!!

That is one of my favorite songs!  I can't think of a better way to spend the evening.  On my actual birthday, my friends at work (which for the most part are my besties anyway) are taking me to lunch and I think I'm going to choose Ziziki's which is my favorite Greek restaurant.  After work, my plan is to work out at the gym downstairs and then BFF, maybe Lizard, & I will go out for some super awesome treat like a bigass sundae or something.  :)  (BFF had mentioned going to dinner, but I decided that I wanted to do the workout/treat combo so I didn't get in too much of a hole with calories.  No guilt on the birthday!!)

I can't get over what a fun birthday month this is going to be!!

Weight

This morning I was already down two pounds from Tuesday.  I felt sure that some of the weight gain was bloat, but it always feels better to see the scale tell me it is so.  I revised some of my future goals.  I knew I was being ridiculously aggressive. But I didn't want to let go of them too much.  I'm hoping that my 10-day super focus with Debi and my start at Cross Fit will give me a jumpstart.  But if not, that's okay too.  I'm really continuing to learn to live my life in conjunction with my weight loss journey.  No putting life on hold anymore!!

HUGS!!