Tuesday, July 26, 2011

the new normal



Dress / Shoes: Target
(the strap broke off the back, so I cut them both off to make flip flops)

It's your lucky day! 
I'm back (in this unexciting, boring, black dress)!

I'm sorry for not posting an "extended absence" and also for not for warning all you faithful "Hookers" that I would would be breaking from the inter-web for such a long time. Truthfully, I didn't know I would be gone this long!

Tomorrow marks my one week anniversary of joining Weight Watchers (standing ovation) - I've known for months that I wanted to start getting my weight under control, it's just taken me forever to finally come to the realization that I lack motivation and that an actual diet with weigh-ins / meeting / guidelines / point values /restrictions was needed for me to take it seriously. I'm sure none of you really care if I'm on WW or drugs, but I feel in a way that by me telling you, it will keep me accountable and make me follow through with my commitment to weight loss / healthy life. 

I have chosen to NOT use the scale in my house (in fact, I have asked John to hide it) so that I don't become obsessive or discouraged. Almost 2 years ago was diagnosed ADHD and prescribed medicine helping me to focus, it was around the same time that I made the drastic decision to eat a gluten free diet (for no specific reason, except that I had read somewhere that people who ate gluten had more migraine headaches), this was also the same time I discovered Ashtanga yoga  .... all this while being a stressed out college student! Needless to say all these things were a match made in weight loss heaven. In a little less than 6 months I was 54 lbs lighter, a straight 'A' student, a 'yogi' interested in learning how to teach, with no more migraine headaches. I was on top of the world.

And then I joined the (dun, dun, dun) REAL WORLD. I no longer had the ability to plan my life around my yoga schedule and no more restaurant cash to buy all my favorite organic / gluten free groceries. In the midst of moving away from home for the first time, struggling to make friends, living with John, and learning a new job, my Dad decided he wanted to leave my mom. All of these things were a recipe for a weight gain disaster! If there was a trophy for depressed eating, I would have it. I was unhappy to say the least.

It's taken time for my sisters and my mom and I to get used to our new "normal" - and for me to settle into my new life away from home, friends and routine ... but joining WW was the first step for me. I have not fully committed myself to stay on their "diet" since I have proven to myself in the past that I do KNOW HOW to loose weight and loose it in a healthy way - I'm planning to use WW as my "starting point."

I am happy to report that over the course of first week on WW I have faithfully followed and stayed within my daily point allotment. I am still able to drink (I know you all were worried) - I quickly figured out that the more exercise I get, the more I can drink. All I can say is that Remy is REAPING the benefits of this new "exercise to drink more" plan! Tomorrow is my first official weigh-in while on the "diet"- and on the bright side, if I haven't lost any weight, I've become a boss at addition and subtraction!

*If anyone knows any AWESOME WW foods, tips, tricks, etc.... hook it up! 

Friday, July 15, 2011

im blue




Dress: LOFT
Sweater: Gap
Purse: Kate Spade
Shoes: Target
Sunglasses: Ray Ban 


I'm BLUE ba da ba be da ba da!


I have managed to wear a BLUE dress EVERY single day this week! how's that for impressive? Just to switch things up - I added my pink sweater in an attempt to "brighten things up."


*Still no peanut gallery comments, but like i said it usually takes 3 times and this is only time number 2. I'll give it another wear before I start swearing off cheesy animal prints altogether. 


I have to say that if every week began on a Wednesday, ended on a Friday, and only consisted of 3 working days .. I may actually be able to handle this whole "work" thing. 3 days is just perfect, not too much that you get overwhelmed and tired, and not too little that you don't feel as if you didn't accomplish anything. 


Needless to say, my 3 day work week still required a happy hour (or 2).

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

cheers!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNIE BANANIEE!
I've waited 21 years for this day....
Drink up little sister!
Love you








CHEERS!

the friend dress




Shoes: Cole Haan
Sunglasses: Ray Ban


Back to work means back to routine and back to outfit pics and daily blog posts. lucky you!


After 13 days out of the office I'm pretty sure my closet was showing the beginning signs of separation anxiety...


This blue dress is an oldie-but-goodie. I bought it the week before I started my "real job" and it always kinda makes me feel a little bit like I'm playing dress up for take your daughter to work day (the one day of the year I wish my mom wasn't a teacher .. lets be honest who wants to get out of going to school just to have to go hang out with your mom at HER school - it was ALWAYS a total let down!). I remember the first day I wore this dress to my new "real job" -  It was this dress that woke-up the office peanut gallery, evoking compliments and conversation .... thus creating my current group of oh-so-constructive, crap talking work-friends that (ruthlessly) gauge my outfits each day :) 


good dress. better memories.

NY state of mind.



Geez louise I've been gone for so long I don't even know where to begin! And so because I'm lazy and tired of looking at a computer screen (welcome back to work!) I think I'm just going to let the pictures that I took over the past 13 days do the talking for me:) Capiche?


John and I spent 4th of July weekend in St. Augustine celebrating with all my homies at a 3rd of July pool party that Ellie and I threw at my mom's house .. complete with vodka, corn on the cob, vodka, vodka, hamburgers, vodka, potato salad, vodka, and beer. Needless to say vodka and I are now not speaking to one another. I'm considering a restraining order.


grocery shopping for the party!
oh ya.. and i got a haircut from my oh-so-talented friend Kelley!


I left on the 5th to go to New York City for a work event that included 2 full length runway shows, an Olympic Gold Medalist speed skater, a vodka sponsor (I had to break it to vodka then that it and I could no longer be friends), and some AMAZING 2012 Ski fashion designers!


That night John met me in NYC (his FIRST time ever in the city!) after the event was over and we managed to not waste a second of his 10 hours in the big apple - dispite his complaining that his feet hurt from all the walking...pshh. cry me a river. 


The Hudson Hotel Rooftop Bar





The NY cheesecake experience

You like my feather?


The next morning John and I headed to Penn Station to take the Amtrak to Westport, NY (an hour outside Lake Placid) to meet my mom and sisters to hang out at my grandparent's lake house.


And without further adieu I am going to stop here and let the the pictures tell the rest of the story of our mini-vacation in the Adirondacks. enjoy :)



@ The Lake Placid Olympic Ski Jumps



The cousin side-pony bowling league


Chapel Island



Lake Placid Ben & Jerry's

Family picture night

Bluff Island excursion



My footwear of choice for the trip .. judge me:)


Saranac Lake 2011