What a great start to the challenge. I really needed this little kick in the butt to get back in gear. Thank you, thank you, thank you to my team the Queens of the D&D! It was a huge help to me to have a team out there depending on me.
Starting weight: 210
Week 1: 207.1
Total Loss: 2.9 lbs
Goal for Challenge: 200
Pounds to go: 7.1
I am really excited. This is a great start and I really needed to get back on track. I was slowly slipping the wrong way on the scale and hating it. My lowest weight was around 170 and I would love to get back there. This is a great kick off to that goal. I am so pumped. I have gotten back to my c25K training, week 5 day 2, 8 minutes runs, OMG! What scares me more than that is a 20 minute run by the end of the week. But I did meet a huge goal this week already, I ran/walked 3 miles Monday. It felt great, and it happened kinda by accident. I got on the treadmill to do my c25k and when I was done with the intervals, I felt so good I wanted to add another one, the next thing I knew I had hit 3 miles. I know that it isn't good to go beyond the training guidelines and I won't push the envelope that far again, but I think for my personal moral I needed to show myself that I could do it. To get beyond the fear. It was a very empowering experience. I find myself actually getting almost excited to do a run now. I mean there is still that little bit of dread that oh gosh I am going to sweat and smell bad and be tired, but the feeling of accomplishment when I am done is awesome.
I have also started backing my lunch and snacks for work so that I can be sure to have something good for me, or at least not fast food, and I can track things much better when I take time to measure. Thank goodness for summer and fresh veggies too. I was just complaining to my sister on Sunday that I wished I had planted a garden this year cause the cucumbers are coming in and I hate to buy them when if I had planted them I would have more than I could stand right about now. Wouldn't you know it if I didn't get a bag from Kris' grandma and then today I got some more from a friend of mine. Yeah!!
So how was yuor week?! do tell! And make sure to check out how the rest of the sisterhood did.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
Laughter
For a little while now I have been suffering from the blues. Not exactly sad, just in a funk. It is kind of awful to be going through, just that icky feeling that you can't shake. But I have found a cure. Laughter. Laughter is the best medicine. I had a friend call me today that always makes me laugh. It is a work friend and we coordinate jobs together. I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes. It was wonderful. It put a smile on my face for the rest of the morning. It helped put the little irksome things that bother me into perspective. I needed that call more than anything today and I am happy to know that I have a friend out there that can bring that to me when I am struggling.
I think this Monday was harder than usual because I had had such a great weekend. I spent the entire weekend with my husband. For the first time in over 6 months we actually sat and watched a movie together that we both enjoyed. Gary is not one to watch a movie much less enjoy it. We went out to dinner together, we went shopping (ok so it was Home Depot), we fixed Sunday breakfast. It was a nice weekend and then yesterday afternoon I got to pick Kris up from his Dad's. It was awesome. We meet at a park half way between our house's and Kris came running down the sidewalk yelling, "Mom, Mom your here, I missed you." I loved it. He hadn't done that is a long time. He is mellowing in his "old" age (all of 7 and a half) and I loved hearing him call me from across the park, he couldn't wait to jump in my arms for a hug. So you can see why it was so hard to leave my sleeping husband and son and come to work to face another Monday. But laughter, laughter makes it all better.
Thank heavens for friends!
And on a completely unrelated note I got a new scale today for the new challenge. I am pretty excited, it logs your last weight and tells you how much you have lost. Pretty nifty I think. I was so excited I went into the store and bought it and opened it while still in the parking lot, which was a good thing because the scale on the outside was not what was on the inside. So I had to go back in an exchange it for the right one. Which of course they were out of, so I got to upgrade. Pretty cool if you ask me. Hopefully the 2 mile run I put in last night and the shred that I am planning for tonight, help to make the numbers on it go down!
I think this Monday was harder than usual because I had had such a great weekend. I spent the entire weekend with my husband. For the first time in over 6 months we actually sat and watched a movie together that we both enjoyed. Gary is not one to watch a movie much less enjoy it. We went out to dinner together, we went shopping (ok so it was Home Depot), we fixed Sunday breakfast. It was a nice weekend and then yesterday afternoon I got to pick Kris up from his Dad's. It was awesome. We meet at a park half way between our house's and Kris came running down the sidewalk yelling, "Mom, Mom your here, I missed you." I loved it. He hadn't done that is a long time. He is mellowing in his "old" age (all of 7 and a half) and I loved hearing him call me from across the park, he couldn't wait to jump in my arms for a hug. So you can see why it was so hard to leave my sleeping husband and son and come to work to face another Monday. But laughter, laughter makes it all better.
Thank heavens for friends!
And on a completely unrelated note I got a new scale today for the new challenge. I am pretty excited, it logs your last weight and tells you how much you have lost. Pretty nifty I think. I was so excited I went into the store and bought it and opened it while still in the parking lot, which was a good thing because the scale on the outside was not what was on the inside. So I had to go back in an exchange it for the right one. Which of course they were out of, so I got to upgrade. Pretty cool if you ask me. Hopefully the 2 mile run I put in last night and the shred that I am planning for tonight, help to make the numbers on it go down!
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Down and Dirty
Ahhhh, the challenge at the Sisterhood starts today. My challenge started this morning when I couldn't get into my regular email. So I apologize to anyone who emailed me and thinks that I am not responding. Also I have my horrible dial-up internet today and I am forced to use my husbands laptop computer, it is not my favorite keyboard, I spend more time hitting backspace than any other key lol.
Anyway I wanted to make sure I got on and blogged today so that my weigh-in would be out there for the 9:00 deadline tonight.
Starting Weight: 210
Goal: 200
Here we go down and dirty in 30. I am very excited to be starting a new challenge and also to be doing it with a team. I am one of those people that does better when other people are depending on me. Good luck to everyone, this should really be fun.
I have to run and get my shred in for the day before I get to busy with the usual Sunday cleaning, scrubbing and running around. Good Luck Everyone
Anyway I wanted to make sure I got on and blogged today so that my weigh-in would be out there for the 9:00 deadline tonight.
Starting Weight: 210
Goal: 200
Here we go down and dirty in 30. I am very excited to be starting a new challenge and also to be doing it with a team. I am one of those people that does better when other people are depending on me. Good luck to everyone, this should really be fun.
I have to run and get my shred in for the day before I get to busy with the usual Sunday cleaning, scrubbing and running around. Good Luck Everyone
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