I ain't got no shoes.

I'm so mad at myself. Tonight I was all prepped to run my 4 on the tread. I search all over the house and can not for the life of me find my shoes. Most people would simply think to put another pair on, but I have none here. I took my extra kicks to the beach house and now I apparently have no foot wear. I called the gym...."yes, ma'am there is a pair like that in the lost and found". AWESOME. Well at least they aren't lost but I couldn't run tonight. So now I have to do my step class and then get my 4 in before I get my freaking wisdom teeth out. Yay. Do you feel my sarcasm?

So tomorrow I get my wisdom "tooth" out. I only have one, but nonetheless I am not excited at all about being in any amount of pain. I have no idea what is store for me in terms of food, and especially in terms of exercise. I have eaten ok, I started yesterday in hopes of clean eating, well that lasted all of 30 minutes. I was lucky to meet one friend for "coffee" but instead of getting a black coffee or tea I opted for a sugary disaster of a drink. Then I was able to be quite the socialite and have dinner with another friend and chose the chicken/beef teriyaki. Oh well, I always have tomorrow and the hope that getting a tooth ripped out of my head will keep the ol' appetite down.

Heres to hoping tomorrow doesnt hurt!

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I ate what?

So take a looksy at what I ingested today:

Peanuts,sugar, dextrose, vegetable oil (cocoa butter, palm, shea, sunflower and/or safflower oil), chocolate, nonfat milk, contains 2% or less of milk fat, lactose, salt, whey, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, corn syrup, soy lecithin, cornstarch, glycerin, TBHQ & PGPR, vanillin.

ICK. I feel gross. What the heck is PGPR? Whatever it is I'm sure it isn't good, or good for you. I have got to get back to eating a clean- er diet. Food like this makes you feel bad because it is bad. I feel dirty just talking about it. My mission going into my next week is to try and eat as clean as I can. I wont tell you what it is, but I will say that this peanut butter eggy wont be hatching any time soon ;)

Today was the 5 miler. YAY! I did it. Slow and steady was the name of the game, but I completed it and was so impressed with myself. Once again today, my problem was mental not physical. I am my own worst saboteur. I am going to start including my activity data for the week. I use a HR monitor and record my stats into a database every workout. I’m just posting cals burned for simplistic reasons. My HR stats for the week were:

•4/19 Step Class- 629 cals
•4/20 walk/run/walk- 1210 cals
•4/21 Step class- 1019 cals
•4/24 run-813 cals
•4/25 yoga- 101 cals
•4/25 run- 1355 cals

I’m pretty impressed with my activity for the week. I did take back to back rest days which is something I dont usually do and I missed two yoga classes, but this is a great start to tracking my activity. My food tracking, not so much. After Friday night I have not tracked well. Probably because I was ingesting crap. I will work on that as well this week. Tomorrow is weigh-in day and after all of the junk that has passed these lips Im sure sadly that some has landed on these hips.

Until then!





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911...

Um, yeah, I think we have an emergency. Someone come and PLEASE get the damn Easter candy out of my house. NOW! We never have food like this in the house and today was a perfect reminder as to why. Chocolate overload. I did however get a run in so maybe that will equal the playing field.

On another note, I just have to say that every time I have seen my page since posting those pics the first thing I keep thinking is "where in the hell did my chin go?" I'm so glad its back and I have sincerely vowed to never lose it again.

Nothing too exciting post, I have tracked. The hubs and I celebrated an anniversary and went to see James Taylor, yeah it rocked. I say that with all sincerity by the way, I love him. We also ended Lent. We are not Catholic, but we feel that giving something up keeps us focused during the season. We gave up FaceBook. What a time suck. Seriously, I mean I have enjoyed getting back online but really, I don't really care about most of the junk that is posted on it. But it is such a great tool for communicating quickly and efficiently. If I can just try and use it in moderation. Yeah...whatevs. Moderation is not a word that Capricorns like.

Well thats it for now. I have a 5 miler scheduled for tomorrow. I also have yoga. I shouldnt have run today, but I was behind from yesterday so Im hoping that it doesnt hurt tomorrow. Weigh-in as usual on Tuesday.
Have an awesome week!


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On track.

I've been keeping on track, I've been following my workout plan and my food plan and tracking my points. GO Me!
In weigh-in I lost 0.8. At least it was a loss. I'm happy about that. Yesterday I finally made it back to step, I love that class, I always leave feeling so empowered. Today I got in a 2 mi walk, 3 mi run, and 1 mi speed walk. Staying on track is hard, but I find it so much easier to stay on track when I work out. It makes me feel so good about what I have done that I refuse to un-do it.
So I was trying to find some pictures of me when I was thin.."ner", I say that because even when I was a size 3 I wasn't skinny. At least by my standards. I couldn't find many, probably because I would always shy away from it. This was me at my absolute heaviest. EVER. Way before WW. I had lost quite a bit of this weight before joining WW but this is my starting point. What makes it bad is that at the time I really didn't know how heavy I was. I would have generously described myself as "chubby". Chubby didn't even begin to describe it:



That is a far cry from this girl:



This was me today:


I'm getting there. I will get back there. Just seeing those pictures is motivating to me. What I don't understand is why no one mentioned it to me. Seriously. I needed a fat-tervention. I know I probably would have punched them in the jaw first, but then it would have sunk in and I would have appreciated the wake up call.

And just to ensure pure total picture overload, I haven't posted a food pic in a while. I eat a lot of the same foods, every day. I like it, I like habitual things. But I made these the other day and while they are no major revelation they were good, (well they were good the 2nd time I made them) I overloaded the salt on the first batch. Anywho...Sweet potato fries, sliced sweet potato, spritzed with EVOO and salt and pepper, baked at 350 until crispy.


And because I havent "quoted" you in a while heres one to take with you today:

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be” ~ George Sheehan

I believe in the person that I am on the inside, and while she is constantly changing, growing and learning, the reflection I create of the person on the outside is ready to be successful. Here's to a wonderful tomorrow!





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Ick free

FINALLY!
I am no longer going through a box of kleenex a day, nor am I having to resist falling asleep at any moment of the day. I am now ick free and back to living.
YAY.
To celebrate I picked right back up on my training as I was... I ran 3.5 miles today and loved it. I had to skip yoga this morning due to a an incident that involved my daughter throwing hand fulls of "wishing stones" into my pool. Awesome. We spent the morning fishing for stones. But at nap time, I rocked the treadz. Tomorrow I get to return to step class and I'm so very excited, its been a week and a half.

Weight loss? Well who know what the scale will say tomorrow as of today it hasn't moved and frankly I'm getting irritated. I don't know it I need to consume more or less. I have been eating my WP and my daily points with a remaining average of 40 AP. Nobody ever said this would be easy, but it sure is becoming monotonous. Good thing I'm still super excited about my workout routine, because my weight loss sure isn't motivating.

Life has been crazy to say the least. But you know...we love it. I can never ever say that being a stay at home mom is boring. I make sure that we are busy every single day. Church, JL, my sewing business...every day is exciting and new. This past weekend my parents helped us tremendously. My mom and I re-upholstered our boat and my dad and hubby remodeled out bathroom. Needless to say we are threadbare and sore, but it is beyond satisfying to look at our work.

Oh well I'll be back to weigh in tomorrow

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Shut the front door....

Seriously? It happens every freaking time and I'm not happy. Every time I regain my mojo and get into the groove I get sick. Granted I haven't had a good ol' fashioned sickness in a while (which I credit to the wonder of superfoods) but still it sucks.
I can't tell if its sinus or strep. I was leaning towards strep since I had no congestion. GRRRR. Either way I'm off schedule. Today was supposed to be 3.5 miles. That didn't happen since I couldn't breathe. Hopefully taking it easy today will find me back in the gym tomorrow. **fingers crossed**

I went into a clothing store the other day. How in the heck did I become so out of the fashion loop? Seriously I used to be so on top of the game. I need me some new digs. Have you even wanted new clothes and then say to yourself "I'm not buying any clothes until I lose ___ pounds?" Well that's me but its been like 10 years. LOL Seriously. I told my hubby the other day that I couldn't get rid of a certain shirt because I wore it before I had the mini, his response? "You've had all your clothes since before the mini." Yeah,yeah, point taken. I guess I need new threads.


I weigh in tomorrow as well. I on;y consumed my activity points this week and none of my weekly points...we will see how that affects the scale.


Until then...


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My dogs are barking...

So I'm tired. Last night my little amigo had a rough night sleeping, which in turn meant no sleep for me. Hence, I was not about to roll out of bed at 5:30 to run the roads, so I had to use the treadmill. I'm using a training plan and today was no bueno. I was to speed walk 2 miles, run 2 miles and speed walk another 2 miles. No problem, except that at about mile 5 my shoes were hurting my feet so I ditched them and did it barefoot on the treadz. OUCH! I was super stoked that today I got to go to yoga with my new mat and my super cute mat bag that I made. Here's a pic of my "mini" doing her "yoga" with my mat bag. Too cute.




I have been eating lots of salads; I feel like I can't get enough veggies and fruits. I try to mix them up to keep them fresh and new, but really there is only so much you can do with a salad.

Summertime mix (spinach, romaine, pineapple, strawberry, walnut, chicken). YUM!



Fiesta salad (spinach, chicken, black beans, tortilla, onion, cheese, salsa). Double yum!



Tomorrow is my "rest" day, but it's looking to be a day full of cardio. Lets hope I make it and ha vent hurt my feet too badly. Friday is scheduled to be a 2 mi run and yoga. Ive been eyeing a weight class, its one of those things where I know I need weights, but yeah.....the instructor is my step instructor and shes brutal. Ill think on it and maybe I'll join in a month or three. lol.

My hubby and I have an anniversary this month. In two weeks actually. We are going to a concert the night before, something we NEVER do, but Im so excited about it. We dont typically exchange gifts for any occasion, but I think this year we have come to a compromise. I think...and Im so excited to write..I think we are doing a 5k together on our anniversary!! (Insert *Squeal* here) My hubby doesnt normally run, but its on his to do list for the year! So excited about this!!!! Speaking of...

Do you have a to-do list for the year? If so you better get to working on it...we are in the 2nd quarter baby! ;D


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Motivation...I has it.

Woot Woot!Happy Monday!

Today I made a realization that made me sad. I thought that I would be able to go the WW meeting tomorrow, I thought for some reason my meeting expiration date was tomorrow. Apparently it was April 2. Boo. I don't know why it matters, but cue up the Michael McDonald because "I'm on my own". Too much cheese?

I hit up my yoga class today but not before hitting the treadz this morning. I was only able to get in 2 miles before the mini had enough. She is not impressed by the treadz and likes to come ask me random questions while I'm dying, I mean running. I was stoked to use my super cool new mat! I was able to score a sweet deal on Amazon and get a thick eco friendly mat with a strap and dvd for $12!!!! Heck yeah, they sell reg. for $40. The stars must have aligned.

Today's eats were good! I had Wendy's for lunch, we were out and about and I needed a quick lunch. I chose to eat one of their new salads. Pretty darn tasty! Dinner tonight was awesome. I always eat my salad last (it actually does you more good to eat your salad last in terms of digestion, little known fact) Anyway, I ended up not eating it tonight because my dinner was so filling! It was stuffed salmon, broccoli and sweet potato. Delish!



I have something exciting coming up, but I think Ill wait to post it, maybe with pictures! The suspense will be too much, I know!:)


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Yoga...I rocked it.

Oh yes, I'm hooked. Since January I have wanted to go to a yoga class, but have held onto a ridiculous number of excuses. Yesterday at step, I saw the instructor and introduced myself and let her know I would be joining the class so that I made a commitment to her and I knew I would not break it. (Side note, isn't it funny that I won't break a commitment made to a stranger but yet I break them to myself all the time? This may be something I need to examine.) Anywho.....I was sweating bullets, especially when everyone found out the class was going to be outside today. I loved it!!!Even better was when we moved on to inversion poses. HOLY COW!!! I did it! I did a intro challenge pose(basically and inverted child's pose) You get in a dolphin pose and then bring your knees onto your elbows and support your body weight upside down. Oh yeah baby!!! I was even more stoked when some of the veteran yogis had difficulty and commented on how well I was taking to it!
Today is beautiful and we have hit the gym, and then the park and now I'm just getting to blog and enjoying watching my daughter play.


I'm so very blessed!



I ate a delicious lunch alfresco with my fabulous partner in crime. 4 oz shrimp- 2 pts cooked with rice mixed with okra, corn, black beans and salsa - 9 pts.

So my new workout regimen will be yoga 3x a week, step/sculpting 2x, and running 3x a week. Its time to step it up and get out of my comfort zone. This is my last week at WW meetings for a while. With summer approaching I moved on to doing WW online for at least 3 months. I wanted to have more flexibility and wasn't sure that I could commit to the meetings. This will be my main form of accountability so I have to remain focused!

Well I'm off to enjoy the remainder of this wonderful day! Happy weekend to all!

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