Life Challenges

I am taking all these life challenges with stride this week!  Today I have to take my baby boy to the doctor because I want to make sure he is hydrated cause he has a cold.  Then my daughter is at her dads this week but I got a message that she is sicky too.  My poor babies!!!  I hate to see them like this! I got my dog spayed yesterday and she is at home resting but has no clue what is going on lol! She has been staring at the dryer all morning!  Still loopy from the meds. My husband has been working late every night this week which means no help at home.  BUT...I am not sore anymore, I took a rest day yesterday on my exercising.  I have still packed my food for the day and kept it healthy...although I did have a slice of homemade carrot cake last night but I also didn't get dinner.  So not really extra calories, just not too healthy! But it has carrots right??  LOL! I have done really well considering what life is throwing at me.  I am exhausted but I am chuggin along!!!  Usually this is when I fall off the wagon and just land in the puddle of processed foods!!  The quick and easy unhealthy stuff! 

So, for my food journal:

Greek yogurt with oatmeal and flax: 225
Chicken with carrots and celery: 185
2 Fruit snacks (keeps me from the snickers) - 120
Hard boiled egg - 78
Ritz crackers - 70 (did you know a single package of those things are 1983 calories?!?!  I stuck with 5 at lunch with my chicken and veggies!)
carrot cake - 375
Pear - 81

Total: 1134

It Hump Day!

Yes, Wednesday came on quick and busy!  Had to take the dog to the vet first thing to get spayed and then drop off money at the school for pictures and then drop off the baby at the sitters and then go to work.  My day is zooming by!!! 

So Trisha is doing things that I want to try.  I have started to journal my food.  I know that I said I was going to do this before but I didn't follow through.  But it is working for her...so it should work for me too right?! :) The challenges we do work for me so this should too!? ;)  So for the last couple of days I have been writing down my intake of calories and I am doing pretty darn good! Especially since my calories out is good too!

So here is yesterdays journal:

Greek Yogurt with oatmeal - 225
Cherrys - 50
Protein Shake - 100
PB&J - 400
coffee (black) - 10
fruit leather snack - 60 (helps with my sugar cravings)
homemade BBQ ribs - 338
1/2 corn on the cob - 30

Total: 1213

Calories out: walked 5K at the track and Ash hill on break - 479

Break time walks

So this is the route I take on my break at least once a day.  Yesterday I did it twice! :)

http://www.mappedometer.com/?maproute=47489

It's a good sized hill!!!  Good bootie workout! ;) 

It's Tuesday!

I so totally couldn't think of a more fun title!  I am tired!!  My brain is not functioning today and the negative is creeping in...so I thought I would hop on here and finish up my food journal for yesterday and see where I ended up. And also blogging makes me feel better. :)  I must be in a funk!

So food journal:
Yesterday afternoon total: 601

slice of cheese: 60
Homemade toast with butter: 225
glass of milk: 122
snickers mini: 45

Night time total: 452  (not the best dinner but I was craving carbs!!!)

Day total: 1053

I walked a total of 5 miles yesterday!!  And I didn't get to sit down until I went to bed at 8! So it was a pretty good day! See I feel better already! :) 

Thank you blog world!

lunch time walk

HI!  So yesterday I did a mock run of the 5K in 20-25 mile/hr winds!  It was crazy I tell ya!  I didn't do very well, I did it in about 45 minutes. It was really, really hard to do with the wind and I got a charlie horse in my calves lol!  But I did it!!  I plan on working on some endurance this week and maybe another mock run on Wednesday and then resting a bit Thursday and Friday with some light walking so that I am fresh and ready for Saturday.  I didn't realize how hard this was.  It sounds so easy in my head! LOL!  I think I am feeling a little down on myself but my husband keeps telling me positive stuff about how good I am doing and how proud he is of me and that he can see a difference.  I don't feel that I push myself enough when I am by myself.  I think on Saturday at the race, it will be different.  I know now how to prepare just a bit better.  I definitely need to stretch more! :)

So today at lunch, my co-worker asked me to walk the hill with her.  I mapped it out at Google pedometer and it is 3 miles! And two hills!!!  I did that in 45 minutes!  Walking!  So I just don't get it!  Why is my mock 5K the same as this walk???  Maybe I timed it wrong?  I totally need to do it again. 

oh, the view... :) totally worth it!  It was a nice cool, drizzling day and it was perfect!  I needed it! 

What I have eaten so far today:
Greek Yogurt with oatmeal: 225
Pear - 81
Carrots and chicken dip - 125
protein shake - 100
Fruit snack - 70

The hard time of day is coming for me...the 3 o'clock munchies!!!!  And everywhere you look there is candy corn, snickers mini bars, bad sugar monsters!!!  I will put a piece of gum in my mouth and chew chew chew until my mind stops playing tricks on me!  It is like Halloween every day in my little brain!!!  :)

I am a slacker!

On blogging but not in the realm of exercise!!! I have been busy busting out the C25K program to prepare for my 5K next Saturday.  I won't be done with the program but I will have a good start!

This weekend, Trisha and I have a challenge and I am going to do a mock 5K out on the road by my house.  I have it mapped out for a couple hills and even a little dirt road! :) My husband helped me out by seeing how far 1.5 miles was from the driveway that I will use part of for my warm up.  He was amazed by how far I am actually going to go!  I think that helped him see how big and important this is to me and really how hard I have been working on this.  He wants to do it with me now!!!  :) 

This weekend is going to be busy.  Lots of family functions all weekend long! So I will be getting in lots of activity. 

I have been eating good.  Keeping the bad stuff (ice cream) to moderation and watching my calorie and sugar intakes.  I do see that I am way more hungry the more that I run!  I am on week 4 day 2 of my C25K and it isn't as bad as I thought it would be!  LOL! :)  Definitely hard, but doable. 

I will keep you posted on my run!!!  I am getting nervous!

What a cool thing to do for your kids!

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So of course anything for my kids and their dreams!  My daughter is a BIG time dreamer and I so wish I could bring her an elf!!  She tries and tries to catch one every year on St. Patty's day...but I tell her "They are magical, you can't catch one!" But they sure leave goodies after they visit!

 I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share her dreams and as well as my dream for her and my baby boy. We want so much for them and want so much for them to grow up happy.  To achieve their hearts desires.  We want our children to be able to achieve anything they want with out roadblocks that are often set by society.  We want them to dream big and be able to reach those dreams.  Although my daughter won't be getting an elf, she can sure learn from the goodies he/she leaves behind each year on St. Patrick's day! 

Check out others dreams and make one of your own...I had a blast doing this!  I feel like I made a wish on a star! www.upromisetodream.com  and of course the rules!  dream wall official rules

Off to the races!

Or so it felt!  :)  I did day 1 of week 3 of the C25K and holy smokies it was tough! I never thought I would be doing this and I have started this program many times to only stop after week 1, so I have hit a milestone and I feel the need to carry on!!  I have downloaded a program to my phone so I have a little voice telling me to jog and to walk.  I need a play list though and I think then my negative thoughts won't be so daunting to me and it will be easier.  Today though, I just kept telling myself how good I was going to feel and that if Tricia can do it so can I!

It is about time to do measurements again.  I feel different so I want to know what the difference is! LOL! :)  But in the meantime, I took a pic of myself in the mirror after I changed back into my clothes after my lunch time workout.  Here is a pic of now...



 And here is me before...hmmm.  maybe i should pose like the one below and see??? I don't really see a difference! LOL!  and gee, my phone takes crappy pictures! 

So until next time folks...I am going to bask in the glory of finishing my workout and eat lunch! ;)  

Monday weigh in and such

So this morning the scaled tipped to 185.6 so that is a loss of 1.2 lbs for me!!! :) 

I have submitted my registration for the 5K Autumn Leaf Run on October 1st.  I want to jog the whole thing but I don't want to set myself up for failure, so I am doing the C25K training up until the race and I will do intervals accordingly at the race, and if I end up jogging the whole thing, that will be awesome!!!  I did sign up to be timed which I have never done in the past.  This is my personal challenge to me.  Something I can own in my health journey. 

I did get up this morning and do Day 3 of week 2.  I had two voices in my head...one telling me to "just stop and get my cup of coffee and relax, your too tired"...and the other voice, "just 15 minutes, you will feel accomplished when your done, you only have 2 more jogs until your done, your rockin for waking up and doing this!" Lucky for me, the good voice won! LOL! :)  My hubby keeps telling me good job and how proud he is that I am doing this.  It is nice to have someone support me and my changes and to eat differently and to step up with chores and make it a bit easier to fit in exercise.  Doing this race will give me the adrenalin to keep going and to challenge myself even more!!!

A week or so ago I got one of those weight lifting type magazine for women.  It has some good articles.  I don't have a gym membership so some of the weight programs are hard to do at home. But I have to say, after all these years, people still do the very same weight lifting exercises!!!  I laughed and told my hubby that nothing has changed!!!  So obviously, just like eating fruits and veggies and lean proteins, weight lifting techniques are pretty solid too!  Just put together differently!  HA!

So today the start of a new week in the weight loss world.  Clean slate!!! 

Oh Ya!! Go Me!

So I posted my weigh in yesterday of a gain.  Not a big deal, I can handle that.  I have reread some inspiring "About Me" stories and got my mojo back!!! 

I got up this morning at 5 and I fed my baby boy and got him all comfy on his play mat and I looked at the clock, 5:15...still had time.  Still had time to put on my shoes and do intervals on the treadmill...AND I DID! :)  I am so happy with myself!  Working out in the morning is very hard for me.  I am always telling myself how I don't have time and I will be late and blah blah blah!!  But me, my health and I are more important than blah blah blah!  So I did 15 minutes, better than nothing!!!  I got my heart rate up and moving...I feel good!

Then, at lunch, I did this...

I walked to the local track about 13 or 14 minutes away and I walked the corners and jogged the straight stretches.  I had a meeting right after my lunch hour so I only got in 2 laps and then I had to head back.  I probably could have done another lap but I didn't want to be late and all sweaty, so I played it safe.  I felt good too!!! 

I am going to kick that gain to the curb!!!  :)