13K :)

Yeah my long run today went so much better then last weeks. Not quite sure what made it so much better but I will take it. I only did 13 this morning instead of 14 so that I would not burn myself out this week before my 15K race. I am feeling pretty good going into this race. I always find that i am pumped when running with a group of other runners. My eating got back on track yesterday and I am really hoping that with working 5 shifts this week that it will help. I am going for my WI on friday since I am working friday night and don't want to get up to soon on saturday and go for a WI. Friday will be a rest day for me in terms of exercise, well I may go for a walk, to it will be a great day for the WI. I really believe that if I am perfect in what I eat I may see teh 150's again. If not on their scale then I should on mine :)

I am hoping to go to hot yoga at noon today but I already missed church due to some stomach issues. I will see how I feel in a bit. If I still have some pain I will pass. I could go after work tomorrow night but I will see how I feel at the end of the shift.

Today I need to get some groceries for the week and make some chili. I am cooking up some beans and I have 2 chicken breasts that I will cook and use as the meat part of the chili. I do love pulled chicken in my chili the best.

Well I am going to have to go and pick up the boys from church. Just waiting for a text from my husband telling me to go get them.

1st WI

So I had been doing quite well until thurs and fri with my eating. I kind of lost a bit of control on those days and felt it in every aspect that I could. I sucked it up today and went to get weighed in and was down 3.9 lbs :) Yeah me. I know I could have done better but I slipped for 2 days. I am going to work really hard this week. It will be a challenge though since we are having a bistro for 2 out of my 3 nights. I will just watch my portions and try to make healthy choices. I want to have a rockin' week since I will be running a 15K race next sunday. I was going to do a long run today but am saving that for tomorrow. I need to make sure that I am in bed no later then 10pm. I will be getting up early (hopefully I can get out of bed by 6) and will do 13-14k. I am just going to do a loop twice and then the last 4K will be a bit different with a nice hill at the end :

I know that I am involved in a challenge for june (started already) through bootcamp and part of the challenge is not only to lose 5 lbs but to do 50 jj's, 50 mountain climbers and 50 burpies/day. I did the first 2 already today but my tummy is a bit full so i am going to wait until it is empty before attempting the burpies.

I really need to try and get to a yoga class tomorrow so I won't be too stiff.

Need to think of what to have for supper tonight...something yummy and fun should be the plan.

3 days done :)

I have been on track for 3 days and feel great about that. Today I went for a 12K run. I must admit but in the last 5 KM's of the run I did a walk/run. I am just hoping that my long run on saturday will be better.

I am doing nights tonight and tomorrow night. I honestly am hoping that because our days were busy that tonight won't be too bad. I have a cooler filled with snacks and need to promise myself that I will stay on track for my nights. I am thinking that if I get a week under my belt that I will get a lot of my motivation back.

Well nothing else to report.

Day 1 is almost over

I have had a good day being back on track. i did have some oatmeal for my evening snack since I had 9 pts left over for the day. I went to bootcamp this evening for an hour long class.

Tomorrow I really hope that i can get up and feel good about the run that I will do. I know that I will be doing a run I just hope that the getting out of bed part will be ok.

I have my food planned for tomorrow and I will make it my goal to stick to it :)

I will do this :)

Found the Wagon

I took the plunge today with WW'ers and I just hope that I can stick with it. I can't believe that I am once again talking about having a bunch of weight to get off. when I reached my goal weight I had told myself never again. clearly I have not delt with the issues that I have that make me overeat :( I will try to work through them as I work hard to get this extra weight off.

So today is day 1 of finding my way back to the healthy lifestyle that made me feel so wonderful. I am hoping to get to bootcamp tonight. That is as long as my husband gets home in time for me to go.

I am trying to figure out what to make for supper tonight. Not quite sure what that will be. maybe I will cook up a batch of turkey burgers and have one for supper. I have already made a batch of soup which will help for my lunch foods but having the burgers on had would be nice too.

I will have to get myself to bed early tonight so that I will not have such a hard time to get up and run before work.

Well here is to the journey once again that I will make it through :)

Looking for the WW wagon...

and I need to leap on to it and not look back. This weight watcher has not been doing well the last 2 days and this is how I am gaining weight and not having any success. You can't go a few days eating great and then eating everything in sight. It is not healthy in so many ways and the weight will not come off.

I started today off great. I wasn't going to go for a run but my hubby provided me told me to go and I listened to him. Now that I am home and have a 5K under my belt I feel much better then when i first woke up.

I so need to get my focus back. I have been feeling horrible and I am the only one that can fix things.

Starting to track today...have a lunch out and will try and do my best to not go overboard.

An active 2 days

I have been doing pretty good the last few days with my eating. I am going to try and stay off the scale until friday morning. I am hoping to see the 150's again or be very close. Once I reach the 150's I will reevaluate things to get the next 10 lbs off.

so back to the active thing. Yesterday morning I got myself out of bed so that I could run early enough and still go to church. Yeah me, I did 10K :) I am so happy that I was able to do this. I really want to make sure that I keep my long runs at 10K or longer. On friday I want to do 12K. I am training for a 15K race in a couple of weeks so I need to get a few long runs in before this race. After that I am going to start thinking about my next half marathon and figure out a good training program. I am thinking that I may just start at week 1 of the 16 week program that I have used for my other 2 races as it works well. The only thing is that the long runs at the beginning would be less then 10K so I many just keep them at 10K so I won't lose the endurance.

This morning I did a 1 hr bootcamp class and then did 1 hr of hot yoga. I am really liking going to bootcamp again and hope to get at least 2 classes in/week and if possible have them both be 1 hr long ones. 3 would be awesome but I don't think that will be able to happen. So if it doesn't happen I should get my butt to the gym to do some strength training.

This time of day I want to eat and I did have a granola bar but I need to keep reminding myself that my body is just trying to trick me into eating and I really don't want to fall for it. I want to get this extra weight off and giving into the tricks my mind plays on me won't help.

Tomorrow I will try to do a 6 or 7 K run. I just hope it isn't raining out.

I will not

eat anything else. I have done so well today and just had a very hearty snack and I don't need anything else. I may want more food but I really don't need it. I am going to get my grove back.

Tomorrow morning I will be getting up early and going for a 5K run. I am so happy I only have to work 2 days this set :)

Active Day

This was one of those days that I did an hour long bootcamp class and then a 1 hr moksha yoga class :) Great workout for both of them. My heart was just pounding in bootcamp and after the series of standing poses in yoga.

So last night my husband and I had a little chat. He tries to be so supportive with my trying to be healthy and I know the fact that I put on some weight and am not eating the best is probably worrisome to him so we made a deal to help me get back to my feel good weight. As soon as I reach that weight, providing it is before Sept 1st we will take a trip to Vegas. Yeah, I love vegas. I need something big to help with the motivation. I have all kinds of other reasons and motivators but looking forward to a big reward makes it even more awesome.

My little guy wants me to read him a book so I had better go.

Feeling Good

I really wish I had done my exercise this morning but I was so tired so I gave myself a break. I will get a run in tomorrow morning before I have to head to work for my anual review...gross. At least I will be doing it with a friend and then having lunch after which will be nice.

I have been hearing a lot about mantras in the blog world. I need to think of 2 a day for myself. one to be focused on exercise and the other will be on my "diet" One that I really liked when I was eating so clean was "why put crap fuel into my body...I wouldn't do that too my car". I need to stay focused like that. It is so true though why am I not showing respect to my body. I felt amazing when I was. I want to get back to that point. I know that the exercise helped me too. I need to get that back in my head. Eat clean and be active!!!!!!

I had a great bowl of oatmeal this morning. I think that I need to get some berries though so I can have those protein pancakes that are yummy and quite filling. I will be having my turkey burger and pineapple soon and for supper I will bbq some chicken and have my yummy salad with everything in it. I need to come up with some better meal ideas though and have a big bake off next week. I am only working my 2 days this week which means I will have 7 days off. Lots of time to clean and prep some meals. I would like to make a couple of soups which are so easy to pack for my lunches :)

Well I must do some cleaning now. For today I just want to get the kitchen done and the bathroom :) I sure wish I had a magic cleaning wand.

30 lbs

These 30 lbs won't come off if I don't change my diet back to the way I was eating last year. Something kind of clicked today and looking at pics just now brought some more motivation that I need. I will have those lbs off before going away in August. Wish me luck

Bootcamp and Hot Yoga

This is what I did for activity today. I did a 1 hr long bootcamp class and then at noon I went and did an hour of Hot Yoga :) Yeah for being active today but it made me quite hungry around supper time. I know that i probably ate too much but I will figure out the pts and keep on going.

Tomorrow morning I will be getting up nice and early to do a 5K run. Then I am back to work for my set of 4.

Tonight I may or may not have some popcorn which will be more flex points. I will see how I feel in an hour or so.

Off to watch the news and the electon coverage. I did vote.

May

This will be the month that I get things under control. I have spent 6 months eating whatever I want and because of that I have put on 30 lbs!!!! That is a lot of weight in a short time and I know that it is not good for my body. I really do feel it.

I decided, finally, that I am not going to do my half marathon this month. I know that my body is not in the shape it needs to be in to complete this race and I am not taking the chance of having an injury. so what I have done is signed up for a 15K June 5th. It really helps to have something to train for to keep me accountable with my running and I know that if I eat clean my runs will feel awesome.

I will keep you posted about my weight loss weekly. I will have a WI at home every sunday and post the results here. I am still going to do WI's at WW too but I like using my scale as results since I can do naked WI's :)

Well I must be off now. Need to make a grocery list for the week and then go get them. I hate getting groceries in the rain.