Day 3

So I am on day 3 of eating healthy.  I feel pretty good but my stomach has been acting up because of all the veggies I am eating.  Hopefully this little side effect will end soon ;)

I have ran the last 3 days and I am not sure that I find it hard because I still have a bit of my cold lingering (especially in my chest) or if I am that out of shape.  I have been having this debate with myself about doing the gym or lean and fit.  I think that I should try to do bootcamp 2x/week and then go to the gym 1x/week until my lean and fit membership is done (which isn't til august).  I do love bootcamp so I need to give this one a chance.  I probably won't start next week but the week after.  I am not sure which class I will do but I will try a 6am class (if possible) and hope that it isn't as busy at the 930 one.  Once that membership is done I am going to stick with just a gym membership providing that I can transfer my current one to the new gym that is suppose to open in the summer.  It looks like it is coming along great so I really hope it will be sooner.  What would be so awesome would be if the gym would offer a bootcamp style class :)

I am trying to make enough meals in advance to last me a couple of weeks (for lunches).  I have turkey burgers made and I made some roasted sweet potato soup last night which I do love.  I will just add 2 oz of chicken to it for some protein.

Well I want to read some blogs and then get some work done around the house.  I am back to work tomorrow.  On sunday I will post my 1st week weigh in results.  My starting weight that I am going with is 179.6.  I need to remember I have a curise coming up and I want to look good on that cruise.

Reality

Well I can't deny it any more.  I saw pictures of me at a retirement party on wednesday night and I can't believe that I have let my weight get so out of control again.  Starting tomorrow I will get back on track with tracking and exercising.  No more excuses.  I am not happy living and looking like this and I am the only one that can do anything about it.  I will update you in a couple of weeks as to how things are going.

A Great Run

I was having that debate with myself about doing a run today and in the end I did my scheduled 7K run as part of my half marathon training program.  I was going to do it tomorrow but they are calling for a lot of snow tonight and tomorrow so I though why not get it out of the way and I am so happy I did.  I have been feeling a bit blue about how I have let myself get so out of shape again and my runs have been really hard.  I am not saying this one was not hard but I actually smiled at myself and said "that was awesome" when I was in my room after the run.  Sometimes you need to do that self affirmation.

The last 2 days I have been snacking in the evenings which I need to stop.  I had some trail mix last night.  I think that there must have been a lot of sodium in it as I was feeling really bloated this morning.  I have had 2L of water so far and I don't have that feeling any more which is great.

Well I am going to start getting things ready for supper.  I am going to be a hockey mom tonight as the husband is away.  Wish me luck.

Sticking with it

So my hubby is gone until monday so I need to stay true to myself and stick to the eating healthy while he is away.  After hearing Tim's new CD today and seeing him on Ellen will help me do just that.  I probably ate most of my flex pts today though.  I had bought a hot chocolate from McDonalds made with skim milk and no whip cream and it was still 8 pts  CRAZY  I won't do that again.

I went for a 3k run which was an awesome run.  I ran the 3K with no walk break at all.  I can't remember the last time I did that.  Tomorrow I will be heading to the gym.  I sure hope it isn't crazy busy and I am sure the workout will be awesome.  I will do my weights first and then I may just hop on the treadmill for some cardio. 

I need to make some yummy foods for the next few days and have them ready so I don't feel the temptaion of too many BLT's.

Well I am going to bed now. 

A great sleep

I had such a bad headache and neck pain last night when I went to bed.  It was keeping me from getting to sleep.  I took some tylenol, advil and maybe some gravol and I didnt' get out of bad til 11.  I did wake up a few times but I think I may have slept solid for 7 hours which is very impressive for me.  I had planned on running today but I stayed in bed instead.  I may go for a 3K run still as some point today but not until I have my coffee and my oatmeal digests some.  It is snowing out and it has been a while since I have run when it is snowing out and I really don't mind it.  I haven't run for 2 days so I should get myself out at some point.

I just finished my 2 days and I think that why I had my headache is that it was busy and then I was feeling guilty about not seeing if the girls could get an extra nurse.  I know that we had already added on nurse but the one we were waiting to see if she would call in sick did.  I need to remember though is that things really didn't pick up until after supper.  Oh well, I let my manager know and maybe she will tell me she wouldn't have replaced anyways.  I still can't help but feel bad.  I know they did have a horrible night.  I will talk to my friend and find out exactly what happened. 

I am doing great sticking to the agreement I had with my husband.  According to the scale today I am down 5 lbs from us making that agreement.  That is without any exercise either.  that is totally just food consumption :)  Now that I will be adding exercise to it starting today it will be interesting to see what will happen.  I am hoping to get to the gym every day next week.  I may even start after my last night and go mon-fri.  It will feel so awesome to go every day to strength train.  I will be starting my half marathon training too and try to be more diligent with it.  My husband is leaving on tuesday and won't be coming back until the following monday so I am going to have to run when my son is in school and go to the gym then too unless I have my step son which will make it possible to squeeze in some runs before taking them to school.  I will just have to make sure he is awake.

Well that is all I have to stay for now.  Oh yeah.  I will face a challenge at work when it comes to my eating because there will probably be a bistro as requested by one of the nurses for super bowl sunday.  I will have to make sure that I have good choices for myself and not have any junk.  I want to see Tim McGraw (and of course look aweomse when I go).

Have a great weekend.