90 day challenge

I am not starting this challenge now but going to do my best when we get back from the cruise.  I am going to do my best to eat as healthy as possible while we are away.  i think that there are salad bars on the boat so that will be a big help.  I do know what to do it is just a matter of doing it.  We have 11 days until we leave and I am going to follow the simply for life program as best I can for those 11 days.  I need to get serious and find some discipline within myself to regroup and be as healthy as possible.  Why am I putting crap into my body when I know that it makes me feel so horrible.

I just got done making a running plan to help me be as ready as possible for around the bay in March.  I have 23 weeks to train.  The training will include healthy eating, weight training and of course running.  if I could just get a few weeks in of running 4-5 x/week I will feel so much better about the running.

getting this house organized and clean is something else I want to achieve before we leave on our trip.  Coming home to a nice clean house will be so nice.

Well I am going to do some more computer stuff and then have some lunch.

Happy Monday!!!

Day 3

Wow I am on day 3 of eating ok.  I am actually quite proud of how I have done.  I made an awesome soup yesterday (well the little sips I took to see what it tasted like…my first actually serving will be for lunch).  I really do love making soups/chilli.  It takes a lot of prep work but the end result is usually so worth it.

Yesterday when I went for my walk I did a little bit of running which felt great.  I am going to just walk today (going for my 6K in about 45 min…breakfast needs to digest first).  I work days the next 3 days and i am going to try to get up and go for a 3K run each of those days.  I signed up for a race at the end of march of next year and I really want to train for it as my endurance has dwindled huge, but my love for running has not.

I can't believe that in 4 weeks we will be leaving on our cruise.  I am so needing a break from things around here.  I think a family vacation will be great and something that we all need.  My goal is to have this house in pretty good order before we leave.  I have 6 days off after this set at work and I really need to buckle down and take full advantage of those days off and get things done around the house (organizing, cleaning the fridge etc.).

Today I need to get laundry done and make sure I have my meals ready for my 3 days (as not being prepared last week threw me off my plan for a couple of days).  I need to take my eating seriously so that my training for this race will go better.  Good fuel in my body helps me in so many ways.

Well as many people are thankful it is friday as they have the weekend off, it means that I am going to work tomorrow.  Oh well, the life of a shift worker :)

half on half off

I need to stop this.  I need to get myself completely back on the wagon and sit right in the middle and not fall off again.  what better time to do this but Oct 1st.  I had a few really good days and a few really bad days and of course I felt awful when I had my bad days.  What set me off on my bad days was when I worked a day instead of a night and did not have any of my meals planned.  it makes such a huge difference in how I do if I don't have meals planned.

I really miss running so I am going to get back into it.  My plan is to start tomorrow.  I will be doing my 6K walk route and build myself from walking it to running it.  I will use my garmin to keep track of how much I actually run.

Here is to a great october.

Climbing back on the wagon

I am wasting so much time talking about doing it but I keep sabotaging myself.  I felt awful last night and when I got up this morning and almost had a complete breakdown so enough is enough.  I am going to take my butt to WW tomorrow and get back to the basics.  I know how to count points, I know how to eat clean, I know how to exercise and my plan is to put it all together and rock the weight loss.  I have about 50 lbs to get off and I know it will take time.  I will take it one week at a time (actually one day at a time).  I will set both small and big goals for myself and my first goal will be to have 10 lbs off by the time we go on our cruise (I may have more then that because of the water weight).  I have 5 weeks till the cruise.  My next big goal will be to have an additional 10 lbs off by my 40th birthday!!!!

I know I need to plan my meals and stick to what I have planned.  That is what worked last time that I lost a large amount of weight.  I know that I have done some planning but I don't think those meals I have planned work for me so I will choose things that I really like and what I used to eat.

I will start up running again (walk/run at first until I get some of this weight off) and going to the gym/Jills/or in my basement 3x/week for strength training.  I can do this.

I will start organizing and keeping my house clean.  My poor family is living in a pig pen and when my house feels like that, I feel like that.

So on that note I will sign off and start doing some laundry and wash my kitchen floors.

Wish me luck on this journey.  I will probably just do a couple of entries/week. Which will include my menu plan, my exercise for the week and my results with the weigh in's.

still finding my groove

So I am half way through day 3.  A challenge that I faced yesterday was feeling munchie in the evening.  I know that I still made healthy choices but I probably ate way too much for just going to bed.  I need to keep that in check.

So today involved going to the gym for workout #2 and some intervals on the treadmill.  I would say I probably worked out for a good 80 min.  I feel so motivated right now and  I hope that I can keep it up. I need to schedule it in to my day and I have to get in done.

I am doing prep for my meals on Thursday and friday.  I have my favourites and for the 1st 3 weeks I will probably stick to them just until I feel like I have things a bit under control.

I am hoping I am able to get up early enough tomorrow morning and get a 4K run in before going to work.  I used to run all the time in the morning before work so I am going to do my best to get back into it.  I will make sure I have everything ready for work that I just have to take a shower when i get back.

I am going to rock out these 2 days at work and stay on track.  it is just 2 days I can do anything for 2 days (of course a lifetime but I know it will be rough the 1st 3 weeks)

day 2

So I am really feeling the workout that I did yesterday.  It hurts but in a good way.  I do like it when my muscles hurt enough to know that I worked out but can't stand it when I am struggling to sit on the toilet etc.  I am kind of close to the feeling but not quite.  I was able to run/walk 3K which I had really debated on doing and was going to just go for a walk.  I really need to focus on my running and build up my endurance again.  I am so sad that I let it go for so long but am making it a goal to get it back!!!!

Last night at work was a great example of why staying on track at work is hard.  I did not get my supper break until sometime after 11.  We were busy and when were busy you don't really have time to even grab something quick.  A few things that were at work were a couple of desserts and a couple of bags of popcorn.  I did not have any…yay me.  I find night shift especially hard for wanting to snack all the time.  thankfully i had prepared enough in my lunch bag to not have anything that I shouldn't have.

tomorrow I am hoping to do 4k run and then go to the gym for workout 2.  I have to do this.  I want to feel and look better for our cruise :)

10 week challenge

This summer has gone by so fast.  The weather has been ok.  We have had some hot days and some cool days.  I would say this has been the coolest summer (weather wise) that I have experienced since moving here.

Well I just signed up for 16 weeks of the on-line program (again) with J.  This time I have promised myself that I will take it seriously and do the workouts and eat as clean as possible.  I am done with having a hard time going shopping, with feeling fat and miserable.  I know that when I was exercising regularly and eating healthy I felt so happy and content.

So in 10 weeks we will be getting ready to go on a cruise with the kids.  I want to have 20 lbs off by then which would be 2 lbs/week which is realistic.  I know I can do it if I stick to the plan.  It would be so nice to not have to worry about not having any clothes to wear.  I am going to ST 3x/week and do my best to run 4-5x/week to build up my endurance.  I need to take it slow and know that walk breaks are ok as I have not run very much in the last 9 months.

I am going to make sure to meal prep and my snack at nights will be a healthy smoothie instead of my pop and a snack (which usually ends up to a few snacks).  I need to work on just 1 pop/day too.  I drink way to much diet pop and would love to give it up but it is just too hard for me to do that.  Maybe one day I will stop drinking it.

Well I am working tonight so I am going to have a nap.  I walked 6K and did my 1st day of strength training so I am sure a sleep will come easy (or at least I hope it does).