April 2013
0 posts
March 2013
4 posts
Just registered the husband and I for RnR Savannah half. It will be his 1st and my 2nd.
Fuck you, cancer
Best friend just found out she has lymphoma. Won’t know stage, etc until Thursday. She has had an horrific year and this is just the icing on the cake.
February 2013
7 posts
Can’t wait to head back to the gym tomorrow. I’ve been down a solid week with the flu.
Influenza type B. I has it. I want my mommy.
WIW 02/13/13
194.6
Down .6 this week and 8.4 total. Need to step up my game a bit and reign in the snacking.
WIT 02/05/13
195.2 - no gain, no loss - superbowl crap, etc
Ate too much crap tonight. Living in fear of WIT.
January 2013
15 posts
WIW 01/3013
197.2
Surprised to see a loss after the cake, etc on the big kid’s birthday.
Down 5.8 for the month. I’ll take it!
Small victories
Took the kids to a birthday party today - I did not touch the pizza or cake. Came home and instead of the baked spaghetti in the fridge, I had a packet of lemon pepper tuna, a red velvet cake yogurt, and a gala apple for lunch. Small victories, folks, small victories. (We won’t discuss the visit from my two best friends, Ben & Jerry, last night.)
I will remember to put socks in my gym bag. I will remember to put socks in my gym bag. I will remember to put socks in my gym bag.
Nothing worse than being proud of yourself for already having your gym bag in the car and realizing you forgot your socks.
I will remember …
WIT 01/22/13
198.6
I’ll take it. Could be a lot better but a loss is a loss.
Awesome workout tonight at boot camp. Tomorrow is the last night and I am really going to miss it.
Had yet another discussion with the trainer about getting the diet right. He says I workout like a beast and the only thing holding me back is my diet. I eat spot on all day and blow it at about 10 pm with ice cream. I’m sitting here watching Nashville, fighting the urge to dig up...
WIT 1/15/13
200.2
Meh
WIT 01/08/13
200.2
Slow and steady wins the race, I suppose.
Hell of a workout last night at boot camp:
Warmup:
10 Burpees
20 jumping jacks
10 pushups
5 rounds:
3 pull ups
10 hanging knee raises
3 tricep dips
10 step ups each leg
5 minutes cardio
Then:
3x 30 second plank
2x side plank with twist
50 reverse crunches
10 full body crunches
15 toe touch crunches
Slept...
Counting calories/eating healthy sucks. That is all.
Made it through day 1 pretty well, I think.
Breakfast - 1 whole egg and 3 egg whites scrambled with some cheese and 1pkg oatmeal
Snack - large gala apple and yoplait yogurt, cup of hot green tea with splenda
Lunch-mixed green salad, 2tbs olive garden dressing (actually measured it), 3 or so oz. steak
Snack - chocolate peppermint stick luna bar
Dinner- rest of the steak and homemade baked...
2013 will be my bitch
1st weigh in of the new year. It was ugly. 203.
15.6lbs over lowest weight about 1 1/2 yrs ago. I know what did it and I know what I have to do. Its on!
Ultimate Goal - 165
Immediate goal - 183 by May 1 - totally doable
November 2012
1 post
September 2012
1 post
About that emotional eating
Well, confirmed without a doubt today that I am an emotional eater. There, its out there. I eat when I am upset. Not only do I eat, I eat an entire bag of Hersheys Kisses. Still can’t believe I did that.
Friends and family all round getting divorced and I don’t know what to do with it. My sister in law, close friend at work, brother, stepbrother. Oh, and found out the friend at work...
June 2012
1 post
Savannah Rock N Roll
Registered for the 1/2 last night. Inspired by watching all of you prepping for all of your races.
Had to register to give myself a training deadline or it will always be “someday”. Figure I better get a 1/2 under my belt before I can do the full. Goal is to do a marathon within the next year.
March 2012
1 post
January 2012
1 post
Spotted® Augusta: Second Annual Dog Gone Cold 5K... →
1st 5k!
December 2011
1 post
We have been working out at the Y for over a year now and are making the switch to Gold’s Gym. They are less expensive and have more equipment, space, etc. I met with a trainer for a free session and wowsa! He worked me over pretty good and I am so proud to say that I did 20 24” box jumps. I never thought I would be able to do anything like that. I think that may have been the...
November 2011
2 posts
Will begin posting regularly as soon as I figure out what to talk about.
October 2011
3 posts
So, didn’t start that whole accountability thing on the right foot, did I?
Monday, I promise …
Accountability
Going to start posting my meals tomorrow. Maybe that will shame me into walking away from the freezer at night.
The October Challenge
The morning routine: get up and and take shower, throw on the unmentionables, and pad downstairs to where the scale waits for me. I have taken the challenge to stay off the scale for the next month and didn’t realize how difficult it would be.
09/30/11 = 191.6
11/01/11 = ???
Did some great cardio intervals yesterday. My trainer told me months ago to split the 30 minutes between 2...
September 2011
1 post
Funny thing about losing weight and strength...
I have been overweight for probably the last 13 or so years. I was thin all through high school and the gain started with the freshman 15 in college. By the time I was 25, I was up to 225 lbs. What the hell? How did that happen?
Fast forward to last August - my son was 13 months old and I couldn’t blame the 218 lbs on “baby weight” anymore. I did get a little help from a weight...
August 2011
4 posts
Really should post here more. I’m on tumblr every day reading about everybody’s progress, etc.
I did have an NSV today. A friend gave me a bunch of clothes on New Year’s Eve and there was this really cute blouse that I couldn’t button by a good two inches or so. Throughout the year I have been using it as a gauge for my progress and tried it on this morning and it fit! My...
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I’m always amazed at how a workout can affect your mood.
Usually my 2 sweet, innocent little angels get on my last nerve by the middle of the weekend. They’re 5 and 2 and the constant screaming “Mommy” and hair pulling, etc can really get to me sometimes. I was able to go to the Y Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon (5k on the elliptical both days). We had a great...
Open house tomorrow night at my daughter’s elementary school. She’s starting kindergarten on Monday. I’m freaking out at the thought of turning my baby over to strangers.
Tomorrow it is on.
Went to Hilton Head this weekend with the fam and ate like a fool. Kind of pissed at myself but life does go on.
July 2011
4 posts
I thought it was supposed to be April showers
I was at the Y this afternoon gettin’ it on the treadmill when a huge storm blows in and the power goes out. Real hard to do HIIT when the treadmill has no juice.
On a positive note I kept going when the power came back on.
1st strength workout post trainer:
20 squats
10 full pushups
20 lunges
1 min plank
30 sec wall sit
30 jumping jacks
Repeated 3x. Not too shabby, I think.
Stole it from nerdfitness.com. Thanks, Steve!
Spent the 2nd-6th in Vegas, heading back to work tomorrow. :o(
Wishing I was independently wealthy …
June 2011
9 posts
I’m thinking that I need an event to train for to get back on track. To say that I want to be a size 12 seems like its not concrete enough, there’s no deadline. Maybe I need to set a deadline? I don’t know.
Anywho, I’m contemplating registering for the Rock n Roll half in Savannah on November 5th this year. Four months should be enough time to train, right?
WIW #2
SW: 218
LW: 188.2
CW: 187.4
.80 lost - I’ll take it given the crazy weekend we had. Went out with friends Friday night and after much drinking and dancing there may have been a trip to Waffle House at 2:30am.
WIW #1
SW (07/2010): 218
CW: 188.2
Goal: Somewhere around 160 but I would really like to see a single digit dress size.
