05/12/2012 15:51
Worst Week EVER!!!
...as if all of those things that happened to me throughout the week weren't enough....my boyfriend of 7 years just broke up with me last night. I don't know how I"m going to get through this. He was my love, my heart and my future. All these plans we made...I just knew he was the one I was going to spend the rest of my life with! It's not the lack of love or a bad relationship....it is all because of where we live...he lives an hour away and as time goes on he realizes he doesn't want to move....and I can't move my son away from his family and friends, he's only 16. I mean, in a few years I could move...but apparently he just can't do this distance thing anymore! Soooo, there goes 7 years!!! :-) I will not eat everything in the house!!!! I will NOT eat everything in the house! I need to go for a run and I don't care if i'm sick and still can't breathe....I NEED TO RUN!!!!
05/09/2012 03:34
I would like a "do-over" please
I
would like a do-over for this week please! I took my mother to The Delaney House for a wonderful brunch on Sunday for her birthday. Well they messed up BIG
TIME with my debit card charge, Instead of charging my account for the 65.25 I signed for (the difference after all the cash my family paid for their portion of the bill) they charged me the ENTIRE bill total of 182.75 leaving my account
with a negative balance. Now I have 105.00 in fees because of
checks and other charges that went through because of their error and nothing can be done about this until Friday morning when
the "authorization" for charging the WRONG amount is expired, needless to say I have had NO money for the past 2 days and will continue to have no money until Friday morning! Grrrr!!
if
that isn't enough....MCAS testing is going on at work this week and next
week, I had to borrow money from
my mom tonight to go to Urgent care to find out that I have bronchitis and
then borrow more money to get antibiotics and then borrow MORE MONEY for
GAS!!!!! AND I NOW have another migraine....UGH!!! I just want a
do-over because with being sick, not being able to exercise and being so
STRESSED OUT...I am definitely NOT going to reach my 25lbs Saturday!
THIS WEEK SUCKS!!!!! :-(
Sorry...had to vent! Time for bed! I think I'll be dreaming about the 25.5 days left of school before summer vacation begins! :-D Now THAT I can be happy about! GOODNIGHT!!
05/05/2012 18:37
Getting over a bad head cold
I hate being sick. I was so close to getting my 25lb marker this week. All week I was 1-2 lbs down on the scale...and then 3 days ago my ear is blocked, then the head aches and stuffy nose and constant blowing of the nose. So bad yesterday that I had to stay home from work, in bed all day! So when I go to WW this morning to get my 25lb award....I was only down .2. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! I literally screamed at the scale. All I needed was to be down .6 and I would have reached my goal. Soooo frustrating. But I will not give up. I need to break through this plateau and continue with my weight loss. I still have 77.4lbs to go! I MUST keep swimming!!!!
04/29/2012 23:08
Weigh-In
Well I only lost .8 this week. I lost the .4 I gained last week and then an additional .4. I really need to tighten up my journaling if I want my weight loss numbers to increase in size. I am only .6 away from my 25lbs and 2.6 away from 10%. :-) I CAN DO THIS!!!! Hopefully I'll meet my next two goals in the next two weeks!
I have decided to go back to Zumba. I went this morning and it felt great. I had to take a break from it because of the tendonitis in my shoulder, but I think a 2 month break from Zumba is enough. While being away from my favorite form of exercise I fell in love with another form. So now, I will find time for both. My plan is to take Zumba with my favorite instructor on Tuesday and Thursday nights and run mon/wed/fri. I think this plan will also help to improve my weight loss numbers as well.
That's the plan and i'm sticking to is! :-)
04/29/2012 22:59
I did it!!
I am happy to say that I completed my first 5k race this Saturday. It was a very tough route with 5 hills...I can't believe I did THAT one for my first! I used my map my walk app while running and it tracked that the route was 3.47 miles, not 3.1 miles.....sooooo. My official finish line time was 45:54 (for 3.47 miles) and I looked at my time at the 3.1 mark and it read 41:39 which was my fastest time for a 5k so far! I am so proud of myself! It was great and I'm now looking for my May race! :-D I"m hooked!
04/23/2012 01:02
Running Goals
A week ago I met my first running goal by finishing my first 5k ever. I did it in 42 minutes and was so proud that I actually ran the entire distance. It wasn't easy and it continues to be a struggle for me, some days I can run the whole thing, other days I have to walk some of it...breathing is not the problem, the problem is that my calves really start aching when I run.
Running goal # 2 - I am running my first 5k race next Saturday, April 28th. It is a difficult loop to run because there are two huge hills, so my goal is to at least finish it faster than I walk it. I've walked the loop many times before and finish it in about 53 minutes. So if I can run it in 45 - 50 minutes I'll be proud of that. After accomplishing that goal, I will continue to make new running goals.
Goal # 3 - This year is going to be my year to master the 5k. I will run a 5k once a month and try to improve my time.
Next year, maybe I'll up my running to a 10k. I found a great one that I would like to try. It would mean taking a road trip in April to South Carolina, but that isn't a problem, going somewhere warm where there is probably great beaches! :-)
The Cooper River Bridge Run April 6, 2013. If finances allow, I'll be taking a nice vacation in April to run my first 10k race! :-)
04/21/2012 15:17
Frustrated...but not giving up!!!
Why is it that the weeks we work the hardest do not show up on the scale? I went to WW this morning and I gained .4. UGH!!! I know, I know....that's not even half a pound...but still. I did 44 miles this week (26 miles of walking, running and hiking) and an 18 mile bike ride. It's just frustrating! I thought i would lose at least 1lb and get to my 25lb mark this week....and it just didn't happen. I've been trying to hit that 25lb mark for 3 weeks now! :-( Grrrrrr! I guess I have to tighten up my journaling and work on it for next week!
Article about working out and gaining weight
04/20/2012 20:43
Running!
A few months ago I started the couch to 5k program. When I started running I couldn't even handle the 30 second intervals of running without being winded and wanting to die. LOL I kept with it...I did a few weeks at week 2 and a few weeks at week 3 and then I moved on from there week 4, week 5, week 6, week 7 and now i'm at the final week. Last week I ran my first 5k. I ran the whole thing. It was like a miracle happened. It took me 42 minutes but I did it. It felt really good. I reached my first running goal...complete a 5k...now my 2nd goal is to get that 5k under 40 minutes. I signed up to run my first 5k race on April 28th. It's a great cause and a great time to start! I am planning on running a 5k every month this year. Hopefully with all of these races in my future I"ll be able to drop more weight and improve my time! I can't get discouraged that I am a slow runner......I have to remember this quote.....
04/20/2012 20:40
Journaling
Some weeks I am so good at journaling my food. I weigh everything, measure everything and lose a good amount of weight. Then there are other weeks, where I am slacking on the journaling department. I "guesstimate" the weight or measurement of my food and "guesstimate" the number of points the items are and then wonder why the scale wasn't so friendly. Well I don't wonder, I know why. UGH!!! It's a constant battle. The truth is, no matter if we journal or not, our bodies keep an accurate account of everything we eat! So it's better to journal and have a successful week on the scale rather than not journal and let my jeans get too tight! :-)
04/20/2012 04:42
Exercise
In the past I have stopped exercising after awhile just to gain my weight back over and over again. I don't know why I stop exercising, because I love to exercise! :-/. This time will be different!!!! Yesterday I went on a two hour hike with a friend. It felt great! Today I went on an 8 mile walk (2.5 hours) with another friend. I am blessed to have wonderful, healthy and supportive people in my life. Whenever people want to get together they want to get outside and be active. Life is good!!!! :-). With friends and family like that how can I be anything but successful? :-D
