Things that went wrong last year…
Looking back, I was losing weight until hubby & I moved in together. So I suspect the weight-loss stall has to do with my wanting us to have home-cooked meals we’d both like, rather than with me recognizing that the meals I was eating before were working. Not good. Change that.
I also let the holidays sabotage me again. So I have some clicker adjustments to make…next post.
I lost touch. When the stress got big & the workload got bigger, this blog community was the first thing I cut. Second thing? Running & working out in general. Change that.
My first challenge this year is to survive these campus interviews…we have 6 people coming in over the next 3 weeks. The interviews last a little over a day; they’re a pain in the @ss to get scheduled (and that’s pretty much all on my shoulders); when my colleagues don’t volunteer to escort the candidate or eat with him/her; I’m expected to fill in; and there’s a ton of eating at rich-food restaurants involved. UGH!
SWAT starts up again in two weeks (we have two make up sessions next week) & because of the timing, I’m not sure I can sign up again. SWAT’s been the only constant. While I gained, rather than lost this month, I know things would be a lot worse without it.
Okay, enough bit@#ing. I’m back & here are my goals for 2009:
This year my goals are to lose at least 20 pounds. Highly doable & a highly conservative number. I guess I don’t want to be back here next year writing another “why I failed to meet my goals” type of post.
Actually run a full 5K, which means starting the C25K program from scratch. I’m so out of shape running-wise. We’re deadlifting 115 in SWAT & I can flip those 200 pound tires like a pro, but running is killing me…what happened? Oh, that’s right, I stopped running. duh!
Get in shape to bike to work on non-teaching days this spring. It’d be a 14-mile round trip, but 14-miles broken up into 2 rounds of 7 shouldn’t kill me after a while.
Fit into a size 12 jean comfortably.
Okay, that’s all for now. I’m about to be late for an appointment to get my hair done: the job candidates aren’t the only ones who have to put on a show during the interviews, don’t cha know.
Of course, I’m not fully back till I check in with my chicks, but I’m backish!
HELLO AGAIN CHICKS!
UPDATE:
Food: no breakfast, lunch was big salad with pumpkin seeds, snack was 1/2 apple & hb egg, dinner was 1 1/2 country rib (about 5 oz) in tomato, plain whole grain/wild rice, spinach with 1/2 tbs cream cheese, salad, 2 vanilla wafers (boo).
Exercise: 1 hour shoveling the driveway, not quite as difficult or fun as bootcamp, but an okay workout for starters.
First day back on C25K tomorrow! Fresh start, good things to come!
Welcome back. If at first… back in the saddle… blah blah blah. You know the drill. The first step is admitting you have a problem : )
Don’t you hate it when life and responsibility get in the way of what we really want to do?
I have been doing no exercise at all other than running, which is great and all, except for the limp noodle arms and complete lack of strength. And core? What core? So I’m going to try to get better at incorporating something besides running into my schedule. But probably not until after my half mary in April. Because I am too panicked about that to think about anything else.
I’m happy to see you here again : )
Welcome back! Yeah, we are all back in the saddle I think. I know I was not where I wanted to be at the end of the year so here I am again. But I learned alot from last year that I hope to work to my advantage this year.
I’m glad you are back! I’m doing a 5k on Feb 20 if you have one you can sign up for. Then we can run a 5k on the same day and think of each other during it like last time.
On the bright side, you’ll be beginning again with a whole lot of other ppl, so you’re not alone in this. Glad you’re back.
Cracking up at your “what else you got” comment. Dude, you are THE BEST wingman EVER. Seriously. Not one of my crazy plans has ever been too much for you. xoxo.
whew man - I work at a university and I get the work load thing BUT hey if we don’t make it work for us we can’t make it work for anyone else. I got myself to the point where I could run 5K, then injuries took me out of the game. Getting back into it now cause it felt so good and I want to feel that again. I am doing the podrunner 5k training thingy…works for me and makes me feel like an athlete.
Good for you for analyzing what threw you off track last year. This will make your probability of success that much greater for 2009!!