Chasing Pavements

I finished week 1 of C25K yesterday and didn’t mind it one bit. I am at a total of 4.5 miles for the Slump Busters challenge and am going to need to go to my mom’s and use her bike for the rest of them. Tomorrow is work, taking the kids to Columbus, and coming straight back for girls night!!! Don’t think I’ll be getting any miles in then! I will start week 2 on Saturday.

I’ve been staying on track this week and it’s been exciting. I’ve had to talk myself out of many things. Believe me. Yesterday, the whole way home I thought about driving through McDonalds to get my son something to eat just so I could get some cookies. I hadn’t made my mind up until the very last minute and just turned to go home. After I worked out, I drank a protein shake. I brushed my teeth and washed my face after and that seemed to really help. So far so good and I’m still on track to get my chicken statue!!! Yeah!!!

I didnt get those 2 long workouts in. In fact, I didn’t work out at all. I did a lot of cleaning and running around this weekend, but I need to get my butt in gear because this week’s Slump Buster challenge is 250 minutes of exercise. Can’t be putting that off until Thursday. So…I do have quite a few errands to run after work. The plan is to start the 30DS AGAIN and see how my knee acts.

I weighed this morning and was down 2 lbs! Yeah!!! Once I am a member for 20 days(who came up with 20 days? I mean why not a full 3 weeks or something???) then I can post a cute little tracker. I am now 206 and am leaving for Mexico in 4 weeks. My goal is to be below 200 by then. It’s is attainable and I will stay focused darnit!!!

We went to a birthday party over the weekend and I was so proud of myself. I ate before I went and just snacked on some veggies. I also skipped the cupcake cause it didn’t really look that good. And it didn’t make a bit of difference once I left there. Tomorrow we are having a St. Patty’s Day carryin at work. There will be Ruby Tuesday sliders, a bunch of different kinds of soup, and lots of yummy desserts. I’m in the process of deciding what I will eat and points and all that. I’m trying to go in prepared!!!

The good news is I exercised yesterday and got in 6 miles on the bike for the Slump Busters challenge. Only 4 miles to go before the end of Friday. I’ve also stayed within my points range the past 2 days, which is very exciting to me!!!

Bad news is I didn’t get day 2 in of the 30DS. About 2 weeks ago I tripped over my son’s little chair and catapulted myself across the living room landing on said chair. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry and ended up doing a little of both, lol. I think I bruised my knee because I couldn’t put any pressure on it until recently without feeling like I was going to jump outta my skin. I did ok during day 1 of the dvd, but yesterday it was hurting with every step. I decided to give it a few days cause I don’t want to make it worse.

I brought my stuff to exercise during my lunch break in the little gym they have in my office building. A friend that works in our building  is going to meet me. Yay for a workout buddy!!! I’m hoping to get in 3 miles on the elliptical and do upper body strength training tonight.

So, some real quick comments on the Biggest Loser….did Felipe really sit there and blame Jillian for his Kobe beef sliders, drinking and chicken tenders and fries??? Really??? I don’t know what happened with the whole her not working him out thing, but when you signed up for the show did they promise you you’d be with Bob the whole time??? I think not. Adjust and move on. You want to pick your trainer, win the challenge. It just urked me cause he said nothing(at least what they showed, I know it’s TV, lol) about he shouldn ‘t have binged like he did and maybe he would have done better. What are you learning if you are still making excuses blaming other people??? Now, he said he shouldn’t have let her affect him so maybe that’s how he dealt with it, but still….Also, Bob so should have sent them back to work out there issues with Jillian. Not just let them avoid them all together. Not doing them any favors Bob. Ok, I’m done

Update-

I did 3 miles on the elliptical today and only have 1 more mile to go to make this week’s challenge! I also did awesome eating again and stayed within my points(with eating my ap’s). Yeah!!!! I’m feeling good. Now off to bed to actually get more than 5 hours of sleep tonight!

My weekend SUCKED. My son started Saturday by waking up at 6:30 am. Not cool, kid. Then he soaked my brand new iphone in his cup of juice. Really???? I mean, why??? It didn’t work for 2 days and I felt so lost, but suddenly is working again. Whatever, I’ll take it. It just all seemed to go downhill from there, but I’m ready to move on!

I weighed today and I was the same. I ate out a lot over the last week and didn’t get near the workouts in. So,  I am so excited to be starting over this week and for the first day of the SLUMP BUSTERS Challenge!!! This week the goal is to do 10 miles of cardio activity. If you don’t do it, you have to post a pic of you in your bathing suit. No way in the world am I posting a pic of me in my suit. I’m not even going to look for the picture, ’cause it ain’t happening people,lol!!!

Tonight I plan on starting the  30DS again. I’ve been reading on people’s blogs about their progress with it and am ready to feel the pain again!!! If I can clear some crap from my garage and get to my treadmill, I’ll get a couple of miles out of the way. Hmmm….that will probably be a workout in itself.