So I guess I’ve finally worked myself up to 3 miles. I ran last night since I figured I wouldn’t be doing anything more this week. I did walk a bit, but not very long. Pretty much ran the whole thing.

OH!!! And I realized something on my run last night. I do SO much better if I let myself go. That doesn’t make too much sense, so i’ll try to elaborate. When i run, I tend to sort of hold myself back. I can feel the tension in my arms and such. Does this make sense (I’m on pain meds right now so bear with me)? Anyway, I found a GREAT track on podrunners that I’ve run to twice now and it sort of trances me out… easy to just get lost in the music. Well last night, I noticed I was keeping everything loose.. my arms were moving and it actually helped me lengthen my stride and run a little faster.

So I am down and out for at least the next few days. In the risk of TMI, I had an endometrial ablation. So there isn’t incisions or anything, just a lot of cramping. I can start running again as soon as I feel up to it. So hopefully got next week’s challenge. I’ll be watching all of you this week.

Yes, that’s correct.  I’m backing out of this week’s Slump Buster challenge.  No, no… I’m not scared.  I’m sure I am quite capable of completing it…. HOWEVER, when I signed up I forgot that I am having minor surgery tomorrow and will therefore be down for a few days.  There will be no exercising on my part for a good portion of this week.  Since food will be taken care of by my husband (oh, the horrors!!!) and my mom and grandmother (thank god..my kids won’t starve now) I will be a the mercy of others.  Who knows… I may not even want to eat.  I may survive all week on water and painkillers.

OMG, ya’ll. This weeks Slump Buster Challenge has me scared!! But I’m going to do it…or at least go down trying! I was back into the 180’s today! YAY!! Of course, I only ate twice yesterday so I’m sure that had something to do with it.

Tonight is a birthday party for a friend at Pat O’Briens, which is at CityWalk at Universal. That means there will be a fair amount of alcohol flowing. I’m sure I will go up some because of it. At least I use diet coke as a mixer (good thing these clean eating things are only during the week )

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!

Somehow I gained 3lbs from yesterday morning.  WTF?!

How does that happen when I ran my ASS off last night?!  Hmm…perhaps the tortilla chips I’ve been eating with dinner every night this week.  Sodium anyone?

That’s right.. I’m done. I finished my 10 miles today. I had the BEST. RUN. EVER!!!!! I found a good beat on podrunners off itunes and i did it. Ran the whole time — 3 miles!! WOO HOO!! I’m taking my trophy now b/c I know that I’ll be able to resist the snacking and drink only one diet coke tomorrow.

Good luck sisterchicks!! And if anyone does those jazzersize videos… I want to know about it!

188.6!!

HELLS YEAH!!!

My size 16’s are starting to be a little loose, but the 14’s aren’t quite there yet.  Almost… almost.  Some of them I can get on and be comfortable.  Some of them I can get on but not button.  Don’t you wish that sizes were universal.  If you are a certain size, then EVERYTHING that is made in that size should fit you.  Ugh…

Anyway, day 3 of Slump Busters is off to a rocking start.  SmartWater was on sale at my grocery store and for some reason, I love SmartWater.  I know, water is water is water, but I like it.   SO I bought 3 huge bottles and one is sitting pretty on my desk.  Not sure if I’ll run/walk/whatever today or not.  I only need 2 more miles, so I might bust them out today.  I’ll defintitely NOT be riding my bike (see yesterday’s post).

So today I resisted the temptation to run to 7-11 with a co-worker. That would have wiped out my clean eating goals because 1. I would have gotten a luscious, icy diet coke FROM THE FOUNTAIN (which are better in my opinion) 2. I would have gotten some sort of salty snack I didn’t need. Although I really want one or both of these quite badly, but I am resisting… I can wait until dinner for my diet coke.

Plan on going for a run with my friend today. I may ride my bike to her house, run her 3 mile route, and then bike home. That will give me just about 7 miles, so then I will be at 8 miles for the week! Of course that is best case scenario. Worst case is that i will do a measly 2.

UPDATE:   Oh you guys are going to LOVE this!  So, I rode my bike to my friend’s house today.  Round trip it’s 3.41 miles, so a little over a mile each way.  I noticed when I was almost there that my pedal was a little wobbly, but it was better than the metal grinding sound i started out with.   My friend and I ran our 3 miles (gasp!) and I started for home.  I was one block from HER house when… yeah, left pedal fell off the bike.  And I’m not just talking about the footpad, I’m talking the WHOLE pedal.  So.  Now what?  I called my husband and said.. “hey, come rescue me or I won’t be home for awhile.”   Do you think he came?  No… I just started walking figuring if he did come, I’d find him somewhere.  Yeah, never happened.  But it’s okay.  I mean, I wasn’t THAT far from home, PLUS I needed the mileage.   So to recap… I rode my bike a little over a mile, ran 3 miles, and then PUSHED MY BIKE HOME a little over a mile.  I feel like giving myself double mileage for that.  But I won’t.  So that puts me at just under 8 miles (it’s like 7.92) or somethign like that for the week so far.  I only need 2 more to go!!  WOO!!  And as for snacking… I am on track with that as well!

My clean eating plan for the week: no unnecessary snacks (meaning if I need them to get to 1200 calories, they are okay — if not, they are off limits) and WATER!! Only one diet coke per day. I had gotten off my water track lately.

I’ve been good today. I’ve had no snacks as of yet, although the time between getting home from work is the toughest time for me. However, I am no where CLOSE to my calories so I should be okay having a banana. And I have not had any diet coke yet. That will be with dinner. And it’s probably why I am so freaking sleepy right this second… like seriously trying to keep my eyes open at my desk.

As for the 10 mile challenge, I will be getting in 2 tonight with my friend. I have updated my ipod so i have some new running music.

Good luck everyone!

UPDATE    So I did a measly 1.5 miles today.  UGH… I’ll need to step it up the rest of the week.   As for clean eating… I have only had one diet coke today.  Actually, 1/4 of one… I’m still nursing it.   I had one snack when I got home..  a banana with PB and a slice of turkey.  Totally okay because i knew I needed the protein for my run.   Of course I haven’t had dinner yet.  What i cooked didn’t turn out at all, then i almost burned the house down heating something up while I was in the shower… so hubby was going out to the store and he will bring something home.   BUT, my clean eating challenge is snacking… so no matter what i eat… I’m in the clear!  HA HA!!!!

Just b/c getupnow is getting worried about me

So… my trip was AWESOME!! Well, actually my whole vacation was fun. I was off Tues - Friday. My friend came down here and we tore it up! We went to a Yankees Spring Training game (she’s a huge Yankees fan), we went to the beach, and then we went to Margaritaville on Wed and got TORE up! I remembered the first 3 drinks — I was told I had a total of 8. Hmmm… Left for NY on Thursday, and got tore up again on Friday! This was the last weekend the insanely hot guitarist was playing with the band. By Sat, I was done drinking…and that was supposed to be our heavy drinking day since it was St. Patty’s celebration. Oh, and I changed my hair color… BLACK! Here are some pics of my trip.

Here is a pic of me and my friend on Friday BEFORE we started drinking

A pic of me and Stoly (the guitarist) AFTER drinking (he was plastered too)

Then a pic of me with my new black hair (the green streak is from the fun hairspray we used on Sat)

In actual dieting news, I am hovering right around the 190 mark. If I could actually get on track, I could drop into the 180’s. I’m still running, but not consistantly enough.

I’ve been swamped at work b/c of being off all last week. Blah… i don’t know if I’ll ever get caught up. It sucks that you have to weigh if taking a vacation is worth it or not. BUT, we are FINALLY getting a home laptop so I will be able to update more often since I won’t have to be using hubby’s work computer. I’m hoping that I will be able to use it to help me stay on track as well.

I’m not participating in the Slump Buster challenge this week, but I hope to next week!

I did finish my 10 mile challenge on Thursday of last week… HOWEVER…. I was without any internet access due to a bad modem at our house and my friend being in town and travelling, blah, blah, blah…. 

Anyway, I wasn’t able to post it, SO, I will leave it up to you guys to let me know if I need to post my bathing suit photo as that was the penalty.  I’ll suck it up even though I did finish it.