Marathon Mom

Public Service Announcement for all Biggest Loser and 49er fans! Steve Young and Jerry Rice will be appearing on tonite’s The Biggest Loser!! This is the best thing to happen to the show since Jillian rode up on that motorcycle two seasons ago and took charge of the renegade black team!!
You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

That’s two days - count ‘em two days IN A ROW that I’ve worked out first thing in the morning! I am on a roll!! And just in time to take the holidays head on. Bring it!

I’m currently working Jillian Michaels’ 5 DVD set “The Biggest Winner” - I figure it’s perfect for the week. On the weekend, I can do my Biggest Loser DVDs - Power Sculpt and Cardio Blast (or something like that.) I’m also hitting the elliptical and just started week 2 of couch to 5K. I guess that seems like a lot of exercise, but if I don’t workout that much then I either don’t lose weight or actually gain. Even eating as little as 800 calories a day. My metabolism is totally messed up from years of yo-yo dieting and then the past couple of years of bed-rest (miscarriage, pregnancy and post surgery complications) and/or total inactivity. And, I’m not 25 anymore.

My biggest YAY of the day - weighing in at 155.8. FINALLY broke thru that 156 barrier that has been taunting me. Now take it, its only .2 from what I’ve been weighing for most of the past week, but still.  I’ll take it!! Now for my next MAJOR obstacle: getting past 150. Seeing 149.8 or less on the scale will probably bring me to tears. I haven’t been on the down side of 150 since early 2000. It’s been almost 9 years, most of that time spent either just above or slightly below 200. I’ve been wanting a tattoo for a few years now. I have a line drawing of a phoenix, very small, very subtle. But I promised myself when I first started thinking about this years ago, that WHEN (not IF, WHEN) I break through 150 I’m getting that tattoo. I’m bound and determined to say hello to 2009 with my first ink.

Tonite begins the first of a series of daily challenges. I have to bake pies. Not just any pies: pumpkin and apple pies - gluten and casein free pumpkin and apple pies. My son Sean is allergic to gluten, casein and peanuts. So I get to be all creative. I love a good challenge. This is my first year preparing a full GFCF T-Day dinner. So Wednesday night, I’m preparing the rest of the food. Thursday will be spent at my parents’ house with the rest of the fam. But then the kids and I are going to leave just before dinner is served and have our own dinner at our house (we only live a mile away.) Trying to figure out what’s in each dish, which sauces were used, analyzing every item used, combing through their recipes is just exhausting. I’ve done it for a year now and I decided to cut myself and everyone else a break. It’s too hard for Sean to sit at a table with everyone and not be able to eat most of what is served, especially things he loves like dinner roles. The GFCF variations are just not the same, so we don’t really eat much of that anymore.

I’ve changed our diets to better fit his. It’s just easier that way and I don’t have to worry about him eating something he shouldn’t. But the extended family (especially my mother) doesn’t want a GFCF turkey dinner, they want all their favorites. None of which are safe for Sean. And really this way it’s nice, the kids and I get to spend part of the holiday at home, just us.

We’re going to watch movies, put up and decorate the tree, and get our Christmas on! We’re more relaxed and we’ll probably be in jammies and just hanging out. I’m NOT a formal person. Dinner will be served on paper plates with plastic utensils. I know I don’t want to spend my holiday doing dishes, and neither do the kids. I have logs for the fire and a little stock of spiced apple cider (naturally GFCF.) Now if I can just keep from gorging on all the snacks at my parents’ during the day! That will be the biggest challenge!

Posted on November 25th, 2008 by firefly
Filed under: daily blathering