Here’s a list I compiled from another board:
Lose yourself–eminem
Right here, Right now–fatboy slim
The Rockafella Skank–fatboy slim
“Hey Ya”- Outkast
Jesus Walks–Kanye West
Armin van Buuren - Sail
It’s my life- Bon Jovi
Fly Away- Lenny Kravitz
Pretty Fly (for a white guy)– Offspring
Tell me if you have a song that really gets you going!
About to go to bed before I go in the kitchen and eat myself into oblivion. I am so hungry! I have a recipe to make mac and cheese w/ brocolli and turkey chunks. I hope baby likes it.
I ran 2 miles today with hills.
I went to work yesterday. They called me in around 6am that morning. I rushed to throw some food in my lunch bag and made a peanut butter and honey sandwhich on wheat bread for breakfast. I put a yogurt, a smart ones meal, and a banana in my lunch bag. When I get there, in honor of Super Bowl Sunday, they had chips and dip, along with a plate full of brownies. Why, God, why? lol. I wasn’t tempted at first, but people KEPT insisting that I eat. No matter how many times I said no, people kept insisting.
One person in particular made me mad. She’s actually my friend from nursing school. We have kids the same age and go out to eat everynow and then. She’s always trying to do “Atkins”, but she does it all wrong, mostly eats meat and the wrong kinds of meat at that. They order out every day for lunch and they did it today. They got tons of buttery rolls and she was pressuring me to eat some of those and also to order something myself. I said, no, I’d already brought my lunch. She just made me so mad…how many times do I have to say that I’m trying to lose weight before people leave me alone? And then she had the nerve to say that she “did” atkins for 2 weeks and “only” lost 4 pounds, so she gave up. I hate the way she abuses that diet. I dont think it’s a bad way to eat, but she just does it to lose a couple of pounds every now and then and then she stops and gains it all back, which complaining how it doesn’t work. It can’t work while you’re stuffing buttery rolls inyour mouth,can it?
I was very angry.
Ban Obese people from restaurants
This is an bill that I came across for the state of Mississippi, which I am from. I dont know how I feel about this bill. Would it even do any good? Wouldn’t people just go to the grocery store and go home to cook what they wanted? Also, how would they know you were obese and not just overweight? Would they keep a scale at the door? I doubt it will be passed, just thought I would share it.
Let’s see, how to start? Oh yes, it was a beautiful day. I don’t know if anyone reading this is familiar with the Natchez Trace, but this is where this race took place. It’s a parkway that follows the route of an old trail that went from Mississippi to Tennessee and had high traffic from Native Americans and European explorers. There are markers all along the way. People like to bike there and run. It’s nice and wooded with the occasional farm land or cows and there are plenty of deer peeking out of the trees. In other words, this was a nice place to run.
I picked up my best friend we drove down the Natchez Trace Parkway, not really sure of where this place was. Eventually we found it and I hurried over to the registration tables since there was only about 10 minutes until it started. I was running a little late due to childcare issues.
Anyhoo, I get over there and the lady says “You can pay here” and I said that I’d already registered online. She told me to go over to the box by the truck. Apparently she should’ve been more specific, because I found myself rummaging through the box of winning plaques , which were in brown colored envelopes (it was the only box I saw!). And I’d just realized my mistake when one of the race organizers busted me….I joked that that was the only way I was going to get one of those! Anyway, I found the boxes, which were totally not where she said they were.
I lined up with the rest of the runners, toward the back where I belong, and listened to instructions. This was the first race I’d run on a road that was not closed off, so we were warned to watch the traffic. I decided then to not listen to my ipod. I was so incredibly nervous, my tummy felt like it was full of butterflies.
So the gun went off and I ran much faster than I intended, but it felt so good that I kept it up. A lot of people passed me, but I was expecting it, so I didn’t’ sweat it. I just tried to look around at the beautiful surroundings. I was surprised to see another very overweight person running too. I don’t know why, but I felt pride in her and I gave her a smile as I passed her and then later after the race. I won’t make this long and drawn out, but it was a good run. I was a little discouraged around mile 2 when the first speed walker passed me (how in the world can those people WALK a 5k in under 30 minutes?!) But there are always 3 that attend these races and beat the slower runners. Luckily, they were only doing the 5k, so I didn’t have to see how badly they would’ve beaten me at a 10k lol.
Around mile 5 is when I really started getting tired. Some people who were speed walking the whole thing (though I think they may have started out running) went ahead of me and I just let them. Then I saw a guy who’d been in front of me for a good while and decided to focus on getting in front of him. I eventually did and that felt good, but it was hard. Then the last 0.5 miles a lady behind me kept trying to run faster than me so we went back and forth and I think I was like 3 seconds in front of her lol.
But here is the best part: My time was 1:17:50! I can’t believe it! On my training run it took me 1:20 just to do 5.5 miles. Someone told me good job as I finished and that made me feel really good, but made me wonder if I looked pitiful out there. I didn’t place of course, but I felt so happy that I’d done it at such an unexpected time.
I am already very sore. Here is a horrible picture of me after crossing the finish line.
Tomorrow is the big day! I ran 2 miles today. I had planned today to be a rest day, but I waited too long yesterday to do my 3-4 mile run and it was pouring rain with very low temps and high winds. I didn’t want to run in that, so I ran today. It’s a beautiful day too, sunny and clear…I hope it’s that way tomorrow.
I have a problem at night. I am visited by the nibble monster. I usually will have about 100 calories left at night and think, oh I’ll just nibble this and that, and it won’t add up to 100. Well it is and I’m eating too much. Gotta stop it! Off to do housework, will catch up on you girls when baby takes a nap