Shall We Shrink??

… is a great moustache! Oh gracious, I’m not sure what cartoon we are watching, but I can feel myself getting dumber just watching them!

My husband got whatever it is that the boys have. He was up all night yakking. ICK. I feel soo sorry for them, but really, there is nothing I can do. They are lounging downstairs, sipping on some sports drink for hydration. I did ditch them a little bit ago to go on my run. I am so bad. I am reading the running book I bought, and I am just SO motivated! I can’t wait to be out there distance running!! Today the schedule called for 20 minutes, and I ran a little over 25, for a total of 2.7 miles, which puts my per mile average at about 9:41. Sa-weet! I want an 8 minute mile, but I’ll worry about that later; right now I am concerned with increasing my endurance.

Weight this morning? UGLY still. Bastards. However, since I got my new running clothes yesterday, I am feeling HAWT and don’t care! I am in a cute little Adidas outfit today, with black tights and a hot pink tank. How can you not feel smokin in that? It’s so warm out today, too. Sorry for all you Eskimos, but I think it’s probably in the upper 70’s right now. I never want to leave!!!

So, the goal today is to stay under 1550 calories. Can she do it? Probably not! But here’s to hoping!

Happy Sunday, chickies!

So now it is not just the youngest who is vomiting, it is also the oldest. Yes, he has already had it… apparently we are respreading it around. ARGH! His 10th birthday party is Sunday night, a sleepover with his 3 nearest and dearest, and I am wondering if we should call it off. I wonder if the boys will all be better by then, or if we’d risk getting the other boys sick. UGH.

I ate like a champ yesterday, in fact, I was actually about 400 calories under. Nothing like cleaning up diarrhea and vomit to curb the snackies! But, my weight was UGLY again. I hate how it fluctuates. My weight can go up and down about 5 pounds in an hour. I never really know what is real! HATE it! But, that’s why I just count one weigh in a week… Today is a rest day from running, but I think I am going to try to hop on the treadmill and walk for an hour. Nothing big, no incline, just to move my body and loosen things up. My hips are still sore from my uphill run the other day.

Happy weekend, chickies!

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So the hubbs woke up (finally) and felt sorry for me as the lil man had barfed all over me and the couch (YUCK!) so he told me to leave! And I took advantage I went to the gym and did the elliptical and the bike since today is a no run day. Then I came home and showered up, grabbed the lone unsick son, and headed off to the running store. I got 4 new pants and a new top for me, plus a new watch for the hubbs. Then we went to the mall and had lunch and got some new books. I got a really cool book on women’s running, so I’m sure I’ll be reading all night. So, back to lunch… I thought I got a healthy lunch. Key word thought. I had a small Greek salad (so far so good) and a San Diego sammy on wheat. Well, 520 calories later for HALF of it (luckily I only got a half to start with) I am regretting that decision. I wish I knew the calorie content of things before I order them. I have a Calorie King book, but this place wasn’t listed. BOO! The bright side? I have a house full of sickies, so soup is probably gonna be dinner. I should be fine calorie wise.

I fail! Yesterday was such a wretched eating day. Seriously, I have not eaten such crap in… well… I can’t remember how long. No more! This is SICK. SO I have a barfing baby. SO I missed my son’s basketball game because of it. So my exhusband is a complete douche and STILL ruining my life. SO WHAT?! None of that creates physical hunger! So, I had a talk with the hubbs last night and I decided a need a creative outlet. I used to smoke, now I eat, in the future I’d like to knit or cross stitch or sew. I need to learn how to knit though! I’ve been wanting to learn for so long. Anyhow, I am off to Michael’s and the fabric store they have here (not sure what they have, but they don’t have my old place!) and I am going to get things to focus my energy and stress on! We’ll see how that goes. Today WILL be better.

I hope all you chickies are having a better time than me lately! Happy Friday!

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Got my run in and I feel better already! I only did the 20 minutes called for in the training because my shins have been acting up, but that still gave me 1.75 miles of running (2.05 total counting 3 minute warm up and 3 minute cool down). Maybe this day shall be perfect afterall!

SO this morning I wake up to the little one covered in barf. Not sure when it happened, and all the boys denied doing it, but the 3 year old has it in his hair! SICK. As I am cleaning it up, he asks me to come downstairs and wipe his booty (don’t DARE call it a butt, he finds that rude! ha!) and I see he has diarrhea. UGH. But, he has no fever and swears he feels fine. We have a roadtrip planned today with my new friend here, and I have already rescheduled it twice, so I hate to do it again or she’s gonna think I’m a flake! I wonder if he really does feel fine or if he feels like crud… We’ll see.

Weight this morning? U-G-L-Y! And I watched a movie on marathon training last night (without the walking… my belly was too full still) that was so informative. Although, it said some things I didn’t like. Things like running doesn’t really help you lose weight. Running super long distances anyway. It was a NOVA documentary so they actually measured things like VO2 Max, body composition, etc. So I have had my question answered, yes I am definitely planning on walking on my rest days.

Hope you chickies have a great Thursday!!

Ha! I crack myself up with my crude title.

After yesterday’s eating madness, I am aiming for a really, really good day today. I’m eating the oatmeal right now, have already weighed myself (steady from yesterday, surprisingly enough) and then I am off to walk the boys to school, followed by a nice run. And I think after my run I want to do something else, like maybe a long walk. I don’t know, I just don’t feel like I’m moving enough. I really wish I had a stationary bike for the house. I hate going to the gym at night because that is the only time I see my husband, and two of those nights he has classes so that wouldn’t be a possibility anyway. Boo! I want a home gym!

Off for a run! Have a great day, chickies!

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Alright, back from my run and it was a pretty good one! Decided to talk lil man out on the mountain, so down we went! Coming back up was NOT fun, however, and I had to walk a few different times. But, I kept trying and started running again when we got to the top. Final stats: 2.93 miles in 36:01 minutes. Not terrible for an uphill battle with a stroller ANd I think today’s marathon training called for 20 minutes, so I am well within that. Speaking of, my hubby wants me to stick to the plan exactly and is irritated I ran more. wtf? I have been running longer than 20 minutes for a long time… I see it as a minimum, only until I get to the big stuff, of course. Sheesh!

Now if I can just NOT eat everything today!

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Operation Don’t Eat EVERYTHING? FAIL!!! Ugh. So, I was not good today. Actually, I was good until I ate Cheesenips. GROSS. Then, cupcakes. As in plural. ARGH! I am SO stressed out today with my exhusband. I think it was easier to be married to that ass head. You know what the craziest part is? It was like I didn’t even know I was doing it until it was done! Anyhow, I am angry that I let him affect me. Ultimately though, this is MY choice. I was going to watch a movie about marathoning tonight, so now I am just going to walk on the treadmill as I watch it as pennance. I hope it isn’t a long one!!!

Seriously, this not working thing has messed up my sleep schedule! I usually go to bed at 9ish, and since I know I don’t have to be at work it has risen to past 10! Unfortunately, I still get up at the same time, because HELLO, getting to my job still required getting the kids ready and off to school, which I still have to do sans job. That one hour makes a big difference.

I was informed yesterday that since the hubby changed his classes around this semester our marathon training would be shifting. Apparently yesterday turned into day 1. It worked out ok, because the plan was to run for 20 minutes. That’s it. So even my wimpy run fit the bill! We are starting on week 6 of a 26 week plan, and it seems a little easy, but in like 2 weeks I will be singing a different tune I’m sure. Anyhow, today was my new rest day, but I wanted to try to run anyway since I didn’t do anything spectacular yesterday. I got half a mile in and my shins were killing me! I walked for a minute and ran some more. Same thing. So I only ran a mile. I didn’t want to stop though, so I kicked up the incline and lowered the speed to 4.1 for another mile. Total was 2.17 miles, but I am only counting the 1 mile run for my tracker. According to my handy dandy heart rate monitor, I was in the zone for 24 of the 30 minutes, so that is good. Speaking of heart rate monitor… my treadmill has one, and I always thought it was pretty accurate… it reads the same as my HRM as far as what my actual heart rate is. However, calories burned are WAY different. The treadmill says I burned about 75 more than the HRM. The only thing I can figure out is that my HRM knows I’m a girl and the treadmill doesn’t ask that. Damn men and their higher calorie burn. Anyhow, I am glad I have an accurate number, even if it is much lower. Oh, and my weight today was down one pound, so I am only one pound up from last weeks low. Yay!

Talk to ya later, chickies!

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I suck today. I don’t know why, but I was SO snacky ALL day. I went over my calories by about 400, I think. And tomorrow is the official weigh in day. UGH. On a brighter note, everything I ate was healthy, so maybe I’ll get a kick butt run in the morning with all that extra energy

Night!

SO Sistah Pat (who is the cutest thing EVER!) turned me on to these perfect days a while ago. I’m gonna try to have one today, to support her and to get back on track! I didn’t run or even work out at ALL this weekend! Lazy, lazy. And I ate decent, but not the greatest. I made homemade chicken and dumplings yesterday for God’s sake! Oh, it was good. But, even made the “healthy” way, it was about 500 calories for one bowl. I drank a LOT of hot tea last night so I wouldn’t have seconds Anyhow, back to my perfect day. I weighed myself this morning. UGH. But, it was a reality check. It was up nearly 2 pounds from my low last week. I think the popcorn I have been eating coupled with the lack of water is the culprit, but you can’t be too safe. Then I ate some yummy oatmeal and hopped on the treadmill. I ran 2.22 miles and counting my warm up and cool down (4 minutes each, plus a 1 minute walk break after the first mile cause my shins were hurting) I did 2.75 miles in 34:00 minutes. Not too shabby, but no where near the 3 and almost 4 miles I was doing at the beginning of last week. What a way to start training for a marathon! I think it is because the training doesn’t start til Wednesday, and my hubby hasn’t and won’t do anything til then. I need competition to run far!

I found a quote that I love…

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it. -Margaret Thatcher

SOOOOOOO true.

So to keep this day perfect, I am going to eat healthy foods, stay under 1553 calories, and either take the boys to the park for some basketball or go for a walk (or run if I am feeling really jiggy!).

Here’s to a perfect Monday! Hope all you chickies are doing well!!

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Ok, the day is done. I am 3, count them, THREE calories under my limit. Ha! Day is done and perfection was achieved. Yay!

Night

I am SO not in the mood to do, well, anything today. And now it is almost over. And I have done NOTHING! Okay, I ate. And too much at that! I think my calories are right at the limit for the day. I need to run, but who wants to do that?! I didn’t work out yesterday, either. I’m going to read about what some of yall have done today to motivate me. I hope this works!

Oh, you thought I was talking about me? Nope, I stuck to my drink what you burned rule and had 3 beers all night. And I stayed out uber late, so that was over the course of about 5ish hours. We had a BLAST. It was so nice to get out and talk and just be with people. I love that I am starting to make friends. LOVE it!

So, I get home last night and hubby tells me our 6 year old barfed. In his sleep. He cleaned everything up and didn’t even call me. Isn’t that so sweet. He is such a good huby and father. So this morning I had to get up early and cut the BBall player son’s haor for pics and lil man was still sick. And he barfed again. I hope he gets to feeling better soon. Poor thing. He’s been munching on toast and wheat thins and drinking 7-up all day so at least he is keeping things down now. I just feel so sorry for them when they are sick.

I weighed in this morning and I was down again. Seriously, this isn’t even possible. You cannot lose a pound a day, especially when you are a lazy butt and only ran 2 miles! My bubble will burst soon I am sure. We’ll see come weigh in Wednesday. For now I am just happy it is on the decline. I have been doing this for so long, I am glad I found something that works. Thank goodness I got my RMR tested and I know just how many calories to take in!

Okay, I hope all you chickies are having a great weekend! I’m off to play nurse mom! If I run today (and that is a BIG if!) I’ll update ya.

I’m so frustrated! We lost last night, which sucks. AND, my bad mood (it can’t just be MY fault) made me eat 3 mini crunch bars. Then today, I ate another! MAKE IT STOP. I’m done. Over it. Except, also, I still haven’t ran. I don’t feel like doing anything. LAZY. Oh gracious…

But, I saw the lowest number EVER since I have lived in Cali on the scale this morning. YAY.
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Alright, my mood is a little better. I ran, finally, but only 2 miles and MAN, was it pathetic! I am so tired and sore and blah. I wonder what that is all about. But, I have taken control of my eating and that is a good thing.

Also, my BFF sent me my Christmas present. We do Christmas in January every year. We started it when we were poor college students/single moms. I know, it doesn’t get much broker than that. And we have continued the tradition. This year I got… a 4 karat white saphire ring! It’s so pretty!! I’ll post a pic soon.

And lastly, my walking buddy invited me over to a party at her house tonight (and my pathetic run only burned 240 calories, so if they are serving drinks mine will be few according to my new rule!) Then, after school I took the boys to the park and I was playing (and I use the term playing loosely) basketball with my son when all of a sudden my neighbor introduces herself. Um, you do know I have lived there for over a year, right? I was mostly polite, but a little snotty. I mean really, why are you admitting I am not invisible now? I kinda hate her and her cliche, and kinda hope we become friends. I know, so fickle. Anyhow, I am excited for tonight and for new friendships!

Hope all you chickies have a great night!!!