Holidays and New Years

hey everyone! Hope your holidays have been great! This year has gone by super fast and now we are getting ready to celebrate the New Years..crazy! I think you can all agree with me that eating and exercising around the holidays can be tough. I was definitely was challenged this season. I didnt do too bad but I went off track a little. I am still working out hard in the gym and eating right. It was a few weeks before Thanksgiving when things at work went into stress overload and I was working on high priority cases...which I still am. It was hard to always get in the gym beause at the end of the day I wanted to sleep or do nothing..which I wasnt doing much of..and I was doing excellent in the gym..killing it! :) Now I am into the Christmas holiday and I realized how little I paid attention to my health the last couple of months. Work took priority and nothing else. I tried to squeeze in workouts and eat right, but in the end I took the back burner. My weight didnt increase or get out of control...it just didnt go anywhere. All I have to show right now is the constant lack of sleep/tired look. I dont have what you call a relaxing job...I am on the go from the moment I walk in the door until I walk out...sometimes not taking my full lunch..and most times working OT. I also have been put through the wringer with buying a house...no joke! I plan on working on changing things so that this doesnt keep happening..and I know its all about the mental outlook on things and how one deals with stress, etc. Sometimes the mental outlook is not enough. Here's to change for the New Year...cause this gal needs it! Good thing about tomorrow is that it's a brand new day...clean slate :) Im looking forward to the New Year! I'm not sure what my resolutions are, I have quite a few on my mind. What are your New Year's resolutions?

Checking in

Hello girls! I wasn't sure if you wanted me on this blog anymore since I'm never on here :) It's hard to get on here when I dont have internet, but I will try to get to this blog more often than I have. Looks like you both are doing very well ---congrats on all the improvements!

As of right now I have lost a total of 40+ lbs. and dropped a few pant sizes. I have been eating very well and excercising. I had a recent health issue with my gallbladder and it made me even more focused on eating right. Gallbladder is doing fine right now on this healthier eating plan. Still a long ways to go, but progress has been made.

Good luck to everyone and I will check in soon.

Day 3... Week 3

Well, I felt defeated last night when I ran.  It was hard.  How hard can running for three minutes REALLY be? Hard enough that I yelled at my husband during it.  Hard enough that at the slightest incline I thought I may die.  Hard enough to where I feel like a total wimp.

Oh well.  Life will go on.  I'm going to try to move on to week 4 but if its too difficult I may step back into week 3 again.  I'm trying to succeed!  At least I'm doing something still, right!?  Nevermind that my counterparts are well into week six!!!

Week 2... or Week 4?

Well, I am still doing the c25k but I took a week off (why!?) then I decided I needed to repeat week two.  So, I did week 1, 2 skipped 3 and am now on 4 but am technically running week 2. Does that makes sense? Oh, who the hell cares. :)

I'm moving onto week 3 (technically 5th week running) because week 2 is no longer hard for me! Yahoooo!

I feel like I've had small success and failure all at the same time. Oh well, moving forward! :)

So Long Couch!

When my fellow blog buddy Jen posted something on her facebook about thinking about starting to run... I jumped on the bandwagon with her.  Only two days later Jen had an entire email list of other ladies that were hopping on the bandwagon to join in the Couch to 5K madness!!!

What did I do?  Duh! I employed Shandy as my personal motivator! Since we have been toying around with the idea of being more active and not being such fat asses since January, I figured she'd be on board.  We're getting into the third week of this business and I'm proud to say that I've stuck with it!

I am going to have to repeat week 2 because... well, it kicked my ass.  But, that's ok! I am still moving this lug of a body of mine!

So... that's the update for now! Hopefully by the end of the summer I will be able to jog for more than 2 minutes at time. Um, that sounds so pathetic!

Kickin ass and takin names

New workout mix made me want to run tonight..and I did!! Girl is making progress over here, two days of running in a row!! Biggest surprise, it was raining and I STILL went. As much as I would have liked to stay inside and watch season 2 of Trueblood I sucked it up and went for a nice little jog around the neighborhood. Another surprise, it wasnt all that bad. The water wasnt as much of a distraction as I thought it would be, it wasnt uncomfortable, and it wasnt horrible, it was just kind of there. So heres the magic mix thats been motivating my legs to pound the pavement..
1) Bad Influence-Pink
2)Funhouse-Pink
3)If You Can Afford Me-Katy Perry
4)Rockstar 101-Rihanna
5)Rude Boy-Rihanna
6)Telephone-Lady Gaga & Beyonce
7)Poker Face-Lady Gaga
8)Ignorance-Paramore

P.S. Running tights make my legs look sexier, I swear! (theyre black of course) :)

1/2 Marathon... My Ass!

Shandy,

Your last comment made me hide under my bed clutching my Costco sized chocolate chip bag for dear life. 1/2 Marathon? Are you freaking kidding me? Remember this last Friday when we went a Hoola Hoopin' at Wal Mart at midnight? Oh yeah, we conveniently bought two packages of mini doughnuts, Oreos and GUSHERS!

Not quite sure that I'll be in Marathon mode or shape by this Fall. However, a 3 or 5k I am up for. Maybe...

Compromise, right? I know you were playin' that game you play in the sand today. Sounds kinda itchy in places I don't want itching, if ya know what I mean. But, I am glad you do it! I excersized too today (of course, you know that because I texted you when I made it up that ginormous hill.)

We're still making some sort of progress, in our own minds at least.  Wal Mart trips aside... we're doing better than we were six months ago. I think?

No marathons for me this year, please.

Your best Wal Mart buddy,
Trixie