Two Weeks

Today is the day that I have done two weeks straight of 5 consecutive workouts.  I haven't listed it as a goal for awhile, but I am cautiously optimistic about achieving it.  The reason I am cautious is because I don't want to get all excited and proud only to not go 5 days next week.  Does that make sense?  I feel like my brain will tell me 'It's ok if you miss today, you did 5 days last week'.  I don't want that.  I want to continue doing the 5 days.  So maybe I won't celebrate to loudly instead.  (I am really happy that I have done it though, it makes me excited to have a achieved this tiny goal!)

Yesterday was a bad day food wise.  I went out with my sister for lunch, which wasn't bad, but it was so hot yesterday that we got slushies and then picked supper up also!  So today I will try to be a little more careful.  I am so glad that she is here.  I have missed her so very much.  I got to meet my niece finally and she is so wonderful.  She is a happy little soul and a constant smile.

Today we are having family pictures taken.  I found this website that does an amazing thing.  It's called the Maple Leaf Mission.  I won't try to explain it all here.  I'll just let you click the link and read about it instead.  I am excited to do this.  I'm sure that it will be interesting as we haven't done professional extended family portraits since I was pregnant with A and that was 8 years ago.  Now there are 6 children under the age of 8, two of them under the age of a year and a half!  It should be interesting and if all goes well I will post a couple of pics when we finally get them.

Well I guess that's it for today.  I won't be tread milling this weekend, so I will see you on Monday!  Have a great weekend!

A Ramble

I tread milled today.  I don't know what else to write.  So whatever happens here is just me going.  I have been down in the dumps lately.  Losing weight is really hard.  Changing my life is really hard.  So many things I have done to get here.  My lack of self control is overwhelming to me.  I am so sad that I can't let something delicious pass me by because I just need to satisfy my momentary longing.  The mind stuff that goes with living healthier is insane.  It is so stupid that I feel the need, the desire to go and buy a drink every time I go out somewhere.  But I do.  I don't know why.  I don't remember it being this way.  Is this a grownup thing?  Is it what society and our communities and businesses are saying to us?  Get a drink! Not only get a drink but spend five or more dollars to satisfy yourself.     It's very rare to go anywhere now where someone is not carrying a Starbucks or Tim Hortons cup.  The desire to get a specialty drink is intense.  If it wasn't a drink it would be something else.  We have a wonderful cupcake place here in town.  I am sure that if it was easier to get to, like if they had a drive thu, I would be there every time I went out too.  Cause what goes better with a five dollar drink then a three dollar cupcake?  Anyways I am just trying to say that losing weight and living healthy is a lot harder then most people would think, especially when the will power is fleeting.

See you tomorrow!

Better Late Then Not At All

Well today's workout was a little late.  So tired this morning that when I got up I just went and had a warm bath.  It was nice to spend a little time relaxing with no noise around me.  But now I'm sweating cause I just felt too guilty not doing the workout.  So here I am posting in the evening.

I think that this might be it for the post tonight.  I am hoping to be up again and doing this in less then 12 hours.  So I guess I'll see you in the morning!

Holding On

Today I had to hold on to the treadmill for a short time.  My legs are aching.  I should probably slow down.  But I have this crazy thing in my head basically saying 'no pain, no gain'.  I am not sure if this is a true thing in the workout world.  I'm sure there has to be some pain, but my legs hurt so much going faster.  I should mention also that I upped the incline have a degree and that's probably why they hurt this week more then before.  Maybe tomorrow I'll bring it down a bit and see if that makes a difference.

Today I am sweating more than normal.  It's actually going into my eyes and I have rivulets on my neck.  It's disgusting but I'll take it!

In other news, feeling really down the last 24 hours.  No particular reason, just not feeling 'up'.  I want to crawl into bed and stay there for awhile.  I hoped that J would wake up when I was coming out of my room and stay up so that I wouldn't have to treadmill today.  I didn't want my alarm to go off.  I just feel like blech.

Anyways, sorry to be such a downer.  Hopefully I'll be feeling better tomorrow.

Week Two

Today is the mark of week two in which I have gotten up on a Monday morning.  It was hard to do cause we had a great weekend.  And today it's gloomy and rainy outside.  Not that I mind the rain.  But it just makes everything feel mellow and melancholy.

I feel great.  I truly love how good I feel after I have exercised.  I don't feel that great when I am on the treadmill but the after part is amazing.  My legs are so sore today though.  They are painfully sore from shin splints.  I did the stretches, but today it didn't seem to make a difference.  I think that it might be my shoes.  I've been looking for new ones but have yet to get any.

I read this week why staying hydrated is essential to weight loss.  Most of you probably know this already but I'll tell you all again.  When we don't stay hydrated, our body starts to conserve water.  When we conserve water it adds up to water weight.  So if you drink more water then your body needs it won't conserve the water you give it.  It's something I knew already but it's an important thing to remember.

So I see you tomorrow I guess!

Music

I have found that music can really help me or hinder me on the treadmill.  If I get the right song, I have no problem at all keeping my pace going.  But if it's the wrong one, not so easy.  I find mainstream music is much easier to walk to.  There are a couple of artists that I really enjoy walking to.  Flo Rida and Keasha are two of them.  When any of their songs come on (with the exception of one or two), I just have no problem going.  Some of their lyrics leave some things to be desired but whatever.  When I am on the treadmill, I pretend that there is a rope behind my butt and I can't let myself touch it.  It helps me to stay going and not to be lagging on the tread.  So when the right song comes on, I have noticed that I have no problem staying where I am supposed to be on the tread.  In fact I rarely have to think about where my body is at all.

I tread milled today obviously.  Today was the hardest day on the treadmill.  My legs are sore and they didn't really want to do any walking.  I stretch every morning, so I'm not sure why they are hurting so badly today.

On a side note, my sister that lives in New York will be in Alberta Canada tomorrow!!  I will meeting my newest niece for the first time this coming week and she will be meeting her newest nephew.  I am super excited to see her and can't wait until they come up north!

Anyways, maybe I'll see you tomorrow.  I don't know yet.  We shall see.

What music do you listen to when working out?  What kind of stretches do you use?

Hot Sauce

Last night at the boys' martial arts class, the owner of the dojo showed me a bottle of hot sauce that he has on his desk.  I took the lid off and smelled it and it had a pretty good odour to it.  Then he told me to give it a try.  He said if I did to make sure that it was just a tiny taste because it's crazy hot.  I touched my pinky to the rim and tasted.  Almost immediately I had tears in my eyes.  It wasn't just hot it was HOT!!  I felt like I should have a huge blister on my tongue.  Then he told me that this hot sauce is the third hottest sauce in the world.  He also said that when we is training people for competition he makes them put the sauce on a cracker, eat it and then go and spar.  He said it helps to build a pain tolerance, because in competition they will be in more pain then all this.  Anyways, I thought that it was pretty cool to have tried the third hottest hot sauce in the world.

I tread milled today.  I am now sweating like crazy.  I don't really seem to start sweating for real until I start my cool down.

Well I better go.  J has been crying for awhile.  Usually he just goes back to sleep but I don't think that's happening today.  See you tomorrow.

Fixed

My computer is fixed!  I am indeed sitting in front of and writing with it today!  Oh my, I am so happy! All the data is still here!  I bought an external hard drive yesterday.  I brought it home and was clueless about what to do with it.  I took it back and bought something else.  I took the risk that was formatting it and surprise, surprise it worked!  The first one I bought would have worked fine, but I was terrified to do the formatting for it.  Oh well this one works!

Hubby and I went to bed earlier then normal last night.  Just after nine.  He had to get up at 5am to go to work so I went to bed with him.  Which was probably a good thing.  Yesterday was a long and hard day.  J was so incredibly cranky that I was ready to pull my hair out!  He goes from be super cute and in a great mood to this little terror that is impossible to please!  Drives me crazy!  So we went to bed early.  I didn't feel Hubby get up.  My alarm went off at 6.  I didn't want to move.  I was so tired!  My brain kept saying turn the lights on, you'll never get up if you don't!  I turned them on but I think that if i didn't get moving, I would have fallen back to sleep with them on.

As far as my goal of writing the things I eat down, not going well but, I have noticed that I have become a lot more aware of what is going into my mouth and that's a start.  I used to write down everything when I did Weight Watchers, but it felt so silly reading boxes and then writing it all down.  It felt like in school when you are told to read this book.  I never liked being told to read this book.  I like reading for pleasure not because I have to.  What's funny is the books were almost always good. They were books I probably would not have read it I wasn't told to.  I think that writing what I eat down is a little the same way.  I enjoy food.  But I don't want it to be a job.  That's probably how it will have to be though, until I can get the hang of what my body needs and not just wants.

Anyways sorry for the rambling.  It feels good to be writing on a computer again.  I feel great now that I have been up for the last hour.  See you tomorrow!

Today

I took the two weeks of exercising off. I've been back on for two days now and I find I have missed doing the work! I misses the sweat dripping off my face and down my back. I love the way I feel after getting off the treadmill and then starting my day. It feels good. So I obviously treadmilled today. I stayed up late finishing a book, sonthis morning my alarm was ringing in my dream for a little while until I actually heard it. I almost accomplished my water yesterday. I was off a few cups but I was much closer then usual. My computer is fixed. I'm going to pick it up today along with an external hard drive. I am happy to report that all my data is supposedly there! You have know idea how happy that makes me. I was so excited on the phone with the technician that I asked when I saw him if I could hug him. He laughed and was like I guess so. I'd hate to see what I'd be like if I won a million dollars or a trip to my dream destination. I've always thought I would just be like yea! But I think I'd probably be a little pyscho. I ate a few things I definitely should not have yesterday but did mostly good. Hubby and I had BBQ at our house this past weekend and everyone brought cakes. Some got left behind. I did have a friend come over for lunch. She volunteered to brin McDonald's over. It was a long hard battle deciding what to have. Normally I would have the big Mac but I opted for a salad instead. I know they say that the salads are almost as bad as the burgers but I think that's more from the dressing then anything, so I tried to only use half of it. It was a tasty one. She got me a Tuscan grilled chicken, yummy! Well I better go, kids to get up and going and I should probably get ready for my day also. Until tommorow, keep striving for your goals!

Back at it again

I am back. The last week I wrote was an insanely hectic one. I missed getting up, but we had so very much going on getting up was the thing that slid on the priority list. We went camping to Two Lakes that weekend. It was cold but fun. J did not sleep well out there. He thought because I was lying right there beaide him he could have a night time snack whenever he wanted. Needless to say I got very little sleep while trying to keep my shirt down, hence last weeks absence. I'm still not completely caught up on sleep, but of I don't get back to this when will I? So treamilled today. I didn't do the Pilates. I did do extra stretching and extra time though. This weeks goals. I sat down last week and went through a stack of cook books to look for recipes. I found a bunch of great ones. So as soon as my computer is back I will be printing off a bunch of things to complete my menu board. I think I am going to keep better track of my food intake also. It's always one I the scary things to do. You always think you eat better then you do. I know that I sneak a lot of sugary stuff so that will be my down fall. So my goals for the week are these: 1. Find a few more recipes for menu board 2. Start writing down what gets put into my mouth 3. Drink more water, a minimum of 8 cups of water Tell me your goals for the week! See you tomorrow!