Pet Peeves

My best friend recently did a couple of blog posts that included pet peeves of hers. Tonight I am going to mention two pet peeves of mine that occur when I am running/walking.

Pet Peeve #1
I can't stand it when my shorts ride up while I am running/walking. WHY MUST THIS OCCUR? Oh yes, I remember. It is because my thighs rub together. Ugh! I have tried many things including using body glide on my inner thighs. It doesn't seem to work as well as I need it to. My friend swears by her lycra running shorts that she wears under her tempos. This garment of clothing might be known to some of us as "bicycle shorts". I have tried this one time but it was a few years ago and I honestly can't remember if I liked it or not. I think I will try it soon and see how it goes. In the meantime, the only thing I can find that DOES work is wearing pants or capris.

Pet Peeve #2
PUNKS! I can't stand it when I am totally in the zone running or even walking, listening to my music and some punk drives by in his nasty car and hoots and hollers at me or other people. Can you be any more disgusting? Is it necessary? All it does is make the person that you are yelling at uncomfortable! The other thing that is annoying about this is that you have no time to properly react to the person doing it. By the time your mind puts it all together the person is further down the road laughing like a hyena thinking they are so clever. SO ANNOYING!!

Ok, I feel better now. Have a great day!

A Slight Adjustment

Last night, I did one of my favorite 5K's. While most races are first thing in the morning, this one is the last thing you do in a full day. It is called the Midnight Run and the name explains it all. It is actually quite a distance for me to travel as it is in Cullman but I love it! I always do this race with one of my favorite friends, Marti. Marti is one of my friends that is doing Savannah with me. I had a great time but a horrible race time.

This race really made me remember that I have got to get on the ball with my training. I was doing good and then took a week off. I will jump back in tomorrow. I joined a new gym since Planet Fitness might be back at the end of the year and I just can't wait that long. I am pretty excited about this gym because it has classes and it has a child care area. The kids love it! So I am going to go for the first time tomorrow and get adjusted to a new place.

Since I was thinking about running it made me think about my weight loss and how slow this process is going. I am going to the doctor in a week and I am going to ask her about it and see if there is something I can do besides what I have already been doing. I think for now I am going to back off the weight loss a little. That doesn't mean I am going to forget about it, it just means that I won't be so aggressive. I think I tried to take on too much at one time and since the race is in November I think I need to really concentrate more on the running. I hope that maybe the weight loss might take care of itself a little with all the running I will be doing.
So I have a slight adjustment in my plans but I think it will be a good thing.

Getting Back on the Wagon

It sounds easy doesn't it? Oh, but it is so hard. I fell off. It happens. But now, I have got to hoist myself back on that wagon. Why is it so hard to make good decisions? I still get hung up on the whole reward thing. I LOVE to reward myself but with things that aren't necessarily good for me.

I got my new WW magazine in the mail today and one of the advertisements is, of course, for WW. It says "When it clicked for me" and then tells you how that person does it (in a short advertisement way).

I want to know when it will click for me. When will I decide that it has to be done? I have pictures of me when I was smaller and healthier and I have tried the whole posting them up so that I would make better decisions so I could get back to that size. I was in a wedding on Saturday and I had wanted to lose weight for it so for the last 4 months, I had little signs everywhere that said "August 6th" so I would make better decisions. It didn't help. Sure I saw the signs and I did think about it but I still went for the little debbie cake or the potato chips. And guess what? I was the same size 4 months ago that I was on Saturday.

I was talking to a co-worker today and she told me I needed to plan each day out but I have tried to do that as well and I end up talking myself back into my old habits. I am my own saboteur! I continue to sabotage myself over and over and I would love to know when I will kick myself in the butt and say "Enough already!"

What do I do? I have been reading a few other WW member blogs and they have all read these different self help books but I have never really been one to read those sorts of things so I'm just not sure. Any ideas??

In the meantime, I am going to get up in the morning and take it one day at a time. I have to get back on track, literally. I am glad that the wedding is over. It was such a great and happy day for my friend. Mindy was thrilled because she got to be a flower girl and I hopefully have been a bridesmaid for the last time in my life! So tomorrow is a new day and I will get there. Right?

What's Up?

It has been a few days. Ideally I would like to post every day or at least every other day but we are crazy busy at work and at home. Since Sunday, I have done 7 miles, 2 on Monday and 5 yesterday. I was supposed to do 2 miles today but wasn't feeling well this morning so I pushed it back. On the schedule I am supposed to do 5 miles tomorrow morning and I hope I make that happen. I am a little worried about time though because Mason starts PRESCHOOL at my school tomorrow!! I also have to drop Mindy off at a friends house for the day so my morning is busy and I need to be on schedule. So, I will try to do the 5 but if not then I will do the 2 I was supposed to do today. I have to do 7 miles on Saturday or Sunday and I am thinking it will be Sunday since I have a wedding on Saturday. Ugh! Busy, busy, busy!

I still haven't eaten any fast food which means I have gone almost a week without it. I even went through a drive thru today but I only got something to drink. All week, my friends at work have been going out to lunch everyday and I have stayed behind and eaten something from home. That is the hard part about trying to be healthier. I want to go with them to be social and I really enjoy their company. But I know myself. I know I would not order a salad or something healthy. Isn't it sad when you can't trust yourself? That is why I am trying to take it one step at a time. First, give up fast food for awhile then slowly I can introduce the healthy fast food back into my life....maybe.

On Sunday I talked about Gu. I went to Academy today to pick some up and they had some yummy flavors. I got Strawberry Banana, Vanilla Bean and Tri Berry. There are other flavors like mocha and chocolate but those things don't sound good to me when I am running. I need something fruity. I have never trained with Gu but I always partake of the free Gu that they give you around mile 7 at the half marathons. Maybe if I actually train with it, it will make things a little easier.

I am not looking forward to weighing in tomorrow night. I don't really understand why I am not losing weight. I have really been paying attetion to what I am eating. I am running my butt off but I continue to wrestle with the same two pounds. Two pounds forward, two pounds back. Over and over again. I do realize that since I am running I am turning some of that fat to muscle and I also realize that if I am running 5 miles or 7 miles in a day my appetite is larger but COME ON!

I will do my best to post tomorrow night after WW. Mindy starts school on Friday so I know tomorrow night after WW we will be getting her clothes and backpack ready and packing her lunch. I may be totally passed out by the time tomorrow is done.

Dental Floss and Gu

Sounds like a disgusting title for my post doesn't it? But I promise it is relevant to what has been going on in my life! I have been working on my running and got my days a little criss crossed but I ended up only 2 miles short. And let me explain why...
Dental Floss- I'm sure you know there are many different uses for dental floss besides the obvious but one of the ways that I use dental floss is for my big toe. Weird huh? I have always had a problem with my big toe and ingrown toenails. I went to the doctor several times for these and I had them removed but they would always come back. One time when I was in college (I think it was during the summer), I went to a doctor who said "Yep it definitely needs to be fixed. Let's take it off." He ended up saying he was going to take the WHOLE nail off with NO NUMBING MEDS! That was one of the most painful experiences of my life! Anyway, one of the things I learned during the process is that if you put a piece of dental floss under the white part of your toenail and take it around the edge of the nail it actually helps! That was a little difficult to explain. I find that if I do the whole floss thing for about a week or so my ingrown toenail goes away. This morning I forgot to floss my toe :-) so I had a little bit of discomfort during my 7 miler turned 5 miler.

Gu - I already need to start using Gu and I didn't have any. I fully believe that if I had had some Gu this morning I would have been able to finish my 7 miler. Gu is one of those things that you can eat while you are in the middle of a race and it can give you a little burst of energy and protein to get through the rest of the race. I highly recommend chasing it with some water but ultimately it works and I need to get some before my next long run. I also like Jelly Belly Sports Beans.

I still haven't had any fast food. I even went in to Taco Casa at lunchtime on Saturday but I only got sweet tea because I haven't given that up yet. I made some Jambalaya in the crock pot on Saturday and then I made a Baked Dorito Surprise tonight. All in all, it was a pretty productive weekend. I haven't lost any weight but maybe, just maybe I will have lost some more inches.

Yay For Me!

Today, instead of going out with my co-workers for lunch, I ate my sandwich that my fantastic husband made for me this morning. I will also be good tonight because we are eating lasagna for dinner because it is National Lasagna Day!

I did get my butt out of bed at 5:15 this morning and go do my 4 miles. Christy, the humidity wasn't near as bad in 75 degree weather as the heat is at 98 degrees. I was sweating buckets after about a half of a mile but it was way better than 3 in the afternoon!

Sometime this weekend I have to do my 7 miler and then I will be done with my second week of training!

Disappointed, Ugh!

I am very disappointed in myself. I did not go to weight watchers tonight nor did I do my run today. I didn't want to face the music at weight watchers. I know I gained. I didn't do the run because by the end of the day I was really exhausted! I came home and took a nap. I decided I would do the run in the morning since Friday is supposed to be a rest day. I just switched today and tomorrow. So the running problem is solved.

Now moving on to the food problem. When it comes right down to it, I have no will power. I cannot stop myself from eating poorly for some reason. I haven't really figured that out yet. But in order to slowly change my habits, I will gradually make a few drastic changes. Starting right now, I will be giving up fast food until Labor Day weekend. I figure that is a month away which is a good amount of time to try something new. Labor Day weekend it is because I have a family reunion in Jacksonville, Florida and I figure it will be a little difficult to not eat it. After Labor Day, I will add sweet tea to fast food. The sweet tea is basically empty calories. I figured up the points plus value of a cup of sweet tea and it is two points. I drink way more than a cup so I know a lot of my points are taken up by sweet tea. So those are my drastic changes. I am doing them gradually because obviously cold turkey doesn't work for me. This next week is hard because all my friends at work are back to get ready for school to start. We have always gone out to lunch those days and it will be hard to let them go without me. I don't like to miss anything. I did go with them today because I knew I was going to give up fast food.

So I know you were all on the edge of your seats to find out how much I lost this week and I am sorry to disappoint. I do promise that next Thursday there will be a weigh in and a meaurement done. Next weekend I have my friend's wedding rehearsal and wedding so that will be a real challenge. The kids also start school next week so there will be some added stress but I am ready to take it on! Anytime you feel the need to encourage me or check on me please do so! Hopefully as I get better at this I won't need it as much but right now it is very important.

Christy Ross, I wish I could do the race with you on Saturday! I know you are going to rock! I am planning on doing the Midnight Run on August 12th so maybe I will see some of my fellow runners in Cullman that night.

I will post tomorrow and let you know if I was able to say no to eating out!
GNSD