This week

So, I know I am a few days late with my post. Why is it times seems to go by so fast when you don't want it to, but when you wish it would hurry up it just creeps by? So anyway this has been a busy week and it has flown by. My husband leaves for the Middle East tomorrow so our days have been filled with getting him packed, all of the stupid military briefings that he has and even one for me, and overly emotional kids. We got to go to the zoo for one last fun outing before Daddy has to leave, and had a great time, it is finally starting to warm up here and I can see most of my yard. I do still have a few pretty frozen patches of snow. I actually got to go run outside for the first time in about 4 months. It will still be a little while before I get to do that consistently since it is still to cold to have my two youngest out there with me, but hopefully by the beginning of the month we will be able to do that. I am sure my pace will suffer since I will be pushing about 80 pounds worth of kids, not including the weight of the stroller that really only counts when I am going uphill. I am so excited for spring!!!! Anyway hope that everyone has a great week!!!

A Few Days Before Weigh in

So I haven't done much this month. I will have a loss, but it will be a small one, which I am OK with. My goal most of this month, or at least the last 2 weeks has just been to maintain, which I have successfully done. So that has been nice. I still have a few more pounds I would like to get off, but I figure I will wait until my husband leaves for his deployment, which will be in about 10 days. I was looking through my pictures today, and came across one from my birthday this past year, which was right before I started to lose weight, and even though the picture is only from the top half, I was surprised at the difference. Through out this whole process, I haven't been able to really see a difference in myself. I know that the weight has obviously gone somewhere since I certainly can't wear the same clothes anymore, but to me when I just look at myself, I look the same. Part of it might be the way I carry the weight, but looking back at those pictures, I was surprised what a difference 55 pounds makes. I mean, I know when you think about it, that seems like a pretty significant amount of weight, but while I have been losing, it really hasn't seemed like a big deal. I know I have changed a lot about my eating habits, one of the things I had to do was actually eat more, when I started this whole thing and started counting up my calories, I was surprised to see that except for weekends, I was eating less than 1000 calories, the biggest change I have made, is to up my calorie intake to 1600 calories and keep it there consistently. Funny thing for me (not funny ha ha but ironically) is that if my calories drop to 1300, I start to gain again. So I have to make sure that I get my calories, because I have a bad habit of not eating breakfast or lunch, and getting my meals has been incredibly helpful for me and for the energy I need to exercise. I haven't changed my exercise habits at all, and I don't intend to. I just found out about a triathlon that the base here is having, so I am thinking about maybe doing that. It is the week before my half that I always run, so it will mean training for both at the same time. We will have to see how that goes, but I would love to do one. Since I can't train for a full marathon this year, that would be a nice compromise. Anyway, enough rambling. Hope that everyone has a great rest of the week and a fantastic weigh in!!!!!

This Week

So not a whole lot going on for me this week. I did read the challenge this week and think it is a pretty good one. I haven't really done any of the other challenges. I take that back, I kind of did the goal evaluation one, I didn't write anything down, but I did take a few minutes to think about what my goals are, since being within about 3 pounds of my goal weight, that means that they are changing a little. I know that to maintain my weight, I am not going to change anything about my workouts, I will continue with my running 5 miles 4-5 days a week and either run that 5th day, or go to this amazing water aerobics class that they have here on base. I also know that my eating habits are going to have to stay pretty much the same. I have slightly upped the amount of calories that I am consuming, not by a lot, just by about 300 calories a day, and that seems to be a good place for me. I did not do the sugar challenge because lets face it, I don't have a problem with eating sugar, I don't eat it in excess, but I decided when I first started doing these competitions, that it wasn't something I was going to give up. My goal with that was to strike a balance with my eating habits. When my kids have a birthday, I am going to eat a piece of cake. Of course I know exactly how many servings the cake makes, and I do limit myself to a piece, but I am not willing to sacrifice the little things like that. I just try to keep it in moderation. I did work on my posture for that challenge. Since we got our Wii fit last year and I do have fun playing some of the games on there, it focuses on your posture quite a bit, so I had been trying to keep that in the back of my mind lately. I like these little challenges, it is nice to have a little mini goal to focus on during the week. I like this fitness one, but I'm not really sure whether I am going to do too much with it. I already work out 5 days a week, I do cardio all 5 days, and I do some weights 3 days a week and spend 1.5 hours at the gym each day, so realistically I don't have a whole lot more time that I can spend there, and I am not sacrificing any of my cardio workouts. Training starts in about a month and a half, so I need to keep my running habits right where they are. Karilynn, I think that these challenges are an absolutely fantastic idea. Well I better get my kids up and ready for school. Hope everyone has a great week!!!!!!!

Clever Title?

I hate having to come up with a title every week, but I hate leaving it blank even more :) so lame titles it is. This week hasn't been really productive for me. I was sick for a while and couldn't seem to run farther than 3.5 miles at a 10:30 min pace for an entire week. The next week even though I was feeling better, I lacked the energy to do more than 4 miles at an equally crappy pace. I am happy to report that this week, I am feeling much better, and am back to my 5 miles and my pace is back to normal, so that makes me happy. I did exercise my 5 days a week even though I was sick, because I am incredibly obsessive about my exercise. I just can't let myself work out less than 5 days a week. My husband just laughs at me. Of course if he hadn't been TDY he would have been having a heart attack. I guess this is enough rambling, I know that no one likes to hear people complain about being sick, so I apologize for that, but now that I have gotten my once a year flu or whatever it was, there will be no more complaining from me!!!!!!!!!!! :) Hope everyone has a fabulous week!!!!!!!

Oops

So, I guess it has been too many days between blog posts. Too bad for me. I don't really know what to say about this week. I have been running, although last week, I wasn't able to run farther than a 5k any of the 5 days, but thankfully this week I am better and getting back to my usual 5 miles. My husband finally got back, and I actually got out of the house without taking a child with me last night for the first time in 3 weeks, so that was a bonus. I finally went through all of my clothes yesterday and got rid of everything that doesn't fit me. Today's task is to take the 7 bags to good will. It was a little sad, because I did have a few things I really liked, but I really like them being too big too, so it was time to part with them. I have a much smaller amount of clothes, but that will increase, when occasionally I walk past something that catches my eye, although I must admit, I am a girl that doesn't like to shop. Well congrats to everyone this month on their accomplishments, I am so excited that I have almost made it to the maintaining stage, I have 6 more pounds to go!!!!!! My goal this month is to make it to that. Hope everyone has a fabulous week!!!!!

Running

So I was at the gym this past week, and I was running on the treadmill (not my first choice of locations but it is freaking cold and still snowy) and when I was done, the girl on the machine next to me and asked me if I have been a runner my whole life. For me that was an odd question because even though I started running about 2 years ago, I have been running, not a runner. She told me that I made it look so easy, and wanted advise on how I have improved the past couple of years. It was such a strange experience for someone to be asking my advise, especially since a few days earlier this girl and her husband busted out half an hour running at a 9.5 and a 10, that made me feel a bit on the slow side. Anyway, that's about all I've got for this week. Still drinking my diet soda (no I will never be converted, and yes I know what it supposedly does being a chem student and all), and spending lots of time at the gym. My husband laughs at me because every time he calls me, I am at the gym, he tries to wait a little longer to call, or call a little earlier, but it doesn't seem to matter. Excited about weigh in happening in a couple of days, I am getting so close to my weight goal next month I should be there!!!!!

This Week

OK, so this week, I can't think of a title, so this is as good as it gets. This week, I have discovered 2 things. First, stress = large quantities of diet coke, and I am totally OK with that. Instead of stress eating I stress drink diet coke. At least it happens to be something that has no calories. And yes, I am sure that there are people having a heart attack reading this (that is assuming someone actually does read this ;) ) people are very passionate about their opinion on soda. On the other side of that, the time that I spend at the gym has doubled. Since I don't have to worry about hurrying home to get my house work done so that I can relax in the evening, I have all evening to do my housework. So the second thing I learned is that No Husband= insane quantities of Diet Coke + Extra Time at the Gym + A Ridiculously Clean House. This deafeningly does not mean that I prefer for my husband to be send on random TDY's 6 weeks before he deploys. I am just happy that stress doesn't = high calorie food intake. So, hope that everyone has a fantastic week.