Running.

I was doing good running but just like always I get really pumped then just fizzle out. I still intend on picking back up I'm just so busy this week I am not going to be able to run. Here is one day last week I was watching Addi, I put her in her stroller and took her with me. She had a blast.

I bought a really cool watch that keeps my heartbeat and acts like a stopwatch for me but like an idiot I deleted the picture and I'm not in the mood to take it and upload again. It is pink and cool that's all you need to know.

Oh here is Addi after the run she decided to crawl in the bottom of the stroller.

She didn't want to get out!

I'm stil trying

I have not posted in a few days. I'm still working on this whole change. I'm doing good still with no sodas and exercising. I still eat crap and I wish I didn't but that is what is convenient and I need convenience right now.

I am still so so tired! I take a nap just about everyday then I stay up late cause of the nap. Its a vicious cycle. If I could just stay awake all day and go to bed at a decent hour maybe I would not nap. NAH, I would still nap! I love to nap!

Bigger update when I have more time.

Running

My days to run this week are M-W-F. I worked today until 3:30 well actually 4:30 because I still had stuff to do. I came home and everyone was napping so I did too. I woke up and didn't have much sun left so I headed out. I warmed up for 5 minutes then jogged for 1 and cooled down for one and half. Until it had been 20 minutes then the rest of the way home I cooled down came home did some stretching and now I'm sweating my bottom off. I feel good.

For breakfast I had a bowl of Kashi cereal, later I had a peanut peanut bar. Lunch was so gross today I got a salad, baked chicken, some sort of potatoes, peas and a roll. I had a couple pieces of candy shame shame. Now my head is hurting so bad but I think it may be the fact that I have not eaten in 8 hours. Time for dinner.

Gobble Gobble, I'm going to run!

Camille has talked me into running in the Turkey Trot in Dallas on Thanksgiving day. I have always always wanted to be a runner. I'm just big and lazy, but not anymore! I'm going to spend the next 2 months preparing for the big run. Camille is running 8 miles, I'm just going for the little 3. Hopefully I will be able to run the whole thing.

Today was day one of training. I found a website that says you can go from the couch to running in 2 months. I'm going to try to follow the plan and be a runner soon. It is pretty simple just warm-up, jog 60 seconds, walk 90, then jog keep doing that for a total of 20 mins. I set out today I didn't last 20 mins maybe close to 15. Hopefully I will do better. So that is the workout for week 1, and you only do it 3 days. I like that cause then I don't have to commit to everyday.

eating well I'm not doing well. I still am doing without cokes which is a good thing!

Shelby saved me some calories

I was craving chocolate chip cookies last night. I went to the store and bought some break and bake and was going to bake them and eat them warm with a scoop of ice cream on them. I bought fat free ice cream. I asked Shelby to make the last night and she said no. I said grrr... well I don't want to make them tonight either so I will just do it tomorrow night. Well I come home today and she says "I made those cookies, and burnt an oven mitt." I said "All of them?" she says yes and then I got really mad cause I wanted to eat some of the dough and eat them warm with my ice cream. I threw a 2 year olds kind of fit then I went in the kitchen to eat one and she not only burnt the oven mitt she burnt the cookies! I ate a little bit of ice cream, which was very yummy. I tried to eat a cookie with it but it was so crispy it was nasty.

She saved me several hundred calories!

I'm a fast food junkie

Well I have some bad news I'm not doing so well. The only good thing that has come of my change is I am no longer nausea. That is a good thing! I have only had one root beer and half a sprite since I gave up soda, it has only been a week. I was doing pretty good but today I'm CRAVING some "brown water" bad. I have not yet given in I'm trying so so hard.

Saturday lunch at work was crap. I had a salad, which normally I devour but yesterday it just did not taste very good. Some dry BBQ chicken, and onion rings....what a combo right. OH and a roll. I was so sleepy all day that I kept snacking on things. I had some peanut butter crackers, and Mrs. barids chocolate frosted donuts. Which after seeing the calories and fat grams I have to stop eating them even though there is no high fructose corn syrup. Then last night I was going to make some ramen noodles. When Jana suggested sonic. I got a chicken strip dinner and only ate 2 pieces of chicken and gave the other 2 to Addi and then I ate a Jr. Cheeseburger that I got for her but she didn't want, oh and I ate most of the fries and the burnt toast.

Today at work I ate chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, corn, roll and a salad it was yummy. I also got orange slices for later but they turned out not so great. Again I was so so sleepy I had to keep snacking to keep me awake. I had some Doritos, m&ms and something else I think but I can't remember. Then I came home and Jana suggested Long John Silvers, and again I shoveled some grease down my throat.

I have noticed that my snacking leads to tons of extra calories, and my friends influence me to eat unhealthy things. I need to be stronger.

As for my spiritual side, I did not go to church today because I had to work. However there was a YSA broadcast tonight at 7 I went to that and there were 2 other YSA there along with my branch president, his wife and their little girl. I just love them they are such a sweet family. Even though I broke the sabbath by spending money on Sunday and working. I did listen to uplifting music. I found a CD that I use to listen to "A time to love."

Now for this week. I went to the store and bought me some Kashi cereal, and protein bars. I'm going to try and watch those sneaky snack calories.

Dinner

Ok I must confess the old me won and I took a nap today after spending 2 hours reading blogs of people I don't know. It is so addicting. Maybe it's my nosey personality that I have to know EVERYTHING. I found a sad story about a girl my age who has 4 kids and a HOT husband. I say that cause he was but on her blog she put it a bunch. I read all about her and her families life. The sad part was actually the first blog post on her page that was posted by her sister. She and her husband were in a private plane crash a few weeks ago and are both in the hospital his body is burned 30% where hers is 80% burned. Her sister made reference to the fact that she is a vegetarian and eats very healthy and she feels that her body is so strong for that reason. The doctors are surprised at how well she is healing. Make me want to go back to eating no meat again. I feel so sad for them and I don't even know them.

On to ME and dinner. After my nap which I failed to mention lasted 4 hours.....yes it was a good one. I woke up and was sitting on the couch watching "Americas Funniest home videos" with Jana this is one of our favorite shows to watch together cause we laugh so hard. We both discussed how depressed we felt today and decided to go to dinner, mainly just to get out of the house. Since giving up soda I feel like I sometimes need a treat, I ordered a strawberry lemonade, it was delicious. When the waitress picked it up to refill it I told her "oh can I just have water, I just wanted one." She said "Wow you have good will power." I thought uhhhh well not really cause I'm eating these chips. We had Chips and salsa which I normally devour but not today. Not because I was consciously thinking that I didn't need them but because they just didn't taste right. I ordered a grill chicken sandwich with fries and ate half the sandwich then just the chicken and cheese out of the other half and maybe half the fries then I was done. I really wanted some dessert but decided I better not since that girl said I had such good will power. Instead we went to Braums. I got a cone with frozen yogurt, and ate half and through the other half out the window for the birds. I was informed by the teen at the window that I had a waffle cone and Jana had a cake cone. Since she didn't know that when I said "regular cone" I obviously meant "cake cone."

Ok so I might not have done that great but here is what I did do good. Instead of drinking 3-5 sodas with my dinner I drank 1 lemonade. Instead of filling totally up on chips I ate fewer and I didn't finish my meal, and even though I got ice cream I got yogurt and I didn't even eat it all.

I say I probably slashed close to 1000 calories tonight. Plus all I ate today was cereal, chips, and some wheat thins. Not the healthiest day of eating, but like I said I SAVED CALORIES!

I'm so sleepy

I woke up around 10 today since I didn't have school or work I let myself sleep in. I had a bowl of cereal and then snacked on chips all morning. It is crazy how I did that without even knowing or thinking this is not good for me. Maybe next time I will be more aware. I watched a movie on Lifetime.

I'm very very sleepy right now. The old me wants to curl up in my bed and take a very long nice nap. The new me is telling myself that I can go for a walk, balance my checkbook, pay some of those creditors, pack some stuff or do some homework. I'm going to try really hard and not let the old me take over. I think I will start with a walk.

I'm going to try to finish all my homework today then I will not have to worry about anything until Monday.

Update.

I have been doing really well. I had a sprite today now that I think about it I don't even think I finished it, and on labor day I indulged in a root beer. I have been eating less grease but not the best things. Still no nausea. I did decide that maybe I need to take my cymbalta cause I may try to commit suicide or something if I just stop that cold turkey. I feel like I can stay awake longer, but I still get tired easy. I'm also on my period this week so that could be the cause of some of my sleepiness. I ate some chocolate yesterday.

I am off tomorrow, no school or work. I think I will try to walk the track or go to the gym if I feel like driving to school.

I feel like I'm on the road to greatness! ha