Health

Pit Bulls, Chica Bands and Holiday BBQs

07/06/2011

It’s been a while, so I’ve got random stuff to write about. While I haven’t been great about posting to the ol’ blog, I have been keeping up with my training. In the past, when I let the blogging slip, it’s usually because I’ve let the workouts and healthy eating slip as well. Not much to write about then. Or maybe that’s when I should be writing the most, and confessing my slip-ups. So I’ll start this post with the confession that the holiday weekend— a four-day weekend for me— was not great healthy food-wise. It was fun food-wise, but the scale and I were not friends by yesterday morning. In this case though, I at least knew the why behind the 4-5 pounds I managed to pack on over the four days. Pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs and all sorts of other yummy things take center stage in our...

Start, Stop, Start, Stop. Complain. Start again.

02/01/2011

It’s been two weeks since my last blog post. TWO WEEKS! Since I started this journey and started this blog, I haven’t gone that long without posting. Oh wait. In the very beginning I did. When I would stop and start on the journey, only to stop again. Maybe it’s the stop/start that’s kept me from blogging these past couple of weeks. Maybe it’s work. Maybe it’s lack of motivation. I’m not sure. I have felt this past month like I’m being pulled in 19 directions. Mostly it’s of my own doing. I hear of a project or new idea that sounds great and I want in, only to realize I’m overextended again. Work? We’re in our crunch season, our superbowl, our world series, as my sports-enthusiast boss would put it. My job has shifted here. And now my job is to write, and write and write and write....

A Fresh Start

12/28/2010

Rotten cold over. Check Holiday feasting and revelry done. Check 2010-2011 Winter Blizzard over. Check (and let’s hope there’s not another one!) Resolutions for 2011 firmly in place? Well that’s what we’re doing here. I’ve committed to Team in Training and an Olympic Distance Triathlon for May 1. Training was going well until Rotten Cold took over. Now it’s been a couple of weeks. Ack! Tomorrow means back to the gym. I got all kinds of cool outdoor running gear for Christmas but old man Winter has put outdoor training on hold for at least a week. Maybe it will rain next weekend. In the meantime, I can break in the new sneaks on the treadmill. The Diet! I’ve stopped and started so many times this year with a new healthy eating regimen, I’ve lost count. What I haven’t lost count of are the pounds I’ve managed to find...

LARA Bars – How Did I Not Know?

12/09/2010

A couple of months ago, I discovered LARA bars. Rather, I read about them on another bloggy site and then found them in Sam’s Club and thought, “Let’s give these a try.” At Sam’s Club, they had a variety pack of LARA Bars in Apple Pie, Cherry Pie and Cashew Cookie flavors. It was risky. 18 LARA Bars for, oh, I don’t know, 16 bucks? If we didn’t like them, that would have been kind of a waste of money. But alas, they were yummy and the hubs and I both like them, so they get eaten. But here’s the cool part. I thought LARA bars only came in those flavors. Until….. a few weeks ago when I went to visit the sister in Virginia. I ate my Apple Pie and Cherry Pie bars on the way down, and didn’t have any left to go home with. They are...

Today Was One of Those Days… and I Didn’t Cave

10/19/2010

Today was just one of those days. Got up late and had to rush. Work was tough. Non-stop phone calls, not my favorite thing. They make me nervous. Bills to pay. Aggravation, and just a lot on my plate. My knee-jerk reaction to stressful situations is to eat, and not the good stuff. But today I resisted. I stayed on track all day long. I stayed in points. I was conscious of my fruits and veggies, sort of. It wasn’t a perfect day but it was going pretty well. I felt in control. Of my food intake anyway. Then I came home. After an aggravating day. Not knowing what I wanted to eat for dinner. Knowing I really didn’t want something healthy. And we had a flood in the basement. We’re still not sure what was leaking or what overflowed, but the source of the water seems to have...

Getting Back on Track

09/08/2010

I go through periods where I write blog posts and then don’t like the way they sound when I read them back to myself, so I toss them. I can be prone to whining. Really, I can. There have been a string of those this summer. I started thinking about why my blog posts aren’t getting to my actual blog, and I realized it’s because over the last few months, I’ve lost my focus and I didn’t really want to admit that. I’ve become a bit of a slacker from a weight watching perspective, from an exercise perspective and I guess, as might be expected, from a blogging perspective. I haven’t been visiting my Twitter friends almost at all. I’ve come to count on this community to keep me rolling along, eating right, moving and staying on top of my healthy habits. I am so inspired by the stories...

I Know What To Do

08/25/2010

This has been a summer of ups and downs, challenges and successes. Mostly challenges. Some of the challenges have been physical. Hurt hip. Cranky shoulders. Blistering heat. Raging hormones. Yes, I will admit, I am at that later point in my life where the hormones all go wonky again for a while. More though, the challenges have been mental. I’ve had trouble staying on top of my food intake. Don’t get me wrong, I have good days. Heck, I have good weeks. Hence the successes. But I’ve had bad food days too. Very bad food days…and weeks. Where once there was discipline, there are now cravings that will just not be ignored. Where once it felt fabulous to know I’d gotten a substantial amount of nutrition in a reasonable number of calories, now it sometimes takes everything I have to not eat cookies all day long. Or Hershey’s Kisses....

Recovering from Vacation Eating

08/09/2010

Last week was a vacation week of sorts for me. It started as a bona fide vacation. We went away for a couple of days for a family reunion. And then my sister was in town for the rest of the week, which had me visiting her around my work schedule. I have to admit, it was not a good food week. Not a great exercise week either. What rattled me most was how easy it was to slip out of good habits and back into bad habits so quickly and easily, all because it was a vacation week. Added to the family vacation was the departure of one of my co-workers this week. Between the two events, there were lunches out, dinners out, fast food and drinking. Now, it’s not like this is the first time I’ve gone out for meals since I started eating healthier two years...

Weighing In

05/24/2010

I am a self-admitted scale junky. Not a day goes by where I don’t get on the scale first thing in the morning to see where the numbers are. Lately, I haven’t been too impressed with those numbers, as I’ve been struggling a little to stay on the right track with food. My birthday was last week so that killed part of that; I pulled it back together at the end of the week and then, last night? Barbecue. Ah well, I had a good day up until barbecue. And when the kiddos went for ice cream at Friendly’s for dessert, I declined. A win in my book! But as I was saying… I weigh in every day. At least I did weigh in every day until the battery died in my scale last week. Now I can step on the scale if I want to, but it doesn’t...

Cramps: A Post For Women Only

05/11/2010

I had good intentions when I bounded out of bed this morning. I’d have a good workday, eat right and hit the road for a good solid run when I got home… Now I’m thinking that’s not going to happen. Nuh-uh. I came to work, only to be surprised a couple of hours later with a gift from Mother Nature. No biggie. However, within a couple of hours came the cramps…nausea-inducing, doubled-over, oh please let me lay in my bed with a heating pad cramps. Tylenol didn’t touch them. Nothing at this point will alleviate them besides time. I’d like to know in who’s rule book it’s written that we have to deal with this at the end of the road. I mean, I paid my dues. I had my cramps and all the fun that went with it as a teenager. I had my kids. I’ve gone through...

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