Eye on the Prize: Long Island Diva’s Half Marathon

07/27/2010
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Eye on the Prize: Long Island Diva’s Half Marathon

Staying on track from a food perspective has been tricky these past few months. And I plan on getting that back in order just as soon as I can. Today will be a good day. Tomorrow will be a good day. Then I’ll have VACATION. This weekend I head off to a family reunion, where I can pretty much be guaranteed I will overeat and overdrink. But it will be loads of fun, and I’m not planning to limit myself too much for the couple of days I will be away. When we get home, that will be a different story. When we get home, I will be training for a half marathon that I found in my area that just looks like awesome fun. It’s called the Diva’s Half Marathon and you are greeted at the finish line with champagne and chocolate. Now if that’s not an incentive...

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Running: Conditions Matter

07/23/2010
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Running: Conditions Matter

I went for my second run this week. It’s still hot. But not nearly as hot as it was on Wednesday. Again, as I write this post it’s raining, which we’ve been told will bring in more scorching heat tomorrow,  however short-lived. With the impending rain, it was humid again this morning too, but again, not nearly as humid as it was on Wednesday. Today’s run was bearable. Today’s run actually wasn’t bad. I still had to walk a bit, but I went 2.5 miles with less walking and more efficient running than Wednesday. In fact, I did the longer distance in about the same amount of time. I didn’t feel like I weighed 2000 pounds on today’s run. That could be because I have been eating much better than I was earlier in the week. It could also be just that the air wasn’t as heavy. Today’s run...

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Oh, It’s Hot Alright

07/21/2010
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Oh, It’s Hot Alright

Actually right now it’s raining, and while it will still be hot here in the Northeast tomorrow, the weather gurus say the string of thunderstorms blowing across Long Island will bring in some nice, dry hot air for a change. Yay! I’ve been avoiding running a lot lately because of the heat and humidity, but today I got tired of avoiding. I got up. I got dressed. I got outside. My sunglasses fogged up because my house is air conditioned and outside, well, it was sauna-like. Not only was it 80 degrees with 90% humidity, there wasn’t a leaf moving. No air. None. I still moved forward. I went for a two-mile run with some walking thrown in. It was not a fun run. It also wasn’t the worst run I’ve had. The negatives? I needed to walk, quite a bit. I hadn’t been eating great, even with my...

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Diet By Camera: a weight loss accountability tale

07/16/2010
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Diet By Camera: a weight loss accountability tale

On Monday, right after I posted about it, I started taking pictures of my food BEFORE I ate it. I’m using my iPhone to take the pictures so the quality of the photos are not very good, but I have to say the quality of the food I am eating since I started this little experiment has gone way up. When you take pictures, you want the presentation to be pretty— I’m not a great photographer to begin with, but I try— and that means colorful food. What is the most colorful food you can think of? Why fruit and veggies of course! I’ve only been doing this for two and a half days now, and I will admit I ate my dinner last night (weight watchers pizza) before remembering to take the picture, but even without the picture, I was way more conscious of what I was putting...

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Is Food Photo Blogging The Next Step?

07/14/2010
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Is Food Photo Blogging The Next Step?

Catching up on my blog reading this morning, I stopped by foodfoodbodybody, one of my favorite Weight Watchers bloggers, to see that she now has a photo food blog. She eats cool stuff. I’ve been really struggling with staying on track these days, and I’ve been allowing foods to slip into my mouth before I even think about them, so I’ve also been considering this photographing-my-food-before-eating-it thing too. I hadn’t decided if I would do this publicly or just for myself— and really I still haven’t decided if I want to share what I eat with the blogosphere— but I do think I will start snapping pictures of my food before I put it in my mouth. When I started on Weight Watchers, I was religious about tracking my food, watching portion sizes and points and making sure I was eating enough veggies and fruit. I’m not a big...

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Reclaiming My Running Mojo

07/11/2010
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Reclaiming My Running Mojo

Since my hip issue, running has been really tough. I started back expecting to be able to pick up where I left off, because I would have liked to have been in today’s race, but my body was just not having any of it. Of course, the unbearable heat we’ve been having in the Northeast hasn’t helped much either. More than not being able to get in a consistent run without walking, I just have not been feeling the running love. I had gotten to a point where I looked forward to getting out for a good run, always knowing that it’s never easy, but it was doable. And when I finished, I felt like I accomplished something great. Lately, with all of the stupid injury issues, running is just hard again. However long the distance, it’s felt like torturous work; nothing fun about it. Did I mention the...

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Not Ready To Race

07/06/2010
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While my hip feels somewhat better, I am not back in racing form. I’ve been working out, but not getting very far very fast. This past week, I went on three runs. A 2.5-mile run that I finished with some walking, a 3.5-mile run where I got 2.7 miles before packing it in and a 3.2-mile run where I made it only 1.5 miles. Race distance on Sunday is 3.5 miles. With my hip screwed up, I hadn’t been running for almost a month. And it’s going to take me longer than two weeks to get back in racing form I’m realizing now. Add to that it’s been 100 degrees here, which kind of limits training, for me at least. My run yesterday, the 1.5-mile run, was cut short mostly because of the heat– 85 degrees at 8:00 am. I know hard-core runners don’t let the heat stop them,...

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