Posts Tagged ‘ Exercise ’

Powering Through

10/09/2009

Yesterday I had a day off from work. “Yippee!!!!” you might say. “A day off, oh how I could use a day off from work,” you might think, feeling slightly jealous that I actually had a coveted day off from work. However, when you hear WHY I was off from work, you will definitely cringe and maybe even feel sorry for me. I’m being audited by the IRS. Yesterday’s day off was set so I could go sit with my accountant and go over all of the paperwork I had and will still need for the audit. I am one of the lucky ones. I have audit protection. I don’t have to sit across from the scary IRS people, explaining why and what I did in 2007 (which is at this point a faded memory). Nope. I don’t have to go. My accountant does that. But I do still...

A Note Of Thanks To My Body

10/05/2009

At my heaviest weight, I was 267 pounds. That was 15 years ago. Through the years, I dieted, stopped, exercised, stopped, dieted some more, and stopped again. Any of us who has a substantial amount of weight to lose can probably say the same thing. We rarely get it right the first time, or the second or the third time. When I started on my latest and last fitness journey in 2008, I weighed 230.2 pounds the day I stepped on the Weight Watchers scale. I happen to know that I’d managed to drop about 5 pounds before then. I weighed 167.2 this morning. That’s 100 pounds from my heaviest weight to now. Yesterday I ran 4 miles. Running 4 miles is something that I wouldn’t have attempted or believed I could do….ever. Certainly not when I was 267 pounds or 230 pounds. Not even when I was 18...

Taking Control

09/27/2009

This was a tough week. We had to put our dog to sleep on Thursday. He was old and very ill. He was also a sweet, sweet guy. We knew it was coming and we knew it was the right thing to do, but it didn’t make it any easier. There were other stressful events this week too. Normally, I can shrug most difficult situations off and deal with them, but when they converge all at once, they can feel insurmountable–out of control. And what do I do when faced with seemingly insurmountable stress? I eat. It didn’t help that this happened on a Thursday, my weigh-in day, and typically a day of more relaxed eating for me. On Thursday though, I let food take over. And that extended into Friday. I was looking for comfort, and looking for it in comfort food. The surprising thing was I didn’t...

Must Be The Weather

09/21/2009

It is officially fall today. And for the past couple of days we’ve had perfect fall weather. Crisp mornings, warm afternoons and chilly nights. No humidity and bright, blue sunny skies. This is my favorite time of the year on Long Island. I was walking at this time of year last year, having started my fitness quest in July, but I wasn’t running yet. That didn’t start until November, and then it was indoors, on the treadmill. Saturday, after 5 days off from doing anything, I went running. It was so gorgeous and I felt so strong, I ran a full three miles at a harder-than-usual pace for me. Could have been because it was chilly starting out? All I know is it was one of my best runs from a perspective of feeling strong and enjoying myself. Sunday, my legs reminded me that I shouldn’t really take 5...

New Look, New Commitment

09/20/2009

I have finally gotten around to getting my blog moved onto its own site! This is very exciting, although I have a lot of work to do to transfer over all of my favorite links. I believe it will be well worth the effort, just like having gone from being fat to fit has been worth the effort. I’m recommitting to my weight loss journey as well. If you’ve been following my first blog, fatgirltofitgirl.wordpress.com, you know my weight loss has been sloooooooowwwww for the past couple of months while I’ve been concentrating on getting ready for my triathlons. With no races in sight until Spring, it’s time to put the focus back on making better food choices and getting to my goal. I’ve left Weight Watchers for a while, but I’ll still be following that program–with a few tweaks–because so far that has worked well for me. Why...

The 'Not So Obvious' Benefits of Exercise

09/04/2009

I’m not in love with getting out of bed in the morning to exercise. But I am in love with how I feel when I’m doing it and how I feel for the whole day after. We all know that exercise is essential to good health and fitting into those smaller jeans and muscle tone. We all know that exercise gives us energy and stamina and strong bones. But I’ve gotten a couple of things from exercise that I didn’t expect: My skin looks great. I don’t know if that’s from sweating or all the water I drink because I sweat, but I actually had someone tell me recently that my skin is glowing. Plus I have a tan. A healthy, gradual tan that has come from running and biking outside (and a little sitting on the beach, which I wouldn’t have done in summers past.) Speaking of water,...

When You Least Expect It

08/31/2009

Saturday, because of the rain, was a swim day. I usually swim train with a friend on Saturday morning and that makes it more fun. Yesterday though, Jen was off on vacation, so I headed to the pool alone. I did not want to go. It was rainy and dark and miserable here yesterday. To swim on Saturday, even in crappy weather means getting to the gym by 7:30 am. The pool starts to get crowded around 8:15 or so. I had to coax myself out the door. However, I was off from training on Thursday and then again on Friday, so I made myself go. The way I felt, I wasn’t so sure it would be a very good training session, but these things need to be done. I got there and there was only one other person in the pool. Sweet. I love it when I get...

Running Rain Delay

08/28/2009

I planned to go running this morning. I really did. I got up at 5:50. It was still dark out, so I laid in bed contemplating. I really didn’t want to get up. And I’m really not so sure about running in the dark. By 6:15, the sky had brightened enough, so I dragged myself out of bed and got dressed. And then I remembered that I could play with Runkeeper and my new iPhone. That could be fun. Still dragging, I went downstairs and since my son wasn’t home yet, I had to let the dog out. I had been planning a long run— more than 3 miles— but now it was getting late. It would have to be a regular run. And then I went outside with the dog. It was raining. Not hard. A light drizzle. But who ever knows what that will lead to? The...

Climbing Back On The Wagon After A Hard Fall

08/24/2009

When I wrote my blog post on Wednesday, I wrote that I was struggling with staying on track food-wise. I somehow managed to stay in control until that evening when I came home to pizza and scarfed two pieces without even thinking about it. I will admit, even though I felt a little guilty later, it felt GOOD to eat with abandon. So good, in fact, that it sent me on a downward spiral for the next four days. By day four, however, it didn’t feel so good anymore. Thursday there was seafood bisque in a bread bowl and delicious chocolate truffles. Friday it was an overload on english muffins with butter and cinnamon sugar (a favorite treat but I always stop at one. Mind you, these are the high-fiber, low-cal multigrain english muffins and I used light butter, but still. Did I really need two of them? Saturday,...

Not Giving Up. No, Not This Time!

08/05/2009

I went running this morning. 2.5 miles. My usual. Humidity is still miserable here. 96% at 6:30 am with the temperature already hovering around 70 degrees. I had to drag my whole body out of bed. I was tired and got up a little late. My knees are still achy from Saturday’s activities. It’s that time of the month. I read recently that when exercising, we (women) need to just get up and go. Don’t think about it. Just do it, as they say in the Nike commericals. So I got up, got dressed, walked outside and slam! It was like walking into a wall of pea soup (the air was so heavy this morning, you could cut it). Ugh. I wanted to turn around and go back to bed. But… I went. And I successfully completed my 2.5 mile run. It was a little slow (you know, because...

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