Posts Tagged ‘ fatgirl2fitgirl ’

More Tales of the Scale

06/02/2010
More Tales of the Scale

I finally caved a week ago and bought batteries for my scale. I really wanted to get a handle on the number these days. I gave it a good week off to try to get out of the mentality, but to no avail. I still need to see those numbers. But there was a problem. Doesn’t it figure? I put the new 9V battery in the scale and nuthin’. No numbers, not even the little red light that lets me know the scale is at least thinking. I think its dead. I’m bummed because it was a good scale. Anyway, not one to be discouraged when I set my mind to something , I set out the next day to Target to buy a replacement scale. I went on the cheap side but a good brand name because I just didn’t want to spend the money on something others...

Read more »

Just Keep Running

04/02/2010
Just Keep Running

“Just keep running…” Lately, that is my mantra when I am running. Ever since I took a couple of weeks to let my knee recover, I’ve been struggling to just run. I want to walk. My brain fights with my legs. Intellectually, I know in most cases, I can just keep running and get through the dips, and I’ll be fine. But I’ve been letting my brain get in the way. Not a whole lot, but I’ve been slowing to a walk at least once in my runs lately. Since  I know I can run these distances, the walking thing just won’t do. So today we got out early from work, and I decided to take a nice early afternoon run. Perfect weather, empty streets, I was determined that I was going to run this one. Through the run, when I felt like walking, I slowed my running pace...

Read more »

Easter Candy – A Story of Self-Sabotage

04/01/2010
Easter Candy – A Story of Self-Sabotage

When I came back from Chicago two weeks ago, I got back on the training/eating healthy road. And I’ve done really well, having lost much of the weight I gained during the ridiculous work schedule stress of February and early March. I was very pleased with the numbers on the scale last week. This week, as often happens after a big loss (I was down 9 pounds), a couple of pounds jump back on and then just stay there. Even when I think I’m doing everything right— I say think, because it’s rare that I actually am doing everything right— that scale doesn’t want to budge, and it frustrates me. And frustration leads to? You guessed, it food cravings. At this time of year, candy is the number one food craving I have to contend with. Candy is one of my biggest challenges. But Easter candy brings its own...

Read more »

Evening Runs Suck

03/24/2010

I am so glad that triathlons are in the morning. If they were in the afternoon, I don’t think I’d ever finish even one leg. I’ve learned about myself since I started working out that I am a morning person when it comes to exercise. Unfortunately, mornings aren’t always convenient. Take today for example. I had a run planned for this morning but my alarm didn’t go off and I overslept. So since it was nice out and light out when I got home from work, I went out for my run then. Before my run, and after work, I stopped at the bank, the grocery store and the gas station…. I’m just sayin. I felt pretty good when I headed out the door. I’ve been really good about working out these past two weeks; yesterday I swam in the morning and biked on the trainer last night. Double...

Read more »

Five weeks and counting

03/21/2010

My first tri of the season is five weeks from yesterday. And I’m ready to jump back into training full force to have a good race. This first race, EventPower’s Mini Mightyman (400-meter pool swim, 6-mile bike, 2-mile run) is the perfect race for starting the season, especially since I am still such a newbie. This morning I went out for a 3-mile run, and after last week’s runs, which were more walk/runs because of my knee, I’m happy to report that I ran the whole three miles in 37 minutes and felt good and strong. My breathing was steady, my legs felt good for most of the run and my knees behaved like there was never anything wrong. It was great. Tomorrow is a swim day, and I will start biking again this week too. Biking is still my least favorite part of training, but it has to...

Read more »

Up, Up and… Down: Hitting the Hills

03/20/2010

On Saturday mornings, I can sleep in. I don’t have to go to work. It’s nice. Sleeping in for me generally only means sleeping until 8:00 or maybe 8:30, but it’s still better than 6:45, or if I get up for the gym on a workday, 6:00. However, this morning I didn’t sleep in. I set my alarm for 6:25 am, so I could get up and go walk hills with trainer Jen. She walks hills every Saturday and Sunday morning, because, well, she wouldn’t have a walking route without them; her neighborhood is just that hilly.  Her neighborhood’s hills make the hills I normally run look like ant hills. The hills in Jen’s neighborhood are hills I used to take my kids for rides on when they were little because it would give them butterflies in their tummies, kind of like a rollercoaster. Yes, these are hills. I...

Read more »

Fair Weather Running

03/18/2010

It was such a beautiful day here yesterday that when I got home from work, I decided to go for a walk. I figured my knee wasn’t going to let me run, but it would be good to get out in the fresh air for a little while. So I threw on my t-shirt, sweatshirt, iPod and sneakers and headed out. I walked the first quarter mile, like I always do, felt good and decided to give running a try, fully expecting my knee to lock up within a hundred yards as it has every other time I’ve tried. But it didn’t, and I kept going. Hurray! Having not run at all in three weeks, my lungs weren’t any too happy with me, but my legs felt strong. I kept the pace steady and slow and took short walking breaks if I felt the slightest twinge in my knee...

Read more »

It’s All in the Attitude

03/17/2010

On my way to work this morning, as I was grumbling out the door because I just didn’t want to go, I realized I’ve had a very negative attitude lately…. about everything. Work has been beyond stressful, as it always gets at this time of year, my leg still hurts and I can’t run, and my eating? Well, I’ve kind of had a bad attitude there too. I’ve been frustrated with my weight, and instead of being patient and making the right adjustments, I’ve been letting my frustration get the better of me. I don’t have a very long ride to work— a positive, right?— but during the short time I was in my car, I’ve decided it’s time to change the attitude and focus on those positives. Positives like some of the good eating habits I’ve managed to maintain. Positives like while I can’t run right now, there...

Read more »

Sunday Running

02/28/2010

I am in trade magazine publishing. Which means deadlines. Lots of them. Our industry’s biggest trade show of the year is just around the corner, which means crazy deadlines. Lots of them. Crazy deadlines means long hours at the office and more hours in front of the computer at home getting work done that I just can’t find the time to get done at the office. Right now, writing this post, I’m taking a break from a story that keeps writing itself into a corner. Anyhow, the crazy deadlines and work hours have kept me from blogging as much as I would like. I have posts piling up in my head like crazy, so be ready after next week, when the work insanity should subside. I haven’t had much time for exercising either, other than abs in the living room when I grab 20 free minutes. The gym? Not...

Read more »

Turning The Corner

02/21/2010

Yesterday,  it started out cold and since I had breakfast planned with friends in the morning, I decided I would go for an outdoor run in the afternoon when it was warmer. It hit 45 degrees yesterday here…practically summer. However, it was really windy all day so I managed to find other stuff to do and never did make it out for a run. The only thing I like less than running in the cold is running in the windy cold. Today though… feeling guilty about not running yesterday, I was determined. I got up, got layered and got out the door by 8:30. It was in the mid-30s I think, but not too windy. And when I woke up, the sun was shining and the birds were chirping. Sure signs of spring. Still a foot of snow on the ground but the roads were clear, so whatever. It...

Read more »

Running

Just Really Cool Blogs

User Login