I have been SO sick this week. It's like my body just completely shut down for a couple days. Of course, it didn't happen until after I packed all my running things in my bag to come to Mom and Dad's for Christmas etc. - WHAT a pain!! Little Miss picked up the cold from goodness knows where, shared it with me, and we shared it quickly through my whole family with the exception of Bravo. Lucky Bravo!! Poor Mom put on Christmas feeling the worst of all of us - we love you Mom!!
ANYWAY, so there's been a great lack of exercising but lots of Christmasing (MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!).
AND for Christmas Mr. Man and Mom have teamed up together to poor resources and buy me....A TREADMILL!! I'm SO excited. We've spent a huge portion of today online researching what I'm going to want/need....Anyway, I'll definitely keep you updated on that as it unfolds, but YAY!!
Okay, so prayers that the rest of my cold clears up by Sunday because I'm singing in a choir on Sunday night - performance was postponed due to super-snow last week (thank-goodness as I couldn't speak...) and have a couple solos, and currently sound a little too hoarsely-mannish to pull it off.
No stats today to post - we're still not home. Should be home tomorrow, so maybe we'll get to that stuff. ;)
Self-photo-shoot
Okay, so I took some pictures of me this morning to show off the new hair and the rapidly healing (and still gross) face. Of course ALL the shots would be better if taken by, well, anyone else, but here you have it. ;)
THIS is the 'face' shot - note the huge crater on the nose (less shiny than it was on Tuesday, thank goodness! It's quite embarrassing in the middle of a final to have your nose start running from THE OUTSIDE!!!) and the beautiful yellow bruising up around the used-to-be-third-eye stitching....there's ONE more, much smaller crater on the other side of the nose, too, but it's so negligible I haven't taken any pictures.
AND a hair shot - yes, Geaka's crazy. hahaha I'm not all that fussy about my hair - I just want it to work for me and be fun. SO we took off some length and added an orange skunk-stripe along the middle.....sometimes I ABSOLUTELY love it. ;) (THANKS, Geaka!)
Hey, if you think this hair is crazy, you should have seen the blue we did last January.....
WAY too much fun. :) I was happy to cover it up, though, when the time came. AND I'll never do blue again.
TODAY:
Ran 5K on the treadmill FASTER THAN EVER! Ran the whole thing at 6mph (the treadmill's in miles - sorry for the back-and-forth with the units of measurement!) or greater and did it in 30:25. Best before today was over 31 minutes. BOOM baby!
I took yogilates with me to do, but between Christmas shopping (YAY I LOVE CHRISTMAS) and studying (YAY ONLY ONE FINAL LEFT) all my time seemed to just evaporate. We WILL get this whole schedule thing down pat, eventually.....
THIS is the 'face' shot - note the huge crater on the nose (less shiny than it was on Tuesday, thank goodness! It's quite embarrassing in the middle of a final to have your nose start running from THE OUTSIDE!!!) and the beautiful yellow bruising up around the used-to-be-third-eye stitching....there's ONE more, much smaller crater on the other side of the nose, too, but it's so negligible I haven't taken any pictures.
AND a hair shot - yes, Geaka's crazy. hahaha I'm not all that fussy about my hair - I just want it to work for me and be fun. SO we took off some length and added an orange skunk-stripe along the middle.....sometimes I ABSOLUTELY love it. ;) (THANKS, Geaka!)
Hey, if you think this hair is crazy, you should have seen the blue we did last January.....
WAY too much fun. :) I was happy to cover it up, though, when the time came. AND I'll never do blue again.
TODAY:
Ran 5K on the treadmill FASTER THAN EVER! Ran the whole thing at 6mph (the treadmill's in miles - sorry for the back-and-forth with the units of measurement!) or greater and did it in 30:25. Best before today was over 31 minutes. BOOM baby!
I took yogilates with me to do, but between Christmas shopping (YAY I LOVE CHRISTMAS) and studying (YAY ONLY ONE FINAL LEFT) all my time seemed to just evaporate.
Short and Sweet
SHORT post, but I want to stay (read: get back) in the habit of telling you about my activity levels for the day so....
TODAY:
Ran 5K on the treadmill at Mom and Dad's. Took my time, and didn't separate my warm-up time from the running time - by the end I was too out of it to do the remedial mathematics problem I needed to find my 5K time so no word on that. I ran most of it at 5.7mph soooooo definitely slower than I have done it. Didn't want to go too insane since last time I ran at all was on Saturday with Mi outside in the ridiculous weather. ;)
ALSO got the new 'do for the...well, whatever. hahaha Every now and then Geaka (my super-awesome-amazing hairstylist and friend extraordinaire) and I get bored and do something different, and today was the day. It's pretty neat. Will post pictures, when we get around to it. ;) Shorter (I LOVE short hair, much to Mr. Man's chagrin...poor boy!) and definitely....FUNKIER. (Last January we did blue streaks - TOO much fun! This isn't that wild.)
TODAY:
Ran 5K on the treadmill at Mom and Dad's. Took my time, and didn't separate my warm-up time from the running time - by the end I was too out of it to do the remedial mathematics problem I needed to find my 5K time so no word on that. I ran most of it at 5.7mph soooooo definitely slower than I have done it. Didn't want to go too insane since last time I ran at all was on Saturday with Mi outside in the ridiculous weather. ;)
ALSO got the new 'do for the...well, whatever. hahaha Every now and then Geaka (my super-awesome-amazing hairstylist and friend extraordinaire) and I get bored and do something different, and today was the day. It's pretty neat. Will post pictures, when we get around to it. ;) Shorter (I LOVE short hair, much to Mr. Man's chagrin...poor boy!) and definitely....FUNKIER. (Last January we did blue streaks - TOO much fun! This isn't that wild.)
Hollywood, here I come!
Okay, FIRST off, I have to tell you this post is going to be a little bit off topic. Secondly, I'm NOT working out today. No way. Too woozy. And finally, have I ever told you about my bumps?? THEY'RE GONE......
I just ate a HUGE sandwich in an attempt to satiate my need for some sensory input other than the smell of burning flesh....
Let me back up a bit.
This morning, when I woke up, I had bumps. Yesterday, bumps. For as long as I can remember I've had bumps, though Mom says that they showed up sometime while I was in the wonderful pubertal stages of life. Not only did I start to notice boys but I also grew bumps with which to deter them. Huzzah, justice. One lovely person pointed out my largest nose-bump and said "wow, that's a big mosquito bite." Another pointed and asked if it was a zit. Those, though, are the only two times I can think of where the bumps were really an 'issue'.
Then, while pregnant with Little Miss, a new bump. A HUGE bump. A third-eyeball-sized-and-located bump. I LOATHED this bump. I poked it, I poked my eye with it, I tried, desperately, to POP it. Recently, about the bump, people have been asking, in shock and horror "what HAPPENED to you?!" They expect a dramatic and cool answer like I got in a fist fight, but all I can say is "hormones." I'm so tired of the bump explanation. World, the answer is hormones. Stop asking. Not that I MIND asking - I really don't mind 'rude' questions, I just really really mind the bump.
The nose bumps were never, as I said, really an issue for me. When I was younger Mom offered to arrange for me to get them off but I didn't really see the point. Surgery just to smooth some bumps?? Seriously?? No thanks. PLUS how many other people to you know with an awesome built-in-witch-mole for their hallowe'en costume?
The Third Eye? HATE HATE HATE it. It was in my peripheral vision, it could hold up Mr. Man if he leaned over to snuggle with me, it looked like a giant zit, or, apparently like swelling after a good fist to the face. It was big. When my dad finally learned of my dislike of the monstrosity he let me know how he felt about it - he jokingly went at it with a strap wrench. Last time I walked into his house he greeted Little Miss, and then looked at me, considering, and said "yeah, it's time to get that THING taken off..." hahaha I really doubt if you haven't seen it if the picture above does it justice, but there you go.
Because the Third Eye was big, growing, and new, I asked my doctor about it. She had a couple of not-so harmful theories - cyst, fat deposit, whatever - and referred me to a plastic surgeon. ME. Plastic surgery. UGH! I felt so VAIN!
Mom came down to go to my first appointment - we'd been lead to believe I'd have the thing off at that first visit after a greeting from the doc. Apparenty he was behind schedule, so it was a meet and greet, and Mom asked about my nose bumps, too. He checked me all over, said, no problem, and we scheduled my very first ever surgery of any kind. ELECTIVE, COSMETIC surgery. I half expected Britney to waltz through at any moment...
Well, today was the day. It's done. It's over. I am bumpless. I look like Frankenstein at the moment, blood and ooze and stitches all over my face, and feel, well......WEIRD.
(Our camera is missing, so this is from Mr. Man's blackberry - excuse the extra-grossness because it's not as fantastic a camera as our actual camera....)
It was surprisingly traumatic. Mr. Man came with me and was allowed to stay only for the most painful part as the good doc shoved needle after needle into my not-so-fat-full-cushion-free face - yeah, hurts A LOT more to get a needle in your nose than in your arm, just FYI. Then, when my nerves were JUST about out of control Mr. Man was booted out of the room and the good doc got to work. I was PETRIFIED. I'm one of those ones who watches HOUSE with my eyes closed the whole episode. Just the THOUGHT of taking something sharp to slice through my skin was making me FLIP. Seriously, my fear of labour and childbirth had nothing on my fear of this ridiculously small procedure. Definitely the most excruciatingly terrifying thing I've experienced, and I have not been free of new scary moments in life.
Pathetic, I know.
I was first off worried the freezing wouldn't numb everything. Boy was that silly! The only thing I felt was pressure, until the pressure became pulling - it felt like he was pulling as hard as he could while I struggled insanely to keep my poor unwilling eye crammed SHUT - I did not want to see ANY of what was going on! YANKED and YANKED, scraping sounds....sounds like kindergartners' scissors hacking at construction paper, all the while my poor eye fighting with all it's tiny-muscled strength to stay shut. Then it was done.
The NOSE bumps, though, now that was COOL! There was such immense relief when the third-eye came out and was stitched up, I watched the nose procedure! He literally burned them off with this like, metal hook thing - just scraped it back and forth until it was all nice and smooth. I had to blink a lot because burning flesh makes quite the amount of smoke - who knew? And it reeks - hence the dire need for a sandwich earlier. Thankfully the odor has died down, though we've ordered pizza for dinner to fill the house and my nostrils with the scent of something aside from the cauterized wounds on my nose.
And that's that. I'm bumpless!! In a few weeks my wounds will have all healed and I'll be as normal-looking as I'm going to get!!
I CAN'T BELIEVE people have plastic surgery 'regularly'. I will NEVER NEVER NEVER have anything akin to a face-lift, tummy-tuck, lipo - all those things all we women joke about getting that our famous friends do without batting an eyelash - NEVER. OH mi gosh.
But I am glad to be rid of my bumps. :)
I just ate a HUGE sandwich in an attempt to satiate my need for some sensory input other than the smell of burning flesh....
Let me back up a bit.
This morning, when I woke up, I had bumps. Yesterday, bumps. For as long as I can remember I've had bumps, though Mom says that they showed up sometime while I was in the wonderful pubertal stages of life. Not only did I start to notice boys but I also grew bumps with which to deter them. Huzzah, justice. One lovely person pointed out my largest nose-bump and said "wow, that's a big mosquito bite." Another pointed and asked if it was a zit. Those, though, are the only two times I can think of where the bumps were really an 'issue'.
Then, while pregnant with Little Miss, a new bump. A HUGE bump. A third-eyeball-sized-and-located bump. I LOATHED this bump. I poked it, I poked my eye with it, I tried, desperately, to POP it. Recently, about the bump, people have been asking, in shock and horror "what HAPPENED to you?!" They expect a dramatic and cool answer like I got in a fist fight, but all I can say is "hormones." I'm so tired of the bump explanation. World, the answer is hormones. Stop asking. Not that I MIND asking - I really don't mind 'rude' questions, I just really really mind the bump.
The nose bumps were never, as I said, really an issue for me. When I was younger Mom offered to arrange for me to get them off but I didn't really see the point. Surgery just to smooth some bumps?? Seriously?? No thanks. PLUS how many other people to you know with an awesome built-in-witch-mole for their hallowe'en costume?
The Third Eye?
Because the Third Eye was big, growing, and new, I asked my doctor about it. She had a couple of not-so harmful theories - cyst, fat deposit, whatever - and referred me to a plastic surgeon. ME. Plastic surgery. UGH! I felt so VAIN!
Mom came down to go to my first appointment - we'd been lead to believe I'd have the thing off at that first visit after a greeting from the doc. Apparenty he was behind schedule, so it was a meet and greet, and Mom asked about my nose bumps, too. He checked me all over, said, no problem, and we scheduled my very first ever surgery of any kind. ELECTIVE, COSMETIC surgery.
Well, today was the day. It's done. It's over. I am bumpless. I look like Frankenstein at the moment, blood and ooze and stitches all over my face, and feel, well......WEIRD.
(Our camera is missing, so this is from Mr. Man's blackberry - excuse the extra-grossness because it's not as fantastic a camera as our actual camera....)
It was surprisingly traumatic. Mr. Man came with me and was allowed to stay only for the most painful part as the good doc shoved needle after needle into my not-so-fat-full-cushion-free face - yeah, hurts A LOT more to get a needle in your nose than in your arm, just FYI. Then, when my nerves were JUST about out of control Mr. Man was booted out of the room and the good doc got to work. I was PETRIFIED. I'm one of those ones who watches HOUSE with my eyes closed the whole episode. Just the THOUGHT of taking something sharp to slice through my skin was making me FLIP. Seriously, my fear of labour and childbirth had nothing on my fear of this ridiculously small procedure. Definitely the most excruciatingly terrifying thing I've experienced, and I have not been free of new scary moments in life.
Pathetic, I know.
I was first off worried the freezing wouldn't numb everything. Boy was that silly! The only thing I felt was pressure, until the pressure became pulling - it felt like he was pulling as hard as he could while I struggled insanely to keep my poor unwilling eye crammed SHUT - I did not want to see ANY of what was going on! YANKED and YANKED, scraping sounds....sounds like kindergartners' scissors hacking at construction paper, all the while my poor eye fighting with all it's tiny-muscled strength to stay shut. Then it was done.
The NOSE bumps, though, now that was COOL! There was such immense relief when the third-eye came out and was stitched up, I watched the nose procedure! He literally burned them off with this like, metal hook thing - just scraped it back and forth until it was all nice and smooth. I had to blink a lot because burning flesh makes quite the amount of smoke - who knew? And it reeks - hence the dire need for a sandwich earlier. Thankfully the odor has died down, though we've ordered pizza for dinner to fill the house and my nostrils with the scent of something aside from the cauterized wounds on my nose.
And that's that. I'm bumpless!! In a few weeks my wounds will have all healed and I'll be as normal-looking as I'm going to get!!
I CAN'T BELIEVE people have plastic surgery 'regularly'. I will NEVER NEVER NEVER have anything akin to a face-lift, tummy-tuck, lipo - all those things all we women joke about getting that our famous friends do without batting an eyelash - NEVER. OH mi gosh.
But I am glad to be rid of my bumps. :)
Congrats Big Momma!
TODAY Big Momma became not-so-big Momma - the BABY came!! Godzilla 1&2 have a baby brother!! SO huge shout-out and congrats to the whole family and THANKS for calling us! We feel so loved!!
Of course, that means we're shopping for a new identifying term for previously-big-Momma 'cause, well, you've seen REALLY pregnant people and then suddenly NOT pregnant people. She's not so big now! hahaha Man oh man, good thing my friends love me instead of finding me the world's most insanely tactless and offensive person...
ALSO today, was the biomechanics final. FANTASTIC - what a way to start off my finals! I'd bore you with the tale of yesterday and the studying-fiasco that resulted in hardly any studying and no run (booooooooooooooooo) BUT I've vented that one off a couple times verbally and really, I'm tired tonight. I know, I know. I'm always tired and my posts are sucking lately. I'll get better. One of the ideas behind this is to add some helpful/useful information for people to steal for their own sleves, and not just me rambling on about nothing for no reasons BUT, again, lately....TIIIIIIIIIRED and honestly can't be bothered. hahaha Again, no offense. It doesn't mean I don't love you few readers of mine.
ALSO today Mi and I went for a run OUTSIDE in the BLISTERING cold and wind and snow and ice - we lasted outside for 20 minutes - no measure how far we went, just around this section of the campus umpteen times - it's hard to move quickly on ice..... Then we went inside and toured around this maze-like confusing part of campus for our remaining 10-15 to make our 30 minute 'run'. It was COLD and WINDY and miserable, but we had fun, I think, and it was great to get out. I mean get out running, not to get outside. The outside part sucked.
I haven't weighed or measured myself so nothing there to report, sorry, but I DID take a nap today and get some of the more difficult-to-shop-for Christmas shopping out of the way. :) The stress is minimal. Good day.
Of course, that means we're shopping for a new identifying term for previously-big-Momma 'cause, well, you've seen REALLY pregnant people and then suddenly NOT pregnant people. She's not so big now! hahaha Man oh man, good thing my friends love me instead of finding me the world's most insanely tactless and offensive person...
ALSO today, was the biomechanics final. FANTASTIC - what a way to start off my finals! I'd bore you with the tale of yesterday and the studying-fiasco that resulted in hardly any studying and no run (booooooooooooooooo) BUT I've vented that one off a couple times verbally and really, I'm tired tonight. I know, I know. I'm always tired and my posts are sucking lately. I'll get better. One of the ideas behind this is to add some helpful/useful information for people to steal for their own sleves, and not just me rambling on about nothing for no reasons BUT, again, lately....TIIIIIIIIIRED and honestly can't be bothered. hahaha Again, no offense. It doesn't mean I don't love you few readers of mine.
ALSO today Mi and I went for a run OUTSIDE in the BLISTERING cold and wind and snow and ice - we lasted outside for 20 minutes - no measure how far we went, just around this section of the campus umpteen times - it's hard to move quickly on ice..... Then we went inside and toured around this maze-like confusing part of campus for our remaining 10-15 to make our 30 minute 'run'. It was COLD and WINDY and miserable, but we had fun, I think, and it was great to get out. I mean get out running, not to get outside. The outside part sucked.
I haven't weighed or measured myself so nothing there to report, sorry, but I DID take a nap today and get some of the more difficult-to-shop-for Christmas shopping out of the way. :) The stress is minimal. Good day.
Bring on Biomechanics
So I am in finals. I'm hiding out at my mom's again today so I can study for my biomechanics exam tomorrow morning - that's right SATURDAY morning - with hopefully less distraction from the Little Miss. We've had a wonderful week playing normal-stay-at-home-mommy decorating for Christmas, playing games, cleaning the house (it really needed it after this semester!!)....I think I'm totally ready to be a mom! hahaha And it only took 15 months.... ;)
LAST NIGHT:
Played soccer. We lost, which is becoming a normal thing for us. I played like a bum, too - got stuck playing forward which I detest, so spent most of my time running around aimlessly feeling like an idiot - I feel so lost when I'm supposed to stick to the front half of the field! hahaha OH well. Still fun.
TODAY:
Nothing yet, but I've brought all my running gear 'cause I know there will be a point part way through the studying today where I'll be looking to blow my brains out and so I'm hoping I'll resort to running 5K instead of searching for a shotgun. Usually works pretty good. Hopefully after the exam tomorrow I'll find another five minutes and let you know how today's run (and tomorrow's - that's currently the plan at the moment, that Mi and I are going to hit the track after our exam) goes.
Okay, enough for now. I have some more notes to print and then some trigonometry to learn! Oh joy and rapture....
LAST NIGHT:
Played soccer. We lost, which is becoming a normal thing for us. I played like a bum, too - got stuck playing forward which I detest, so spent most of my time running around aimlessly feeling like an idiot - I feel so lost when I'm supposed to stick to the front half of the field! hahaha OH well. Still fun.
TODAY:
Nothing yet, but I've brought all my running gear 'cause I know there will be a point part way through the studying today where I'll be looking to blow my brains out and so I'm hoping I'll resort to running 5K instead of searching for a shotgun. Usually works pretty good. Hopefully after the exam tomorrow I'll find another five minutes and let you know how today's run (and tomorrow's - that's currently the plan at the moment, that Mi and I are going to hit the track after our exam) goes.
Okay, enough for now. I have some more notes to print and then some trigonometry to learn! Oh joy and rapture....
DEFINITELY slacking
Okay, so classes are over, obviously and thank GOODNESS. BUT that means my schedule's all out of whack so I'm having trouble a) making the time and b) staying motivated to work out right now. I was going to go for a run yesterday outside when Little Miss took her nap but it was snowing when that finally happened and then she didn't really ever fall asleep (Mr. Man was home, by the way - I wasn't just ditching her).... Anyway, anything I write will be a more-or-less pathetic excuse BUT I'm still wonderful. hahaha
I DID run while at Mom and Dad's over the weekend, but ran out of time so never made it to post.
Little Miss is "napping" again, today, which means she's in her crib, throwing her toys around, and she just yelled 'YEAH! Ya!' I think in an effort to make sure I know she's nowhere near sleep after 30 minutes in there, lullabies playing, bottle drained, clean diaper, snuggly blankie....
Anyway, so no exercising to report BUT my house is super tidy and all decorated for Christmas! YAY! hahaha
I DID run while at Mom and Dad's over the weekend, but ran out of time so never made it to post.
Little Miss is "napping" again, today, which means she's in her crib, throwing her toys around, and she just yelled 'YEAH! Ya!' I think in an effort to make sure I know she's nowhere near sleep after 30 minutes in there, lullabies playing, bottle drained, clean diaper, snuggly blankie....
Anyway, so no exercising to report BUT my house is super tidy and all decorated for Christmas! YAY! hahaha
Mi's trying to kill me...
QUICK post today - I'm sitting in class but we're on a five minute break and I figured I'd take the opportunity to get you updated on the day before I find myself too busy tonight (I'm finally going to see my Edward with the ladies!)
TODAY:
Ran 5K with Mi. I had a new and disgusting experience part way through as I slightly puked part way through - one of those gross little ones you gag up and swallow and then you're stuck with the disgusting burning taste in your mouth and throat?? Yeah, what the heck?? DISGUSTING. AND with only 8 laps to go I could feel my breath just slipping away, so I walked half a lap to recuperate. But even walking half a lap we did it in 32 minutes, and Mi ran an extra lap while I was walking, so apparently we were going faster than we usually do, though it felt like a snail's pace and like it was going to kill me.
AND I'm wearing jeans today definitely from pre-Little Miss, that last time I wore gave me serious muffin-top and weren't really move-in-able. Yeah, they're fine and dandy and like, comfy now. :) Definitely not loose, but there ya' go.
Back to class! :D
TODAY:
Ran 5K with Mi. I had a new and disgusting experience part way through as I slightly puked part way through - one of those gross little ones you gag up and swallow and then you're stuck with the disgusting burning taste in your mouth and throat?? Yeah, what the heck?? DISGUSTING. AND with only 8 laps to go I could feel my breath just slipping away, so I walked half a lap to recuperate. But even walking half a lap we did it in 32 minutes, and Mi ran an extra lap while I was walking, so apparently we were going faster than we usually do, though it felt like a snail's pace and like it was going to kill me.
AND I'm wearing jeans today definitely from pre-Little Miss, that last time I wore gave me serious muffin-top and weren't really move-in-able. Yeah, they're fine and dandy and like, comfy now. :) Definitely not loose, but there ya' go.
Back to class! :D
Feeling GOOD
Okay, well, I don't feel great right NOW actually, as it's quarter past midnight and I'm EXHAUSTED.... And everything I have to report relates to previous in the week with the exception of today's (now tomorrow's) exercise. SO...
THURSDAY:
Played an AWESOME game of soccer. SO much fun. Played the full game as we had no subs, and I was a force to be reckoned with, let me tell ya'! The opposing players were getting mad and frustrated at ME! I was awesome. hahaha
FRIDAY:
Wii Fit weighed myself. Are you READY for THESE stats??
Weight: 168.2 lbs
BMI: 27.03
Yes, that's right. I broke outta' the 170's. BOOM baby!! (Seriously, seeing how I was 225 at one point in my pregnancy - darned water retention - 168 is AMAZING. I feel all SORTS of hot!)
SATURDAY (meant to be today, except it's after midnight so it's yesterday...)
Ran the 5K at my parents' on the treadmill and got my time UNDER 32 minutes! hahaha Okay, so I was SO exhausted and feeling like death (Dad thought I was going to die listening to me 'breathing' as I ran) that the instant I hit the 5K mark I screamed for joy at having done it before the clock read 32:00 and I hit the power-off button before I took note of the EXACT time, which I immediately regretted. (Don't worry - I powered back up and did a proper cool-down....) Anyway, it wasn't MUCH under 32 minutes, like, I think we're talking 31:47 or something. ;) It's the number I picture when I close my eyes and relive the awesomeness.
And NOW I'm going to bed! Skinnier, or at least LIGHTER, and FASTER than a week ago! YAY! Ciao!
THURSDAY:
Played an AWESOME game of soccer. SO much fun. Played the full game as we had no subs, and I was a force to be reckoned with, let me tell ya'! The opposing players were getting mad and frustrated at ME!
FRIDAY:
Wii Fit weighed myself. Are you READY for THESE stats??
Weight: 168.2 lbs
BMI: 27.03
Yes, that's right. I broke outta' the 170's. BOOM baby!! (Seriously, seeing how I was 225 at one point in my pregnancy - darned water retention - 168 is AMAZING. I feel all SORTS of hot!)
SATURDAY (meant to be today, except it's after midnight so it's yesterday...)
Ran the 5K at my parents' on the treadmill and got my time UNDER 32 minutes! hahaha Okay, so I was SO exhausted and feeling like death (Dad thought I was going to die listening to me 'breathing' as I ran) that the instant I hit the 5K mark I screamed for joy at having done it before the clock read 32:00 and I hit the power-off button before I took note of the EXACT time, which I immediately regretted. (Don't worry - I powered back up and did a proper cool-down....) Anyway, it wasn't MUCH under 32 minutes, like, I think we're talking 31:47 or something. ;) It's the number I picture when I close my eyes and relive the awesomeness.
And NOW I'm going to bed! Skinnier, or at least LIGHTER, and FASTER than a week ago! YAY! Ciao!
Somethings
Didn't run yesterday but DID exercise - YAY! hahaha AND I had a total meltdown, too. It was awesome. I'm much better today.
I posted the other day that I've discovered I NEED to run because it releases all the angst and stress I build up in my body on a CONSTANT basis, and let me tell you, yesterday, was an angst-ridden day. Oy!
So yesterday afternoon, feeling like garbage (stressed to the max) I popped in a dvd I acquired in January to help fight off the baby-incubator-fat I'd PILED on. It's The Biggest Loser like, on DVD, and the trainers are INSANE. Anyway, I went through Bob's sick Cardio Max and got myself calmed down, all sweaty, and felt thin. hahaha
THEN Little Miss and I went to school to meet my group to work on a project. Yeah, if there was ever a dead-weight for a group project it's me in this one. OH MI GOSH. I don't understand the class even enough to have anything to contribute to the project. It's one of those ones I had a critical test in last week (I got an A on that; thank goodness for neuroANATOMY because neuroSCIENCE is kicking my trash) because I barely passed the midterm.... Anyway, combination of not having a clue what's going on and Little Miss SCREAMING her head off in the middle of the library full of students who are NOT parents trying to study and shooting us looks of what-the-HECK (I'm SORRY everybody! There was no way around it!!)and I don't even KNOW what else, I LOST it last night. Not 'till after Little Miss went to sleep and Mr. Man came home and I started talking about my day - then I seriously just flipped my lid. I sobbed like I don't remember having ever sobbed before, and you can ask anyone who's seen me - when I sob I hold NOTHING back.
So, TODAY I feel amazing. :) Weight lifted. I'm no closer to understanding the project or being an asset to my group but for whatever reason I'm A-okay anyway.
And tonight, soccer!! Wish us luck!
I posted the other day that I've discovered I NEED to run because it releases all the angst and stress I build up in my body on a CONSTANT basis, and let me tell you, yesterday, was an angst-ridden day. Oy!
So yesterday afternoon, feeling like garbage (stressed to the max) I popped in a dvd I acquired in January to help fight off the baby-incubator-fat I'd PILED on. It's The Biggest Loser like, on DVD, and the trainers are INSANE. Anyway, I went through Bob's sick Cardio Max and got myself calmed down, all sweaty, and felt thin. hahaha
THEN Little Miss and I went to school to meet my group to work on a project. Yeah, if there was ever a dead-weight for a group project it's me in this one. OH MI GOSH. I don't understand the class even enough to have anything to contribute to the project. It's one of those ones I had a critical test in last week (I got an A on that; thank goodness for neuroANATOMY because neuroSCIENCE is kicking my trash) because I barely passed the midterm....
So, TODAY I feel amazing. :) Weight lifted. I'm no closer to understanding the project or being an asset to my group but for whatever reason I'm A-okay anyway.
And tonight, soccer!! Wish us luck!
Back at it...sort of!
YES I've been busy lately. I have exercised some, but I'm not going to lie, it hasn't been any great accomplishment or anything. Even our soccer game last week was pathetic - we lost 10-0 against a team that definitely should not have been in our league, but that's besides the point.
FUNNY thing I've noticed now that I'm a 'runner' (HA!) - I NEED to run. I haven't regularly for a little while now and I can FEEL it - I get all tense and worked up and stressed, YES because I'm juggling too many things at once, but running takes me out of all that and I just like, pound it out in the run. It gets all my freaked-out-ed-ness and works it out. Anyway, so if you feel like you're going to die, add some STRENUOUS exercise to your life and see if it helps you breathe a bit.
Yoga's awesome for that, too, obviously. ;) And pilates. And especially, my favourite hybrid, yogilates!!
TODAY:
Well, after all that talk about how I need to run, today I met up with Mi to go for a run and apparently we had a LOT to just TALK about - we started our run off with a couple laps walking to warm up which turned into about an hour of walking. We realized about 30 minutes in what we'd done and picked up the walking pace a bit, not that we'd been going slowly at all, other than of course we were WALKING so we weren't setting any land-speed records. ANYWAY, just before the hour was up we did RUN, and I mean RUN 1 km - goal was to do it in 5 minutes or less and, sadly, I did it in 5:08. But WHOA what a weird feeling - my arms were like, tingling and all heavy feeling and I saw a few stars - Mi's guess is we probably used all our regular energy stores up with our super-walk and then we full on just started running - yeah, my body's not totally trained for that yet. ANYWAY. If we ever have another hour-long walk-rant again I'll shave off those eight seconds. I can do hard things! hahaha
I will get back on track the rest of the week, though I may not be able to get a run in (boo) unless I land at my parents' on the weekend, which is possible, so keep tabs on me!! IF not running, though, then something. Promise!!
FUNNY thing I've noticed now that I'm a 'runner' (HA!) - I NEED to run. I haven't regularly for a little while now and I can FEEL it - I get all tense and worked up and stressed, YES because I'm juggling too many things at once, but running takes me out of all that and I just like, pound it out in the run. It gets all my freaked-out-ed-ness and works it out. Anyway, so if you feel like you're going to die, add some STRENUOUS exercise to your life and see if it helps you breathe a bit.
Yoga's awesome for that, too, obviously. ;) And pilates. And especially, my favourite hybrid, yogilates!!
TODAY:
Well, after all that talk about how I need to run, today I met up with Mi to go for a run and apparently we had a LOT to just TALK about - we started our run off with a couple laps walking to warm up which turned into about an hour of walking. We realized about 30 minutes in what we'd done and picked up the walking pace a bit, not that we'd been going slowly at all, other than of course we were WALKING so we weren't setting any land-speed records. ANYWAY, just before the hour was up we did RUN, and I mean RUN 1 km - goal was to do it in 5 minutes or less and, sadly, I did it in 5:08. But WHOA what a weird feeling - my arms were like, tingling and all heavy feeling and I saw a few stars - Mi's guess is we probably used all our regular energy stores up with our super-walk and then we full on just started running - yeah, my body's not totally trained for that yet. ANYWAY. If we ever have another hour-long walk-rant again I'll shave off those eight seconds. I can do hard things! hahaha
I will get back on track the rest of the week, though I may not be able to get a run in (boo) unless I land at my parents' on the weekend, which is possible, so keep tabs on me!! IF not running, though, then something. Promise!!
Taking a break
Remember that huge list of school stuff I have to survive?? Well, I'm working on the list today and DYING for a break, so here I am. To give you an update - previously I had two papers and three tests to write/prepare for and I NOW have one paper and three tests to write and prepare for. hahaha I am actually really pleased to have the one paper done and handed in and out of the way and HOPING that whoever marks it thinks I did as awesome a job as I think I did, but the to-live-through list is still OH so high!!
I've written like, 1.25 pages of my next paper, which is to be 4-5 pages long. I figure since I've mostly been writing it when I'm ready to hit my head against the wall after studying for sport psych or neuroanatomy too long that I'm making great progress. AND it's not due until Tuesday afternoon, so I'm chugging along great, there.
Tomorrow's tests...well, they are the two that will either make or break my academic career, I think. I HAVE HAVE HAVE HAVE to do EXTREMELY well on these tests, and i don't know if I'm going to pulli t off. I've been studying for HOURS cumulatively, so hopefully it pays off. And then I have a biomechanics midterm on Tuesday which I sadly haven't started studying for. Cross your fingers for me on that one.
BUT I haven't posted in the last couple of days about my activity levels, so surprisingly this post IS going to end up being on topic - and you thought I was just RAMBLING for no reason!!
FRIDAY
LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of studying/researching for paper.
60 minutes yogilates (by the end of the night I was completely burnt out - I was going insane from studying all day. Mr. Man was so good and let me chillax on the mat - aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............)
YESTERDAY
Ran on Mom & Dad's treadmill (came over so Mr. Man would have extra hands to help juggle Little Miss while I hole up and study like a mad woman - I CANNOT play mommy this weekend! GAH! I'm SO ready to be done school!!) and actually finished my 5K, which after this slack-infested week I was pleased with. Brings the total for the week to...16K. I ran four times and only did 16K. GEEZE!! Oh well. AND last night I did my 5K in 32:47 - real easy to count exact time on a machine that does the counting for you....
Just a warning, this may end up being a horrid week for my running as my best times to fit runs in are Mondays and Tuesdays, and have I told you yet what I have on tomorrow and Tuesday?? ;)
Okay, BACK to the grindstone!! And WISH ME LUCK!
I've written like, 1.25 pages of my next paper, which is to be 4-5 pages long. I figure since I've mostly been writing it when I'm ready to hit my head against the wall after studying for sport psych or neuroanatomy too long that I'm making great progress. AND it's not due until Tuesday afternoon, so I'm chugging along great, there.
Tomorrow's tests...well, they are the two that will either make or break my academic career, I think. I HAVE HAVE HAVE HAVE to do EXTREMELY well on these tests, and i don't know if I'm going to pulli t off. I've been studying for HOURS cumulatively, so hopefully it pays off. And then I have a biomechanics midterm on Tuesday which I sadly haven't started studying for. Cross your fingers for me on that one.
BUT I haven't posted in the last couple of days about my activity levels, so surprisingly this post IS going to end up being on topic - and you thought I was just RAMBLING for no reason!!
FRIDAY
LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of studying/researching for paper.
60 minutes yogilates (by the end of the night I was completely burnt out - I was going insane from studying all day. Mr. Man was so good and let me chillax on the mat - aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.............)
YESTERDAY
Ran on Mom & Dad's treadmill (came over so Mr. Man would have extra hands to help juggle Little Miss while I hole up and study like a mad woman - I CANNOT play mommy this weekend! GAH! I'm SO ready to be done school!!) and actually finished my 5K, which after this slack-infested week I was pleased with. Brings the total for the week to...16K. I ran four times and only did 16K.
Just a warning, this may end up being a horrid week for my running as my best times to fit runs in are Mondays and Tuesdays, and have I told you yet what I have on tomorrow and Tuesday?? ;)
Okay, BACK to the grindstone!! And WISH ME LUCK!
Free time filler
So I don't know what happened this week, but wonderfully I had three lectures and two labs cancelled due to profs and T.A.s being away at conferences and ONE case of hey-there's-a-test-coming-take-a-break!! SO I've had some "free time" to do things I wouldn't normally do...like finish homework, study, and/or fit in an extra run! It's been absolutely FANTASTIC!!
Oh, totally on another note, I learned what I thought was the coolest horrific thing today in a class I had that WASN'T cancelled. ;) Lemme go find it, hang on.....
OKAY, so I don't know how much sense this is going to make here, but I thought it was incredibly interesting. We were talking about Types I and II diabetes in class and how either the wonder-drug-hormone insulin OR the contraction of muscle (i.e. exercise) amps up the body's response to glycogen blah blah blah...but basically that muscle contraction (say it with me now - EXERCISE) is going to have the same or very very similar effect as an insulin injection to counter-act diabetes. Okay, crazy, eh? WELL, THEN we were told WHY doctors won't tell their patients this - can you BELIEVE your doctor wouldn't tell you that?? BASICALLY in the medical profession there's a push for "evidence-based-treatments", which sounds great to me, 'cause then I know my doctor has something backing up his claim, right? Right?? Well, maybe.... Evidence-based means that there has to have been some peer-reviewed study done and published and all what-not AND studying things costs money, of course. Well, hello, who the heck do you think pays for the studies? DRUG COMPANIES!!! So like, the only "evidence" for treatment your doctor has access to you cure what ails you is what the drug companies have paid for him to be able to tell you. They're obviously not going to pay to find out if exercise is going to cure your diabetes problem after a meal because that's going to put them out of insulin business - I'd DEFINITELY rather run than stick myself with needles. (I'm SO grateful not to have experienced diabetes and pray it stays that way!)
Okay, so you may have already known all that, but it just blew my mind to have it explained so horrifically clearly to me. That's why if you go to the hospital for a pain in your back they give you some pills to pop whereas if you go for a massage or chiropractic treatment you're actually going to have someone pay attention to the PROBLEM. GAH!
TODAY:
Ran with Mi, but I only lasted for 3K - previous to the run I'd been limping around campus with an incredible pain shooting through my back - that evil one that rears its head sometimes and I write about. ANYway, it was acting up and I didn't want to push it too far 'cause I had soccer tonight, so I stopped after 3 so as not to impair my ability to walk/limp back to my car. Did some yoga stretches though, which felt amazing in the painful area, so there we go.
Soccer - lost 2-1. I played like a bum for the first half, but then got my head in the game, I think. Tough team we played. Still fun, but lots of concentration needed, which makes it a slight bit less FUN and more effort, you know? Anyway. That's that.
Wii Fit measures:
Weight 173.1 lbs
BMI: 27.81
Oh, totally on another note, I learned what I thought was the coolest horrific thing today in a class I had that WASN'T cancelled. ;) Lemme go find it, hang on.....
OKAY, so I don't know how much sense this is going to make here, but I thought it was incredibly interesting. We were talking about Types I and II diabetes in class and how either the wonder-drug-hormone insulin OR the contraction of muscle (i.e. exercise) amps up the body's response to glycogen blah blah blah...but basically that muscle contraction (say it with me now - EXERCISE) is going to have the same or very very similar effect as an insulin injection to counter-act diabetes. Okay, crazy, eh? WELL, THEN we were told WHY doctors won't tell their patients this - can you BELIEVE your doctor wouldn't tell you that?? BASICALLY in the medical profession there's a push for "evidence-based-treatments", which sounds great to me, 'cause then I know my doctor has something backing up his claim, right? Right?? Well, maybe.... Evidence-based means that there has to have been some peer-reviewed study done and published and all what-not AND studying things costs money, of course. Well, hello, who the heck do you think pays for the studies? DRUG COMPANIES!!! So like, the only "evidence" for treatment your doctor has access to you cure what ails you is what the drug companies have paid for him to be able to tell you. They're obviously not going to pay to find out if exercise is going to cure your diabetes problem after a meal because that's going to put them out of insulin business - I'd DEFINITELY rather run than stick myself with needles. (I'm SO grateful not to have experienced diabetes and pray it stays that way!)
Okay, so you may have already known all that, but it just blew my mind to have it explained so horrifically clearly to me. That's why if you go to the hospital for a pain in your back they give you some pills to pop whereas if you go for a massage or chiropractic treatment you're actually going to have someone pay attention to the PROBLEM. GAH!
TODAY:
Ran with Mi, but I only lasted for 3K - previous to the run I'd been limping around campus with an incredible pain shooting through my back - that evil one that rears its head sometimes and I write about. ANYway, it was acting up and I didn't want to push it too far 'cause I had soccer tonight, so I stopped after 3 so as not to impair my ability to walk/limp back to my car. Did some yoga stretches though, which felt amazing in the painful area, so there we go.
Soccer - lost 2-1. I played like a bum for the first half, but then got my head in the game, I think.
Wii Fit measures:
Weight 173.1 lbs
BMI: 27.81
Down by threes
So yesterday we officially started the countdown to November 27th. Today is November 4th, so 23 days to go. PHEW.
That's the first decreasing number of the day.
The second was the number of minutes it took to run a particularly grueling 5K with Mi this afternoon sans water break or hyperventilation ;) - Mi's good for me - when I feel too tired to care about breathing (or living, for that matter) any longer and let my breath just GO she says nothing, but makes her breathing LOUD and SLOW to remind me to keep it together. PHEW! Anyway, shaved a minute and ran it in 32 minutes. (ALSO we need to give a great big shout out to Mi for running a 5K race on the weekend, finishing second in her age group and doing the darned thing in 26 minutes! HOLY FREAK! No WONDER she tuckers me out!!)
The THIRD are the numbers on the Wii Fit for my weight and BMI, down today from the last time I managed to get on to measure myself, 8 days ago, by 1.5lbs. Which I'm definitely okay with. :) According to the ease with which my clothes fit (i.e. the Gap 10)and the horribly encouraging comments from my family and friends when they see me it would appear that I lose size much more rapidly than I actually lose mass. I find it a bit weird, because my focus of late has been anything but strength-training, to try and attribute this phenomenon to increased muscle mass but... it is what it is. I don't KNOW what it is, but that's what it is. ;)
TODAY:
You may have guessed, I ran 5K. The WHOLE thing. No breaks, no stopping. I didn't go as fast on my last lap as I usually do but I was feeling pretty darned tuckered out by that point. Mi kept track of time for me, so if there's any discrepancies with it you can blame her. ;) hahaha
45 minutes yogilates - YAY! I went back to the shorter video for today - the full hour sounded daunting and I don't want to be daunted, PLUS it's been SO long I didn't want to push myself too hard with it and end up doing something silly - you can get yourself stuck in some pretty weird positions if you're not careful, so I opted for careful. AND you'll be happy to hear, I think, that it's as wonderful a workout as I remembered. Let's hope I can keep it up!!
Wii Fit measures:
Weight: 173.7 lbs (which makes a whopping total of 5.8 lbs down since we started our little project here, though if you count from my HEAVIEST point since we started I've lost more than that... ;))
BMI: 27.92.
And that, my friends, is that for today! :D It's late and I'm going to go to BED!
That's the first decreasing number of the day.
The second was the number of minutes it took to run a particularly grueling 5K with Mi this afternoon sans water break or hyperventilation ;) - Mi's good for me - when I feel too tired to care about breathing (or living, for that matter) any longer and let my breath just GO she says nothing, but makes her breathing LOUD and SLOW to remind me to keep it together. PHEW! Anyway, shaved a minute and ran it in 32 minutes. (ALSO we need to give a great big shout out to Mi for running a 5K race on the weekend, finishing second in her age group and doing the darned thing in 26 minutes! HOLY FREAK! No WONDER she tuckers me out!!)
The THIRD are the numbers on the Wii Fit for my weight and BMI, down today from the last time I managed to get on to measure myself, 8 days ago, by 1.5lbs. Which I'm definitely okay with. :) According to the ease with which my clothes fit (i.e. the Gap 10)and the horribly encouraging comments from my family and friends when they see me it would appear that I lose size much more rapidly than I actually lose mass. I find it a bit weird, because my focus of late has been anything but strength-training, to try and attribute this phenomenon to increased muscle mass but... it is what it is. I don't KNOW what it is, but that's what it is. ;)
TODAY:
You may have guessed, I ran 5K. The WHOLE thing. No breaks, no stopping. I didn't go as fast on my last lap as I usually do but I was feeling pretty darned tuckered out by that point. Mi kept track of time for me, so if there's any discrepancies with it you can blame her. ;) hahaha
45 minutes yogilates - YAY! I went back to the shorter video for today - the full hour sounded daunting and I don't want to be daunted, PLUS it's been SO long I didn't want to push myself too hard with it and end up doing something silly - you can get yourself stuck in some pretty weird positions if you're not careful, so I opted for careful. AND you'll be happy to hear, I think, that it's as wonderful a workout as I remembered. Let's hope I can keep it up!!
Wii Fit measures:
Weight: 173.7 lbs (which makes a whopping total of 5.8 lbs down since we started our little project here, though if you count from my HEAVIEST point since we started I've lost more than that... ;))
BMI: 27.92.
And that, my friends, is that for today! :D It's late and I'm going to go to BED!
Counting down...
Today is November 3rd. Classes for this semester are finished on November 27th. I officially declare that it's time to count it down: 24 days + finals to go.
If I can get through this next week and a half then I'm good to go! I have a paper due Thursday, another next Tuesday, two tests next Monday and another next Tuesday. SO five pretty big things coming up with time rapidly running short. I'm trying to get it all done and stay on top of everything, but if you know me at all, which some of you don't, this is going to be MUCH easier said than done!!
TODAY
Is not near over yet, but as I'm going for maximizing my available time I figured I'd start my post for today now and finish it later. Which, I realize, I didn't really have to explain because I'm not going to actually hit "publish post" until I'm finished this evening, but there ya' go.
So, SO FAR today, I went for just a short run, 3.4km. I wasn't feeling it today, my back is bugging me and I have tonnes of other stuff to do!! The plan at this point is still, with all that stuff I have to do this week, to get my dear yogilates back in and strengthen/stretch out my poor lower back so it doesn't bug me so much when I'm running and playing soccer! (Dr. Rex thinks that my back pain is brought on by some weakness in my back which would be one reason why the yogilates was helping! TIME constraints!!)
Okay, back to class, and I'll fill you in on everything else LATAH! ;)
It's LATER
Bad news. Today has NOT played out as I hoped. I didn't mention but over the weekend we had some furnace trouble and so poor Mr. Man has been home today dealing with different people in and out of the house giving quotes and gathering information to replace the furnace. Anyway, I got out of my motor control class early, came home hoping to grab a small bite 'cause I was starving and use my free hour to squeeze in yogilates, but poor Mr. Man seemed so overloaded with information he had to spew it all out on me, which stressed ME out because I was trying to squeeze stuff in the small space in time anyway....AND yogilates didn't happen. I figured that's okay, I'll do it when Little Miss goes to bed. Anyway, Little Miss for goodness only knows WHAT reason tonight, didn't get to bed 'till like, an hour and a half after bed time, and by that time my nerves were completely shot (and in desperate need of calming yogilates!!!) and I was doing homework (see above - I HATE these dumb assignments! Useful assignments are fine and dandy. Dumb ones are dumb.) and then Mr. Man and I got in a "heated discussion" and NOW it's 10:06 and I really don't think it will be good for my tonight's happiness-going-to-bed-next-to-Mr.-Man-ness if I spend the next hour working out instead of, well, something more the-two-of-us-ish.
Tomorrow, please try to hold me accountable for yogilates and a Wii Fit measure - I haven't done that since...I don't remember, but I'm sure you can find it sometime in October! hahaha
Here, though, is a pic, though not of the jelly doughnut, and not uber recent - from my birthday weekend.
I think a little progress, at least, is visible! :) (Don't say it's not 'cause that'll just be mean!)
If I can get through this next week and a half then I'm good to go! I have a paper due Thursday, another next Tuesday, two tests next Monday and another next Tuesday. SO five pretty big things coming up with time rapidly running short. I'm trying to get it all done and stay on top of everything, but if you know me at all, which some of you don't, this is going to be MUCH easier said than done!!
TODAY
Is not near over yet, but as I'm going for maximizing my available time I figured I'd start my post for today now and finish it later. Which, I realize, I didn't really have to explain because I'm not going to actually hit "publish post" until I'm finished this evening, but there ya' go.
So, SO FAR today, I went for just a short run, 3.4km. I wasn't feeling it today, my back is bugging me and I have tonnes of other stuff to do!! The plan at this point is still, with all that stuff I have to do this week, to get my dear yogilates back in and strengthen/stretch out my poor lower back so it doesn't bug me so much when I'm running and playing soccer! (Dr. Rex thinks that my back pain is brought on by some weakness in my back which would be one reason why the yogilates was helping!
Okay, back to class, and I'll fill you in on everything else LATAH! ;)
It's LATER
Bad news. Today has NOT played out as I hoped. I didn't mention but over the weekend we had some furnace trouble and so poor Mr. Man has been home today dealing with different people in and out of the house giving quotes and gathering information to replace the furnace. Anyway, I got out of my motor control class early, came home hoping to grab a small bite 'cause I was starving and use my free hour to squeeze in yogilates, but poor Mr. Man seemed so overloaded with information he had to spew it all out on me, which stressed ME out because I was trying to squeeze stuff in the small space in time anyway....AND yogilates didn't happen. I figured that's okay, I'll do it when Little Miss goes to bed. Anyway, Little Miss for goodness only knows WHAT reason tonight, didn't get to bed 'till like, an hour and a half after bed time, and by that time my nerves were completely shot (and in desperate need of calming yogilates!!!) and I was doing homework (see above - I HATE these dumb assignments! Useful assignments are fine and dandy. Dumb ones are dumb.) and then Mr. Man and I got in a "heated discussion" and NOW it's 10:06 and I really don't think it will be good for my tonight's happiness-going-to-bed-next-to-Mr.-Man-ness if I spend the next hour working out instead of, well, something more the-two-of-us-ish.
Tomorrow, please try to hold me accountable for yogilates and a Wii Fit measure - I haven't done that since...I don't remember, but I'm sure you can find it sometime in October! hahaha
Here, though, is a pic, though not of the jelly doughnut, and not uber recent - from my birthday weekend.
I think a little progress, at least, is visible! :) (Don't say it's not 'cause that'll just be mean!)
OH yeah indoor!
Indoor soccer started tonight. It was SO much fun. I played great. We won, 1-0.
My back hurts. :( Chiropractor tomorrow and hopefully back to yogilates this coming week, if not in the next day or two.... Lots of homework coming up, though, so who knows.
Life sure makes it difficult to look after oneself, doesn't it?
Did I mention I LOVE soccer??
My back hurts. :( Chiropractor tomorrow and hopefully back to yogilates this coming week, if not in the next day or two....
Life sure makes it difficult to look after oneself, doesn't it?
Did I mention I LOVE soccer??
I love ice cream.
So, it's no secret amongst my in-laws that I LOVE ice cream. LOVE it. Soooo I'm not really expecting to lose any more girth this week, let's just say. hahaha
I DID run with Mi yesterday - something about running with her KILLS me - we were chatting about it when we finished. Is it because we're actually running faster or just a mental block for me?? I did my 5K on Monday with NO troubles, and then yesterday with Mi I'm DYING, just GASPING for air by the end. WITH a one-lap (200m) water-break after 3kms. I don't take breaks when I run by myself. Or with Blue Belle.
Anyway, yesterday it took us 33 minutes to do the 5K. Would definitely have been faster if poor Mi hadn't been slowed down by my desperation for water, but what can ya' do??
TODAY:
A HECK of a lot of walking ALL OVER the school. In sport psych we were examining team-building and got sent, literally, all over the place on a scavenger hunt. It was a BLAST and a tonne of walking. Then lots MORE walking to and from cars and errand-running....I walked around campus so much today that it's actually worth mentioning, which has to mean something because I almost NEVER mention it.
20 minutes Tae Bo :)
AND no yogilates, again. Which is sad. I need to figure it out and get that back in there 'cause it was previously my resistance training AND stretching (yeah, it's THAT awesome), so now I'm missing out on both. How did I fit it in before??? GAH! OH well!!
OH, and BY THE WAY - being a girl THIS is very exciting. :D
I DID run with Mi yesterday - something about running with her KILLS me - we were chatting about it when we finished. Is it because we're actually running faster or just a mental block for me?? I did my 5K on Monday with NO troubles, and then yesterday with Mi I'm DYING, just GASPING for air by the end. WITH a one-lap (200m) water-break after 3kms. I don't take breaks when I run by myself. Or with Blue Belle.
Anyway, yesterday it took us 33 minutes to do the 5K. Would definitely have been faster if poor Mi hadn't been slowed down by my desperation for water, but what can ya' do??
TODAY:
A HECK of a lot of walking ALL OVER the school. In sport psych we were examining team-building and got sent, literally, all over the place on a scavenger hunt. It was a BLAST and a tonne of walking. Then lots MORE walking to and from cars and errand-running....I walked around campus so much today that it's actually worth mentioning, which has to mean something because I almost NEVER mention it.
20 minutes Tae Bo :)
AND no yogilates, again. Which is sad. I need to figure it out and get that back in there 'cause it was previously my resistance training AND stretching (yeah, it's THAT awesome), so now I'm missing out on both. How did I fit it in before??? GAH! OH well!!
OH, and BY THE WAY - being a girl THIS is very exciting. :D
Gap 10
Sooo I didn't get too much when we were shopping - we had the entire family along with us and apparently the jelly doughnut is shrinking so quickly (YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY) that Mom suggested it sort of silly to buy me a whole bunch of new things while I'm in transition-mode. And I whole-heartedly agree. I found some things I would really really love to own but on the off chance that I really AM shrinking I couldn't justify spending good money on them, hoping they would be too big in a few months or even next year. (Ask Mr. Man and/or Mom - when I get an article of clothing I keep it FOREVER. I'm pretty good at resurrecting clothes from high school....)
BUT I did acquire a few new things so I at least feel like I can get dressed in the mornings - one pair of jeans and three tops, so now I have two pairs of jeans that actually fit me "properly" as opposed to when I wear Mr. Man's (which I LOVE to do). And let me tell you how AWESOME it was to buy my one new pair of jeans:
We were in the Gap, which apparently, while I was pregnant, changed its whole style. WEIRD, but okay. So I'm looking at jeans, kinda' laughing internally like, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, but I found a pair that I liked and figured, oh, what the heck. I grabbed a size ten knowing full well it would be too small and I wouldn't be able to cram my thunder-thighs through the legs and headed off to the fitting room. I stripped off my one pair of jeans that I LOVE and reached down to my feet with the too-small pair. And pulled one leg over my foot and up my leg, waiting for the moment when the pant-leg would get too snug and I wouldn't be able to get my hands up any further.....
IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!! I pulled on BOTH legs without ANY trouble, stood up, DID the jeans up, and stared open-mouthed into the mirror. THEY FIT!!!!
So, I know I know, size 10 isn't really anything to get TOO excited about. It's a double-digited number, still. But it's at LEAST a size smaller than I think I've ever been at the Gap, and it's a GAP size 10! It's not old-frumpy-ladies-r-us size 10, but GAP size 10.
So we bought the pants. Which turn out to be actually BAGGY in my legs, and leave a little room around the "waist".
Maybe this dream of 8 is attainable after all, even post-Little-Miss.....
YESTERDAY:
Ran 5K at school. I THINK it only took me 30 minutes - I forgot my watch and so was relying on the wall-clocks which sadly are not close enough to the track for me to be definitively sure, but I THINK it was only 30 minutes. I'm totally open to the fact that it may have been a minute or two (or three) longer because I am NOT a fast runner (ask Mi), but I'm hoping that with the exhaustion I was feeling and the fact that I've been running for a few weeks now that I've managed to shave that extra two or three minutes off my time and it really was only half an hour.
TODAY:
Nothing yet, but I have a date for a butt-kicking on the track this afternoon with Mi for another 5K. And if I'm really lucky I'll find some time after classes tonight to squeeze in a much-needed yogilates session, but it might not happen. Will report on that later!
BUT I did acquire a few new things so I at least feel like I can get dressed in the mornings - one pair of jeans and three tops, so now I have two pairs of jeans that actually fit me "properly" as opposed to when I wear Mr. Man's (which I LOVE to do). And let me tell you how AWESOME it was to buy my one new pair of jeans:
We were in the Gap, which apparently, while I was pregnant, changed its whole style. WEIRD, but okay. So I'm looking at jeans, kinda' laughing internally like, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, but I found a pair that I liked and figured, oh, what the heck. I grabbed a size ten knowing full well it would be too small and I wouldn't be able to cram my thunder-thighs through the legs and headed off to the fitting room. I stripped off my one pair of jeans that I LOVE and reached down to my feet with the too-small pair. And pulled one leg over my foot and up my leg, waiting for the moment when the pant-leg would get too snug and I wouldn't be able to get my hands up any further.....
IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!! I pulled on BOTH legs without ANY trouble, stood up, DID the jeans up, and stared open-mouthed into the mirror. THEY FIT!!!!
So, I know I know, size 10 isn't really anything to get TOO excited about. It's a double-digited number, still. But it's at LEAST a size smaller than I think I've ever been at the Gap, and it's a GAP size 10! It's not old-frumpy-ladies-r-us size 10, but GAP size 10.
So we bought the pants. Which turn out to be actually BAGGY in my legs, and leave a little room around the "waist".
Maybe this dream of 8 is attainable after all, even post-Little-Miss.....
YESTERDAY:
Ran 5K at school. I THINK it only took me 30 minutes - I forgot my watch and so was relying on the wall-clocks which sadly are not close enough to the track for me to be definitively sure, but I THINK it was only 30 minutes. I'm totally open to the fact that it may have been a minute or two (or three) longer because I am NOT a fast runner (ask Mi), but I'm hoping that with the exhaustion I was feeling and the fact that I've been running for a few weeks now that I've managed to shave that extra two or three minutes off my time and it really was only half an hour.
TODAY:
Nothing yet, but I have a date for a butt-kicking on the track this afternoon with Mi for another 5K. And if I'm really lucky I'll find some time after classes tonight to squeeze in a much-needed yogilates session, but it might not happen. Will report on that later!
Shopping Spree!
So I never got around to making any goals about the whole birthday-shopping from Mom because we never got around to planning when we were going. Anyway, we're going! We started tonight after she was finished work and are hitting the mall tomorrow, too! Don't worry, so far only Little Miss is getting spoiled. But she's REALLY getting spoiled. Remind me come Christmas time to post a picture of this year's Christmas dress....GORGEOUS!
Anyway, I do think that since my birthday there's been some slimming down going on, but I wasn't tracking diligently so can't say how I'm starting this shopping trip. Sad for me. I guess we'll know better how I do after tomorrow!
TODAY:
Ran on Mom & Dad's treadmill, which tracks distance in miles. 5K = 3.1 miles soooooo, WALKED for 5 minutes to warm up, 0.12 miles, ran 'till it read 3.42 miles, then walked to cool down 'till 3.60 miles. So in that mess I did run my 5K today, and it took about 32:30, which is a wee eensie teensie bit faster than before on the track. ;)
That makes 3 5ks this week, which I think is the most I've managed to get in, PLUS Wednesday's Tae Bo. hahahaha Been a good week!
Anyway, I do think that since my birthday there's been some slimming down going on, but I wasn't tracking diligently so can't say how I'm starting this shopping trip. Sad for me.
TODAY:
Ran on Mom & Dad's treadmill, which tracks distance in miles. 5K = 3.1 miles soooooo, WALKED for 5 minutes to warm up, 0.12 miles, ran 'till it read 3.42 miles, then walked to cool down 'till 3.60 miles. So in that mess I did run my 5K today, and it took about 32:30, which is a wee eensie teensie bit faster than before on the track. ;)
That makes 3 5ks this week, which I think is the most I've managed to get in, PLUS Wednesday's Tae Bo. hahahaha Been a good week!
"Day Off"
I had a good day today. Fun day. Hung out with this crazy guy at school between classes and had SUCH a laugh!! (Don't worry, I've reported all events to Mr. Man, so there's nothing like THAT to get in a fuss over) :P
I wasn't overly motivated today to workout - figured I've worked pretty darn hard the last two days and I'd give my poor little self a bit to relax. So I relaxed. Then I put Little Miss to bed and figured, what the heck!
I have these old Tae Bo videos, one is like, 20 minutes, so I popped it in for kicks. Hahaha Kickboxing. Kicks. Get it? Okay, it was by accident, so it's fine that it sucked. GEEZE people!! Anyway, it was nothing overly insane, but 20 minutes, got the heart pumping the sweat DRIPPING, and it's better than the nothing I had planned and different from the running that I've been pounding out. So, I'd say, good day!!
OH! And Big Momma was SUPER awesome today and told me how super-fast the Jelly Doughnut is shrinking, so YAY!! I was going to have Mr. Man take a picture tonight but now I don't feel like it. hahaha I'm all sorts of uber flighty today. Get over it. ;)
I wasn't overly motivated today to workout - figured I've worked pretty darn hard the last two days and I'd give my poor little self a bit to relax. So I relaxed. Then I put Little Miss to bed and figured, what the heck!
I have these old Tae Bo videos, one is like, 20 minutes, so I popped it in for kicks. Hahaha Kickboxing. Kicks. Get it? Okay, it was by accident, so it's fine that it sucked. GEEZE people!! Anyway, it was nothing overly insane, but 20 minutes, got the heart pumping the sweat DRIPPING, and it's better than the nothing I had planned and different from the running that I've been pounding out.
OH! And Big Momma was SUPER awesome today and told me how super-fast the Jelly Doughnut is shrinking, so YAY!! I was going to have Mr. Man take a picture tonight but now I don't feel like it. hahaha I'm all sorts of uber flighty today. Get over it. ;)
Going Ape
This was passed on to me from Mi, because last week I had a banana for dinner. :D
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression
According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS
Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia
High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
Blood Pressure
This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power
200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation
High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers
One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn
Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness
Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites
Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves
Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work?
Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers
The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control
Many other cultures see bananas as a 'cooling' fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
Smoking & Tobacco Use
Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress
Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes
According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts
Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. Maybe it's time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, 'A banana a day keeps the doctor away!'
PS:
Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time! I will add one here; want a quick shine on our shoes? Take the INSIDE of the banana skin, and rub directly on the shoe, polish with dry cloth. Amazing fruit!!
TODAY:
60 minutes Yogilates this morning. Had a REALLY hard time with it today for some reason. I mean, obviously, I've had some time off, but I seemed extra-stiff. Mi suggested maybe just midterm-stress??? ANYWAY, whatever it was, I got through it.
Ran 3K, walked 200m with my water bottle, ran 1.8K, walked 400m for a total of 5.4K. I made the mistake of going with Mi. hahaha I knew she'd be faster than me but DANG I was having a hard time. Anyway, I felt the need for water after 3K and she suggested walking a lap with the bottle so I could get good and hydrated. AND my breathing in check. hahaha Sweet girl, that. ;) To do the 5K took 34 minutes. The walking severely added to the time. Anyway, I think I'm going to try to kill myself again next Tuesday and run with her again. ;) hahaha Wish me luck!
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression
According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS
Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia
High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
Blood Pressure
This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power
200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation
High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers
One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn
Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness
Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites
Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves
Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work?
Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers
The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control
Many other cultures see bananas as a 'cooling' fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
Smoking & Tobacco Use
Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress
Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes
According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts
Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. Maybe it's time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, 'A banana a day keeps the doctor away!'
PS:
Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time! I will add one here; want a quick shine on our shoes? Take the INSIDE of the banana skin, and rub directly on the shoe, polish with dry cloth. Amazing fruit!!
TODAY:
60 minutes Yogilates this morning. Had a REALLY hard time with it today for some reason. I mean, obviously, I've had some time off, but I seemed extra-stiff. Mi suggested maybe just midterm-stress??? ANYWAY, whatever it was, I got through it.
Ran 3K, walked 200m with my water bottle, ran 1.8K, walked 400m for a total of 5.4K. I made the mistake of going with Mi. hahaha I knew she'd be faster than me but DANG I was having a hard time. Anyway, I felt the need for water after 3K and she suggested walking a lap with the bottle so I could get good and hydrated. AND my breathing in check. hahaha Sweet girl, that. ;) To do the 5K took 34 minutes. The walking severely added to the time. Anyway, I think I'm going to try to kill myself again next Tuesday and run with her again. ;) hahaha Wish me luck!
Live for Comments
hahahaha So I have some great comments and encouragement - THANKS all!! Blue Belle and I DID run today, Steph, I do NOT want to run with you yet; I'd NEVER keep up! And SERIOUS congrats on the half-marathon on the weekend - hurry up and post your stuff so I can link to it for my little band of readers, will ya'?! GEEZE!! And Mi, absolutely I'll meet you tomorrow. ;) And YES, Jennifer Rae, I AM that craftily talented. Just don't tell anyone.... hahaha
TODAY:
Ran 5k with Blue Belle. FORGOT to watch the clock. Duh. I need to just set the stopwatch on my watch when I go then I don't have to remember what time I started and finished, just the ONE number of how long it was! hahaha You'd think it wouldn't have taken me this long to think of that... Hey. I've JUST finished midterms. My brain has been a little wee bit preoccupied with Forces, Action Potentials, Jack Johnson, and the Dorsal Column Medial Lemniscal Pathway! ;) (Biomechanics, Physiology, Sport History, and Motor Control. Thank goodness Sport Psych has two midterms so they're spaced nice and far from that bottle-neck!!)
Got ready to do Yogilates tonight, but decided to return a phone call first to Auntie Anj, and delightfully talked so long that I ran out of yogilates time. I am bummed to miss the yogilates because, you may be aware, I've been feeling low about my physical fitness accomplishments and/or lack thereof (I feel FAT, is what I'm saying) but THRILLED to have such a good chat with a friend. Much needed, I'd say, on both our parts. And isn't mental huzzahness part of overall well-being? So STILL good!
Going to visit with my Mr. Man, now! Ta ta!!
TODAY:
Ran 5k with Blue Belle. FORGOT to watch the clock. Duh. I need to just set the stopwatch on my watch when I go then I don't have to remember what time I started and finished, just the ONE number of how long it was! hahaha You'd think it wouldn't have taken me this long to think of that... Hey. I've JUST finished midterms. My brain has been a little wee bit preoccupied with Forces, Action Potentials, Jack Johnson, and the Dorsal Column Medial Lemniscal Pathway! ;) (Biomechanics, Physiology, Sport History, and Motor Control. Thank goodness Sport Psych has two midterms so they're spaced nice and far from that bottle-neck!!)
Got ready to do Yogilates tonight, but decided to return a phone call first to Auntie Anj, and delightfully talked so long that I ran out of yogilates time. I am bummed to miss the yogilates because, you may be aware, I've been feeling low about my physical fitness accomplishments and/or lack thereof (I feel FAT, is what I'm saying) but THRILLED to have such a good chat with a friend. Much needed, I'd say, on both our parts. And isn't mental huzzahness part of overall well-being? So STILL good!
Going to visit with my Mr. Man, now! Ta ta!!
What happened to October Goals?
Soooooooo I've been slacking. I'm happy to be the first to admit it, and sad that I am at a point where I have to say it. I DO think the midterms are a good, not EXCUSE, but REASON for having taken more time for school than for exercise this week ;) (my grades will definitely agree, I promise you), but I've let myself get so burnt out feeling that my non-studying time has been spent doing NON exercise things. But I DID make this 
WHICH I think is pretty cool. AND is work-related so it wasn't even like I was WASTING time!!
Anyway, I'm watching a video taken earlier today of me emceeing a children's talent show (we're giving the kids the video for Christmas) and feeling like a WHALE. I look GINORMOUS and THEN some poundage!! GAH!! Hopefully I'm the only one who will ever watch this video and think that, but it's discouraging.
At the same time, I had a great...encourager? hahaha today - I put on a pair of dress pants that Mom-O and I bought a good while ago, post-pregnancy, that were kinda' snug at the time but I figured, hey, if I need 'em I have 'em. Anyway, they're almost HUGE on me today, which in light of the fact I feel like a whale must mean I was beyond large when I bought them. But they're HUGE today, which means I'm SMALLER! Which means, IT IS WORTH IT to run 5K periodically!!
One more midterm, on Monday, and then expect to hear about me being totally and completely back on track. And leave me mean and rude comments about being a fat-reared slacker. PLEASE. I need all the help I can get!!
Thanks for "listening" to me tonight - a bit of a pity-party rant, but it is what it is.
WHICH I think is pretty cool. AND is work-related so it wasn't even like I was WASTING time!! Anyway, I'm watching a video taken earlier today of me emceeing a children's talent show (we're giving the kids the video for Christmas) and feeling like a WHALE. I look GINORMOUS and THEN some poundage!! GAH!! Hopefully I'm the only one who will ever watch this video and think that, but it's discouraging.
At the same time, I had a great...encourager? hahaha today - I put on a pair of dress pants that Mom-O and I bought a good while ago, post-pregnancy, that were kinda' snug at the time but I figured, hey, if I need 'em I have 'em. Anyway, they're almost HUGE on me today, which in light of the fact I feel like a whale must mean I was beyond large when I bought them. But they're HUGE today, which means I'm SMALLER! Which means, IT IS WORTH IT to run 5K periodically!!
One more midterm, on Monday, and then expect to hear about me being totally and completely back on track. And leave me mean and rude comments about being a fat-reared slacker. PLEASE. I need all the help I can get!!
Thanks for "listening" to me tonight - a bit of a pity-party rant, but it is what it is.
Midterms
So I had a midterm last Wednesday, one today, have two on Thursday coming and one next Monday.
Time has become a very very valuable thing.
TODAY:
Ran 4.6k (after writing my biomechanics exam!) on the indoor track - I was aiming for another 5k, but stopped two laps short due to a rather sharp pain running from the front of my left hip back through my bummy! I couldn't at the time tell if it was just a cramp or something more serious, and as it was starting to make me run funny I figured taking it easy was best. I DO think, now, that it was probably just a cramp, but better safe than incapacitated!! Walked the remaining 400m, and back to the changeroom, then all the freaking way to the car - the parking lot is SO FAR AWAY, especially after a good long run. Well, it feels like a long run. ;)
And that is that. :D
Time has become a very very valuable thing.
TODAY:
Ran 4.6k (after writing my biomechanics exam!) on the indoor track - I was aiming for another 5k, but stopped two laps short due to a rather sharp pain running from the front of my left hip back through my bummy! I couldn't at the time tell if it was just a cramp or something more serious, and as it was starting to make me run funny I figured taking it easy was best. I DO think, now, that it was probably just a cramp, but better safe than incapacitated!! Walked the remaining 400m, and back to the changeroom, then all the freaking way to the car - the parking lot is SO FAR AWAY, especially after a good long run.
And that is that. :D
5 years
SO today Mr. Man and I have been married for five years. CRAZY!
It's funny - it seems like we've just always been together, that we've been married for as long as I can remember. But if I do try I can think of times when we weren't together, not even dating. hahaha LOTS of those times. And yet, at the same time it feels like just yesterday we GOT married, not five YEARS ago!!
And here we are. Mr. Man, Little Miss, though she's not been with us the whole five years, OBVIOUSly, myself, the jelly doughnut and the cats, Toad & Fox. (YES we KNOW they're cats and that there are other animals whose species are identified by the words "toad" and "fox": Toad is named for Toadstool from Mario Bros., and Fox is named for Lucius Fox from Batman. GEEZE!)
TODAY:
Anniversary day! We had SUCH a nice, laid back day. Went to Marineland and walked EVERYWHERE. It's a relatively small amusement park but well spread out and we walked back and forth and back and forth so we could see everything we wanted at the times we wanted when we wanted ;). I was pretty bagged, actually, by the time we were done, and I can run 5K! hahaha So you KNOW we did a bunch of extra walking. ;)
And I DID get in my 60 min yogilates after Marineland, while Little Miss napped, before dinner. It was very nice of Mr. Man to let me take the time out of our time to do it. BUT he doesn't really mind the effect it has on my hotness level sooooo.... ;)
No Wii Fit measures today, and I can't be bothered to do it now. I even think that when I hit POST it's going to say that this is Oct. 12 - our anniversary is the 11th, FYI.
OH, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! (Yes, that's right - we're Canadian). ;)
It's funny - it seems like we've just always been together, that we've been married for as long as I can remember. But if I do try I can think of times when we weren't together, not even dating. hahaha LOTS of those times. And yet, at the same time it feels like just yesterday we GOT married, not five YEARS ago!!
And here we are. Mr. Man, Little Miss, though she's not been with us the whole five years, OBVIOUSly, myself, the jelly doughnut and the cats, Toad & Fox. (YES we KNOW they're cats and that there are other animals whose species are identified by the words "toad" and "fox": Toad is named for Toadstool from Mario Bros., and Fox is named for Lucius Fox from Batman. GEEZE!)
TODAY:
Anniversary day! We had SUCH a nice, laid back day. Went to Marineland and walked EVERYWHERE. It's a relatively small amusement park but well spread out and we walked back and forth and back and forth so we could see everything we wanted at the times we wanted when we wanted ;). I was pretty bagged, actually, by the time we were done, and I can run 5K! hahaha So you KNOW we did a bunch of extra walking. ;)
And I DID get in my 60 min yogilates after Marineland, while Little Miss napped, before dinner. It was very nice of Mr. Man to let me take the time out of our time to do it. BUT he doesn't really mind the effect it has on my hotness level sooooo.... ;)
No Wii Fit measures today, and I can't be bothered to do it now. I even think that when I hit POST it's going to say that this is Oct. 12 - our anniversary is the 11th, FYI.
OH, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! (Yes, that's right - we're Canadian). ;)
Let's get serious
Okay, so I just wanted to address a couple of things.
FIRST off THANKS to everyone for comments both on and off the blog - it really helps with my own motivation. ESPECIALLY people who are setting their own fitness goals - I LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear about them!!
Here's the let's-get-down-to-business part: I hope that you realize that, at least for now, this is a HUGE part of my life - I go to school every day to study the human body and how it works and moves and why things do this and that and the next thing. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE what I do. Granted, cellular physiology can get a bit dry but when you put it in the big picture - HEY COOL! (Did you know you use calcium in your MUSCLES to allow for the use of energy? That's right, it's NOT JUST for your bones!)
For quite literally years now I have been immersed in all things physical/fitness related. I can't get enough.
SO if you're setting your OWN goals and/or plans and think hey-maybe-I'm-NOT-as-up-on-this-stuff-as-my-buddy-Red-because-I'm-a-genius-at-economics (FASCINATING subject, by the way) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE feel free to tap into ME and get some feedback! And no OF COURSE I don't think I'm the be-all-and-end-all of fitness knowledge, obviously. Well, I hope that's obvious. Mi, if you read this post you'll laugh - you KNOW I'm not smart in all things this-related! hahaha BUT hopefully I can help dissuade some of the silliness that a lot of us find so easy to buy into.
TAKE IT SLOW - you don't want to lose weight to fast! Your body likes its weight where it is, even if you're 300lbs! It takes being a weight for about a year for that weight to be your body's new favourite weight SO, SERIOUSLY with weight loss you want to go at the pace of the tortoise. If you take a hare approach to it your body is going to try DESPERATELY to snap itself back to it's favourite weight, wherever you just came from. Don't DO that to yourself - you want the hard work to pay off for good!!
I was asked in the comments on my last post if I'd recommend the Wii Fit - it totally depends on the person. Any training regime is going to depend on the person - do what you love to do! My CONCERN with the Wii Fit is that it's probably not enough for an active person. You have to use it wisely, I'd say, to get a good workout from it. On the OTHER HAND, if you DO weigh 300lbs and live on the couch, the Wii Fit will get your ginormous butt OFF the couch and won't let you push yourself too hard, so it's awesome for that.
My FAVOURITE part about the Wii Fit is the charts and graphs so I have a visual of my progress. Even with my weight yo-yoing back and forth each day, as everyone's does (YES that's normal), I can see a general downwards trend in my weight. It's very encouraging. So, take that as you will - Wii Fit is FUN and for some people, the perfect fit to get started exercising. For me...it's just fun and a good way to track myself.
Okay, longest post ever?? Probably. If you ARE working on your own goals and want some input from a way-too-pushy me, please by all means feel free to drop me a line in the comments or e-mail me: redlovestomove@gmail.com. This stuff is WHAT I DO so I'm ALWAYS happy to help. :)
TODAY:
60 minutes yogilates - interrupted by a phone call, which I would have just let ring BUT I forgot to turn the ringers off after putting Little Miss to bed and so DASHED to the phone the instant I heard it. THEN it was about work so I took a breather for a few minutes while that got sorted out. Was actually like, right at the 30-min mark, so broke things right in half.
Wii Fit measures:
Weight: 175.3lbs
BMI: 28.17
And I realize I'm BEYOND due for photos of the jelly doughnut - I'll get on it, eventually. Kinda' hasn't been priority lately. ;) My legs are hard as rock, though, in case you were wondering. muahahaha!
FIRST off THANKS to everyone for comments both on and off the blog - it really helps with my own motivation. ESPECIALLY people who are setting their own fitness goals - I LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear about them!!
Here's the let's-get-down-to-business part: I hope that you realize that, at least for now, this is a HUGE part of my life - I go to school every day to study the human body and how it works and moves and why things do this and that and the next thing. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE what I do. Granted, cellular physiology can get a bit dry but when you put it in the big picture - HEY COOL! (Did you know you use calcium in your MUSCLES to allow for the use of energy? That's right, it's NOT JUST for your bones!)
For quite literally years now I have been immersed in all things physical/fitness related. I can't get enough.
SO if you're setting your OWN goals and/or plans and think hey-maybe-I'm-NOT-as-up-on-this-stuff-as-my-buddy-Red-because-I'm-a-genius-at-economics (FASCINATING subject, by the way) PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE feel free to tap into ME and get some feedback! And no OF COURSE I don't think I'm the be-all-and-end-all of fitness knowledge, obviously. Well, I hope that's obvious. Mi, if you read this post you'll laugh - you KNOW I'm not smart in all things this-related! hahaha BUT hopefully I can help dissuade some of the silliness that a lot of us find so easy to buy into.
TAKE IT SLOW - you don't want to lose weight to fast! Your body likes its weight where it is, even if you're 300lbs! It takes being a weight for about a year for that weight to be your body's new favourite weight SO, SERIOUSLY with weight loss you want to go at the pace of the tortoise. If you take a hare approach to it your body is going to try DESPERATELY to snap itself back to it's favourite weight, wherever you just came from. Don't DO that to yourself - you want the hard work to pay off for good!!
I was asked in the comments on my last post if I'd recommend the Wii Fit - it totally depends on the person. Any training regime is going to depend on the person - do what you love to do! My CONCERN with the Wii Fit is that it's probably not enough for an active person. You have to use it wisely, I'd say, to get a good workout from it. On the OTHER HAND, if you DO weigh 300lbs and live on the couch, the Wii Fit will get your ginormous butt OFF the couch and won't let you push yourself too hard, so it's awesome for that.
My FAVOURITE part about the Wii Fit is the charts and graphs so I have a visual of my progress. Even with my weight yo-yoing back and forth each day, as everyone's does (YES that's normal), I can see a general downwards trend in my weight. It's very encouraging. So, take that as you will - Wii Fit is FUN and for some people, the perfect fit to get started exercising. For me...it's just fun and a good way to track myself.
Okay, longest post ever?? Probably. If you ARE working on your own goals and want some input from a way-too-pushy me, please by all means feel free to drop me a line in the comments or e-mail me: redlovestomove@gmail.com. This stuff is WHAT I DO so I'm ALWAYS happy to help. :)
TODAY:
60 minutes yogilates - interrupted by a phone call, which I would have just let ring BUT I forgot to turn the ringers off after putting Little Miss to bed and so DASHED to the phone the instant I heard it. THEN it was about work so I took a breather for a few minutes while that got sorted out. Was actually like, right at the 30-min mark, so broke things right in half.
Wii Fit measures:
Weight: 175.3lbs
BMI: 28.17
And I realize I'm BEYOND due for photos of the jelly doughnut - I'll get on it, eventually. Kinda' hasn't been priority lately. ;) My legs are hard as rock, though, in case you were wondering. muahahaha!
Stolen Time ;)
Ahhhhhhhhh..........
WHAT a great day!!
Besides a little pang of missing the Little Miss, I had a GREAT day.
Midterm wasn't NEARLY as scary as I'd anticipated (let's hope the person marking it feels the same way!), and I was done early, so went running on the track. :) THEN to lab which got out early and then...that was IT! My other lab for the day was cancelled!! So I was ALL done school (and a run) by 10:40 this morning and no Little Miss 'till 2:30pm! WOOHOO!!
Soooooo.....
I came home, had a BATH (I didn't shower after the run before the lab - ICK) read a magazine, got cleaned up and dressed, did laundry, FOLDED laundry and even PUT IT AWAY, oh yeah, there was lunch, a movie with the laundry, ran the dishwasher.... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what a satisfying day!!
THEN I got Little Miss and we took ME to the doctor. Here's the report, so far:
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. It's likely that I just had a moment where my blood pressure dropped and left me KATHUMP on the floor, which has some name or other. JUST IN CASE we're running some serious blood tests (I have a history of problems with iron i.e. anemia - hooray) to see if that may be it, AGAIN, but nothing seems so out of the ordinary that anyone needs to be worried. (So STOP WORRYING you darling darling people!! I'm FINE!!)
TODAY:
Ran(ish - more like painfully-slowly-jogged, I will admit) another 5K. It was WAY harder than on Monday with Blue Belle. Huh. BUT I knew I could do it, so I did it. I really wish I had timed us on Monday though so I'd know if today was harder just because I went faster or if it's because I was feeling lazy.... Anyway started at 8:57 and finished at 9:33 sooooo....36 minutes. :) Ran the 5K, walked an additional 400m to try to get my poor racing heart (I full on RAN the last 200m) back to somewhere near normal, before hightailing it to the locker room and then across campus, literally, to lab.
60 minutes yogilates (while and after Mr. Man put Little Miss to bed and then got some work done).
I haven't done a Wii Fit test - let me go do that right now......
Wii Fit Measures :D
Weight: 174.4 lbs
BMI: 28.03
Which is apparently 7.9 lbs less than last time I measured myself, 12 days ago. I'm going to guess that somewhere in that insane flux I've actually lost a little bit of weight!
WHAT a great day!!
Besides a little pang of missing the Little Miss, I had a GREAT day.
Midterm wasn't NEARLY as scary as I'd anticipated (let's hope the person marking it feels the same way!), and I was done early, so went running on the track. :) THEN to lab which got out early and then...that was IT! My other lab for the day was cancelled!! So I was ALL done school (and a run) by 10:40 this morning and no Little Miss 'till 2:30pm! WOOHOO!!
Soooooo.....
I came home, had a BATH (I didn't shower after the run before the lab - ICK) read a magazine, got cleaned up and dressed, did laundry, FOLDED laundry and even PUT IT AWAY, oh yeah, there was lunch, a movie with the laundry, ran the dishwasher.... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what a satisfying day!!
THEN I got Little Miss and we took ME to the doctor. Here's the report, so far:
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. It's likely that I just had a moment where my blood pressure dropped and left me KATHUMP on the floor, which has some name or other. JUST IN CASE we're running some serious blood tests (I have a history of problems with iron i.e. anemia - hooray) to see if that may be it, AGAIN, but nothing seems so out of the ordinary that anyone needs to be worried. (So STOP WORRYING you darling darling people!! I'm FINE!!)
TODAY:
Ran(ish - more like painfully-slowly-jogged, I will admit) another 5K. It was WAY harder than on Monday with Blue Belle. Huh. BUT I knew I could do it, so I did it. I really wish I had timed us on Monday though so I'd know if today was harder just because I went faster or if it's because I was feeling lazy.... Anyway started at 8:57 and finished at 9:33 sooooo....36 minutes. :) Ran the 5K, walked an additional 400m to try to get my poor racing heart (I full on RAN the last 200m) back to somewhere near normal, before hightailing it to the locker room and then across campus, literally, to lab.
60 minutes yogilates (while and after Mr. Man put Little Miss to bed and then got some work done).
I haven't done a Wii Fit test - let me go do that right now......
Wii Fit Measures :D
Weight: 174.4 lbs
BMI: 28.03
Which is apparently 7.9 lbs less than last time I measured myself, 12 days ago. I'm going to guess that somewhere in that insane flux I've actually lost a little bit of weight!
So...midterm tomorrow....
GAH!
Okay, so I'm definately just procrastinating another five minutes and then I HAVE to read over my notes. I have a midterm bright and early tomorrow morning at 8 in my sport psychology class and I HAVEN'T STUDIED YET! I'm SUCH an idiot!!
Today, Mr. Man is away at a conference for work, which means that some of my precious exercise/study time was completely eaten up driving Little Miss from day care to awesome-people-who-are-crazy-and-agreed-to-watch-her-while-I'm-in-evening-class. THEN finally time to get home, eat (Thanks, Uncle Ben!) put Little Miss to bed, print off notes and BOOM I have GOT to study, so NO CAN DO yogilates or anything tonight.
Sooooooo between the whole fainting thing (doctor appointment tomorrow afternoon - will let ya' know) and the whole midterm thing, my October goals aren't going so well. BUT after October is November, then December which is FINALS, then four more months 'till the end of the school year....
It's all within reach! ;) hahahaha As Blue Belle kept chanting on her way to 5K on Monday: "I CAN DO HARD THINGS!"
(SIDE note: got our mark back on the super-awesome George Chuvalo biography project for sports history that I hope you've all checked out ;) and thought you'd be thrilled to know we got 98%. Yeah, that's right. Freaking AWESOME! If I'm gonna' get fat at least I'll be SMART doing it! hahaha)
Okay, so I'm definately just procrastinating another five minutes and then I HAVE to read over my notes. I have a midterm bright and early tomorrow morning at 8 in my sport psychology class and I HAVEN'T STUDIED YET! I'm SUCH an idiot!!
Today, Mr. Man is away at a conference for work, which means that some of my precious exercise/study time was completely eaten up driving Little Miss from day care to awesome-people-who-are-crazy-and-agreed-to-watch-her-while-I'm-in-evening-class. THEN finally time to get home, eat (Thanks, Uncle Ben!) put Little Miss to bed, print off notes and BOOM I have GOT to study, so NO CAN DO yogilates or anything tonight.
Sooooooo between the whole fainting thing (doctor appointment tomorrow afternoon - will let ya' know) and the whole midterm thing, my October goals aren't going so well.
It's all within reach! ;) hahahaha As Blue Belle kept chanting on her way to 5K on Monday: "I CAN DO HARD THINGS!"
(SIDE note: got our mark back on the super-awesome George Chuvalo biography project for sports history that I hope you've all checked out ;) and thought you'd be thrilled to know we got 98%. Yeah, that's right. Freaking AWESOME! If I'm gonna' get fat at least I'll be SMART doing it! hahaha)
BOOYAH I'm AMAZING
Yeah, I can totally run 5k. YIPPIE!!!
(And no more fainting spells - yay! I AM going to the doctor about that...don't worry!)
Thanks, Blue Belle, for being my extra motivation today! :)
(And no more fainting spells - yay! I AM going to the doctor about that...don't worry!)
Thanks, Blue Belle, for being my extra motivation today! :)
Fainting schmainting!
SO, I'm going running today with Blue Belle. She's worried I'm going to kill her - no promises, but I AM planning to push her pretty hard. ;) Should be fun!
Haven't been around much lately - I don't know if I'm ill or just unlucky (is this getting old yet, or what??) as I have yet to get to the doctor BUT on Friday when I woke up and got out of bed I fainted immediately. It was WEIRD.
Anyway, I'm still alive, and feeling pretty back to normal, today, so far. It's 8:12am so there's still lots of time for me to fall apart - I figure that the run today will either make or break me, so you can check back later to see what's up. Hopefully it's me.... ;)
Haven't been around much lately - I don't know if I'm ill or just unlucky (is this getting old yet, or what??) as I have yet to get to the doctor BUT on Friday when I woke up and got out of bed I fainted immediately. It was WEIRD.
Anyway, I'm still alive, and feeling pretty back to normal, today, so far. It's 8:12am so there's still lots of time for me to fall apart - I figure that the run today will either make or break me, so you can check back later to see what's up. Hopefully it's me.... ;)
Welcome October
Well, it's a new month, I'm NOT sick, as I was to start last month, and I've just put the polishing touches on this project of mine (SERIOUSLY check it out and learn some fascinating stuff about a fascinating man - at least it was fun to do, right?) so I'm on track to GET MY LIFE BACK! Or at least in order until school's done... ;)
NEW MONTH:
Let's plan the shopping, and set a specific goal related to that. I need to call my mommy....
Yogilates 5-6 times per week - because I love it and it's good for me and I need to de-aweorjaeflkm regularly to stay on top of things.
Cardio/aerobic exercise AT LEAST three times per week. Always with me it's been that if I'm going to see any 'significant' changes I need to be working my butt off like, constantly, so if we're aiming to look awesome in sexy pants when I go shopping then I may definately want to strive for more than 3 times. I like to think I'm a realist, though, and sadly NOT superwoman, though I try, so more than 3 might be out of my capabilities with everything else I'm juggling.
IF I FIND THAT'S THE CASE then I'll really re-evaluate my schedule and try to FINALLY adjust my eating habits. I'm super super weird - I'd literally rather work out for hours a day than restrict anything I have to eat. I LOVE LOVE LOVE food. I think if it weren't for the amount of food I've always been able to pack away that I'd be like, well, yeah. hahaha A lot closer to HOT than not.
Okay, so those are the goals for October, starting TOMORROW (I'm NOT working out now, it's 11:27pm! GEEZE!)
Check up on me and keep me accountable, people! People seem to be the thing that motivates me better than any other, so HELP! hahaha
NEW MONTH:
Let's plan the shopping, and set a specific goal related to that. I need to call my mommy....
Yogilates 5-6 times per week - because I love it and it's good for me and I need to de-aweorjaeflkm regularly to stay on top of things.
Cardio/aerobic exercise AT LEAST three times per week. Always with me it's been that if I'm going to see any 'significant' changes I need to be working my butt off like, constantly, so if we're aiming to look awesome in sexy pants when I go shopping then I may definately want to strive for more than 3 times. I like to think I'm a realist, though, and sadly NOT superwoman, though I try, so more than 3 might be out of my capabilities with everything else I'm juggling.
IF I FIND THAT'S THE CASE then I'll really re-evaluate my schedule and try to FINALLY adjust my eating habits. I'm super super weird - I'd literally rather work out for hours a day than restrict anything I have to eat. I LOVE LOVE LOVE food. I think if it weren't for the amount of food I've always been able to pack away that I'd be like, well, yeah. hahaha A lot closer to HOT than not.
Okay, so those are the goals for October, starting TOMORROW (I'm NOT working out now, it's 11:27pm! GEEZE!)
Check up on me and keep me accountable, people! People seem to be the thing that motivates me better than any other, so HELP! hahaha
I hate computers, and meaningless assignments.
I have been battling all night with my computer over an assignment I should have been able to whip off in about an hour. I spend hours working on it on Monday only to have to spend hours today.
It's 11:06pm. I have class at 8:00am tomorrow. I for some reason seriously seriously cannot function on any less than 7.5 hours sleep, and that's usually pushing it. It's the weirdest thing; usually it seems a person can go a night or two with 5 or 6 hours and still be manageable and just catch up. Me? If I get as little as 7 hours I'm a walking zombie the ENTIRE next day.
So why am I still up, you ask? WELL I have another project due on THURSDAY (the one I mentioned yesterday, I think, and my darling partner (who I REALLY do love to bits) is working as I type this on our paper, and going to call me any moment now for my thoughts.
I'm going to be absolutely comatose tomorrow. The feeling of death is slowly closing in on me already.
I haven't told you about my exercise for today because I didn't get any in. And I'll admit yesterday I was so bagged after the busy weekend that I buried my nose in a silly book (this assignment was NOT supposed to take so long, seriously) which I THOROUGHLY enjoyed (it took me less than a day - is that bad?) and rejuvenated a bit. Then it's been so much to the grindstone today that I didn't get it in.
So much for my shopping goals. Which, honestly, as we haven't set a date for the shop-a-thon I haven't SET yet because what's a goal without an ending point??
Anyway, I'm now DONE with Thursday's homework for the evening so I'm GOING TO BED and I will be better, if not tomorrow due to the project on Thursday, then Thursday and hopefully forever hereafter. ;)
(Yeah riiiiight.....)
It's 11:06pm. I have class at 8:00am tomorrow. I for some reason seriously seriously cannot function on any less than 7.5 hours sleep, and that's usually pushing it. It's the weirdest thing; usually it seems a person can go a night or two with 5 or 6 hours and still be manageable and just catch up. Me? If I get as little as 7 hours I'm a walking zombie the ENTIRE next day.
So why am I still up, you ask? WELL I have another project due on THURSDAY (the one I mentioned yesterday, I think, and my darling partner (who I REALLY do love to bits) is working as I type this on our paper, and going to call me any moment now for my thoughts.
I'm going to be absolutely comatose tomorrow. The feeling of death is slowly closing in on me already.
I haven't told you about my exercise for today because I didn't get any in. And I'll admit yesterday I was so bagged after the busy weekend that I buried my nose in a silly book (this assignment was NOT supposed to take so long, seriously) which I THOROUGHLY enjoyed (it took me less than a day - is that bad?) and rejuvenated a bit. Then it's been so much to the grindstone today that I didn't get it in.
So much for my shopping goals. Which, honestly, as we haven't set a date for the shop-a-thon I haven't SET yet because what's a goal without an ending point??
Anyway, I'm now DONE with Thursday's homework for the evening so I'm GOING TO BED and I will be better, if not tomorrow due to the project on Thursday, then Thursday and hopefully forever hereafter. ;)
(Yeah riiiiight.....)
Homework
Hey, just FYI, I thought I'd let everyone know that I'm currently doing a project for my sports history class about George Chuvalo and we've decided to use Blogger for our multimedia portion, so go ahead and check us out!! It should be PEFECT and all finished by Thursday, because that's when it's due. ;)
Will post later about my own fitness pursuits! PROMISE!
Will post later about my own fitness pursuits! PROMISE!
Birthday Week
I didn't post yesterday because I didn't do anything yesterday. I mean anything physical-activity-related that I could post about. I put Little Miss to bed last night and then I DIED. Even my beloved yogilates didn't sound appealing, and so I figured it was a good night to take off, so I did. :) It's not going to help me on my shopping outing with Numero Mom-O BUT it was apparently much needed.
SO today, I wanted to start good. I got up and went for a run. Back to my old path. Yeah, apparently when you give yourself a blister as big as the one I gave myself earlier this week you need to give yourself some extra time for it to heal. OR some extra padding in that blistered area. Would have been good to know. The big blister from the other day? It's currently at least double its original size. AND I wore socks today!! I just wasn't all better, apparently! GAH!
And I have to admit, it's really hard to try to lay off the sweets the week of your birthday when all these people who you LOVE are going above and beyond to give you the World's Greatest not-good-for-you food. Bad week to decide to really start to watch it. You will notice that since posting that I'm going to set a goal with regards to the shopping trip that I haven't actually got around to it yet - so HARD to set a goal when eating so much cake and ice cream!! I DO, thankfully, think that birthday celebrations are OVER, so I can get down to business, and hopefully a size or two. ;) hahaha
TODAY:
YES I did get up and go for a run. And despite the pain on my foot half way back I ran my entire path today. I was pleased because I haven't run the path for ages now. Probably since before school started and I got all sick, eh? Anyway, it's been a good while. Ran it with ease this morning, except the blister. Took 26 minutes running. Walked probably about 25 minutes, to the path, back from the path - it's apparently a good little jaunt from home!! And I doubt I was going as fast home as away from with the gimped up foot...
I did NOT get yogilates in today, which I knew would happen but am disappointed about because I missed yesterday, because Little Miss and I went up and met Mr. Man's family (and Mr. Man when he was finally finished work) for dinner (and dessert, and PRESENTS!) tonight.
I think I'm going to go pop this monster-of-a-blister so it doesn't pop itself and kill me tomorrow. I really want to run at least 5K on the track at school, like, NOW, so as soon as the foot's all non-blistered. OH! And I've decided that I prefer, at least for now, running on the track. Boring, eh? See, it's so NOT boring, though, because the whole time I'm running I'm keeping track of my exact distance, counting laps, adding up meters, figuring out how far I've gone. Running outside is just outside. It's pretty and all that, but I have NO IDEA how far I've gone or how far I have left to go. I should check that site that Blue Belle posted - I'll check it out and tell you about it if it's any good. ;)
No Wii Fit measures today - didn't get on. :( I'm gonna' get yelled at! hahaha
SO today, I wanted to start good. I got up and went for a run. Back to my old path. Yeah, apparently when you give yourself a blister as big as the one I gave myself earlier this week you need to give yourself some extra time for it to heal. OR some extra padding in that blistered area.
And I have to admit, it's really hard to try to lay off the sweets the week of your birthday when all these people who you LOVE are going above and beyond to give you the World's Greatest not-good-for-you food. Bad week to decide to really start to watch it. You will notice that since posting that I'm going to set a goal with regards to the shopping trip that I haven't actually got around to it yet - so HARD to set a goal when eating so much cake and ice cream!! I DO, thankfully, think that birthday celebrations are OVER, so I can get down to business, and hopefully a size or two. ;) hahaha
TODAY:
YES I did get up and go for a run. And despite the pain on my foot half way back I ran my entire path today. I was pleased because I haven't run the path for ages now. Probably since before school started and I got all sick, eh? Anyway, it's been a good while. Ran it with ease this morning, except the blister. Took 26 minutes running. Walked probably about 25 minutes, to the path, back from the path - it's apparently a good little jaunt from home!! And I doubt I was going as fast home as away from with the gimped up foot...
I did NOT get yogilates in today, which I knew would happen but am disappointed about because I missed yesterday, because Little Miss and I went up and met Mr. Man's family (and Mr. Man when he was finally finished work) for dinner (and dessert, and PRESENTS!) tonight.
I think I'm going to go pop this monster-of-a-blister so it doesn't pop itself and kill me tomorrow. I really want to run at least 5K on the track at school, like, NOW, so as soon as the foot's all non-blistered. OH! And I've decided that I prefer, at least for now, running on the track. Boring, eh? See, it's so NOT boring, though, because the whole time I'm running I'm keeping track of my exact distance, counting laps, adding up meters, figuring out how far I've gone. Running outside is just outside. It's pretty and all that, but I have NO IDEA how far I've gone or how far I have left to go. I should check that site that Blue Belle posted - I'll check it out and tell you about it if it's any good. ;)
No Wii Fit measures today - didn't get on. :( I'm gonna' get yelled at! hahaha
MEH
So today. Yup! It was a day. Did LOTS of laundry after school. Huzzah!
TODAY:
Swam 20 minutes between classes (I really don't think on Wednesdays I can squeeze more than 20 minutes in and make it to class on time because my class is SO FAR AWAY from the pool & track! GAH! Oh well.)
60 minutes yogilates
And various other movement-type things, like in my biomechanics lab today we spent over an hour outside throwing balls and measuring. I wasn't full on exercising at ALL but there was definately some activity going on. AND I trapsed all over campus to and from class and work-outs and the computer lab to print something I didn't actually need printed (grrrrrrrrrr), to the car...
Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 177.7 lbs
BMI: 28.53
Maybe it's the birthday cake. ;)
TODAY:
Swam 20 minutes between classes (I really don't think on Wednesdays I can squeeze more than 20 minutes in and make it to class on time because my class is SO FAR AWAY from the pool & track! GAH! Oh well.)
60 minutes yogilates
And various other movement-type things, like in my biomechanics lab today we spent over an hour outside throwing balls and measuring. I wasn't full on exercising at ALL but there was definately some activity going on. AND I trapsed all over campus to and from class and work-outs and the computer lab to print something I didn't actually need printed (grrrrrrrrrr), to the car...
Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 177.7 lbs
BMI: 28.53
Maybe it's the birthday cake. ;)
I need a pin
Tuesday. Well, just a day, really. Good day - woke up feeling like I slept enough which never happens on Mondays or Wednesdays when I have class at 8 in the morning. Got up, tidied the house, Mr. Man took me to get my driver's license renewed, made me yesterday's birthday breakfast (he was still in bed sleeping when I left for class yesterday so we postponed!) Anyway, good day, pretty well!! Nothing weird to report on the life-front.
OH, except something WONDERFUL as far as this blog goes - I had some time to visit with my pal Mi before our biomechanics class today, and though I've seen her a couple times so far this school year we haven't had a good sit-down-and-chat since like, Winter semester ended last Spring! SO sad for us! Anyway, having not seen me all summer and since WAY before the conception of this fantastic little corner of the interweb where my weight-thoughts permeate what would have otherwise been space, SHE commented that I've lost weight and look good. YAY! So, IT'S WORKING! hahaha And don't worry - I don't like, LIVE for these compliments or anything, it's just so nice to hear from an ouside source that YES the hard work is paying off at least a little! So THANKS, Mi!
TODAY
I went for a run around the track at school. I intended to go for 5K and see how I did time-wise BUT stupid me FORGOT SOCKS!! SO I ran in my running shoes sockless until I couldn't hack the pain of the increasing-in-size-blister on the bottom/side of my poor right foot, which was 18 laps of the 200m track sooooo...3.6K? It's REALLY sad, too, 'cause except for the bum foot I would have TOTALLY made the 5K EASY (which must mean some of my other training is paying off in endurance ability - SWEET!) at the pace I'd set for myself. But....
Yeah, see the SIZE of that thing?? No WONDER I was gimping it up by the end of the 18th lap!! GEEZE!! First thing I'm doing after I finish this ramble is finding a pin and killing the blister so it doesn't kill itself on me tomorrow and leave me in agony for the rest of the week...
OH yeah! And I was 7 minutes into yogilates when I had a visitor I had forgotten was coming over and so didn't get back to that, either, because I'm up EARLY again tomorrow and felt sleep would trump yogilates for today. OH well!
Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 175.9 lbs
BMI: 28.27
Tomorrow: SOCKS and yogilates! Unless I go swimming...then I don't need the socks.
OH, except something WONDERFUL as far as this blog goes - I had some time to visit with my pal Mi before our biomechanics class today, and though I've seen her a couple times so far this school year we haven't had a good sit-down-and-chat since like, Winter semester ended last Spring! SO sad for us! Anyway, having not seen me all summer and since WAY before the conception of this fantastic little corner of the interweb where my weight-thoughts permeate what would have otherwise been space, SHE commented that I've lost weight and look good. YAY! So, IT'S WORKING! hahaha And don't worry - I don't like, LIVE for these compliments or anything, it's just so nice to hear from an ouside source that YES the hard work is paying off at least a little! So THANKS, Mi!
TODAY
I went for a run around the track at school. I intended to go for 5K and see how I did time-wise BUT stupid me FORGOT SOCKS!! SO I ran in my running shoes sockless until I couldn't hack the pain of the increasing-in-size-blister on the bottom/side of my poor right foot, which was 18 laps of the 200m track sooooo...3.6K? It's REALLY sad, too, 'cause except for the bum foot I would have TOTALLY made the 5K EASY (which must mean some of my other training is paying off in endurance ability - SWEET!) at the pace I'd set for myself. But....
Yeah, see the SIZE of that thing?? No WONDER I was gimping it up by the end of the 18th lap!! GEEZE!! First thing I'm doing after I finish this ramble is finding a pin and killing the blister so it doesn't kill itself on me tomorrow and leave me in agony for the rest of the week...
OH yeah! And I was 7 minutes into yogilates when I had a visitor I had forgotten was coming over and so didn't get back to that, either, because I'm up EARLY again tomorrow and felt sleep would trump yogilates for today.
Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 175.9 lbs
BMI: 28.27
Tomorrow: SOCKS and yogilates! Unless I go swimming...then I don't need the socks.
Happy Birthday to MEEEEEEEEEE
That's right! TODAY I'm officially closer to 30 than not. Mr. Man and I have had quite the discussion about this over the last couple of days anticipating my birthday, and now that it's here I can't deny it anymore. I am on my way to being a grown-up. ;) hahaha
This is actually the first birthday I've ever had where I've felt the need to suddenly start trying NOT to admit my age. I certainly hope I never ever get to the point where I don't want to divulge my age or am tempted to fudge the numbers - that seems SO RIDICULOUS - but 30 is so much closer to 26 than any other number I've been thus far, and that for some reason has me a little weirded out. I'm feeling old today.
Probably the most blah birthday day I've had thus far (we celebrated last night with the parentals and Uncle Brav - my mom and dad and brother - and had OH so wonderful a night. I'm referring specifically to the date on which my birthday falls); 8:00am class, to start. BLECH! Good thing it's my sport psych class and I'm totally jazzed to be learning all about motivation right now!!
Anyway, I went home between some of my classes today; Little Miss is at day care, so I had the whole house to myself!
SO FAR TODAY
60 minutes yogilates :D - it was a nice break at home - put the cats outside, Little Miss wasn't home - BOOYAH free time!!
I hope to get at least 30 minutes of something active in after Little Miss goes to bed tonight, but had a few minutes NOW, waiting for class to start, so figured I'd post. Expect that I'll have done another 30 minutes of something later on. ;)
Wii Fit Measures:
Weight: 175.0 lbs
BMI: 28.13
OH and one of my birthday presents (YAY!) is a SHOPPING TRIP with Mommy Dearest (parental unit numero Mom-O) which I am WAY too stoked about, but I think we're both going to be a little too busy in the near future to get it done SO I'm thinking I'm going to make THAT my uber motivation and see if I can't get some more of this Jelly Doughnut off with a little more speed so I have greater success whilst trying on clothing. I have to get my head around this a bit more and set and actual GOAL, but I will definately let you know! :D
This is actually the first birthday I've ever had where I've felt the need to suddenly start trying NOT to admit my age. I certainly hope I never ever get to the point where I don't want to divulge my age or am tempted to fudge the numbers - that seems SO RIDICULOUS - but 30 is so much closer to 26 than any other number I've been thus far, and that for some reason has me a little weirded out. I'm feeling old today.
Probably the most blah birthday day I've had thus far (we celebrated last night with the parentals and Uncle Brav - my mom and dad and brother - and had OH so wonderful a night. I'm referring specifically to the date on which my birthday falls); 8:00am class, to start. BLECH! Good thing it's my sport psych class and I'm totally jazzed to be learning all about motivation right now!!
Anyway, I went home between some of my classes today; Little Miss is at day care, so I had the whole house to myself!
SO FAR TODAY
60 minutes yogilates :D - it was a nice break at home - put the cats outside, Little Miss wasn't home - BOOYAH free time!!
I hope to get at least 30 minutes of something active in after Little Miss goes to bed tonight, but had a few minutes NOW, waiting for class to start, so figured I'd post. Expect that I'll have done another 30 minutes of something later on. ;)
Wii Fit Measures:
Weight: 175.0 lbs
BMI: 28.13
OH and one of my birthday presents (YAY!) is a SHOPPING TRIP with Mommy Dearest (parental unit numero Mom-O) which I am WAY too stoked about, but I think we're both going to be a little too busy in the near future to get it done SO I'm thinking I'm going to make THAT my uber motivation and see if I can't get some more of this Jelly Doughnut off with a little more speed so I have greater success whilst trying on clothing. I have to get my head around this a bit more and set and actual GOAL, but I will definately let you know! :D
Okay, so I know the numbers don't matter...
But it's OH so nice to see them moving DOWNWARDS! hahaha
TODAY
Did 32 minutes of Wii Fit silliness after putting Little Miss to bed. Advanced step (I can't figure out how to get 'perfects' when I step OFF the board - it's driving me NUTS!), advanced rhythm boxing, island lap run (that was ridiculous - running on the spot for 15 minutes? HOLY BORING already!!) and this fun little candle flicker game which is supposed to have something to do with focusing inwards. Whatever.
1 hr intermediate yogilates (yes, that's right! I'm officially an intermediate yogilateser! Huzzah!!)
Okay, but ONE thing about being an intermediate yogilateser - when he says to do a shoulder stand and put your hands on the back of your hips for support and then the whole on-t.v.-class puts their fingers on/around their rock-hard backs and midsections? Yeah, that's HARD TO DO when the stuff you're grabbing feels like jell-o. The shoulder stand is easy. The holding on to the jiggly parts is HARD.
I guess as these numbers go down so will the level of difficulty. ;) WOOHOO! hahaha
Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 175.3
BMI: 28.17
Definately the lowest numbers since starting. Cross your fingers for me that I can keep it up! Or down, I guess, would be more appropriate... :D
TODAY
Did 32 minutes of Wii Fit silliness after putting Little Miss to bed. Advanced step (I can't figure out how to get 'perfects' when I step OFF the board - it's driving me NUTS!), advanced rhythm boxing, island lap run (that was ridiculous - running on the spot for 15 minutes? HOLY BORING already!!) and this fun little candle flicker game which is supposed to have something to do with focusing inwards.
1 hr intermediate yogilates (yes, that's right! I'm officially an intermediate yogilateser! Huzzah!!)
Okay, but ONE thing about being an intermediate yogilateser - when he says to do a shoulder stand and put your hands on the back of your hips for support and then the whole on-t.v.-class puts their fingers on/around their rock-hard backs and midsections? Yeah, that's HARD TO DO when the stuff you're grabbing feels like jell-o. The shoulder stand is easy. The holding on to the jiggly parts is HARD.
I guess as these numbers go down so will the level of difficulty. ;) WOOHOO! hahaha
Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 175.3
BMI: 28.17
Definately the lowest numbers since starting. Cross your fingers for me that I can keep it up! Or down, I guess, would be more appropriate... :D
Paranoia
Sooooo I woke up this morning and I felt like GARBAGE. Like, the pain in my belly woke me up kinda' garbage. I got up, dealt with my belly pains ;) went back to bed and to sleep, and woke up again, in belly-pain.
SO I decided I was dying and that the illness gods have it out for me and I'm better from whatever-it-was and now dying from something else.
LUCKILY I managed to make it through the day, and I'm STILL alive. hahaha
I think it must have just been something I ate. AND that I'm uber paranoid about getting sick. I hate being sick. I have too many things to do in a day to be sick. Sick is not my friend.
Of course, there is the off chance that I am still sick with whatever-it-is or have come down with a fancy-schmancy something new in the last couple of days....
ALL THAT said:
TODAY
45 minutes yogilates.
I was up bright and early this morning and felt awake enough to go for a jog, but as I thought I was dying didn't really feel all that up to it. hahaha I'm working on it.
Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 176.6 lbs
BMI: 28.38
SO I decided I was dying and that the illness gods have it out for me and I'm better from whatever-it-was and now dying from something else.
LUCKILY I managed to make it through the day, and I'm STILL alive. hahaha
I think it must have just been something I ate. AND that I'm uber paranoid about getting sick. I hate being sick. I have too many things to do in a day to be sick. Sick is not my friend.
Of course, there is the off chance that I am still sick with whatever-it-is or have come down with a fancy-schmancy something new in the last couple of days....
ALL THAT said:
TODAY
45 minutes yogilates.
I was up bright and early this morning and felt awake enough to go for a jog, but as I thought I was dying didn't really feel all that up to it. hahaha I'm working on it.
Wii Fit Measures
Weight: 176.6 lbs
BMI: 28.38
Back in Action
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh.....feels good to be back. Pray for me to never get sick again. Ever. EVER.
I learned some SERIOUSLY cool stuff today in my sport psychology class about motivation. I swear, whoever came up with this theory was TOTALLY psychically describing me or something. It was inSANE!
Basically one of the theories about motivation is that we, humans, do things to prove that we can do them and that we're good at them. That's it. We do things to be good at them. Crazy, eh? And some of the EXAMPLES my professor used - CRAZY! Why do we play sports? Because we think we're good at them. Why do we try new sports? Because we think we will be good at them. If we try a new sport and we suck at it, or at least that's our perception, we don't do it anymore. In the world of automatic transmission why do we drive stick? Because we want to be good at it. Why do we exercise? Because we want to be good at it.
I betcha' that's why it's so HARD for so many of us to exercise for the sake of weight-loss and fitness type stuff. The results are SO SLOW and hard to see - if you don't see that you're rocking your workouts then....move on and be good at something else!! DANG I just had an epiphany!! I'm SO smart!
Anyway, it was a lot smarter sounding in class. When I actually review my notes and read the chapter on motivation (we weren't supposed to start that today - have you EVER had a prof. who was ahead of the schedule? GEEZE!) I'll be all sorts of intelligent about it. ;)
TODAY
I DID get a swim in between classes today. I'm so pleased! I was worried about fitting a workout in at school on Wednesdays because I have class, then an hour break, then class at the COMPLETE other side of campus from the phys ed department a.k.a. the work-out-friendly-area, then an hour break, and then class. I was trying to figure out how to get from class to the change room, change, have a drippy-sweat-filled 20-30 minute run, shower, change, and high-tail it over to class in either of those short hour periods, and then it HIT me: if I SWIM I can skip the shower and instead of smelling like B.O. I'll just smell like chlorine! HOORAY! So that's what I've opted for. I smell like chemicals most of my Wednesday, now, but it's OKAY because I LOVE swimming. I swam 20 pretty continuous minutes today - had to stop to clear the fog from my goggles every few laps so I could keep my eyes on the clock so I wouldn't be late for class... And in future now I know I can swim longer and still have plenty of time to make it to class so I'll aim for 30 minutes or so. Kinda' depends on how fatigued my arms are feeling that day, honestly. hahaha
NO yogilates - I actually forgot to do an assignment and my T.A. for who-knows-what reason took pity on me and let me send it to her via e-mail, so I spent the evening looking after Little Miss and working on the assignment, and by the time all that was done Mr. Man was home and it was time for togetherness. (Except this post, of course). Tomorrow I have every intention of remembering to do my homework, so I won't have to skip any parts or wholes of my workout.
Wii Fit Measures:
Weight: 177.3 lbs
BMI: 28.49
Even with a week off I've lost a bit - the adiposity gods are losing the battle tonight! MUAHAHAHA!!
I learned some SERIOUSLY cool stuff today in my sport psychology class about motivation. I swear, whoever came up with this theory was TOTALLY psychically describing me or something. It was inSANE!
Basically one of the theories about motivation is that we, humans, do things to prove that we can do them and that we're good at them. That's it. We do things to be good at them. Crazy, eh? And some of the EXAMPLES my professor used - CRAZY! Why do we play sports? Because we think we're good at them. Why do we try new sports? Because we think we will be good at them. If we try a new sport and we suck at it, or at least that's our perception, we don't do it anymore. In the world of automatic transmission why do we drive stick? Because we want to be good at it. Why do we exercise? Because we want to be good at it.
I betcha' that's why it's so HARD for so many of us to exercise for the sake of weight-loss and fitness type stuff. The results are SO SLOW and hard to see - if you don't see that you're rocking your workouts then....move on and be good at something else!! DANG I just had an epiphany!! I'm SO smart!
Anyway, it was a lot smarter sounding in class. When I actually review my notes and read the chapter on motivation (we weren't supposed to start that today - have you EVER had a prof. who was ahead of the schedule? GEEZE!) I'll be all sorts of intelligent about it. ;)
TODAY
I DID get a swim in between classes today. I'm so pleased! I was worried about fitting a workout in at school on Wednesdays because I have class, then an hour break, then class at the COMPLETE other side of campus from the phys ed department a.k.a. the work-out-friendly-area, then an hour break, and then class. I was trying to figure out how to get from class to the change room, change, have a drippy-sweat-filled 20-30 minute run, shower, change, and high-tail it over to class in either of those short hour periods, and then it HIT me: if I SWIM I can skip the shower and instead of smelling like B.O. I'll just smell like chlorine! HOORAY! So that's what I've opted for. I smell like chemicals most of my Wednesday, now, but it's OKAY because I LOVE swimming. I swam 20 pretty continuous minutes today - had to stop to clear the fog from my goggles every few laps so I could keep my eyes on the clock so I wouldn't be late for class... And in future now I know I can swim longer and still have plenty of time to make it to class so I'll aim for 30 minutes or so. Kinda' depends on how fatigued my arms are feeling that day, honestly. hahaha
NO yogilates - I actually forgot to do an assignment and my T.A. for who-knows-what reason took pity on me and let me send it to her via e-mail, so I spent the evening looking after Little Miss and working on the assignment, and by the time all that was done Mr. Man was home and it was time for togetherness. (Except this post, of course). Tomorrow I have every intention of remembering to do my homework, so I won't have to skip any parts or wholes of my workout.
Wii Fit Measures:
Weight: 177.3 lbs
BMI: 28.49
Even with a week off I've lost a bit - the adiposity gods are losing the battle tonight! MUAHAHAHA!!
I'm BAAAAAAAAACK
Hi hi hi! Have you all MISSED me??
No, seriously. Leave me a note in the COMMENTS area if you've missed me 'cause I love to know that I'm accountable to someone other than myself. People are like, the ultimate motivation. Have you ever noticed that? Ever been for a jog and been DYING to stop but then someone comes around the corner heading for you and you all of a sudden CAN'T stop until you've passed that person and gone around that same corner so you're out of sight because heaven forbid anyone ever see you do anyting sub-super-human. And then once you're past that person and SERIOUSLY going to die, another one comes into view, and you AGAIN push on through it. So let me know if you're reading this stuff because for me you are the ULTIMATE motivation.
I'm getting nicely into the swing of things with school - it's kind of handy that I've been sick because it took the workouts out of the first-week equation so I had time to focus on getting my schedule in order, and I think I've pretty much figured it out. SO starting TOMORROW (check back to make sure I do it!) I'm back to moving. Plan is to go for a swim between classes tomorrow morning (I guess I should check and make sure the pool's open for lap swimming, which I LOVE, by the way) and hopefully I can get my yogilates in after Little Miss goes to bed and before Mr. Man comes home from work. :)
For those who are interested about motivation, I have just been informed that MY original motivator, Shopgirl, and now I have motivated Blue Bell to start up her own blogging efforts for the world to watch her weightloss efforts, so let's keep track of her and help her out! YAY BLUE BELLE!!
No, seriously. Leave me a note in the COMMENTS area if you've missed me 'cause I love to know that I'm accountable to someone other than myself. People are like, the ultimate motivation. Have you ever noticed that? Ever been for a jog and been DYING to stop but then someone comes around the corner heading for you and you all of a sudden CAN'T stop until you've passed that person and gone around that same corner so you're out of sight because heaven forbid anyone ever see you do anyting sub-super-human. And then once you're past that person and SERIOUSLY going to die, another one comes into view, and you AGAIN push on through it. So let me know if you're reading this stuff because for me you are the ULTIMATE motivation.
I'm getting nicely into the swing of things with school - it's kind of handy that I've been sick because it took the workouts out of the first-week equation so I had time to focus on getting my schedule in order, and I think I've pretty much figured it out. SO starting TOMORROW (check back to make sure I do it!) I'm back to moving. Plan is to go for a swim between classes tomorrow morning (I guess I should check and make sure the pool's open for lap swimming, which I LOVE, by the way) and hopefully I can get my yogilates in after Little Miss goes to bed and before Mr. Man comes home from work. :)
For those who are interested about motivation, I have just been informed that MY original motivator, Shopgirl, and now I have motivated Blue Bell to start up her own blogging efforts for the world to watch her weightloss efforts, so let's keep track of her and help her out! YAY BLUE BELLE!!
Little Miss turns 1
So, my excuse for the jelly doughnut is officially no good. Little Miss turned 1 on Sunday. I no longer have had less than a year to work off the baby fat.
And yes, I AM still sick (my new excuse? GAH!) but I figured it was something to be aware of when I'm ALL better. Hopefully sooner than later.
I'm still alive
Just thought I'd post and let anyone who cares to know that I AM still alive. Apparently I am actually quite sick, though with what I don't currently know, so I'm on a slight hiatus from kicking my butt with the workouts and as that's the SUBJECT of this blog, have very little to write about.
I am on antibiotics and am getting my blood tested tomorrow, and if the swelling in my throat isn't gone in 10 days from Friday just passed then I'm to see the doctor again, so don't you worry - I AM taking care of myself. ;)
And Wii Fit will yell at me when I return to it... SO nice to know someone's tracking! hahaha
SO nice to be so wonderfully ill for the first week of school and my first daughter's first birthday...YAY! ;) ALL that said, I AM still "standing" so, apparently nothing can knock me down!
(Except maybe this weight game....)
I am on antibiotics and am getting my blood tested tomorrow, and if the swelling in my throat isn't gone in 10 days from Friday just passed then I'm to see the doctor again, so don't you worry - I AM taking care of myself. ;)
And Wii Fit will yell at me when I return to it...
SO nice to be so wonderfully ill for the first week of school and my first daughter's first birthday...YAY! ;) ALL that said, I AM still "standing" so, apparently nothing can knock me down!
(Except maybe this weight game....)
Sick AGAIN
So, I seem to have more or less completely recovered from my short-lived cold only to have one day symptom-free and land myself feeling like THIS. WHAT the heck?!?! I have too much to DO to feel like this!! You're not supposed to feel like this on the first day of school! :( This is supposed to wait until a big oral presentation or something, so you have a seriously awesome excuse for turfing your cookies in front of the class or completely losing your voice...... GAH!!
Anyway, before I realized, I think, HOW sick I am today I got 30 minutes in on the Wii Fit - hooray!! hahaha I'm literally going to kill myself trying to fit into my not-so-baggy pre-pregnancy jeans. Awesome.
YESTERDAY, besides my weight being through the roof due to a late-at-night body test (Little Miss absolutely SKIPPED her nap yesterday. It was a long day. Maybe I'm sick now because I spent all my everything yesterday....) was awesome - I found the courage and tried the next level up for yogilates HOORAY! I ripped the living room apart so I'd have enough space to do it, which may or may not have been necessary. Anyway, I did it, I rocked it, it was good.
TODAY:
Already reported 30 mins Wii Fit - REALLY low intensity because though I didn't know I was dying I didn't feel near 100% this morning. AND I probably wouldn't have gotten so sweaty and gross if our air conditioner was working today sooo...OH well.
Walked around campus oodles.
Wii Fit Measures:
Weight - 177.9
BMI - 28.59
Previous to last week, though there seemed to be a bit of an all-over-the-place with my weight this super-cool graph did show a downward trend, which was awesome. As of LATE though, it's just all over the place. Downward trend has been completely erased. I'm as heavy as ever! I'm not really sure what I'm doing differently other than I keep getting/feeling deathly ill and have therefore not been running. Maybe once I can swallow again and I work out my scheduling, I can find the time to hit the trails again, and we'll see if that's my secret.
Anyway, before I realized, I think, HOW sick I am today I got 30 minutes in on the Wii Fit - hooray!! hahaha I'm literally going to kill myself trying to fit into my not-so-baggy pre-pregnancy jeans. Awesome.
YESTERDAY, besides my weight being through the roof due to a late-at-night body test (Little Miss absolutely SKIPPED her nap yesterday. It was a long day. Maybe I'm sick now because I spent all my everything yesterday....) was awesome - I found the courage and tried the next level up for yogilates HOORAY! I ripped the living room apart so I'd have enough space to do it, which may or may not have been necessary. Anyway, I did it, I rocked it, it was good.
TODAY:
Already reported 30 mins Wii Fit - REALLY low intensity because though I didn't know I was dying I didn't feel near 100% this morning. AND I probably wouldn't have gotten so sweaty and gross if our air conditioner was working today sooo...OH well.
Walked around campus oodles.
Wii Fit Measures:
Weight - 177.9
BMI - 28.59
Previous to last week, though there seemed to be a bit of an all-over-the-place with my weight this super-cool graph did show a downward trend, which was awesome. As of LATE though, it's just all over the place. Downward trend has been completely erased. I'm as heavy as ever! I'm not really sure what I'm doing differently other than I keep getting/feeling deathly ill and have therefore not been running. Maybe once I can swallow again and I work out my scheduling, I can find the time to hit the trails again, and we'll see if that's my secret.
Two more sleeps 'till school starts...
So it's Tuesday, which I think for most of the munchkins around means school started today! And I know a friend of mine in teacher's college who started classes a week ago, if not two by now...I forget! Anyway, last ones to start, as always, are the undergrads!! And that's ME! School starts up on Thursday. CRAZY! WHERE did my summer go?? The summer I was hoping to spend getting all svelte in??
Thursday school starts. Sunday Little Miss turns 1. OHmigosh, it's almost too much for this little brain of mine to get around and deal with.
Little Miss has managed to uber-cute her way into daycare with our backdoor neighbour, which is AWESOME - I can drop her off when I need to leave for classes, and pick her up when I'm done for the day! I'm sad to leave her, but thrilled that I don't have to use the daycare at school where she'd be stuck with them ALL DAY - "no in-and-out program for 'infants'". Shouldn't a parent be allowed to take care of her kid? ANYWAY....
So I'm looking at my schedule, figuring while Little Miss is in the backyard and I'm on campus I'll have to make use of the facilities between classes because it's going to be easier than fitting it in at home....except there's a few days I think I'm gonna' have troubles. I think as the first week goes by that's what I'll focus my blogging energies on - getting my workout schedule figured out; don't you find that writing things down makes it oh-so-much easier to visualize and handle??
Maybe I'll workout in this hour between classes, go to seminar sweaty and smelly, and then shower in the next hour between seminar and lab.... That sounds like a good Wednesday.
When am I going to do homework??
TODAY:
30 minutes Wii Fit "aerobics" - warm up with advanced step, 10 minutes super hoola-hoop, 6 minutes rhythm boxing twice
45 minutes yogilates
I've been having so much fun with the Wii Fit exercises I haven't ventured back outside for a run since my cold took off. I probably should - I'm sure it does more benefit in the amount of time I give it than does my new favourite video games...
Wii Fit measures:
Weight - 178.8 lbs
BMI - 28.73
Thursday school starts. Sunday Little Miss turns 1. OHmigosh, it's almost too much for this little brain of mine to get around and deal with.
Little Miss has managed to uber-cute her way into daycare with our backdoor neighbour, which is AWESOME - I can drop her off when I need to leave for classes, and pick her up when I'm done for the day! I'm sad to leave her, but thrilled that I don't have to use the daycare at school where she'd be stuck with them ALL DAY - "no in-and-out program for 'infants'".
So I'm looking at my schedule, figuring while Little Miss is in the backyard and I'm on campus I'll have to make use of the facilities between classes because it's going to be easier than fitting it in at home....except there's a few days I think I'm gonna' have troubles. I think as the first week goes by that's what I'll focus my blogging energies on - getting my workout schedule figured out; don't you find that writing things down makes it oh-so-much easier to visualize and handle??
Maybe I'll workout in this hour between classes, go to seminar sweaty and smelly, and then shower in the next hour between seminar and lab.... That sounds like a good Wednesday.
When am I going to do homework??
TODAY:
30 minutes Wii Fit "aerobics" - warm up with advanced step, 10 minutes super hoola-hoop, 6 minutes rhythm boxing twice
45 minutes yogilates
I've been having so much fun with the Wii Fit exercises I haven't ventured back outside for a run since my cold took off. I probably should - I'm sure it does more benefit in the amount of time I give it than does my new favourite video games...
Wii Fit measures:
Weight - 178.8 lbs
BMI - 28.73
Catching up
So this post will be all about yesterday, because today hasn't really happened yet. Other than my darling Mr. Man letting me sleep in this morning - he's so wonderful! I was TRYING to rally myself this morning to get Little Miss when she woke up, but the stuffy head just kept taking over and then he got up and I was out of it for another two hours....CRAZY!
YESTERDAY
Little Miss and I went with our buddies Big Momma & Godzilla (Big Momma has two darling little girls and is incubating a third...when the third shows up we'll have to call her something else 'cause she won't be Big anymore...sad for my creativity...AND the two little girls LOVE Little Miss, tending to terrorize the poor darling with their adoration, and I call the couple of them Godzilla. ANYWAY...) to Marineland in the morning and wandered around the whole park looking for the beluga whales. What's that? A MAP?!? TOTALLY overrated! If we'd HAD a map we would have taken the SHORT route and not have found all the other cool hidden rides and things we did that I totally intend to drag Mr. Man back to ride on one day before the season's over. AND would have used up many less calories to boot. ;)
THEN we headed back to town, hit McD's for lunch - Little Miss can totally down a grilled cheese and apple slices happy meal. Okay, okay, so she only ate half the sandwhich, but for being such a tiny tyke that's pretty darn good! - and then home for NAPTIME. I LOVE naptime.
I spent 30 minutes on the Wii Fit, mostly rhythm boxing and super hoola hoop, my two new addictions (I'm not feeling up to an extended run yet - head's too stuffy), and then 45 minutes yogilates.
Soccer last night, too. I played like a BUM. I know I played lousy because there's this wonderful player on our team who can be quite..."encouraging" at times if you're slacking off, and she was HOLLERING at me the whole game!! I'm all GAH! I'm SORRY, I'm TRYING!! Anyway, a stuffy head will do that to you. AND I was trying to supervise the care of Little Miss by a 10 year old on the sidelines from the opposite side of the field - that was a little distracting.
In total I was probably on the field 1 hr 10 mins.
TODAY
Wii Fit Measures
Weight - 177.9
BMI - 28.59
I FINALLY broke the upward trend. SO weird. Maybe it is just a measure of the amount of snot in between my eyes??
YESTERDAY
Little Miss and I went with our buddies Big Momma & Godzilla (Big Momma has two darling little girls and is incubating a third...when the third shows up we'll have to call her something else 'cause she won't be Big anymore...sad for my creativity...AND the two little girls LOVE Little Miss, tending to terrorize the poor darling with their adoration, and I call the couple of them Godzilla. ANYWAY...) to Marineland in the morning and wandered around the whole park looking for the beluga whales. What's that? A MAP?!? TOTALLY overrated! If we'd HAD a map we would have taken the SHORT route and not have found all the other cool hidden rides and things we did that I totally intend to drag Mr. Man back to ride on one day before the season's over. AND would have used up many less calories to boot. ;)
THEN we headed back to town, hit McD's for lunch - Little Miss can totally down a grilled cheese and apple slices happy meal. Okay, okay, so she only ate half the sandwhich, but for being such a tiny tyke that's pretty darn good! - and then home for NAPTIME.
I spent 30 minutes on the Wii Fit, mostly rhythm boxing and super hoola hoop, my two new addictions (I'm not feeling up to an extended run yet - head's too stuffy), and then 45 minutes yogilates.
Soccer last night, too. I played like a BUM. I know I played lousy because there's this wonderful player on our team who can be quite..."encouraging" at times if you're slacking off, and she was HOLLERING at me the whole game!! I'm all GAH! I'm SORRY, I'm TRYING!! Anyway, a stuffy head will do that to you. AND I was trying to supervise the care of Little Miss by a 10 year old on the sidelines from the opposite side of the field - that was a little distracting.
In total I was probably on the field 1 hr 10 mins.
TODAY
Wii Fit Measures
Weight - 177.9
BMI - 28.59
I FINALLY broke the upward trend. SO weird. Maybe it is just a measure of the amount of snot in between my eyes??
Stuffy nose, day two.
Still sick. Lazing on the couch is apparently not fixing me as fast as I had hoped. No matter, I don't really feel all THAT horrid except first thing in the morning and...now, actually. Day's winding down, I'm exhausted! Sinuses feel about a thousand times worse than they have all day... Oh, who doesn't love a good cold???
Maybe my recent weight gain is just pounds of GUNK stuffed up in my head. That's certainly what it feels like.
Anyway, at Little Miss' naptime today I felt pretty good, though hungry, and so:
TODAY
30 minutes Wii Fit "aerobics" - mostly rhythm boxing and super hoola hoop, with some stepping to warm up. I'm addicted to rhythm boxing - SO much fun! Anyway, I worked up such a good sweat today I left footprints on the balance board. hahaha GROSS!
45 minutes yogilates
Wii Fit measures
Weight - 179.0 lbs
BMI - 28.77
Sooooooo...seriously, besides the head cold I don't know what's so different this week that I keep gaining weight. I'm not overly concerned at the moment - weight does fluctuate all over the place day to day, and in women different times of one's cycle have an effect (aren't you boys just all so darned glad you had a chance to read that?? LUCKY!!!). If Auntie Flow comes to visit in the next few days we should have our answer. ;) hahaha OR if the snot-brigade LEAVES and I'm suddenly that-much-closer to a "normal" BMI (GARBAGE!!) then WOW apparently snot has quite the weight to it!!
Regardless of what the measurements are showing let's just all pray for me that I can fit back into a few of my clothes such that I have something to wear to school when it starts up again next week! ;)
Maybe my recent weight gain is just pounds of GUNK stuffed up in my head. That's certainly what it feels like.
Anyway, at Little Miss' naptime today I felt pretty good, though hungry, and so:
TODAY
30 minutes Wii Fit "aerobics" - mostly rhythm boxing and super hoola hoop, with some stepping to warm up. I'm addicted to rhythm boxing - SO much fun! Anyway, I worked up such a good sweat today I left footprints on the balance board. hahaha GROSS!
45 minutes yogilates
Wii Fit measures
Weight - 179.0 lbs
BMI - 28.77
Sooooooo...seriously, besides the head cold I don't know what's so different this week that I keep gaining weight. I'm not overly concerned at the moment - weight does fluctuate all over the place day to day, and in women different times of one's cycle have an effect (aren't you boys just all so darned glad you had a chance to read that?? LUCKY!!!). If Auntie Flow comes to visit in the next few days we should have our answer. ;) hahaha OR if the snot-brigade LEAVES and I'm suddenly that-much-closer to a "normal" BMI (GARBAGE!!) then WOW apparently snot has quite the weight to it!!
Regardless of what the measurements are showing let's just all pray for me that I can fit back into a few of my clothes such that I have something to wear to school when it starts up again next week! ;)
Illness blows....my nose!
This morning I woke up to the sounds of Little Miss crying, waiting for one of her wonderful parents to come and rescue her from the prison that is her crib, and felt as though my head had been run over, back and forth, back and forth, by a mack truck throughout my sleep. Thankfully, with Mr. Man working later hours this week he's happy to get up and spend time with Little Miss, so he did this morning, and instead of getting up to go for a run with my incredibly over-stuffed-with-snot-and-gunk head I went back to sleep.
I know, I know. It might sound lazy, but I HATE having a cold. I want a cold to get in, do it's business, and get the HECK out as soon as possible, so I spend as much time as possible when I'm sick doing as little as possible so my poor ailing body can fight the good fight against whatever on Earth is infecting my innards and causing them to leak out my nose.
Too bad yesterday I didn't know I was going to be sick today, or I would have gone for a run then. Huh. One of those hindsight's 20/20 moments, I guess. Maybe I should just start overacheiving a bit regularly and run EVERY DAY, so then when I have a sick day, or week, it's not such a big deal. And maybe I'd be oh so wicked-uber-hot faster, too. Huh. What a novel idea. Work begets results. Who knew??
I think I'm really onto something here!
In the meantime I won't bore you with the tale of how Little Miss and I messed up my Wii Fit goals and Mr. Man made it worse and then fixed it - I didn't get to tell you about my weight gain yesterday as we were trying to outsmart the Fit and get my goal set back as something feesible instead of a BMI of 0.85 with a weight of 5lbs. Serious. It was weird.
TODAY:
45 minutes yogilates - I watched the first 20 minutes or so of the intermediate workout today to see if I think I'm ready. I think with the cold and the whole...yeah I'm not ready to try and do that stuff yet. I'll need Mr. Man to be on standby to help me get out of some of those moves! I don't think my legs will ever be that flexible! BUT I'm going to give myself another good while on my beginner DVD and then actually TRY the intermediate. One day when I'm NOT sick. Maybe my birthday.
A whopping 15 minutes of Wii Fit aerobics - light, low intensity, got my heart going without killing my poor stuffy head. And I do LOVE the hoola hoop game, and the rhythm boxing makes me feel tough. ;)
Wii Fit Measures
Weight - 178.6 lbs
BMI - 28.70
Boo for being heavier, BUT it's just a scale so doesn't really matter. We'll do another picture of the spare tire next month and see how the progress is going that way. My darling friends tonight tell me I look good - Mr. Man must have paid them good! ;) hahaha KIDDING! I KNOW I'm hot. ;)
I know, I know. It might sound lazy, but I HATE having a cold. I want a cold to get in, do it's business, and get the HECK out as soon as possible, so I spend as much time as possible when I'm sick doing as little as possible so my poor ailing body can fight the good fight against whatever on Earth is infecting my innards and causing them to leak out my nose.
Too bad yesterday I didn't know I was going to be sick today, or I would have gone for a run then. Huh. One of those hindsight's 20/20 moments, I guess. Maybe I should just start overacheiving a bit regularly and run EVERY DAY, so then when I have a sick day, or week, it's not such a big deal. And maybe I'd be oh so wicked-uber-hot faster, too. Huh. What a novel idea. Work begets results. Who knew??
I think I'm really onto something here!
In the meantime I won't bore you with the tale of how Little Miss and I messed up my Wii Fit goals and Mr. Man made it worse and then fixed it - I didn't get to tell you about my weight gain yesterday as we were trying to outsmart the Fit and get my goal set back as something feesible instead of a BMI of 0.85 with a weight of 5lbs. Serious. It was weird.
TODAY:
45 minutes yogilates - I watched the first 20 minutes or so of the intermediate workout today to see if I think I'm ready. I think with the cold and the whole...yeah I'm not ready to try and do that stuff yet. I'll need Mr. Man to be on standby to help me get out of some of those moves! I don't think my legs will ever be that flexible! BUT I'm going to give myself another good while on my beginner DVD and then actually TRY the intermediate. One day when I'm NOT sick. Maybe my birthday.
A whopping 15 minutes of Wii Fit aerobics - light, low intensity, got my heart going without killing my poor stuffy head. And I do LOVE the hoola hoop game, and the rhythm boxing makes me feel tough. ;)
Wii Fit Measures
Weight - 178.6 lbs
BMI - 28.70
Boo for being heavier, BUT it's just a scale so doesn't really matter. We'll do another picture of the spare tire next month and see how the progress is going that way. My darling friends tonight tell me I look good - Mr. Man must have paid them good! ;) hahaha KIDDING! I KNOW I'm hot. ;)
