Chris' Getting Back to A Shape Other Than Round Journal

[o2bacelt]

So here we are at the beginning of another year. It should be a time where you can see a new beginning but this morning, has been one of those days and I've only been up a couple of hours.

I was awakened this morning by my 3 1/2 year old daughter bickering with her dad (she was in our bed) and then she decided to play with my feet. I wasn't quite ready to be awake so that didn't start me off in the right direction. Then as I was trying to clean the pan I needed for breakfast, I moved something in the massive pile of dirty dishes only to have a glass that my husband left on the very edge of the counter shatter when it hit the floor. Great, I didn't have shoes on but managed to get away without a scratch. (I'd have put a grumpy one there but there isn't a grumpy smiley, there should be, I'd use it all the time!) So I'm trying not to let this affect me this morning.

Now that breakfast is over, I've had a little caffeine, and everyone is now steering clear of me, this morning is looking up despite the list of chores that I have to get through.

I was writing down a couple of things that I needed to do for my weight loss goals for this year and I though, hey, I might as well start a journal. Accountability is a great thing. While I do have a journal elsewhere on the internet, I don't have one that I would continually put my weight loss stuff. I thought, at least here on WISH, everyone here is aiming for the same goal, can't lose, right?

I have to join the monthly exercise and weight loss thread and print out my calendar for the month to put in my paper exercise journal where I track my workouts. There are my first goals today.

Tomorrow I start back at the gym. Last week I got my DD reservations for kidcare on Wednesday and Friday. Tomorrow I'll get her reservations for Monday and Wednesday since that's all I can do until Friday. Thankfully with preschool being in the same place I can work out and she won't be in kid care.

This is the year that I'd really like to hit my goals weight. I really want to do this before I turn 40 in eighteen months.

I'm sure I'll have lots more to talk about later. Today is the day we move most of our stuff from the garage into the new storage area so we can start to sort through it and get rid of it, another one of my yearly goals (hate resolutions) and if I can get it all done before March that would be great and would save us some serious money.

Now I have to motivate my husband to stop playing his computer game and get working... Not going to be easy I'm sure...

 

[momof2minnies]

Good Morning Chris and welcome! There are many supportive people on these boards,they help keep you motivated.

Good luck at the gym today.

Linda

 

[postesf]

Welcome Chris!!!

 

[o2bacelt]

I have been eating better. I haven't been junking it up today which is a good thing.

I didn't make it to the gym this morning. My small person refused to do to sleep last night, she was pinging off the walls at almost 1 a.m., I was tired and finally, as is usual, when she laid still long enough then she was out like a light. This morning the phone rang and she was whining about it and said she wanted to go back to sleep. After I got the insurance rep. handling our car accident off the phone, I called in and cancelled our kid care appointment. True to form, 20 minutes after that Delaney told me she was awake and ready to go and play around the house. I suppose I could have called back and got her in the gym again but I figured I had to clean out the truck before the estimator got hold of it.

No gym. I did, however, get new motivation for getting this whole weight loss thing going again, apparently my twin cousins are getting married this summer. I haven't seen my family in a very long long time so I suppose I don't want to be this fat when they all see me again.

Tomorrow we are going to the gym. DD has preschool in the morning so I'll already be there and I won't have an excuse not to do something. Now if I could just locate a swimsuit that I don't hang out of so I can do the deep water class tomorrow morning.

Had the truck looked at today. They are hoping to get the parts in by next Monday. Yea! It's surreal trying to drive without a driver's side mirror. I hate it. The estimator told me to be glad that the accident wasn't my fault. Great, me too. I guess that means it's worse than I think it is but hey, I'm not paying for it right... I should have a rental car next week so that's a good thing, it's hard to get the kid around without one seeing as the other truck is a pick up and won't fit all three of us in there.

I had wanted to go up to the apartment complex gym tonight to run but man, I'm tired, I was up way too late last night and up way too soon this morning. I'm thinking I'm looking at going to bed with the small person, who is plenty tired, and I figure once I settle in the nice warm bed with a snuggly little person that I'll be ready for bed as well.

Tomorrow I will be rested and refreshed and ready to take on the gym and anything it has to offer.

Thanks for the welcome ladies!

Anyone is welcome to comment on here.

 

[o2bacelt]

Finally, a morning at the gym!

It felt good to get back in the pool. It also felt good to know that I'm not completely back at square one. I still think Aqua Fit is far too easy. I always get a good workout in the Deep Water class even when the easy instructor is doing it, it's far easier for me to make that workout harder.

Got up late, was planning on not waking up the small person, didn't know that DH was still home, he woke us up. After prodding the small person to eat, getting her dressed and brushing her hair, I finally got her in the car.

I ended up doing two pool classes because I couldn't figure out where my running shoes are, I'll be looking for them later today, so hopefully I'll be able to find them so I can participate in the circuit training class I want to go to tomorrow.

I think I'm might try the Zumba class on Saturday at noon after doing a little deep water in the pool.

Today I've got in 100 minutes in today. I'm thinking that I'd like to get into the complex gym this evening and get a mile or two in on the elliptical when DH gets home. He may get the job of getting the kid clean and off to bed on his own tonight. Depends on how much I get done around the house today.

I'm going to try and find our foyer. I can barely get through the front door right now. It's a mess up there. Then I've got to keep working on the small person's room, I'm halfway through moving the furniture around in there.

Now I'm off to find my calendars and put them in a binder so I can track my classes and my minutes.

Whee! Feels good to have moved. It's almost time for learning time and reading time with the small person. I guess today we'll be working on spelling her name. Poor kid, I saddled her with a more than 5 letter name, she's got the first letter down but we'll be working on the other 6. She actually came home with "homework" from preschool today. We have to do that and then I've got to find the snowman pattern so she can make her snowman for the board at school. I might have to fake that one unless I can figure out where I put it.

 

[DisDee]

Hey Chris, Welcome to the WISH journals. Write often, and you'll see it really helps. I wish you much success on your healthy lifestyle journey! Denise

 

[o2bacelt]

Thanks Denise!

 

[o2bacelt]

Back in the gym for me today. A little late but we went, I actually wanted to go there, and was happy to get up to the track.

We spent the weekend working around the house. We did go to Trader Joe's and grab some food for the week. Lots of yummy but health stuff.

My neighbor's upstairs are really starting to get on my nerves. They fight, a lot, and loud. Now if it was just yelling, I could deal with it, unfortunately, that's not what happens. They either physically fight or they just throw things, and I'm not talking about little things, it sounds like they are either throwing each other or the furniture. Saturday night I actually called the police. I just don't want anyone to get hurt. This morning the fighting started at 5:25 am. Everyone else in this house can sleep through a bomb going off, since I had the small person, not me, so I was awake. I managed to fall back asleep but the damage was done, I was tired.

We have a joke about them, one of the two or how ever many of them are up there, has an OCD issue with the vacuum cleaner, it's literally on every 15-30 minutes when they are home. It's funny during the day, not so funny again at 5 am.

So I was dragging a little this morning. The 4 miles I did today helped me wake up. It also probably had something to do with the loud music I was blasting through my iPod. I'm proud of myself, I did the 4 miles in 55 minutes. I walked the first mile, walked/ran/wogged the middle two, and walked the 4th.

My shoes are killing me, I wish I could find the mate to my Nike shoe, the small person doesn't know where she put it she says. I have a matching blister to the one I got last week and I annoyed the old blister. I wore the right socks for these shoes, apparently it's their time to go and I'll have to find a new pair of runners and a pair of cross-trainers. I'm not having luck with either currently. I will find them.

I had really wanted to get in another two miles today when the small person was in ballet class but I think I'll give my heels a break.

Tomorrow is a pool day. I'll have to find my suit and get everything ready tonight. Man, I can only imagine how much those heels are going to burn tomorrow. Ouch. No pain no gain right?!

I was also pleased with the scale this morning. I was up a couple of pounds from New Years, it always happens when I get back to the gym, I'm starving and I need to eat. It takes a week or two to level off. I've been trying to give my body what it needs when it needs it so I'm actually down 3/4 pound from my starting weight to hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to post in a pound loss for the week and I'll take it.

I had to leave my computer earlier to take the small person to ballet class. In the meantime, one of my blisters is looking a little infected. Lovely. My feet really hurt. I've got to clean them both out, the one from Friday is going to HURT. Hopefully I can get it dried out by tomorrow enough to get in the pool. I'd hate to not do something tomorrow after having such a great workout today. I'll figure something out.

 

[o2bacelt]

No gym for me today. Blister looks and feels better but still hurts enough for me to baby it today.

I'm going to take advantage of the unusually warm weather today. We're going to be in the 70's again today. I keep looking at the calendar, it's still January, I understand it isn't going to last for long though. It's going to get cold again next week and they are talking about snow.

I may try to do some yoga later if I can find the floor in here. Small person has trashed the living room and you can hardly move in here.

I've got to clean out the mommy mobile so when they call me to get the car fixed I'll be able to run it right over and pick up the rental. So glad that it wasn't my fault.

Now to clean out the truck and enjoy the weather. Now I just have to find my flip flops, didn't think I'd need them until May...

 

[larry's girl]

Hi, Chris. Welcome!! I hope you find keeping a journal here on the WISH boards to be as helpful as I have. Hope your blister problem goes away - those are SO painful (like you didn't already know that).

Hope you have a great day!

Susan

 

[o2bacelt]

Okay, so I've been at the gym every day from Wednesday. Go Me! I haven't been to the gym today but we'll have to see what happens with that, there is a swim meet at the rec. center which makes the place nuts. There's no place to park, the pool is closed, and the hubby had to work late last night. He was gone until around 4 this morning I think, I'm not sure when he got back. I'm also not sure if he has to go back today or not. We'll see when he wakes up.

I managed to get new running shoes, a couple more blisters, small ones that didn't rupture, and two hot spots on my underarms from running in the pool and my arms rubbing against the seam in my swimsuit. It's a good thing that I don't give up easy, I'd be starting to take all of this personally.

I feel better this morning. I have a list of things I need to purchase. I need to get some water shoes so I can run in the pool without cutting my toes like I did yesterday. I need a new swimsuit without a really hard seam running down the sides.

Now that DH is awake I think I'll be heading into the walk-in closet in our room and try to find the floor. On my list of goals for this year (because I hate the word resolution) right under lose weight/get fit is get organized because I'm so terribly not. It would be nice to not have to take my life in my hands every single time I need to pee in the middle of the night.

I'm thinking of the WISH racing team out there in marathon land today. My DUncle, who works at AK, was up at something ungodly like 1 am, helping to get ready for the 1/2 today and he's working the Mickey tomorrow as well. I'm cheering for you all at home today.

 

[o2bacelt]

Oops! Been meaning to post in this journal.

I'm down three pounds for the month. I won't say that I'm not frustrated about the lack on bigger numbers.

I'm having big frustration issues, I am having trouble with my new running shoes, they are chewing up my right foot, my left foot is really happy, the right foot, not so much.

I'm doing as much as I can, got in 3 miles on Monday, 2 today before I couldn't take the right shoe anymore. Tomorrow is a pool day and Friday I'll figure something out, I might get in the water again then as well. I didn't get to go to the gym yesterday. The body shop called and was able to get my truck finished faster than they thought so I was all for going and getting it. I hated the rental car so I wanted my car back.

Well, it's time to get the small person off to bed so she gets up for school in the morning. I just have to get her to focus and get ready for bed.

 

[larry's girl]

Hi, Chris. Sorry for your shoe issues. Maybe you need to go to one of the stores that personally fits running shoes, like Fleet Feet? I haven't been (no money right now), but my sister swears by them and says they have really helped her with her running.

Congrats on the determination to keep going and the 3 pounds. I know it doesn't seem like much, but it's still 3 pounds you aren't carrying around. Just keep going - the weight loss will come!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Susan