Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Slacker on Sunday, Motivated on Monday
8 miles on Monday (on the dreadmill). 1/4 mile walks 3/4 run (okay a slow run but a run never the less.)Over and over and over again for 8 long dreary mindnumbing miles. I go slower because I am going longer and have to build up my base miles. This morning just 3 miles and lifting...good thing because those 8 wore me out. Ate good yesterday (really good) but woke up in the middle of the night thinking I was going to perish from hunger. My stomach was actually cramping. I ate 2 banannas and went back to bed and then felt okay till I had to ice down my stupid diabetic foot. There is nothing worse then having to slap a bag of ice on your foot in the middle of winter...the summer...great...the winter...AGGGGGGG. Ooopsss got to go to the Y and then off to work to earn my bread and butter...I mean earn my cauliflower and apples.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Slip Sliding Away
Busy week:
Monday: Took the Girls to Olan Mills (this is family code for Mammogram). The girls' pictures turned out well...look to see one on our 2007 Christmas Card. Last year when I took the girls to Olan Mills the photographer said that the girls were very photogenic. That made me positively giddy AND then she said, "They are very fatty and those are the ones that take the best shots" My hopes of being compared to Jessica Simpson were once again DASHED!
Tuesday: Good day at the Y. Treadmill for 5 1/4 miles. 1/2 mile of which was warm up walking...slow but steady plodding.
Wednesday: Blah pool day. I did not drown and I managed to make it thru the first 20 minutes of class without getting my head wet. That was noticed by a fellow workout buddy and she informed me that I was slacking in the pool.
Thursday: I have rejoined the CLIMATE RUN TEAM. It was slick and I fell twice. Once before I even left the parking lot and I was walking! The other was probably at mile 3 or 3 1/2. The first fall was on the back side but the second fall I fell frontwards...skinned my knee and now it has a tiny little bruise but one that I proudly display as my "Workout Injury". It was around 5 miles. I had to walk numerous times because I have been a slacker and have not been running outside that often (mostly inside on treadmill). Note that I did whine and complain the entire 5 miles. My complaints were as follows: It was slick, I was tired, I could not breathe, my legs felt like lead, it was hard, the route was too long, I did not know where we were going....waa waa waa. I feel sorry for Leo who out of the kindness of his heart stayed back with Ms. Pokey AND had to listen to me whine and complain. The others despite the ice made awesome time. I feel bad when I hold people back but I am oh so thankful for the people that patiently plod by my side.
Now you might ask why I started the climate runs again. I will tell you PEER PRESSURE. The very thing I spent years teaching my children to ignore is the very same thing that got me out running. I guess I would jump off a bridge if all my friends were doing it.
Note: I may still be a teacup but I am NOT a cupcake.
Okay enough about that...finished my day up on Thursday by having years erased off my appearance by dousing my head in brown dye at the hair dresser. Nothing makes a woman feel better then coming out of the hair salon with the gray banished from her head.
Friday: No spinning because this is the week in between sessions. I went to sign up and was told there were no more bikes available so now I am at the mercy of the slackers not showing up for class so I can grab their bike. I did go to Power Hour and Julie did a class that she called "Arms to Die for" By 10:00 yesterday I could not even use my stapler and I was reduced to sucking my coffee thru a straw to avoid picking up my coffee cup. So my legs are sore from the climate run and my arms are sore from Friday so I am pretty much crippled up. Ended my day by Baby Adam coming over to see his Grandma and Grandpa and he was all kinds of happy. He is over his cold now and feeling good. We got out the toys but what he really likes is when I lay on my back and hold him up in the air but unfortunately for me he is teething so holding him over my head is similar to standing in the rain forest.
Saturday: Had planned to do spinning. But realized that quarterly tax time is looming and I have nothing compiled. I have to bake a birthday cake, wrap a present, and make a birthday dinner for my husband and somehow get to the grocery store. Not to mention I am wallowing in filth and desperately need to clean my house.
Sunday Agenda: 8 1/2 mile run walk, church, nap and whining.
A couple new pictures of my guy are getting posted. Hopefully Ty and Carissa will be over tonight so I can get some pictures of my best buddy and the little princess. Spring Break is coming up soon so I will be taking a day off so I can do a something with Ty. Perhaps Chuckie Cheese?
Quote of the Day: "Come on Kim if you fall again you can quit...if we let you" By Jeff after my stating that I was going in to do the treadmill when I slipped and fell in the parking lot.
Monday: Took the Girls to Olan Mills (this is family code for Mammogram). The girls' pictures turned out well...look to see one on our 2007 Christmas Card. Last year when I took the girls to Olan Mills the photographer said that the girls were very photogenic. That made me positively giddy AND then she said, "They are very fatty and those are the ones that take the best shots" My hopes of being compared to Jessica Simpson were once again DASHED!
Tuesday: Good day at the Y. Treadmill for 5 1/4 miles. 1/2 mile of which was warm up walking...slow but steady plodding.
Wednesday: Blah pool day. I did not drown and I managed to make it thru the first 20 minutes of class without getting my head wet. That was noticed by a fellow workout buddy and she informed me that I was slacking in the pool.
Thursday: I have rejoined the CLIMATE RUN TEAM. It was slick and I fell twice. Once before I even left the parking lot and I was walking! The other was probably at mile 3 or 3 1/2. The first fall was on the back side but the second fall I fell frontwards...skinned my knee and now it has a tiny little bruise but one that I proudly display as my "Workout Injury". It was around 5 miles. I had to walk numerous times because I have been a slacker and have not been running outside that often (mostly inside on treadmill). Note that I did whine and complain the entire 5 miles. My complaints were as follows: It was slick, I was tired, I could not breathe, my legs felt like lead, it was hard, the route was too long, I did not know where we were going....waa waa waa. I feel sorry for Leo who out of the kindness of his heart stayed back with Ms. Pokey AND had to listen to me whine and complain. The others despite the ice made awesome time. I feel bad when I hold people back but I am oh so thankful for the people that patiently plod by my side.
Now you might ask why I started the climate runs again. I will tell you PEER PRESSURE. The very thing I spent years teaching my children to ignore is the very same thing that got me out running. I guess I would jump off a bridge if all my friends were doing it.
Note: I may still be a teacup but I am NOT a cupcake.
Okay enough about that...finished my day up on Thursday by having years erased off my appearance by dousing my head in brown dye at the hair dresser. Nothing makes a woman feel better then coming out of the hair salon with the gray banished from her head.
Friday: No spinning because this is the week in between sessions. I went to sign up and was told there were no more bikes available so now I am at the mercy of the slackers not showing up for class so I can grab their bike. I did go to Power Hour and Julie did a class that she called "Arms to Die for" By 10:00 yesterday I could not even use my stapler and I was reduced to sucking my coffee thru a straw to avoid picking up my coffee cup. So my legs are sore from the climate run and my arms are sore from Friday so I am pretty much crippled up. Ended my day by Baby Adam coming over to see his Grandma and Grandpa and he was all kinds of happy. He is over his cold now and feeling good. We got out the toys but what he really likes is when I lay on my back and hold him up in the air but unfortunately for me he is teething so holding him over my head is similar to standing in the rain forest.
Saturday: Had planned to do spinning. But realized that quarterly tax time is looming and I have nothing compiled. I have to bake a birthday cake, wrap a present, and make a birthday dinner for my husband and somehow get to the grocery store. Not to mention I am wallowing in filth and desperately need to clean my house.
Sunday Agenda: 8 1/2 mile run walk, church, nap and whining.
A couple new pictures of my guy are getting posted. Hopefully Ty and Carissa will be over tonight so I can get some pictures of my best buddy and the little princess. Spring Break is coming up soon so I will be taking a day off so I can do a something with Ty. Perhaps Chuckie Cheese?
Quote of the Day: "Come on Kim if you fall again you can quit...if we let you" By Jeff after my stating that I was going in to do the treadmill when I slipped and fell in the parking lot.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Candy Bars, Snow and Frozen Sports Bras
Busy busy. I don't understand how I have no children at home anymore but I have less time? Have I become inefficient?*though my husband would argue that I have never been efficient* Have I become lazy? Who knows? All I know is that I need to clone my self to get everything done.
Updates:
New Job: Well sorta of new. Started the end of October. It is a high paced job with lots of room for growth. It is interesting and there is always something new on the agenda. I have also discovered that when your brain is over 40 it resents having to learn new tricks.
Workouts: Lacking since October but I have kicked in again. Back to spinning and running and power hour. Last Sunday though I ran out of time to run so had to squeeze something in Sunday evening. Ended up squeezing in a 8 1/4 mile walk. (why a walk see paragraph below re: overeating) Yes, that was 8 1/4 mile that was not a typo. Thru the snow I tromped....People in this town are lazy and alot of them do not SHOVEL their walk despite the snow removal ordinance that calls for snow removal within 6 hours...so now they have a lot more to shovel as between Tuesday and Wed we got 17 more inches...and walking in snow tires a person out very quickly....okay back to workout talk. I have made peace with my having to walk/run the mini. I am training but I do not feel that my body will be in the condition it will need to be in to run the entire 13 miles. Training continues..... Thursday I did a solid hour of slow running (and I do mean slow) I kept it between a 12 and 13 minute mile. I figure speed is not the thing for me right now on the long days I just need to keep moving. Okay so that is it for workout..aside from letting you know that I LOVE SPINNING.....
Kitchen: My dear dear husband has installed a new countertop, kitchen sink and backsplash in my kitchen. In addition, he put down new tile and put wainscoating up on 2 walls. I did not know what wainscoating (and not even sure I am spelling it correctly) was on account of my lack of inner Martha so he had to explain to me what wainscoating was. I then informed him I would not like it. He said I would and put it up anyway. I like it! That is annoying that he is almost always right when it comes to decorating. However, he was wrong ONE time when he was painting the outside trim. Other then that he has been right everytime.
Grandchilden: What sweethearts. Baby Adam spent Friday night with us. Poor little guy has had a cold for over a week but he is clearing up. He still has trouble sleeping because of stuffiness but he was not grouchy when he got up at night. He was just all stuffed up and needed to be upright. He can roll over and gladly showed off his new trick for Grandma and Grandpa. He also loves it when Grandpa says :"Adriaannnnnnn". What can I say we were watching Rocky! My daughter brought over some cute toys for him to play with but Grandma said he needed to play with measuring spoons, measuring cups and plastic cookie cutters. He also sat in my portable high chair for the first time. Aunt Denise bought it at a yard sale. It has a tray and the seat straps on a regular chair. It is nice because I don't have this big bulky high chair hanging around. I am posting pictures on flickr..please check them out. Poor baby he has his own Paparazzi and probably has retina burn from all the flashes.
***Someone has a birthday coming up soon*** Hint: He is cute, funny, smart...that should be enough to give it away....final hint his name begins with the letter "T". This special person also needs to make time on his social calendar for someone who loves him that would like to take him to see a movie. And special kudos to him for his awesome scrabble playing skills.
Carissa: Got her first taste of Grandma's homemade mac and cheese. She ate it with great gusto....She also seemed very interested in scrabble but I think she did not want to build words as much as she wanted to yank the board off the table and watch the cubes fly everywhere.
Overeating: Yes a topic just on that. I have determined there are several situations that I should not be a part of
1. Carryins: I ate like a pig last Sunday afternoon at our church carryin, which explains why I was walking 8 1/4 miles instead of running. Baptist woman can cook! Oh and so can Pentacostal, and Catholic woman...not sure about Jehova witnesses or Mormans...perhaps they should have a carryin and invite me so I can inform you of that. We also had a work carryin...guess what....those woman can cook too (they must be of the before mentioned faiths). I did very well at this carryin. My boss made a soup that was healthy and low fat so that I could enjoy the luncheon too! There were cookies galore and it took ALL my mental willpower to stay out of the cookies, breads and cupcakes (not to mention the dips and chips and crackers).
2. Being snowed in: For some reason being snowed in increased my appetite by 1 million percent! Mix that with a little PMS and you got a receipe for disaster. I will not mention the number of candy bars I ate. Candy Bars are forever banned from this house unless it is for the holiday exemption. It is a good thing the city buried my car under a pile of snow because at least I got some calorie burning. But I think I would have had to shovel every walk in Lafayette to break even calorie wise. I was a very bad girl that day.
Further thoughts on overeating: You can't just hide food from me...its got to be locked up. For some reason when Jerry hides things I just accidentally come across it. NO truely that is the case. One time I was looking for my slippers and was on my hands and knees looking under the bed and I glanced over and on the very lowest shelf of his night stand was a plate of cookies shoved all the way to the back. Now normally that would be a safe and secure place because 1) I never dust 2) and when i do dust I usually only dust the shelves people can see when they are standing upright!. Ialso found the little mini candy bars in a basket on top of the fridge being conceled by a loaf of bread being on top of them (plain white bread which I never eat), but I was looking for my glucose meter and thought Imight have thrown it on top of the fridge. So I was on a chair looking at the top of the fridge and there they were! So I found them....so I ate them. One time I found a can of nuts in my husband's clothes closet...okay granted I was deligently searching for those nuts but I found them. I have yet to find the giant box of fish crackers that he hid but even if I found them at this point they would probably be stale as I bought them in November.
I need to get a bank safe and install it in the house for food!
Dogs: Boring but of interest because the vet told me that Lizzie had lost weight and we had to keep and eye on it. Yes, she is active. Yes, she eats. This is a first in our family. No female (human or animal) in our family has ever ever been told by a doctor that there is a weight loss problem and that they would need to eat more! Usually both doctors and vets say to us "Too fat...need to get some weight off"
Quote of the week:
"MY SPORTS BRAS ARE FROZEN IN A LUMP" spoken after pulling my sports bras out of my gym bag after it had been left in the subzero weather all day.
Please see the pictures posted!
Have a great day!
Updates:
New Job: Well sorta of new. Started the end of October. It is a high paced job with lots of room for growth. It is interesting and there is always something new on the agenda. I have also discovered that when your brain is over 40 it resents having to learn new tricks.
Workouts: Lacking since October but I have kicked in again. Back to spinning and running and power hour. Last Sunday though I ran out of time to run so had to squeeze something in Sunday evening. Ended up squeezing in a 8 1/4 mile walk. (why a walk see paragraph below re: overeating) Yes, that was 8 1/4 mile that was not a typo. Thru the snow I tromped....People in this town are lazy and alot of them do not SHOVEL their walk despite the snow removal ordinance that calls for snow removal within 6 hours...so now they have a lot more to shovel as between Tuesday and Wed we got 17 more inches...and walking in snow tires a person out very quickly....okay back to workout talk. I have made peace with my having to walk/run the mini. I am training but I do not feel that my body will be in the condition it will need to be in to run the entire 13 miles. Training continues..... Thursday I did a solid hour of slow running (and I do mean slow) I kept it between a 12 and 13 minute mile. I figure speed is not the thing for me right now on the long days I just need to keep moving. Okay so that is it for workout..aside from letting you know that I LOVE SPINNING.....
Kitchen: My dear dear husband has installed a new countertop, kitchen sink and backsplash in my kitchen. In addition, he put down new tile and put wainscoating up on 2 walls. I did not know what wainscoating (and not even sure I am spelling it correctly) was on account of my lack of inner Martha so he had to explain to me what wainscoating was. I then informed him I would not like it. He said I would and put it up anyway. I like it! That is annoying that he is almost always right when it comes to decorating. However, he was wrong ONE time when he was painting the outside trim. Other then that he has been right everytime.
Grandchilden: What sweethearts. Baby Adam spent Friday night with us. Poor little guy has had a cold for over a week but he is clearing up. He still has trouble sleeping because of stuffiness but he was not grouchy when he got up at night. He was just all stuffed up and needed to be upright. He can roll over and gladly showed off his new trick for Grandma and Grandpa. He also loves it when Grandpa says :"Adriaannnnnnn". What can I say we were watching Rocky! My daughter brought over some cute toys for him to play with but Grandma said he needed to play with measuring spoons, measuring cups and plastic cookie cutters. He also sat in my portable high chair for the first time. Aunt Denise bought it at a yard sale. It has a tray and the seat straps on a regular chair. It is nice because I don't have this big bulky high chair hanging around. I am posting pictures on flickr..please check them out. Poor baby he has his own Paparazzi and probably has retina burn from all the flashes.
***Someone has a birthday coming up soon*** Hint: He is cute, funny, smart...that should be enough to give it away....final hint his name begins with the letter "T". This special person also needs to make time on his social calendar for someone who loves him that would like to take him to see a movie. And special kudos to him for his awesome scrabble playing skills.
Carissa: Got her first taste of Grandma's homemade mac and cheese. She ate it with great gusto....She also seemed very interested in scrabble but I think she did not want to build words as much as she wanted to yank the board off the table and watch the cubes fly everywhere.
Overeating: Yes a topic just on that. I have determined there are several situations that I should not be a part of
1. Carryins: I ate like a pig last Sunday afternoon at our church carryin, which explains why I was walking 8 1/4 miles instead of running. Baptist woman can cook! Oh and so can Pentacostal, and Catholic woman...not sure about Jehova witnesses or Mormans...perhaps they should have a carryin and invite me so I can inform you of that. We also had a work carryin...guess what....those woman can cook too (they must be of the before mentioned faiths). I did very well at this carryin. My boss made a soup that was healthy and low fat so that I could enjoy the luncheon too! There were cookies galore and it took ALL my mental willpower to stay out of the cookies, breads and cupcakes (not to mention the dips and chips and crackers).
2. Being snowed in: For some reason being snowed in increased my appetite by 1 million percent! Mix that with a little PMS and you got a receipe for disaster. I will not mention the number of candy bars I ate. Candy Bars are forever banned from this house unless it is for the holiday exemption. It is a good thing the city buried my car under a pile of snow because at least I got some calorie burning. But I think I would have had to shovel every walk in Lafayette to break even calorie wise. I was a very bad girl that day.
Further thoughts on overeating: You can't just hide food from me...its got to be locked up. For some reason when Jerry hides things I just accidentally come across it. NO truely that is the case. One time I was looking for my slippers and was on my hands and knees looking under the bed and I glanced over and on the very lowest shelf of his night stand was a plate of cookies shoved all the way to the back. Now normally that would be a safe and secure place because 1) I never dust 2) and when i do dust I usually only dust the shelves people can see when they are standing upright!. Ialso found the little mini candy bars in a basket on top of the fridge being conceled by a loaf of bread being on top of them (plain white bread which I never eat), but I was looking for my glucose meter and thought Imight have thrown it on top of the fridge. So I was on a chair looking at the top of the fridge and there they were! So I found them....so I ate them. One time I found a can of nuts in my husband's clothes closet...okay granted I was deligently searching for those nuts but I found them. I have yet to find the giant box of fish crackers that he hid but even if I found them at this point they would probably be stale as I bought them in November.
I need to get a bank safe and install it in the house for food!
Dogs: Boring but of interest because the vet told me that Lizzie had lost weight and we had to keep and eye on it. Yes, she is active. Yes, she eats. This is a first in our family. No female (human or animal) in our family has ever ever been told by a doctor that there is a weight loss problem and that they would need to eat more! Usually both doctors and vets say to us "Too fat...need to get some weight off"
Quote of the week:
"MY SPORTS BRAS ARE FROZEN IN A LUMP" spoken after pulling my sports bras out of my gym bag after it had been left in the subzero weather all day.
Please see the pictures posted!
Have a great day!
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
2 Hours is a long time
I did my 2 hours on the treadmill Sunday morning in 6/4 minute intervals at a faster pace then the week before where I did blocks of time...then I walked 15 ran 50 and walked 45. This time I moved the speed up and did intervals of 6 minutes run/4 minutes walk. My treadmill did not like doing 2 hours and it was making all sorts of sounds. I don't know if it was in protest of me being on it or that 2 hours was even too long for the poor machine. Next week I will do intervals but I will likely change them to .75 mile intervals and .25 walks and do 2 hours. The next week I will do 2.15 hours. My goal is to be able to go for 4 hours by then end of March/beginning of April. The mini is scaring the crap out of me. I have spent many hours contemplating selling my spot to some lucky person...then the crazy Kim steps in and talks me out of it.
My week:
Friday: Game night with my friends from the Y. Great Fun
Saturday: Grocery shopping at 6:00 a.m. Home to read my Giant Manual for work. To Walmart to buy Mom a bday present, home to make cookies and homemade mac and cheese, fish fry and games at my daughters, and kept my neices overnight.
Sunday: Up and 2 hours on the treadmill...go Kim go. Got the girls up and ready..which I forgot how hard that was...thank goodness for my husband who makes Sunday morning breakfast every week. To church where I valiantly fought the sleep virus. Home to pick up the girls stuff, dropped them off, picked up my sister and Mom to go out for Mom's bday lunch...back home where I promptly laid down on the couch and did not move for the rest of the evening...I did not even go to church..I could not move I felt like a rag doll. I more or less watched the Super Bowl...when my eyes were opened.
Monday: No Y sigh.....finished reading my giant manual so I could turn it into work.
Tuesday...sitting here typing need to get my lazy rear out the door to the Y.
My week:
Friday: Game night with my friends from the Y. Great Fun
Saturday: Grocery shopping at 6:00 a.m. Home to read my Giant Manual for work. To Walmart to buy Mom a bday present, home to make cookies and homemade mac and cheese, fish fry and games at my daughters, and kept my neices overnight.
Sunday: Up and 2 hours on the treadmill...go Kim go. Got the girls up and ready..which I forgot how hard that was...thank goodness for my husband who makes Sunday morning breakfast every week. To church where I valiantly fought the sleep virus. Home to pick up the girls stuff, dropped them off, picked up my sister and Mom to go out for Mom's bday lunch...back home where I promptly laid down on the couch and did not move for the rest of the evening...I did not even go to church..I could not move I felt like a rag doll. I more or less watched the Super Bowl...when my eyes were opened.
Monday: No Y sigh.....finished reading my giant manual so I could turn it into work.
Tuesday...sitting here typing need to get my lazy rear out the door to the Y.
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