Things that talk back

My running partner has been gone this week and my tennis shoes stare up at me from the closet floor like two little dogs who never get walked. They have sad little eyes with their laces laying on the carpet floor and tongues hanging out. Even as I shut the closet door I can hear them whining. I've had it. I don't have to listen to this! So I tell them in a very stern voice, "It's raining! I gotta go to work! Don't you get it? I promise, we'll run tomorrow night after work, okay!?!?" Sheeze. Material things tend to take on a life of their own if one isn't careful. All I can say is my new running bra better just keep quiet.

Pruning my frame of mind

I just got home from church where I saw a friend who has lost 45 pounds. I was shocked. I was also motivated. I have been doing well exercising but the eating has gotten out of hand! It has been a pattern in my life to either do well with exercise or eating but not usually both at the same time. I am ready to change that cycle. I will surrender what I think I want at the moment and do the right thing instead. Period. What a great day to make a turn.

Yesterday Tim and I ran the lake loop which is nice because it is softer than the pavement and is much more scenic. Afterward I came home and started butchering my olive trees. That was a workout all by itself. We have a system: I prune and Tim picks up after me. I like that system. The fog is burning off and I am going to go put on my running shoes!

Run, Forrest, Run!

I can't believe it has been five days since my last blog! Lots of food has passed by this face in five days with the Superbowl last weekend. I ate some great food on Sunday watching the game but why am I surprised when I feel gross after eating that crap? Pizza, spinach dip, beer...the list is ugly. I only feel good that Tim and I have started training for 5k races. We run in the evening on a running plan that helps new (or new this year!) runners not get injured. He holds the stopwatch and we run 3 minutes walk 2 minutes, repeat, for 20 minutes. When he runs without me he runs 5 minutes and walks 2 minutes. Our first race is in March and the second in June. My district manager has run a marathon for which I hold her in high regard yet can safely say I will NEVER submit my soul to such gruel. I continue to lose a pound or two a week but tend to indulge in samples now that we are trying coffee three times a day at work. I was thinking tonight as I ran, "I may just have to run to The City and back to burn off my sampling today"! Double dang. Tomorrow is a 4am day and I will bring my yogurt, berries and acai juice for the blender come 4:15 am and stay away from the samples!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How Far Away IS Long Island Anyway?

How many calories are in a Long Island Iced Tea? Do I care to know? Not really. The entire prospect of drinking alcohol with a drop of diet pepsi and some citrus, thinking that there aren't any "carbs" in it is just a lie. All that sugar has to turn to something but after you've been up for nineteen hours your eyes glass over and you just pour the alcohol and see ZERO calories written in the air in front of you. This just adds to the deception since my eating today was total garbage. Let's see - Reduced fat turkey bacon breakfast sandwich at 5am, Diet pepsi at 10am, spinach dip with sourdough bread and a long island at 7pm and oh yeah...the top of three chocolate cupcakes (without frosting) at 3pm. I like just the tops and didn't have any frosting or the fortitude to actually make frosting. I will have to run rain or shine tomorrow.

Run/Walk

I love reading each others blogs on this weight loss challenge. I have an amazing headache but after I read the blogs I am putting my tennis shoes on and hitting the road before dinner! I want to run a 5K race in June!! I started run/walking -run one minute and walk seven minutes and then repeat. Sometimes I get too tired to finish the exercise piece by evening. This morning I woke up at 2:38 am (my alarm was supposed to go off at 3:15 am) and I decided to just get up. I thought I could nap this afternoon but I need to work out instead! I told my family that I was taking the week off this week. They thought I meant work - but I meant dinner! I haven't cooked a meal all week and it has been HEAVEN. And today I didn't even say anything stupid on the drive-thru speaker like last week when I asked the gentleman what I could do to "get him started". Oh, boy.