Back at it

Just running 3 miles or so a couple days of the week. Besides having a vacation hangover, I 've been planning a Candyland themed sleepover for my daughter's 13th birthday which will take place tomorrow. ( if you get bored you can read random posts about the preparations at The House of Fowler)

But come Sunday once all the sugar is cleared out of the house, it's time to get serious. Make a plan and stick to it. Plus I will have one, if not two, houses on the market. I imagine there will be a lot stress fueled runs in my future.

Vacation

Very little running being done.Because when it doesn't look like this, then the wind is horrible. UGH!!


Be back next week

Holy Crap!

I am in! My credit was charged by Nike but no confirmation email has been sent. After doing some research I went to www.signmeup.com/RandomDrawResults and my status showed SUCCESSFUL!

One trip to San Francisco and 13.1 miles stand between me and that necklace! I better start training and saving!

New Shoes

No problems.

I went back to my trusty Ascis and have had no foot pain. Mind you, not a lot of miles but no pain. It's a start....

Three Up, Three Down, Repeat

That's the tale of my scale for the last couple of years. I am currently 3 down but hope that my new found hunger tolerance will put a final end to the cycle. I am proud to say that I can actually be stomach growling hungry and not have the urge to injury everyone in my sight. Good thing since it's taken an almost constant state of hunger to get to 3 lbs down...

This Run Brought To You By

This is alexis mc's friend there was a lockdown but every1 is ok. she wanted to tell u every1 is getting checked out.

That's the text I receieved late yesterday morning regarding this situationTeens Arrested, Gun Found In School that I was completely unaware of.

Tomorrow's run will be brought to you by the memory of the assistant principal who was standing outside the school and allowed me to drop MC off at school without saying a word while they knew something was going down. Good thing for both of us things turned out the way they did. Had they not this is one mama who would be spending a little time in lock up. I have a sister who got expelled from high school from beating up a boy, I have a brother who's an ultimate fighter, I am quite certain I could take her out with one punch. Not that I believe violence is answer, but I also don't believe in playing with my childs safety.

Be Careful What You Wish For?

I really want the necklace more than the running experience. Don't judge. Cross your fingers for me. I am watching the clock for 9:00am PST. (Thanks A.K.A. Alice)

Plantar Fasciitis

SUCKS!

Perhaps my last fit process , my first at Big Peach Running Co, which lead to my Mizunos, went horribly wrong because I never had this problem in my Asics.

Now that I have recovered from the trauma of the death of my blackberry and a panel interview at my job. I can concentrate on my foot.
Seriously, a 6 person panel. Try not being nervous about that, and I am a recruiter. Ok so maybe I am still a bit traumatized by the interview...

Perhaps some new shoes are in order because isn't that the American way? Just throw money at the problem. sorry couldn't help myself =)

Mardi Gras

Happy Fat Tuesday Everyone!

I am looking forward to a day full of indulgencies. Mostly in the form of sugar and diet coke =)

Enjoy your day!

4 "Ps and an "E"

I have no exciting news on the running front. Just 3 miles here, 3 miles there on the treadmill and the occassional icing of the foot. I intend to just keep to easy runs mostly for sanity and calorie burn. If I can keep up things up on the exercise front I am almost certain I can find success on the weight loss front. I am telling you this Beck Diet Solution stuff is earth shattering for me.

First, let me say that while the book allows you to choose the diet plan of your choice, I am not into diets. I am not low carbing it, I am not low protiening it, I am not cutting any food group out and that includes sugar, prior to Fat Tuesday that is. I just want to eat quality food ( a majority of the time).

One concept discussed is Planning. Many years ago in another lifetime I was introduced to the 6 Ps - Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance which I have found to hold true in most situations. I am a planner. I love to plan. Parties, projects, etc, not what I am going to eat. But damn it if the book didn't prove to me yesterday that Prior Planning Prevents Poor Eating! Monday and Tuesday I planned out all my meals and snacks. Crossed things off as I eat. Didn't panic when hunger struck.Truthfully I felt hungry a good portion of the day. (I've increased my calories slightly today too see if I could spend a little less time hungry) Any way, Tuesday night rolls around, then Wednesday morning and laziness sets in. Really how hard is it sit down spend a couple of minutes planning what to eat? That's laziness at it's finest. So as you can guess Wednesday's eating was out of whack. Nothing damaging but just more than needed.

Today I am equipped with my plan and I amazed at the power this written plan has on me. I am hungry right now but my snack really shouldn't take place until about 3:00ish so I will happily wait, because that's the plan, and it's on paper.I kind of get annoyed that I am such a stinkin rule follower but if planning my meals on a piece of pink legal pad paper leads me be a fit size 4 rule follower again than lead on...

For a smart girl, I often wonder why can't I lose that pesky ten lbs,which has alarming hit close to 20lbs in the last few years. I know what to eat. I like to run. Should be easy. Calories in, calories out. I've considered things like fear of failure, no self control, my sugar addiction etc, but still end up back at why is this so hard?

Then I happened to stumble across this book recently. Below is an excerpt from a review

It all starts with how you think. With other programs, you think about nothing but food: counting, weighing, and worst of all, food you can't have. This way of thinking inevitably contributes to diet failure. The Beck Diet Solution is the only program that helps dieters use Cognitive Therapy methods, based on research to forever change those treacherous thought patterns that lead to overeating, cheating, excuses, and other dieting downfalls.

What do you mean my thinking has something to do with it? This has been a big eye opener. Concepts such as Eat Sitting Down. This in itself has been life changing. I was amazed at how rarely I eat sitting down. Not just meals, but snacks, a taste here, a taste there. I can't believe the amount times I caught myself putting food in my mouth and realized I was standing.

Another concept Pratice Hunger Tolerance, hunger is not an emergency. Some of you fit and trim girls maybe laughing but it always felt like an emergency to me. Where I got this feeling I have no clue but I sure become one cranky girl if I get hungry.

This is the first thing I've read about weight loss that hasn't made me feel that it takes some kind of magical combination of what you eat, when you eat, and the moon and stars aligning to be successful and it has nothing to do with low carbs, counting points, or having food delivered to my door.

Many, many, many years ago I made an easy decision to be a "happy person", to stop focusing on the negative and just be happy.I will be completely floored if all years of weight struggle, many when I was a perfect size but could not see it, could have been averted if I just chose to be a thin person. Make that a happy thin person.

New Sensation

Pain in the arch area of my foot and an occassional pain in my hip. Am I falling apart?

Morning Routine

Although I got one of these for Christmas

This is where I do all my running.
The treadmill on the end, we have a love/hate relationship. What you don't see is if you look to the left there is a mirror that runs the length of the wall. At moments of weakness when I don't feel like running it serves as a reminder of why I need to be in the gym. I fear that some of my fellow morning gym goers may think I am vain turning to look in the mirror periodically but it's really one of those "car crash" reflexes. You just can't help but look and think Jesus, Mary, and Joseph is that really what I look like, ugh. If that's the side view, I'd hate to see the view from behind, and so on...

So for now this is where I run 4 days a week. Now I just need to work on days 5, 6, and 7.

Nothing Much New

Just 3 miles here, 3 miles there all on the treadmill.

Being inspired by Carly's cleanse, I decided it was time to clean up the damage I did over the holiday vacation. Nothing too drastic just cutting out the suagr and staying within a manageable calorie range. Just need to make it through these first couple of days. I expect them to be uncomfortable and I love comfort but I am so tired of trying. I ready to do...

Hopefully I am on the road to wellness (thinness)

Goals

This year I am keeping it simple. I posted about my 2009 goals on my other blog The House of Fowler, weight and finances. So here I'll speak to running. I am hoping the running will help with the weight loss however I am still traumatized by the weight I gained when I ran a half marathon about 5 yrs ago. This may or may not be why that has been my only 1/2. But I digress, my goal is to run 800 miles this year. Should I say that is 800 miles of running/walking for full disclosure. My mind still hasn't completely embraced that running with walk breaks counts as running but my 42 yr old body has. That averages to 15 miles a week not earth shattering but attainable. I am hoping that by making the goal attainable I'll be able to blow it out the water ~ the whole under promise over deliver thing.

Full disclosure - I haven't ran yet today, but I will. I am planning on 1 mile at a park on a half mile track - boring. Lord, I wish I lived in a nice flat neighborhood...I gotta go find my motivation...