A Smidjin at a time

Today marks one year since I walked in the Helvetia Half-Marthon. And what a year it has been. The most amazingly frustratingly fulfilling year so far of my life. It actually all started back in February of 2010. I was approached by a friend saying that the adults in the family (her, her husband, her parents, her siblings and their spouses) were all doing the half and asked if I wanted to join them. For some crazy (stupid maybe even) reason I said yes. Yes, without even really thinking about the fact that a half marathon is 13.1 miles long, that I hadn't really been out on a walk in ages, that my idea of "working out" was about 30 minutes on the treadmill every 2 weeks or so, that I was out of shape and overweight. But yes I did say, and I registered pretty much right away. And once I had paid my money I realized what kinda trouble I was in. So i found a training plan online on how to walk a half marathon, gradually increasing my miles. So I did, diligently for months bec...

So today at weight watchers meeting we talked about the best supporting actors in our weight loss journeys. It was really a fitting think since I am 2 weeks away from 1 year on weight watchers. And it got me thinking, I don't know if I thank you all enough for the encouragement and support you all have given me over the last year. So here it goes, it no paticular order, well actually whatever order you come to mind is the order you get listed in. Erin T- I know I wouldn't have had the courage to go to that first meeting if I didn't know you worked there and had heard your story and seen your results. Jenn S- Thank you for joining me on this journey. It has been such a joy to share it with you, the successes (losses) and the tough parts (plateaus and gains). You continue to motivate me with your openness about the journey you are on. My friends at church who have joined weight watchers after me- Everytime you tell me that somehow I was a motivting factor in you joining/rejoi...

I am not sure if that really makes sense, even to myself. I want to lose weight, I want t get in shape. I plan my meals, I plan my workouts. I even get excited abut them. But then staying focused when I am on the treadmill, or lifting weights is so hard. And not go to the grocery store on my way home to get something that suddenly sounds better than whatever healthy thing I had planned.

I am very happy to report that after my ugh weekend, Monday's reboot, tuesday and so far today wednesday have been amazing. Stayed on plan, uber activity points (yesterday at least) and total side benefit, saved a ton of money on healthy food at safeway. And once again the chineese smelled really good, and I got in line. But I only got 2 potstickers, and they weren't nearly as good as I remembered them being. Which hopefully means the chineese won't tempt me nearly as much. I'm sure it will tempt me but hopefully not as bad. So this week my work schedule is a little weird and I won't make it to weigh-in tonight, I have to wait till the saturday one. I haven't been to the saturday one months. I am actually kinda glad I have these extras days thanks to my funk weekend.

re·boot (rē bo̵̅o̅t′) intransitive verb, transitive verb Comput. to boot again, as to restore the computer to operation after a program failure We all have done it to a computer. And we all have wished we could do it sometime in the middle of the day. You know, go back to bed and try waking up all over again, even just walking out of the office for a minute and then walk back in all fresh. Trust me, this past weekend was a major "program failure" Friday night pizza, saturday lunch pizza, saturday dinner burger and fries, sunday lunch chicken nuggets and fries, sunday dinner mac and cheese. Oh and an entire bag of those stupid powdered mini donuts. And boy was I feeling that all sunday afternoon, not my normal peppy self. It was time to reboot. So this morning, instead of sleeping in super late I got up and decided today was the day I restored my programs. I ate a healthy breaskfast, did 20 minutes of a Bob Harper workout video (I only survived 20 minutes is more like it) did ...

Blah, thats how I ate, blah how I feel, and blah cause I basically couldn't come up with a catching title. I am so glad I earned 16 activity points yesterday. Becasue let me tell you, except for breakfast and and orange at lunch I did not eat healthy at all (unless you count Mental health). My back has been hurting that last couple days and needless to say I didn't really feel like standing in the kitchen cooking with last night or tonight. So pizza last night and a burger tonight. And just incase anyone is curious, no i did not hurt my back earning those 16 activity points. My back hurt yesterday morning, felt better in the afternoon so I went to Zumba and then hurts again today.

Before I get the to the important part I just need to get the following statement out: Popeyes Fried Biscuits are AMAZING. Always have been, always will be. They are the whole reason why 1999 when we had a layover in the Atlanta airport mom sought out the Popeyes in the concourse to get us food from there. Motivation Techniques: The other day while watching Biggest Loser (I got a lot of epiphanies from this last episode) we got to see the final 4 contestants (2 guaranteed in the semi-finals and America gets to vote out of the other 2) go home. As the embarked on the at home portion of the contest they were given a DVD that had a recorded message on it. It wasn't just the host wishing them good luck but it was someone to remind them how far they had come. See the first week they got to the ranch they recorded messages to their future selves. And they get them 6 months later. I really liked that idea. I decided that even though I can't record videos to myself I can write letters....