Okay, first, did anyone notice how freakishly small my arm looked in that last picture? Trust me, it is not that small. It was the digital zoom on Forrest which made my arm look like a toon arm.
Anyways, I'm happy to report a loss of 2.2 pounds for the week bringing me (back) down to 154.4. I had an amazing week last week so I'm hoping to keep the forward momentum!! Here's the deets on my food, fitness and fun!
Food: All seven days I stuck to plan and did not indulge in any junk, even by counting the points. All good, healthy, whole foods.
Fitness: I logged 4 runs which was 14.66 miles. I'm still having a bit of an issue with my Garmin Foot Pod, however, so that could be overstated by about 1.5 miles. Whatever, I know I had the minutes in anyway. I tried calibrating it Saturday morning on the treadmill, but I got the lovely message "Calibration failed". I'm about ready to give up, but I'm not sure I can return it at this point so I guess I have to keep working on it.
Fun: I completed my 2006 scrapbook! Woot woot! I also have photos for 2007 through 2009 on pages so all that's left is journaling, titles, and putting those suckers into albums. In my vein to simplify (and get caught up), I have gone back to the basics with regard to scrapbooking. Lots of photos with lots of journalling. Isn't that really all you need? I also completed a couple other outstanding To Dos on the home list.
As you can see, with regard to food, fitness and fun, my week went really, really well!!
In other news, I am possibly embarking on the half marathon train soon. My friend and I might sign up to participate the Seattle RnR together!! If so, this would be a planned run/walk event because neither of us is ready to run the entire thing, although adrenaline could kick in and surge us forward. I think it would be awesome to stick together regardless of whether we run or walk. The Seattle RnR is at 85% capacity right now so there is still a bit of time to decide. It's the money, friends. I just don't know about spending the money and all that jazz. We're supposed to be connecting about it soon to hammer out details.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Sunday Stuff
It seems unfair that tomorrow is already Monday. I am not ready to say good-bye to the weekend. I'm just not.
For those that asked, the movie yesterday "Love and Other Drugs" was only so-so. Had I not gone with my husband, I might have watched it in a different frame of mind, you know, drooling over Jake and such. And I was wondering too much about whether he was hating it, or thinking it was too sappy, which kind of kept my mind halfway away from the movie itself. So, it was okay, not the worst movie, not the best. I'll see it again on DVD without my husband just to see it with a different perspective.
Yesterday I also watched the movie "Julie & Julia". I hadn't heard much good about the movie so I waited until it was on Starz to watch it. I shouldn't have waited; I really liked it! I loved the concept of her blog and undertaking the year long project. Of course it was totally awesome that it all led to a book deal and whatnot, but mainly it got me to thinking about whether I could plan a year long project for 2011 and blog about it. That's kind of what I've been doing with this blog in 2010, but I'm thinking of something unrelated to a running or weight loss goal. Something fun and different. I don't know what it would be, but I'm considering my options.
I got some major organizing done this weekend. I cleaned and straightened out all my kitchen drawers and organized two cupboards. I am an organizing junkie and I don't like when things are just thrown into cupboards and drawers all willy-nilly. I also don't like having things around that I don't use. So I sorted all the plastic containers and lids to make sure there was one lid per container, and I got rid of some utensils and other things that I never use. Purging feels great to me!
I also went through all my scrapbooking paper and most of the embellishments. I now have a stack of paper nearly a foot tall that I plan to give to a crafty mom or some other scrapbooker who will use it. Papers I bought when I first started scrapbooking no longer fit my tastes so there's no point in keeping it all around. I also sorted through some pictures and organized my scrap room/office. It's all leading up to rediscovering the joy of scrapbooking. I just have to know where to begin and that starts with knowing what supplies I have. I am planning a project which involves transferring many, many photos from an old album of my dad's into a new scrapbook. This needs to be done by Christmas when my grandma will be in town so she can help me with labels. I will start this week!
Changing my exercise routine in November/December is not going to happen. There's too many things going on to make big changes like that, I've decided. And beating myself up for not making planned changes leads to no good. For that reason, I am committed to running 4 times a week through December and not worrying about adding in strength training or anything else. I'll run when I can, but I'm not planning to get up and do it before work. I think spring would be an awesome time to switch to morning workouts, but fall/winter is not appealing. And that is okay.
I put off my weekend run until 5:00 pm tonight! And I can tell you that wasn't really smart, but at least I got it done. I have rested my knee since Thursday's Turkey Trot and it felt pretty good today. I ran slow, but I got 4 miles done. So far so good on my new shoes. My eating has been on track since Thursday. I did eat a bunch of popcorn yesterday, but I didn't eat a lot of other things due to my headache. Today I stayed within my points range and ran for 6 extra points! So I'm feeling like I'll see a loss on the scale this week and I can't wait.
Finally, one final point for this Sunday. I'm super excited about the new Weight Watchers plan to be unveiled tomorrow! I really hope I can read about it while enjoying my morning coffee. Every change that has come about from WW over the years has been wonderful and I've no doubt these changes will be good. The teaser email mentioned changing the way we think about fruits and veggies. Do you think that means fruit will count less, or veggies will count more? I can't imagine that it would be the latter. And not counting fruit would be a huge deal since I'm already a little loose with the counting of fruit anyway. After all, as I heard a WW leader say one time, "The fruit isn't the problem, it's the fruit pie." I count the points on fruit, but I usually don't measure it, I just guesstimate, and I've never counted an apple for more than one point regardless of its size. Anyway, I'm anxious to see the changes and will be really interested in reading what other bloggers think about it as the week goes by.
Enough rambling for this Sunday. I'm ready for bed. Good night!
For those that asked, the movie yesterday "Love and Other Drugs" was only so-so. Had I not gone with my husband, I might have watched it in a different frame of mind, you know, drooling over Jake and such. And I was wondering too much about whether he was hating it, or thinking it was too sappy, which kind of kept my mind halfway away from the movie itself. So, it was okay, not the worst movie, not the best. I'll see it again on DVD without my husband just to see it with a different perspective.
Yesterday I also watched the movie "Julie & Julia". I hadn't heard much good about the movie so I waited until it was on Starz to watch it. I shouldn't have waited; I really liked it! I loved the concept of her blog and undertaking the year long project. Of course it was totally awesome that it all led to a book deal and whatnot, but mainly it got me to thinking about whether I could plan a year long project for 2011 and blog about it. That's kind of what I've been doing with this blog in 2010, but I'm thinking of something unrelated to a running or weight loss goal. Something fun and different. I don't know what it would be, but I'm considering my options.
I got some major organizing done this weekend. I cleaned and straightened out all my kitchen drawers and organized two cupboards. I am an organizing junkie and I don't like when things are just thrown into cupboards and drawers all willy-nilly. I also don't like having things around that I don't use. So I sorted all the plastic containers and lids to make sure there was one lid per container, and I got rid of some utensils and other things that I never use. Purging feels great to me!
I also went through all my scrapbooking paper and most of the embellishments. I now have a stack of paper nearly a foot tall that I plan to give to a crafty mom or some other scrapbooker who will use it. Papers I bought when I first started scrapbooking no longer fit my tastes so there's no point in keeping it all around. I also sorted through some pictures and organized my scrap room/office. It's all leading up to rediscovering the joy of scrapbooking. I just have to know where to begin and that starts with knowing what supplies I have. I am planning a project which involves transferring many, many photos from an old album of my dad's into a new scrapbook. This needs to be done by Christmas when my grandma will be in town so she can help me with labels. I will start this week!
Changing my exercise routine in November/December is not going to happen. There's too many things going on to make big changes like that, I've decided. And beating myself up for not making planned changes leads to no good. For that reason, I am committed to running 4 times a week through December and not worrying about adding in strength training or anything else. I'll run when I can, but I'm not planning to get up and do it before work. I think spring would be an awesome time to switch to morning workouts, but fall/winter is not appealing. And that is okay.
I put off my weekend run until 5:00 pm tonight! And I can tell you that wasn't really smart, but at least I got it done. I have rested my knee since Thursday's Turkey Trot and it felt pretty good today. I ran slow, but I got 4 miles done. So far so good on my new shoes. My eating has been on track since Thursday. I did eat a bunch of popcorn yesterday, but I didn't eat a lot of other things due to my headache. Today I stayed within my points range and ran for 6 extra points! So I'm feeling like I'll see a loss on the scale this week and I can't wait.
Finally, one final point for this Sunday. I'm super excited about the new Weight Watchers plan to be unveiled tomorrow! I really hope I can read about it while enjoying my morning coffee. Every change that has come about from WW over the years has been wonderful and I've no doubt these changes will be good. The teaser email mentioned changing the way we think about fruits and veggies. Do you think that means fruit will count less, or veggies will count more? I can't imagine that it would be the latter. And not counting fruit would be a huge deal since I'm already a little loose with the counting of fruit anyway. After all, as I heard a WW leader say one time, "The fruit isn't the problem, it's the fruit pie." I count the points on fruit, but I usually don't measure it, I just guesstimate, and I've never counted an apple for more than one point regardless of its size. Anyway, I'm anxious to see the changes and will be really interested in reading what other bloggers think about it as the week goes by.
Enough rambling for this Sunday. I'm ready for bed. Good night!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Hobbies & Me
Something I have not talked about on this blog is scrapbooking.
The background: I started scrapbooking in January of 2003. I resisted the concept thinking I would hate it, but after making invitations for my son's 1st birthday party, and visiting the local craft stores, the idea was more and more intriguing. A few months later I was a full blown addict.
I went along this way for a few years, scrapping whenever I had time, glancing through idea books at every chance. I became a very creative, proficient scrapper too, even going back to scrap the photos from the years of our marriage prior to parenthood. Incidentally these 5 years filled two scrapbooks while my son's first year filled two scrapbooks!! But anyway, I loved scrapbooking.
Part of the fun of scrapbooking is buying the supplies. And boy did I ever have fun with this! I bought paper and stickers, rubber and acrylic stamps, inks, diecutters, ribbons, and embellishments galore. My supplies grew from a small drawer unit to a large 12-cube wall unit, plus more stored in the closet. Everything has its place.
Then long about 2008 or so, I lost my scrapping MoJo. It just disappeared. I do not know what did it, but I just lost the passion, lost the desire, lost the motivation. Maybe I just got burned out. As with most of my "hobbies" I jumped in with both feet and didn't look back. And I seriously loved this hobby.
Unfortunately I wasn't very far into my pictures from 2005 at that point. Now, it's 2010 and while I've done a few more pages for 2005 in the past couple of years, I still have about 30 more pages to go. Plus we have gone on living. So while I was behind a couple years in 2008, I'm seriously behind in 2010! Over 4 years and two vacations behind!
And now, even though I feel a small desire to scrap, and I have all those supplies just sitting there waiting, I cannot seem to find any motivation to move forward. Sometimes I think I should just skip ahead to 2010 and scrap those photos and when I'm back in the groove, I can work on the past photos. I even daydream about my "Get Fit in 2010" scrapbook.
But, alas, I have done nothing with it.
I worry about this behavior of mine, the one where I get all excited about something, start living and breathing it, and then discard it like yesterday's newspaper. Will this happen with running, with eating healthy? Is "Getting Fit in 2010" just that? Something for the here and now, but abandoned too soon?
At this moment in time, I can say, No, Never. I will NEVER be obese again, I will never stop exercising. But how do I really know? A few years ago, if you would have asked me if I would scrapbook forever and I would have given you a whole-hearted YES.
It's a scary thing, the future. One never knows what life will bring. I go on and on about not focusing on the past, only looking ahead, but the unknown is almost too much for me at times. The unknown gives me anxiety. And this, friends, is the subject of another post.
The background: I started scrapbooking in January of 2003. I resisted the concept thinking I would hate it, but after making invitations for my son's 1st birthday party, and visiting the local craft stores, the idea was more and more intriguing. A few months later I was a full blown addict.
I went along this way for a few years, scrapping whenever I had time, glancing through idea books at every chance. I became a very creative, proficient scrapper too, even going back to scrap the photos from the years of our marriage prior to parenthood. Incidentally these 5 years filled two scrapbooks while my son's first year filled two scrapbooks!! But anyway, I loved scrapbooking.
Part of the fun of scrapbooking is buying the supplies. And boy did I ever have fun with this! I bought paper and stickers, rubber and acrylic stamps, inks, diecutters, ribbons, and embellishments galore. My supplies grew from a small drawer unit to a large 12-cube wall unit, plus more stored in the closet. Everything has its place.
Then long about 2008 or so, I lost my scrapping MoJo. It just disappeared. I do not know what did it, but I just lost the passion, lost the desire, lost the motivation. Maybe I just got burned out. As with most of my "hobbies" I jumped in with both feet and didn't look back. And I seriously loved this hobby.
Unfortunately I wasn't very far into my pictures from 2005 at that point. Now, it's 2010 and while I've done a few more pages for 2005 in the past couple of years, I still have about 30 more pages to go. Plus we have gone on living. So while I was behind a couple years in 2008, I'm seriously behind in 2010! Over 4 years and two vacations behind!
And now, even though I feel a small desire to scrap, and I have all those supplies just sitting there waiting, I cannot seem to find any motivation to move forward. Sometimes I think I should just skip ahead to 2010 and scrap those photos and when I'm back in the groove, I can work on the past photos. I even daydream about my "Get Fit in 2010" scrapbook.
But, alas, I have done nothing with it.
I worry about this behavior of mine, the one where I get all excited about something, start living and breathing it, and then discard it like yesterday's newspaper. Will this happen with running, with eating healthy? Is "Getting Fit in 2010" just that? Something for the here and now, but abandoned too soon?
At this moment in time, I can say, No, Never. I will NEVER be obese again, I will never stop exercising. But how do I really know? A few years ago, if you would have asked me if I would scrapbook forever and I would have given you a whole-hearted YES.
It's a scary thing, the future. One never knows what life will bring. I go on and on about not focusing on the past, only looking ahead, but the unknown is almost too much for me at times. The unknown gives me anxiety. And this, friends, is the subject of another post.
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