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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Shrinking Days of Summer Weigh-In #7

I run with the Sisterhood

This has been a better week!

This week has continued to be challenging in the eating department, but each day I have taken a step forward.  The steps have been baby steps, but nevertheless, steps in the right direction.  With summer being here, I have definitely succumbed to some of my summer "favorites" - Ice cream, Hot Dogs, Ice Cream, Pizza, Ice Cream - Notice a trend?  It started "here and there" several weeks ago and instead of being a one time deal, I have continued to dabble in all of the "delights of summer".  This week, specifically starting on Sunday, I made adjustments each day.  While not perfect, each day I made progress.

On the exercise front, this week was PHENOMENAL!  I got back to run/walking... about 10 total miles!  I swam (playing with the kids) two days and last night I decided to get wild and crazy and challenge Christy to Shred together... Of course, being the competitive hooker that she is, she obliged!  

Just for kicks, this is my "before shred" picture:


And THIS is my after pic... I was drenched!


And of course, Christy returned the challenge to me for tonight!  Like I tweeted to her last night... THIS is what the Sisterhood is all about and why I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Sisterhood!  We aren't afraid to challenge one another and love & encourage each other through the challenges! We will see how this goes with my run/walking.  I know I can commit to doing it on my non-run days and will feel out how the run days go.  

One thing I know for sure is that I am much more motivated to eat well when I am exercising hard and I knew that I had to get my exercise ramped up in order to be successful in getting back on track with my eating.  I also find that my emotions and my stress level are much more balanced, thus leaving me with less propensity to "eat my emotions". I have made HUGE strides in my exercising this week! 

 
So, here are my numbers... Finally I see 195 something.... I wondered if the day would come! Its a move in the right direction!


Starting Weight
215 lbs
Starting Weight for this Challenge
196.6
Today's Weight
195.6 lbs
Change from last week
-0.6 lb
Difference for the challenge
-1 lb
Total Difference
 -19.4 lbs
 

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Shrinking Days of Summer Weigh-In #6

I run with the Sisterhood

I seem to be having a string of BLAH weeks...

I read this post over on Christie O's blog yesterday and, well, I think she was spying on me and was writing about me as well.  I have definitely been going through my days unconsciously.  Unconscious of the food passing my lips, unconscious of how I respond to my emotions and unconscious of how I have been hurting myself.  

To be conscious takes SO. MUCH. DAMN. WORK!  Work to choose in EVERY MOMENT to honor my body and to honor my soul... work to eat clean, healthy foods... work to get my butt out of bed in the morning to exercise (even when I can't run... ) and work to feel my emotions rather than pacify them with food.


Work has become very stressful and while it is a much healthier and positive environment, I have a tremendous amount of pressure on me as one of the few senior staff left in our office.  As I often feel being a mom, I now feel that I have to be ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE in my workplace too.  It has made for a lot of stress, a grumpy mommy, and a very tired wife.  I am realizing how incredibly important my training for the half marathon had become to my emotional health.  And yet, here I sit, unable to run until this past weekend, eating my emotions and not getting enough exercise.


Okay, this is kind of a downer post...
BUT
I had an amazingly humbling experience this weekend...
  Many of you saw this post over at the Sisterhood.  Well, let me share how I came upon it.  I woke up on Sunday morning with my kiddos snuggling with me - got my tweet that there was a new post, opened it up and stunned, saw my name chosen for sister spotlight... I had to read it several times to believe it, and then the precious, kind, humbling words shared by Brooke brought me to tears... By the end of the post I couldn't see I was crying so hard.  It is so much easier to believe the negative things about myself... Reading this was so profound for me.  It reminded me of all I have accomplished in the past six months and reminded me that 
I. AM. WORTH. IT.
THIS is what I love about the Sisterhood and what I love about the beautiful women I am surrounded by and have come to love.  True support... True commitment... True Sisterhood!


Time to put an end to the self-loathing and the post race slump.  I ran on Saturday and Tuesday and have officially begun training for my next half marathon on November 7th! Which, by the way, has the coolest finisher medal!  Lissa and I have agreed that we could continue entering races just to collect medals!  Whatever works... right?  I got back to my eating plan on Tuesday and had pretty good success.  While I expected to have less than stellar results this week, I am confident that I am turning a corner.

 
So, here are my numbers...


Starting Weight
215 lbs
Starting Weight for this Challenge
196.6
Today's Weight
196.2 lbs
Change from last week
+0.2 lb
Difference for the challenge
-0.4 lb
Total Difference
 -18.8 lbs