The Wildly Eclectic Me

So as you know I've been working on the whole getting myself into shape thing for some time, but it's only been mentioned very vaguely here. I've decided to come out of the pantry about it, so to speak. I'll do weekly weigh in's and stuff. The whole reason that I didn't mention it here was because I was just ashamed of how much I weigh. Well it doesn't really matter how much I weigh exactly since you can look at me and tell I'm fat...I mean duh! LOL So there is now a weight ticker at the bottom and link on the side there to my spark page. If you do SparkPeople please be my friend. I have no friends. :'( hehehe Well I have lots of friends. They just don't use SparkPeople so that I have friends on there. hehe So if anyone does then please be my friend. :D I had gained back some weight because I was a lazy bum this summer, but I'm ready to kick it all. I need to lose 89 pounds from where I am now to be at what I think would be my ideal we...

Well my little Finn is walking. He got up the nerve this weekend and he's been doing a great job. I keep trying to catch him on video, but something about my turning on my camera makes him immediately sit down... Oh well... hehe I'm back on week 3 of the C25K, because my back was hurting something awful last week, and I didn't want to mess anything up by running. I think I've done this week at 6mph 3 times now... I seem to be stuck on it! Oh well, eventually I will finish the C25K 6MPH... eventually... LOL I'm also GOING to do strength training this week. I have such a hard time making myself do it! I dunno what my problem with strength training is. Oh well, I'm gonna get the heck over it! I'm down a total of 35 lbs now. Yay me! I'm two pounds from my first mini-goal. It's the weight I was when I got prego with Nicky. I want to find some fun plug ins for my blog. I've seen a bunch of cool ones out there. Does anyone have any that the...

Okay, I need your assistance. I am getting tired of my running playlist and need your aid in making a new one. Here's what I've got so far. I Want You by Savage Garden Get Ready for This by 2 Unlimited Pump Up the Jam by Technotronic Ray of Light by Madonna Hey Ya! by Outkast Just a Girl by No Doubt Wild Wild West by Will Smith Gotta Be Somebody by Nickleback Viva la Vida by Coldplay I KIssed a Girl by Jill Souble Hot N Cold by Katy Perry We Can by LeAnn Rimes Suddenly I See by KD Tunstall Pocketful of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield So what do you think? What would you like to run to that I don't have here?

I've been working on this for more than a week, and I'm still not sure I've got it right, but I'm just going to publish it and be done with it. Okay, well there is the obvious answer to this question. Because you're hungry. Or is it just because you think you're hungry? Or maybe you're not even hungry, something just compels you to pick up that brownie. I've been overweight for most of my life. There were a few brief periods where I was thinner, but for the most part, I've always had a weight problem. I don't know why I ate the way I did when I was young. It was probably similar to the reasons I've discovered for my eating in my adult life. I was reading The Crazy Woman Inside Me the other day, and got to thinking about the reasons that I eat. I'm a binge eater. I always have been. However, years ago I got it mostly under control. At least in that I don't often eat to the point of making myself physically ill anymore. So fo...

Okay, just completed Week 2 Day 1 of the Couch to 5K, 6MPH and now I'm sooooo tired and my shins hurt like a poo! Ouchies! We're taking the wee ones bike riding tommorrow so that'll give my poor shins a chance to heal, but I'll still get some cardio in. Plus it'll be super fun! hehe Hopefully! As long as the weather holds out. *crosses fingers*

So I have been running 30 minutes at a time since I finished the Couch to 5K the first time, and I've been slowly increasing my speed to 4.5 from the 3.5 I finished C25K at the first time. I know...I could walk faster... :p Anyway, I want to get up to 6 mph because that's actually 5K in 30 minutes. Honestly though I was getting bored and my form was going just increasing 0.1 mph at a time, and I was starting to get shin splints. No fun! So I'm starting the c25k again and doing 6 mph all the way! Wish me luck! Week 1 Day 1 Complete!

Okay...I'm not taking any names. hehe But I am kicking butt at the Couch to 5k! Did Week 5 Day 2 today. That's 8 minutes running 3 minutes walking (was supposed to be five but apparently I'm a lamer and can't read :-D) and 8 minutes walking. It was hard. I'm not saying that. I got a terrible stitch in my side, but I didn't stop! No, I didn't! Go me! I rock! Yay! hehehe I really didn't think I could do it, but I manged. I've got my first 20 minute no walking run on Friday. I dunno if I can do it, but I'm gonna try my best.

My Goals for 2009 Finish Rewriting Blood and Violets Get a descent start writing something else. Get things submitted! Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day Take better care of myself - Taking care of your kiddos is vitally important OF COURSE, but you gotta take care of yourself too. Cause if Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy! I'm finally seeing the wisdom of this. Run (Well slow jog) 10K. Do 100 pushups. Do something physical almost everyday.

Finished the 2nd Week of the Couch to 5K yesterday and started over on my 100 Pushup Challenge today. I've revised the 100 Pushups somewhat. I'm going to do Wall Pushups instead of Knee Pushups first. I think I'm just too heavy to do knee pushups just yet. My wrists couldn't quite take it. So I'm going to start with wall, move to knees, and then on to real pushups. I'm also going to do each day of the program twice before moving on. That should give my muscles a chance to build up to the next level better I think.

If I lose 100 Pounds will someone please buy me this ? Isn't it GORGEOUS? My Daddy is giving me his treadmill, because he does all his walking outdoors now. THANK YOU, DADDY!!! I LOVE YOU!!!! I promise I'll put it to good use. :-D Woohoo I'll save the money I was going to use to buy a treadmill for a double jogging stroller to use with the boys come spring. :-D I joined Spark Pages so now I'm more accountable for everything. It's pretty darn nifty. I'm a member of a team called the Slow Fat Runners! That's me! I don't think you could even call what I'm currently doing "running." It's more like really slow jogging. hehehe Oh well I'm off to stretch and then make my husband and kiddos Curry for dinner. mmmmm

This wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it'd be going up to 90 seconds. We'll see how well I do with the three minutes next week! I can't wait to get our new treadmill. The big question that weighs on my mind is should we wait until the New Year's sales at Walmart come out. It seems to me like they have sales on exercise equipment, but I can't remember for sure. I also can't wait for my new shoes to get here. I'm sure that is going to improve my comfort a great deal. As long as they fit well. *crosses fingers* I finished the first week of the 100 Pushup Challenge too. Starting week 2 tomorrow!

Started my Saturday with a nice run/walk session. Ouchies I'm so sore! Everything is sore! So here's what I'm doing. Next year on September 20th I turn 30 and I'm bound and determined to be in good shape by then. I don't necessarily have to be skinny. That'd be nice of course, but I want to be able to run at least 10K and do 100 pushups. So I started the Couch to 5K and I'll work myself up to 10K from there. As far as pushups go I'm doing the 100 Pushup Challenge . I know that name needs work! Not near as cool as Couch to 5K. I think running is going to be good with the munchkins, because I can get a double jogging stroller for them and Bryon is doing it with me. He's going to a Krav Maga training thing in April and he has to be in really excellent shape for that. He is in ten times better shape than me already, but dang it I'm going to be able to beat him in a race before this is over! I'm changing my whole mind set from...I can...

Okay, so I just started the Couch to 5K training program, because I need to lose ALOT of weight and I really have always secretly wanted to be able to run. I used to have these dreams where I would run and run and never get tired. They were awesome dreams and very unlike the reality of me in gym class when I was in Junior High and High School. And why don't they do something like Couch to 5K with people instead of just telling them they have to run a mile in 10 minutes and throwing them on the field?! I'll bet actually teaching them to run rather than killing their spirit would be a much better method! Anyway...I digress... I'm disgusted because I did a search about starting Couch to 5K and Obesity hoping to find some success stories on their forum and what I found was NOT helpful! I found people ranting about how disgusting fat people are scarfing down their junk food and blah blah blah... Well excuse me for being a-freakin'-live!!! People like this just make me...

The IPod is playing: Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall (I'm stealing this from other places cause I love it. What I'm listening to is very telling of the mood I'm in!) Okay, so my hubby goes to the Pulse Fitness Center near our house and given that I NEED to get in shape I was trying it out too today. They have a childcare center so I figured Nicky is pretty easy going and I'll just let him play for about 30 minutes while I do lower body and a little cardio. WRONG! I got to do about 6 sets of Reps on three different machines (give me a break I'm just starting out) and I see over my shoulder a VERY unhappy little boy and the lady from the childcare room. Apparently he was playing quite happily and suddenly looked up and burst into tears. Now this could have been because he wasn't feeling very well as he had his shots yesterday and that makes a boy feel cruddy. I'm hoping that was it, because despite the fact that this place doesn't have ellipticals. (C...