Only 9lbs!!!

Only 9 lbs to go!!! Till I reach my goal weight that is. FINALLY!!!!! Its been a long haul. Two years this time. WHOOT WHOOT I'm almost there.'

Ran 10 miles Saturday. Last 4 I was pretty tired during but I got it done. Hill workout this morning. I'm sticking to it. I'm getting it done!

The whole enchilata!

I realize that no one probably reads this anymore because I'm so bad at updating but in an effort to keep a little record I am posting again. So a little over a month ago one of my running friends and I decided to train for a whole marathon. Kind of a check it off the bucket list type of thing. So we both hired a personal trainer. We decided if we were going to do this we wanted to do it right. It is hard giving up freedom and doing whatever this lady says I should do but I think it is helping. Here is an general outline of what I do each week.

Monday: Hills. Up and down a steep hill 4-6 time with a 1 mile warm up and cool down.
Swim. Working up 1 mile but I skip this a lot on Mondays and do it Saturday Because I run out of time. This week 1200 yards
Tuesday: Spin class 45 minute
Zumba
Wednesday: Run 3-6 miles
Swim 1200 this week
Thursday: Spin class
Zumba 2 classes
Friday: Speed work
TRX class for strength
Saturday: Long run. This week 9 miles

So, what do you think, I probably need to work out a little more, right? Its hard core but it is helping. I'm getting faster and my body is taking a totally different shape. I've been this weight before, even smaller, but my legs have never been this thin. They don't rub when I walk! My abs are getting definition and I've never heard my husband make so many comments about my butt before. Its pretty fun!

So far the training is going well. Its intense and time consuming but my husband is WONDERFUL and supporting me as I leave the house to train. I've already visited my chiropractor twice. Once for my hip, once for my back which still hurts. I'm grateful everyday for a healthy uninjured body and hope I avoid any serious injury.

I'm running my Marathon in Oregon, where I'm from with some friends of mine. I'm really excited. I will try and post more as I train. 9.5 mile run today! It went well but I am tired.

The good and the bad

This would be the bad. Frustrated is hardly the word for it. Gained 3 lbs over Christmas and I can not recover. I track everything I eat, Swim: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Spin: Tuesday Thursday, Zumba: Tuesday and twice Thursday and run Monday and one long run Saturday.

Why oh why am I not loosing?????????????????????????????????

Not only not loosing this week gaining.

Frustration.

I will pull out of this. I just hope I don't pull my hair out in the process.

I've decided to run a marathon this year. I've very excited. I'm hoping the training will help me pull out of this rut. I'm actually hiring a personal trainer. I'm really excited. I meet with her on Friday.

Oh Christmas you kicked my butt!!!!

I don't have much to say other then the last few weeks have been horrible- weight wise. I've gained three pounds in the last three weeks. Good thing the new year is coming and I can start over. I've eaten everything in my house without a thought. Well not really. I avoided the really bad stuff. Fudge, cookies, chocolates but went to town on the chex mix and meat and cheese and crackers. I have 15 lbs tco go. Its time to focus. A new year.

This year I will...

Get back to my goal weight
run a marathon
complete a mini triathlon

Crazy thing is not that long ago that would seam impossible but not only is it not impossible but i will do it!

Crazy

Only those who are trying to lose will fully appreciate this

I lost 0.8 this week but that could just be due to wearing lighter clothing but I will take it. So after my Weight Watchers meetings I am usually starving. I usually haven't eaten much because it is my weigh in day and with the new launch we've been staying later then usual. So Monday I left, Starving!! I went to the Maverick to get a soda but while backing up my car died. Like, dead dead, no power. The lights went out and the car didn't even try to start and I was in the middle of the parking lot.

I had to call my husband to asked to be saved on honestly I wasn't upset about the car I was upset that I was SO HUNGRY and I was stuck at Maverick where there are like no healthy choices. My husband did not grasp the severity of the situation when he said, "just let me put the kids to bed and I will come and get you." UGH!!!! Why doesn't he understand that the hungrier I get the worse choices I will make when I get home? I just imagined myself inhaling the entire kitchen when I finally got home after he spent an hour trying to fix my car. So I threw my hands in the air and went into Maverick and bought some chicken strips and counted it as 9 points.

Frustrating

Thanksgiving- smanksgiving

So after thinking I'd completely blown it over Thanks giving- turns out I only gained .2 which I am really happy about. It just goes to show that you never know until you step on the scale. I think a lot of the time we think we've blown it and we just give in and give up when really its not as bad as we think.

So Thanksgiving is over but Christmas is right on its heals. I would really like to lose over the holidays but I have to put down the bag of mint chocolate holiday candies.

Its a holiday not a holi-month.

Running- running is not happening much with the cold weather and dark mornings. My goal is once a week on saturday a long run outside and a few times a week on the treadmil but only 30 min run. Other then that just Zumba and spin. I hope that gets me through the winter.
So anyone who reads this... what is your biggest struggle/concern about the holidays.

Provo Halloween Half Marathon

So yes, we know that I am a total slacker. How can I talk weight loss when I never post anything? Well I am trying to be better and since I am trying to avoid cutting up Elk with Lance it seams like a good time to catch up. :)

So I hit the big 3-0 this year and I wanted to do something awesome to celebrate. So I ran a half marathon! After spending the morning hunting, we headed down to Provo where I was going to run the next morning. It was a Halloween Marathon so everyone one dressed up. I dressed as a bee because that was all I could think of. It was the craziest race I've ever ran. All along the course were abandoned pieces of people's costumes. Cat tails, masks, super man capes, wings and all kinds of costume parts littered the ground.

I met all 2700 people and 70+ buses at the mall at 6:30am. We were bused up Provo canyon and dropped off on the freezing cold mountain. There were probably 30+ port-a-potties lined up along the start line with hundreds of people in line to use them. So I took my place in line with the others. While chatting with someone in line I mentioned I was from Wyoming, they asked why I traveled that far and I said it was my 30th birthday. So she led the 100+ people in line for the john in a port-a-potty happy birthday song. It was awesome. A serenade I will never forget.

The start line was so crowded it was probably over 2 minutes after the gun went off that we could actually start running. It was ALL down hill and so we were flying. They had pacers running the race holding signs with how fast they were running- awesome! I stayed between the 10 min 18sec mile pacer and the 10min 45 sec. pacer which is really time good for me for 13 miles.

It was an easy 13 miles, if you could ever call 13 miles easy. It was beautiful and I was never alone there were always lots of other runners all around me dressed in crazy crazy costumes.

I finished in 2 hours 16 minutes which was much faster then I expected. 17 minutes faster then my first half. That combined with the thousands of people at the finish line, Lance and the kids didn't make it in time to see me cross. We met up about 20 minutes later after I borrowed another runner's cell phone and called Lance.
So here I am about a half hour after I crossed. They gave me a really cool metal so I'm posing with it.

I'm trying to show off my stinger here.

And this is me with the kids. One of the coolest parts of being a runner is your kids think you are awesome especially when you get a metal or a trophy

I finished 1735th out of all the racers and 23rd in my division out of 65. Not too shabby!

So update on weight loss- I should do this every week- I'm down .6 this week a total of 39.4 lbs! I'm getting there!!