Fridays

Fridays are usually my day off for the week. Let me clarify this.   Full day off from work outside of the home.  ;)
Of course we know, the job at home does not come with any days off, unless you are on your death bed and then....never mind, I digress.  I really am blessed to have this full day to get caught up on everything from cleaning the toilets ;) to running errands for the family.
My body is tired today and today is the first day I feel like eating all day long.  Not a good combo.So far, I am on track and haven't made any terrible choices.
Struggling with my decisions to rest or run through sore/pain.  Today, I am choosing rest, hoping tomorrows workout will be better because of it.  I am thinking one day of rest is better than over irritating the injury and then having to take more than one day off. Any thoughts?

• 1/2 mile jog and circuit training on upper body.  

Three and a Gift

I have heard many veteran runners say, "the first two miles are the hardest" .  Well I think that is why in my head I always stop at 2 because it is in fact "hard" for me and I want it to be over!  Well, today, thanks to all the stuff going on in my head which preoccupied me, the olympics being on television and some awesome music on my ipod, I decided...what if, I just do it today? Go the extra mile, let's see if everyone is right.  And it is true folks! I really think when I hit 3, I could have gone on to 4, but didn't want to risk an injury, soreness for my workouts over the next few days.

I have to share with you all a gift that was given  to me yesterday.  I was thinking about my grandfather a lot yesterday and really missing him.  This happens on occasion and I go on with my day, but yesterday for some reason I thought about him more and was having a hard time with it.  So, I go to Wednesday night church and the closing hymn is "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" .  This song is one my favorites because my Grandpa used to play this on the organ and keyboard, we used to play and sing it together.  I had a hard time making it through the whole song without tears.  Coincidence or Gift from God? Definitely, Gift from God, God is so Good! It was a great ending to my day.

Just a closer walk with Thee,
Grant it, Jesus, is my plea,
Daily walking close to Thee,
Let it be, dear Lord, let it be.

I am weak, but Thou art strong;
Jesus, keep me from all wrong;
I’ll be satisfied as long
As I walk, let me walk close to Thee.

Through this world of toil and snares,
If I falter, Lord, who cares?
Who with me my burden shares?
None but Thee, dear Lord, none but Thee.

When my feeble life is o’er,
Time for me will be no more;
Guide me gently, safely o’er
To Thy kingdom shore, to Thy shore.

• 3 mile run at 4.5 :)

Weigh-In Wednesday

Well............I lost 5 pounds this week!  Woo hoo!


I discovered Yoplait light fat free yogurt today, 100 calories.  Banana Cream Pie, yummy!


Still haven't had sweets and don't really miss them. The things I crave are pizza, mexican and seafood lasagna from my favorite restaraunt...........I would choose any of that over chocolate/sweets.  


By the way - bloggy friends, is there spellcheck on this thing??  Did I happen to mention that I am not going to worry about things like spelling, grammar, punctuation??  


I think as a reward for my weight loss this week, I am going to splurge and purchase a new sports bra...TMI?  Well, you are just lucky I didn't take a picture of it and post it on here...it has 4 holes and the back is worn so thin that I think one more wash and it will be toast!  

• No run - very sore

The climb...

I really have nothing exciting to report today.  I am anxious to weigh in tomorrow and hope to report back with some weight loss! I know there are hundreds of you (insert heavy sarcasm) out there waiting on the edges of your seat!  Today was a rough run. I mean I could whine happily tell you about everything that was wrong with me today......

• my legs felt like 100 pound dumbells (not that I have ever lifted one)
• my calves hurt
• my shins started to hurt
• I had dry mouth (clearly not taking in enough water)
• I was having one of those talks with myself (ever have one of those?) while running and feeling like I wanted to quit doubting that I could ever get back to running 4 miles

I need a day of rest tomorrow and will do circuit training on my upper body instead.

I really need to download this song on to my ipod, I love it!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2zyeVRcbs

• ran 2 miles at 4.3, bumped it up to 5.0 for the last 5 minutes (thought I was going to die, but lived to blog about it. ;)

Still Truckin'...

I received something through email that hit me today:
Lent -a time for for renewal and restoration.  Slow down. Make time away from all the "busyness" to connect with your inner self, significant people, and God. "pamper your soul".
Get away with me and you'll recover your life" (Matthew 11:29 The Message)


Yesterday, as I was running on the treadmill I had time to "get away with him".  What better way to be taking care of myself physically and spiritually at the same time.  Even if it at times the conversation went something like this:   "I am going to die on this treadmill Lord, why is this so hard for me"......and.... "can't you help me out here?;)" As for the other things we talked about, well, that is just between Him and I, some things aren't meant to be blogged. ;)  

I guess you could say, I am still truckin' along...

• 2 mile run and a little circuit training on the abs and arms - I bumped it up to 4.5 today.

Sticking to it...

I just finished reading Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork by Mike Huckabee. Pretty good book, I took away the twelve steps to end bad habits and begin a healthy lifestyle:

Stop Procrastinating
Stop Making excuses
Stop Sitting on the couch
Stop ignoring signals from your body
Stop listening to destructive criticism
Stop expecting immediate success
Stop whining
Stop Making exceptions
Stop storing provisions for failure
Stop fueling with contaminated food
Stop allowing food to be a reward
Stop neglecting your spiritual health

My cold is getting better..made it to the gym again today. It really was HARD today....was a little more sore than I have been. I need to keep taking it slow.  Something is better than nothing.

I warm up with a 5 minute walk, then non-stop at 4.3 until I hit two miles. No walking.
I have really watched my diet carefully this week.  Drinking plenty of water and never eating after 6pm at night.  If I do, its an apple or banana. I have to admit I am anxious to weigh myself on Wednesday morning.

•  ran 2 miles 

Roadblocks and Excuses...

I consider a roadblock to be something real in the way of making it difficult to get my run in or not get my run in at all, such as injury or illness.

I believe excuses are ideas in my heads about why I may not make it to run.  You know...tired, too busy, schedule, it's too cold out, work, yada, yada yada...........lazy. I can always come up with excuses, but the truth is if I REALLY want this I need to fit it into my schedule, even if I have to get up early.

My latest roadblock is this chest cold that I have.  I took yesterday off because I only had a couple hours of sleep the night before from coughing and felt generally bad all day.

I took the NO EXCUSES approach today. I decided after a better nights sleep to at least go and try, even if all I did was walk or do the weights.

Mission accomplished, I ran 2 and then did circuit training on the upper body.

• Saturday - 2 miles

Ready to Run...

Well, here I am.  Blogging.  My name is Kim and I am a wife, and mother to two awesome children.  One girl, age 14, and one boy, age 7.  I also have a big yellow lab whom I adore.

This blog is going to be a journey of weight loss through running and faith - and a little coffee ;)  I have to warn you that there may be a little randomness thrown in here and I am not going to worry about my grammar, commas and run on sentences! ;)

I want to be fit by forty! I have about 2 years and 9 months to accomplish this. So here goes!

Two days ago on Ash Wednesday I decided to give up sweets for lent.  I also decided that was the day to start running again to get fit and lose some much needed weight.What better way to kick off the lenten season by comitting to take care of this body God gave me? So I got real and weighed myself and so I will document my weight loss (hopefully not weight gain) on Wednesdays.

I always hated running in high school and thought they were trying to kill us when they forced us to run the mile.:)  I can honestly say I have never loved running, but I love the way I feel after I run and the results.

About two years ago, I started walking to lose some weight and added running.  I found that I felt good and it helped me lose about 25 pounds. I ran my first race, a 4 mile run in May 2009.  Then in September 2009 I ran a 5K. No record times folks, I was pleased that I finished without having to call 911~   Little did I know keeping it off would be harder. I am back to where I started today.:(

So, now it is time to get real!.  My first short term goal is to run the 4 mile race again in May.

• Wednesday - did my first weigh in and ran 2 miles
• Thursday - ran 2 miles
• Today - day of rest with a chest cold