Couch to 5K - W1D2 DONE!

Testing :-)

Got my run in! :)

Insomnia

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C25K W1D2

Haven't done the run yet, but I will. Had some sleep problems last night - both the boys and me, so I did not get up as early as I would have liked to (10AM). So I am going to leave 45 minutes early to pick up the boys and run along the road in front of the Heron Hill Winery (about 3 miles away from me, but too far for me to run to - for now :) ) park the car at the lookout and have some beautiful scenery to go along with my run. Then I will go get the boys and even though I got a late start I will have accomplished what I needed to today!

Couch to 5K - W1D1

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C25K

Inspired by Lorie from the token fat girl I have restarted my Couch to 5K program. I like the feeling of accomplishment finishing a run gives me, and just the few weeks I was doing it last spring/summer I was rapidly able to improve my speed and distance and I look forward to completing the program (and the "runner's high" everyone talks about). I have the same respect for runners that I do dancers - something I have not been able to get my body to do in the past, but I am trying to get better.

And it looks like I will need to find a better way to store my Crockpot yogurt overnight for the winter - the last 2 batches of my yogurt (made from the Crockpot Ladies' Blog) have not set enough because the kitchen got so cold overnight. I am going to invest in some heavy bath towels and store the crock in the oven overnight from now on.

Bye Bella

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I had to put down my beautiful Husky on Wednesday. My sweet Bella. And I have not been working out or eating right. I go shopping tomorrow. I will be back on track.

Proper Form

Ah the difference proper form makes! Yet another reason that I love ChaLEAN Extreme is that Chalene Johnson explains the proper form for strength training moves AND SHOWS YOU! She has one of the participants on the DVD show the proper and improper form. I have been lifting weights for easily 15 years and in all that time I have been doing dead lifts wrong. I had always heard that dead lifts were great for the butt and legs and never ever felt them targeting the areas they were supposed to when I was doing them. Until today! Hours later I can feel the movement in my glutes and hamstrings too. Every step up the stairs is a mini session in pain - the good kind - and I feel vindicated that I really worked today.

I worked out this morning - in spite of oversleeping by about 3 hours - but I did not get my run in. I ate clean all day and avoided (no matter how much I wanted them) sweets in sticking to part of the "Gorgeous Glutes" challenge I am in on the Tosca Reno boards.

I also have at least one more reader than I knew of! :) One of my fellow students not only told me he has read a couple of my blogs, but that I looked like I had lost weight. Thanks Pete - that really made my day!

Nothing like a shopping trip to depress/motivate you...

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"disco" dancing with Jonas

So I had set aside money to buy some clothes - a couple pairs of jeans, some shirts... so that I had more than 1 pair of jeans to wear. Yeah, that did not happen. I found jeans, and technically they "fit" but how I looked in them was unacceptable. UNACCEPTABLE! I had severe muffin top. And "front butt" - visible "front butt". It was awful. I practically wanted to throw up I looked so awful.

So that was a swift and depressing message that I need to get moving and change my lifestyle. I was truly disgusted with myself. I bought a pack of t-shirts and a tie-dye kit, 2 pairs of sweat pants and a light hoodie jacket. I will not live like this. It really did gross me out.

So  - since I was joining an end of the year ChaLEAN Extreme challenge anyway, I have decided to kick it up a notch. I will complete the ChaLEAN Extreme challenge/program and add Couch to 5K training onto it.

1. Monday/Wednesday/Friday (Strength or Rest days anyway) I will get up before taking the boys to daycare and do the strength training portion of my program. After dropping them off I will either run near the house, or if the weather prevents it I will make sure to leave for school early enough to run on the treadmills at school. 
2. Tuesdays I will do Zumba and one of Chalene's Ab programs (from Turbo Jam, CLX or TurboFire)
3. Thursdays I will do TurboFire and wither BBL or an ab program
4. Saturday I will do CLX
5. Sunday I will BBL or Hip Hop Abs

Spicy Spinach

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nothing - rest day

Mmm, spinach... So far this week I have made spicy curried spinach no less than 4 times. And I end up eating almost all of it in one sitting. Something about the tumeric, the garlic, the cayenne pepper... I am drooling just thinking about it. And I am eating mad amounts of vegetables (not hard since I love vegetables) - at least 1.5 cups per serving! I have more going now to round out my eggs over easy with homemade bread dinner. The only problem with this dish (besides the draino effect) is that my sweet Licorice keeps demanding I share with her - really, do cats in India eat curried vegetables?