How Did You Meet?

So last night I had a pity party of one. Why? I am not really sure there was any specific reason. But I am sure it had something to do with one of my friends telling me he saw my ex at Target shortly after we had broken up with another girl. Why he told me this on Friday night 8 months later, I have no clue. Why it should even bother me or why I should even care, I am not really sure. Or maybe I just don't want to admit that I secretly wish he would come crawling back? So yeah I started looking at dating profiles on line. And there wasn't anyone who was so amazing I just had to sign up. But a lot of the profiles say similar things and they like to hang it in similar spots as I do. A lot of the guys say the like *my* bar. Why do I never see them there? They like the lake. I never see guys there. They claim to work out. Where are they? Seriously am I just going at weird times and missing them? Or do they really not go to these places as frequently as they claim? My only conclusion is that I am slightly intimidating with my height, confidence, black nail polish, and smarts? Oh and so two of my good friends are guys, but they are short and there is no romantic anything there at all. I think the pity party also had to do with the scale moving up instead of down. Even though it moved up, I feel like I am regaining tone in my legs and arms. So why I was wallowing I ate MORE sodium in the form of salt and pepper kettle chips. Lots of them. But today is a new day. I went to the gym for 2 hours this morning. One of the trainers from boot core waived and smiled at me as I was walking out and said he would see me tomorrow morning. That little moment got my morning off to a great start.

So, after all of that rambling, how did you meet your significant other/ex? Lurkers this is a great time to de-lurk. I dare you to!

Boot Core Day 4

We did a lot of running today. Or at least it felt that way. Running with a body bar. Running with a body bar up and down stairs. Lunges, push ups, ab work oh my! Oh and it was even hotter than Friday! I was pretty beat, so I cooled off, by walking on the treadmill for 45 minutes.

Oh and my weigh in today? 204 lbs. If you are keeping score at home that means I would have gained 6 lbs since last week. I know my eating was far from acceptable last week, but I also did exercise a lot. So I think it has to do something with my sodium intake over the past 2-3 days. I mean I did eat a HUGE bag of salt and pepper kettle chips this week, of which I polished off last night. I also ate more chips at dinner last night, pizza, and margaritas. So yeah, I think that has something to do with it. Oh and I drank on both Friday and Saturday night.

Saturday night was the American Gladiator Party. It was a blast! Here is a pic from the party. I am waiting to get some more, because one of the guys in attendance was a professional photographer and he got some pretty good shots.




Last week I was able to get my gym routine in check. This week I want to get my eating in check.

Boot Core Day 3

Today was by far the hardest. For 5 AM it was sure hot. Welcome to TN. Welcome to the South. Welcome to 70 degrees and HUMID at 5 AM in the morning. I am sure the fact that I wore yoga pants didn't help much, but I honestly dislike the way my legs look in shorts. I just have so much extra skin flappin around. Today we were constantly moving doing intervals of all sorts. I am not evening going to attempt to describe them, but they were hard and I pushed myself and I was pretty tired at the the end. I can already tell my lower body is going to to be SORE tomorrow.

I made it through the first week and I sort of like it. Actually I really like it. I am seriously considering signing up for the July class.

American Gladiator party tomorrow. My costume is awesome. Of course I will post pics :)

On Food

Despite my knowledge of knowing how limiting the types of food eaten and labeling food (like good and bad, healthy and not healthy) can be detrimental to weight loss (well peace of mind in general), I still partake in this unhealthy habit. I just realized it yesterday, after talking about a couple of binges I had had earlier in the week. So I am going to work on really savoring and enjoying foods. I am also not going to limit what I can and can’t eat. I think for so long I have limited myself to certain things because I view them as “bad”. However, some of the things I label as bad, really aren’t bad. They just need to be eaten in moderation. I don’t crave twinkies or lots of other processed foods, but I do like some things that shouldn’t be eaten in large quantities.

Here is a list of foods that I REALLY enjoy right now: chocolate, a good dessert, nuts, avocado, buffalo mozzarella, salt and pepper kettle chips, strawberries, pineapple, grapes, good bread. Yep. I think that’s it for about now. If I think of anything else, I will be sure to add it.

Oh the gym. I am slightly sore today, but not as bad as it was yesterday and Tuesday. Oh and I went to the gym this morning. I didn’t have my class, but my body is starting to wake up earlier now. I was there by 5:15 and did stretching/ab work, stair climber for 30 minutes, and treadmill for 45 minutes. I also noticed again how much I really enjoy working out in the morning. I am trying not to get upset with myself for stopping last spring because of the ex. But it’s hard. BUT I am getting back into my old habits and it feels great!