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"Feel the fear and do it anyway"

I haven't been around as much as usual, but that's not indicative of anything other than trying to get all of my homework done in advance before Dallas, prepping for Dallas, and reading self help material to help me deal with my fear of flying!My diet is OK. It's not ideal for me right now. It's not BAD, but my portions are larger, and I know that this is partially due to PMS and this anxiety of flying hitting at the same time. ...

March 9, 2010 | comments (4) | 2010 January Challenge

My day

Last night was rough. I had a gall bladder attack. MAN are those things miserable. I wish that they would have taken that thing out when I was in the hospital back in November. My gall bladder kept me from going to Denver, so I have to make sure somehow that it doesn't keep me from Dallas. I would be SOOOOO bummed. After I felt better, I did my hair and make up then went to the mall to pick up a couple of thing...

March 4, 2010 | comments (0) | 2010 January Challenge

Damn food.

Well, last week I was 100% focus and determination. Then I had a free day, and just like so many other free days that came before it, I lost my focus and free day turned into three day.I love my free days.. love them. At the beginning free days allowed me to eat the things I craved during the week and it worked. I don't know if I've gotten too comfortable with them or what, but it doesn't work that way anymore.I think that I nee...

March 2, 2010 | comments (5) | 2010 January Challenge

6 lbs lost so far

I finished my Sociology final :) Yay me! I'm pretty happy with my progress on the program as well. I started on Feb. 15th and I've lost 6 lbs of the 16 that I put on. 124 lbs down total. Whew, it's coming off again. I'm feeling stronger, healthier, clearer, and more positive. Today is free day, but I haven't really been hungry. I might have a free meal later, but I'm not sure. We'll see what h...

February 27, 2010 | comments (2) | 2010 January Challenge

Awesome week and food addiction

This week has been FABOOSH. I completed my final for Image Editing and Implementation which took many, many hours. This week I'm working on my Sociology final. School falls under the "I Get To" category. I am SO incredibly grateful to be back in school. It wouldn't have happened without this program, I never would have had the intestinal fortitude to do it on my own. I also booked my trip to Dallas.&n...

February 25, 2010 | comments (1) | 2010 January Challenge

Famine

"Thought provoking" sometimes comes from odd places. I was watching Supernatural on DVR. The basic plot was that one of the four horsemen, famine, came to a town and havoc insued. When I think of famine, I think of lack of food or drought. What was interesting to me about the show was that famine was represented not by lack, but by an insatiable, all consuming, ravenous hunger. Not physical hunger, but the hunger of the so...

February 20, 2010 | comments (1) | January 2010 Challenge Assignments

Valentine's Day sadness counter attack

Today was a good day :)I got my beloved Montero back from the shop. It was a chunk of cheese to pay for it, but it's nice to see my car with a front end lolToday my meals were good. I also VERY CAREFULLY walked around the apt complex. It's the first time I tried since the knee injury. It's unstable, but it held up.Last Valentine's Day was horrible, and I'm still single this year. My initial plan was to save my free d...

February 10, 2010 | comments (3) | 2010 January Challenge

Assignment 4... man is this one tough!

"It’s important to accept that we cannot change the past. What’s done is done. Forgiveness helps us change the present and the future. It sets us free. But as long as we hold onto a grievance, we are chained to the past situation and the offender. This is paradoxical because in many cases, people who have been harmed by someone, want to be as far away from them as possible." After careful consideration, The Big Hurt a...

February 8, 2010 | comments (6) | January 2010 Challenge Assignments

Starting over on Feb 15th.

My knee is still pretty hosed. I sent Coach Stoney a message letting him know that I injured my knee and that I want to wait until the 15th to begin my challenge. He said to rest up & go ahead and start on the 15th of February. Whew and yay.Today I ate like I had mad heffa disease. Tomorrow back on track. My knee has been feeling marginally better, then this evening I was doing some homework... I don't know if i...

February 7, 2010 | comments (2) | 2010 January Challenge

Day 8

Well.. I didn't handle things well today. My knee is KILLING me. I used the e stim device a couple of times, taken the advil, rest, krill oil, msm.... etc. I really messed it up good this time. Tomorrow the guys are coming to take my truck away for repairs that are going to cost me a fortune that I don't have. I figured that I can't get to my truck anyway, so they may as well do it now. I ate.. a lot. Of ...

February 1, 2010 | comments (1) | 2010 January Challenge

Assignment 3

Assignment #3 Transcending unhealthy habits: I have been considering the question of what my lowest level habit is. I thought of all of my bad habits and what the root cause of those habits were, then the root cause of that, and I ended up at indulging my feelings of self loathing. For as long as I can remember, I have had a gaping hole in my soul. I've tried to fill it with food, love, attention, anger, and just a...

January 31, 2010 | comments (0) | January 2010 Challenge Assignments

Day 6 - Free day and figuring out how to work around my injury

Today was free day. Luckily, it was Mitch day too. I was both grateful and a little sad about him coming over. Grateful that I had someone who could help me with the little things like errands, changing the lightbulb, and taking out the trash and a little sad because we usually do the errands together.Unfortunately, my knee injury is quite bad. I couldn't even hope to get to my truck outside, let alone wallk around the gro...

January 30, 2010 | comments (1) | 2010 January Challenge

Day 5 - Another knee issue #$(@)$#@()$(*)@#

Well, last night I spent a couple of hours at the gym and got in a great workout. It would be much more bad a$$ to say that I injured in the gym, but the truth is that at about 8am this morning I was sleeping and awoke to a partial dislocation of my knee, and then it slammed back in the socket hard. I hoped that it wouldn't be a big deal. Today I have had knee pain most of the day. Then I was walking around the apartment w...

January 29, 2010 | comments (3) | 2010 January Challenge

Day 4

What an exciting show! Congrats to all of the winners of the HHC tonight... I LOVED the show!My eating has been good, my workouts have been good as well. I went to the gym tonight and really pushed myself. I'm sure that I'm going to feel it tomorrow. I did assignment 1 a couple of days ago, then went on to assignment 2. It's already been emotional, and I haven't even gotten to assignment 4 yet which is almost as chal...

January 28, 2010 | comments (1) | 2010 January Challenge

Assignment 2

Healthy Spaces Makeover Assignment #2 Reading the text and listening to the mp3 for this assignment was a real eye opener. Some great advice that Bill gave at the beginning of this was that for those of us who are doing it again to go into it with new eyes (or something to that effect). After reading the text it occurs to me that I need to be conscious of the type of energy that I'm sharing with the people around m...

January 27, 2010 | comments (2) | January 2010 Challenge Assignments

Assignment 1

Where I was and where I am It's been a real challenge taking a hard look at where I came from, how I've progressed, and all of the work that I have yet to do. I realized in Round 1 2009 that my transformation would be more than 18 weeks, it would be a life time journey. There would be victories, losses, challenges, joy, and pain. I would need to embrace, learn from, and grow from all of these in order to keep movin...

January 26, 2010 | comments (5) | January 2010 Challenge Assignments

Day 1

Today was the first day of my challenge. Yayyyyyyyyyy! I feel like I got beaten with a tired iron though lol (Yes, that was a over dramatic statement) I worked out SO hard! I'm trying to get in decent enough shape to walk the 1/2 marathon in Dallas. We'll see what happens there.I wish that I had some words of wisdom or something great to say, but I'm absolutely beat.UB, Abs, CardioM1 - Right whey, spinach, lecithin, ...

January 25, 2010 | comments (3) | 2010 January Challenge

Bwoketed my wittow toe

Well.. the other day I was walking in my bedroom and crunched my little toe on the bottom of my bed. Now it's an interesting shade of dark purple lol Certainly not a huge trauma by any means, but putting on an athletic shoe is not fun, and doing cardio isn't realistic until it takes a few days or so to heal. Thankfully, I have the luxury of delaying my challenge so I'm going to start on the 18th. It's not a big deal, I jus...

January 12, 2010 | comments (2) | 2010 January Challenge

Maybe I don't make such a good juggernaut...

Well, this week I learned a valuable lesson that sometimes being a juggernaut is probably not the approach that I want to take at my challenge. I am very thankful that I waited a week to start and kind of used this week to warm up and get my workouts together before I begin on Monday.When I signed up for 24 hour, they had a special for 3 training sessions with a trainer for $99. I didn't really know where to begin, so I took advantage...

January 8, 2010 | comments (6) | 2010 January Challenge

Uber determined

So, this week has been about getting my workouts together so that I have a strong start on Monday. Earlier this week I made the choice to join a gym. I got a decent deal, and they had a special for 3 personal trainer sessions for $99. I took it. In my mind, I have won this. It's there at the end of the 18 weeks, and all I have to do is put in the work to earn it. Bill said to "Give it everything you've got...

January 6, 2010 | comments (3) | 2010 January Challenge

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