SAHM 3/29---4/4

Gm ladies!


Stacey- I am glad the senna pills worked!


My goals today- Drink that darn h20
Do exercise video of some sort!

Yee Haw! GM everyone! It is snowing here did ya know that. Actually it isn't--that is what we call days where Mommy says Nah you don't have to do school--go outside and play. Hee Hee--I knew today would be a snow day cause I am SO tired from the weekend. If I tried to teach my 7 yo I would probably kill him or lock him in the closet. He is happier & so I am I that he was outside all morning.

The weekend was AWESOME. I got to work on 3 projects & get 1 of them done. All my close friends go & bring their friends so it is an awesome time of fellowship, laughter/tears & encouragement. Wish all of you could have been there. We do this in Oct & March. I didn't eat total junk but I did have dessert & more soda than usual. We also walked up this huge hill(1 mile round trip) several times when I couldn't focus on scrapin' anymore. Didn't stay up terribly late(unusual) so I am doing better at getting things done today than normal after this event.

Today

WATER!!! 3 glasses down already--5 to go
Get menus up on here & planned out along with my grocery list made for errand day tomorrow.
Walk/jog this afternoon for 30 minutes

Hope everyone is having a great day. Trish--sorry that you were ill over the weekend. Stacey--glad the senna worked. NO junk today!!(talking to myself too)

Kim

If Grace is better by Easter weekend, I plan on having a lot of fun with her. I want to take her to the Thanksgiving Point farm so she can have a pony ride, and see all the animals whose names she can actually say now (horse, pig, bird, sheep, cow, duck, etc), and the rec center where I work out at is having an Easter egg hunt, too.

Sassy, is that 76 farenheit? If so, I'm totally jealous. It's nice here today, but I'M FREEZING! So is the little princess. I don't want to turn the heat on, because it gets to 80 in the house by mid afternoon.

68 sounds just about perfect as far as weather goes.

Did great on my run today. Was going to take it easy, but my body had other ideas. I ended up smashing through 1.88 miles on the TM, and ran a 6.5 mph 1 min interval at the end. Walked 3.5/4 mph intervals, and maintained an average of 4.5 mph in running.

Aww, Stacey, never say never, because never is an awfully long time. Now sing the following song from An American Tail along with me:

Never say never, what ever you do
Never say never, my friend

If you believe that, your dreams will come true.
They'll come true in the end.

Keep up your courage, don't ever despair
Take heart and then count to ten
Hope for the best
Work for the rest and never say never again

Never say never
whatever you do
Never say never to me
If you believe you can come shining through
That's how it's gonna be!

Trish...wow! rockin' it in the car AND in the run! What a great day for you!

Stacey- How did the day turn out? hopefully no junk!:flowerforyou:


Katie- Great news on the Ohio transfer, although I personally would rahter go to England than Ohio, but good for hubs on getting the school he wanted. Great job on the run too! Thanks about my run....I just know I could have done it faster...I mean I ran a HILLY (the last 1.2 miles was all uphill, not to mention the rest of the course was pretty much all hill)1/2 marathon before and ran in it 9:38 miles...

I did my exercises that I wanted to do today. I am thinking of running a 1/2 marathon on May 2nd. I have 2 choices, either the Eugene 1/2 or the Ave. of the giants 1/2 ( another run in the redwoods)...the only prob with the ave \of the giants is that it is 5 hours away....hmmmm

Nicole, which one has the cooler t-shirt? I'm all about earning the t-shirts! I pick the race that gives me free clothes, LOL.

Gm!

Trish- not sure about the avenue of the giants t-shirt.. this is what last years shirt, I think it changes every year. http://www.theave.org/frontcolorAVE09shrt.pdf

But Eugene's looks like the logo in the upper left of their website. http://www.eugenemarathon.com/

Good morning! I had a busy weekend. I don't have much time to post right now, but I should be back later today. Just wanted to say that I'm still here!

"half your body weight in ounces in water" - so am I figuring this right? Its half in pounds then to ounces, not half your actual weight in ounces then to ounces?
so 76kg = 167lb = >84oz /2.4litres water / day? Does that sound right?

One of my favourite T shirts is from an event (http://www.molenbergsubseries.co.nz)
Actually, that's the one I'm doing in my photo! LOL

Shera- That is too cool that you are doing the race! I think i am going to do it! I can run in a city anytime..but the redwoods???!!!!! YAY!! We definitely need to meet up at the race!


Sassy- I checked out the website...looks like fun!

Trish-198....198......198......did you read my motto on my profile? because that is what I say all of the time Trish!!!! When are you going to NY? I think I am going to be in Salt Lake Jun 14-18th for a convention.


Sooooo....believe it or not, today was the first day that I ran with Buella (my ipod) in a couple of years. She has always slowed me down. Well not today baby! I wish how I ran today was how I ran on Sat.:sad: I had an awesome 6 mile run. I have been rereading my marathon training book by Tom Holland and really took his advice today. I wanted to run today, but it was 38 degrees with a downpour...I had my runnign stuff on, just sitting in the car going.....just get out and do it! and I kept hearing in my head the words I read in his book...I feel Great!!! This is my day!!! I kept saying them as I stepped out of the car and started to run. After a while...ya know...I really felt it and believed it. I had a smile on my face the entire 6 miles!:drinker: :flowerforyou:

Yup cool that's what I thought

And then I was all hold on, maybe I should be working out what i weigh in ounces and drinking half of that, but that seemed like a lot so I had to check!

argh I've just munched my way through a 1/3 of a roll of ritzs and light philly! Could be worse I spose...

Had stocktake today so I've been lifting and shifting all day, slithering around on my belly to get my head in underneath shelves to look what's there. And more tomorrow!

I'm expecting an afternoon and evening now of pressing snaps onto the diapers my SIL (due early June) wants. I've cut them all out, and pressed the snaps on 5 last night, so 19 to go!

I don't have a proper ipod but a sony mp3 player and I HATE running without it, it's sooooooo boring! I often put the classical music radio station on, it's actually pretty good to run to, a lot more upbeat than people realise.

198 198 198 198 198 198 198 198 198 198 198 198 198 198 198 198 198!

Good morning ladies,
I just wanted to comment on my personal triumph. Despite my reluctance and sluggishness I burned 900 cal on the TM in under an hr. My goal was to do incline intervals level 9 for 3 minutes then level 15 for 7 minutes for a total of 50 minutes at a speed of 3.8 and I DID IT:bigsmile:
I really needed to push myself after yesterday. I had some serious issues with chocolate. I stayed under cal but had cadbury mini eggs, german chocolate larabar and wayyy too many black bean brownies (which were surprisingly delicious, flourless and only 126 cal each so not as bad as it could have been). I haven't had such an "out of control" day in awhile. I felt yucky about it. AF arrived last night so it explains the chocolate issues but still, I disappointed myself w/ my "binge." So, rather than just feel bad about it I decided to push myself and remind myself that I'm in control, by the strength of the Lord and I felt sooo good after my workout.
I started some fat burners today too. I only took one instead of the two it said to b/c I don't do much caffeine and wasn't sure how I would handle it. So far so good. Hoping it jump starts a good few weeks of loss. I am heading to a pastor's wives retreat in Maryland the last week in April and my goal is to be 175 before I leave.

Sassy, do you have a pattern for the diapers? I would love to learn how to make them! If we have anymore little ones I am def going cloth this time. I had never thought of making my own, what a great gift!

Nicole - great job on the run...in the rain. That's hardcore. I complain about going to the gym in the rain and I only have to walk through the parking lot lol!

Trish- hope you enjoyed that candy apple w/ hubby. I love sharing a treat w/ my sweetie after all the littles go to bed! Glad Grace is on the mend again. Isaac and Ian both have stuffy noses and hubby started w/ one too. I'm loading them up w/ zinc and C, hopefully they'll kick it fast.

This week is 1/2 way over. Work hard to make the rest of it count everyone! Have a great day!

Aw, poor guy! Definitely sending good vibes his way.

And Melissa... 900 cals? THAT'S intense!

Considering I'm stuck at 202, I don't think 198 will happen... but I keep picturing it in my head anyway.

I ended up having 3 slices of the apple last night & I was DONE. After that I was "blech", and getting a tummy ache. There were 8 slices total, and Andy had 5 slices, and had a tummy ache too. We were laughing about it.

Dunno when I'm gonna get my run in today. With Grace on the mend, I don't want to expose her to little kids at the child care at the rec center, and Andy said he was going to start working on the bathroom again when he got home. Hmmm... maybe he can wait an hour.