Lonely Run

Points of the Day-

• Monta- My running partner was gone!! :( I missed her so.... She said she would go running with me on Monday to get our long run in. So this morning I contemplated going, but my guilt got to me and I was like fine I'll go.

• I could not get my MP3 player to work, so I had to use Gary's cell phone and the only music he has downloaded is country music. I like some country music, but it is really not running music by far. I really thought I'll go around the block be bored to death with no one to talk too.

• Did not even bring water. I know I had tons of confidence in myself. I really thought I would last maybe a mile.
  

• I started off and I felt good and I just kept going then, then I hit 3 and I thought well even if I turn around it is 6, so I mine as well do all 8.
  

• Okay before I even start this point I must clarify if anyone tells me they are in pain I am the first one to say stop you will regret it later and I strongly believe that. And running 8 miles without water I would never in a million years tell someone to run a mile without water. I am doing good no need to worry. But this last week has been a tough week for me my self confidence is pretty darn low. I really just want to be weight wise where I was last year. I kind of just feel like crap about myself. But when I got to mile 6 my ankle felt like it was going to give out and then 7 my arches started hurting. But I needed to run through it. I feel so much better after this run, it's hard to explain but I really needed this run.

I survived and it was a good run. I am sore! The plan for the upcoming week is probably 2 long runs. Monta and I are going to do one Monday afternoon and then the normal one on Saturday. I really wish the weight would start coming off. I really hope it's because of the breast feeding and once I stop in May the weight will fall off.

By the way loving the widget!

Leg cramps!

How do you cure massive leg cramps? I have been having a lot of trouble with them this week which has slowed my pace. They actually start in my ankle, move to my shin, then wrap the outside of my leg and move into my knee. It is horrible pain, and no amount of stretching has helped. It only happens in my right leg. I can work through all my foot problems but this leg cramping is killing me. No matter what I keep going because I am refusing to let pain keep me from exercising.

I have been taking calcium/vitamin c, my prenatal, v-b complex, and my new mama drops. Do I need to eat more bananas or something??

Another week

I changed my weight tracker because ever since I lost that 5 lbs I've been bouncing between the two weights.  One day I'm up, another day I'm down... I'm just fluctuating in that five pound range so until I start fluctuating in a different bracket I'm not gonna count myself 5 down.

I ate bad this week.  I was so good Monday and Tuesday.  I walked 5 on Monday, 3.3 on Tuesday, and ate very good.  Unfortunately things got crazy around here, causing Tuesday and Wednesday to be a complete wash.  I was supposed to get out yesterday, but again, things got busy.  BUT, today was a different story.  It is hard getting Skyler out of the house when the kids are here and we have no where to go, which is why Thursday was so bad.  We are doing this together and I don't want to go without my buddy!  Every mile I walk, Skyler walks.  It is so nice to have him doing this with me because I want so much for us both to get in shape.  I don't know if I'll go back to running because he can't run very well with his flat foot.  Although, if I get him walking at top speed, I have to run. =)  So, today we took a long walk with the kids. I forgot to take my calcium last night and I could FEEL it.  My leg was cramping SO BAD!  And going up Bonanza on a cramping leg is NOT fun.  I ended up running a little just to get through it faster.  We, as a family, walked 2.48 miles this morning.  It was more than they're used to, but they enjoyed it.

As for weight loss this week.... NONE, obviously.  I need to stop drinking soda.  I don't have it very often... not every day anyway, but I am having it a couple times over the weekends and it is not helping me.  I think if I shun it completely I have half a chance at losing something.  The sad thing is, I'm not ready to make that commitment yet.  I am going to wait until after our Disney trip.  Just because, I KNOW I will drink soda on vacation and I don't want to disappoint myself by not keeping to my goal.  After the vacation I am positive I can do it.  I have had such a rough road over the past year and I don't need to set myself up for another disappointment.  So, I am posting a pic of myself.  I'm using my mom's webcam...those pics are never flattering.  Here goes......

I am the heaviest I have ever been in my entire life...including pregnancy!  This is not because of a lack of effort.  I can reasonably say, this is hormones.  I have had major issues with my hormones since I had Riley.  If you remember, I managed to lose about half the weight I gained with him about 2 months after he was born.  I was my max pregnancy weight for the longest time, which is extremely odd.  I always lose at least 15 lbs by the time I go home from the hospital.  Considering I normally only stay 24 hours and this time I stayed almost 3 days, I knew something was wrong.  Then after I lost the 15 lbs I ended up gaining it right back 3 weeks into June when I started having "issues".  I can honestly say, since I've gotten on this new regime of supplements my "issues' have diappeared and I feel so much better.  Unfortunately, the damage of 6 months with issues is done.  In reality, it may take my body a year to recover from what it has been through, and who knows if I've still got underlying problems.  

As for exercising, I am currently measuring my strength.  I know I cannot run long distances because when I did a mile it nearly killed my ankles.  So, I've decided to do a walk/run... ya know, walk then sprint, walk then sprint.  It is helping and I am getting stronger, but I've got a long way to go.  

Go Me!

So, I'm about to post my daily miles on my widget.  I just needed to brag to myself a little bit.  I got up this morning ready for the day.  I had set in my mind that for the next month, or at least while the weather is nice, I'm going to walk to the school at least 2x per day.  I go there three times a day so two out of three isn't bad.  It would at least be a 5k every day doing that.  So, we walked the kids to school, then at 11 am I decided it was nice enough outside I'd walk to get Logan.  He was so excited to be able to walk home.  Then at 3 today, Teagan was ready for a nap and he loves going on walks so I put him in his carseat and walked to get the boys.  The only regret....  It was hot!  I thought with it only being 85 degrees today it wouldn't be bad, but it was.  Poor baby had red cheeks.  So, I wanted to make it an even 5 miles so I walked up and down Lindon while waiting for the bell to ring. 

Truthfully, the reason I'm walking so much, or the reason I was so motivated today was because Korina ran 8 miles on Saturday and had 4 more miles than me during the week.  I figured I better step up my game if I'm gonna keep up with her. LOL

Day 1

We weren't able to get the treadmill inside this weekend and I was so bummed because I was so ready to get started exercising this week. But then this morning I realized, DUH... Running/walking is not the only way to exercise! Luke was being extra cooperative so I pulled out my "Biggest Loser"DVD and did the cardio workout. WOW! That really made me realize how out of shape I am. My calves were on fire from the jumping jacks. As exhausting as it was, it felt so good to do something. Day 1 down (as far as exercise) on to day 2 tomorrow!

8 Miles!!

I have to say I am in pain!! I am so sore! Monta and I did our 8 miles today. I used mapmyrun and had a trail. We made it up Temple Mountain and decided we wanted to make sure we got home by 8:14! At first I was just thinking I'll just be glad to finish, even happier not to have to walk but get it under 2 hours. So we ran and ran and ran and added in a neighborhood to see if the Secret Service was there(Really we did I will explain later.) They weren't. Then we realized that Mapmyrun or my watch was off so we just kept running and running and finally once around the park we finally had it!! I could not be happier to be done! But to be honest it really felt good and happy I was able to do it without walking! And getting it under our Timeline! 8 Miles is a good confidence builder just 5 more and I will have my half marathon!!


My reason for liking the widget is even thought Kim and my weight seems to be standing still! Our Widget is moving up and up and it is wonderful! It gives me a push and I don't want it to stay the same! It is one thing I can be in control of!

This week in the life of Kim....

This week I walked a lot more, I did a lot of strength training, which I can't seem to figure out how to log on the widget.  Just don't know what to choose.  I even counted my calories this week and made sure I burned more than I was eating.  With all that effort I lost NOTHING again.  Ugh!  Its not hindering my motivation at all.  I'm going to kick fat's butt whether it likes it or not.

late, sort of check in

I'm here, I promise!! Sorry, I've been kind of MIA for the last few weeks. Which most likely means I've not been eating very well - which is true. I get my birthday week off right? And the week after too?:) I did at least give up the Halloween chocolate, I wish I could say it was because I had that much will power, but it's actually because Luke is an extra fussy baby and I noticed that when I stopped eating chocolate he wasn't quite as fussy. So as tempting as it is to each the chocolate, having a baby sleep 40 min instead of 20 is worth it.
I had my 6 wk check up yesterday. I could have started working out before that but I never did. I feel much more normal now and the pain is almost gone. At least I know if I have a little pain now it's more likely that the muscles are sore and pretty much non existent, rather than I'm not quite healed. I am going to work into it, starting slowly at first. But even slowly is better than I've been doing.
Our treadmill will be moved into the house this weekend, then I'll add the wigit to my sidebar. I like that a lot. That will help to motivate me a lot. You guys are doing awesome!

Motivation...

Well I don't know about you Korina, but that daily mile thing is working for me.  I couldn't walk the kids to school with Skyler today because, as usual, I had to take Teagan to preschool.  Recently my goal has been to go to Zumba during preschool, but it didn't happen last week because Riley was sick.  This week he is still sick with the RSV, but over all he's feeling better, BUT my car was reading 5% on oil life and NEEDED an oil change so instead of Zumba today, I went to Honda to get an oil change.  We had erronds to run this afternoon so we went to McDonald's for lunch, which is never good, but I had a low calorie dinner so hopefully it won't hurt me.  After dinner I was sitting there thinking, "Dang, I haven't done anything I can put on my mile ticker"  So, I got the four kids to run with me around the block.  Logan and Teagan were always ahead of me, Jayden was behind me most of the time...complaining...  Matthew would run between me and the little ones and when he'd get to me, he was so cute!  He kept encouraging me to keep running.  He would say things like, "wow mom you're doing good", or "I can't believe you're still running, you're doing great".  He'd even yell at Jayden to keep up so I wouldn't have to stop. 

Anyway, I'm gonna try to do this every evening.  I'm gonna keep to the one mile for a while because it was really hard.  I would say I can't believe how out of shape I am, but I'm really not surprised with as heavy as I am.  These new drops I'm taking are really making a difference in how I feel and I'm trying to use the renewed energy I've got to drop this weight.  I can see in my head what I want to look like and every day it is getting easier to make the choices that will get me there.

Added my widget

AND I must say I am not THAT slow!! I don't turn off my nike band I just take it off when I get home and plug it into the computer. I will try to remember to start hitting the button after I run. I am always worried I will hit the wrong button and restart it! Lately we have been doing about a 13 min mile which is good for me!

Dailymile

I saw this on letsmoveitmommas on the side bar that have a widget from Dailymile. And it will input our daily miles onto our blog. You can Sync to your gadgets or you can go in there and manually input your miles into it which then will update on our blog! What are your thoughts? I think it would be fun and maybe would get us moving. We could also set goals has a team to get so many mile or compete the first to whatever miles.

Loved this!!

Monica posted this on Facebook! AND I laughed so hard!! That is ME!! It's is so great!! I maintained this week. I was not that great this week at working out so really can't complain. You guys I am not that great for waking up at 4:30am. I have no other choice..... Gary has to leave by 6am and does not get back till after dark. And I don't have a treadmill. I can't wait when it cools off because then I am going to go when Gary come home for lunch. I hate it, but I already paid for this darn race. I have no choice!!! I still do so much wrong and I know(hope) if I just really got down and serious the weight would come off so much faster. Instead of a pound every other week!! Oh Well My fault! No excuses.. Just need to get my butt in gear so I can look like the above girl!! :P

Bust!

This week nothing has gone as planned.  My "plan" was to get the bowflex dusted off and get working on strength training...that didn't happen.  I wanted to start getting up early and walking/jogging on my own before we take the walk to school with the kids, but because of Riley being sick that didn't happen either.  I planned to go to Zumba both days this week and due to circumstances beyond my control and missed BOTH days.  I also planned to eat healthy this week, but Halloween candy hit the house and well... I couldn't resist.

The little bit of working out I did do this week worked off the Halloween candy, but nothing else.  I sit here with NO weight loss.

Even though there were a lot of distractions this week I have not lost my motivation.  I want to get out there and do it.  I just need to convince myself that 5:30 is a reasonable time to get up in the morning.  I know I can't complain with Korina's schedule being what it is.

Urrr!!

The motivation is there.... nothing and no one else will cooperate!!  Need I say more?  Rough week.

Saturday!

I lost a pound this week. I still have a far way to go. I really want to be back to where I was but man is hard and I have zero on my motivation right now. Can't it just magically disappear?? I really wish it would.

I am terrible about going to bed after 11pm, it is our only time together plus I am a night owl, but man does 4:30am come quickly going to bed that early. I feel like I close my eyes and it is time to be up and going. Last night I went bed about 11pm, Dallin woke about 12:30am fed him went back to sleep he woke up again at 2:30ish UGH!! It was so hard getting up this morning but Saturday runs are the most important ones. I am so very tired right now!! Our plan was to do 6 miles, but when we hit 5 miles there was a community that was having garage sales. So we went through the community running, running in place has we looked around. (Yes I know people think we are crazy.) Monta almost passing out, Louis had to bring her some fruit snack and then we continued home! I think we ended up doing 7.5miles total. I was supposed to 8 miles today but did not feel ready. Next week we will get there!! We also ran with April today she is faster then us now, so we picked up the pace today.

My plan for next week is to magically loose 40lbs! Also Sarah is putting up her trigger the first of November, I will post a new picture. (hopefully that will give me some will power!)

New Starts - ugh

Ok, so the ONLY reason I'm going to even DARE post these pictures is because I'm hoping it will give me motivation and that some day I'll look back and realize how far I've come because I'll look SO much better. I don't know if there is anything worse than looking at a picture of yourself and realizing that your butt looks like it belongs in it's own solar system because it's so huge:) Seriously, it's depressing. BUT - get it butt/but, anyway, but I'm just starting out after this baby and tons of life changes that have kinda packed on the weight. It's going to get better. I did weigh in this morning, and sadly I started out the week really good, but by Wednesday I was having a pity party so I opened the Halloween candy and all was lost. I'm not going to update my ticker till Nov. for no other reason than, I'm lazy and also want to see how much I can lose before then. But I will be keeping track on my own. Who knows, I might change my mind next week.
I've been drinking more water this week and I need to remember to keep it up because it definitely makes me feel better and gives me more energy. I'm going to start walking this week. the problem is that our treadmill isn't set up in our house yet. It's still out in the garage, and since Jerry is gone from 6:30 am till 9:30 pm (or last night it was 11:15) I'll have to go walking outside with the kids. I prefer to go outside, just not with all the kids. Korina, I really don't know how you do it. waking up at 7 is so hard for me right now. I's also dark till about 7 or 7:15 every morning and without any street lights outside I don't really dare go walking outside alone. Pfew - there's my excuse for not waking up at 4:30! Hopefully it'll get easier and I can get some alone time exercise in.

Sept. 8

Oct.1

Irritating...

So, I stepped up my game this week.  I did my walks, strength training, even went to Zumba.  I am completely sore and tired but I still have work to do today.  I ate better than I did last week, stayed away from soda and guess what??  I gained 2 lbs!!  Urr!  Don't say its muscle cuz its not.  Oh well, I'm gonna keep trucking along because I can't continue to gain in the routine I'm in.  My body will just have to give in and start giving up the nasty fat it so desperately wants to hold on to.  I think it is just in rebellion mode for shocking it this week.