Little FAT Me

A late Valentine's Day present! My wife used marzipan and rainbow food coloring to say she loves me!

2012-02-15T17:04:00.001-06:00

Man VS. Food

2012-02-15T14:48:00.000-06:00

Have you ever seen this show? I adore it! I want to be on it! I want to challenge Adam to some crazy (non spicy) food feat, preferably in the breakfast category, or pizza. I would so smash this little cutie!
Anywho, if you have not seen it: host Adam Richman travels around taking various food challenges like "eat this 10 pound burger and get a T" or "if you finish this gargantuan pizza you get your picture on the wall of fame."
So here is my frustration with the show and some of what I have heard when discussing the show, ready? Okay! (Sorry there is a 4th grade cheerleader still in there!) I KNOW that this is not healthy, and I hope that Mr. Richman, sexi as he is, is taking steps to be healthy aside from all this while filming. Personally I would eat pristine and drink LOTS of water for a few weeks before and after such a feat. I would also work out HARD CORE the week leading up and easy through the week that followed. For the people who are disturbed by this behavior and the fact that such challenges exist I would like to remind them that these are fun, ridiculous selling tactics that few actually go in a order and no one eats on the usual basis. If you don't like it - move to another channel, perhaps Top Chef is a better choice for your culinary viewing - those dishes are itty.
Now to my issue with the show, actually not the show - the host. That's right, for all the love I have for the show and the adorable man who host it there is this little irk in my soul. It's his baby-ing wimp out when the going gets rough. The panting and sweating and girlie cries about how hard and rough things are. Come on, man up! This is Man VS. Food, not 3rd-grade-pansy VS. Food. I don't get it. I mean, sure the spicy ones would make me cry uncle way to soon, but the rest of them, breakfast-pizza-loaded baked potato, I could kill it like no other. Maybe I should look for a challenge around here, I am sure there are a few - then ask him out on a food porn challenge diner date? Hmmm. Let me get the wife's opinion before I go doing that! lol

Grrrr!!!! Stupid (wonderful) Posterous!

2012-02-15T11:42:00.002-06:00

Hey guys I wanted to say I am sorry about the double post - but other than stop updating I don't know what to do about it for now?! Please excuse and try to enjoy any way! Love you!

I love and adore this whole idea, and my blog here. Fot some reason I am having random post double up here and on my actual blog www.littlefatme.blogspot.com and I am trying but can not fix it!!!

#tweegram

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#tweegram

2012-02-15T11:32:00.001-06:00

OMG!!! Holy happy Valentine's Day!!! I am a spoiled chica!

2012-02-14T21:39:00.001-06:00

Thinking of @lizzy_anne

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Thinking of @lizzy_anne

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OMG!!!! I want this purse so bad it hurts me.

2012-02-14T17:29:00.001-06:00

Valentine's Day gift for the wife.

2012-02-14T14:26:00.001-06:00

Happy Valentine's Day!

2012-02-14T12:25:00.002-06:00

Because sex and love is always confused, and because I love you all but can't sex you, I decided to give to you dear readers - on this, lovely day of love (and sex) - some porn. Flavorful and wonderfully appropriate FOOD PORN. Please, enjoy:

#weightwatchers sent a #sample #workout to all employees and I am about to give it a go. I'll let y'all know!

2012-02-13T16:57:00.001-06:00

Pondering...

2012-02-13T09:05:00.000-06:00

Lately the meat of this blog has kind of drifted. With new found oomf I am getting art made (great) writing more (lovely) working on a song or two (thrilling) and still working out and pushing myself. Blogging has fallen to the side. So I hooked you guys up with Instagram so that at least you know where I am. Most of the time. However, I am still actively making vlogs over on the YouTube machine under the name LittleFatMeBlog and if anyone is interested I will return to posting the videos here. All that I said so that I could say, "I know that pictures and silence is not why you guys come and I am going to make WAY more of an effort. Starting now."

I am a food addict. I am in recovery and I am sober - BUT - I am a food addict. That means that I have had (for at least 15 years) an unhealthy and imbalanced relationship to food. I had an extreme relationship to food. That is why every time I said, "I'll just eat normal, but less of it." I failed miserably. This time I took that extreme relationship with food and I switched it up. I became extreme in the other direction. I count and calculate EVERYTHING, I moved my scale into the kitchen, I developed a "healthy" fear of butter, hidden calories, trash food... I talked about food nonstop. My life was (is, to a degree) about food. When you are fat those things are seen as dedication, as triumph, as enviable... Did you know that those are the behaviors of anorexics. I didn't, I had no idea. Fear of hidden calories, guilt over and indulgence, having the scale in my kitchen?! If I was never 255 pounds all of those things would have been red flags that an unhealthy, extreme and imbalanced (sounds familiar) relationship to food was developing.
I thought to myself, for the past few months - I think I even talked about being mindful - that I couldn't be anorexic (I'm not, but I do think that I have disorder eating) I would say, "Uh, you are too big to be ana." Only then I came across a blog by a girl who was 135 pounds and her body was shutting down because of the damage she was doing with her eating disorder. All she kept writing was that the doctors were wrong because if she was sick she'd be thin. Hmmm.
Okay, so where does that leave me? The extraordinary fear that I feel when I see a pound, the fear that doesn't make it to the videos because by then rational has set in, the fear that screams, "UP A POUND!!!! YOU ARE GROWING BACK INTO YOUR SKIN!!!" The guilt I have a piece of cake, "Really? All that work and you still have to have cake?" The self hatred I feel when my jeans, that are snug because I bought them that way, become tight due to normal bloat. All of these things are real, and scary, and yet another reminder that this is never over. I don’t get to shut the door and forget.

Her current goal: to read the entire children's Bible. So smart and thoughtful and awesome. I love her.

2012-02-13T00:42:00.003-06:00

Her current goal: to read the entire children's Bible. So smart and thoughtful and awesome. I love her.

2012-02-13T00:42:00.001-06:00

Me & BFF @evan_ever_imaginary with our tattooed wrist and 💀 bracelets! 💙

2012-02-12T21:22:00.001-06:00

Lunch out with the family.

2012-02-12T17:22:00.001-06:00

My fav part of the gym is pushing myself beyond and then getting to run, sweating and relaxed, with my eyes closed. #gym #run #love #hot

2012-02-12T14:03:00.001-06:00

Gym.

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Gym.

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This morning at 4:30 swackette was wrong, it felt like 0!!!

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Mimi and the kids at the parade.

2012-02-11T14:39:00.001-06:00

Home from work, getting ready for first parade of the 2012 Mardi Grad season.

2012-02-11T11:51:00.001-06:00

Rerun of Millionaire reunion with Marcellus Wiley and once again I am struck with how fine a man he is. Thank you, yes please! #hot #love #crush #sexy

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Untitled

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Alone is a church - peaceful & beautiful.

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I love you.

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Totally jonesing for these jeans. Man alive! I bloody want them so bad.

2012-02-11T03:48:00.001-06:00

1:08 in the morning and I am bubble bathing. Who's the freak?!

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Nick Baxter, my tattoo god. Only he and Chris Drummond will ever do another #tattoo on me!

2012-02-10T20:16:00.001-06:00

Gonna Getcha is 100% happy and fulfilled - if only life worked like a #hatchi - man alive!

2012-02-10T20:10:00.001-06:00

New #hatchi #baby named Gonna Getcha. So cute, I'm hoping for wings this time!

2012-02-10T02:37:00.001-06:00

Banana a the pop-in-law, both do cute!

2012-02-09T18:15:00.001-06:00

Working on a recipe video! Yum for lunch!

2012-02-09T12:34:00.001-06:00

Untitled

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'Night world.

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So, so, so yum!!!

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My original Weight Watchers book, tracked my first year and my first 105 pounds. @lizzy_anne can you see what the sticker says? lol

2012-02-08T12:12:00.001-06:00

Found the #femme on #swackett #finally lol

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ARGH! Blargh!

2012-02-07T18:08:00.001-06:00

I am so super pissed that I have not had a normal weigh in in ages! It’s been months. I need a meeting, I need a weigh in. I hate working my meeting I miss my ladies!

See more progress on: maintain weight with weight watchers

Go, go Gary!

2012-02-07T18:06:00.001-06:00

My friend Gary is doing this with me and that is awesome. He is a runner and hopefully wont smoke me too bad! lol I am hoping having him there will make me take myself more serious!

See more progress on: Crescent City Classic - 2012

February 2012 - the new plan.

2012-02-07T18:04:00.001-06:00

As I stated, I am rearranging how I do this. The only SET workouts are runs, other than that I left it up to me what will happen for each session!

See more progress on: Work out 3+ times a week for the year.

January summary.

2012-02-07T18:02:00.001-06:00

I really have to get on this shit. Not the working out, got that. I need to get on my blog and on my 43Thing account. I hate it being so damn quiet. It’s so easy to vlog, I always have the camera out. Writing is another story, I love to do it, but I have to stop everything and do IT.
So here is my January wrap up – a week late, I killed this month. I did learn a few things and I have changed my tactic. I have decided which days I will work out, but have not decided what I will do. Leaves it a bit more flexible and I learned that I needed that in January!

See more progress on: Work out 3+ times a week for the year.

Dude is nine pounds and twenty inches long (not counting tail.) #beautiful #sleep #cat #kitten #beast #pets

2012-02-07T17:49:00.001-06:00

#lunch #yummy #healthy So easy to do what's good for your body and taste good. I have no idea why I ever let things get the way they did!

2012-02-07T14:35:00.001-06:00

F.Y.I.

2012-02-07T14:15:00.002-06:00

I have been crazy and I hate that my blog has suffered! So I am putting my Posterous feed here. That means even if i don't BLOG you will get updates! Yay!

12 minute miles...

2012-01-27T10:31:00.001-06:00

I ran 5 straight. I ran for a solid hour and I ran it at 12 minutes a mile. If I did that I should be able to beat my time by 10 minutes. Add a few sprints and I can SO do this!

See more progress on: Crescent City Classic - 2012

I want you to die.

2012-01-27T10:28:00.001-06:00

I don’t want to have a dead grandmother, you are not only the best grandma I had but also the last grandparent. I don’t want to tell my tiny heart that you died. I don’t want her to hurt, I don’t want to hurt. I don’t want to feel scared and I don’t want to be lost. I don’t want my mother or her sisters or brother to hurt.
I do want you to die. I’m sorry.
I want you to drop dead from some crazy heart attack, when no one is looking. I want you to get hit by a car when we are all tucked in. I don’t want you to die slow, slow, slow, s l o w . While we all stand around unable to help. I don’t want things to hurt worse everyday. I don’t want it to take so long that you lose who you are even more than you have. I don’t want to dread phone calls and then feel numb because it’s never the end, it’s always just the beginning of the end.
I love you, and I want you to die. What kind of a person am I?

See more progress on: Purge my soul.

Sunday.

2012-01-27T10:15:00.001-06:00

I am going to a new church on Sunday.
I hope it is gay friendly. I don’t want to take my wife and make out in the pews, but I would like to have my wife and kids and not feel like everyone wants me dead…

See more progress on: try a new church

Having the right size bowl...

2012-01-18T23:53:00.004-06:00

Cereal really has a way of getting all of us to eat more of it than we mean to. I've spoken before about this alarming talent and thought that I should probably bring it up again as this blog is OVER a year old and a lot of the peeps here now are not the ones here then. You may or may not know that the average serving size for a kid's cereal (meaning all things bright, fun, sugary and having a cartoon who helps us love it more) is a cup. This has to do with two things - size of the big rainbow pieces, and calories per day for kids being higher than us chubbed up grown folks. I know, it sucks. Anywho, the average serving size for adult cereal and "healthy" cereal (meaning boxes that make you think that the cardboard the writing is printed on may taste better that what it's holding and all things whole grain, wheat, added fiber) is 3/4ths a cup, with many granolas being 1/2. That's true and it has to do with us requiring less on a daily scale and with the cereal being smalled in individual size and with the fact that to make that "low calorie" claim they slap on the box they decrease how much you get (M&M's are low calorie if you only eat 10) and finally, in the case of granola, you really do need less to be satisfied if you take the time to eat and enjoy your breakfast.
Still, we are a fat minded society (you know, and a lot of us are a fat minded or previously fat minded person and that never really goes away) and what we see has a lot to do with how we feel after a meal. If you put an 8oz. (TWICE the serving you should be having) steak and a side of grilled veggies on a huge plate with lots of empty space we feel like we were slighted, like we will still be hungry, we pick up our utensils just KNOWING we will need to eat more. That mind set is a powerful thing and the next thing you know you are finished that meal and your stomach is hungry.
SIDE NOTE: Through this journey SO many people I have talked to about hunger bristle when I indicate that they can not be hungry. They get upset and say things like, "BUT I AM HUNGRY. YOU may not be, BUT I AM ALL THE FUCKING TIME." Please understand that I am not saying you don't feel hunger, just that if you are doing things right - i.e. water, good meals - and still hungry then that hunger is mental hunger, which is no less real and in actuality is harder to overcome because simple eating right and staying hydrated doesn't help you get over the mental crutch you have given yourself by using food or eating incorrectly for so long. (Or, in my case, both.)
Back to this blog: Below I have three pictures of a serving of cereal in three different bowls, you will see as we go further down that the smaller the bowl, the more satisfying the cereal looks. (If you want to know what kind of cereal I have a Wednesday "What's in your... 3 Bowls Edition" coming up next Wednesday. The first bowl is what I would have used in my adult life. I would have filled it up and then added all the whole milk I could, honestly I probably would have eaten two or three bowls.
The second bowl is what my mother would have used, still over filling by default because the bowl just looks like it calls for more.This is my new favorite bowl, it has enough room for the cereal and milk (I now use skim and only 1/4 a cup) and also for cereal and yogurt if I want a spunky snack. Can you see what I am talking about?

Today's Gourmet:

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Today was a great food day!

New Year 2012

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Each and every year we go camping for the new year. It's a way to end the year and start the next secluded from everything but our family. Me, Banana and the kids. It's nice, and hopefully it's something they will want to continue and wont feel bad giving up parties for.This year the oldest tried wood burning for the first time and she rocked it.I had my annual, guilt free, cinnamon roll and sausage breakfast to start 2012.We popped a beautiful firework every hour on the hour as we counted down from 9 to midnight, the kids were real troopers and the Banana was a zombie.Once again, thank God, we lucked out with weather. There was a warm day (70's) so the kids were able to hit the beach for a bit of shallow wading and sand time!

On going madness..

2012-01-06T13:51:00.000-06:00

In keeping with the what's-your-excuse-for-disappearing theme of my triumphant return to the blog-o-sphere I would like to introduce you to Tobias Grey, aka McDreamy - common house name: Toby.A few weeks ago I met him in the park a few blocks away, where I left him. He was so sweet and playful and was so inviting and happy, BUT I had 5 cats at home and there just could not be another. Then he showed up on my door step two weeks later, crying to be let in. The banana caved almost instantly, it took about ten minutes if him loving her down good! Since then the house has been a mad storm of vet appointments, cat neuters, hissing and fuckery on the part of my cats - who do not want a brother, friend, or playmate. Toby is hella laid back, he doesn't pursue and walks away from the trouble until they corner him. I am letting them work it out and only interfere if he is too gained up on or if he is cornered and can't get to the bathroom, water, food or door... However, while this kitty drama plays out I am sleepless and aggravated. All worth is because he is my luva!

2012 Work out personal challenge:

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In May of 2010, actually it was June, I decided to challenge myself to work out 30 minutes three times for a week. I did it. At the end of that week I decided to do it for a month (meaning, at the time, four weeks.) When the end of the four weeks came it was only like a week and a half away from the end of July and I thought, “I should do this monthly and why not start by finishing July?” That was the first shadow of what would shape the rest of that year and my life. I LOVE my workouts, seriously. I think of them, plan them, look forward to them, like to share some, like to keep some for myself – my workouts have become what fast food was to me. Only I am PROUD of them, I sing and dance and talk to everyone and anyone who will listen. I adore this me. (When I was hooked on fast food I was lonely, unhealthy, sad, sick and so ashamed.)
For a year and a half I gave myself the little goals of month to month workouts, this year I am starting a new system. I am planing monthly and then sticking to that plan. I have 19 workout PLANNED for January, there may be more – there will not be less! I figure I will update weekly – instead of each work out. Some were getting skipped (clearly as I didn’t post for TWO WEEKS!) and I don’t want to lose them!

See more progress on: Work out 3+ times a week for the year.

Wow. Where have I been?

2012-01-03T11:56:00.002-06:00

I don't even know where to start, besides saying that I (like most of America) have been so busy with the holidays and the unplanned life things that I feel as if i have barely taken a breath. Also, and I KNOW this sound redic, but working on Saturday has really thrown me off. Instead of being able to take Friday night and blog/vlog, catch up and do whateve I am trying to prep for the next day! Also, I have to rearrange my work out and it just feels wonkie right now. So I thought I should start - where? Let's start in December and do life first:
1) The lovely state of Louisiana froze our bank account over a stupid tax issue that is now fixed, but at the time caused and ass load of problems. This is including, but not limited to late fees and NSF fees and a slew of stress related health BS for me.
2) My oldest duckie had two major appointments, one was with the eye doctor and yep - mother teacher was right - she needed glasses. Poor child is in shock by the details of the world! The second appointment was the BIG BIG deal - the dentist. She has had a few bad times with those guys and so she was more than freaked about going. We made an appointment with Kool Smiles and those guys were awesome start to finish. She is actually looking forward to going next time!Of course those are the life things that didn't include the new job, the holidays or the other crazy crap.

December Challenge: Week 3; # 1

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Zumba.
I love Zumba, and I can’t seem to get enough!
I am SO making plans for Wednesday and Friday!

See more progress on: December Challenge: Move myself three times a week.

December Challenge: Week 2; # 2 & 3

2011-12-18T22:31:00.001-06:00

So Friday I danced and hooped JUST enough to call it number two. Saturday I went to Zumba for the first time in SO long. It was just as beautiful as I always thought it was!

See more progress on: December Challenge: Move myself three times a week.

December Challenge: Week 2; # 1

2011-12-15T01:19:00.001-06:00

Hula hooped MAY ASS OFF!
Zumba-ed and did weight work! Hell yeah! Wednesday was a good day!

See more progress on: December Challenge: Move myself three times a week.

13 Dec 11

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Right shin, two inches below the knee. Slight bump, quite a bit of pain. Erythema nodosum. My anxiety is up, I am sad and it hurts to move. It is a different hurt than the fibro. Fibro just makes it hard, like thick fog and a pull, a hurt that just kind of throbs in the back. Erythema – hurts, like broken bones. This is actually how it all started. A horrible erythema nodosum outbreak that resolved after MORE THAN A YEAR and left me with Fibromyalgia.
I am scared.

See more progress on: Track how I am feeling day to day in one place.

The chair.

2011-12-13T00:05:00.001-06:00

I have this whole thing in my head so clear. All my odds and ends on shelves behind me. All my books and things all around me. So many pieces and the PERFECT chair! Thing is – I found the perfect chair and the perfect fabric – separately! I want this to be my FAV chair ever, I am not sure this would be comfy enough!

See more progress on: Create a "set" for my Youtube.com videos.

Place.

2011-12-12T14:08:00.001-06:00

Check.
I have a little corner where I usually film anyway, so we are just going to let me custom it up! I’m looking into more shelving and an alternate chair!

See more progress on: Create a "set" for my Youtube.com videos.

I didn't do it.

2011-12-11T18:39:00.001-06:00

But I am not GIVING UP. I am done with the goal. I don’t want the treadmill, I have progressed too far for this goal!

See more progress on: Get a really killer Star Trac treadmill for home.

The big plan!

2011-12-11T00:14:00.001-06:00

I think that this goal will actually change! I have the same as a New Years resolution – I think to keep better track, and therefore make sure it happens – I will break it down month to month – this will become January. Once the year is over I get to check the BIG box!

See more progress on: Get my kids more active

December Challenge: Week 1; # 3

2011-12-10T18:57:00.001-06:00

See, this is where I REALLY wish I could change something about 43Things.com! I LOVE THIS SITE – really, I feel like this site (along with Youtube.com, Weight Watchers, Zumba, running & blogging) changed my life. As I use it more, I find that my goals overlap and I wish there was a way to “double tag” entries to go to two or more goals. Internet gods – get on that.
Anywho, I have been in a funk to say the least. Today I finally got back outdoors. It was SO cold at first, but I warmed up. I hooped and Zumba-ed. Thing is, I love to run – solitary, transcending, amazing, purifying – and I love to Zumba – fun, funny, camaraderie. What I LOVE more that those things is when I get a good work out and have my kids have fun outdoors, moving and laughing.
That is why today was awesome, ‘cause the kids were outside riding bikes and scooters and just having a great time!

See more progress on: December Challenge: Move myself three times a week.

December Challenge: Week 1; # 2

2011-12-09T00:27:00.001-06:00

Wednesday I kicked my own ass at the gym. Ahhh, nothing like self torture!

See more progress on: December Challenge: Move myself three times a week.

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December Challenge: Week 1; # 1

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I didn’t want to go. I went.
I went to the gym and I elliptical-ed my booty into a good sweat. Thank you so much Zumba play list!

See more progress on: December Challenge: Move myself three times a week.

November Challenge: Week "between months", # 2

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Yesterday.
I am not well. My nerves are shot and I am stressed out beyond belief. So of course my headaches are flaring and I feel like I all on a roller coaster each time I stand up. Today my left eye is blacking out. This is all why I MADE myself go to Zumba yesterday, when normally I would not have. I knew I had to get workouts in while I could.

See more progress on: November Challenge: Move myself three times a week.

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November Challenge: Week "between months", # 1

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Monday.
I hooped for 15 minutes and then did hard core Zumba for ten. Cooled down for 25 minutes and then hooped for 15 minutes and “Zumba” for ten. I say “Zumba” because in reality I was (TMI WARNING) stripping and grinding my wife, still a work out – a fun one! Oh, in the spirit of TMI I guess I will mention that I feel like I am pretty good at the (self invented?) art of strip hooping! That’s right, in my bedroom – which is in no way big enough to hoop – I sexy hooped (grinded and got dirty, club dancing style all while hooping) and then was struck by the thought, “I can so get this shirt off and keep the hoop going!” I did, at first the banana didn’t even realize what was happening. Then the only logical though that could possibly follow, “I could SO get my bra off and keep this hoop going!” AND I DID!!!!

See more progress on: November Challenge: Move myself three times a week.

31 minutes; I sh*t you not!

2011-11-29T12:06:00.001-06:00

I ran TWO 31 minute 5Ks – you can read about them under the workout challenge BUT now I have to push for longevity. SO that I can run the 10K in NO TIME! Woot, woot!

See more progress on: Crescent City Classic - 2012

March 4, 2012

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Race facts:
13 miles.
4 hours.

Goals:
To finish.
To ENJOY it. (With the only goal being to finish I don’t have to push myself to go, go, go – I want to walk and enjoy the environment and people.)
To make a KILLER vlog!

See more progress on: Rock n Roll half marathon - NOLA

One hour and 26 minutes.

2011-11-29T11:51:00.001-06:00

That was last years Crescent City Classic time. I want to beat it by at least 10 minutes. I am thinking about making that by 20 minute, but I strive for reality and I am not sure that is realistic!

See more progress on: Crescent City Classic - faster than last year by 10 minutes?

Our 5 Minute Move sessions.

2011-11-29T11:47:00.001-06:00

It’s hard, you know, to have your kids move and play. The world it WAY harsh and you you can’t just let little girls go off and play. Anything could happen. Also, I am lucky to home school. When your kids are in school, like mine were, there is hardly time for anything and school doesn’t have them actually play. I used to drop my kids to before care at 7:30 in the morning and pick them up at 5:30 in the evening. We got home at 6:00 and had to complete assignments, study, bath, have dinner (which needed to be prepared.) If you get them to be even at 9pm where is the time to “play” for 60 minutes? It isn’t there.
Well, I started doing this really fun thing for myself way back when I worked (WAY back – lol!) I have Fibromyalgia and it cause my body to ache when I move, this is worse if I am not mobile very often. So after 4 hours at my desk walking felt like hell. I started doing a Zumba dance once and hour. It really helped. Now that I home school I set the timer for 55 minutes, when it goes off I set it for 5 and we spend that time alternating stretches, cardio, movement and just plain silliness. To make sure everyone is back to “serious school behavior” afterward the kids are told they will miss our next 5 Minute Move if they don’t behave! They love it so much they snap back, even better they are awake, alert and full of life!
We spend 6-7 hours a day with school, so that ads up to 30-35 minutes. Plus, we have a 20 minute recess after lunch (outside if available) and a 15-20 minute play time after school if it’s not too late.
It’s a really good feeling, and I feel like it’s just the beginning. With my oldest now riding a bike, we will have even more healthy, happy MOVE time!

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2011-11-28T12:27:00.000-06:00

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Weight Watchers Weigh In (Wk 79)

2011-11-26T15:07:00.001-06:00

So, because I had to work I didn’t get to weigh in. I can’t go every Thursday. I don’t know what I am gonna do. I think at home weigh ins are going to be official now – EVERY Saturday – and I will of course update you dudettes when I do weigh in with at work. Work – he he he – that’s funny.
Oh – would be nice to update. I weighed in today at 136.0 – I like it!

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First day.

2011-11-26T15:04:00.001-06:00

I worked my first meeting as a receptionist. It was so light, most people didn’t want to come two days after Thanksgiving. All went well, pretty much.

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November Challenge: Week 4; # 3

2011-11-26T14:58:00.001-06:00

Girl – get the hell out! I am whipped. I love it. Today I scooted over to Zumba – weight lifting. I was late, but who the hell cares? Then I caught a full class after the workout. I was DRENCHED and that means it was a good day.

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Sh*t I didn't eat ~ THANKSGIVING!

2011-11-26T14:38:00.003-06:00

Sorry so late, but hey - it's here. All of these things LOOK and smelled amazing - it was rough. The brownie balls was the worst! I did it though, and I was like 1.8 lighter the next day! Woot, woot!

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November Challenge: Week 4; # 2

2011-11-23T13:47:00.000-06:00

Nov 23 – my birthday. I took the kids out to play and managed to get in 30-40 good minutes of hooping, then they did Zumba with me for 20 minutes. Once they lost interest I picked the hoop back up and started to Zumba-hoop. Strange, awkward and hilarious – SO MUCH FUN! Later, because my wife is awesome I got a solo visit to the gym in and I made sweet exercise love to the elliptical!

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2011-11-22T14:33:00.000-06:00

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November Challenge: Week 4; # 1

2011-11-21T23:54:00.001-06:00

Thank God! I got to a Zumba class and burned a bit of calories. I was SO needing a good dance off. Zumba makes me run better, I take the songs I really love and really have to push through and put them on my running play list. Then when I hit that wall of I CAN’T a good hardcore song comes on and I do!

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2011-11-21T11:27:00.000-06:00

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Did you say before and after?

2011-11-21T09:43:00.003-06:00

I'm 5'3" and these pictures take you from 255 pounds to 145 (110 pound loss.) I lost another 9 pounds, but have yet to take new pictures! lol2009.2010.2010.The pictures on top are of me at 255 - the lower level close up with glasses was taken last week at 135 pounds, the upper body shot was taken MONTHS ago at 155 pounds.

November Challenge: Week 3; # 3

2011-11-21T09:24:00.001-06:00

Sunday I went back to the park, my legs aching in their sockets. I stretched and thought, “It’s okay if I can’t match my time.” Then I set the stopwatch and got going – 3.2 miles later – 31:54.5 minutes later. Not a fluke, not a rare undo-able thing. I am gonna kill this years CCC 10K!

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2011-11-20T11:25:00.000-06:00

How to lose 1 pound

2011-11-19T12:14:00.001-06:00

"Focus, focus, focus."

How I did it: I mean, I've lost 119 pounds, but I lost focus. I just want to get back to my lowest so that I can remain satisfied with my journey. I want to eat well and that is how I did it! I ate really good, clean and natural foods! I feel better than I have in months and plan to stay on this course!

It took me 14 days.

It made me Happy!

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2011-11-19T12:01:00.000-06:00

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Weekly Meeting (Wk 78) Holiday eating tips video!

2011-11-19T11:00:00.000-06:00

Somewhere my weeks got effed – it might very well me 79. Grrr. ANYWHO, I weighed in an officially was at 137.8 – I lost my pound I was gunning for. Actually I lost 1.4. Fun stuff!

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