ENOUGH ALREADY PAM!!!!

It's a new week!!! I ate really bad on the weekend and if I'm being honest in between meals last week as well! Today is all about concentrating on eating clean. It's about eating to survive not surviving to eat. I will get back to working out but I really need to focus on my food right now!!! Tomorrow I will add in some fitness but it will be something fun that I will enjoy maybe a walk with my hubby that sort of thing...but I just can't commit to P90X right now and give it my all. I need to clean up my act before I can concentrate on working out.

I’d like to lose 2 lbs a week that would mean by my 5K in June I’d be 20 lbs lighter. I know the scale isn’t everything blah blah blah…but if I’m doing what I’m supposed to then it should be dropping and dropping good. I’ve had enough of this stand still…I really really want to be lighter. 200 lbs is not a healthy weight. I want to be healthy.

So with all that being said...I've had a ton of water so far today and fruit and yogurt and have a yummy healthy lunch waiting to be eaten.

Frosty 5K = ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Well not during the race of course but after that adrenaline rush of crossing the finish line it gone man do I want to sleep. I'm heading there in a few minutes actually but I wanted to get this done first.

First of all a while back my friend Lisa told me she was going to run a 5K called the Frosty 5K which is only about an hour from my home. So I looked up the town where her other friend Jacqui lives (well our friend now :) ) and saw she was only about 30 minutes from where the race was. I got Jacqui's email address and sent her a message to see if she would like to surprise Lisa by cheering her on at the race. Well Jacqui thought this was an awesome idea but then she took it one further and said...how about we run it with her!!! So I replied what a great idea...we have lots of time to train. Now the hardest part by far was not letting it slip in conversations and posts with Lisa in our blogs and on WLW. However the other hard part was finding time to train. Let's just say we did a lot of running today that I was NOT ready for LOL. But we rocked it. My first 5K and I finished 571 out of 586 people. I know it's not much from the last but you know what I finished and it wasn't last!!!!! How awesome is that. I beat 15 other people!! And now I have a time (46:40) to improve upon for our next 5K in June!!! Can't wait for that one.

Oh and as for the surprise...we were thinking race day but on Saturday (day before the race) when we were going to pick up our race kits...Lisa spotted Jacqui so Jacqui texted me to let me know that she was there and when Kevin, Becca and I walked in...let's just say it was awesome. She just pointed at me then Kevin and Becca and then I got not one but two of the biggest hugs!!! It was so nice to surprise her. And the best part was honestly getting to know everyone. This time we had quite a bit of time to get to know Jacqui and Eugene and we all agreed that it sucked that we don't live closer to one another. We pretty much laughed the whole time :) but hey...that's how we do!!!!

Oh and I was going to start exercising tomorrow...right Jacqui...ummmm maybe not. My stairs are quite the workout today LOL. Actually I'm feeling okay right now I've had loads of water, etc but I'm sure first thing in the morning is going to be another story. I think we'll do a family walk tomorrow after dinner to keep the muscles loose and not damage anything.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO is all I have to say now. Oh and to all the people who gave me the look along with the "yeah right you can't do a 5K" attitude or tone to their voice...guess what...I so did it! What did you do today...watch TV?

Surprise Lisa!!!

YAY!!! What a day today was. Jacqui and I had planned months ago to come to Burlington to surprise Lisa and cheer her on while she does the Frosty 5K. Then Jacqui said let's do one better...let's run it with her...at which point I said yeah...no problem!!! LOL. Well I'm not ready but we ARE doing this...tomorrow!!!! EEK! We were just going to show up and surprise Lisa with our bib numbers on and let her know we are running with her...but in the midst of picking up our race day kits today Lisa saw Jacqui. So Jacqui texted me to let me know that she was in the hotel picking up her kit at the same time as us. Kevin, Becca and I walk in the front door of the hotel (we were parking when she sent the text) first I saw Jacqui and then Lisa saw us and it was awesome...she just looked stunned like "what are you doing here" sort of a thing. At which point Jacqui told her we were doing the race with her. Many big hugs later and I went and got my race kit. It was so nice to FINALLY meet the girls who keep me on track!!! Awesome day. We went out for dinner with Jacqui and her hubby Eugene and we just all got along so well.

Can't wait for tomorrow I know it will be even better :) And I can't wait to talk more to Lisa! Don't worry Lisa, in June we'll have more time to bond when we are in Toronto :)

now time for a good night's sleep.

Slacking yet again

seriously sleep has taken over my life these days. That's okay I'm going to work out tonight with my hubby and tomorrow and so on until Monday and then Jacqui and I are going to go back to our morning workouts. This week had a bit of a snag but that's okay as well because honestly I really need my sleep! No idea what's going on with that but I'm listening to my body and it's saying sleep so I'm doing that. Next week whether it wants to or not I'm working out in the morning. I felt better last week...I might have gone to the basement at 5:30 like a bear (thank God no one else is awake then or I might bite their heads off) but the point it I still went downstairs and after my workout I felt great...still sleepy but a sense of accomplishment mixed with that endorphin rush really made my days go by nicely. I would get a few chores done before leaving for work.

This week it's more get up, rush around getting ready and leave the house looking like a tornado went through. I gotta say I prefer how last week went no matter what my brain might try to say about needing more sleep. Gotta hit the sack earlier!!!

Not much to say just hadn't written in a while and felt the need.

X Stretch

Well this morning we got to sleep in until 6am and I still didn't want to get out of bed. I'm waiting for the day when I enjoy waking up to do this LOL. I used to love early morning workouts. And I am liking the workouts but not the waking up part. Thank you so much Jacqui for keeping me in check...and you too Kevin. Honestly this morning I could have slept in if it weren't for Kevin...I forgot my cell downstairs last night and so I didn't hear it going off this morning. If Kev hadn't told me the time I would have slept in. Funnier thing is I was awake at like 5:15-5:30 and when I asked Kev the time he told me 5:30 and I went oh...I still have 30 minutes better go back to sleep...had it been 6am I would have popped out of bed and would have had that first day of woohoo let's go. Maybe one morning I'll beat Jacqui to the texting punch as it were.

The point being I'm glad I worked out...although it was X-Stretch and that just makes me want to sleep as it's soooo relaxing. But I'm sure my body needed the stretching especially my legs.

oh and TGIF!!!! Hockey game tonight (fingers crossed we win)

Day 2 of waking up thank God for Pitbull

long story short I wrote a whole thing and it got deleted and now I have to leave for work/school.

Day 1 - 5K as fast as possible
Day 2 - 20 min with heart rate between 65-75% (peak fat burning) concentrate on form (head up, chest out, etc)
Day 3 - X-stretch
repeat

also weighed 199.5 at my weigh in last night but different from my scale...personal victory but doesn't count for competitions as my scale is higher.

How can i digest red meat faster...had beef last night and so my weight is up of coures...hhhmmmmm

5K in 39:33

yeah baby!!! you read that right 5K this morning in 39:33. Now that's not a true reflection of how I would do outside as I would be propelling myself that distance but when you pump the treadmill to 6.6 for 2 minutes it makes you go!!!! :)

I feel great this morning. Last night I had a dream that I got the text from Pitbull and I just popped out of bed like there was nothing to it LOL...then there's reality!! So I forgot to turn my phone from vibrate to sound last night so I woke up to the alarm about 4 minutes after she had texted me...no biggie right...well then I had to drag my sorry ass out of bed. I get up and do the morning ritual of pee and weigh myself and as I'm walking to the scale I'm going over in my mind why I don't need to work out. I was thinking I could sleep in 30 minutes or work out tonight or how I worked out last night so I didn't need to this morning. But I said a firm "NO" to myself and got dressed and went downstairs and texted Jacqui back and worked out!

Now I'm sitting here drinking my recovery drink and I'm pumped and still a little tired but only because I stayed up to watch the medal ceremony last night and didn't get to bed until after 10:30 so I only got 7 hours of sleep not like lately when I've had 8-10 hours. I know I know I'm a sleepy head these days. Funny how when I sleep in so does Becca and yet this morning I'm up and she's up now all on her own. Maybe she wakes up but just lays there until she hears me or the alarm. That would explain her grumpiness in the mornings when I actually have to wake her...she was likely awake and then fell back asleep into that blissful sleep in mode.

Off to have a shower and get ready for my day!!! It rocks to have that off my list of things to do!!!! Awesome feeling.