tuesday and tornado recaps

hi everyone. going great here. yesterday was very busy with plyometrics, then arc, cx, body flow and rpm. had a great talk with eric, my personal trainer, last night after rpm. he says that he is going to teach me to train smart and get all i need in way of exercise done in thirty minutes because he thinks i overtrain. i am not denying that at all. i am sure i do. i just want to get results quick. lol.    so this morning i weighed in and one hundred seventy seven point five. scale is going in the right direction.   today i took it a bit easy and did p ninety x shoulders, arms and abs. i had to start and stop multiple times due to kids, phone calls, people at the door, etc but i did get it done and only had to restart the dvd one time. tonight the family and i went for a long walk around the neighborhood. we like to check out the progress of what is going on.   a mild day for me exercise wise, but nice. i had started to work out this morning then the doorbell rang. it was my neighbors. they had asked if i could sit their kids while they met with their builder and i said sure. well facebook didnt send one of the messages and i thought that their meeting was at five tonight. here it was actually at ten in the morning. lol. so i never did get my breakfast smoothie. lunch was carrots, english muffin with real peanut butter and two hard boiled eggs. dinner was a chicken breast, green beans and some raw red peppers. yummy. so i was on track today with my eating. my snack tonight were a few wasabi edamame and some hot tea. my night snacking has been my downfall and i really have to watch it.   tomorrow is a late night at the gym with an rpm class. not sure if i will do arc or run on the treadmill before class. plus tomorrow is p ninety x yoga and the first of my discs that is missing. i will be substituting x two yoga for it instead. very interested to see how it goes.   ok now for the tornado construction update. we are back in the house now. officially so since right before memorial weekend. the tornado hit the house march fifteenth. and we are the first ones back in our house on our hard hit area. right now we only have one other family that has gotten back in and he lives across the street and a couple houses down from us. we had the same builder. go figure. other than that, you have to go down about five houses from ours before you find habitable homes. and even the habitable homes are still needing siding or roofs. people are still fighting trying to get the yards replaced because of all the glass and debris. it is crazy. so why dont we have internet and cable now that we are back in? well it is complicated. lol. aaron is still looking for a job and is hoping to have something finalized next week. say some prayers. also we need to replace our large tv. geek squad is coming out to see if they can fix it but what i thought was originally pixels out, now looks like gouges from debris that hit it. we will see if it can be repaired on friday. also we are shopping for a deal. comcast has been less than helpful with us and our neighbors in this situation. one neighbor lost his entire house and comcast was still calling to get their boxes back. really? so we are trying to find a deal for the big three...cable, internet and phone. but in our area we are limited.  so we have a choice of going back to comcast, cancelling the phone with them because i already had canceled internet and cable and switching it over to aarons name to get the new customer deal...which i really dont want to do because i dont want to change our number or i call and talk to retention and see what i can do. i still have their boxes and modem. or we check into what dish has to offer. they dont have their pricing online which is a total pain for me. we will  be making a decision about cable next week. i will probably have to call and chew out comcast again...like normal. we are still sleeping on an air mattress. the boys have their mattresses, but we havent replaced ours yet. once again, it comes to money and stretching the budget. we also dont have a grill. i really miss my grill. we are waiting on another insurance check to come thru. once it does, the grill, mattress and maybe tv will be on our replacement list. we also have to replace the lawn.  right now it sparkles with glass and nails. when you cut the grass you have to wear safety goggles. one of the neighbors was hit with a nail just above her eye and thankfully suffered no permanent damage. insurance will cover scraping and removal of the sod but not replacement. we also need to get a sprinkler system to keep the sod from dying. just add it to the list of things that need to be done. other than that, we are pretty much settled though it may not seem like it. a lot of decisions will be made soon regarding some personal things that have been stressing aaron and i out. once that is done and the job for him is finalized, i will be able to take a calm step back and really recover from all that has happened over the last year. it will be a great time for reflection.  anyone have any questions, let me know. besides a couple things which i am sure i will blog about later as therapy of sorts, my life is an open book. and it gives me a good subject for my blog for the day. i am sure you get sick of hearing what i did for exercise and what i ate for the day. lol. night all. blog more soon.

crazy tuesday

first i would like to say hello to my new readers. and apologize at the same time. usually i like to give daily tips and fun picutres for motivation, however, until we fully get back into our home with all utilities up and running, i am going to have to do my blog from my phone. ok now for mondays recap. yesterday i got to the gym and ran just under three miles. two point eightish. then i had my cx class. oh man. my core is weak after my unplanned break from exercise. my abs are still sore from last friday. so then l came home and did p ninety x disc one which is back and shoulders. push ups and pull ups were the exercises on the disc. i didnt do the ab ripper portion because i had done thirty minutes of abs in cx and i was done. then last night i was debating about going for a run or going on the elliptical. i decided it was too beautiful of a night to stay inside so i went out for a jog slash walk. it was pretty humid and i didnt want to put too much strain on my joints after running earlier that day. it was a great route and a new one for me. i ended up doing another two point eight miles. not too shabby.               today is my crazy tuesday. for my new readers you may say what the heck is that? well already this morning i have done my p ninety x plyometrics. all jumping cardio for an hour. ugh. oh how i hate but love that disc. i got an awesome sweat. i only wish my heart rate monitor worked. this afternoon is cx followed by body flow and rpm. body flow is tai chi slash pilates slash yoga. and rpm is cycling. i am a bit nervous about body flow only because i know my balance is off after gaining weight. the scale was kind to me this morning. i gained back this weekend to one seventy nine point five probably because of the birthday party and not eating properly. this morning i was rewarded with my hard work from yesterday with a weight of one seventy eight. now we are going in the right direction. i hope i can keep on this path and lose a lot of this weight quickly. i took new before pictures last night and i dont like what i see on them. hopefully i can get them posted on here at some point. also i mentioned yesterday how i was missing some of my p ninety x dvds and i was asked if the tornado got them. the answer to that is i dont think so. the night of the tornado i grabbed what was important and that included those dvds. lol. i thought i grabbed them all but i must have missed some. so they are either away in a box still or they fell out along the way. not real sure. i think the yoga one may be upstairs in our walk in closet. i vaguely remember seeing it when i was unpacking. as for the other two, no idea. guess i will just have to say some prayers that they are found prior to friday when i need legs and back. thanks everyone for sticking with me thru all this craziness. it has been an interesting experience. and yes. i plan on getting pictures of the house up on my blog for you to see once i get internet. have a great tuesday everyone. i hope everyone has a great on track week.

monday, monday

this weekend was great. friday i had zumba and cx. oh boy was i sore saturday from cx. amazing how quickly you can get weak. saturday i signed up for rpm. class was ten dollars and it was a fundraiser to benefit cancer research. great class and i was very sore. one bummer though was that my heart rate monitor stopped working part way thru rpm so i had no idea how many calories i burned. i figured the battery was starting to die. it was taking more and more time for it to find my heart rate. eric told me after class that i could get the watch battery replaced wherever. i had to go to meijer anyways so i stopped there to get one. the guy who tried to be helpful and undo the back actually screwed up the back because the pieces around the plastic groove where you put a quarter to open it started to chip off. instead of stopping hekinda really messed it up. so who knows if i will have to replace the whole thing or not. i will probabaly take it to a watch shop and see what they can do. anyways sunday was landrys birthday party. had a great time. the scale didnt really like me for it today but oh well. today i took my boys with me to the gym. i got in one point eight seven miles on the treadmill before class. then i took cx. then i came home and started back up with p ninety x. day one all over again. push ups and pull ups. ouch. my shoulder is still screwy so i was taking it easy with the push ups. hopefully it starts to get better now that i can exercise regularly. when i was getting ready to set up the dvd, i noticed i am missing three dvds from the set. yoga, legs and back, and kempo. really bummed. i figure i can substitute in for legs and back. maybe do p ninety x two yoga, and then do cardio x for kempo. i will just have to figure it out. tonight i plan on going on the ellpitical for a while. hopefully i can get a good burn on. i would love to be in the one sixtys by the beginning of next week. dont know if it is possible, but we shall see. oh and on another fun note...when the gym was doing the fundraiser for cancer research day, they also had silent auctions going on. i bid on three thirty minute sessions with personal trainer eric. and guess what? i won. very excited about it. i plan on waiting a bit to meet with him until i start losing some of the weight i gained back. i want to use the sessions to break thru any plateaus i may hit. have a great monday everyone.

couple day updates

hi  everyone. i wanted to let you know that i am still alive and kicking and back at the gym. yesterday i went and got just over a couple miles in on the fat burn setting on the treadmill and then geared up for rpm. it was great. i didnt realize how much i missed it. eric definitely kicked my butt with some new tracks. but i stuck with it and burned a crzy amount of calories. today i did another coule miles on the treadmill, again on the weight loss setting. then i hit zumba and cx. i have been having major problems with my shoulder lately and the range of motion has been going down with it. didnt realize how much that would affect me until i was trying to do a side plank tonight and about died. i can feel the knot in my muscle in my shoulder. hoping that is all it is and that it isnt a rotator cuff issue. but i still burned over one thousand calories and i am very good with that. saturday brings more time on the treadmill and then rpm class. they are doing a fundraiser for cancer along with a silent auction. each class is ten dollars so i signed up for just one. i also put a bid on a silent auction prize. a set of three personal training sessions with eric. i hope i win it so he can help kick my butt into gear and get me ready for the wedding the end of july. the scale numbers are starting to go down. friday morning i weighed in at one hundred seventy six. not bad considering i was at one eighty one the beginning of the week. i am hoping to get back into the one sixties by next weekend. if i do, i will retry on my dress for my sisters wedding to see how it is fitting. monday i plan on starting up p ninety x again. that will help get me back into shape quickly as well. also i know i said i was going to do a fruit and veggie fast. but i was still in pain from the half marathon and felt that it might not be the best time to shock the body more. however i have been having my smoothie for breakfast along with coffee. lunch has been baby carrots with two hard boiled eggs, and a toasted bagel with all natural peanut butter. dinner has been all veggies. the other night i made czesias brussell sprouts again. i love that recipe. i added sauted onions, mushrooms and garlic to mine too. so things are going well. i am going to try to stay on track with the diet this weekend. sunday will be difficult because it is my youngests birthday party. i did however go buy all natural chicken sausages for myself so i can have those instead of a regular hot dog. i will be staying away from the pulled pork but will be filling up on the veggies. i will probably treat myself and have some potato salad too. going to try to stay away from the cake but we will see... that is the news for now. thanks for reading.

half marathon rehash

so i was asked if i could share what happened with my half marathon and how it was. well let me start by saying that previously the longest distance that i had run was the ten k that i did just after my birthday in may. that was a sunday. then the following tuesday i decided to see if i could actually runn a half marathon under the three hour limit.  so tuesday evening i set out and was able to complete it in two hours fourty six minutes and some odd seconds.my body had serious rebellion after that run. my stomach cramped, i had to run to the bathroom to throw up numerous times, and i was so dizzy i felt like i was drunk even though i had brought water with me to stay hydrated. it took about two hours before i started to feel normal again. and that folks was the last time i ran before the real race. i took about a week and a half off to let my body recover. race day i wasnt really nervous. i had bought two packets of gu and a water backpack that held two liters. i didnt end up taking the backpack because it was heavy and i didnt want to slow myself down. i did not end up using the gu either. a bunch of racers told me it upset their stomach and i didnt want to experiment with something new during the race. the race was really well organized. lots of water and gatorade stops as well as a lot of porta potties. the scenery was gorgeous and i was running the race with my friend ambreen. it was her first time running a half too and in her training, her schedule she used never took her above a ten mile run. we both had the understanding that if one was holding the other back that they didnt have to wait and could just go ahead. well we were doing great. before we knew it we were on mile ten. we had taken a couple potty breaks, well i did anyways, because wouldnt you know that aunt flow decided to visit a couple days before the race. a full two weeks early i might add. the last three miles were very very long. at one point i stopped running to walk because my right hip and knee were aching and a cop pulled up along side of me to ask me if i was ok. i said yes to which he replied that i had better get moving then. nice huh? while running i also used the cardiotrainer app on my phone to keep pace. that was an excellent idea and funny enough, our total run was about fifteen miles, not thirteen.of course the total length depends on where you run on the course because the distance is taken from the shortest part of a curve.

figured it out!

this is going to be very rudimentary blogs for right now, but i figured out how to post a new blog from my phone. right now we do not have internet which is why i have to do it this way. i completed my first half marathon yesterday which i vowed would be my last. today however it seems like i like to torture my body and am thinking that i could do that race once a year and next time be better prepared for it. i hit a panic number on the scale today of one hundred eighty one...my phone wont let me do the numbers function...weird. anyways, i am blaming it on swelling from the race yesterday because i wasnt near that number a couple days ago. so today i am taking it easy but getting my body back in the mode by starting a mostly fruit and veggie fast. i also plan on starting back to the gym this week to start major cardio work again. i have approx seven weeks until my sisters wedding on july twenty eight. i need to get as close to my pre tornado weight as possible because right now my dress is tight.

Gearing Up

So I am sure you think I fell off the face of the earth again right?

Nope. Just been very busy trying to get the house back together.

I have some good news and some bad.

Good news: We get to move back in this Thurs! In just over 2 months since the tornado, the house has been just about completely rebuilt. A few odds and ends after Thurs, but that is about it.

Bad news: I am SURE I have gained the "Tornado 20"(lbs). I dont have a scale, but clothes are tight. My once nicely fitting size 6 jeans now have dunlops disease over the waistband and are very hard to do up.

No worries though- I plan on kicking it back into high gear once we move back into the house. I have to! My sisters wedding is the end of July and I need to fit back into the dress.

More good news though- this past Sunday I completed my first 10k. I finished in about 1:15 BUT that of course was the 90 degree day and it didnt help that dust was being kicked up by passing cars. The race was for Girls On The Run (GOTR) and positions and times were not recorded. I did get a medal for completing the 10k! But my finishing time was 10 minutes over my personal record from running in the neighborhood. I ended up having to walk the last bit. It was SO hot that my heart rate was over 200 beats per minute. Not good. So I sacrificed time for my well being. LOL.

Also tonight I ran my first half marathon. I have the Dexter-Ann Arbor run coming up June 3rd and I have not trained for it at all. My longest distance before tonight was 6.2 miles so I wanted to make sure I could actually run a half marathon under the 3 hour limit. I did!!! I ran it in 2 hours, 46 minutes and some odd seconds. I also burned 1953 calories too.

I have to give major kudos to people who run marathons and half marathons. I think this will be my first and only half marathon if I even make it thru without getting picked up. That long of a distance isnt for me and my body has rebelled tonight. First the room was spinning like I was drunk. After eating a banana, which helped just a bit, my stomach started cramping and had me running to the bathroom. Then I ended up getting sick. Really not pretty. Now however, after about 90 minutes, my stomach is starting to calm down and so far I have kept down some dinner. If I complete the half, I will be getting one of those silly 13.1 stickers that you see on peoples bumpers. A well deserved sticker- I might add!

After the half marathon I plan on starting back on my fruit and veggie fast. Hopefully this helps kick start the weight loss and helps the weight come off quickly. I am disappointed in myself that I didnt stick to my normal diet and fell easily into eating fast foods and bad foods, but I really cant kick myself too badly when we travel an hour each way to the house and many times need to grab food on the road. I just know that come Thurs, it has to stop and I need to reign myself back in. It can be done! I did great with P90X before, and I will do it again.

Well that is the news for now. Gearing up for moving back into the house, gearing up for the half marathon and gearing up to get life back to normal!!

Hope everyone is doing great. I havent been able to follow my bloggers like I used to. Dont worry, that will change when life resumes to normal.