My little Bit of Honey

Well I did it! I finished the Jimmy Fund Boston Marathon walk! What a great experience it was, really and truly. I figured I would give a run down here as I really want to tell people about it and how truly rewarding it was.   This may be long, but I’ll go through it as a timeline of my day. The miles might not be completely accurate in terms of location as at some point I started getting a bit delirious. Wake up at 4:30: I woke up feeling really excited for the race, I didn’t feel tired just anxious to get going, I wanted to arrive for a 5:30 start but in reality I didn’t get out the door until a little after 5. 5:30: Arrive in   Hopkinton, I parked in one of the middle school lots and got on the bus to go to the starting line, there were already a ton of people there. It was so cool to see all the t-shirts and everyone was just so pumped to get going. I wasn’t sure what to expect once we go to the starting line but when we got there they dropped us off and I heade...

Well, I suppose it's about time I update this again. I really haven't been and of course I've been busy and life has gotten in the way, however, that wasn't the entire reason for me not updating. I've lost some of my focus, I let interruptions in my routine give me excuses and here we are again. Luckily, I haven't gained weight, but I feel like I have. I just feel..blah right now. I've been blaming all of this on outside sources (to busy working/taking care of the baby/family stuff) when really, I've had that all along and it's not an excuse for me. I want to lose 10 pounds by November and if I continue the way I have been, there's no way I'll achieve that goal. It's all on me. I have spent some of today looking at pictures of me from last year and I just want to get back to that. It hurts because I feel like I am not the same person overweight as I am when I was thinner. I know, that sounds ridiculous, but when I have lost weight I hav...

Yesterday was a bad day for me, like, just one of those no good terribly bad days. I woke up with a headache, it was hot, work was stressful and then I had to sit in traffic for an hour and a half because I was late leaving work. Just..Ugh. I went to bed early because I felt so tired and thought I'd get a great nights sleep. Nope. I was up on and off all night, the baby was up a few times (which I'm guessing has something to do with having the air conditioner on in his room) and I just couldn't sleep for some reason. So in one of those bits of not sleeping, I started thinking about my fitness and running etc. well..I mean.."running" (Cause let's face it, I haven't been running for real at all lately, it's been more a half hazard walk/jog) and I thought to myself "what the hell are you afraid of?" I'm afraid in a way to get going again and to start over. So I do these walks and tell myself that I'm working out (which I am) but I'...

I took last week off because I had my Birthday on Wednesday (Big 2-9!) and also some other circumstances that I had going on, I could have worked out, but, I just need a few days off. Sometimes it's important to recognize it and not dismiss that feeling to "keep pushing".  This way you don't get burnt out and you don't give up so easily. I even missed an entire day of calorie counting, which is a bummer because now my counter resets to 1, but, what can you do? It happens. One good thing related to weight loss did happen to me though, I hit my goal! I lost 5 pounds by my Birthday, it took me awhile, but I weighed myself a few days before my Birthday and I actually did it! I'm pretty excited and proud, I feel like it's a big first step and that I have actually made some progress. So now my next goal will be to lose 10 pounds by Halloween, that's a full 2 months so I feel like this is something that I can definitely do. The hardest part of getting bac...

I can't believe the Summer is almost over, how did that happen so fast?? I love the fall and I know I've done posts about it before, so I won't go on and on about how much I love Pumpkin and the crisp air. :) I am excited for these last two weeks of August though, they are always my favorite weeks of the summer! My Anniversary is tomorrow! 3 Years! yay! Then my Birthday is next week  all great things! I'm doing a challenge at work that has all these things you do to make yourself healthier and you earn points for it. I'm a bit nervous as one of the things would be to get rid of all the "great white hazards" which are things like white flour, white potatoes and rice. I LOVE potatoes and I can't really imagine going 3 months without them, but I'm going to give it a shot, same for rice.    So hopefully I can complete the challenge and win the points! I signed up for a 5kawhile ago and definitely did not realize it was this Saturday. Whoops! So I...

Well after a bit of a drought I finally lost weight, 1.6 pounds to be exact! I had known it would happen like that, it's just hard when you are dealing with it and not seeing any results. I've been sticking to my calories and not going over to much, the weekends are still hard to keep track of (mainly because I am always on the move) but I do my best. I have found that I don't really eat much on the weekends but I don't necessarily eat healthy either. So, something I'm  always working on. Still working out! I've been doing HIIT (which stands for High Intensity Interval Training, in case you are like me and had to ask/look it up haha) and it's a killer! Lot's of squats, burpees, push ups..etc. but it really gives me the burn I'm looking for. Plus, it's enough to keep me entertained since I tend to get bored easily with a work out. I'm starting to work on putting together a work out for each day of the week (in addition to my morning run/walk) ...

Usually when I am talking to people about my workout schedule and what it consists of people usually say this to me: "Wow, how do you get up so early?!"  "I could never do that". Well...here's the God's honest truth for you all of why I get up so early: I am lazy. Now I know, getting up at 4:30 (or 4:25 because minutes count when it's that early, folks) is not the definition of lazy. The reason I am lazy is because I pack my gym bag every night with everything I will need for the next day and leave it downstairs in the kitchen so I'm not stumbling around my dark bedroom and waking my entire house up. So for me to wake up at 4:30 and decide "meh, I'll skip today" and go back to sleep means that I get maaaaybe 20 minutes extra of sleep (in which case I will probably wake up more tired than I already am) and then have to go downstairs get my bag and get ready at home and then leave later than usual and fight an hours worth of traffic. If I...