My little Bit of Honey

I went to the Red Sox game last night with my husband, it was a lot of fun. We had some great seats..I had some deliciously bad for you ballpark food and a few equally as bad and delicious adult beverages. It was a good night. As we were walking back to the parking garage where his car was parked (it's a good 10-15 minute walk) he said to me "I remember back in 2008 when you couldn't keep up with me, this is great". It's true, we've been together for over 7 years and when we first started dating it would always annoy me how fast he walked. He's a good 4 or 5 inches taller than I am, so his legs are significantly longer than mine so for every one step he takes it's two for me. Last night was the first time I really realized how much I had changed, I was able to keep up with him without being out of breath. It's pretty empowering to realize the good things you are doing for your body and the changes you've made.  It helped me feel better this ...

Since I started blogging (even before I had my son) I've had people tell me "I wish I had your motivation, but I'm to old/lazy/tired/fat". To me that is silly. Unless you psychically cannot move a single muscle in your body it is not to late. I've seen people in wheelchairs working out at the gym, getting on the benches and lifting weights. It's incredible.  If someone like that can get into the gym to workout, then you can too. I will let you all in on a little secret: I'm tired too. I'm exhausted by the end of the day, I usually can barely keep my eyes open past 8pm (it's true, I'm usually passed out on the couch every night by 8:30 if I'm not in bed already).  The one thing that will stop you though, is having a negative attitude. Telling yourself or anyone else that you can't basically means you can't. I don't wake up with a positive attitude every day, there are a lot of days I wake up and I am pretty much hating life and w...

I realize I just quoted Ariana Grande, don't hate. This is one of the new songs that I've been running to and it's one of those ones that keeps you going.  Mostly because in my head I'm thinking "YEAH! I'M STRONGER THAN I'VE BEEN BEFORE!" so I keep going instead of thinking "I'M GONNA DIE IF I DON'T STOP" so yeah. It helps.  I've reached week 4 of C25k, I'm really in it and I'm really committing myself to it. It's crazy to think that in two weeks I should be running for 20 minutes straight, I'm not so sure I believe I'll be at that point, but I'm going to try like hell.  Looking ahead on the app I've noticed that I've never gone past week 6 (it's a 9 week program), so I'm going to get to the end and be a C25K graduate. My first big step towards that is hopefully going to get fitted for some new running shoes, I've gotten some killer shin splints and calf cramps lately. I'm assuming...

So about a month or so ago, I decided to start taking my lunch breaks. Before that I would spend the entire day basically just sitting at my computer (every now and then getting up going to the bathroom/getting my lunch/water) but for the most part I would just be sitting at my desk, staring at my computer screen. By the end of the day I noticed I was always so burnt out and just miserable, usually with a headache. It really shocked me that I would get 6k steps before I sat down for the day when I worked out but wouldn't hit 10k steps until I got home and was running around getting dinner ready etc. I mean, I couldn't even get 3k steps in 8 hours? How is that possible?  It hit me then that I really no matter what should get away from my computer for a significant amount of time during the day to recharge. It made my afternoons so much more productive and helped me feel better by the time I left for the night. Not to mention I'm not paid for my lunch break, so technically my...

I have had this thought in my head that when I lost weight before that I was perfect, I ate fantastic and logged everything. Well today I decided to go back and look at my food diary from 2, almost 3 years ago and I'm so glad I did. I was not perfect. I ate candy, pizza, cheeseburgers.. etc. I logged it all but I still had it. I would say about 75% of the time I was eating great but the rest of the time I was enjoying food. I think the big difference was my portion control, I constantly had that "I won't have enough calories" thought in my head when I ate. It really helped me cut down on having seconds with dinner and desserts.  I feel almost like a pressure has been taken off, like I can breathe again. I don't feel as consumed by the fact that I have to eat perfectly all the time.  It helps to know that I've done this before by eating a lot of the foods that I really enjoy that I've been telling myself "no" and still losing weight.  So, I feel...

I got up this morning not particularly thrilled about my work out, I was exhausted. Wednesday is usually the day that everything hits me at once and I'm feeling the stress of the week. Whether it be work, home, fitness related I'm usually not in a great mood on Wednesdays. So this morning I was really struggling with running, it hurt and I really wanted to stop. I even texted my husband telling him that this was torture.  I knew being negative wasn't going to help me get through my work out and I knew that it was making it worse for me. So, I put up a mental "wall" so to speak from my negative thoughts, I focused on the beats of the music and started saying "1/2/1/2 " with every step. It sounds cheesy but it helped and I actually bumped the speed of the treadmill up to 6.5 during the last 2 running sessions (I'm still working on C25K and I had previously kept it under 5.8 at the most).  Then I was done. I felt better about it after and got into the s...