My little Bit of Honey

So I woke up this morning for the last time in my 20s, I'll be 30 tomorrow.  The age itself doesn't really bother me, I'm a person who looks forward to new beginnings and to me turning 30 is a new start, a new year and a new decade, but of course it brings upon a time of reflection.  My 20s were really interesting to say the least, I did quite a bit and I accomplished a lot too. I found the person I would spend the rest of my life with, bought a house and had a beautiful baby boy. I made so many new friends and said goodbye to some friends as well, some that I thought I would have by my side forever. I grew in ways that I never thought possible, I became an adult in my 20s. I dealt with sadness with losing friends and family to death. I cried so many tears but also smiled a lot more and cried more tears of happiness than sadness. So all in all, my 20s were successful.  It's funny to me, I had an idea of where I would be when I turned 30 and for the most part I'v...

Ah. So, I've written about this a few times and had a plan that didn't necessarily pan out.  It's been hard to get back to focusing on what my end goal is. I could use the excuse that we've been busy and that I've been stress eating etc. but really, that's all it is, just excuses. Facing this head on is what I should be doing to get back on track. I'm not taking care of myself, not taking my vitamins or exercising regularly and eating whatever is easiest and not necessarily healthiest. I'm feeling so tired and sick again and the reason being is because I'm just not doing the things I need to do to feel good.  So here I am, getting back on the road to wellness, I suppose you could say. I'm going to outline my plan and hope that it helps me stick to it. So the first thing I have started doing is counting calories again. This was what made me successful before, owning up to what I am eating and not hiding behind that unknown or thinking that thing...

Alright so I've fallen off the bandwagon a bit..and by a bit I mean a lot. Even after my "reboot" post last week..I haven't really done much. I've let my excuses get in the way and have really gotten off track. Ugh. It sucks to even admit that. I haven't been running and I haven't been working out at all, hell I haven't even been wearing my FitBit for the past week. I have no excuses, are there reasons why I haven't been working out or eating right? sure. Are they good enough? Nope. Not really.  I have the Jimmy Fund walk NEXT MONTH and while I'm definitely in better shape than I was last year, I'm not sure if I'm ready for it yet. I have a FREAKING HALF MARATHON in 3 months that I'm nowhere near ready for. Ahh this was not the time for me to give up. Nope. So, I have one thing left to do..and that is to restart and keep going. I read somewhere that it doesn't matter how many times you quit, as long as you KEEP STARTING..I'm...

I've been taking quite a hiatus from it all: eating healthy, working out, positive thinking, taking care of myself. I've just done what I want and not really cared about the consequences. Well here we are, the consequences. The difficulty running, the sheer exhaustion all the time, the bad moods. It all came flooding back. I haven't been drinking my water or taking my vitamins and boy have I felt a difference. I've been scatterbrained, irritable and impatient. So today I started back to running and got myself back on my work out program 5k-10k. I'm mixing this one in with the 13.1 to prep for the half marathon. I could be a lot farther along in my training but there's nothing I can do about that now.  So I'm having a reboot, I'm working out again and getting back to eating healthy and doing all the things to make me a better person. I have been trying to limit my social media/phone access to certain times of the day when I'm not working or not with...

The past couple of weeks have been fun, vacation and eating whatever I want.. it's been lovely. However..it's all over now. Time to get back to reality, back to work and back to working out/eating healthy. I will be honest, this morning I did not want to get out of bed. My FitBit was buzzing away on my wrist, yelling at me to get up but all I wanted to do was just shut it off and go back to sleep. I got up though because I knew I would really regret it if I didn't. I got myself dressed and out the door by 4:30, was here by a little after 5 and running by 5:15. I wasn't sure how my body would do since I hadn't run in two weeks almost, I was prepared for the pain and suffering..but..it didn't come. I mean, the first big hill was tough, but it wasn't like before when my calves would scream at me to stop, I felt good. I am so thankful for my new sneakers! They are total lifesavers! I  stopped twice: Once at the bottom of the big hill on the way back to prepare ...

There was one picture of me that really hit me hard and made me realize how much weight I had actually gained. It was a picture of my family at my Son's baptism last year, here was a great day with my friends and family celebrating my baby boy and the only thing I can think about and remember is how awful I looked. We took another family picture on Father's Day and I decided to compare the two photos. Wow.  I am so proud of how far I've come both physically and emotionally, my confidence is slowly coming back. I was really nervous (and still am) about sharing this comparison so I decided to share with my wonderful group of girlfriends. Their responses brought me to tears, seriously. These ladies have been such a great source of motivation and help me keep going this past year. So with their boosts of confidence, I decided to share with my readers as well. I still have 25 more lbs to lose until I am where I want to be and I'll get there, but for now I'm celebrating m...

I've wanted to do a post like this for awhile, thoughts I have while running. A blogger I follow (Sarah Fit) did a video awhile back about it and thought it was hysterical.  So hopefully you enjoy :) And yes, you can totally laugh at me ;)  Before the run. Ah, a beautiful morning to run! Can't wait to get out there, I'm going to kick some total ass.  It's going to be the best run ever. I LOVE RUNNING WEEE! Let's GO!  Warm up: OK Warm up! Here we go. It's a little warm out.. but nothing I can't handle! Feel great! Come on, why does the warm up take so freaking long. 5 minutes. UGH. I just want to RUN.  Run: YES! FINALLY. OK here we go..pace yourself.. we are running..yes.  We? I mean.. me. I. You don't talk in 3rd person. OK wait maybe I do? Ok just focus on the run.  Woo that is a big hill. Yep. BIG. LORD HELP ME. WHY DOES IT NEVER END?! Almost at the top.. pretty sure my lungs are going to fall out of me. Yay I hit the top! Downhill from here...