The Hurt Machine

I live in Colorado Springs and in case you live under a rock and haven’t heard our city is burning, we have a terrible wild fire that is only 5% contined L  Many have already lost their homes and many more are threatened.  I was going to jog today but with the smoke being so bad I don’t think that is it a good idea.  Now I know what you’re thinking  - I am just thinking of any excuse not to jog – that is not the case.  The past few days have been rough with all of this smoke.  I did jog yesterday and let me tell you it was tough!  I’m sure it had to do with the smoke and the fact that I have been pushing and jogging every day instead of the recommended 3 times a week.  My legs felt like spaghetti when I got off the dreadmill (yes I said dreadmill) A.K.A the hurt machine.  HAHA!!  A friend of mine was telling me a story about  when she was having some friends over one of their son’s was playing over by her treadmill and somehow fell on it and called it the ‘hurt machine’.  How fitting – even though he’s only 4 he already knows how awful the treadmill is.  He has learned a valuable life lesson .  I’m going to try and jog again tomorrow – wish me luck!

Favorite Snacks - the healthly ones

I thought I’d share with you some of my favorite snacks.  These are the new healthy ones…..not the Cheeto and Dorito ones that got me into this weight mess in the first place.  I LOVE microwave popcorn.  I get the little 100 calorie bags of the 94% fat free after its done popping spray a little butter flavored Pam on top and top with any popcorn seasoning.  The popcorn seasoning has VERY little calories – something like 15 so it’s no big deal.  It’s a yummy treat!  Another favorite - and these are perfect for the HOTTTT weather we have been having - get reduced fat graham crackers take one and break it in half.  Spread Fat Free Cool Whip on one half and top with the other.  Freeze. Viola – instant cold treatJ 

These snacks are nothing new – I didn’t invent a spaceship or anything like that.  Just a couple of snacks to bring back into your rotation if you have forgotten about them.

New Car

Hey peeps!!  I got a new car this past weekend:)  I love it!!  Now I just need to name it - I name all my cars.  I know I know I'm a big dork.  Its just something that I have done since I started driving.  My last car was named Phinny.  It was s silver car and the antena thingy on the top looked like a shark fin thus the name Phinny.  The new one is black on black.....nothing is coming to me. 

In other news its a running day so I will be going home and sweatin it out......I really hope that I start getting better at this whole jogging thing.  I think that I would really like running if it wasn't for the dying out of breath feeling that I get about 1 minute into it. 

What a Week!

This has been a non-stop week! The peeps I work with are here from Washington and California so they have been in town this entire week and I have been leaving the house at 6:30 am an not getting back until 9:00 pm. I have only been able to jog (although at this early stage I'm not sure what I do constitutes as jogging as much as it is trying not to die right there on the spot) twice this week. So much for my big commitment. But I am still determined!! In the past if I had decided to start a "get fit plan" and had a road block like this come up I would have quit before I even started. So even though I have only exercised twice this week it was twice more than the week before that and the week before that. Tomorrow life will be back to normal and I am back on the wagon.

Just another blog

I know, I know....another blog?!?  There are zillions of blogs out there and I never thought that I would be one of those people sharing every life moment with the cyber world.  But its actually kinda cool:) Not sure where this blog will take me - or you for that matter - but I can promise that it will be fun and definitely a journey!  Can a 38 year old still have a journey of self discovery?  Is that too old to try to figure it all out?  Dang I hope not or this is going to be pretty lame! 

So here is it peeps - I live in Colorado am happily married to the most wonderful man that I have ever met.  I have a very happy life......one problem.....I need to lose about 50 pounds.  Ugh - did I just type that??  Seems a little to real now.  But I guess that's the point of the blog - a total reality check.  No more thinking that magic ferries will come and take the fat away!  You know when you hear someone that has lost a lot of weight say "it just has to click"?  Well that could not be a more true statement.  I have literally been on a diet for 20+ years and I'm so over it.  I want to get healthy - not just be on a diet.  This weekend something clicked  - I hope that it was just not a side affect from the slight hangover that I had this morning!  I want to be in a single digit jean size by the time I'm 40.  That would be a first - except for maybe like when I was 8.  Today is day one - wish me luck!