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the anomaly that is me August 6th, 2012 @ 4:36 pm

If you know me you know that I have a passionate dislike of people talking (complaining) about weight. To the point that I have walked away from people as they go on and on about the 1-3 pounds they gained just from eating FOOD. You know those people. The ones who weigh themselves every morning and evening and then come into the office and have to tell EVERYONE with ears how much weight they gained/lost in the last 24 hours.

Your body changes daily people. Get over it.

But I find myself in a situation where I just have to get something off my chest (weight? ha!)… apparently the combination of wicked PMS and the laziest possible week off of work = none of my clothes fit.

Yikes! I’d like to say that all these clothes somehow shrunk in the wash, but I can’t tell that lie and sleep at night.

I ate like crap last week and barely got off the couch. I can see the fallout from that in my face and around my middle. I am physically uncomfortable because of this. I can’t sit comfortably. I’m just unhappy!

So this week, I shall focus on eating better and trying to force myself to do at least 15 minutes of exercise a day. It’s too hot to walk the dogs, but I have that a/c in the house now so there’s nothing stopping me from doing a few crunches, pushups and stretching every day. Nothing stopping me except my extreme laziness.

Normally this time of year I lose weight because it’s so hot out I can’t eat more than berries, cucumber and tomato. With the new a/c installed, my appetite has NOT abated like normal. I am eating normally (for me) and last week I indulged a little too much (an entire carton of cookies? Yeah..um..)

It’s not even about how I look. I don’t particularly care about that (well, I do need my roots coloured soon. THAT bothers me!) It’s more about how I feel and how my clothes fit (rather DON’T fit). I don’t care what the mirror tells me, I care more about the fact that I am super uncomfortable when I sit down.

So, I’ve got to kick this lazy habit I have developed and get back into shape! I miss the little muscle shadows I used to have on my arms after Body Design last winter! I can DO THIS!

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non-jogging update

exercise is hard yo! April 22nd, 2011 @ 9:38 am

Things I wasn’t expecting when I decided this might be a good time of year to start training myself to run:

1) The return of winter. (Seriously, what is UP with this weather? I am tired of ice pellets falling on my head and cold wind that blows me over!)

and

2) A new medication that has helped my body with running, just not in the feet area. I was so intestinally unstable the last week there was no way in hell I was doing anything faster than a shuffle with my feet.

I am not as light as I used to be, but I am still tiny enough that strong winds tend to knock me around. I am not at all interested in trying to get my piddly 5 minutes of jogging in while pushing into the wind. Or being poured on by rain and ice in large amounts. I’m sorry. I’m not making excuses but darn it! I have enough trouble trying to do this in calm, clear, warmer weather. I am not comfortable at all trying to jog in whatever crap Mother Nature has been spitting at us over the last week.

Never mind we take Jinx out with us for these jaunts. He’s not even been getting  his walks much with the weather. When we have gone out it’s been the very short route because it’s been cold, windy and wet. A wet Finnish Lapphund is not a happy Finnish Lapphund.

Also, these stupid anti-migraine pills my doctor wanted me to start taking (twice daily) have waged war upon my digestive system. I’m a week into the first two weeks and I am finally starting to feel better. I have to double my dosage by next weekend and I am certain that these side effects will come back. As much as I had to run to the bathroom this past week, it wasn’t running in the running form. Any bouncy type activity was not helpful!

And here I am with a 4-day weekend. Today is supposed to be sunny, yet cool and it doesn’t seem to be too windy. I’ll be singing at Good Friday mass later this afternoon. Will I attempt my jogging before or after I don’t know. I think I’ll play it by ear. The following two days are filled with RAIN. This makes not only jog training abysmal but it also makes getting the winter tires changed at my in-laws’ abysmal (which will be Sunday). Monday looks to be sunny and nice again and the rest of the week – RAIN.

April showers..blah..blah, May flowers..blah… I don’t care! I want a bunch of nice days in a row so that we can be out there running! I want to get more jogging in before my medication increases and the only running I will be doing will be to the bathroom! Ugh.

My intention is not to become a fair-weather jogger. ;) But I have to say I am not all that interested in doing something difficult in acclimate weather.

In the meanwhile, I have not let the weather deter me too much from practicing to drive. At least that’s something.

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