Weigh In Wednesday: The Post Gobbler

This was a wake-up call for me.

I scared myself.

I could actually feel myself on the path to whence I have come from. After all the Thanksgivingness/slash/birthday partiesandcake, my results from this past week are:

The same. No gain, no loss.

Whew. That was close. Because it was up a few last weekend.

By Monday, my body was in dire need of a green bean. Or anything remotely happy and healthy. And it feels so much better to be eating well again. I ate these for breakfast. I'm still working on the workout part, throwing in makeshift workouts here and there because I don't have an organized plan yet (I really should just stop complaining about that and make my own, shouldn't I?)

I did get the actual Olympic-distance tri-workout plan from my trigroup and I about pooed my pants. The very first week has a person swimming 2300 meters. I swim just around 1,000. Good thing the plan doesn't start officially for a few weeks still (actually almost two months!) Because I have a lot of work to do before then. And each workout is actually two workouts. So that 2300 meter workout is actually paired up with a 30 minute run or hour-long bike ride. Or an hour-long or 90 minute bike ride is paired up with a run.

The workouts are long. And there are 5 of these a week.

What have I gotten myself into?

Guess 2010 is going to be my thinnest! Because I don't see how I can do that much working out and have any flab left! Can't wait to get started, I am pretty sure my wall of motivation is going to be quite full in the coming months!

Still a little scared, but I've been in this place before and have come out ok in the end.

How did you do this week? I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Go check in at the Sisterhood! And ps. If you don't know what I'm talking about, head over there, it's an awesome place to share to find motivation and support in your health endeavors!!

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Little Mans

Happy birthday to my little man!

You're turning two. I just can't believe it.

Even at three-months old you had that look on your face like you knew what was going on with your crazycute smile. Your personality is infectious.

You dance to the beat of your own drum.

You nurture and care for everything and everyone around you.

Including me.

Happy Birthday, my little man. I hope you had a great day. Sure looks like you did.

I love you.
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Little Mans

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Thankfully Turkey Trotting

Thanksgiving Day was a beautiful day for a Turkey Trot. A balmy 60-something degrees and 15,000 participants.

These are my mens. My husband and my pops. My two favorite mens in the world. I'm so proud of them.

They came, they saw, they conquered.

Both beating their personal bests. My dad's 5k just over 35 minutes and would you believe I missed him coming across the finish line?

I know. A failure as a daughter.

I carved out a spot along the ropes at the finish line, was ready with my camera in hand (I have never stood at a finish line so long so I had no idea how many pukers there were at the finish line! I had to constantly turn my head to avoid seeing the pukers! Did you know that?? I didn't either!) It must've been when my head was turned from a puker that I missed my dad, who crossed just around 35 minutes. It became about an hour and I was still standing there with no daddy in sight and at that point I'm seriously worrying that maybe something happened, I mean, it's been an hour! And then my imagination went wild and my phone was dead so I wouldn't have gotten a call and now at this point I'm picturing him in the back of an ambulance or something...

So my husband called him. My dad had wrapped it up forever ago and already went and got his shirt and his waters. Boy do I suck. But my dad ROCKS! Yay, Daddy!!!!!

Then, as if I couldn't be prouder, my husband finished his 10k just under an hour!!! Under an hour!!! We ran it together and when we saw we were at mile four at just under 40 minutes, we had this amazing realization that we could really do this in under an hour and when we did this last year we had done it in an hour and 12 minutes and we thought out loud, "Holy Crap, we can REALLY do this in under an hour!" So we picked it up and hauled and he got a little faster than I could because my legs turned to concrete stumps and I was trying real hard but he was faster and he was on this amazing mission and I didn't mind being left in his dust at all because he did it! He's living the dream! An under an hour 10k! Yay husband, yayyyy!!!!

I came in less than a minute later, at 1:00:45. Still a personal best for me! Shaving about 11 minutes off of last year's Turkey Trot! Boy, we've come a long way.

And then we went home and had turkey. It was a good day.


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A Thankgiving Haiku by Christie O.

Thanksgiving Haiku by Christie O.

Thanksgiving table

surrounded, friendships and food

A happiness feast.

The littlest eyes

So much question and wonder

Thankful for them all.
The "Ganksgiving Feef"

"Vinoculars", "Calmatian."

Give "ganks" for great words.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all as you enjoy your families, friends, and your memories.

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Weigh-in Wednesday: The Pre-Thanksgiving Edition

I'm into categorizing all my "situations" this week.

As in, if I'm about to deliver myself bad news, I also deliver myself good news.

Like, the bad news is... our Thanksgiving guest list is shrinking (Wah! I like me a good party.) The good news is... I found fantastic fabric to make a Thanksgiving table runner (did you know that all the fall-ish fabric is GONE?!)

The bad news is I'm behind in everything (as in, I was supposed to make said runner last night). The good news is there's a Curious George Christmas episode on and the "yellow man" is singing! And so is the doorman. And Chef Bisgetti!

The bad news is the kids woke up on the wrong side of the bed/crib. The good news is, my husband's coming home today at lunchtime!

See? Always good news.

So for weigh-in day at the Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans (have you joined yet?), bad news is I'm still up a pound since the start of the challenge and I skipped a very important 5 mile run over the weekend on account of Ikea and getting lost in it. Twice. The good news is I'm down a pound from last week! And I am doing a Turkey Trot 10k tomorrow morning with my husband and my dad as my turkey roasts in the oven. Over 600 calories burned before lunch. Sweet.

I'm feelin the holiday love this week. I'm feelin the thankfulness. My cup overfloweth (I really do know what that means now!)

So how did you do this week? Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your family and many blessings from my family to yours!!

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