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So I did it. I finished the Get in Gear 5K in less than 60 minutes. My finish time was 51:01. Whoo. It was cold, rainy, and I never want to do it again.

5 down 25 to go

Before

Crowd shot

Crossing the finish line

After

Race finishers

I'm on the edge, the edge, the edge, the edge...

My big 5K race is tomorrow.

Here's my playlist.

Tik tok -- Ke$ha
Domino -- Jessie J
Drive By -- Train
Edge of Glory -- Lady Gaga
Fallen Angels -- Black Veil Brides
We are Young -- Fun
Hot N Cold -- Katy Perry
Kids in America -- The Muffs
DJ's Got Us Falling in Love Tonight -- Usher
Medicate -- AFI
Oxford Comma -- Vampire Weekend
Someday -- Nickelback
A Thousand Years -- Christina Perri
Young -- Hollywood Undead
Eye of the Tiger -- Survivor
Alright -- Supergrass
Gonna Fly Now -- Rocky II
So Far Away -- Avenged Sevenfold


Wish me luck! My goal is under 60 minutes! I hate running :)


**UPDATE after the race. I finished with 4.5 songs left on my playlist... didn't make it to the Rocky songs, I was kind of bummed but I'm glad I didn't have to run any longer.**

monday morning brain dump

Well I finally did it. Took a big step toward one of my 2012 challenges and one of my 30b430 goals. I joined Weight Watchers on Saturday. I had done Weight Watchers once before and it worked really well but then I got pregnant, let myself go, and gained back every one of the pounds I had worked so hard to lose. I'll admit, I haven't really, really tried to lose the weight again, just kind of thought about it but now, I am determined to do it! And since I'm paying for it, I will be more likely to actually do it because I am more accountable. Plus going to the meetings really helps me.

Is it too much to ask that when you see a mother carrying a baby in a car seat carrier, a purse, and trying to balance a pizza box and her keys to open the damn door for her? What happened to Minnesota nice??

I hate daylight savings time. Saving? saving's? I don't know. Any way. Losing an hour totally sucks. Especially come Monday morning. This morning was rough getting up but at least monster was still sleeping because she thought it was only 5 a.m. instead of 6. yay for small victories. But, putting her to bed was not so good last night because she doesn't sleep well unless it is really dark and now that it is light at bedtime it's harder to get her to go down right away. We have "room darkening" blinds but they don't seem to be that dark. I'm on the lookout for curtains now. And, hopefully it will help with naps too. :) Happy spring though. :) 60 degrees yesterday and sunny. very nice.

Have been getting ready for baptism this upcoming weekend. I know most kids are done with this before they are a couple of months old but with the holidays and such, we didn't do it until now. Plus, I wasn't even sure that I wanted to go to all the trouble for it anyway. But, now that we are it seems like a good idea. I like the idea of being a member of a church and the tradition of going to mass on Sundays, but I just have problems with the execution of it. I haven't yet gotten the motivation to actually attend a service but maybe I will.

Weekly Update

Since buying a new digital scale last week, I have been obsessively weighing myself every day. Sometimes 2 and 3 times a day. I know that my weight fluctuates throughout the day and that I drive myself crazy every time I see the numbers go up, but I can't seem to help it. It's just sitting there on the floor, staring at me, all shiny and screaming "Step on me! See what the numbers say!!" I have to admit, I love having the digital scale. We had an old fashioned, non-digital one that worked well enough but I could never for sure tell what the number was. Plus, I think it was a few pounds off both ways, high and low, so the actual weight was never truly what is should have been.

So now for the update.
Goal for last week: physical activity 3 times. FAIL. I only did the treadmill twice.
Goal for this week: Redo C 2 5K week 1 and try to jog at least half the time. Drink 64 oz H20 every day.

Weight: 192.5
Total lost: 2.5 pounds.

So even with having 2.5 "cheat" days this weekend (Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday) and not doing all the physical activity I should have, I still lost weight. I guess cutting back on portion sizes really is a good place to start. Now, here's to this coming week! :)

The journey begins

It's time to lose the pregnancy weight! I really let myself go when I found out I was pregnant. I ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted and I completely stopped doing any kind of physical activity. I know, I know ... it would have been better for me and for the baby if I had exercised and ate right but I didn't and now I'm paying for it. I am the heaviest I have ever been. No more Chipotle twice a week... the trouble with driving past it on my way home from work! At least now I'm downtown with no fast food joints between the house, daycare and work. woo.

Stats
Weight: 195 lbs
Pants: Size 15-16 comfortably, 14 tight
Shirts: L-XL slightly tight

And now for the moment of truth...
gross.

At least now its out there and I have someone/something to hold me accountable, the interwebs!

Goals are difficult for me to stick to so this new year I'm going to try to break my big goal of losing weight to manageable chunks. This week my goal is to actually do some physical activity three times, other than walking from the parking ramp to work...

Here goes nothing. WISH ME LUCK.

Highlights and Challenges

Highlights of 2011

1. Seeing Avenged Sevenfold twice
2. Visiting with BfL three times
3. RAV wedding
4. TNT wedding
5. Finding out bro/sil2 are expecting
6. Having my little monster

Challenges for 2012

1. Get in shape to run the Get in Gear 5K in April
2. Create and maintain this blog
3. Keep little monster's baby book/calendar up to date
4. Find a job I'll enjoy or find a way to enjoy my job