Journey Beyond Survival

Yesterday was another out-of-house day. Miss THANG had ballet. Beansprout had storytime at the library and Chickadee was supposed to have an eye doctor appointment. My bad. I think it was a subconscious slip sabotaging me. My experience there was less than stellar. To top it all off my house was again to be occupied and unavailable. We went shopping. For our very own healthy snack pack for the trunk. I didn't go off! I did not get to exercise, but it was a pretty good day. I've got exercise done today though, and I'm excited for another day. Maybe I'll clean my house (Don't tell Kat and Lisa it isn't clean yet!)

Last night I worked out @ 7:00pm. While my kids were getting ready for bed. That is a new for me. Thanks to Corletta. I did: 2.21 miles 342 calories 2.5 min @ 4mph/25 min @ 4.5mph/2.5min @ 4mph Today at 5:30am I scraped the crust off my eyes and got on the treadmill again: 2.08 miles 325 calories not really sure because I did the same as last night until 15 min. Then I went back to 4mph because I was dying. Without an ipod! My new diversion is Jillian Michaels' book on metabolism. It's helped to divert the attention away from the timepiece. She talks a lot about whole foods, whole grains, organic, and such. I'm already on that kick, it's just I've been adding in too much sugar. We already it whole wheat bread, wheat pasta, Fiberific cereal etc. We should do better on veggies, and I have fruit around generally. If I could just get my butt to the grocery store. I don't have glass tupperware, and I have teflon pans (Scream, run, aaaah!) But I do actuall...

There was a snow plow last night outside my window. I swear it took twenty minutes to scrape off our lot, and it sounded like it was ice. I drifted in and out of sleep, grumpy. I awoke a couple more times, hopefully not because my children needed me because I went back to sleep within five minutes. I awoke a final time, and lay there for fifteen minutes. Grumbling about not getting to have my day go according to plan. Today is not as forgiving as yesterday. Today we have two therapists for my special needs child, and an eye appointment for said child. There will be no time to make up a work-out. Plus, I should really go shopping. We're out of diapers. How do I know it was fifteen minutes? Because-glory be-I looked at my cell phone to see what time it was so I could grouse some more, and it said 5:15 am! Yay! I got up, so excited that the snow plow, strange awakenings, and other mayhem had not dissuaded me from my purpose on Day Two. I 'ran' for 30 minutes. Sorry J...

I slept through my alarm for 5:00 am. My husband couldn’t sleep last night, which means I-as a light sleeper-couldn’t sleep either. Then my special needs daughter woke up at 5:45 am cold, and I had to give her a bottle. We both fell asleep until 8:00 am. This is not how I pictured the FIRST DAY. But, it is realistic. I ran @ 5.0 mph for 15 minutes. Whereupon I felt like a lung was going to collapse, my heart was going to burst, and I was going to choke on the clearing out of my sinuses. Then I walked @ 4.0 mph for 15 minutes and again barely made it to the end. This is what taking a month off gets me. However, I ran 2.25 miles which is only 0.25 less than my best time. But, I did it with no iPod (drat those bored kids in the backseat of a car) and I got a shower today. Pretty good for me. Also, I did not eat the cookies. I had breakfast at 11:00 am during which my special daughter vomited on the couch. In ten minutes it will be noon, and my husband and three kids will be expecti...