Posts by tamarbee

OK so building habbits.

Being the person you want to be today.

4 excercises a week. Healthy choices. This is the person I am.

Anyone else want to try it with me?

All in all it was a good weekend,

O, I hope your date went reallly well and that you had a great time with your friends.

Luna. I know I feel the same way - in total I am less active and eat less healthy than this time last year...:(

Didnt excercise but I did go Salsa last night so thats something.

Well thats 2 out of 3. I am 0 for 3. Last night didnt go as planned. Didnt do anything in my goals list. The only think I can mark in my favour was that me and BF went out to dinner he ordered a burger, I was tempted but ordered a salad instead.

So it was a dececnt end to a huge indulgent day.

Now today I already ate a crossant. Its like I think of coming to work and I go hey wire. Also the morning on my way to work is my only "solo" time so I fall right back to my bad habits - nervouse or unhappy - eat eat eat...

The weekend is coming - I want to take 1 long walk and do 1 pilates DVD and write 3 pages on my short story.

I think those goals are attainable.

khooder,

I wish I had your conviction. I am not even up to 30 minutes straight yet.

A few years ago before my knees turned on me I was addicted. I mean I used to crave a run.

It is all so hard now...

Tomorrow I may try a spin class or maybe a night run. I dont know yet.

Tell you what, I still dont have you on facebook. They now have IM. I dont have yahoo messenger.

Olivia where do you get those cheerleading skills?

Luna,

Just went to the market and the lettuce looked :( but the cabbage looked good...

Cut the veggies up in the morning and cut my finger with them :( I am soo not an AM person.

Didnt wake up today...I think I will look into the running club in my city - they might be a little rough on me but on the other hand I am not very good at being accountable to myself.

Already Logged today!

Ok so I didnt crash of the wagon I took a couple of baby steps off. Had a crappy weekend in some aspects. I always let myself down on my work out goals...sheeesh.

So I will not give in. I bought a cabbage and for tomorrow I will make myself cabbage and tuna salad for lunch.

I will also wake up to run tomorrow.

Now I need to stick to that :)

Olivia,

The pain in the a** goes away after a few work outs.

The best thing about a staiotanary bike is that you can stand up (so its like easy jogging - make sure you have plenty of resistance if you do that) and with music you can close your eyes. Thats one thing you cant do running and is soooo cool.

cawlider,

My mom made sure I knew from a very early age that ice cream is bad, that chocolate is bad, that fried food is bad. I may not have known the caloriec price tag but I always knew it was bad and I always went for it in secret in large amounts anyway.

I think the first time I actually got that "bad" things have a price tag that can be worked into a budget I was 21ish. Before that I would count calories but even then there were things that were to astronomical to count like burgers and pizza and chocolate cake.

Only about 6 months ago when I moved out did I try to councesly remove from my vocabulary the semantics of bad food. I mean I love choclate and pizza and french fries. I also love salads and omletes and bread with cottage cheese and baked potoes and chicken meat balls in tomato sauce (now I am hungry) :)

I tried to have all the decadent stuff around. I had a brownie cake, 1 kilo of ice cream in the freezer, a bar of bitter chocolate all the things my mother never buys and whenever it found itself in our house I would find myself eating a whoel kilo of ice cream or the whole cake. Anyway I found that for 3 monthes I maintained really nicely.

Then stuff got crazy at work and I found myself regressing to my old patterns of going out of my way to buy junk food and then eat it all in one sitting.

My goal is to have food as a friend and not as a family member that constantly shakes you and guilts you and shames you.

I dont think food will ever be just fuel for me. I do hope it will be a positive influence and not a destructive one.

Doedoebird.

Ill trade you rain for blistering humid summer? What do you say?

Today I did a new 30 min route. It was hardddd. I couldnt run the whole thing I had to stop and walk several times. thats what happens when you dont do the work for 2 weeks.

Well atleast I did get up and did the 30 minutes.

Short term goal is to run 30 minutes comfertably. Thats will take atleast 5 weeks. I am sure my pace is almost half of 5k in half an hour but thats ok. Once I get to running 30 minutes then I will get a new plan to work on speed in 30 minutes.

In about 2-3 months Ill start trying to add more time.

Ok so yay me for getting up and not giving up and even though its annoying I couldnt run a full 25 minutes thats ok. Thursday is another day.

The problem with this being a web community only is that we cant pick up a phone when somebody dives off the wagon.

I think sometimes we just get into a downward spin and we need an actual physical voice to help us out.

That being said I guess we have to let people have their time and find their way back.

First off I would like to say HooRaahh

I ran today. I got up (a challenge). Then I got out of bed (bigger challenge). Then I started my warm up walk to the beach. When I got to the beach my body scolded me for not running for two weeks by giving me awful stitches at my side.

I thought, ok I am up , I am on the beach. Might as well enjot the morning. So instead of going south I went north to scoute a new route. About ten minutes in with Sting's "every thing she does is magic" I started running and did a full 25 minutes in a turtle's pace.

So I am proud of me.

Sordino, Ishiopop, doedoebird. I would also like to say HooRaa to having so many women pushing us foreward. Whenever I talk to men about running it is always about why not run longer, why not run faster. I say why not just say HooRaah for what we have done.

I came to love running because of the challenge, because if the adrenaline high but first and foremost because of the peace and quiet and just sacred me time with my mind and body.

My knees gave me a little trouble during the run but now they are (tfu tfu knock on wood) just fine. From all my research and phsyical therapy what I know is that you have to run in moderation. So I dont think Ill ever try doing it 5 times a week again. Yoga, Running and hopefully Ill restart dancing soon. Thats the ticket for me.

Awwwwwe Shucks,

See Olivia now you made me blush.

Here is my short runners history:

I started walking when I first started trying to lose weight for real. That was 5 years ago. Then at the end of that year I dont know how it happened I started running. I guess I started running too much to fast cause I started having horrible knee pains.

Now I am trying for the second time to re enter the world of running slowly and carefully with the couch25k plan. I am on week 6 and am really bad about sticking to the 3 times a week regiment.

Why do I run?

Cause I want that peaceful hour 3 times a week. To know that whole day you are awesome. To use this tool we call body at onw with the mind. SOmetimes its easier sometimes its harder but whenever I finish a run on the beach I feel like rocky topping those stairs.

So O, Thank you for the kick in the butt.

Tomorrow I will wake up at 5:30 am and I will run.