Week One Day One - 2nd Try!

Whoo Hoo!  Went to the gym today, but seriously, is it right to need a nap after working out?  On my way home, I got so tired, I felt like I had too much to drink and needed to sleep it off.  Thankfully, I had enough time...kind of, to take a 35 minute nap, and thankfully, Brett woke up at 7 and woke me up too!  I really felt like I had too much to drink.  What is up w/ that.  I thought endorphins were supposed to make you energetic and happy, not sleepy drunk?  My endorphines are broken...  I didn't do anything crazy today, just the eliptical, arms, tummy, back and tush then eliptical again.  Oh, and if you are curious DO NOT Google search your symptoms...BAD idea.  By the end of the day I had given myself an inoperable brain tumor, hypoglycima, chronic fatigue syndrome and some sort of heart disease.  I am now consoling myself with a bowl of ice cream.  That is a lot of illness to absorb in just one day! 

I have my nano set up to also be my pedometer, today during my workout time I walked 2300+ steps, burned most of a hot dog (let me explain that, Nike sets up goals, the first is the climb the Empire State building, second is burn a hot dog, third is burn a doughnut and the rest are surprises!).  When I sync the nano it hooks up with Nike and tracks my steps.  I am only tracking them during workouts since I don't wear the thing around all day, though I could now that I have an arm band for it.  But then I would just look more like an idiot than I already do.  Tomorrow is running for 35 minutes.  I may try the Galloway method of run/walk.  I will run for 10 seconds and walk for 10 minutes...that sounds like a good place to start!  Well, I guess we will see how it goes.  I just can't breath when I start to run, my legs and body feels ok, but I just can't catch my breath.  Need to head to bed, sorry, didn't mean for that to rhyme.  Sweet Dreams!

The Beginning

In the beginning there was man...ugh, really? OK in my beginning, I guess I could say there was a man also...I fell in love with him, gained a bunch of weight, looked dreadful on my wedding day (thankfully at the time I didn't realize it)then gave birth to his two beautiful little boys. It is safe to say that I have always been overweight, and I am guessing by the looks of things that I always will be. But, shortly after I had Brady (our first son who was born 04/19/06) I decided I wanted to be a runner. Well, I finish his first year and just try to cling to a normal life as a new Mom who is also working full time. Then, when Brady turned 2 I found out I was pregnant with our second child, another boy. Brett was born 12/01/08. He is now a year old and I am done nursing him. Those pesky professionals and experts who say that breast feeding speeds up your metabolism...they are NOT lying...Ugh, I was down to 162 pounds (which is AWESOME for me!) now that I have been done nursing for nearly two months, I have gained 20 pounds...What is that crap all about. I hate this phrase but here goes..."THAT'S NOT FAIR!!!" So, now I need to start running not only because I have really always wanted to, but I need to. I just can't go back to my pre-baby weight of 200 pounds. I don't want to be a fat/out-of-shpe wife and Mom, I want to be able to buy clothes at any store and have them look good.

So, here we are. My first blog entry...here is what to expect in the future. My thoughts on food; which I am trying to learn more about and use properly, exercise; my struggles with getting to the gym around 5 a.m. on M-W-F and then running in my neighborhood on T-R-J. And the occasional rant about trying to buy a house in a good neighborhood with good schools :).

SO - Here are some of my starting stats
Height - 5'6"
Weight - 182 lbs
I will post my measurements as soon as I find my tape measure, it's probably hiding out of self defense!