Winning!

I love winning. lol. I seem to be doing a lot of that lately. In life as well as actually winning tangible things! hahah. I got an email yesterday from the people at Shrinking Jeans saying that I won their giveaway for Body glide on the week one challenge post from Shrinkvivor!!

For Women

• 1 Bodyglide For Her .8oz
• 1 Liquified Powder Tube 1.6oz
• 1 WarmFx .45oz
• 1 Sun & Sport .45oz
• 1 Bodyglide Cap

So score for something I've never tried before, yet already have a need for! I was out running today doing day 2 of week 4 of my couch to 5k training plan and my thighs kept slapping together so hard and I could swear they were ready to start chaffing so bad! I wish I already had the bodyglide! lol.

Speaking of week 4!! I did day 1 yesterday and Jett was awake so I had to take him with me! The neighborhood I run around here has all sorts of hills and things, too. I pushed his 33lbs plus the weight of the stroller while doing my first 5 minutes of straight jogging. Talk about tough! I totally felt awesome for having gotten through it though and realized I was much more capable than I thought I was. Today Jett was napping when I usually go for my walks or runs so I decided to go ahead and get day 2 out of the way while I had the chance. I got to run alone and my pace was sooo much faster! At the end I even ran an extra 30 seconds before looking down at the stopwatch to see that my 5 minutes had already passed!

I've been doing a lot of up and down on the scale the past few days with Aunt Flow in town but she's gone now and I worked out pretty hard today so I'm hoping to see a good loss tomorrow and have something nice to report in with for my first week of Shrinkvivor! I did Jillian Michael's Burn Fat Boost Metabolism for about 50 minutes this afternoon, did my couch to 5k training after dinner and then followed that up with Level 3 of the 30 day shred. I was really hurting through that one too tonight so I modified a lot more than usual. lol. I didn't wanna over exert myself and end up being super lazy tomorrow because of it.

October is my favorite month!

Seriously... it's like the best weather you could ask for where I live. The leaves are all starting to change colors and fall to the ground. The wind is constantly blowing in your face. Pretty soon I'll be able to wear a light jacket! This weather excites me! Especially now that I've decided to become a runner. lol. It's nice to go jogging in the wind and not be soaked in sweat afterwards because the wind is cooling you off along the way. :)

I start week 4 of the couch to 5k plan today and boy am I hesitant to do that... 5 minutes straight jogging tonight! That doesn't sound like much... but it sure did feel like a lot at 3 minutes last week. lol.

Today has been great. Got to do some grocery shopping and stock up on all the things I love having around the house. Speaking of that.. I keep getting asked on facebook about making a grocery list to share with my friends so they can start figuring out what sort of healthier things to buy, too. I think sometime soon I will have to write all the things down that I like to have on hand now and maybe put it on its own little page or something for easy reference. What do you guys think about that? Does anyone have any suggestions as to what kinds of things should be on that list? :) I'd love to hear! Especially from you new followers. I noticed Miss April mentioned me on her blog last night! And now I've got like 6 more followers today... Strange coincidence, or no? lol.

Playing catch up!

So this past week was insanely busy... After doing so well on Thursday and seeing 178 lbs on my scale I was hoping to be lower than that on Friday, but I stepped on the scale and saw 180 and was like wtf gives?! Then it hits me... in my brand spanking new white panties... Aunt Flow is in the hizzy. lol. So I feel better about the number on the scale, but still wanna do good for the day. I go walking around the Cain Center while waiting for the appointment we scheduled to see about a 2 week free membership. Then after the meeting is over they tell us the pool isn't open for kids younder than 12yrs until noon so we leave to go eat lunch and come back since my mom and jett want to swim. Well, we had chinese and I totally planned on eating a nice salad and only a little bit of other stuff. I had like 3 plates of food. I felt sooo awful immediately too. I was soo mad at me. Then the cramps and bloatedness kicked in too and I felt like total shit at this point. We get back to the Cain Center, they go swim, but i force myself to hit the gym first. I used the treadmill, the bike, the crunch board, and some sort of arm machine. I ended up burning over 409 calories there and then I went swimming laps for the next 30 minutes so lots more calories there. I felt better after all that working out but man I sure didn't want to start, glad I sucked it up and did though. When I got home, after I caught up on some tv I recorded earlier this week, I went for my 5k training run of week 3 day 2. I did that in the fastest pace I've done so far and then I came back here and did the 30 day shred on level 3! So tons of calories burned yesterday even though I probably had a thousand calories for lunch. I somehow pulled off a loss on Saturday morning and saw 179 on the scale with Aunt Flow here in town and all. I pushed hard and it was well worth it. I refuse to accept failure from myself anymore. I knew I failed at eating on Friday, but I made sure to make up for it in exercise.

Saturday I spent most of the day at Six Flags walking around with my mom and Jett and riding rides and seeing shows, etc. It was a pretty perfect day. The weather was in the high 70s but there was lots of wind and it was such a relief from the 100s and 90s all these past few weeks that i threw on a light hoodie! haha. We rolled the windows down for the entire ride there and back and it was so nice and chilly. I love it. October is my absolute favorite time of year here in East Texas!! When I got home I ate a quick dinner and then went for my week 3, day 3 jog for the Couch to 5k plan. Woohoo! This time my neighbor, Brian, joined me. He is about to turn 23 this month and has recently graduated from some sort of police academy and just showed me his new badge and gun. He's got quite a bit of excess belly he wants to run off though and said to let me know whenever I go for my runs or walks. He jogged a little bit of it with me but was really tired and out of breath a lot of times and his legs are soo much longer than mine that he could do a fast paced walk and keep up with my slow jog. lol. I think he did alright though for attempting to do week 3 on his first time out there with me. :)

I have not been reading blogs for days now and as I'm following probably 100 or so right now, I've got a lot of catching up to do. So i'll most likely be skimming through them, if you feel you have made an important announcement or update that I should know about, please give me a little nudge and be like hey woman you better go read my blog!!! Just to ensure I don't accidentally skip over something juicy. :)

I did get an email though from Carbie Girl!! She mentioned me and another girl were the winners of her guess her weigh in results contest. She weighed at the beginning of September and then was scale free the entire month and we got the closest guess to her exact weight at the end of the month. :) SO YAY FOR PRIZES! hahah. I like winning.

Oh and don't think I haven't noticed I keep getting random new followers... Ya'll stop by and introduce yourself and say hello to me!! :)

Oh and as promised, pictures of me from the Blink 182 concert... I wish I wasn't so far away or had a better camera and could have gotten some decent pictures of the band. Oh well.