O_o Bad Me...

Wow its been over a week since my last blog  O_o Bad Me... Everytime I thought about writing I was either in the middle of doing something else or not able to write. This past week has not been a very good week :/  It's crazy when something you want is so hard to do.... But I had a good walk today and thought over a lot of things and this week will be better!

Thought I would share this.... Pretty funny made chuckle on a bad day. Thank God Twilight is almost over. 

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Temptation got the best of me this week..... I have stuck with my workout schedule but my food choices these past three days haven't been too good. But I have realized that I can live without all that junk it's just habit to turn to it. On a good note I've just noticed muscles forming in my arms and legs that I've never had before so thats got to be good and I've lost 6 pounds so far! It's finally turned cold here so I've avoided walking this week... I HATE the cold :( I hate the winter, it's almost the end of January and it hasn't really been cold yet up until this last week.

One of my favorite pictures I've taken.... Ready for Spring/Summer. Wishing I was knee deep in the water somewhere :D



Sad Week

This week started off bad.... My Uncle that lives in Indiana was killed in a car accident Monday morning. </3 I haven't seen him in almost 3 years and I guess now I never will again ;( 

Back to blog: It has been raining all week so walking/running never happened hopefully I can get some miles in this weekend. I've done my Billy Blanks dvds all week except for Thursday. Calorie counting hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be and I've done pretty good all week with my intake limit so I will give myself a pat on the shoulder for that.... I'm down only 3 pounds and I keep telling myself that it's not going to fall off over night but it feels like the harder I work the less results I get. And this is usually the time I would just give up but I keep reminding myself of Amanda's wedding in November, and that I just gotta take it one day at a time. Maybe I'm just down this week because of my Uncle's passing? I hope I have more enthusiasm next week. </3

Hello my name is Tabatha and I'm afraid of the dark

Working ten hour days Monday through Friday has proven to be problematic when it comes to running. It's dark when I leave in the morning and dark when I get home. And I just haven't worked up the nerve to run around in these woods at night.... Hello my name is Tabatha and I'm afraid of the dark. There I said it! So running/walking will have to be a Saturday/Sunday exercise and I will "Billy Blanks" my way through the rest of the week.

I woke up this morning in a state of panic when I could hardly move myself... it took a second to remember Billy Blanks is to blame for this. We have a love/hate relationship. Is it weird that even through the pain I feel better?

This whole calorie counting thing feels like its becoming an obsession...I look at food differently now. It seems like it will be an easy habit to keep. (fingers crossed) I've done good with my calorie count all week and have stayed under my daily amount. I still have to fight the urge to eat after 8pm. But I think I've gotten through my first week pretty good.. 

Running Like A Mofo

Today is my last day of vacation.. BOO!!  But at least tomorrow I will be back on my normal schedule. I dont know about calorie counting but I'm gonna try.....

http://caloriecount.about.com is the website I'm using to figure things out. It was pretty easy to set up my account and it tells you the amount of calories you can have in one day. It has a food log, activity log, weigh log and water log. You enter in everything you eat and drink and the activities you do and it adds it altogether and gives you a grade for the day. So we will see how this works for me.  My first days grade was a B.... I'm going for that A tomorrow!

I also started walking and running today. I dont trust walking down my road because people drive it like they stole it so I walked a lap around my house then ran a lap for about 30 minutes. I didnt count the laps but I will tomorrow and everyday add more to it. I havent ran like that since High School in gym but it wasnt too bad other then the breathing part.  I didnt do my Billy Blanks dvd today but tomorrow I'll get back at it. Ive definitely got to get my activity level up...And drink MORE water!

I think the most aggravating thing will be writing everything down during the day but at least the website adds all the calories for me. And it has a pretty big database so you can look up stuff by brand name, it makes it easier to find all the information you need to put into your food log.

T

Well what a first day of the year this has been...

The first day of 2012 was pretty good. Started my Billy Blanks "Billy Bootcamp" workouts and I'm either gonna be able to kick some butt or have my butt kicked by Billy by the end of this. Shew! I don't feel it right now but I know I will by morning. Not eating after 8pm is gonna be the hardest part of this because I always stay up late... as I'm writing this my stomach is growling like a mofo.

And just because I'm watching The Help right now I will end this blog with these words from Aibileen: You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

T

Good-bye 2011 !!

Ok so I didn't blog yesterday because it was after 1am when I got home. I went to see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo with my cousins Amanda and Matthew but first we stopped at the Sunset Memorial Park in Smithfield to see Ava Gardner's grave..

Then we had to take a group photo.....

Ok back to the reason for this blog... I am officially starting tomorrow so today can be my bad day. I don't drink soda, haven't for about a year and a half now so thats not a problem for me. I drink a lot of water but I'm gonna have to cut back on the sweet tea :(  My biggest problem is pasta...which I had last night so I'm definitely going to cut back on that too. My friend Jenny and myself plan on walking after work everyday and within the next week or so we will be going to the gym. It will definitely help having somebody to work out with and hopefully make it fun so we will stick to it... but knowing I have a wedding coming up soon will keep me motivated, i hope!

Happy New Year!

T