Three weeks later

My hopes of blogging once a week are obviously not coming to fruition! School is in high gear and it is a little nutty around here. All five of us are at a different school on a different schedule. I have started teaching PK and KDG PE which is something I haven't done for a long time. I had forgotten how crazy working with the wee ones are. They are always on the go and need to move constantly. Four and five year olds do not like to sit and listen to directions for very long!

Once school began I started getting up at 4:30 AM to head to the gym. I'm not gonna lie...it's been exhausting. I am in bed by 8:00 or 8:30 PM. Someone once told me that if you do something for six weeks then it becomes a habit. I am a month in and am hoping that in two more weeks it will become habit! I have woken up a few times before my alarm so maybe I am almost there. It has been hard though. I have been doing a program called Couch Potato to 5K. Supposedly in eight short weeks you can go from sitting on your couch to running a 5K. I started on week three, as I have a teeny, tiny base of endurance to start from. I made it to week five almost two weeks ago. It is HARD! I am going to do it again this week. The thing with CPT5K is that they only have you running three days a week, and it is a walk/run program. Week five goes like this: day one you run for five minutes, walk for three, repeat. Day two is run for eight, walk for three and repeat. Day three has you just go out and run for 20 minutes! Uhh...NOT! I have been stuck on day one for a while now. I think I will be there for another week at least. Sometimes I have to stop running and walk. Not sure if that would be the case if I was out on the road, as opposed to the treadmill. There are three 5K runs in the two months that I am hoping to run so maybe that will be a better gauge of my endurance.

As for my eating it has been OK. I have an app on my iPhone called LostIt that I track my weight and food. I have been doing really well, despite having to eat in the dining hall. Candy corn may be my downfall. I like it, I love it, I want more of it! I keep a jar of it on my desk. Not the best choice, I know!

As of this morning I have lost a total of 10 lbs. Very exciting on paper. I am a little bummed that my clothes aren't fitting better. Well, maybe they are. Sometimes I think, when I am at my heaviest, I am in denial as to my real size. So maybe now my clothes fit better; I just don't look like a stuffed sausage anymore!

'til next time -

Mummy Q.

Labor Day

Hello! I have been reading all my old posts. When I first started I was a blogging fool! I am not sure how I am going to find the time to blog so much but will shoot for once a week.

So the past week has been a good one. I met all my work-out goals. I worked out M, W, Fri, Sa, Sun and again today (Monday). By mid-week last week I was logging all my food.

I did weigh myself again on Saturday AM and was quite pleased. I had lost a total of five pounds! YEA! Really made me feel good and I still went to the gym. I kind of had a cheat day on Saturday. Well, I DID cheat but not until the evening. I had brie, brie and more brie for an appetizer. I ate very well at dinner and then had a lovely dessert. Sunday was much of the same. Good b'fast, lunch AND dinner but had chips and salsa for an appetizer and half a woopie pie and ice cream for dessert. OH YEA - and I made cookies and ate my weight in dough and then had at least three cookies.

This morning I started week four on the Couch Potato to 5K. A LOT more running this week. It has me running five straight minutes. That's something I haven't done in years. I did it though...slowly but I did it. My legs have been hurting this evening.

School starts again tomorrow. I do so much better on a schedule. I bought lots of snacks - Luna and Mojo bars, yogurt. Hoping to lose another pound this week!

til next time -

Mummy Q.