The BIG mufftop

well after going through heart surgery and a month of recovery, the mufftop has taken on a new size and it is bigger than ever. I just received the best news from my cardiologist that I can now resume activity. I ran today (around 3 miles) and walked 1 mile. I am so exited to get back into the grove of doing what I love to do...moving my body. I lost so much muscle mass during this two month period, I also managed to gain 10 lbs. I have to get back to discipline and action. I feel like I have been given a second chance and a new heart to prove it. It was a wakening to eat healthy and take care of the body that blesses me every day with life.

Stress and Girl Scout cookies

so one could say that I have been a little or a lot stressed the past couple of weeks. My company is going through lay offs or what they like to call an exercise. It has me so frazzeled I can't believe it. I have lost most of my mojo to do much of anything, but try to wake up and stay focused at work. that being said I have not been getting up early and hitting the gym,,,and i am getting fatter flabbier and weaker every moment. I know that I will so regret this when I go to do Iron Girl. I need to regroup bad. Well the only thing that I have been taking comfort in is food, and the number one comfort food this time of year is girl Scout cookies dame those little brownies and their friends for making such yummy cookies and being so cute that i cant resist buying from them. Well chalk it all up. the good news is this will pass, the cookies will be gone soon and I will know about my job soon. AHHh maybe then I will be able to breath again.

March 1st

Sunday- Oh how I love Sunday, it is when a new week starts over, and for me it feels like the new year. A time to start over and forget all of the bad things that I did to my body the week before. So Tomorrow...I will start the day out with a great workout, a 1 hour swim and a 2 hour bike ride. I soooo hope that the weather is great so that I might be able to get the bike in outside. I am GOING off sugar. I have been a very bad girl lately and I have found that I can not go a day with out a treat so I am going off sugar for the month of March. Wish me luck, I totally am a sugar aholic, my body craves it.

SICK and SICK again

It has been a long 2 weeks of having this cold that is killing me. I also had a bacterial infection that I could not kick. So I decided to take time off and try to heel. Well I think that I am finally there. The only down fall is that I feel like I am two weeks behind in my training...but I need to get that thought out of my mind, because what would training be like if I was training with a sick and unhealthy body. I think that it is so important to take the rest periods in your training, and my body always seems to let me know when to STOP. I usually don't get sick very often, but I think the combination of local virology and stress from my company going through layoffs is what did me in. So time to put the body bugg back on (not that i should have taken it off because i was sick, but I like to know more what I am burning during workouts). Time to go to the store and get "training food" whole grains & lean meats time to clean out the gym bag and re stock it. Time to look at the calender and see what I can fit in. I have 10 weeks to go until my first race of the new season. Wish me luck and pray for me not to get sick.

OpeNed tHis BLog Up

I decided to open this blog up. Why, well i feel that there are so many of us who are out there who struggle with working out and staying healthy. This is my blog that I use to post all of my frustrations and all of my success's with working out, dieting, and striving to stay healthy. This will be a honest blog and if you comment please keep it that way. i will try to motivate at most times, but guess what I too get in a rut and hate to stay on track. enjoy the blog and join me in my training. I am currently training for Iron Girl and started this week. I hope to have a personal beast time for this Race. Wish me luck in my training...so far so good (except for my dang cold)

Doing Good.

I am now in day 3 of my training for Iron Girl. I have told myself that I will reward myself with a new camra lens if i reach 120 and train for 6 days in a row. This is hard for me when I am just starting out, and when it is Febuary (I have such a hard time waking up in the winter).

Body Bugg

I have now started to were one of those crazy body buggs. I am determened to loss a lot of weight. I want to look hot in jeans and love wearing a bathing suit this summer. I so far love having it on. Today I went to a cookie party and yes I enjoyed so many of the cookies, but i counted how many i ate, because I knew that I would have to log it in and I wanted it to be acurate. My goal is 109 lbs by the end of March. Lossing a lb a week. Wish me luck I know that I can do it if I just put my heart into to it.