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A 159.2 actually, on the scale this morning, whoohoo and this, with TOM being here full blast! TOM is a regular guest these days. Its the 3rd period Im having in 5 weeks! Im thinking I am going through ‘the change’ and if so I wish it would hurry up already so I can be done with it!

In half an hour I get to pick up my kitty from the vet. Sox, (1 of our 3 cats) was in for surgery. Saturday I discovered a lump on his leg, took him in on Tuesday and the vet told me that they had to take that out asap. So here I am all worried. I could phone at 11.30 this morning to see how he did and he did great. The lump wasn’t cancerous, it was actually a fat tumour, which is just a fat deposit. So basically what he got was a liposuction.. geeezzz!! Now I am just scared what this is going to cost us.

Ive been doing good on the running, although I didn’t go yesterday because of TOM and heavy duty cramping.

But tomorrow Im going to be back at it again!

Alex is in Bruce’s office making me a birthday surprise …all a big secret lol. Its so cute to see her like that.

Well, not much more to say right now, other than that I hope to finally have a good sleep now that Sox is fine again. Kids, cats… grrrrrr!

Have a great day everyone and be good to yourself!

Thanksgiving (eventhough the Canadian one has already passed), Christmas, New Years and other holidays are looming around the corner. T’is the season where weight is gained. Do you guys have a ‘diet’ plan for these oh so tempting times?

I myself have been slipping a little bit lately due to bdays and accompanied stress and work. Haven’t been running every other day like I was - although I made a good start this week (ran Sunday and this morning) but the food just seems to keep finding it’s way to my mouth.. and somehow the water isn’t. So I figure, since all these holidays, my own birthday (nov 23), Alex’s birthday (Jan. 10) and to top it all off Bruce’s birthday (Feb 27) are all just about to hit, I need a plan to stay strong. I want to keep on running and find (yeah I am still looking) another type of exercise to do. The food is going to be a challenge and I also don’t want to sit there and eat carrots while the rest is gorging on pies and turkeys and stuffing (oh stuffing yess). The main challenge for me will be the drinking. There will be parties and what is a party without a bottle of wine … lol.

But I want to be somewhat prepared and have some sort of plan so I was wondering if anyone out here in buddyslim land has given this some thought for themselves. We can’t let our hard work and progress of the past years/months/weeks just go to waste (or waist I guess hehe) during this time right?

But! It was Robbert’s birthday dinner, and really good food, in a really nice restaurant and I would do it all over again. LOL.

First of all I ended up with 2 leather binders and 50 plus sheets with scrapbookpages and Robbert loved it. Its about his first 12 years, the years we lived in Holland and he was really happy with it. WHEW! We (Bruce and I) took Robbert out for a wonderful dinner at a really nice place where all of us drank too much lol but oh the food was soooo good! I checked my weight this morning though and I haven’t gained so thats good! I don’t know about right now because we had a little repeat of his birthday for Alex and grandma who weren’t at the restaurant and I had baked my annual Dutch applepie for this occasion (Robbert needs this every year lol) and I had a pretty big chunk.. oh well.. hey 21 is a special age so it was worth it. No regrets here and I will be really good for the next little while.

Here’s some pics of Robbert and me and Bruce either at home or at the restaurant with the delicious dishes. I had a beef tenderloin with oh what do they call that..  procetta. And we shared a wonderful 2 person chocolate/creme brulee (SP) caramel/coffee icecream of which I have to admit, I ate the most. Paired this with 2 bottles of wine and there you have it….

Anyway.. pics of my beautiful son (or I guess you say handsome lol) and wonderful husband) and oh one of Alex from yesterday all decked out as peacock princes.. so there’s my little family … *SMILE*

Hope you guys had a great weekend and are ready for a new week filled with jumping jacks, runs, carrots and gallons of water!

Alex is my daughter. She is almost 8 and weighs 60lbs and today when I stepped on the scale it said 161.6 which means I lost 60.4lbs so far.   When I lifted her up earlier she felt quite heavy..and I lost that.. soo whooohoo!! lol

Not the most uplifting title but thats how I feel. I’ve been feeling stressed all week, I’ve been having the munchies all week and this morning I woke up with a kink in my neck that seems to have cemented my head so I cannot turn it. Big fat BLAH!!  I was supposed to go for a run this morning but I so didn’t feel like it, so here I am, still sitting in my pj’s.

Today TOM has arrived too so that explains a lot. It just surprizes me how that time of the month can sneak up on me time after time. I should know by now when to expect it but nooo.

The other thing is that in 2 weeks (October 30th) my son is turning 21! And boy does that make me feel old lol. Its also one of those milestone birthdays that makes me remenisce a lot. Even more so because last month I decided that as part of a birthday gift I would make him a photo/scrapbook album about his first 21 years. Now having moved from Holland 8 years ago, this meant that my mom had to send me a ton of photos that were still there. She also sent me some kindergarten and school art work that he did so I can also put that in there. I have never made a scrapbook you guys. And it is ballooning into a monster of gigantic proportions. I cannot do this in the house because - eventhough he is in university - he comes home during the day and you all know that being a parent means you have no private space. So I have set up in the meeting space of Bruce’s office and go there in the afternoons when Alex is at school. The tally after 2 weeks is that I am now at his 2nd birthday, I already have over 50 photos in there and I haven’t even picked up the 184 photos I had printed out at our local photoshop of the years we’ve been living here. HELP !!!!!  I already resided in the fact it would probably be split into 2 albums because there are too many pics for one but at this rate its going to compete with the Encyclopaedia Britannica in volume.

Meanwhile, Robbert - not having a clue about what I am doing - is constantly telling me to be aware that his bday is only x days away… am I ready for it?  GRRRRR If only he knew!! Major stress!!! Oh the things I do to me!  Next week I have Alex staying in school for lunch so I can spend also mornings but my house is going to hell in a handbasket like this. Thank god for Bruce’s patience and understanding with his extremely crabby, bitchy and stressed out wife. I need to make up for this big time.

Anyways.. thanks for letting me vent, I know it will get better but I’m just not in a good place right now.

So, I dissapeared for a while, .. it was a weird week. Sunday I went for my monster run and felt great. That morning, before my run, I weighed 166.  The rest of the day I was in pain, lol. And, since according to my heartratemonitor I lost 1800 cals, I made sure I ate enough. No ‘forbidden’ foods though, except for 1 homemade chocolate chip cookie (YUM).

The next morning I stepped on the scale and it said 168!! I was totally depressed and surprised about that! I mean I just ran more than half a marathon the previous day. Made sure I drank my water and ate healthy and I gained!?!?! Tuesday and Wednesday I stepped on the scale several times a day and it ranged from 168.6 (?!?!?!) to 166.5. I did go out for a run on Tuesday morning but I was so depressed about what the scale was saying that my heart wasn’t in it. No run on Thursday but on Thursday I also decided enough of this scale thumping. I like to run, I love to run and I cannot and will not let these stupid numbers on the scale rule my mood day in day out. Sunday shall be my weigh day and NO other day of the week am I to step on that devils machine!

This past week was the first real time where I was ready to throw in the towel and say screw it. I had cravings and urges where I wanted to just grab a bag of chips and start stuffing my face, or have another serving at dinner, or have icecream instead of my yoghurt for desert. I just didn’t know what to do to lose weight. Yeah I could eat less but I don’t want that. I am eating healthy and I need to keep doing that. This is the time where I am going to lose the weight responsibly and in a healthy way. No matter how long it will take. So this morning I stepped on the scale for the first time since Wednessday with dread and it said 163.4! So all in all I lost 2.6lbs this week. But what a rollercoaster ride it was. I need to get away from the scale and I need to see my running as something I love to do no matter what. And I also need to be ok with not going for a run if I really don’t feel like it. I did go yesterday morning and loved it again but tomorrow morning I’ll see.. It can’t become a drag or a burden that I am dreading.

So, eventhough I lost this week, I know I still have a long way to go psychologically, losing this weight is as much a psychological road as a physical; those 2 go hand in hand and only once we can figure out how to handle both of those, we have a fighting chance to keep this weight off I think.

I’m writing all this while waiting for the Turkey stock to be ready. This weekend is the Canadian thanksgiving and we are doing a turkey with all the trimmings. Yes I am going to eat it but I am going to watch my portion. I want to enjoy it but limit the quantity. (doing a new walnut-bacon-stuffing recipe which will probably be 3gazillion cals a serving lol) Pumpkin pie for desert.

Portion control is my task for tonight. I figure, turkey meat is good and lean, half a potato, lots of veggies, a half a spoonful of the stuffing, just for the taste and a little drizzle of the gravy for the taste too. A sliver of the pumpkin pie with a topping of light-whipped cream (30cals per 2tbsp) No bun because thats another 180cals I don’t really need. And lots of raw veggies just before dinner to fill me up. So.. that is my plan of attack, lets hope it works.

Then NO weighing tomorrow morning! This scale ho needs a break!

Thanks everyone for their wonderful comments on my last blog. I love you guys and I hope you have a great weekend!

Whoohoo and a great big OUCH!!! My legs are hurting sooooo badly LOL

I set out this mornin at little after 7.30. My Ipod wasn’t working though so after a quick second of thinking ‘ ok that’s it, Im not going’ I gave myself a mental slap and went without ipod. It was cold (around freezing) with a little drizzle that later went over in rain and later again stopped. It took me 3hrs and 4 minutes (well and 57seconds but who’s counting LOL) In my head I divided the route up in chunks so every time I could say that I had finished a chunk, and I could work myself toward the end of a little chunk. I guess kinda like our minigoals here. The chunk where I was supposed to go up from the river bottom back into civilization, well, I couldnt find that.. all I could find was a little deer trail that I used but that soaked my feet and was pretty muddy and slippery because of all the rain. This was about 3 quarts(sp) into my run and thats where my legs really started to ache. I run for 10 and walk for one so I can drink etc but I also tried and stretch out towards the end. The last mile I must say I did more walking than running because I just couldnt didn’t want to run anymore.

I am never ever going to say couldn’t because you know what. We CAN! (I could have been on Obama’s team) but YES WE CAN, we CAN do the things we don’t think we can, maybe not right away but we can work towards that goal and amaze ourselves.

So now, I am going to run myself that bath and soak and oh try out my new facial mudwrap thingy  LOL .. and read and relax and be happy..

Ok ..Sunday morning run is almost here. I just checked the forecast. Oh good.. :-(   For Sunday morning they say: wet snow, 37F, feels like 28F,  P.O.P 90%, wind NE 12mph, snow close to 1 inch.  lovely!

So .. Ive been preparing, (or trying to motivate myself/not have any excuses not to go) my running gear is ready on my chair, long winterpants, heat underarmor, windshell jacket, oh still have to grab some gloves.

I packed my cellphone, my route, my yelly beans (lol) and my water backpack. Going for a long run and my backpack can carry 72oz of water, which is way better than the 20 I usually bring. Its mixed with a gatorade like mix and in the fridge.   I’m downloading a new podrunner mix on my Ipod as I write this.

brrrrr! Im looking forward to being done LOL and feeling all great and cold and then jumping,  limping crawling  in the shower or oh a bath! A nice long hot bath!! with the window open cuz else its too warm.

I’m still not 100% on whether to go or not, but I think if I don’t I’ll be in a bad mood all day. I think I have to atleast go and decide when I am out there whether I am going for a long or short run. Yeah, that’s what I am going to do. (maybe its just going to be around the block LMAO)  

I hope everyone else has a great weekend but better weather!

Be good to yourself!

Hey guys, a new buddy Daryl has trouble writing a blog. Every time he clicks on my blog he gets the following message:

October 3, 2009 11:12 am
Daryl wrote :
everytime I click on the My Blog link I get this:
http://www.buddyslim.com/AddMyUrl.php

Why??

And I am stumped as to why this is and what to do. Does anyone have any ideas?

Alex’s school had a pd day so she was home today, which meant I had to do my run sooner before Bruce goes to work. I was up too late so I had my run without even having breakfast… Yah.. I won’t do that again. It just didn’t feel like a good run. I still completed it and I am glad I did it but I feel better with something in my stomach before I set out for a run.

I went to the running store the other day and got myself some gatorate alternatives. Going on longer runs means that just water isn’t good enough anymore, I need to keep my electrolites up and my carbs up too. After an hour of running your body runs out of carbs to burn and starts burning fat, which sounds great but its more difficult for your body to burn fat which means your energy levels will deplete very fast so I gotta keep those levels up. I got some powder for the electrolites and some kind of yelly beans (called sport beans) for carbs. Ill try them out in the weekend.  

 I was browsing on mapmyrun.com for runs in the town I live in, from other people. Now I found this run that I think is really nice. It has one hill, a long but gradual one, has a pretty nice part along the riverbottom, around our park and over our greenstrip. It’s 14.2 miles though ugh! (for those interested, if you go on mapmyrun and type in Lethbridge and find the run that is 22.87 or 14.2miles..that is the one)  That would be the longest distance I have ever run.. like ever! Longer than a half marathon. I am psyched for it .. that is.. until I saw our weather forecast for Sunday morning which is when I want to do my long run. Around freezing with snow/rain. … Somehow that tempered my enthusiasm a tad ..lol.     I don’t know yet, what to do now, well.. I do actually, I am going for a run.. I have long running pants and a windbreaker, I have my balcap that I always wear and I have gloves that I can wear. I guess it really depends on whether it is windy… lol… I am rambling here, typing out the internal conversation I am having with myself.

On another note, I weighed 166.2 this morning! Lost 55lbs so far whoohoo!! I don’t know if you guys recognize this but lately I am liking what I see in the mirror.. sometimes - I have to admit - I just can’t get enough of me LMAO .. Oh that sounds so damn vain!!! I know . And honestly, I am NOT like that!! .. Well I guess I am because like yesterday I was in Winners, looking for a fall coat and I caught my reflection in the mirror and thought wow she looks good! LOL isnt’ that awful!!!

Oh and I ended up buying a fushia colored coat in size M <—–!!!!! whoohoo A real in your face color and I am loving it!!!

Ok enough rambling, I’ll just wait till sunday morning to see what the weather is doing… Have a great day buddies and be good to yourself!