Trapeze!

Trapeze! Weeeee! I jumped off this little plank, way up in the sky!!, 3 times. Scary and awesome as hell, all in the same jump! This was my first jump of 3.

5.1.11 SANCA

And now for some thing so completely different…

Holy Crap… !!!

I just registered to do a half marathon…OMG! OMG!

Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon!

Seattle, June 25, 2011! I’ll be there!

I would like to be able run most of this, but I’m okay if I walk about half.I’m also going to be with my good friend, Eve.

I feel a bit crazy… but I get a fucking medal at the end of it! Yes, I’m stoked about a medal, get over it. Keep calm and carry on…

10 miles.

Yesterday my friend and I walked 10 miles.

TEN. MILES.

This made today’s walk of 5 mile feel like a breeze.

I had this summer goal that I would walk from Seward Park to the I-90 bridge and back. That trip was only about 7 miles. But, we started from my friend’s house and walked to the park instead of driving. Then we walked past I-90 to a small market to buy water. We ended up adding 3 extra miles! Crazy!

I’m so proud of the both of us!

Excited for walks.

Oh la la la lalahhh!

I just put on my running shoes. My dog noticedthen in my hand and watched me put them 0n. The whole time she was shaking! Haha, she knows fitness is near. I know she’s hopping for a walk. Boy is she right.

More awesome post coming later.

Cheers!

And then 4 became 3.

Porter is gone. I know where he is going, but I’m tricking myself into believing he’s going to have an amazing set of parents in his next excursion after he is evaluated… good bye, pal. OH MY GOD! The mother fucking drama llama is following this dog… I’m so fucking fed up with it now! I no longer have a fucking pet but a foster animal until Tuesday…

So. After bawling, a lot, I decided that I needed to go to the gym this moring and bust my ass. But, I had to pick stuff up at my folks house and spent to much time there. My kick ass workout only lasted an hour due to having to meet up with someone else for lunch.

Being upset and having great music really pushed me to work harder.

Cha cha cha changes!

Look at this yummy bowl of stuff I made for lunch!

• 1/3 cup red quinoa
• 2/3 cup water
• hand full of washed and trimmed brussels sprouts, halved and sautéed in some EVOO and cayenne
• 1 tbsp tahini
• 1 tbsp Tapatío sauce
• 1 tsp olive oil

So I’m changing my ways, again. I’ve been inspired by strange things, again. It has to do with being healthy, again.

(This post might be long, but no one reads my blog anyway.)

So. I went to Napa and Oregon and had a wonderful time. I gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks but was okay with it because I had limited exercise, lots of great beer and wine, and consumed a lot of bread.  I cut out the bread again and lost the 5 pounds. Since I have returned home, mind you this was August, I have been trying to be wheat free. I feel better without wheat… no bloating, no painful gas, and my skin seems to look the best it has looked a long time. I feel lighter, even when the scale says I’m not.

Since I’ve been home I’ve also gone on crazy walks, done lots of stretching and did one session of my Pilates DVD. Yay exercise! My back loves it when I have my crap together and exercise. But, the weather has started to turn and it has been on and off rainy. Oh Seattle, sometimes you make me wonder why I love you… What is one to do for exercize when walking in the rain bums you out?

So. Where does this leave me? Um, I guess it leaves me to using google reader and reading about other people and their lives and clicking on their links and winding up at Heather Eats Almond Butter. Heather is truly beautiful and looks so healthy and radiant! She seemed to have this love for kabocha squash, oats, and almond butter. I added her to google reader and looked forward to her posts. She too is a massage therapist, although she still does it professionally I don’t.

Okay, and her is the bit about Weight Watchers and how I’m not sure on where to go from here. I joined Weight Watchers in May of 2008 at a ripe weight of 230. Right away I lost weight, I was stoked. The program really worked. But I was a slow weight loser. I also gained a few times. It is now November 2009. I’m so sick of counting points. I’ve learned so many things. I’ve changed my BMI to overweight instead of obese. I discovered last year, after gaining 8 pounds and caving, I really enjoy the meetings and my leader. For a while, I was obsessed with weight loss. But now, I’m sort of over it and want to be more fit and lean. I’m 31 and I feel beautiful but I need to eat better and focus my energy on something else now.

Hmm. So I’m looking at these blogs about all these amazing healthy people who look fantastic and do yoga a few times a week. Hey, I can do that! I can do yoga in my spare room in the basement. I can be lean if I do Pilates a few times a week? Sweet. I can eat a bunch of oats for 2 points instead of a packet of oatmeal with extra shit in it that I don’t need for 2 points? I can roast any sort of veggie I want! I can buy all this amazing food at a discount, be in the kitchen and make myself healthier, too! I don’t want to join a gym again, but I can stop at the community center and work out on their equiptment for $3 when I choose? All these great resources are around me, but sometimes I guess it takes a bit for this to click.

Maybe this all started when I decided I was going to give up bread and wheat after vacation. Or maybe I’m bored. Maybe I feel better knowing winter is on it’s way and am looking for motivation to stay busy. Either way, I think I like where it is going.  And after having this thing not work out with our new dog, I’m happy to have a focus just up ahead.

So back to the whole Weight Watchers thing… I’ve decided to eat the way I feel like I should be eating. No soy, no wheat, less sugar, less coffee, more grains, more tea. I’ll walk my crazy walks when I can. I’ll work out at the community center once a week. I’ll do yoga and Pilates at home. I’ll track points and still a Weight Watchers member for the next 2 months.  But, I won’t stress about my grains being high in points. I won’t stress that 1 tablespoon of almond butter is 2 points. I’ll eat when I’m hungry. I’ll eat better meals. I’ll eat less crap. I’ll eat less sugar. I’ll track points and weigh in every week, but not freak about my points.

Cha cha changes!

Over the river and through…

Yay!
Hiking, today!
Playing outside is always the best.

if you thought work was crazy…

I walked to and from work yesterday.
9.5 miles, round trip.
Insane.
It felt great.

My bed misses me.

I’m having one of those moments where I’m pretty tired and I’d love to go to bed….
But I still need to make the bed.
And I still need to finish cooking off my garbanzo beans. I love that I can buy a pound of dried garbanzo beans pretty cheap and cook them off myself and stash them in the fridge. I hate the fact that I have to soak them for about 10 hours before cooking them. I either have to soak them overnight, which rarely happens, or soak them all day and cook them at the end of the day. We’ve done the latter and it puts us at 11:10pm.
I’m an old lady and would like to go to sleep.
Actually… my plan is to walk to work tomorrow. Yup, I’m planning on walking the 4 miles to work. I’m kinda stoked and nervous about this. I will have to walk home the same 4 miles, up a steep hill. I’ll have to walk home those 4 miles because Kevin is out of town. I’m also not to sure about this because it puts me out of the house for about 11 hours. Abigail would be home for those 11 hours and would get fed 2 hours after her normal time. Plus, I wore my Frye’s to the dog park and have a blister on my heel that will most likely be gone in the morning due to the homeopathic stuff I took, but still a blister. I’m doing the West Seattle 5k next week, I don’t need any blisters when I do that! I want to do it easily, not all limpy gimpy.
Arg.
The joys of life…

Walk it off, fatty!

I’m pretty happy with the fact that I’ve walked 11 miles already this week! And it is only Thursday!

Winter was just so gross this year, being outside this week has really been a great self esteem booster for me.

I feel great! I’m challenging myself! I’m trying to get where I’d like to be!

And every year I learn more things about myself and how my body works. At this moment in my life I am coming to terms with the fact that sleep is really important to me and caffeine really messing with it.

Since I’m feeling fresh, I’ll do some fat stats..

258 highest weight ever

230 start weight at WW

205 current

160 ultimate goal

I’m 5 pounds from being the lightest I’ve been since 2002. Dude!

crunchy.

My mom and I were on the way to the St. Patrick’s Day Dash and got rear ended. Rear ended while stopped at stop light. In line with tons of other cars, stop and going for the past 15 minutes.

Thank you for paying attention, Mr. SUV driver. Just because the light is green doesn’t mean take your foot of the break and run into the car in front of you.

My neck and lumbar region ache a bit. I’m going to soak in Epsom salts when I’m done with this.  I made a call to my chiropractor. I’d like to see if  he can adjust me sometime before Tuesday, he isn’t in his office until then. Kevin has his personal number and said I could try that as well, but I understand its his day off.

This is the second 5k type thing we have missed. We missed the Jingle Bell 5k due to snow/icy stuff and it being 22°.

GO ME!

I did my first 5k! I can’t wait to do more!

We might be renting a house!