week 26 - Monday

so i set my alarm for 6:25 hoping i could get up. not only was i SOUND asleep, i didn't know what the alarm noise was when it went off. i got up to test my wakability. it was pretty good.. by 6:37, i was outside listening to deaths of hundreds of snails as they crunched under my running shoes.

ok.. i exaggerate.. i really tried to spare as many as i could which meant running while looking down to plan my next foot placement... awkward!! luckily i was watching as i ran by the MONSTER slug that was planning on eating me. i am not exaggerating that one!!! serious! good thing those suckers are slow!! that would have killed me if i had stepped on it. i have stepped on one before.. and it made me bounce down the yellow brick road! yes there is a story for that.. a true story.

so i was out for 40 minutes and ran 7.5 minutes. maybe i should try a bike ride on Wednesday if my legs are killing me. i should try to alternate the muscle groups to kill in a week.. legs, butt, arms, etc.. :D ya think?

week 25

well... my pains have been explained.. my gall bladder has got to go! i am happy that it is that instead of my esophagus. not sure what they would have done. I am happy to have an answer for sure, as well. however, now that i know i have to have surgery, i am totally nervous. Plus, they have sent in the referral to the surgeon as urgent. Not emergency, but urgent because i not only have stones, but my gall bladder is also inflamed.

exercise wise, i haven't since monday. first of all that 7 min of running damn near killed me for days, and i have been kinda down. not reason for it that i can think up, just a hiccup i suppose. i really do need to get the eating under control again. my friend that i convinced to join me in weight loss has totally gone gang busters and is looking fabo!! she even made me try her nasty egg whites. don't think i will go that hard core, but super proud of her progress!!

week 25 - phew! near miss lol

well, i was not able to get up this morning. i had a stupid scan to do and was in starvation mode not because i was truly hungry, but because they told me i couldn't eat. you never want something as bad as when someone says you can't have it. the nurse suggested that i have issues with authority. LOL.. then i pigged out to compensate. it's a necessity. i think it's in the rules, even. ;P

anyways i wrote off the walk/ run/ exersise for the day figured i would try tomorrow.

then i got motivated. what the hell? where did that come from? 6pm i am raring to go. downsides were kids still need entertaining and it was stinking hot!! 30* (or 86* for any americans). i figured my motivation would die

it didn't!! i went out at 9pm it was still hot! it dropped to 25(77). i was out for over half an hour and i RAN for 7 MIN!!! Boy was i dripping when i got back home. stretched, hopped in the shower, and i am feeling good. Let's see how i feel in the morning LOL

btw - 9pm smells better than 6am, but it has more bugs!! and they are all blind. they were flying into me left right and centre. i looked like a spastic moron and sounded like leaky bellows. LMAO how is that for a picture.

week 24 - strong

omg! i got up and did it again! i have to tell you, though. it is a good thing it is beautiful here that early in the morning, because in my head it is UGLY! i have decided that 6am is ugly, until i get up, dressed and out that door. i even lay in bed and debated this morning. but again, i shut off the old brain and did it. 35 min, no running today. maybe i will hurt less later? lol

week 24 - weak

there was no reason for not going out today except that i was tired and my legs were still hurting. i am just getting back into it and it is the first time i have EVER tried to get up and exercise that stupid early.. concider it a bump in the road

week 24 - hall pass

i am excused from being outside when it is raining cats and dogs. never mind that my alarm wasn't set anyways because i didn't go to bed until midnight on account of the fact that i had my quilting potluck last night. tomorrow for sure. :P

week 24 - success!!

Before i went to bed, i had changed my mind on the whole 6am thing.. just thinking about being up that early makes my skin crawl. i mean, i don't have a job.. why would i do that to myself??

my boy.. my lovely lovely boy..

He decided to get up just before 6. I was able to convince him to go back to sleep. But there i am, 6am, in my bathroom, staring at the clock thinking
"i could go for that walk.
are you stupid? why would you do that?
It would be good for us.
Who cares? we could also go back to sleep!"

so i stopped thinking, got on my clothes and LEFT THE HOUSE! at 6:15 i was trucking on down the sidewalk. It was a beautiful day out! I even ran for 4 1/2 minutes of it. i walked as fast as i felt like (and it gradually got slower and slower LOL) and i ran when i felt like it, for as long as i wanted.

it was very theraputic and i am very proud of myself.

think i could do i again? lol i was in AGONY when i got home...

week 24 - funny

so, i had decided that was going to get up at 6am this morning and go for a walk. i don't have energy later in the day, i figured this would work. well, you know how dreams can sometimes cross over and incorporate your real life? I woke up for no good reason at 5 am, came up with a perfectly legitimate reason for NOT getting up at 6 am, and changed my alarm. i have no idea what that reason was, it was already gone when i woke up in time to get my daughter off to school but i am SURE it was a good one. *eye rolling* what the hell!! LOL.. i even remember doing it, and i remember thinking that it was legitimate.

let's try again tomorrow.