Challenge Week 1 Synopsis

The week didn't go very well. I made good choices during the day, but fell back on bad habits at dinner time. Mostly because I was eating dinner at my parents' house. It's not always an easy thing for me to make the best choices there. No loss this week.

On the upside, exercising in the morning went very well. I was up and exercising by 6am everyday this week. It was not as difficult as I thought it would be. On to the next week - hopefully it will be better for the food choice and weight loss endeavors.

Day 2

Today is Day 2 of my new routine of getting up early to exercise. So far, so good. I realize that it's early in the game, but it hasn't been as difficult getting up these past two days at 5am as it was over the winter when I started training for the Indy Mini. Hopefully, it will continue to be easy.

On Mon., Wed. and Fri., I go over to my parents' house and my mom and I do pilates. It's very interesting to say the least. The dogs don't know what to make of the two of us pilate-ing on the floor and will randomly jump on us. We're going to have to work on that. On Wed., I'm also going to go to the gym after work for weight training. (Well, I'm going to try anyway.) On Tues. and Thurs., I go to the gym in the morning to jog. I'm not so excited about using the treadmill again, but unfortunately, there isn't any place to jog outside by my house where I won't get run over by a gravel truck. Not the way I want to die - if I get hit by a car, it had better be a luxury sedan, i.e. BMW, Jag, Mercedes, etc. That way my parents will be more likely to get some settlement money to pay off my massive credit card debt. But enough about that...

Nothing else to report really. I haven't been doing too well food choice wise for the Challenge, but I'm working on it. I'll be back in fighting form for next week.

Fabulous in Fall

That's the name I came up with for the new challenge. I like symmetrical names apparently - Fabulous in Fall, Viva Las Vegas, Hot for the Holidays (a challenge name I came up with after FiF). So far, my first full day of the Challenge is going well. Hopefully, my self-control will last through happy hour with J this evening and on through the weekend. I need to start going to WW on Mon. maybe. Right now, I go on on Thurs. evenings, so I have M-Th. to redeem myself if I have a bad weekend. But maybe that thought process is what has been holding me back. I'll have to think about this.

Nothing else exciting is going on. Well, that's not true. I'm very excited to go to Boston in Nov. to see my best friends from high school. I haven't seen them since right before my parents moved to Columbus last summer. So that means I haven't seen them in way too long. So yay for that!

My car battery died of old age on Wed. evening. Of course, there was no one left in the office at 6:15pm and no one who works downtown and might have still been there was answering their phones, so my dad had to drive down to jump my car. I am now the proud owner of a 72 mos. Interstate battery, which may outlive my car since it has 119,000 miles on it. On the other hand, my car is a Honda Accord and they do tend to last a long time. My grandpa is still driving his 1991 Accord that goes to South Dakota every year from Pittsburgh and has been to Alaska twice. So I guess we'll see.

The Dawning of a New Challenge

Next week will be the inaugural week of a new Challenge. And not a moment too soon. As of last night, I was up 11 lbs. from Memorial Day. That's huge, and not in a good way.

So begins the Challenge. I will be joined by the usual suspects - you know who you are :-). It will last a total of 11 weeks, so until Thurs., Nov. 1. The Challenge is still unnamed, so if anyone has any suggestions for something catchy, let me know. Let the games begin.

Bad Starfruit

It has been extremely long time since I've posted anything. I've thought about it and then decided that I didn't have time. It makes me feel especially bad since I always harass Kmbuckeye and B about not blogging when they have been absent for a while. But I'm back.

Things have been pretty crazy for me lately. I think I have finally found a real job. Hopefully, it will continue to work out. I need to rustle up some clients though, so if you need help defending against ethics charges or legal malpractice or criminal allegations or if you have employment issues, I'm your girl.

On the family front, things have also been very crazy. For those who don't know, my uncle has been in the hospital since the end of June, which means my mom has been at the hospital everyday. And since she's pretty much the dictator, I mean director, of our family, things are in disarray to say the least. Not too mention, my little sister also has to have surgery sometime in the next couple of weeks and will be bedridden for 2 weeks. Things are hectic.

Finally, it turns out I am not going to be able to do the Columbus 1/2 Marathon with Kmbuckeye like I had planned. Instead, I have to go to St. Thomas from Oct. 18-23. I know, tough life, right? One of my good friends from Cornell is getting married and there's going to be a mini-Cornell reunion for the wedding. Since I haven't seen anyone pretty much since graduation, I definitely couldn't pass up the opportunity. Now let's keep our fingers crossed that there isn't going to be a hurricane.

I think that's it for now. I promise that I going to get back on track with blogging. Maybe it will help me get on track and stay on track with WW and going to the gym too. I can only hope.