Whew, another one down

so I am not even sure how many Half marathons I have done now without sitting down to count. My PR was a flat race and 2:15 after 4.5 months of training. Today I ran without training or a steady workout routine. 3:15 (well a few seconds less) The coolest thing is my husband ran today. it was his first official half (he has ran 13 miles before not in a race, because he is crazy and was bored in iraq or something like that). So we traveled from San Diego to Phoenix. We stayed in the Homewood Suites by Hilton. OMG amazing we had a 2 bedroom suite with our four kids. That is how we plan on renting rooms from now on. We stayed with in budget except for $20 more in gas than expected. So now that we drove all the way back home within a couple hours of finished the race we are headed to bed!!! oh my only complaint for this rock n roll was i had to walk literally a mile or more to my car after the finish!!!!

Wednesday Weigh In!

woot woot can you believe when you do it right it works? TA DA 4.8 lbs, i didn't get to stay for my first 5 lb award because I had to run home and get ready for my maternal nursing courses. well class was supposed to be from 0730-1600 but around 10am I guess someone made a threat to a teacher so we were let out for lunch as the police came to the university. i was going to go out to eat but decided to save money and calories and came home. As I went back I found out that class was canceled for the day and was able to catch up with my gf and headed to balboa park for a 3 mile run (well run/walk) and man the zoo stinks!!! my body is already feeling the rolling hills we did. it felt great to be out there. Like my body is happy I am getting back into losing weight and working out. so anyhow 1-11-12's food log
b-scrambled eggs w/shredded parmesan, veggies, and olive oil with a side of toast.
snack of banana and almonds
lunch-2 veggie burgers topped with lemon hummus vinagrette (highly recommend from Fresh & Easy)
snack-last of the blackberries with laughing cow cheese
was starving while out shopping so grabbed a sesame tofu piece at Whole Foods
snacked while waiting for hubby on a bowl of edamame and a slice of my home made bread.
now he's finally headed home after working 12 hours and we were going to go on a date!!!!
so date consisted of sushi YAY! we each got miso soup, seaweed salad, and shared 3 rolls.
then for the sweet tooth in me we went to rite aide and got circus animal ice cream. now to put the my dinner into ww! night!!! im so tired from my run in the sun today

1-10-12

Another day down! i stepped on the scale and i can not wait to go to my weigh in tomorrow morning then it'll be a whirlwind day for me. school all day long then home to read 4 more chapters for school again on thursday. i don't miss school lol
anyhow for todays food log im just listing it because i don't know when i ate etc.
blueberries/blackberries
cuties/banana
1 cup lucky charms (YUM) and 1/2 c skim milk
1 oz almonds
a huge spoon of almonds (estimated 1.5 T) w a granola bar
a chocolate bar (tiny one)
home made bread
corn bread taco casserole

im tired and still wanting to finish book two of the hunger games but must study for my maternity courses for the next two days! peace out everyone and have a great day!

day 3 Jan 9, 2012

so as my day is dwindling down to another work day the last for a week! but I just found out I got in to a class for nurses who want to transition into women's health. So now I will add 2 days of school to my week. I am super excited!!! On the other hand I am like darn now I have to squeeze exercise in at a different time of the day, my goal was 830am classes. I will figure it out because I have a whole wardrobe waiting for me! so on to today's food log.
b- 2 cuties, 1 grapefruit, yellow/red tomatoes
s- while cooking I had a laughing cow cheese and a cup of milk
after work bfast-3 egg whites, 1 egg, 2 t olive oil, brocolli slaw, mushrooms, tomato
since i appeared to be starving I ate a granola bar and a healthy choice ice cream and a piece of bread
got up and had a banana,
dinner- lentil soup with 1/2c greek yogurt
and then since I had more points to eat I had a piece of bread, almonds and a cup of milk.
well folks on to another day! oh and i haven't worked out in 2 days because I need sleep for work and trying to be a mom.

1-8-12 day 2 of a food log being posted!

so you know they say it takes 21 days to form a habit but I guess now it takes longer. Since I am working I don't have the time to figure out how to post pictures yet and make it a picture food log! but i am taking pictures of what I eat, and last night another nurse asked me if this is helping. well think of it this way if you actually take a picture of everything you eat to show other people you kinda do think of what you are putting in your mouth LOL!
so let me get on with this blog entry...
breakfast occurred at 1230 in the am-- yellow and red grape tomatoes with blueberries/blackberries- 0 points
when I got home around 0800 I made an egg sandwich and had a glass of milk ( i need to find new bread it was 6 pts!) 12 points
oh thankfully I logged that i had a granola bar forgot to picture it for 3 points
after sleeping i had another glass of milk, chicken breast, a green giant frozen veggie mix- 10 points
afternoon snack- 2 cuties 0 points
dinner a salad of romaine lettuce, grape tomatoes, 1 T shredded parmesan, 2 T of lemon hummus vinagriette from Fresh & Easy (which I will admitted was AMAZING!!!)
since I still have some points left I will take the advice of the spin instructor and have some almonds for 4 points and ill add in another granola bar of 2 points! yay now off to work i go!

food log 1-7-12

So after thinking I was going to kill over on my 3 mile WCRR run this morning I have successfully ate properly today! here is my day in review.
Breakfast was blueberry oatmeal for 4 pts
after run/morning snack was a smoothie made of 2c (40cal) almond breeze, 2T PB2, 1 t olive oil, 1 banana 4 pts
lunch was nana's lentil soup 5 pts over a bed of romaine lettuce with a side of a cutie, blueberries, blackberries
afternoon snack was a banana and a sweet and salty peanut granola bar for 5 pts
dinner was a can of black beans and havest vegetable steamables with 1 t olive oil for 15 points.
i have 1 leftover point but i don't think I will use it.
so far I have only drank 32oz of water, but NO soda! will be drinking a 32oz bottle of water with 1 crystal light on my way to work.

just wanted to say that when you start to see yourself getting lazy or gaining weight just think of all the time it took to get where you are. 3 miles used to be so easy, now i had to run/walk it. Before I have ran 18 miles and now 3 is hard! But I will get back there!!

so yes I suck!

its been almost EIGHT months since I posted, and hello why would that be because my BUTT is as big as the state of TEXAS that i left! so with the joys of stalking pininterest I read a blog today runsforcookies. She lost 125lbs and had the SAME surgery I did but unlike me she is already back and running. I stopped working out, moved to texas as a night shift nurse, back to cali still night shift nursing and that just adds to all my excuses on why i can't work out and why i gained from 174 to sad to say 226.4. really? my weight is so embarrasing my tiny lucky jeans no longer fit, the biggest jeans i bought don't fit, my pt gear is riding up, my great boob job isn't looking so great with weight gain, etc i have a LONG list of ugh gaining my weight back sucks but yet my motivation still is slacking. so I will start tracking and actually posting like i have said i will. my plans for now are back to WCRR for half marathon training. I am running/walking Phoenix next weekend, thinking about san diego half, san diego rock n roll half, and starting the carlsbad, la jolla, AFC triple crown series. ALL along with my hubby!!! I am back on Weight Watchers in an awesome Wednesday morning group (I am already in their FB group).

As I was leaving spin this week, the instructor gave me a lot of tips. Some of the tips I will use, but i was like i know how to do this, I just HAVE to do it again. so maybe no one will read this or just think oh there's anna again in her yo yo weight loss plan. But this is for me and anyone who may benefit from watching me learn to lose weight, maintain it in a busy life of a working mom of 4, married to a sexy sailor!!