Accountability partners

Have you ever had an accountability partner before? Have you seen them move on to another one and become more successful? I am a military wife and this has happened to me. My friend Molly is kicking ass on her pace while training for her first full. I ran with her during her first half, now she is surpassing me and has great running buddies. Oh and she has a killer bod now too. My friend Dee knocked 26 mins off a race she has done for 4 years in a row now! 26 whole mins off an 8 mile beach run. Dee and I would hit the Y together, was in a running group together but we also loved eating and/or drinking wine together. Sometimes we talked each other out of working out and having breakfast at Denny's or going there after 1-2 hours at the gym. Sometimes we make better friends than accountability partners.

It is intimidating finding a workout buddy, what if they are stronger/faster/have a better endurance than you. I recently started being envious of a gym buddy's facebook post at 8 am, she had already did 6-7.5 miles by the time I was crawling out of bed and logging on to FB. Ok time to reach out, I stepped out of my comfort zone and self invited myself to hit the pavement with her. First day I set my alarm for 530 and got to her house at the butt crack of 6 o clock (for a night shift worker, mornings aren't always fun for me anymore. I was a former early riser). She admitted if it weren't for me she would have slept in! Score that is the type of person you need to pair up with. I have ran/walked with her 3 times now. I love it. We are out there while it is quiet, still somewhat cool, and by 8am my fit bit flex has told me I have hit my goal. YAY!!! My goal is to drag my butt out of bed and be at her house to hit the road whenever I am not working!

Dee sent me this in a text message this week LOL. The benefit to having a running buddy that has lived in my little town for so many years she knows where the bathrooms are so we don't even up like this lady on MSN! Lawn vs toilet...

Have you had an accountability partner? Did it help or hurt?

Getting it right!

Well it's Thursday night and I can say I have successfully worked out 4 days in a row! I worked mon-weds (night shift) and worked out after each shift. My eating was well until tonight when we ate out mexican.  But back to calorie counting in the am. For now I'll enjoy a glass of cupcake moscato!

How's everyone's summer going? Our family went tubing Sunday it was a relaxing trip. This weekend we are planning a trip to a indoor trampoline place. Have you been?

Forming a Habit

Each day I wake up and start off good then somewhere after 2 I blow it. I think some of this is blame on the lack of a hard work out (or any work out for that matter). I need to change, I need to stop telling myself I am okay at this weight. I am not okay at this weight, I am in the obese category and need to focus on getting to the normal category (or whatever it is called). Today, July 8th I am making changes. I will for the rest of July do a photo food log, work out 5 days a week, and work on being honest to my fitness pal! No more uncounted spoons of peanut butter, slices of cheese, etc. It may be a boring month for everyone, but I am hoping that come August my mind and body are in the game! Last year I did Whole30 and did not cheat on it and was in onderland.  My short term goal is to get out of the 200s!  I know I am not alone in these struggles, what helps you form a habit and stick to it? 

Running in Southeast Georgia

equals mosquito bites, lost gps signal on rantastic, humidity, and frizzy hair!!! But I did it SIXTY minutes of 1:1 run walk intervals. And get this AFTER a 12 hour night shift. It wasn't a bad night so that might have helped my motivation today. Usually I go to work with all the intentions of getting off work and hitting the road or the gym and somehow on my 45 min commute home I deem that I am too tired to work out. I hope I can keep my motivation up, I do have vet appts and orthodontic appts after my shifts this week before heading to my dad's house in Panama City to see my 2 sisters that I haven't seen since Feb 2000. They have 9 kiddos between them and my kids are excited to meet their cousins.

Big news I found a Galloway training group! They currently are doing a 4 week free session and July 20th officially start half or full training. For those near Amelia Island here is the link. By the way I heard Jeff Galloway will be here July 19th!  I have met him once before in San Diego. Other news, I bought a new running skirt to try out. It is from skirtsports and they have an amazing sale going on right now! And they have men shorts and shirts too, super cute and fun! I bought two lengths the ones with 5 inch compression and the other with 7 inch compression shorts in them.

For another idea of life in S.E. GA I had to stop the other day while driving, not for traffic but for geese!

motivation

Hmmm I sat down with my Hal Hidgon’s novice half marathon training plan and rearranged the week(s) to fit my work schedule and then what happened? That week I only ran ONE time! One big fat X and the rest empty days. Well I got this in my email today and hope it is enough to get my butt training!

Father’s day was spent at the Jacksonville Zoo, we ended up getting season passes and we plan to  spend some of our free time there. We were there for about 4 hours and spent the entire day with our Navy friends that we were stationed with in Hawaii. Our kids all get along well. I would have to say our favorite part of the zoo was the Stingray Bay. It cost $1 per person to get in but it was so awesome! Next time we go I want to feed the giraffes! What is your favorite part of your local zoo         Berkley would have probably swam with them if she could! The sting rays were a huge hit with everyone in the family!

When will tomorrow get here?

AND STAY??

Have you ever started a diet aka a new way of eating? And you know how it is so amazing the first week and you see a loss so you do it again and see a loss again... Well dammit I can not get past one day of counting my calories! I make it 1/2 the day or 3/4 of the day then all hell breaks lose and I tell myself well I can start tomorrow.

I read amazing bloggers who have lost a lot of weigh and are in single digit pant sizes (my goal!) and yet I just can NOT get with the program. I wonder why? Why am I self sabotaging myself? Why can I not stick to a calorie limit, a planned menu, a training schedule?

I just want to pull my hair OUT!

Monday oh Monday!

Monday here in Saint Mary’s, GA means 2 things to me this summer, spin and pool closed for cleaning.  Well today it meant a couple other things like joining another diet bet and half marathon training. Since I work 3 (12 hour) days a week I have to rearrange the Hal Hidgon schedule to fit my needs. I ran on the treadmill while waiting for spin to start, and sadly spin was cancelled since the AC was broke. I don’t understand our gym, we have this amazing spin class with about 50 bikes but they only teach 4 classes a WEEK! I am used to over 4 classes a day, but what is worse they lock the spin room up. anyhow no spin. but I had an awesome run.

I had asked Todd to take at least Austin for a hair cut about 3 weeks ago and yet he still was shaggy today. So after picking him up from summer school I came home and fed the kids leftover spaghetti. Then we headed to get hair cuts, three of the kids got cuts today. As a treat we were going to head to fro yo which we love but it usually costs us about $20 so we headed to McDonalds for cones!

Not really the best start to my diet bet. but here is today’s starting weight... not the best weight ever but wasn’t my card with my word so cute??? Our sunny day ended in a tornado! Yes I now live in a town that has tornados, eeekkkkk