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Today’s run is dedicated to Natalie and her niece Olivia! Olivia was diagnosed with Leukemia when she was 2 years old. It was a scary time for all of us, but most especially for my brother and my sister-in-law. Olivia is their youngest child. As a baby she was a very vivacious happy […] Goals to accomplish by December: Finish trek tri in under 2 hours Dead lift 150 pounds – DONE!!!! Consistently run 10 minute mile Get into size 12 pants Make my bed everyday The Goals are plugging along very nicely. Godfather made sure that I get that dead lift goal out of the way right […] A funny thing happened while on this LCJ. I’ve learned how to live. One of the most amazing things about waking up one morning and deciding that weighing 263 pounds was not where I wanted to be any longer is figuring out that this stopped being about ONLY losing weight fairly quickly […] Last week I did my first guest post over at SeattleRunnerGirl and wrote about never giving up. It seems on a daily basis (actually multiple times per day) I am faced with the decision to either give up or move forward. It can be as simple as making the choice to have a green […] Some Most days I am afraid to try. I am afraid to try because I want to be the best at everything. I am an overachiever. Anyone that has lived as a fat person knows what I’m talking about. Fat is our one failure that we can never seem to shed. So we […] It high time I wrote a letter to the Head Trainer at All Star Fitness so I sat down with some tea at Starbucks and hand wrote the following: Robbie, This letter is long in coming. I spent hours wondering how to put down in words the life changing experience I’ve had since walking […]
No Scale One Week! Funny thing happens when you start talking in 140 characters or less over on Twitter. You tend to get yourself hooked into doing something you think is going to be easy only to realize once you’ve committed yourself you’re not quite sure what you’ve gotten into. Michael, […] I remember as a kid jumping rope being one of my favorite activities as a child. It was something I could do with other kids as a parallel player. It was something I was pretty darn good at. You know that Cinderella/made a mistake/kissed a snake rhyme where you had to count how many […] I don’t know how to explain my eating yesterday. The only thing I can say about it is I started eating at 9am and I didn’t stop eating until sometime after 6pm. I feel like it was some sort of day dream. It went something like this: I got up yesterday morning and […] |