Becoming a Goddess

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I hope you're not alone on the boat, or we're all sunk if you took the last one - or wait, maybe we're ALL on the boat together...that could be scary too...

What are we talking about again?
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Alright friends, I'm off to get a porcelain crown put on a chipped tooth:( But this guy is the best dentist I've ever had. Happy Tuesday!!
 
Haha, apparently we are! And they catch things like needing a root canal and porcelain crown before you need to have it done. I thought I was getting my crown today but apparently I needed to have the second step of my root canal done. Sounds worse than it is. The only thing I've felt thus far was some discomfort from the novacaine needle. Truly fantastic dentist:)
 
An inspiration

I found, what I believe, to be quite the inspiration yesterday. It was in a magazine ad for a Rampage bathing suit (they also make amazing cocktail dresses but i've always been too fat to buy one:( ). Anyway, I tried to attach the pic but it wouldn't save to my files. I'll put the link below and hope it works. The magazine ad was better because she had a face, so this looks not as inspiring as what I saw. But still I like it and I might post it on the fridge.



I have another question for everyone. Growing up I always wore pants that were too tight so now I have this lovely roll that hangs over my belly button and on a side view, sticks out past my lower abdomen. I hate it and even if my tummy was flat but thick, I could deal with that. I'd love that in fact. But instead I've got a hanging roll:( How do I fix this?
 
I was going to go walk outside but I really wanted to watch my soap instead so I went to the gym in the building and went running (!!!) for the first time in months. I was able to run 2 miles solid. I'm going to leave out the time on those... it's a bit.. embarrassing. But then I always remind myself in high school I couldn't even run a solid mile let alone at the pace I'm doing now. AND I'm not as out of shape as I had thought. My mile time is only about 1 minute and 40 seconds behind my best time when I was doing a 5k six time a week. So yay! And now I'm going to post a thread somewhere about my belly fat. Hopefully more people will see that and respond.
 
Thanks Mal:D

You're totally right. I went running. And I can't tell you how nice it was to feel like I wasn't as out of shape as I had thought... I think maybe that part felt better than the running. Tomorrow I'm going to include some weight training. When I got into the gym, I was alone but then this guy showed up with his very buff trainer and I lost my nerve to lift weights. The gym is the size of a studio apartment and I thought that anything I did would look silly. So tomorrow I will go earlier and hopefully buff men will start to appear at the gym when I'm closer to goal weight:p
 
other people in the gym intimidate the hell out of me - but honestly - the serious ones are there to work out and aren't paying attention to you - and the non-serious ones -aren't worth your time :)
 
Congrats on your run! I've just started learning that with a walk/jog program.

i've noticed since I've started using weights a couple of weeks ago that I'm feeling stronger with the running thing....Also from doing core exercises like crunches and such. It's giving me better posture and I don't feel like I'm flailing around on the treadmill. :rolleyes:

I'm enjoying your journal, btw. Thanks for contributing!

PS- That food feeling- I absolutely cannot eat risotto- it makes me feel very....gummy.
 
Thanks patsfan! I actually started running because of an article either in Self or Fitness magazine. I can never remember. But it talked about the benefits and I thought, well... I've always thought it was shitty but I'll try it. So I started out jogging at 4mph and worked my way up week by week. Sometimes increasing speed and sometimes increasing distance.

Today I'm going to start using weights as long as no one else is in the gym downstairs (read: as long as there aren't any men in there:eek: ) But even after one day of running, I slept so much better last night. I've been having trouble sleeping a lot lately but I guess more than walking is what I needed on the physical spectrum.

And speaking of, I'm off to the gym as we speak. Cheers!
 
I've been trying to remain positive today in light of a few minor things, but those minor things gave me a mental block at the gym and I totally pooped out.

When I weighed myself this morning, the scale said +1lb. I know that weight fluctuates and that this could be due to quite a few things that aren't fat gain, but after running two miles yesterday the last thing I wanted or expected to see this morning was a +1.

Then right before I hit the gym a close friend of mine totally freaked out at me. She was messaging me on aol and I got up to change and put water in my bottle and I came back to a severely nasty message. Nothing provoked this. We were talking. I walked away for ten minutes. And I came back to something so surprising I had to read it five times before I could even think. I've never had an issue with this person in the four years we've been friends. Never an argument. Nothing. She's like being friends with a Quaker. And for her suddenly to be so mean was surely a disappointment. It instantly gave me a headache and made me feel like a terrible person.

I proceeded to the gym anyway but I felt so physically tense that my workout was a total bust. I ran one mile and did ten minutes of weight lifting but I had to stop because I kept getting dizzy and my vision was getting cloudy. Today was not at all what it should have been:(
 
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i think there's a full moon soon causing people to act all weird and out of the norm...

you ran a mile so that's fantastic... celebrate the victories... :) ya done good... )
 
I'm not sure when I'm going to get a work out in today. I need to run out to the bank to make a payment since the online service isn't working. Which will take much longer than I want and by the time I get back, the gym will be filled to capacity. I have plans tonight so I can't go then and I'm kicking myself in the butt for oversleeping earlier this morning through my anticipated workout time:mad:

But in other news, I didn't see the +1 on the scale this morning, so that's good:D

I hope everyone has a great weekend if I don't make it back on the boards before Monday!
 
I guess I will have to do my April challenge updating in our team diary but I will cover some stuff in here, too.

The exercising went a bit out the window this weekend. However, I didn't eat very much because we ended up being on the go most of the time. Saturday night Jeff took me ice skating for an hour and a half. Even though it's not high intensity or anything (at least, not at my skill level... this was only the second time i've done it), it was still a good workout. Really used my legs muscles and I'm sure did something as far as stability is concerned. Yesterday I spent 7 hours outside helping Jeff fix the brakes on his car. He has drum brakes and they just really suck:eek: . But even though I'm a total princess about "doing manly things", while Jeff worked on one brake, I popped off the other wheel and got the drum off and everything in between those two. I couldn't finish it though, because that was as far as I watched him do on the other side so I didnt know what to do next. But I can see why boys like working on their cars. It's really fun:)

We ended up eating fettucini alfredo for dinner. Jeff makes the best in the entire world, I swear. Normally I might have felt a little guilty about eating it, but it was 8pm and the only thing I'd had to eat all day was a half cup of cereal with milk at 11am. So I just figured screw it. Those were the only meal ingredients we had in the house. Not to mention, we were both exhausted and it's super easy to make.

Also, does anyone watch the Planet Earth documentary that's on the Discovery Channel? It's so awesome:) And there are BABY PENGUINS!!!!!:D
 
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