Couch POTATO to "MARATHON" HONEY! :)

[Alta818]

Girl... you are an absolute inspiration! You must be absolutely thrilled and proud of your results... Well done!!!!

! Thank you so much!!! I am thrilled & excited for what's next!! `

 

[Alta818]

Alta, you just put me to tears. No lie. I am so proud of you. I am sorry I didn't chime in to wish you good luck but it appears you had plenty of support from heaven and earth. You are truly an inspiring human being and its people like you that give us all hope. I nominate you for WLF member of the month. You are looking darn sexy too. You are beautiful inside and out. Thank you for sharing this with all of us.

Sincerely,

Derrick

P.S.
Do you know that guy in post 2730 because if not, I think he's checking you out.

WOW Derrick!! !! Thank you so much! That means a lot to me....I appreciate your support and encouragement always!! !!!

 

[Alta818]

As for me....well....the "Marathon High" is still here...yet fading quickly.

...It's funny how acheiving a goal is Fantastic...but the JOY...really lies in the JOURNEY! !...The anticipation and climax of not knowing is amazing! The continuous pushing and striving towards that goal is what gives us the joy!...Once we arrive, yes...it is great, but Success is elusive and can be lost if goals are not readjusted to mold and grow with each and every one of us, as each goal is acheived.

...That being said]...My next Marathon...is the New Goal!...I must say though, that BIG goals are great, it's the little goals...that really make us transpire through those days that we don't want to do anything. Homeostasis as we call it: The innate desire to stay the same. ...

...As humans we work off the pain/ please syndrome. We do our best to avoid pain...and do our best to enjoy and partake in pleasure. It's fascinating to me, how a person will recognize a bad situation and maintain in that situation though they are aware of their unhappiness, because one is avoiding the pain of not knowing how things will turn out. The possibility of failure, rejection, that things may be worse there than here. Truly fascinating how we as human consider a new situation to be an "unknown" in our subconscious mind, so we then entail that as pain....We make no action or very little action towards changing the situation we are in.

...I suppose the reason I bring all of this up, is because of the sabotage that happens....to myself included. After the Marathon, my ambition, towards progression seemed to fade away...and my workouts have decreased slim to none...and though I am going on vacation and should be working harder than ever, I'm not.

...I have readjusted a little goal ....of a new haircut and new style, if I work out minimum 30 mins a day @ least 5x a week. I REALLY REALLY want this haircut....That is going to be my treat.

As well, often times I think depriving oneself of things causes us to want to sabotage ourselves more, because deprivation only increases our desires. I have been eating chocolate here and there, and havinga beer, and yes, some pizza.

...I told myself that it's okay. Start over....I really want to lose 5 lbs, but that would mean stepping on the scale, which I'm not ready to do. I am content with my fitness level, and my efforts to maintain active ...sooooo...I will go off my clothing sizes for now. Tonight I think I will take measurements though. Those are the best indicating factor.!

 

[Guest]

I know I just read all of that, but the half marathon you just completed was 24 or 26 miles? So 48 or 52 miles is a full blown marathon?? I know duuuhhhh....

I was just going to ask what you were going to do next, it's like once you have that in your back pocket, there isn't anything you can't do now! Those surf medals are neat!

Have you been wearing your medal everywhere? Are you going to frame it at home?

Holy Cow's Alta, do you feel as if now you really truly know you can do anything? Nothing truly stands in your way? That with a little time, work, preserverance (sp?) you can attain it all? That it's not as hard as what our minds tell us?

I am still very stuck in my emotions mind. My Fear's override me.

Anyways, sorry I always babble so much.

TTYL ​

 

[Cate]

From Wikipedia-
'The marathon is a long-distance foot race with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 miles 385 yards, or exactly 26 &7?32 miles) that is usually run as a road race.'
Alta is now a full marathon honey. Nothing is done by halves! What a girl. Stop putting yourself down Alta. You are not a couch potato any more. It may just feel a little bit of an anti-climax achieving such a huge milestone! Be very, very proud of yourself. You'll get back into healthy eating again as I think you still have your "eyes on the prize" & probably just felt like a short celebratory break xoxoxo Cate

 

[Alta818]

From Wikipedia-
'The marathon is a long-distance foot race with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres (26 miles 385 yards, or exactly 26 &7?32 miles) that is usually run as a road race.'
Alta is now a full marathon honey. Nothing is done by halves! What a girl. Stop putting yourself down Alta. You are not a couch potato any more. It may just feel a little bit of an anti-climax achieving such a huge milestone! Be very, very proud of yourself. You'll get back into healthy eating again as I think you still have your "eyes on the prize" & probably just felt like a short celebratory break xoxoxo Cate

Thanks Cate!!!..Actually....I am feeling great about my efforts. After posting this afternoon, I had a long car drive over to a presentation by a speaker in which has helped a ton of people in this day and age who have lost their jobs, make additional extra income with presenting them opportunites to work with renound individuals who do the same for hundreds of thousands of people.

I'm usually super busy, but lately in the midst of all my projects going on my mother has been telling me of her co workers in which have been cut hours, my step dad, my brother, family and friends, ...and basically all kinds of people around me.

...I know I have a lot on my plate, but I decided to go listen and see what they had to say, and I loved it! I realized as well, that not only am I really approachable and outgoing and going to be able to help people with therapy. I could help them with presenting to them an opportunity so that if they want better for themselves, and add some extra they can.

....I felt good about that. I felt good that I looked good, that I had an amazing hypnotherapy session myself, and that yes, with a little hard work....WE ARE ALL GREAT!!!!

..The food I have chosen to be more lenient because I am willing to have "faith" in myself and my interaction with food, because I am trying to no longer feed into my emotions through food. As well, most importantly to not look to food as love.

It's easy sometimes because food is unconditional, loves us always, makes us feel better, can keep us warm, won't talk back, and is always there when others aren't, and never gets mad at us...etc.

Overall, my Cate....I appreciate you being so kind...and we do all need to ease up on ourselves! ...myself included. Thank you for reminding me!!!

 

[Guest]

I think you're going to really do wonders for other's Alta. I think you're going to be one kick ass therapist! I know mine is pretty kick ass. ​

 

[bronjaynes]

~Inspirational~

Well good work Alta! You have been a major inspiration to my goal of losing weight.. Keep it up and keep us updated!

 

[Alta818]

I think you're going to really do wonders for other's Alta. I think you're going to be one kick ass therapist! I know mine is pretty kick ass. ​

Thank you so much!!!! That is a huge compliment!! !...I feel that I love to listen to people, and more than anything...people need to vent sometimes. Healing is in the venting often.....and if I can provide a couple positive suggestions here and there...even better! ...I adore people of all walks of life!!

...I wish I could hug the world sometimes!...! !!! I love you woman!....

...But to answer your question on the previous page in regards to accomplishing things. It's really funny....that you know that you can accomplish things, and the marathon has definitely shown me that I have it in me to go the "distance" and finish things to the last straw/mile. I have that now. Yes, I do. Yet, like all things in life....

...anything that is "new" to us, is still unkown and still generates a sense of procrastination because we feel scarred of the unknown, so though, I am more confident, aware of my potential, more detached from past failures, and all....Taking steps towards goals are still an effort.....They will continue to be until it is done and we create a positve association that now there is nothing to fear there. We can do it.

...I work on "visual imagery" a lot. I lay down and visualize myself in the scenarios in which I want accomplished ...and we call it "desensitization" of a situation in which causes you fear. We imagine, picture, and or visualize yourself passing through the scenario in the way in which you want things to finish, and you visualize, picture or image, your emotions as you are going through them, as you are finishing, and as if it were to end up the opposite way of which you would have wanted to turn out as well....This descensitizes you to the "pain" of the failure...and makes you aware that "life goes on" and that often times, it is just in our minds and that we can surpass the fear.

...It's amazing!!! !!! I love that you go and get therapy as well!! I think that everyone in one sense or another, needs therapy...at least just to go and vent to someone that cares to "listen"!!...!!!

...I want to do that for people! ! Making the world a better place, by caring for 1 person at a time. !

 

[Alta818]

Well good work Alta! You have been a major inspiration to my goal of losing weight.. Keep it up and keep us updated!

Thank you so much!!...It really means the world to me to hear comments like these!...It's the biggest blessing really!..Better than any gift I could receive....because what's better than helping someone else get to where they want to get. Nothing in my eyes & heart!...The joy of helping is addicting to me. ! Thank you again!

 

[Cord the Seeker]

Ah, Alta, my angel.

Thanks for your post in my journal. You really are going to be a brilliant therapist.

I had a brilliant therapist (cognitive therapy) back in the early 90's.

There is a level to which everyone can benefit from therapy now and then - or even just having a good friend to listen to us.

Like you did for me today.

Thanks, darling.



Oh, and BTW - you make me want to RUN! 20k next June - I'm gonna do it!

 

[Alta818]

Ah, Alta, my angel.

Thanks for your post in my journal. You really are going to be a brilliant therapist.

I had a brilliant therapist (cognitive therapy) back in the early 90's.

There is a level to which everyone can benefit from therapy now and then - or even just having a good friend to listen to us.

Like you did for me today.

Thanks, darling.



Oh, and BTW - you make me want to RUN! 20k next June - I'm gonna do it!

Thank you for the compliments!!! I truly hope so...!!! A lending ear is what I can always give if nothing more...!! WOA 20k!!!? ALRIGHTTTTTT! ! Can't wait to see you get there and your process! Great Job on the goal setting! !

 

[Alta818]

Good Morning, Good Morning!!! !

.....Today is another day.....A new Day to get things "FRESH" & "START ANEW!" It truly is. As I woke up this morning, before fully cracking my eyes open this morning....I realized how special we are, and how lucky we are & amazing we are to be able to have ...a NEW, FRESH DAY, EVERY SINGLE DAY,...with fresh air, fresh sun, fresh happenings, fresh beginnings, and ANOTHER CHANCE to get it right!!!

....I Love the fact that YESTERDAY...is GONE!.....today is a new day....we can start the Rest of our lives TODAY!....

"There is only one courage
and that is the courage
to go on dying to the past,
not to collect it,
not to accumulate it,
not to cling to it.

We all cling to the past,
and because we cling
to the past we become
unavailable
to the present."
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen

I have been in awareness, that when I confine my mentality to the "present moment"...I can be FREE. Literally, free of worry, because often times I worry about things that may actually NEVER TRANSPIRE to happen. It just is. The mind gets out of sorts,...and jumps ahead in time....and I am not present to my state of being in the "moment" of now,...and I get consumed with "What if this" "What if that" emotions that cloud my brain...and ROB ME OF MY PRESENT HAPPINESS and Succes!

....It is when I am fully aware and grateful of being such a complex entity in which can fully function within the "factory inside of me" and even manage to breath and walk, that is when I realize life is not Rocket Science.

...It's about ENJOYING!...Being happy, because we are Here Today!!!....I know 2 people who have not woken up from their sleep...one a 24 year old young man (my friend), and another my Uncle.

Life is Precious Guys!...It's not meant for us to torture ourselves, and no where in the "Script Book of Life"...does it say...that "beating oneself up will ignite Motivation."...NO WHERE DOES IT SAY THAT.....I am practicing Forgiveness of Myself. Forgiveness of Others. And Appreciation for the New Day. Realizing that Anything and Everything can be changed at the snap of our fingers with just our Mentality! !

....The power of the Mind! True Happiness is contained in the Present. Just like a child. Unihibitted by worry, and by the thoughts of others, the expectations of others, and most importantly....Free from the Expectations of Ourselves. Children NEVER have an agenda in which they require of themselves "Tasks" of the day...for which they beat on themselves if they do not accomplish...They just are, present, in the day....with the enjoyment of play. Mentally and Physically. True uninhibitted happiness....Adults too can have that if we maintain that all thoughts of worry, doubt, failure, fear, are all Not in the "Present Moment" . We too can escape these. Our fears often times, never come to fruit.

"Be like a very small
joyous child
living gloriously in the
ever present Now
without a single worry or concern
about even the next
moment in time." Eileen Caddy
The Dawn of Change

"Go confidently
in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you've imagined.

As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe
will be simpler;
solitude will not be solitude,
poverty will not be poverty,
nor weakness weakness."
Henry David Thoreau

Bkfst: 6oz. of Blck Coffee (1 tsp creamer, 1 tsp white sugar)
1 cup of Oatmeal w/ Water--

I am in the process of saving money$$$, and Oatmeal is the base of my eating lately...hahah!!!...I am placing myself on a budget to save, so that I could pay for all the fees to start my "practice" & I really really...need to keep my food spending down to a min. of $22 dollars a week, which is doable, so that I can save enough money to put it all back in 2 1/2 months. !

...my bf this morning told me I look Slimmer this morning! ! Yea... after 4 days of Oatmeal and water breakfast! No sugar!. hahah!....

....I have One Month til Vacation time! !

I plan to start working out Tonight again. The last time I worked out other than stretching, was Saturday when I did 50 mins. of Power Yoga. More Yoga today and maybe a small run! ! Pure Happiness, enjoyment, and no pressure.

 

[Cord the Seeker]

Well, someobody woke up on the right side of the bed this morning.

I was all set to be all "grumble grumble...she's obviously not sick...annoyingly cheerful....grumble complain...."

and then you mentioned the Bhagwan and I had to smile.

I haven't thought about him in years. I remember the height of the Oregon days, with him and all his Rolls-Royces.

Thanks for the memory.

Sounds like you're going to have a good day today!

 

[Guest]

Here's to another good morning b4 you start your day Alta. ​

 

[Alta818]

Report for Yesterday:

Food Yesterday:

Bkfst: 6oz. of Blck Coffee (1 tsp creamer, 1 tsp white sugar)
1 cup of Oatmeal w/ Water--(it gets thick and gooey if you let it sit and fills you for hrs)= 100 cals

Lunch: 1 palm size little peice of salisbury steak w/ mild sauce on it(frozen meal)
1 little section of mashed potato(frozen meal)
1 little section of corn (frozen meal)
------------------------ 290 cals for frozen meal------------eh! had to resort.
2 bites of a cupcake with white frosting. (broke it into 6 bites= 3 days)
1 little chocolate-gum ball (size of a dime-Sees Candies makes em @ mom's)-2:45 pm

Exercise: 5lbs weights- side crunches, forward crunches, squats, and other mixed workout w/ weights for arms and abs --(30 mins. 3:00pm-3:30pm- Lunch Hour= 30 mins)-semi sweat

Snack: 1 cookie size of palm-skinny- chocolate chip
8oz. of Orange Juice --5:30 pm

Exercise: 5:30-6:15 pm --Yoga Dance (using Salsa Moves, Yoga, and Dance-whole body tightening-& ass moves..lol ) --sweaty (with the blue sauna waist band)

6:15 pm- 6:45 pm--Cook while you Sweat w/ BF.
Sweat and Squat and Dance and, major waist and ass moving,..lol
(with that blue thing that squeezes your abs and makes u sweat)
" Who said the food was the only one that had to burn!"?!? "reddevil:!!= 1 hr. 15 mins

Dinner: 1 chicken drumstick
(seasoned with onions, garlic, garlic powder, onion powder, sea salt, scallions, pepper, and LOVE - I cooked that)
(Bf made)-- Boiled and Grilled -Yucca (so good) --it's cute..we cook side by side!
1 had 4 little thumb size squares
1/2 cup of Black beans-smashed-w/ crumbled cheese ontop
1/6 slice of Avocado
8-10 oz. of Orange Juice (so damn good and cold...lol)
7:30 pm

Exercise: 8:30 pm-8:50pm- Side Ab lunges, with waist and ass dancing -w/ One huge heavy weight- 20lbs I think?
9:00-9:10 pm-- Laying down, and contracting whole body-
w/ deep breaths and tightening ALL PARTS & hold..resistance
-feel it in abs, ass and thighs and legs= 30 mins.

Snack: 11:30 pm- 1 palm size cookie-chocolate chip
6 oz. of Orange Juice

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Exercise time for the day: 2 hrs. 15 mins. --spread out


I found yesterday, that since I did not pressure myself to work out, or to "not have" something that I wanted to eat or taste, (like the 2 cookies, and the bites of cupcake, and the little gumball chocolate, and the oj)...that I was actually more MOTIVATED to workout and eat smaller portions! Not Bad! !

 

[Alta818]

Actually, this morning...my stomach looked less pudgy and I could kind of see some muscles in there underneath the chub which has reduced some. ! ...I might be able to get rid of one handful of chub if I work hard everyday a little here and a little there.

Tuesday, was the last beer I had, since my "new budget". It just might work out for me in all areas of my life! hahah!....Sheesh, had to put myself on a budget to really realize I need the extra money for other things, and that "drinking" is not part of that budget!...I am pretty excited, that if I can maintain this new budget, I will be saving a total of an additional $400-450 a month! !!...and can you imagine how many drinking calories I'll save as well?!?!...let's not count. ...let's just say...A LOT!hahah!

...$400...Not that it's a lot, but ...it is SOMETHING! !...more than I was......I will admit though, the 99 Cents Store sometimes, sells $1 wine, and Trader Joes, sells $2 wine. I have been thinking about it. Damn wine!!!..trying to resist.

 

[Alta818]

Well, someobody woke up on the right side of the bed this morning.

I was all set to be all "grumble grumble...she's obviously not sick...annoyingly cheerful....grumble complain...."

and then you mentioned the Bhagwan and I had to smile.

I haven't thought about him in years. I remember the height of the Oregon days, with him and all his Rolls-Royces.

Thanks for the memory.

Sounds like you're going to have a good day today!

hehehe......."Ya Ol Grump! "!!! hahah!!! !!!

 

[Alta818]

Here's to another good morning b4 you start your day Alta. ​

Thank you!!! !...you too my dear! !

 

[Cord the Seeker]

...$400...Not that it's a lot, but ...it is SOMETHING! !...more than I was......I will admit though, the 99 Cents Store sometimes, sells $1 wine, and Trader Joes, sells $2 wine. I have been thinking about it. Damn wine!!!..trying to resist.

$1 wine at a dollar store?

What a strange country you live in.