I made it through week 2!!!! I even increased the distance I can swim without stopping. I went up from 100 yards at a time to 200, and today, I even made it through 300 yards. Today, my swim felt great. I probably could have even gone past my 1000-yard workout. Of course, I'm probably going to destroy all of that by eating the freshly baked cookies ( Read more... )

I'm not a complete failure this week!!!! I made it to the gym today. Right after work, I headed to the YMCA and swam my 1000 yds! I feel so good about myself. It was hard during the swimming. I really wanted to make it a short day, but I pushed through it, and I even swam 200 yds without stopping. I haven't been able to do that since I got into the ( Read more... )

So I've already failed in my goal of three times a week. I completely just gave up on going to the gym last night. My excuse for not going to the gym was I had to clean house for my cake party tonight (which isn't really necessary anymore because only like one person is coming), so I was going to compensate by doing my aerobics video at home. But ( Read more... )

Ever since starting tea@elevensies, I've been contemplating what to do with my livejournal. Several times, I've thought about deleting it just because I never post anything here any more, but I've stopped myself because I like being able to keep up with the few lj friends that I have. I'm not sure if any of them read this anymore since I never ( Read more... )

I am heading down a road that I don't like. I've got rolls, and I don't like it. This whole being married/gaining weight thing is not a long term plan I'm okay with. I like the first part (being married) but the gaining weight part not so much. I think my big problem is I don't ever have a measurable goal because I don't need to lose pounds or pant ( Read more... )

I just finished this survey, and 2009 wasn't super exciting and 2010 isn't looking to be much better ( Read more... )

I'm doing this experiment where I'm just myself. As a people-pleaser, I'm obsessed with people liking me sometimes to the point that I forget who I am because I'm so worried about if I disagree with someone they won't like me, or I'm filling in their needs. I love how Claire in the movie "Elizabethtown" describes it--I'm a substitute person. I come ( Read more... )

So I just attended my very first baby shower in my adult life. The real first one I don't really count since I was just like 13ish and went with my mom to my youth pastor's wife's shower. Talk about frilly. If it hadn't been for my three friends there with me, it would have been excruciating. I really love my pregnant friend, and I loved buying her ( Read more... )

It amazes me how much better I feel psychologically just working out. I may not be able to see the results quite yet (i've only been at it consistently for about two weeks), but I feel like at least I'm doing something to make my life and body better. I've been doing my wedding workout aerobics video every other day for a week and half now, and it ( Read more... )

I worked out today. The whole aerobics video, no skimping. It was tough with a cold, but I needed to do it because of my workout commitment with Ash. And I'll need to do it tomorrow and Tuesday if I want to keep with my schedule. Oh boy, trying to be healthy is rough. I fell off the bandwagon and then got back on with this Wordpress blog 10 week ( Read more... )