Currently: Drinking a beer while reading the new Mindy Kaling book w/ a heated blanket on my lap and Fred at my side while T plays video games. Crockpot quinoa enchiladas are cooking. Other eats include: grilled cheese, soup, eggs, bacon, yogurt, chips and salsa. Other entertainment options include lots of Friday Night Lights, Jack Nicholson and/or Tom Cruise movies, and I brought Once on dvd with hopes of roping T into watching.
3 weeks into my fitness journey I dreamed of running a 5K. Oh how far I’ve come!
Braved the outdoors for 4 pre-blizzard miles. Now it’s time to hunker down with my boys! Stay safe everyone!
Tonight I plan to run as many miles as I can stand on the treadmill (shooting for 6-8, but ugh treadmills).
T is buying supplies – I made him a shopping list and grouped things by where he’d find them in the store.
Tomorrow I plan on dropping Freddie and my stuff off at T’s apartment before work so in the case that we close early or snow on my commute I can just drive straight to his place as opposed to stopping by my place (which is not on the way) to get Freddie and my stuff. I figure I’ll add an extra 30 minutes to my morning commute as opposed to Lord know what to my evening commute (it took some people 2-3 hours to get home last night in 1 inch of snow who left after 6pm).
I also plan on bringing my sneakers and ipod so I can do stairs this weekend since leaving the apartment will not be likely. T’s building is 15 floors – I’m sure I could rack up quite a bit.
Update:
Ran 7 miles on the treadmill while listening to Serial!
T braved the stores and got 85% of the items on the shopping list, I was able to pick up the rest.
My college already announced it is closed for tomorrow so I can sleep in and drive to T’s. He has to work until noon.
I’m hoping to knock out 10,000 steps each day this weekend, even if it’s just climbing stairwells.
Tonight I plan to run as many miles as I can stand on the treadmill (shooting for 6-8, but ugh treadmills).
T is buying supplies – I made him a shopping list and grouped things by where he’d find them in the store.
Tomorrow I plan on dropping Freddie and my stuff off at T’s apartment before work so in the case that we close early or snow on my commute I can just drive straight to his place as opposed to stopping by my place (which is not on the way) to get Freddie and my stuff. I figure I’ll add an extra 30 minutes to my morning commute as opposed to Lord know what to my evening commute (it took some people 2-3 hours to get home last night in 1 inch of snow who left after 6pm).
I also plan on bringing my sneakers and ipod so I can do stairs this weekend since leaving the apartment will not be likely. T’s building is 15 floors – I’m sure I could rack up quite a bit.
Free lunch time yoga is back and so am I!!
Last week: 194.8 / 196.2
This week: 195.2
The good news is the scale read this number twice in a row today, so a win? I coming reeeeeeeally close to buying the fitbit scale – I’m trying to hold off for a sale or something.
My sister just got a slot teaching Body Pump at a NYSC! It’s 6:30am on Mondays, but you gotta start somewhere. I’m insanely proud of her. She just got her certifications before the holidays.
We have very different bodies and have had very different fitness/weight loss journeys. I am BEYOND curious to see her as an instructor – so if any of you are NYSC members and go on the upper east side – message me!
Next Tuesday night I’m headed out for ~40 hours in Boston thanks to JetBlue’s crazy sales last week.
T is going to be in Boston for work all next week and I had visions of tagging along to visit my bestie and her husband at their new place. At $44 each way (including taxes and fees) I couldn’t say no and how the flights worked out I’ll only miss 1.75 days of work (at what happens to be a very busy time).
I was in up in ME/MA in September for bestie’s wedding and managed to get my Maine miles in, but was too pooped for MA miles. So now I’m excited for the chance to cross MA off my list of states I’ve run in.
For most of my young adult life I was burdened with two major things – weight and debt. I felt enormous pressure to rid myself both which would ultimately lead to downward spirals which left me worse off than where I started.
In 2010 something change, I changed.
In January 2010 I started to take control of my weight and fitness. The way I started to take control was to PAY ATTENTION TO IT. To look at it head on and make note of it. I needed to know where I was before I could imagine where I wanted to be. Those first 6 of so weeks of paying attention and seeing change, made me realize I needed to face my earnings/spending/bills/debt head on too.
I had school loans, but with really low interest rates (thanks pre-market crash). I had two credit cards – one with a much lower interest rate than the other. Instead of trying to pay the same amount on both each month, I paid the minimum on the lower interest card and paid a combo on what I could I paid off on moth each month (minus the minimum paid) on the higher interest rate card. Seeing one card’s balance decline rapidly helped my morale.
One thing that was glaringly obvious was that I was spending WAY too much money on a car loan. I loved the car but there was NO WAY I could keep it up, especially without spinning into insurmountable debt. Plus I could DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE CAR. I could trade it in for something cheaper which is exactly what I did. Car salesman don’t scare me, I’ve never shied away from a car buying inquiry. So in February 2010 (6 weeks into my weight loss journey) I got serious about trading in my car. I knew what my car was worth and I knew how much I wanted to spent a month. I ended up trading in my 2007 Toyota RAV4 for a 2007 Toyota Camry (it even had 3-4 thousand less miles than my car). I also cut my monthly car payment from ~$480 to ~$280. I’m FINALLY two payments away from owning the car. After it’s paid off in March I plan to put $200 in savings each month after it’s paid off and give myself a little more money in my budget.
$0 credit card debt, $0 car debt (as of mid-March), and just over $5K in school debt. This will be quite the NSV (non-scale victory).