What gym?!

This week has not been going so well for my time at the gym. Not so well...technically non-existant! Noah was sick one day, my friend couldn't go the next and then today we finally made it there and Noah decides he wants to scream the whole time, grumpy baby. So no running for me this week. I did pilates a couple of times this week and for the first time this winter Noah and I went on a walk. We took a little hour stroll down to the river and walked around. I guess that would count for one of my times at the gym. Next week will be better. It is like I am already out of routine and now I don't want to go anymore.

Kirk and I have planned our anniversary vacation to Badem-Badem for the end of March. This place has a Roman-Irish bath house. You basically get a 3 1/2 hour spa treatment, there is 17 stations where you get something different done at each one. It looks amazing. Only downfall...the whole thing is done nude. Yes I am going to bare all, no laughing please. Atleast they have a mens side and a women's side, but still. So that is another reason to kick it into high gear excerising. It is going to be a fabulous trip either way.

So this lazy week of no exercising I have been spending reading YOU on a diet. It is really interesting. Dr. Oz and Roisen do a really good job at explaining how our bodies work and what the food we eat does to it. One of the things that is really sticking with me right now is he calls simple sugars toxins, because they are not good for your body. Now whenever I go to eat a cookie or get a can of soda I think toxin, death to body. Haha. It is working for me anyways. Well I am still reading about how the body processes food and what fat does to your body. The book goes through all of this before it starts talking about actual food and what you should be eating or not eating. I recommend this book to everyone, even if you are not looking for a major diet, it makes you think about what you are eating.

Well that is it for now, have a good weekend. Oh and I ordered Zumba today. Let the party begin!

Up too early!

Today I woke up way to early, well I couldn't go back to sleep because my muscles were hurting and needing a good stretch. I have been keeping up with my running. This week we missed a day because of snow so tried going two days in a row. BAD IDEA!! Kirk keeps telling me to give my muscles a rest, day on day off. Well I will listen from now on. I could hardly get going day two. I had been doing 30 minutes on the treadmill, come what may, run as long as I can, walk a little and get back to running. Well I am now running the whole thing! And adding time, one minute everyday. Right now I am running for 33 minutes and yesterday completed 2.45miles! It is exhausting but so accomplishing.

We tried the spinach salad so far this week and it is not too bad. I think we will be changing our salad to this all the time and maybe I will turn into Popeye! No I hope not!! I want lean muscle not great big ones. This weekend I went to the library to get YOU on a diet. It has lots of good information on how to eat and what you eat does what to your body... Haven't started reading it yet but I am sure I will learn a lot. But back to the library, when I went you know what was sitting on the shelf just a few books down? Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Childs. So I had to check it out. So I leave the library with a diet book and french cook book. They are pretty much polar opposites. The cookbook pretty much cooks every vegetable in a cream sauce, Dr. Oz probable wouldn't approve. So we just won't tell him!

Today I am going to tackle the killer pilates video. Hopefully I can walk this afternoon. Maybe I will attempt the video, who knows...

Can we feel the burn?

Oh yes, yes I can. Yesterday was a snow day around here and didn't make it to the gym. So I thought I would be productive anyway and do a pilates video. Well of course I couldn't find the one I usually do, maybe Kirk was hiding it from me, don't know but it is gone. So I thought I would try advanced body slimming pilates. I am pretty sure I almost died! That was the most difficult thing and of course I had my cheerleader sitting behind me 'come on babe, only a few more minutes'. Though he was probably laughing at me too. Well I finished all 22 minutes and now can barely move the next day. But it will probably get me into shape faster than anything else. Hooray tomorrow is Wednesday and I only have to run! Crazy when running is ALL you have to do and it is exciting.

The pedometer is making me crazy, I am still not doing so well with my steps. Tonight I am at 5814, still a long ways away from 10,000. But I did almost get there, Saturday I was up to 7500 before Miss Maddilynn got a hold of it and reset it for me. Oh well, maybe tomorrow will be the day! And I got a sweet potato and spinach at the grocery store this week so we are having roasted sweet potato and spinach salad sometime this week. A little change at a time. Now I am going to go rest my poor abs and watch the olympics.

Too many steps short.

Well I went to get the pedometer this week and lets just say that I won't be getting any awards for number of steps. Yesterday was the first day of counting and I only managed a measly 2600 steps, remember the goal was 10,000. The only way I could manage that was if I went on a 3 hour walk and Noah wouldn't appreciate that considering it was only 26 degrees out yesterday. Today was a little better, we went to the gym to run. I got all the way to 7,000, still a long way to go. It will be easier once spring is here so I can get outside. So what do I do right now? Pace the floor?

On a food note, I have decided to learn a couple of new recipes each week to add to our healthy eating. This week it is spinach salad and baked sweet potatoes. I tried spinach yesterday for the first time and it was not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. We will see how it all turns out.

The start of my journey.

Nine months ago I gave birth to my wonderful son Noah. And the books say...it took you nine months to put the weight on and it will take nine more to take it off. Um, yea right! So technically my time is up. Granted it is only 10 pounds more to go. But I have decided to stop worrying about what the scale says. Being healthy is now my main and in December I started getting antsy to run again. I figure that if I am running my weight will be what it is and what is right for me. And I must have a goal in order to get busy.

A bikini body by summer? Not a chance! Besides with my stretch marks where they are there will never by a bikini again. Nope, my goal is to run a 5k by Noah's first birthday. Not just walk one because I could probably do that right now but to run the whole thing. So that is 3 months to get into running shape. Is this doable? I think so. And with the accountability of my friends I will make this happen.

I decided to do this blog because I watched Julie and Julia this past weekend. Dork? Maybe, but this sounds like fun to me. I want to be healthy in all aspects of my life. Physically in good shape, healthy eating, purging my home of unnecessary things and simplying, and even cleaning healthier. Now I don't know how to do all of this yet but I will learn and share this information with you.

Dr. Oz says that a good place to start is to get a pedometer and try to reach 10,000 steps a day. So tomorrow I am off to buy a pedometer (if the BX carries them) and start my new journey.