So we ended up selling our house, buying a new house in NC and we moved in May.  I just had baby girl #3 on October 26.  Due to crazy morning sickness, followed by back and belly pains throughout the last 3 months I just had no desire to exercise at all.

I am exactly one month post c-section now and I am chomping at the bit to get out and walk/run again.  There is a 5K in my neighborhood in March and I am seriously considering participating.  Which means I must start the C25K program ASAP!  I go back to the doctor in 2 weeks and I know I’ll get the greenlight to return to my normal activities.  Until then I am going to try to get back on a schedule and will work on my eating habits.

Then….it’s back to Couch to 5K!  I doubt anyone reads this blog anymore but in the next few weeks I am going to revamp it and start posting links to it on Facebook and my other blog so hopefully I can build up a readership to motivate me!

I am miserable.  Sad that I let myself down by not completing the 5K.  Sad that I made all kinds of excuses for why I didn’t finish it .

But hopeful. 

Going to get back to it.  This weekend we are heading to NC to visit my folks.  I already have plans to pack my mp3 player and my running shoes.  The first day back at it may not be pretty.  But I’m going to do it.  I WILL do it. 

I am getting back in the game!!!!  5K here I COME!

Hope to be posting here again soon.  Hopefully this stupid hot humid weather will go away soon!

So anyway, despite my slothfulness I managed to lose another 6 ounces this week so my grand total loss is now 16.8 pounds!  Every little bit gets me towards my goal! 

I’ll post again this weekend.  Gonna get out and at least WALK even if I don’t ‘train’ in the next couple days. 

I’m off to run errands and hopefully take the girls to the pool later!

Dear God What Was I Thinking:  Very cute blog by a beginner runner who has signed up for the Disney Marathon in 2009. 

The Running Chef:  Nicole is a student, runner and a wanna-be baker/chef with a fondness for cupcakes!   She is a brand new blogger (welcome to the blogging world, Nicole!) and is doing a really neat thing on her blog–she is taking a ‘running trip’ around France.  She is logging her miles as if she is really running from city to city in France!  That’s a cool idea and I think I may try that on my blog sometime.  I’d like to run around India though because I absolutely love that country!

The Road Comes Free:  And since I just mentioned India–this is a blog from a girl in India! 

So today I tried to go out and run my second day of Week Three.  Allergies+a head cold+the heat=a bad day running!  I didn’t do very well at all.  My mind really wasn’t in to it and was all over the place and I just couldn’t get into it today.  I think I was just too tired.  We spent about 2 hours at the pool today and I guess I just tired myself out.  I got a lot of cardio in today though!  I’m off to go take a nice jacuzzi bath tonight! 

Walk 5 minutes.  Run 1 1/2 minutes.  Walk 1 1/2 minutes.  Run 3 minutes.  Walk 3 minutes.  Then repeat the running sequence. 

I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to survive 3 minutes of running straight.  The first run was easy.  Wow.  Did I say that?  It was easy.  Then came the 3 minute run.  I made it for about what I think was 2 minutes.  Then I stopped the mp3 player.  Stretched a little and caught my breath for about 15-20 seconds then completed the 3 minute run. 

The next 1 1/2 minute run wasn’t so bad.  I had to stop half way through the second 3 minute run and then I didn’t quite finish it–but I was close. 

So it really wasn’t too terribly bad.  I am planning that I’ll be repeating this week at least once, maybe twice.  I kept telling myself to remember how hard that first week was.  How I thought I was going to die!  How I thought I’d never make it to week two.  I know I can do this!  It is going to be hard, but I can do it.

I am enjoying it which is huge for me!  I have never really enjoyed exercise.  I love getting out in the sun all alone with just my music and just taking off.  It’s kind of like therapy.  It allows me to clear my mind and focus on being healthy and all that jazz.     

Anyway . . . on the weight loss issue.  I gained a few ounces this week.  I figure it was one to many cheese biscuits at my mom and dad’s house this weekend and one too many peanut butter m&ms at the movies (we saw Kung Fu Panda–so cute!).  But it’ll come back off.  I am confident of that.   For once in my life I am confident that I WILL lose this weight and KEEP IT OFF this time!!!!    

ETA:  My Playlist!  Because I know that you all are jealous of all the cool tunes that I get to run to every week! This week’s songs are all over the place.  Some contemporary Christian (the Derek Webb song rocks my face off!) and some not so Christian songs (don’t listen to Addicted if you are easily offended).  Here it is:

God of This City–Chris Tomlin
Addicted–Saving Abel
Crack the Liar’s Smile–Drain STH
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor–Drowning Pool
Till I Collapse–Eminem
Love Remains the Same–Gavin Rossdale
Wedding Dress–Derek Webb

So I am going to do Week Two one more time on Sunday and then it’s off to Week Three!  I really have to watch what I eat this weekend.  I always seem to eat a little more (and a little more unhealthy) when I’m at my mom and dad’s!

I had a pretty good day today.  I was able to make it through almost all of my runs.  I missed out on the last 5-10 seconds of the last 2 runs.  I would’ve kept going on the last one but there were these hooligans (where exactly did that word come from anyway?  It’s kind of like shenanigans.  I like those words.) walking in front of me and I didn’t want to run off the path to get around them and then start walking again just a few feet down the path.  So I quit a little early.  And man the park was ‘jacked up’ tonight (as Annagrace would say.  That’s her new favorite phrase!).  3 simultaneous Little League games, a reunion of some kind at the picnic shelters, kids on the playground, people walking.  Tons of people everywhere. 

So I have to confess that I am really starting to like running.  I miss it on the days I don’t go.  It’s like therapy time for me.  I put on my mp3 player, crank it up loud and just get out there in my own little world.  I look forward to that time alone for 40 minutes to just think about nothing but getting through the next run.  It’s really great stress relief!  

I was thinking today about the difference in ‘jogging’ and ‘running’.  I have read somewhere recently where a wise old man (or maybe a young man, I just know it was a man) said that the only difference in a jogger and a runner was an entry form.  When you read the definition for running, it is defined as: a pace that is faster than walking.  So that being said, I guess I can honestly say ”I am a runner.”  When I go out to train I often say I am going out for my run.  I don’t think of it as jogging.  I don’t know why.  Isn’t that weird?  Maybe because saying “I’m a runner” is cooler than saying “I’m a jogger.”

And I have good news.  I’m down another pound!  Actually, a little more than a pound.  I am down a total now of 13 pounds!  Woot woot!  That is the equivalent of the skin of 2 human beings.  (Just a little useless trivia for you.  Yes, your skin weighs about 6 pounds!)  I was complaining again today about my pants falling off.  Aaron said, “why don’t you put on a belt?”  Hmmmm . . . where have I heard that advice before?!  Well all the capris I have look stupid with a belt.  So I am retiring the really too big, falling-down-annoying-me-pants and will hang on to the few that fit and in another month or so I’ll buy a couple new pairs! (And those clothes are going to be do GONE from this house.  I do not want to keep them because I have no intentions of fitting in them again!)

I’ll leave with an awesome quote I recently found.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”  Aristotle

I went out for Week Two: Day One on Wednesday and then did Day Two today.  I made it through all but the last run–only made it through about half of that one.  And I took a break and sat down on the bench for a couple minutes before the second to last run!  The pollen seems to have settled down so my allergies are not bothering me as bad now.  (I don’t have to stop and blow my nose anymore!).  

So all in all, it IS getting easier.  It still seems like a long time before I’ll be able to run 30 minutes continuously.  But I’m just taking it day by day and week by week!

As far as my weight loss, well . . . I weighed in Wednesday and was exactly–I mean to the ounce–that I was last week.  But I weighed in again today and was down another 8/10 of a pound!  So my grand total so far is 11.4 pounds.  I can wear a size smaller now (I tried on some clothes today at Fashion Bug!) although I can’t bring myself to invest in any new clothes because by the end of the summer they will be too big too!  I’ll just keep hiking up my pants until they completely fall off of me!  Annagrace told me yesterday, “Mom, haven’t you ever heard of a belt?” 

And here is my play list for Week Two.  I have to say first that I gave Aaron the job of putting this together.  He chose a few of the songs (and our friend Reber picked one too!) and they are quite interesting! 

The Baptism of Jesse Taylor–The Gaithers (totally Aaron’s pick there!)
Suddenly I See–KT Tunstall
Summertime–New Kids on the Block
Mother Mother–Tracy Bonham
Click Click Click–New Kids on the Block
Don’t Stop Believing–Journey (thanks Reber!  That is a great running song!)
Bodies–Drowning Pool (totally MY pick and the best running song ever!)
Curtis Lowe–Lynyrd Skynyrd
Coming Home–Lynyrd Skynyrd

And a couple more that I have been walking to this week:
The Time of My Life–David Cook (yeah, a little cheesy, but hey–it’s DAVID COOK!)
Love Remains the Same–Gavin Rossdale (lovin’ this song!)

Till next time . . . adios amigos y amigas!