Category: running

5K, breastfeeding, color, Color run, mother, running, Tulsa

The Color Run- Tulsa

Olof
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OMG I’ve lost my mind and I’ve signed up for my first 5k in 17 years. I have signed up for the Tulsa Color Run. A friend of mine said that she was going to do it and have a blast. Not so much run as just walk fast and have a fun time. I thought this would be the perfect way to start, hopefully, new 5K habit.

The color run is more about the fun of getting out and doing it than a hard core run but it will be a jump start in the right direction.

Of course I need new gear to start getting ready like new running pants and support bra (those breastfeeding milk jugs need to be contained and protected) but boy I’m excited. I haven’t run since before Odinn was born but now I really am excited to start. My body needs the exercise too. Since we have daylight longer during the day I have decided that I will be ready to leave the house as soon as my husband gets home and go for half an hour 3 days a week and when I can do that easy I will add a 45 min run once a week and then when that becomes easy then I will add an hour run. I know I have a ways to go here but boy will this be fun and painful. LOL

Have you done a 5K this year? It has been on my bucket list for a while now. I did a few before I was an adult but I haven’t done any since. Always thought that I had to be a runner that could run for an hour with out stop to do one. Well I haven’t been that EVER so I never went out. I’m hoping to really get into running again. I miss it. I quit while I was pregnant with my first because it hurt so much to run.  Hoping my hips will let me do this with out too much pain. My body after 3 kids in 4 and a half years is not very happy with me.

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It’s working!

Olof

My move my butt chalenge is working. In a little over a week I have lost 2 pounds. That keeps me right on track for my 5 pounds a month goal. I’m so excited. I didn’t change my diet at all. I’m still eating what ever I want ( did make some lasting changes of habit the last time I lost weight). All I am doing is making sure I have some sort of exercise once a day. Normally I run on the treadmill but yesterday I gardened and got some (20) pavers for my veggie garden and I raked up pine needles for a plant I had to transplant from one location to another. Some days when the weather is really nice I take DS out for a walk and we walk for atleast 1.17 miles. I want to have walked/ran over 450 miles this year. I’m keeping track with a google doc that I plug in my distance and I also use google maps to see how many miles I walk.

My in-laws were here this weekend and it was great! My MIL cleaned my kitchen for me and my FIL brought the tiller to till my veggie garden and my flowerbeds. Then on top of that they let me and DH go out shopping, just the two of us. It was amazing.

I also went to a Oklahoma Counseling Assosiation thing on Friday and it was really great. I got to listen to Corry, the guy that has written most of the books we user for our masters degree, lectur and it was very inspirational.

Biggest Looser, KrispyKreme, running, Weightloss

Biggest Looser Confession

Olof

I have a confession to make. When I watch the biggest looser I almost always have something in my hand that I’m eating that is sooooo far from being healthy. Last night we were watching this weeks episode (we TeVoed it) and my DH had brought home KrispyKreme. I ate 3!! doughnuts.

For those of you that don’t know me you need to know that 3 years ago I was 25 pounds heavier than I am now and I lost 32 pounds to get pregnant. I did this the right way and it took me 2 years to loose the weigh by running on my treadmill, eating right and changing my behavior one behavior at a time. It was a lot of hard work and when I got pregnant I had decided that I was not going to let myself go and that I would run as long as I could. 2 months into the pregnancy I started to get shooting pain when I tried to run and I got discouraged. I so wanted to that I kept pushing through the pain til one day I just broke down and cried because I knew I couldn’t keep doing it. I could not even walk fast. I ended up gaigning over 40 poins but by x-mas after the baby was born I was only 5 pounds from being at my pre-pregnancy weight. Then my parents came with lots of Icelandic candy, then thanksgiving, and Christmas came around and I gained 7 pounds! I’m still eating too much and I have decreased my breastfeeding to only 1-2 a day and 1-2 a night. So I have started walking again since the weather is better which helps a lot. I still can’t run very well since I need to go get myself some better support for the girls but I am going to start training for a marathon as soon as Odinn is weaned.
I want to loose 15 pounds in the next 3 months so I need to get my ass in gear. We are on our way to St. Thomas in May. 5 pounds a month isn’t too much to ask. That way I will not be scarry in a swim suit. After that I want to loose about 9 more pounds and then I will be good.
For some reason, when I think about 32 pounds, I don’t think that it is that much but then I try to pick up a full bucket of cat litter which is 36 pounds and I am struggling to get it in my shopping cart and I realize that I was carrying that around every day and I am still walking around with an excess weight of 24 pounds. I want to be healthy for me and my family.

So in the futtur I hope to stop eating KrispyKreme while watching The Biggest Looser.