10/6/11

So got up this morning and cooked breakfast. I know, i know, me cook right?  I am determined to get my nutrition straight and in the process maybe help my hubby get back on track.  We were instructed to eat more protein so I scrambled 4 eggs (2 for each of us) using Pam in the pan instead of butter (like my hubby) and fried up four strips of bacon (2 for each of us).  Also had bananas but they were not ripe enough so i made it through half of mine before i gave up.  This will be interesting going running this morning as I don't usually run with this full of a tummy.  Might have to run over my lunch break instead.  Will update later:)

Breakfast-two eggs scrambled, 2 pieces of bacon, half of a banana, diet coke

Update:  Just got done running.  Was suppose to do a 50 minute hill run which turned into a 30 minute hill run and a sprint back to my side of town (seriously, made it to my side of town in 8 minutes) to get to the bathroom.  I am sad because it was probably the best run I have had in a long time, however, my stomach said go and so i went.  Need to figure out a better schedule with eating and running.  Have been running later in the day but we were suppose to have 40 mph winds later on today so had to change plans and run this morning.  Weather was gorgeous!  Is it sad to say that I kind of like doing rolling hill work?  Wamego is beautiful on the west side of town with the big houses and i think i don't pay as much attention to time because I am looking at each and every one of them and not my watch.  

Lunch-Protein shake (chocolate that tony bought and they are disgusting:(), an apple and twelve almonds.  I was amazed that I was not hungry until 12ish.  I usually am dying by 10:30 am.

10/5/11

No running scheduled for today

Breakfast: granola bar-trail mix nut and chocolate, diet coke
Lunch-3 inch chicken salad on wheat and small bag of baked lays chips.  Some sort of small cookie that one of my students brought in that tasted like gingerbread and had some chocolate on it.  Dr. pepper

Snack-quarter cup of trail mix.  Wasn't sure if I was going to have time for dinner, probably didn't need this as I did have time for dinner.

Dinner-a little bit less than a cup of a casserole my hubby made that had potatoes, green beans, onions, ground beef, cheese, and cream of mushroom soup in it.  I think this was a that was all we had in the cabinet meal.  I also had a beer.  Not sure why, didn't really want it, just habit i guess.  Had an apple and a little piece of babybel cheese for dessert.   After dinner and after I taught class, i had 20 pieces of candy corn.  I also had several glasses of water tonight.  I am getting back in the habit of water drinking which is a good thing.  I actually craved it today and tonight.

50 minutes of hills tomorrow EEEEKKKKKK!  Am going to try and cook eggs and bacon and have a banana before I run.  not sure how my tummy is going to handle this and running but it is worth a try.  Will be camping the rest of the weekend so not going to be blogging.  Am really roughing it, only bringing protein shakes, protein bars and trial mix

10/4/2011

Running schedule was 8-10 50 yd dashes today with a 10-15 minute warm up and cool down.  Ran for 10 nice and easy and walked back up hill in the wind for a nice easy warm up.  Ran 9 50 yd dashes, most in the 9.5-9.85 range.  Cooled out with a 10 minute jog and then hiked up a nice steep hill and walked back down.  Beautiful evening!  Had a stitch during warming up, have no clue why, managed to get through it.

Breakfast: Kashi bar and diet coke.  Looked at the hard boiled egg, just couldn't do it.  My stomach doesn' t seem to handle lots of food early in the morning.

Lunch: Salsarita's- a knock off of chipotle.  Had a burrito bowl with steak, sour cream, corn salsa, and cheese.  Ate half of it.  Also had an order of chips of which probably ate 10-15 with some queso.   Immediately got indigestion thanks to the onions in the salsa.  Went and got a small mocha latte as I think the steamed milk calms my indigestion.  Mid afternoon had an apple and a little mini wheel of the babybel cheese. Had half of a diet dr. pepper with my lunch  

Dinner: A PBandJ sandwich on wheat bread.  2 tablespoons of PB and 2 tablespoons of jelly(welch's low sugar jelly).

After dinner: a decaf coffee with a little bit of sweetner

10/3/2011

Had a 50 minute run scheduled for today on flat easy road.  I decided to run before my agility classes.  It was warm (90 degrees) with a very stiff wind.  I set out directly into the wind as that is where my path took me.  There were small hills but going I was going all down hill.  When I headed back, I had the wind at my back but was going uphill.  At about 43 minutes, I felt very bad, had the hot chills and did not feel good at all and had to stop.  I had to sit down which is weird. I felt like I was pacing myself accordingly but i guess I was working harder than I thought.  I ended up running about 4.2 miles in about 43 minutes so even though I thought I was going slow, I was still at my normal 10 minute mile pace.  Funny how my body is bound and determined to keep this pace no matter what.  I ended up drinking 8 ounces of protein shake and three big glasses of ice water immediately.  It was not a fun feeling!!!!  Here is what I ate:

Breakfast-granola bar (kashi) plus diet coke
Lunch-ChickfilA chicken sandwhich, fries, dipping sauce of honeymustard
Dinner-protein shake, quarter cup of trail mix, coffee with some sweetner when I got home from class

10/2/11

This has been my random blog but I am about to make it not be random.  I have been running since the beginning of the spring doing the couch to 5 K, the bridge to 10 K and now a speed program.  I am training alot and need a training log/food log.  I am seriously addicted to running now and i need to correct my nutrition to complement my running.  I will admit, it is tough.  I show dogs so am gone alot on the road and usually travel with others so have to pack smart and eat out alot.  I am hoping this blog will help me stay accountable and help me stay on track.

Running today:  Taking the day off.  Ran my first 10 K yesterday and am very sore and need a break today:)

Food:

Breakfast: Kashi TLC Dark Mocha Almond granola bar and a coke zero with vanilla


Okay so there is a festival in town called oztoberfest so my lunch is going to look crazy but it only happens once a year.


Lunch: A small cheeseburger plain.  A few bites of chili cheese fries.  A few bites of an indian taco that had chicken.  Helped my hubby drink some beer as we shared a stein.  Drank probably three beers over a course of 6 hours.

Dinner:  A couple of bites of a brat.  Two hardboiled eggs and 4 oz of V8 light.  A pumpkin/chocolate brownie.

Yeah I was super bad, but oztoberfest has come and gone and now back to my normal bad self.

updates galore

Okay, been keeping my agility blogs updated, need to do a better job here. Well, I am happy to report that we got new gutters on the house and all of the water issues we were having have gone away! We have had several really good long rains since we put the gutters in and the basement and upstairs window have stayed dry! I am so excited to have figured out this issue and wish we would have done so sooner. Tony also ripped out the bathroom skylight and roofed over it. We left it un-insulated for a while to make sure he got everything sealed tightly and we have had 0 leaks so now he just has to find the time to insulate it, dry wall over it and then of course we will have to repaint the whole bathroom. I am so bad with colors so this should be interesting! We still haven't ordered a new skylight for the bedroom. Oh yeah, we decided to keep this one a skylight but go for a real skylight, not a plastic bubble. We have a real skylight in the dining room and it is beautiful and doesn't leak so we will try this approach for the bedroom as well. Oh heck, I guess we will have to paint the bedroom too. Another color choice, ICK! Anyway, we may just have a paint a thon because we have paint now for the guest room and are still debating about what color to paint the living room. I am guessing when the weather turns crappy and we are stuck in the house, the painting will occur. My stepdad is coming out for thanskgiving so many projects will probably start then as well. Tony is going to need help with the skylight as I am afraid of heights and will not be on the roof at all. I am hoping we can get that ordered and they can work on that while he is here. I also hope we can get the trim figured out for the bathroom window too. It looks so yucky with trim and the framing and we can't put the old stuff back on since it is damaged. Of course that means changing the trim on the other window, but oh well. Poor tony, he has so many projects on his plate!

We also recently got a dining room table made. I had been looking at tables for while and never seeing anything we liked. Well, we took a trip to Paxico and found a guy that makes tables and he made us one to our specifications. It is made of KS maple and it looks antique and I love it. It has benches instead of chairs and i was a little concerned about that, but they push up under the table, thus saving a ton of space. It really fits the room and is the perfect shape and lenght. It was well worth the money we paid for it and he made it very quickly so we could have it for thanksgiving. I hope to work with this guy to make more furniture in the future and possibly teach tony how to make furniture as well.

Last update. Well boo hiss, I have gained a ton of weight. I haven't been exercising other than training my dogs and walking to and from my car to work. I just haven't been motivated, haven't cared. I keep trying to recall those feelings when I worked out of how great I felt and how great my clothes fit. Unfortunately, lately, I just haven't cared. Been eating out most meals, just don't care. This is all going to bite me in the ass in the end. I am already barely fitting into my jeans, had to go up a size or two just to be comfortable. Tried on new clothes, couldnt' fit well into any thing or any size, almost cried then said fuck it. I just don't care right now. My biggest thing right now is working my dogs. I come home, either eat or go to the field or vice versa. I don't care what goes in my mouth as long as it fills my belly. Tony has virtually stopped cooking at all. It is a very dangerous and unhealthy habit of convience we have both come into. I hate the way I look right now, figured the comments from my relatives would be enough to bounce me back to reality but it didn't. I wish I could get out of this habit. It is not good for either of our bodies or our health. Tony is bigger than he has ever been and so am I. I am at least up to what I was in CO although I have been afraid to weight. My clothes tell the story. I need to just start walking again and go from there. Being at nationals motivated me to run all out and I was sure out of breath every run. I need to get back into shape, should probably get back with my private trainer. BLAH!

Why did i become a homeowner?

I think I am hitting my final straw with some things, namely our house. Don't get me wrong, I love our house but the constant flooding of various rooms is starting to get to me. I guess I am thinking ahead of if we ever move, what will we have to fix in order to be able to sell our house and make some sort of money, not loose it. We have spent probably 1000 bucks on fixing up the front yard so it has more curb appeal, but we still have so far to go. The porch is very basically put together and needs some sprucing up, namely something to cover the bare posts that hold the porch up and some decorative gravel to accentuate the walk up to the porch. I would also like to add a nice porch swing as well, but we would probably take that with us when we moved. We have added some planters but need some more permanent types as these are plastic and not the best in the world. Anyway, the two biggest issues we have right now are the leaking basement/master bedroom and the floor. I have called today to get a free estimate for new gutters as tony thinks this is the main issue with the flooding basement and part of the flooding skylight issue. Yesterday, we had a downpour that lasted for several hours and one of the south facing windows in our master bath started gushing water. It had previously been leaking but it was more of a drip, drip, not a gush, gush. We had to take down the trim and there is considerable water damage to the dry wall, window frame and of course the paint. I just decided to have a big pity party for myself so I sat down in the tub i never get to use and had myself a good old cry. Tony said the window was dry above it so we must either have another leaky skylight that is feeding into the window, or we just have a leaky roof. I hope today he will be able to get on the roof and assess the damage. I hope we can get a home loan and just get some of this fixed. I am tired of the leaky skylights and just want to rip them out. Who needs a sky light when they are laying in the tub anyway? The sky light in the bedroom hasn't leaked in a year probably but we are afraid to put the trim back in and fix the dry wall until we are sure it won't ever leak again. Tony has become good and dry wall patching so I know he can patch it and then we can re-paint, but I say rip the fuckers out. I am tired of the loud storms, the lightning shows, having to sleep downstairs when it hails, and worrying about the dry wall constantly. I am all for patching with plywood, re-insulating and putting dry wall over it. I mean, I am married to an electrician, he can put up new lights or something to compensate for the lack of light. We have many windows in the bedroom so we have plenty of natural light. The only time we need more light is at night and it is dark outside anyway so the skylight is of no help. Here is my dream: Rip out the whirlpool tub that I never use and probably won't ever use, put a claw foot tub in and a stand-up shower and get rid of the skylights and the leaky window. Wonder if I can make this dream come true? Of course all of this takes money, of which we are very low on now.