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I woke up this morning and got on the scale, and I was floored, shocked, amazed and disappointed. I saw a number that I haven’t seen in a really long time. I started praying to God to help me. This weight loss thing can be so hard sometimes. I know that I have a gift of helping people with their journey, but its so frustrating that my progress made a U-turn and is running in the wrong direction. I started panicking, telling myself; I’ll never be able to make my fitness DVD, will my blog readers and runners start to think I’m a fraud? And then I had to catch myself. That downward spiral only goes down and nothing good comes from it. I prayed God just help me with today. I started remembering what my weight watcher leader and my Hollywood Aunt always say, just take it ONE DAY AT TIME. I realized, that no, Running Into Shape is not a disaster because I gained a couple pounds and yes, they will still read your blog and yes your family still loves you because you’re human, and we make mistakes. I prayed again “Okay God, I’m serious, help a sista out, I can’t do it by myself.” Instead of hitting up the deli shop at my job for a quick muffin, I took a vitamuffin top (100 cal) and a weightwatcher yogurt….(amaretto flavor, so delicious)…. Then I told my co-worker first thing, I’m eating a salad & water for lunch, nothing else, not negotiable. She’s working on her weight too, and she signed up Lyle’s Boot Camp class with me! I am so excited to have another workout buddy. You know I live for a plan, so I found my next 5K. It’s called the Sista Strut to help bring awareness to the startling number of women of color with breast cancer in my area. It’s a walk, but it’s not until October, so I hope to run the whole thing.
After work, I came home to let Nyah out and get dressed for class. I picked up my co-worker friend and we were on our way. We were just about 3 minutes late and already missed 3 exercises. Lyle is serious about his class. We joined in the jumping jacks and squat thrusts. Then, he had us lay the mats on an incline and do sit ups and pushups and repeat. That little hill made it that much harder. But thank GOD, for a cool day, it was only in the 80′s with a cool breeze. I’ll take that over ridiculously hot days we’ve been having. Class was so nice to do with a friend, and have that extra encouragement during the suicide runs and planks. I guess God was listening this morning, because I had a Gold Star day!
What Did Carli Eat Today?
B-Vita Muffin Top, WW Amaretto Yogurt (actually quite filling combo), Green Tea w/ Splenda
L- Fried Chicken Salad w/Fat Free Italian Dressing, Small breadstick & Water
D- Subway Sandwich & 13 animal crackers (I counted a serving)
This morning I woke up and saw an article about former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s bucket list. You know what a bucket list is, just like that cute little movie “The Bucket List
“ with Morgan Freeman. It’s a list of all the stuff you want to do before you die or in other words, “Kick the Bucket.” I have a list of short term goals like, make my 5K to 10K podcast, make my Fitness DVD, pay off a credit card etc, etc. But I’ve never made a list of cool stuff I want to experience. So I started one….here are a few…
Experience Zero Gravity
Run a Marathon (Hopefully sooner rather than later)
Go to Egypt and see the Pyramids and ride a camel…(any of my runners in Egypt? I’m coming to visit!)
Break a Guinness Book World Record (Doing what? Who knows?)
Write a Book
Get Married
Shake hands with President Obama
Go to culinary school (I love cooking)
Be on a National Talk Show (Not Maury LOL!)
Tons more, but too much to list here.
Anyway, writing out my bucket list gave me a whole list of reasons to keep living life to the fullest, because there’s so many things I haven’t experienced yet. Today was a good day to make my list, because in my weight watcher meeting yesterday, we talked about setting attainable goals so that you have something to look forward to. I told the leader about my recent frustrations, and she told me the simplest phrase that everyone has heard a million times. “Take it one day at a time.” I’ve always been a Big picture person (Egypt? Guinness Book?) But, with this whole weight loss thing, I can’t just say, I want to lose 100 lbs. I have to make smaller goals like, I want to track my points/calories TODAY, I want to work out TODAY. And that’s just what I did. I followed the weight watcher motto “Bite it, Write it.” I wrote down everything that went in my mouth. AND I went to boot camp class. It was so hot and humid, just being outside breathing in the thick muggy air was workout. Feeling a cool breeze was just a silly thought and far from reality. We started out the class with Lyle’s favorite, the suicide runs. Then jumping jacks, and push-ups and planks. Then he asked, “are you ready for the workout the start?” right before he told us to run a lap around the field. Let me tell y’all out of all the times I’ve worked out, I’ve never sweated this much…ever. There was literally sweat on my eyelashes, that’s how much was pouring down my face. I kept swatting at my shoulders, at what I thought was a gnat or a mosquito, but was really just sweat beads rolling down. It was so gross, I mean my hair looked like I just got out the shower…. The running lap was followed by all kinds of leg lifts and ab exercises and at least 3 more laps. I’m pretty sure I rolled my eyes at him a couple times. I didn’t care if I was the last around the track today, my main goal was not to pass to out. Well, I finally finished my “victory lap” which was more like a crawl, and came home feeling like a champ!
What Did Carli Eat Today?
B- Oatmeal, yogurt, half of an apple
L-Turkey Sandwich and side salad
S- Weight Watcher Multi-grain Ranch Chips (delicious) & 2 twizzlers from a co-worker
D-Turkey Leg, Cream Style Corn, and Green Beans that Mama made & left over Birthday cake
What am I talking about? Everything… I suppose there is life after the death of everything. There have been so many things going on in my life, and I haven’t written a blog post in forever, so I guess I’ll start there. A few weeks ago, someone hacked my blog, or put “mal-ware” on it if you want to be technical, because the tech support guy said if it had been hacked, you wouldn’t be able to see anything. Then he tried to tell me it was just my computer….I explained to him that people all over the country and the world for that matter e-mailed and told me they were having the same problem. Whatever the case, when you go to my website, after a few seconds you’re automatically redirected to some random websites like toys in China, airline flights, and unfortunately sometimes even porn (yikes)! I was so upset when I started getting e-mails from my readers and my runners letting me know what happened. I felt so defeated. All of my hard work that I put in over the past year, destroyed so quickly without warning. I felt like my blog died…. I’m only a quasi-nerd, I don’t really know how all this stuff happened or even how to fix it. In my spare time (yeah right) I’ve been trying to back up everything so that I can start over and re-build it. On top of all of this, we had a death in the family. My cousin who I called Uncle passed away and he was only 49. I have been very fortunate and at age 28…this was the first time I lost someone that I had an actual relationship with. He lived in my parents’ house for about 80% of my life and still did until he passed away. We weren’t best friends, but he has a Mii on my Wii, he spent the night at my house, we talked on the phone and he was helping me recruit back up dancers for my upcoming Fat to Fit to Fierce DVD. This has been harder than I imagined, but I’m also handling it better than I imagined. I do take comfort in knowing that he loved God and that he is out of pain. He was always a jokester, and even on his death bed, he told me “this is like the horror movie Misery
.” I laughed and told him, it’s not that bad…. You guys know that Stephen King movie where the obssessed lady holds the man hostage in the bed and breaks his feet and all these other crazy things to make sure he doesn’t escape. You all know my family is very close, so pray for all of us. The lesson I’m learning is that there is life after death. After some sicko killed my blog and life ran its course with my Uncle, there is still life after death. It may not be easy and it may be challenging and different, but rest assured there is still life and I’m going to live it to the fullest!
Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday Dear Running Into Shape, Happy Birthday to me! Okay, so I spent all week coming up with this fancy title and song, just to realize that technically, I think it’s my 1 Year blog Anniversary, not birthday. LOL! Nonetheless, One year ago today, I wrote my very 1st post. Way back then, I was just a fat girl who wanted to run, and send emails to my family and friends to keep my self accountable. I guess I’m still overweight, and still wanna run, but my website has grown so much more. I created my own Couch to 5K podcast, and created a Wall of Fame for my successful 5K runners. In January, I had nearly 800 visitors in one day, and have had almost 47,000 visitors total. I’m even a certified group fitness instructor, in the process of making a fitness DVD. This time last year I would’ve laughed it someone would have told me that this is where I would be today. There are a lot of other cool things that happened in the past year, most of which I talked about in my New Year’s Review Post. But just wanted to say, “Happy Birthday Running Into Shape!”
Hey guys, I’ve kind of just been in chill mode trying to balance everything during this busy time of year. I do have some great news. I went back to the doctor and my medical issue is cleared up, the problem and the pain is gone. I’m so thankful. I’m moving right along with my plans for my fitness DVD, I make my first financial investment towards it Jan 1st. I have to pay for the original music tracks that I want to play in the background during the DVD workout. I’m also working on my list of goals for 2010, one of which includes a 1/2 marathon. Yes I said it, a Half Marathon, 13 Miles. The Go St. Louis race is in April. I’m going to register for it before the end of the year. I may not be able to run the whole time by then, but I’m going to give it all I got. My goal will be to finish the race without passing out, puking, collapsing or coming in last place. …I think I can manage that…. Today, I went shopping with a friend who really helped remind me of the little changes that have happened after I lost weight. When we were walking in the store he said, “I always had to slow down and wait on you before you lost weight; now you move so fast I have to hurry just to keep up with you!” It’s thing like that help encourage me to stay on the right track and live a healthy life.
