Desserts..yes...oh YES!! Deserts...no thanks.
I missed my TrekDesk last week. Well, ok, maybe I didn't really miss it. I preferred the deep tissue massage to the hours and hours of meetings that I normally get to "enjoy" each day. Last week, I got to play wife for 4 days and accompany Ron to the Unitrin Executive retreat in Tuscon. This happens every 5 years. 5 years ago we were at the Broadmoor in Colorado. I can, with 100% certainty say that I prefer the Colorado to Arizona. It is just so much dirt...and it is so...so....dirty. I mean, I can see like nice smooth pretty sand - I'm all for that. But this was just ugly dirty dirt. Now, my friend Sonja Harsch thinks I'm completely nuts. She says it is beautiful there. So, I kept looking. The only time I felt "beauty" was late into the sunset, when it was too dark to see how dirty things were...and there was only a hint of burning light left in the sky and and you'd see the silhouette of an old cactus with its arms reaching to the sky as if in prayer...now that was pretty. But that's kind of not fair. That is like saying the woman at the bar you met was pretty....in the dark....with very very low lighting...and only if you caught her silhouette...with beer goggles on. So, I'm sticking with my assessment. Tuscon was ugly. I will give in on the fact that the clear dry air made for some ROCKING GREAT hair days. Which Ron liked ;-) I think...
So, between being gone to Arizona and having many in the office meetings last week....I got very little TrekDesk time in. That was a big bummer. I did get to ride on a dusty trail following the backside of Ron's horse and eating dirt the whole way. Is that exercise? I did eat 3 catered meals a day for 4 days straight....oh crap.....guess I'm going to have to pay a visit to STS (Satan The Scale).
Today, I started the day off right with a call with Ireland. They (ok - Thomas Lambert!) did sway with me as the video I was sending while walking made me look like I was rocking back and forth, but they were surprised that I was able to walk, talk and type. (What does that say about my coworkers' confidence in my ability to multi-task?) ;-) I've gotten my 4 miles in, so I'm parking my treadmill for the day. My right ankle that I keep re-injuring is still sore. That sucks. Wish I was fully well.
So, here's to my goal this week of making sure I get in 4 miles EVERY day. Will report back on Friday....at least I'm in Texas...where we have less dirty dirt....
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Back in the Saddle...and a little "Fluffy Girl" insider information
Yee Haw!
Twisted my ankles...surprising NOT on the treadmill, but instead while taking out the trash two weeks ago. I have walked 30 minutes at a time at my TrekDesk, but I've been in lots of pain. I'm so excited to announce that I walked ALL OVER the neighborhood last night with Catherine and I think my ankles are healed!!
So, today, I'm back in the saddle!!! I'll post again with the stats of the day. I'm really super behind at work, so I can't be more creative right now....but you know...that is what this journey is all about. Highs and lows, steady slow progress....so for those that have only read this or who don't know me well enough...I'll clarify some things.
Handbook to being a friend to a "FLUFFY GIRL"
1) I am not scale obsessed. I know to put stock in how I feel, not what Satan the Scale says. I still think that knowing that number is a valuable tool.
2) I'm not sharing this information because I think this one issue I have...my physical fitness...is in any way, on the same radar of a problem as those that are battling cancer, loss or other big struggles. I have perspective that my life is great....READ MY PROFILE if you think that because I've chosen to blog about THIS, that I don't have this in perspective.
3) I know this doesn't occur over night. I know that I have been sitting on my rear for 17 years of working in the high tech industry and that in 17 days, or 17 months, my physical issues may not be reversed.
4) I know that my kids need a healthy mom and I don't need to be a self sacrificing lamb. I am not in this situation out of martyrdom. I believe fully in having my kids see that being a good parent means taking care of myself too. I just had not found the right key to my life, with my particular life style.
5) Dear SAHM friends. I love you. I admire you. I find the type of life you have to be wonderful. But, please oh please, do not tell me how I need to join you for your 10am class that you love and can't I just schedule that in my work day. It really is quite insensitive.
6) A little known fact....overweight people are NOT stupid. We KNOW about calories in/calories out. We KNOW that you can't eat 4000 calories, burn 500 and think you are not going to gain. We KNOW how many points, calories, carb grams, sugars, fat grams, etc are in every food. The poor choices are not being made out of ignorance. So, thanks but no thanks on the information on Weight Watchers, calories per day, Body for Life, P90X, etc. I, by the way, own all of that, have been on all of that and then some. Please please please - dear skinny, fit, friends....do all of your fluffly girl friends a favor, and don't assume we have gained all of this weight because we are ignorant.
I am now going to get off my soap box. I know that when you decide to blog something, you open yourself up to lots of judgment and criticism. So, I do take your input dear friends. Just know....I will respond....that is just who I am.
Laura
Twisted my ankles...surprising NOT on the treadmill, but instead while taking out the trash two weeks ago. I have walked 30 minutes at a time at my TrekDesk, but I've been in lots of pain. I'm so excited to announce that I walked ALL OVER the neighborhood last night with Catherine and I think my ankles are healed!!
So, today, I'm back in the saddle!!! I'll post again with the stats of the day. I'm really super behind at work, so I can't be more creative right now....but you know...that is what this journey is all about. Highs and lows, steady slow progress....so for those that have only read this or who don't know me well enough...I'll clarify some things.
Handbook to being a friend to a "FLUFFY GIRL"
1) I am not scale obsessed. I know to put stock in how I feel, not what Satan the Scale says. I still think that knowing that number is a valuable tool.
2) I'm not sharing this information because I think this one issue I have...my physical fitness...is in any way, on the same radar of a problem as those that are battling cancer, loss or other big struggles. I have perspective that my life is great....READ MY PROFILE if you think that because I've chosen to blog about THIS, that I don't have this in perspective.
3) I know this doesn't occur over night. I know that I have been sitting on my rear for 17 years of working in the high tech industry and that in 17 days, or 17 months, my physical issues may not be reversed.
4) I know that my kids need a healthy mom and I don't need to be a self sacrificing lamb. I am not in this situation out of martyrdom. I believe fully in having my kids see that being a good parent means taking care of myself too. I just had not found the right key to my life, with my particular life style.
5) Dear SAHM friends. I love you. I admire you. I find the type of life you have to be wonderful. But, please oh please, do not tell me how I need to join you for your 10am class that you love and can't I just schedule that in my work day. It really is quite insensitive.
6) A little known fact....overweight people are NOT stupid. We KNOW about calories in/calories out. We KNOW that you can't eat 4000 calories, burn 500 and think you are not going to gain. We KNOW how many points, calories, carb grams, sugars, fat grams, etc are in every food. The poor choices are not being made out of ignorance. So, thanks but no thanks on the information on Weight Watchers, calories per day, Body for Life, P90X, etc. I, by the way, own all of that, have been on all of that and then some. Please please please - dear skinny, fit, friends....do all of your fluffly girl friends a favor, and don't assume we have gained all of this weight because we are ignorant.
I am now going to get off my soap box. I know that when you decide to blog something, you open yourself up to lots of judgment and criticism. So, I do take your input dear friends. Just know....I will respond....that is just who I am.
Laura
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