Is Failure a success if we learn from it?

Is Failure a success if we learn from it? Or is Ole Malcolm full of shit?  I am rather torn by that concept at the moment... 

So, let's just recap readers digest style...epic diet blowout DIET FAIL last night.  E.P.I.C F'Up.  Go big or go home, right?  Ha!  PUN!

So - what did I learn....???  Hmmmm....

1. I learned watching Biggest Loser is more fun while having a BIG glass of wine (or 2 3) and eating a shit ton of tortilla chips...least I went fancy and put them on a plate...
2. I proved my theory that I cope with emotional issues with food and beverage.  DUH!
3. I learned I was too chicken to get on the scale morning.
4. I learned how many calories are in manchego cheese (too late)!.  Do Not Ask - it is scary.  Just dont eat it cause that junk it high octane.
5. I learned that it is real easy to slip right back into old (bad) habits.

Oh well...back to it today...

Spring Training 5K Challenge

I'm in!!

I have been really working on the elliptical but I am really interested to try to run - and not hurt myself.  Confession - last time I started (yeah, I said the last time I started, not the bazillion others I was "gonna" or did it once...), I hurt myself the first day!!  Took me a week or more to be able to walk without a limp.

I am hoping that I have gotten stronger with all of the cardio time I have been putting in but we shall see!

It's definately feeling "spring-ish" here and I am ready for sandals but shorts...not so much!

Day Five Recap

Holla!!!  5 Day Fast Forward is O-V-E-R!!  Thank sweet baby Jesus...that was NO FUN but the results were...pretty damn good.  Down 6.6 in 5 days!

I got in 4 hours of sweat time this week.  Pretty much everything I got is sore, but it's all good. Gonna try to keep that and go for slammin' 10 which will put me at my first goal!  

Now, I need to get my ass in gear and get that cardio done...p.s.  Yes - I still hate it.

Finish the Sentance Linkup

I love this blog and thought I'd join in the fun!

1. People always tell me... I am a cool Mom.  I love me some #1 Son and all my "adopted" sons in his fraternity.  They are always welcome here and get home cooked food and I am prone to do their laundry.  It is an illness, people.

2. In the movie based on my life...  Would be all sorts of awesome and Reese would play a good me.  The audience might fall asleep during some parts, though...
3. Typically, I end up regretting...eating fat girl food that isn't good for me.

4. I always ask to leave off the...  eggs in a salad.  That shit is just nasty.
5. Kim and Kanye really...  need to go hide somewhere.  I don't get it. Any. Of. It.
6. My Parents always reminded me... take care of yourself and don't put yourself in a position to have to be taken care of.  It stuck and being self sufficient has always been really important to me.
7. Every single day I...try to stop cussing.  I have a potty mouth!  I seriously hear the F Bomb dropped about 100 times minimum.  It's a multi-purpose word for the Irish.
8. This one time in College...I quit.  Yep.  I got to within 8 classes of finishing and fell in lurvvvv....I was going to go at night then got preggers.  So - now I am finishing... in my 40's.  Note to self - taking Precalc when you are my age is just effing ridic...

9. My grossest habit is...  I will mute the phone while I am on a conference call if nature calls.  A girls got to take care of bidness, Yo.

10. My latest white lie... that I wasn't available to travel to a customer meeting.  OK, I am not. I have Taylor Swift tickets and am taking my nieces.  Left that deet out.
11. I know all the words... to too many songs.  I have freakish talent.
12. When I grow up I want to be...wait, hold up. I don't want to grow up.  Suck it.  I reserve the right to act however I find appropriate. You are not the boss of
me.

13. Sexy time is... a glass of wine and a bubble bath (or Hot Tub)!
14. I will never, ever...  say I will never ever will do something cause that's just setting urself up!
15. I think it's hilarious when... Ellen scares people on her show...I am prone to watching the re-runs on you tube...it's weird, right?  I hate being scared but watching this totally cracks me up!

Boom..Enjoy.

Day Four Recap

I got busy with conference calls and didnt start my exercise until late in the day (%pm)...So much harder and I really had to push myself to go the 45 mins. But I did it.

My day looked like:

I had frozen lobster tails that I was going to have for protein at dinner...they didnt thaw in time so I made "steak bites" which I had on top of my spinach salad.  I knew doing it I would not see a loss...red meat always "sticks" on me for some reason.  Not a problem in the long run but I never EVER would eat red meat before my weigh in day when I was going WW.  But - that said, it was AWESOME and it is the first time all week I actually left like I had something fulfilling.

Moving on...

Enter self destructive thoughts..."hey, Im going to be up or flat tomorrow...a weetle teeny glass of wine wont kill anyone....OK, the first one was really small so let me top that off a bit...yeah.  Awesome. #bangingheadagainstdesk. 

Pretty pissed at myself this morning but trying to tell myself in the long run, no biggie.  I am up .4lb this morning and sitting at a total of 5.2 down for 4 solid days of not so much fun!  Theme for today is make it count!! 

I am 1.3 away from my uber ovr the top goal for this week - not sure if I can make it but I am going to double cardio it and see where I end up.  

Peace out!

NSV!

Let's start things off with my NSV of the week!!

This is easy peasy this week!!  For certain this has been following through with my 5 Day Fast Forward!Has left me feeling great, like I am in control and seeing/feeling progress!  Now, to just not give back any of the ground I have made this week during the weekend!



Day Three Recap

I got my cardio in again 1st thing! Did NOT want to AT ALL but sucked it up.

After watching Biggest Loser last night, I am left scratching my head a bit. After weeks of high losses - how the hell can those girls post numbers like that?  WTH?  All I can think of is that they must be working out a bajillion hours a day but it really does put unrealistic thoughts in my head and cause me to be less enthused with my own results. But -then again, I am NOT on a ranch...I have to work. I have to deal with distractions and am not in living in a bubble.  Sometimes I'd like to be tho!  :-)



My day looked like:

And as a side note, I am feeling like I could eat a side of beef or something....Not really hungry but I feel empty.  Not my favorite but I keep telling myself I can do anything for 5 days.  With that said, I cannot freaking wait til Friday.  Just going to have to try to not totally blow off the rails!

 

Drum roll....as of this morning I am down another 1.2lbs coming out of Day 3!   Total of 5.6lbs!

Holla!