Wow another post!

Well, I was determined to make 10 000 steps today! Jaimee (my oldest daughter) and I went for a half hour walk, so that along with my run and all my steps around home and I am at 11 170! Yay, I'll probably make 12 000 today. However, it does show how difficult it is to get to 10 000, what will I do when I am working again? Work and walk and run. When will I scrap?! LOL

Road Trip Journal Sneak Peek

As I said I am making myself a journal or mini album to help keep me motivated to lose these extra pounds and keep healthy. I had decided I wanted to do somthing as I just got hooked on mini albums and then wouldn't you know it October Afternoon came out with this fantastic paper called Road Trip and my idea has just gone from there. I am about halfway done, I'll post more when it is complete.

What???

So this morning I stepped on my scale and it says I have gained 2 pounds! How depressing! How can that be? I have been running consistently and have really been watching what I have been eating and it has been sparse. Now normally when I have tried to lose weight before I would get upset and all routine would go out the window. Well I am determined not to let it happen again. I think having this blog helps, as does my mini album (which is almost complete - I'll post a sneak peek later) - they keep me motivated. That being said, I do think it could be the scale, it is about 20 years old at least so perhaps it is time to get a new one, I'll think I'll do that today!

I did my run, and it was much nicer, we have a bit of cloud and cooler temps today (so far anyways). I still ran about the same but I have noticed I am not as winded when I get home, and that's a good thing.

There!

Perhaps it is going to be a Thursday thing, but I just didn't feel like going again today. I was smart and went earlier so it was not quite as warm. Now I have to do my blurfing! The run today was pretty much like yesterday. I wonder if I will ever get to the point that I like running?!

Oh boy!

It is so hot here! I did not run yesterday as I had an all day webcast that I signed up for that started at 8am. Now if it wasn't so hot I perhaps would have done a short run after supper, but not in this heat (40 degrees, or 103F!). You can't imagine how happy I was to sit at my computer in the hot family room all day rather than be in my craft room!

Anyhow, enough complaining. I did run today and it was already warm. I'm for sure going to try to go a smidge earlier until the weather cools a bit. I guess my blurfing will have to be after my run instead.

Gone: 21.5 minutes Run: 18 Walk: 3.5 mins!

Breakfast of Champions

Well maybe not a breakfast of champions, but it is the breakfast I have most often. It packs quite a punch even though it doesn't look all that appetizing! It has about 350 calories but full of nutrition. About 70 of the calories come from the 2 TBSP of ground flax that I add. Flax is very beneficial for us, everyone should try to incorporate it daily. Check out this post regarding flax.

Recipe:

1/3 cup regular oatmeal 2/3 cup hot water 1/3 cup cottage cheese (I use 1%) 1/2 cup blueberries 2 TBSP ground flax 2 TBSP slivered almonds 1 TBSP Splenda sweetener I also add some Apple Pie Spice. I then microwave for about 75 seconds then it is ready.

Back into a routine

We got back from camping yesterday afternoon, and the kids had fun in our little pool but hubby and I just baked! It was 38 degrees in town and supposed to be the same today. I wanted to start painting our front door this week, but I may just have to hide out in my craftroom for a bit!



I did my run again, I thought I took it a bit slower as my knees are bothering me a bit but I finished in 21 minutes with only 4 minutes of walking!



I also got myself this pedometer:

I just got it while we were away so yesterday afternoon I had it on for awhile. It is fun to watch how many steps you make in a day just doing the mundane day to day stuff. What is neat about this one, is that it hooks up to a computer so I can graph my daily activity and see how I am doing towards my goal! It tells me how many calories are burned too, now that's fun! So far today I have done 3641 steps, I am hoping to do 10,000 a day wonder if I will get there?