30 for 30 Challenge

Well, here’s the deal… I had a fun weekend hanging with my sisters. ALL of my sisters. My older sister and youngest sister live in Southern Oregon whereas I am in the Northern part of Oregon. We live approximately 3 ½ hours away. While I still consider us an insanely close family, one who is way too involved in each other’s daily lives, we don’t see each other ALL that much. We make a point of going down or them coming up as much as possible but for me it had been since January that I saw them. That is probably the longest I’ve gone in quite a while. Anyhow, I love it when we are all together. We really do get along amazingly and you know how I have no real friends that’s because my 3 sisters are my best friends.

Anyway, we ended up on Saturday heading to an outlet mall where we walked around for a few hours and shopped. Chris went with me and one of my sisters husbands went with her. It was a lot of fun and I just love hanging out. We did end up in the Coach store where we all (every one of the four of us girls) purchased a new Coach purse. It was entirely unnecessary and unneeded but whatever. I did not need a new coach purse as I get them all the time but I was in the market for a new fun color I suppose and this new red one really spoke to me. Anyway, this is my new bag that I purchased.



It’s quite pretty and I quite love it so I guess its okay. Who am I kidding; it’s always okay for me to buy things if I want them. Ha. I find that the more I love myself the more I feel its okay to buy myself pretty things. It continues to make me feel happy and pretty. Vicious cycle.

Now in terms of food and eating I made pretty much the worst healthy food decisions I’ve made in like 7 months over the weekend. My Thursday night ended up being shitty because I was having a pity party and then Friday I did get during the day but Chris and I went to dinner where I indulged too much and then Saturday at the outlet mall I made good choices, Subway, but then it was back to my mom’s house for a pampered chef party and pretty much all hell broke loose. It was also my nephew’s birthday celebration so we had amazing fancy cupcakes and I ate one. A giant like 1000 calories cupcake I’m guessing. Anyway, I wish that were all but it’s not. I ate too many other bad things. Again, my choices and its okay. Then Sunday I was hoping the day would be better but somehow by Sunday afternoon and 2 slices of pizza and a piece of chocolate cake later I was in full on indulge mode. I ate too many awful things but you know what what… I’m not really mad at myself. They were my choices and if this means it takes me a little longer to get to some magical goal that is okay. I had a nice time with my family and that is what is important to me.

I feel like perhaps I have been living this last week in a land where I think I am at some goal weight. Now realistically can I live at 146.7 pounds forever and be happy. Yeah, probably. But that is not my goal weight so I need to quit acting like it is. I don’t want to get “this close” to where I want to be and give up. Not happening. Yeah, I indulged to much this weekend but that stops today and I’m back at it. That is part of life.

I have approximately a month or 30 days (okay technically it is 33 days counting today) until I get on a plane for Hawaii. I need to put my ass in gear and see what I can do in these 30 days. I’m calling it 30 days for the sake of simplicity. I have created a little challenge for myself. I’m calling it a 30 for 30 challenge. That means I am going to do 30 sit ups a day for the next 30 days. I know it’s pretty basic and simple but it’s something to make sure that I accomplish and just another added thing. I also am challenging myself to run 20 out of the 30 days. That is not unrealistic for me but again it gives me something to track to “obtain” and we all know how much I crave the track ability of things.

I have every intention of running tonight. Actually there is no “intention” to it, it WILL happen. But with that said, I forgot to mention that I did run last Friday night, a nice good run and then Saturday morning when I woke up, before heading to see my sisters I made myself run full speed for 30 minutes. I did a quick 30 minute workout to keep me focused as much good as that did and all. But Nonetheless I killed it for a 30 minute run on Saturday. I did take yesterday off but today I am right back at it, ready for another fabulous run.

I’m mildly concerned about the scale on Thursday given my 4 days of indulgence this weekend and the yucky bloated feeling in my tummy as a result but I have to honestly say who the fuck knows since I was so confident last week and had it completely back fire. My expectations this week are minimal or rather none so therefore this week I’d be thrilled with a half-pound loss. My efforts have not been good enough to warrant any more confidence than that. In fact I’m mildly concerned I would gain but I do have three complete days to put me back on track. Good foods and healthy exercise are in order for the next 3 days. Plus my new 30 for 30 challenge which I am starting today. I should point out it would be acceptable to me to do MORE than the 30 but 30 is the minimum I can do.

It’s a little chilly here today but it’s not too bad but this looks like the worst day this week according to the forecast so I’ll take it. My forecast says its 57 high today, tomorrow is 61, then Wed we turn to 73, Thur 81.. (Holy crap the 80’s!!!) 79 on Friday and then 84 on Saturday. That is a heat wave to me. I need to get my feet into a pedicure stat as that is sandal weather if I’ve ever seen it. Honestly it won’t happen until Saturday but I did spruce them up myself so that they are at least presentable this week. Ha. I do love the sun though and am very much looking forward to this weather. I’m getting ready to head out for some lunch time errands and hopefully get in a little sun while I’m out.