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Monday, Monday!

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Good Morning, Chickies!

What did you do this weekend to supercharge your body?  We – the entire Pea Family – went to the Y yesterday afternoon.  It’s too hot to play outside, so we played inside instead!  I did a two mile run on the treadmill, and then accepted AlmostTeen Son #2’s challenge to race on the track over the gym floor. 
Lessons Learned:
1.  Never accept a race challenge from a kid who weighs 100 pounds less than you do and is thirty-two years younger.  Fun to try, but impossible to win.
2.  Weight Machines are fun and easy to use.  Especially when your handsome hubby is working out close by so you can admire his flexing muscles.
3.  After said kid beats your pants off for the sixth time, even giving you a quarter track head start each time, let him race his older brother.  It will put him back in his place.
4.  Do try racing your Teen Daughter, the skinny one.  You can probably beat her, which will make you feel better.
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Learning To Run – Where Should I Resume?

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Hello, Chickies, and Greetings from the sizzling plains of North Central Texas.  Lord love a duck, it’s hot.  Too hot to run outside, for sure. 
How do I know?  Because I started a run yesterday, and gave up within 10 minutes.  I ran to the bank, took care of my errand then relished the blissfully cold air for a few – okay, more than than a few – minutes while I talked myself into braving the scorching pavement.  I came straight back to the office, and finished my run on the treadmill.   I don’t even know that I could count it as a run, becasue just those ten minutes under the broiler did me in. I only managed another fifteen minutes on the treadmill. Pfffft!!
So.  I’m wondering where to pick up with the running again.  Start Over?  Start Where I Left Off?  Maybe back up a week or two in the program and start there?  I’m so totally inclined to not start at all, because it’s TOO HOT!  Oh.  Did I already talk about that ?  Seriously – I’m nothing but whiney about the heat.  It’s 86 degrees at 6:00 in the morning.  90 degrees at 10:00 at night.  105 degrees at various times inbetween, and the feel-like-it?  Sheesh.  It’s too depressing to even think about.
Running should be a winter sport, not a summer one.
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P.S.  Just so you know, I’m NOT slacking on the exercise.  I participate in Buff Chad’s cardio and abs classes every day, and I’ve been doing a pilates band workout every evening for stretching and toning.  Ha!  The kids do the pilates with me.  We must look silly laying in a row across the living room floor with our bands stretching our legs.  I need to set up the tripod and snap a photo for you.
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Plateaus and Platforms

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Plateaus stink.  I’ve been stuck on one for an eternity now. Wait…(she beebops over to WW, checks the weight tracker)…not actually an eternity, just five weeks. 

For Crying Out Loud!  These five weeks have included injury, surgery, recovery, consistant eating, only ONE splurge in the form of half of a piece of wedding cake at a wedding, and as much exercise as I could muster. 
Why do I feel like such a failure?  For crying out loud, I didn’t GAIN any weight during these five weeks!
So now what do I do? 

Here’s the plan, thrown together this morning as I sipped my coffee:

1.  Continue to pester Charlie over at Operation Shrink Charlie’s Big Butt, because she’s in a slump, too. We’ll hold each other up.
2.  Up my exercise, now that Dr. said “Go”.  I think maybe I haven’t been pushing myself hard enough.  Yeah, I put in lots of time, but perhaps the intensity isn’t enough.
3.  Eat. More. Protein.  I tend to cut that out of my diet, because just little bits add up those WW points fast.  And I really, really want that teaspoon of honey in my no fat unflavored greek yogurt in the morning, so I swap a protein point for the sweetness.  Probably not the best choice.
4.  Drink MORE water.  True, I average about 3 quarts of liquid a day including my morning coffee and make dozens of trips to the potty (thankfully right across from my office door!), but maybe a bit more would help.  I’ll just move my desk into the bathroom.
5.  Quit beating myself up over this.  I didn’t gain all this weight overnight, and I’m not going to lose it that fast, either.
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Image of Roan Plateau, Colorado, courtesy of the United States Department of the Interior website.