TangledWood

Week 4: This week, I've run 4 times, and lifted twice. My allergies are still quite active, but that hasn't stopped me this week. I have been working on helping a friend prepare for her wedding in two weeks in all my spare time, I haven't been as active outside of my workouts as I wanted. My weight and body fat are quite stationary, even though I've been eating clean. That is slightly discouraging but I know that over the long haul, by continuing to do the correct things, eventually it will come off.

Week 2: I've been fighting some dramatic allergies this week. Still lifted 2x this week, thought lighter than I normally lift, and only ran 2x this week. I didn't complete either run. For the first time in more than a year, I used my inhaler, so I decided against the 3rd run.

So, my first weekly update: I have paid off one credit card, and will make good strides to paying off a second card by the end of this challenge. I set a personal best for run/walking a mile this week, 12:44. Not fast, but fast for me. I have been following my diet plan. Push ups sucked this week, I spent 3 days unloading tons of rock and building a rock wall. Overall, I judge this week successful.

Breathe, record my workout, drink water, decide how much weight to add for the next set, lift the pug off my bench, might text my coach. Yep, my weightlifting is done at home, supervised by my pug.

Hi, I'm TangledWood. I have started a challenge before but didn't complete it as I recall, so I am starting back here. My Overall Goal is to work on shedding fat and protecting the muscle I have. I am currently 5'4", 43 years old, Female, and weight 131#. My scale says my body fat is 22%, (measures by electrical impedance) but I am not as concerned about the number as I am working towards having abs that show and not the layer of fat I've had my whole life. My minor goals to accomplish this are to 1) eat clean, following the program laid out in the CBL diet recommendations; 2) lift weights 2x a week; and 3) work on push ups on the same days I walk 3x a week. My life goal I am working on this time is to pay of one of my credit cards within this 6 weeks. I will then use that payment to add to my next smallest credit card, following Dave Ramsey's Debt Snowball method. In the long run, I will be debt free. My motivation: It is time to finally be the in control awesome person I think of myself as. And I have a dear friend I am working out with in real life. I love being able to make week to week and month to month gains on the weightlifting that are measurable. We egg each other on, the mild competition is great. Becoming healthy is the best decision I ever made. I am continuing the trajectory with these goals.

I went and ran in the 5K. I completed it, and I wasn't even the last person to cross the finish line. I had a great time and met some nice people.

Goals: 2 chin-ups/pull-ups Complete the 5k I signed up for Run 3x a week Maintain my clean computer room I did one pull-up for the last challenge, but my SO says I'm using the bounce from being short and jumping to the bar to get my chin up. So my goal this challenge is to do two pull-ups, with the second one clearly demonstrating that I am actually doing the pull-up and not using the bounce. The next two goals of completing the 5K and running 3X a week are related. I am recovering from a fall that left my knee and foot tender, but I have learned from past experience that I can't just sit down and do nothing or I am in trouble. I am not concerned about the pace right now, I am just trying to stay active in recovery. For the last challenge, I got my computer room clean and usable, now I need to develop the habit of keeping it tidy and not letting things pile up. I come from a long line of packrats and outright hoarders, so this is decidedly a long term life change for me. I am not especially concerned about the points, but stating the goals and posting about them regularly really helps me stay accountable.

I did it. I achieved the pull up, I am still eating % servings of fruits and veggies a day, I cleaned my office (and was able to have a guest sleep in it!) and today I did a 5K distance in a personal best pace of 15:33. I am so pleased with myself right now.

Congrats! 50 pounds is a nice round number.

I did it! I did a pull up! Yay! The nutrition is coming along, cleaning up the computer room is coming along, (slowly), and my running pace is also improving slowly, but by all that's holy, I did a pull up! In front of witnesses no less! Happy, happy dance being done here!

Stellar! Now all my peeps are seeing it on Facebook too.

Ambidextrous.

So, I've been successfully eating 5 fruits or veggies a day, I've been slowly cleaning and organizing my computer room. I'm making progress on the pull up goal. I'm even making progress on the running pace, my personal best is now 17:49! Yay!

I've had asthma all my life, and I am very familiar with how to avoid my triggers. I carry an inhaler with me, but I don't do any special breathing exercises. I'm wary of smoothies; too easy to make them high fructose and trigger hypoglycemia problems. But as an occasional thing, they are great.

I am using Lose It! to track my food, Fitbit to track my daily movements, and My Tracks and Zombies, Run!. I have an Andriod phone, and all these apps are free except the Zombies, Run!. The Fitbit app is free, but you do have to buy the Fitbit itself. Both My Tracks and Zombies, Run! give nice data about route, distance, and speed; My Tracks also gives you some pretty graphs about incline and elevation gain.