I’m the maintenance woman!

   Let’s get this over with. I came in last place in the weight loss challenge. Mortifying.
I knew I wouldn’t be in the top, because we had folks who lost a ton of weight. The guy who won lost something like 22 lbs. I knew I probably wouldn’t be in the middle either.
But LAST place???
Mortifying. [...]

Just one of the many reasons I married him!

One of the ultra cool things about boot camp was the nutritional guidance. A registered dietician, Lauren Squire, came out to talk to us on consecutive weeks. A lot of it was basic: Eat less junk food, exercise more.
But there were some good nuggets in there. Such as the counterintuitive concept of eating more — [...]

Project RunWeigh: Week 6 looms…..

It’s killing me to write this, so I am just going to write it and get it over with. This is Week Six of boot camp, and I officially weigh .6 lbs MORE than when I started. Granted. It could be a lot more.
But still!!!
I think all this exercise is causing me to eat more. Yes, [...]

Project RunWeigh

I know I’ve been a bad blogger. I’m not sure I have a good excuse. But, it was my birthday, so I needed some time off to be depressed. Work has been brutal. Coffee withdrawals. And let’s see…oh yes. I GAINED weight. Last Friday I weighed in at 181.4 lbs. UGH!
I guess I need [...]

Project RunWeigh: Did you know I can cartwheel?

It is taking all of my strength to type this. I think I have to call in “sick.” And by “sick,” I mean that we spent the morning “running” all over Signal Hill and I am so tired I think I could go back to bed and sleep for a week. (And by “running” I mean walking [...]

I’m all about the Benjamins

The pool is up to $2,000 and continues to grow. They’re planning to divide that among the top four finishers. But there’s more bad news. It’s the top four finishers among the three different camps that all started the same week. That means I have lots and lots of competition, men included. This is revenge [...]

Step, run, lunge, repeat

Today was another bleacher day. I think I may be a masochist because I HEART BLEACHER DAY. The goal was up and down the stairs (62 stairs—I counted) seven times, then do a single lap around the track, stopping on each straightaway to do 20 walking lunges. So seven stairs, one lap, a total of [...]

What part is the ‘coolie’ again?

As I was crawling out of bed about 1 a.m. to use the bathroom, Ron rolled over and said sleepily: “Have a good workout, babe.”
I’ve been getting up early, but not quite that early. Although it sure feels like it. I have the alarms set for 4:30, 4:33 and 4:35 a.m. My goal is to leave [...]

Help me keep my eyes on the prize!

Good news, bad news and some really good news.
The good news is that the weight loss prize at boot camp is already up to $1,600 and growing.
The bad news is that they are now going to divide that up among four people, and possibly more if the pot keeps growing. (I wanted it all for myself.) [...]

Project RunWeigh: Maybe the scale is broken?!?!?***

Whose stupid idea was it to post my weight each week???? It’s all well and good when the number goes DOWN, but not so much fun when the number has gone UP!!! I’m as surprised to see 183 this week as I was to see 180 last week.
I worked out much, much more this week, six days [...]