Project Rebuild: Day ??

17 Jul 2014 Leave a comment

by murfkitten in Diet, Renewal, Uncategorized

I’m gonna say this is Day 17 of Project Rebuild, since I think I mentally kicked off on July 1.  Let’s go with that, anyway.  🙂

Progress, people, progress is being made.  I’m sticking with my workouts and am rebuilding a walk/run base.  Still focusing on the #wycwyc method of doing what I can when I can and not beating myself up for slip-ups.  The calorie monitoring is where I’m slipping up – well mot the monitoring, actually, but the staying within – too many cookies, cakes and candies at the office!!

Today’s challenge is to stay away from the cookies, cakes and candies!!

But, on the upside, it’s nice to have an office these days, even if I have gained 10 lbs since starting there.  🙂  Working is good for my soul and my mental state, that’s for sure.   I can actually say I’m happy and it’s been a long time since that was possible.  Yes, it’s contract work, but it’s work and it’s coming up on one year since I started contract work at this place and that’s amazing and gratifying!

So for those of you keeping track who’ve been with me awhile – be not confused by the tracker on the right.  It actually is up 10, maybe 11, pounds from where it had been.  That’s the cookies and cakes for ya!  We’ll be stopping that now so keep your eyes on that tracker!!  😉

 

Let’s Do This!

14 Jul 2014 Leave a comment

by murfkitten in Fitness, Renewal

Imagine

How about instead of just imagining, let’s DO THIS!  And so a new chapter and new re-start of the journey begins…

One week is already under my loosening belt with 5 lbs down, and I am looking forward to a second week getting back to the run/walk program that has been the base of my fitness routine desires for a while now.

I’m feeling good about this re-start and believe that this will stick.  I plan on it sticking!  It will stick!  It has stuck!!

 

The Plan:

  • Walk/Run x 3 each week
  • #wycwyc alternating 10 squats/pushups when I visit the loo at the office
  • Drinking 2L of water daily
  • Calorie management targeting 1000 / day
  • No self-flagellation or doubt.  Just do it, because I can do it.  Yes, I can!

(Aside: Can you believe it’s been 26 years since the Just Do It campaign was launched by Nike??  Loved that campaign!)

Today, I slept in so the walk/run will be after work but dinner has been prepped so I’ve no excuses to not get it done as soon as I get home and get lazy.  I’m excited as I type this, and can’t wait ’til 4:30 when I can get home and move into week 2 feeling strong.

Here we go!

 

 

Time to Face the Music

26 Jul 2013 Leave a comment

by murfkitten in Diet, Renewal Tags: ,

The time has come, it seems, to face the reality and update my numbers on MyFitnessPal to reflect the current status of my weight loss (or in this case, gain) journey.  Evidently, it’s much easier to ignore the reality when it isn’t glaring out at you in big red script from the side of one’s blog page.  So, here we are and what had been 18 pounds lost is now a mere 12 pounds lost – Wait…  What??!  12 Pounds Lost?!  That’s great!!  That’s better than 12 pounds gained!!  Time for a head shake on that and appreciate where I’ve gotten to so far in the journey instead of bemoaning a temporary (yes, you heard me!  I said ‘temporary‘) five pound gain.  🙂

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (since it’s kinda the theme of this blog…), it’s time to renew my commitment to myself and my journey towards becoming the person I know I can be.  Or, if you prefer a much more graphic description we will turn to “The Sister” who says she doesn’t want ‘Swamp Ass‘ so has to lose enough weight that her butt cheeks don’t rub together!!  There’s a mental smell-o-vision I really didn’t need to have!!  And yet, somehow effective in it’s message….?!

So today brings a grocery store run to stock up on healthy food options, including lots of fruits and veggies and low GI carbs cause, yeah, that’s how I roll.  I find the low carb/low GI route works for me when I actually commit to it.  It’s the fact that ‘forever‘ is a very long time and that’s where the problem (and regain) comes in.  But it’s a place to start and see that next 10 pound barrier kicked to the curb.  And, btw, even with the 5 pound gain, I still haven’t gone back to that old 10 pound barrier so I’m still happy with the 2nd digit of the 3.  See?  All has not been lost (or gained??) Lol

Off to make myself a breakfast smoothie to get this show on the road!!

 

 

And Again…

28 Jun 2013 Leave a comment

by murfkitten in Diet, Renewal

Well, there has been no joy in Mudville on the job-hunt front of late but all is not gloomy.

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 I’ve lost some lbs and I do so enjoy when that happens!!  Yeah, I gained some back again, but I’ve lost it now and things are looking up and forward on the weight-loss path if not the job-hunt path.  And now the weightloss tracker at MyFitnessPal is working again, so that’s always encouraging to see the numbers increasing in this case!!

So despite all of my optimism and happy intentions from my last post, motivation has wanned and needs to be re-booted (as does my butt, frankly).  Time to give myself a deadline and target – I think I’ve heard of that before….  I think it’s called a goal??  Yeah, yeah, a Goal, that’s the ticket!!  So let’s do that!!  Hmm…  what’s a good goal??

I know I was VERY excited when I cracked the last 10 pound barrier that had been teasing me for several months, so how about setting my new goal as cracking the 10 pound number that I’m facing now?  Now, don’t get me wrong – that’s not a 10 pound loss, I just mean getting through to the next 10 number on the scale (going from 95 to 87, or 63 to 58, for example – breaking the 10 pound mark).  I think that’s a reasonable goal – I’ll set that for the goal for the next month – getting to and into the next 10 mark!  And the timeline?  Ok, more specific.  How about before the pool party (Yikes!!) in mid-July?  I think that’s gonna work.  Break the 10 by mid-July, Yes!!  (Yeah, I know you want it more specific, and in my head it is I’m just not writing the numbers and dates 🙂 )  At the very least, having written this down and posting it, I’m thinking it will make me somewhat accountable to myself.

So there it is.  A goal and a plan (remember the plan from the last post?  That plan!)  Here goes!

And again…

30 May 2013 2 Comments

by murfkitten in Diet, Fitness, Renewal Tags: , ,

And so, while it isn’t Monday, it’s time to get back on track and start again to focus on my health and fitness, and work to bring the future that I imagine closer to the future that I will have.

TomorrowThis came along at just the right time and is now the desktop on my computer so that it reminds me  every time I mindlessly play solitaire and waste my time away, that I need to be making my future happen – and it won’t by sitting on the computer playing solitaire!!

So I’m going back to my plan of eating five times a day, 3 smoothies and two low fat/high fibre snacks, to help kick my metabolism into action.  My previous weight loss has diminished over the past week or so, and the numbers have crept back up on the scale so I’m going to add some cardio and strength training, though I have to watch that the cardio is low impact, since I have shredded my plantar fascia and need to be able to walk at the job.  😦

At the same time that I’m rebuilding and renewing on the health front, I’m redesigning the way I tackle the job hunt and starting to reach out to LinkedIn contacts and ask for help.  You know, they thing “they” say is the “new and only way to find a job these days.  It’s pretty much a full time job looking for a job – a job that will be fulfilling, challenging and rewarding, not just a job.

So lots of renewal going on here.  I hope you keep renewing every day, as well.  Make sure what you are doing today is getting you closer to your tomorrow!

Enjoying the sun

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Wasted

22 May 2013 Leave a comment

by murfkitten in Fitness, Renewal

I’ve seen the future and, honey, let me tell ya, it isn’t pretty.

I recently visited a dear friend who has some significant health issues.  She is a diabetic, significantly overweight and has great difficulty walking and climbing stairs.  And if I don’t do something about my own weight, that will be my future.  It isn’t a future that I want for myself – a future of discomfort, of needles and of heavy – emotionally and physically.

Jillian MichaelsI went to the Jillian Michaels “Maximize Your Life” evening just before seeing my friend.  While I liked the show, I didn’t LOVE it to be honest with you, but she is right – the choice is mine to make as to what I want my future to hold.  Do I want a future of pain and the inability to walk or do I want a future of lightness, activity, full engagement and health.  Gee, let me think about it…

Do I want this….

Walker

or Do I want this…

Enjoying the sun

So, it’s time to get back to The Body Reset Diet and start forcing myself onto my own aching feet to get myself more fit and physically active and back to life!!  Heading towards the life that I want and away from the life that could be.

I’ve spent enough time here on the chair thinking about getting back to life.  It’s time to start doing it and stop wasting precious time.  And on that note…  Enjoy!!

Week 1 Done

08 May 2013 3 Comments

by murfkitten in Diet, Renewal

Well, that wasn’t so bad!  Week 1 of The Body Reset is now in the can and I have to say, I enjoyed it.  I enjoyed it very much, actually.  The smoothies were flavourful and very filling.  I wasn’t hungry, though by Day 4 I admit that I was looking for some food but mainly because I just wanted more solid food than the snacks prescribed in the program.  And when I did that, I didn’t lose weight.  No surprise there!

Overall, I lost about 6 pounds over the span of the 5 days of smoothies (with that slip on Day 4).  I’m going to continue with the program for the coming week and see where I wind up.  Nothing to lose but weight, after all.  🙂

On the big picture, I’m down about 16 pounds from where I started at an all-time high weight.  I have cracked a 10 pound barrier that had been dogging me for some time, and I’m now, thanks to The Body Reset and some renewed motivation,  energy and spirit, am heading on down through the next 10 pound goal.  Feeling good and ready to renew!  Let’s go!!

And the beat goes on…

07 Apr 2013 Leave a comment

by murfkitten in Diet, Renewal

Wow!! I actually lost weight from yesterday! Can’t quite believe it, but it does give me some motivation to stick with cutting down on crap. And by ‘crap’, I mean I won’t be going out and downing a pizza and brew this afternoon with TheHubby before going to a moving and eating a bucket of popcorn.  Water, anyone??  Hmmmm…

Just came across this article (and website) with some good information for newbies or restarters like myself.

http://www.fitsugar.com/Weekly-Exercise-Schedule-Weight-Loss-23529009

Renew anew.

Ok…..

02 Apr 2013 1 Comment

by murfkitten in Job Search, Renewal

So here I am again.  Renewing.  Restarting.  Once and again.  Anew.

I seem to have experienced an epiphany along the way.  It is time.  Time to get over it, get past it, and leave it (and I mean all of it) in the past, where it belongs.  It’s about forgiving myself and those who have caused me pain in the past, and starting to live my life for me, and live the life I really want to live.  And that starts today.

Plus, my Big Sis was raggin’ on me to get back to blogging…  Ps – Plus, I actually enjoy the release.

So I’ve started working with a new career agency to do things differently in terms of my job search.  I’ve been looking for permanent work in my field for going on two years now, and nothing has really come of it so, instead of continuing to do the same thing over and over again, I’m doing something different.  You know that Einstein thing.  The definition of insanity thing – the “doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result” thing – well, I’m done with that!  Let’s try something new.  So today, I’m re-re-writing my resume in a different format (Functional) and working with new people and new services to try to get that mojo going.

And I’m happy.  I’m actually happy.  And I have hope.  Again.

And happiness and hope are wonderful things.

Just sayin’.

Musical Interlude

09 Jan 2013 Leave a comment

Working on resume’s and job applications yesterday and today, so here’s a little something to hold you over until I’m back.

Hope you enjoy Sara Bareilles as much as I do!

Sara Bareilles

Video by murfkitten

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