Running with a Dream: Alessia's Rant of the Day

Well......I guess I'm a bit late considering I really believed i'd have the ambition to begin my blogging last night. Just goes to show what outside stress does to you.
I am proud to say I am back on track after a couple of very disappointing days off that included my best friend Wendy's.

Yesterday I decided that eating healthy was priority, and of course slept until the last possible minute, so I had the wonderful dilemna of either looking well groomed for my job, or.....going to the grocery store to stock up on healthy food before the snow came. I thankfully chose eating healthy and decided to forgoe the hairstyling for the day. Headbands are a wonderful invention for just these types of days.
I have found out very quickly that it is a very time consuming event to grocery shop for healthy food. Those consumers are tricky little buggers. They lie a lot. What's really less fat is added carbs and what's really lower carbs is higher fat. It takes a smart shopper to be able to decipher the tricky language on food products. I would recommend always giving yourself extra time to shop if you're reading labels because you could be there all day.
So while I was on my grocery run I decided to wander over to the exercise video section. You know the videos where everyone is excited to buy them because we all swear on our lives that we will OF COURSE follow through with actually doing the video regularly once we've bought it? Yes that one. This time I decided I'm seriously ready and bought this Dancing with the Stars Cardio Dancing Video. Well I get home and it was like watching Latin Dancing for 5 year olds. I don't even think one bead of sweat ran down my face. How can they call it a cardio video if you can't even break a sweat? Serious disappointment. I will most certainly be returning it for one that opens a can of whoopass on me.

So anyways.....thankfully I have managed to shed the extra weight I had put on over the Christmas Holidays. Now I can continue with the original weight loss plan before the Holiday extras. So far so good. Just need people to nudge me on my days off. I think that's where all the temptations go down, when I don't have anything scheduled. I get bored and lazy. Not a good combo when you need to exercise and eat healthy. Boredom equals unnecessary eating and laziness equals skipping out on your exercises. But this just teaches me to set up a really good plan for myself on my days off to make sure people are motivating me.

Well.....tonight is P90x. I'd say it's the easiest way to burn a lot of calories in an hour and also I find it pretty fun because there's so many different muscle groups you can choose from and many of them don't require much other than chairs and retention bands.

Oh and my rant? I wish people would stopp telling me I look fine when I say I'm going to try and lose weight and get healthy. Be supportive would you, people? Sheesh haha

Thanks for reading!

Week 1...

Week 1, not going so well.... I have had nothing but the best intentions this week to hit the treadmill but.... well it's been so nice out that I have wanted to enjoy it before it gets cold again... and I need new running shoes.... and it's not like I haven't been working out - I just haven't been running....
Yes, I know how many excuses I have just listed. And yes I know the excuses are not going to get me running a 10k... Honestly, I think I am scared to fail. and whats the best way to avoid failure - not to try at all. So for the rest of this week, I will at least get on the treadmill and walk for 30 mins each day (YUCK!).
To be honest, I cannot wait til the roads are nice enough to run outside... this treadmill stuff SUCKS!!!. However, I did set up some new play lists on my iPod, so maybe that will help. I am also hoping that once I get new shoes (today maybe?!?) that I will be motivated to hit the treadmill more...
So wish me some luck and motivation this week.
And if you have some good music mixes or song suggestions for me while running, please pass them on!!!
xoxo - S

Yes it is now here!!!

That's right folks. We actually got the blog all together to chronicle our dream of running a marathon!!! Soon you will be able to follow our (sure to be amusing) stories from our adventures of getting prepared for this monumental event! Check back often, we promise to keep you entertained!

Archived Rants- January

January 26th, 2011
I am not really sure how this got so big, but I am excited to have a buddy with the same goals as me. Right now I am freaking out about getting my cardio in gear so I can do the 10k in May... My crazy partner is already talking half marathon!!! YIPES!!! It's really nice to have someone to do all of this with now tho, and someone who is in the same starting spot as me. I don't know bout the rest of you out there, but there is nothing harder then agreeing to do physical activity with someone who you KNOW is WAY farther ahead then you! I mea you wants to be the wheezing dead beat at the back... I mean being the dead beat with a buddy is WAY better (power in numbers or something, right?!).

Rant part of he day... WTF is up with the skinny toned bitches on MFP who weigh like 110lbs are 5'6 and still want to lose 15 lbs...
EAT A FREAKING CHEESEBURGER!!!
That is all!
xoxo -S