marathoner

Hi guys, just wanted to tell you that all is well on this end.  I hope all my buddies are doing well and I intend to come in here to check in on everyone as soon as humanly possible.  Right now, I need your insight!

My wonderful boys accidently deleted my entire music library from my iTunes, lucky I still have about 600 songs on my iPod, but my shuffle which I use on my runs has been wiped clean….luck would have it that my DS is on vacation and took my iPod so I need to add some music to my shuffle ASAP….soooooooooooooooooo I want to know….what moves you?  What’s on your iPod?  What music pumps you up during exercise?

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

I’ve been singing the same old tired song for nearly three years.  In fact, it will be EXACTLY three years on March 12 that I originally joined the site.  I’ve had my share of success and my share of failures during these past three years.   I joined this site weighing in at 223 lbs.  and find myself 20 lbs. lighter today.

I have hit high and low notes on this journey and today, I find myself as frustrated as I have ever been.

I am not giving up, it’s not like me to do so. 

I will continue to persevere and one day, I will win this battle.

In the meantime, I need to re-group and re-focus.  I need to do something different.  I need to work from the inside out.  I have tried everything you can think of….and I still find myself in the same place. 

This has been a long time coming….back in mid-January, my life was so shaken that I knew right then and there that some things needed to change….that I needed to change.  I have been dazed and confused ever since, KNOWING what I need and what I want, but feeling so lost and so overwhelmed that I simply don’t know HOW to go about it.

February wasn’t any better for me….and as most of you know, my life and the life of my family changed in an instant—a heart beat.

Life is too precious….and I need to start living it.  I need to make the BEST with what God has given me…this beautiful gift called life is far too valuable and too fragile to take for granted.

Buddies, I am taking yet another break from the site to re-group and re-focus.  I am veering off this road and I am embarking on a new journey—one of self-discovery.  I hope that when I come back, I will be a stronger and healthier person, one who can be of better service to all of you who have been generous with your support and with your friendship.

This isn’t good-bye, this is a short vacation from the site.  I will be very tempted to check in on a daily basis, but I know that right now, this is best for me.

Thank you for your kind words in the last three years, for your friendship and for your understanding.  Thank you for cheering me up and picking me up.  This is by far, the best online community I have ever been a part of!

Life would have it that so that sometimes, everything comes crashing down on us, but Mother Theresa reminded us that God only promises to give us that which He knows we can handle, so with that in mind, I get up and make the best attempt I can muster to dust myself up, get up and put a smile on my face.  I don’t always succeed, but I do give myself credit for trying.

I would like to thank everyone who commented on my last blog and those who sent messages of condolences, it really touched my heart and I sincerely hope everyone remembers to live each day as if it were our last.  Life is fragile and oftentimes, very brief.  Enjoy each day my friends!

I have been living in the Twilight zone for the last 2 weeks, so exercise and a healthy diet have had no place in my life.  I set out to exercise 21 days in February and I failed miserably.  I got the idea to grade myself from Anj and my grade was a D+ having completed only 12 workout sessions of a possible 21.  The good news is that I lost a total of 1.8 lbs. this past month.

Two months down, 10 more to go, 10 more opportunities to reach goal OR 44 more weeks to reach goal.

My goal(s) for the month of March are as follows:

• Lose 7 lbs.
• Exercise 24 days (earn 24 stickers)

Plain and simple!

I am back and reporting for duty!

I am turning this baby around in March!