kick it into high gear?

If blogs were audible, you would hear a giant groan right about now. Yup, I've been slacking big time in the training for a marathon department. I've just been either crazy busy or way lazy. Ugh. I'm going for a walk later tonight to get my butt back into gear. C'mon Lisa, you're hitting the last curve around the bend before the marathon, don't give up now!

So yeah, I've basically not been in the mood to do anything. Not good for a person that is running a marathon in less than a month.

So basically I'm trying to build myself a virtual pep rally. My good friend Emily (the one who hijacks this site from time to time) has made a facebook group and event page for me running the marathon! If you have facebook, search LISA WHITE RUNS THE CHICAGO MARATHON and I'm sure the group will pop up. Feel free to join and cheer me on! Or leave some love here!

SOOOO, YAY RAH! GO LISA! GET YOUR BUTT INTO HIGH GEAR AND GET PUMPED!!!

phew. I'm tired just typing that. Haha, seriously though, just got to get back into the swing of things, and then all will be good.

Hope all is well!

Lisa

PS Dad just called earlier. We got our tickets for the marathon in today. Oh boy, it's official.

these things are true...

1. I don't want to go to work. I worked a double yesterday, and now I work again today. DON'T WANT TO GO!

2. I'm frustrated with all the hours I have to pull at my job, picking up extra shifts, in order to stay in Chicago. Being poor does not rock at all. At this point I wish I was still in college and not just graduated so I could be going back to class instead of worrying about why I don't have a job anywhere close to my field yet, and why I'm terrified to really try to get a job in my field. (YAY FOR TRANSITIONAL YEAR! or not...)

3. I haven't ran in over a week. Bad news bears. I've been tired from work and PMS-ing which leads to my next thing...

4. I'm on my period. This is good, because this is my 3rd consecutive period in a row, which for someone with polycystic, who never has her period, this is a good sign. BUT, I have horrible cramps, my skin is breaking out, I'm bloated and this is totally not making me want to run AT ALL.

but I did dance my ass off at Lollapalooza. So sweaty, so many calories burned. Gold star for that at least in my week of bad behavior.

QUESTION EVERYONE!!! Well, actually just to the girls out there. How do you all deal with running or training when it's that time of the month? Do you just skip the week? How do you all trudge through?

signing off, to head to work (groan) and hopefully get peppy again, I'm not a fan of grumpy Lisa, she's a bitch to live with...

Greetings from the lankd of procrastination!

First off, THANK YOU DIET BLOG! And the awesome comments from people! It really means a lot to get recognized for this. I'm starting to hit a spot where I'm not so impressed with my efforts sometimes, and I start to drag my feet, so its nice and so helpful to go back and read these words of encouragement and wisdom. I've never really been a source of inspiration for anyone, so these comments and thoughts really do mean the world to me. Thank you doesn't even begin to describe my feelings for the support I receive on this site.

In other news, I've been in a funk this week. I'm PMS-ing (TMI, I know), which I'm not use to. See, when you have Polycystic Ovarian disease (like I do evidently, although I hate to use it as a crutch for my weight, so I try to leave it out of my life), you don't have a normal female cycle. Not healthy, but sort of nice when you only get a visit from Aunt Flo once a year. But now that I'm getting healthy, my cycle is back, and let me tell ya, it's back with a vengeance. I've been cranky and emotional for no reason, all I want to do is eat shitty food, and I don't want to work out at all. I've had to force myself to go even weight training this week, and I really don't mind weight training! Bad bad Lisa. Tomorrow I am forcing myself to get up and run or walk. No more whining Missy! Back to the grindstone.

In other news, I bought one of those nifty fanny pack things for runners, and boy do I look like a utter fool! An awesome utter running fool though, so it's all good. I've accepted the fact that running is not a glamorous sport, so strapping a purple fanny pack contraption to my waste is the least of my worries. I've gotten over the whole "I look sort of silly doing this" thing, and so putting on spandex and a fanny pack is totally sane to me now. Did I mention that I never wear anything around my waist because of my weight? Yeah, never. And did I mention the fanny pack barely fits (who knew that running companies don't cater to obese people, right?) and I feel like a strand of sausage wearing it? Yeah, whatever, you all are just jealous, I know...

So enough with my bitching. Time to get some sleep before a new days dawns, and I can rock it out in my spandex and fanny pack once again.

keep fighting the good fight!