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.

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!

I can tell that we are going to be friends...

So the time has come. I've decided that this little blog has been around long enough on the blogger playground to qualify for making some e-friends. Not only because I'm vain and want people to pay attention to me (ME! ME! ME!) but also because I've really gotten into my message of making ones life healthier and better, and I want to spread the word. I also have been getting into surfing the web and finding some really awesome diet and exercise blogs. Mostly diet, since it's what I still struggle with. I'm getting to the point where I want to meet people that are going through similar situations like me.

Case in point on the struggling with diet front, I binged some the past few days. It was out of frustration. I went to the gym after work Thursday night, and could barely do one mile, I was almost in tears. Seems my arch has fallen some, so I went and purchased some arch supports, but I was still angry. I felt like a failure walking out of the gym after only doing 1 mile. Granted I actually got my butt up and did 1 mile, and I did 200 crunches (with weights! woo hoo!), but I somehow still felt like I failed. So what does any sensible person do? Comes home and eats sort of shitty food and whines. Yup. Bad news bears. But I realize it was wrong, and I realize that I wasn't eating because I was hungry, but because I was emotional. Admitting your wrong and realizing the problem has to come first, right?

So my woe-is-me whiny self is back to training today. Probably do some crunches, and then this afternoon/evening when it cools down, 10 MILES (OH MY!). At this point even 10 miles is starting to not really phase me. The only problem is I need something to carry my water and gatorade and goo packets in. I need one of those dorky runner fanny pack things. Great. Hello lame sandwich...

So (hopefully) welcome bloggers that I e-mail! I hope you check out my little journey here, I don't bite, I just want to be friends. I'm getting to the point in my training where I need all the support I can get aka double digits training time. I'll be posting a links section soon too, so if you know a good blog to contact, let me know. Or if you want to be linked, let me know too! So tell all your friends folks, I'm coming out of my shell!

Ok, off to the bank, and then probably to buy one of those funny running fanny pack things. And maybe the Harry Potter book? Eh, I'll wait till tomorrow for that, otherwise I won't get any running in and probably not go to work either, haha.