I have a favorite blog I follow called Brittany Herself. I started reading it because the girl is hella funny and I connect to her as a mother, a wife and curvy girl. Like me, Brittany has gone through some weightloss transformations. She went from a 24 (I think) to a 14-16-18 depending on the … [Read more…]
I did not gain while on vacation. Get this: I LOST A POUND! It must have been the excessive walking on sand and walking great expanses of beaches and walking half a mile to pee or wash my hands and shivering all night long and climbing hills and digging holes and running up every trail … [Read more…]
So… We went to Oregon! Camping. Ocean mischeif. All that. If you want to see the complete awesomeness, you should check out my Instagram. I’m #tamarashazam. But I’m not here to talk about our vacation madness. I’m here to talk about something that happened on vacation. I went running! Squeeee! (This collage is my sweaty … [Read more…]
Running heart rate Today I went on my big ole lazy run. We just ran a nice and easy 2.5. I took it slow, as usual, and paid extra special attention to my body, the overheating and all that.* At one point I realized that, while I was sweating up a storm, I wasn’t breathing … [Read more…]
You know how I get all worried about Bradley running slow to stay back with me? You know how I spend all of this time worrying about holding him back? Not that HE ever complains. quite the opposite- he keeps telling me how much he loves to run with me, so he is not the … [Read more…]
We’re heading out to go camping fairly soon and as I announced this to my kids I also asked if we should make anything special for the trip. My son asked to make cookies… With M+M’s! I pondered this a bit. My purpose in asking if there were any treats or special things on the … [Read more…]
Today, this has nothing to do at all with being a weightloss warrior or runner or anything. Today’s post is a result of last night’s activity that resulted in a subsequent day of couching, writing and iPad surfing and will also result in me crashing to sleep by 8:00 tonight because I was up until … [Read more…]
By Jove! I’ve got it! I figured out my burn speed and it is very very ridiculously slow. Those are some sloooow miles! Ha ha! But I’m totally cool with it. It feels good to run slower, I enjoy it more, I can talk more, I don’t feel like I’m dying quite as much… I … [Read more…]
I have been really been struggling lately. I know I’ve talked a little bit about recommitting to things, being better about diet, being more consistent with exercise, but I haven’t talked about what has had me in the tailspin. First, you should know that within two weeks of hitting 229.8 (for about 37 seconds) I … [Read more…]
The heat. We’ve hit on that, I’m know, but I thought dealing with the heat was really just a mind over matter kind of thing. An excuse to NOT work out for me. Turns out, not so much. The past few days have left me gasping with that tightness in my chest, and the tightness … [Read more…]