13.1

i haven't posted anything in months and people keep asking me about it so i finally decided to update. it's just been hard updating with my kids napping at different times and lately when the first nap happens i end up going on my run. well i am officially running a half marathon at the end of January. we moved a couple of months ago and i started training for my half. i have lost nine pounds since we moved, i'm thinking it's from all of the running i've been doing. i finally last week started to journal all that i eat, i think that's been good for losing weight. i've heard that it doubles the amount of weight you lose as apposed to people that don't log there food intake. i ran a 5k on Thanksgiving morning that was crazy there were 10,000 people that ran that. i'm running 7 miles on saturday morning, and i'm going to run three half marathons in 2010, two of them are already paid for so i have just one more to register for. i'll write more coming up cause the hubby has two weeks off for Christmas break.
diana

the ups and downs of life

so last week didn't go so well. i didn't really run except for almost 20 minutes at the gym on the treadmill. YUCK!!!! all of last week i was feeling discouraged and not supported so i just didn't have the will to even make myself run. it was lame but hopefully i'm past some of that stuff. i know i'm not it's life ups and downs. i just got done reading about tempo runs and i'm excited about that and i'm also really excited about getting new shoes and a heart rate watch. i have no clue when this will happen though. i'm probably going to wait until October. not because i wan to but because that's when we should have money to buy some shoes for me. the watch is just as important but more expensive than buying even two pairs of shoes. "only time will tell"

consistency is not my friend but needs to be

and it might not even be consistency for all i know it's discipline, but lets face it saying that you aren't disciplined is a hard comment to make about oneself.  i believe that i am on my fifteenth or seventeenth week of training and have lost as of last time i weighed myself 15lbs.  i'm very excited about that but i want to lose 25 more by the end of the year.  definitely possible and i'm going to do it.  i as of this week of training have picked up a third day of running, tuesday, thursday, and now saturday are my running days.  i have been trying to get to do my runs with my friends that helps me do a better job, and is encouraging.  i am a slow runner/jogger so  anyone that does run with me usually keeps my pace or is just ahead of me about a car length or two.  did i mention i have awesome running friends?  and i'm going to get some blogging expertise help so my blog is more appealing.  

two weeks in a row!!!

so i have accomplished running two weeks in a row for twenty minutes without stopping.   i definitely made a foolish decision in the time i chose to run on Thursday.  i decided to run in Escondido at 2:50 in the afternoon, yuck....  i felt like puking and thought i was going to pass out the whole time.  i ran for twenty minutes off and on not continuously or anything like that, i was out for forty minutes and i only ran for twenty minutes.  but i went for another run this morning with a friend and we ran for over twenty minutes it was awesome.  i only stopped once to give my boy his apple to eat.  well more to come, i'm going to San Francisco next week for a much awaited wedding.  very excited.

diana

no excuses, confessions of a pastors wife

so i have been praying about how to talk about and share with people what has been going on my personal life, and my families too.  so i've decided to change my blogs name (if i can figure out how to do that).  so i hopefully will start blogging more about more stuff.  one thing i want to share today is that this is the ninth week i've been working out with my trainer, and the second week in a row that i am running one day in.  and just for fun i weighed myself the other night and total i have lost ten pounds in the past nine weeks, that's a pound a week, i am so excited about that.  and another big blessing is that my sister in law has been helping (basically doing it all) count calories for me.  so for the past two weeks i have been trying to stick to 1800 calories a day and having small snacks in between my meals, which has been making me eat smaller meals.  i think that has been the point the whole time i've been training.  one more thing i will share is that i have been reading a book by Elizabeth George called A Woman After God's Own Heart.  this book has been very helpful for me so far.  i will get into specifics in another blog.  my husband gets off early today so i have a twenty five minute run waiting for me still.

diana

"i did it..."

... is what my son says every time he does anything, from throwing something in the trash for me to eating all of his food, but now it's my turn to use his phrase.  "i did it" last week was my seventh week of my training and on Tuesday i did fifteen wind sprints with a couple of breaks between them, and then proceeded to run for twenty minutes on Thursday with the kids and the double stroller with out stopping.  that is a huge accomplishment.  i don't think i could have done that even two weeks prior.  so this week starting today i will be doing seventeen wind sprints and on Thursday running again for 25-30 minutes.  not sure how long yet but will find out today.   i also made plans to run on Saturday morning with my friend Katie for 20 minutes or so, she's in better shape than me so it will be a good experience, and challenging.  i also am on a 1800 calorie a day food plan, saying food plan sounds less restricting than "diet", and the truth is that it's all about planning what you're going to eat and making your calories really count for you.

diana

"I'm going for a walk and there's nothing you can do"

five weeks five long weeks

okay, so this is the start of my fifth week with my double stroller and my personal trainer, aka my brother Jesse,.  so we are in what my brother calls cycles, three week cycles to be exact,.  i am at the start of my second week in my second cycle.  in my first cycle i lost four pounds, i won't weigh myself until the end of this second cycle so not till june twelfth will there be any more stats.  today is a shopping day and tomorrow is my hard walking day.  i have two forty minute walks to finish tomorrow and my morning one is going to be a super duper fast power walk.  over the weekend i went to the Rock N' Roll Marathon to watch my sister in law run it and i definitely came away inspired to run it next year.  i don't really have a goal except to be running full time by Halloween or the beginning of October, but man after seeing all those old grandparents kicking ass at the marathon i felt very inspired.  you should have seen the huge grins me and my husband had on our faces after we saw a mom with a jogging stroller run past us, it was awesome.  

diana

Suffering To Worship

i just got done listening to an online sermon by Mark Driscoll about suffering.  he was reading through Peter not sure if it was first Peter or second Peter anyway it was awesome.  Mark Driscoll is very fun to listen to, well he is for me,.   so today i am supposed to be receiving via Fed Ex my new double stroller.  i am so excited i can't wait to get it and use it too.  hopefully it doesn't rain today that would suck for strolling purposes.  hopefully it will be nice weather.  right now my morning is about to begin, my son will probably wake up soon,  and i'm going to try to potty train him some today, we'll see how much we can handle.   wish i was listening to the mikey show now.

the new plan

so i have inherited a personal trainer.  i'm very excited, it's actually my older brother.  he has been riding bikes with teams for years now and he definitely doesn't have a weight problem.  last night i purchased a double jogger stroller with a front swivel wheel, that's one of the most exciting purchases that i have made probably since my last tattoo.  so the plan is that i go for two twenty minute walks Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and on Tuesday and Thursday i walk to Trader Joe's or Henrys to buy my groceries.  i'm very excited i hope you can feel the excitment in this entry.  so for the next three weeks this will be my workouts.  the most exciting thing about this program to me is that it's not going to interfere with my life, it's going to be a part of it.  i'm not going to have to make time or spend time away from my family to get in shape i can do it with my kids in tow, especially with our new stroller coming in the mail hopefully by Saturday.  so excited for our new yellow family member.   

two babies and one nap

so i just got done prepping my dinner so it will be ready to go in the next few hours, and i just realized that my kids are taking a nap together.  my two month old daughter and just as of yesterday two year old son.  my son has been down for an hour and my daughter just fell asleep about ten minutes ago.  actually for the past week or so they have been on the same nap schedule.  the only thing i have to say about that is God is good.  i definitely feel blessed to have some time to do housework, prep dinner, pray, read some of the millions of books i'm in the middle of, or just catch up on the Biggest Loser, or take a shower.  the simple things in life really do give me the most joy.

Ask and you shall receive

so my daughter in the past five nights has decided that she's going to start going to bed at 8pm.   this is great because my son goes to bed around 7:45-8pm usually on the dot.  so Thursday night i took full advantage of it and went to the gym, i stayed for just over an hour.  it was great, my sister in law had just got me a book from the library that day so my cardio couldn't have gone faster, and thanks to the guys in the weight room i went through my weight training pretty quick too.  so last night my daughter went to bed around 8:20pm and we're getting ready to spend a week or so at my moms house so i didn't go to the gym last night.  but i definitely prayed that my daughter wouldn't wake up until 5am, which is possible i suppose in some world, but since the 8pm bed time she usually has been getting up before 2am for a feeding, but last night, or this morning she didn't wake up until 4:45am, and now i'm up drinking hot tea and starting the day and  packing process for the family.  i never thought that such simple things would make me feel refreshed so much.  

full bars in the bathroom

well i am in the middle of cleaning my bathroom, and just for kicks i was curious to see if i got internet reception in the bathroom, and i do, full bars ahead.   if anyone knows the background of our internet access i think you know how funny this is.  well basically we don't have the internet but a neighbor of ours does and we get reception usually in the living room and our bedroom sometimes.   so my lovely husband has the week off for spring break and i am trying to go to the gym while he's here with the kids, i went yesterday at 5am and plan to go tomorrow morning early too.  i'm going after Koa goes back to sleep after her night feeding and i didn't go this morning cause she got up at 3:45am, way too early with how tired i was feeling after my 4am adventure yesterday.  one more update i'm having a friend make me a meal plan for 1800 calories a day and i'm going to try it for a week and see how that works.  i'm excited and nervous to fail possibly.  i think i'll have the meal plan by next week hopefully.

diana

the baby girl has arrived, five weeks ago

so we have a new kid, a daughter, she's very sweet has a lot of brown hair and loves her daddy.  everything went well for the delivery, i would like to post my birth experience, but i think it's too late for all of that jazz.  so this past Monday i went to the gym for the first time since little Koa has been in our family and i was there for just about an hour.  i left her home with dad and a bottle of moms milk and i guess she didn't do too well without me and with the bottle.  but she was only up for twenty minutes without me so that's not too bad.  i really want to go to the gym tonight but we'll see if the hubby is up for me leaving Koa again.  i hope i can go i really need to, i have the opportunity to walk when  my son naps and taking baby with me, i've gone a few times, but not enough hopefully i can change that.  my hope is that the days i don't go to the gym i would go on this great one hour walk with the baby, that hasn't happened yet, maybe tomorrow.

diana

four weeks and counting

so i only have four more weeks until i deliver my second child, and i can't wait for it to happen.  or maybe i should say i can't wait for it to be over.  i've already been thinking about what i'm going to do for exercise, and how i'm going to accomplish either working out at the gym or just going for a walk through out the week (with two kids).  i don't know how it's all going to work out i just hope it does.  we don't know if we're having a girl or a boy so i'm very excited to see the new face of the family.  

diana