Wednesday, March 14, 2012
I Have My 5K Race Date!!!!!
Ok so for many of you that read my blog you already know that one of my big goals is to run a 5k by the time i am 6 months post op. well i am very excited to tell you that i have found the 5k that i will be running. I took me a while to find it but i finally found a website that has all of the seattle marathons for 2012. the date of the 5k is November 24th, 2012 at 8:30 am!!! it will be cold i think but i am very excited! if you are interested in joining me or just cheering me on the website is www.seattlemarathon.org/5k. i would love to have your support!!!!! Also i want to let many of you know that this will not be my last. Some of you already know that my grandmother Ida Arlene Mortimer passed away in November of 2011. Because she passed away of cancer i want to run in a charity run for her. I am planning on making a Tshirt with her picture on it. I loved her very much and miss her very much and i know that she will be so proud of me for taking control of my health and my life. i know that was something that she worried about. but she wont have to anymore. I will continue to keep you all updated as i continue on my way through this journey. Love You All!!!!!!
Friday, March 2, 2012
Month 2
ok so I am a week late but things have been kind of crazy lately. I have concluded the first month. I had a couple of things happen in the past week. I went to my nutritionist on friday the 24th and it went really well!!!! i sat down with her and she looked over my food logs that i have been keeping over the past month and she says i am doing great and that i have been meeting all of the goals that i have set so far!! She weighed me at the end and according to their scale I have lost 10 lbs since last month so i was at 259!!! So thats is a total of about 20 lbs less then my heaviest. I set my next appointment for the end of march and cant wait to get the 2nd month down and on to the final month.
One of the things that i am required to do prior to my surgery is make sure that i have a proper, reliable form of birth control. because it is very important to make sure that I dont get pregnant until my weight plateaus at my goal weight that can take anywhere from 9 months to 2 years. YOu can imagine how hard this has been for brian and i considering we have tried to have kids for the past three years. It was very hard but I like to think that my children that are waiting for us in heaven understand that i want to give them the most healthy place i can for them to grow when they come to us. So i decided to go with a non hormonal IUD.... i am very happy with my decision to go non hormonal, however.... I did not expect to experience so much pain!!!! The first week has been the hardest and i am pretty swollen which has made me gain a few pounds(which i am not happy about). I have been in a lot of pain lately but i am just going day to day pushing forward. Because i have been in so much pain it has been hard for me to go to the gym because it makes the cramping much worse. Once my body gets used to it will be much better.
I am going to take some pictures and post them onto my blog very soon i want to make sure i get some for sure before my surgery.
So i want to talk a little bit more about some of my goals for after. I have been looking and reading many other peoples blogs and watching other peoples wls journeys and i have noticed that many people make goals for themselves and work towards it both before and after surgery. SO here are some of my goals.
- I want to run a 5k marathon by the time i am 6 months post op.
- I want to be back at my college weight (200) by the time i do my 5k
I have never been much of a runner but that was because I had a lot of weight to be running around with. I have always wanted to be a runner so with this opportunity for the first time ever it is within my grasp. I am very excited to start getting ready for it though!!!
Some problems i have been running into is still learning to sip instead of gulp.... i love my water and so it still has been hard for me. And of course the working out is not going as well as i wanted it to be for the past week.
So i hope you all enjoy my updates and if you have any questions or comments for me go ahead and leave me one!!!! By
One of the things that i am required to do prior to my surgery is make sure that i have a proper, reliable form of birth control. because it is very important to make sure that I dont get pregnant until my weight plateaus at my goal weight that can take anywhere from 9 months to 2 years. YOu can imagine how hard this has been for brian and i considering we have tried to have kids for the past three years. It was very hard but I like to think that my children that are waiting for us in heaven understand that i want to give them the most healthy place i can for them to grow when they come to us. So i decided to go with a non hormonal IUD.... i am very happy with my decision to go non hormonal, however.... I did not expect to experience so much pain!!!! The first week has been the hardest and i am pretty swollen which has made me gain a few pounds(which i am not happy about). I have been in a lot of pain lately but i am just going day to day pushing forward. Because i have been in so much pain it has been hard for me to go to the gym because it makes the cramping much worse. Once my body gets used to it will be much better.
I am going to take some pictures and post them onto my blog very soon i want to make sure i get some for sure before my surgery.
So i want to talk a little bit more about some of my goals for after. I have been looking and reading many other peoples blogs and watching other peoples wls journeys and i have noticed that many people make goals for themselves and work towards it both before and after surgery. SO here are some of my goals.
- I want to run a 5k marathon by the time i am 6 months post op.
- I want to be back at my college weight (200) by the time i do my 5k
I have never been much of a runner but that was because I had a lot of weight to be running around with. I have always wanted to be a runner so with this opportunity for the first time ever it is within my grasp. I am very excited to start getting ready for it though!!!
Some problems i have been running into is still learning to sip instead of gulp.... i love my water and so it still has been hard for me. And of course the working out is not going as well as i wanted it to be for the past week.
So i hope you all enjoy my updates and if you have any questions or comments for me go ahead and leave me one!!!! By
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