Running = Still evil

Dear city of Houston,

Harlie would like to request a doggie water fountain to be installed at cleveland park. Kthanx

In other news running still sucks but we did 30 solid minutes of 3:2 running! Go me + Lillie + Harlie

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Bars...

And not the ones I'm usually associated with. I'm taking healthy non-soy bars. So I took a trip to whole foods to buy a few and test them out. This is my project of the week

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#delicious

just sayin

Or maybe because I've never tried to find healthy chips and I'm usually not a big chip person

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A Conversation

Wow. 248 page views...I need to start posting more. 

Tonights-super-way-past-my-bedtime posting (hey I wake up really early to work out and pick out multiple changes to clothing to work out) is brought on by a conversation I had with a friend.  I am one to double check things I believe to be true, or things I make fun of (please ask my friend Katie about the great microwave & wireless interference debate of 2010)  so I did a quick google search

because. yes, some of it is a personal confidence issue, but thats also a circular argument in my opinion because, skinny people are confident because society tells them they're hot, awesome and should be confident.  society tells fat people its your fault, stay in the back in the corner, and we're judging you.  but that, once again, is my view of things.  so the first site that came up after my google search was a blog by the name of Lindsyhitchens 

Much props to her, I'm gonna start following her posts. And if you have a chance, go read the comments on her page, much props to those people too.  But this one, I will post in its entirety below.  Its great to read someone else that has the same feelings I'm always thinking. Ok going to sleep now.  The morning is gonna suck. 

The Top Five Things Fat People Hate (and by Fat People, I mean me.)

Posted on 04/25/2011 by Lindsyhitchens

It's just after lunchtime, and I find myself avoiding writing an English Comp paper that is due TOMMOROW.  For some reason, I got to thinking about the things that I HATE as a big girl.

1. Skinny people who complain about their weight.  Are you frigging serious?  You look like you could fall through a crack in the sidewalk at any moment, or that you'd blow away if a kid on a tricycle passed you by.  It makes me irrate to hear my skinny friends b*tch about how flabby they are, or how much cellulite they have.  Please.  Until your muffintop/saddlebags need thier own pant leg in your jeans, do not moan to me about how awful you look.  I'd give my left arm to be as thin as you, to eat those french fries and not feel like tossing myself off a bridge, but then I would just be a fat girl with one arm.  

2.  Restuarants.  For me, as a fat girl, walking into a restuarant is probably comparable to a meth-head walking down the bleach aisle at Walmart.  The possibilities are Endless!  Then you sit in the booth and right away you realise that this is just not a good place to be.  Whoever made the booth CLEARLY did not see me trying to squeeze myself into it.  If you are lucky enough to not be seated in a booth, you still aren't out of the woods.  Next comes the waiter, who is usually an obnoxiously skinny/perky person - who most likely does NOT ever eat a meal at this fine establishment.  After ordering a water, turning down all the mixed drinks and the specials, you flip to the "Light and Healthy" area of the menu - only to be slapped in the face by the cold reality that your endless possibilites has just turned into a salad, or a soggy piece of fish.  Appetizing.  All of this is compounded by the fact that you normally go to a restuarant with the above mentioned skinny friends, who order and devour the 8968 calorie platter, and then proceed to moan about how fat they are.  Excuse me while I slam my forehead into my desk.

3.  Clothes Shopping.  Why is it that I think, somewhere out there, hidden on a department store rack, is a magical piece of cotton (preferrably a cotton/spandex blend...) that is going to transform me into a Disney Princess when I manage to wrestle it over my head?  Stop laughing.  This is serious!  Everytime I go out clothes shopping it ends in tears.  Either my tears, or the tears of the exhausted employee who just found my pile of "this might fit me in a few months" clothes that I was too dejected to put back on the rack.  And, I swear to God - these department stores use fun house mirrors.  Something will look relatively good on me when I try it on in the store, but, when I get it home and look in the bathroom mirror, its like somehow the garment shrunk four sizes in my trunk!  Usually I'll stand in the mirror for a few moments resembling a horrified Polish sausage, and then the item will go back on the hanger, to be shoved to the back of my closet where all of my "this might fit me in a few months" clothes have been hiding for the better part of three years.  

4.  The Gym.  No, I don't hate the gym because I don't want to work out.  On the contrary, I love to work out.  What I hate about the gym (other then the outrageous amount of money you pay) is the dirty looks I get as a big girl.  I can hear the dirty looks as clear as if the people giving them were broadcasting it in a mega phone.  I'm at the gym because I want to lose the weight you douchebags!  The comments about how big girls shouldn't take cycling classes since you have to look at the big asses, and about how big girls shouldn't take the hip-hop dance classes since "who are they going to dance with anyways" are compleletly unnessacary.  Heaven forbid I get all hot, sweaty, and red-faced while working out.  That just proves that I don't belong there, right?  In Lindsy's World, skinny people would have to stay at home to work out, so that those of us who NEED to gym could work out and not feel judged!  Of course, former fatties would be welcomed- since they've been there, done that!

5.  Fad Diets and other weight loss gimmicks.  These snake oil peddlers are pretty much heartless.  They know that I am desperate to wake up tommorow morning looking like Jillian Micheals, without having to do any of the work and sacrifice to get there.  They also know that we are willing to shell out millions of dollars every year to find that "miracle pill".  Are you tired of being fat?  Yeah.  Do you want to lose 20, 50, 100 pounds or more?  Yeah.  Then suck it up, and put your big girl panties on.  The only way is the hard way.  Go right ahead and do one of these fad diets, or starve yourself only your 354 calorie a day plan that you paid $800 dollars for.  And the second you come off that diet, you will put every single ounce, and then some right back on.  No, you cannot eat Deep Dish Pizza six times a day and lose weight.  Well, myabe you could if you invested in the tapeworm diet... "No sacrifice, No Victory!"  Forgive me, my son has been watching Transformers every day in the car...  Opps, my nerd is showing.  

Vote this up if you agree, and feel free to add your own top thing that you Hate as a fellow MFPer/weight loss supporter.   There is nothing on the Earth worth having that you do not have to put effort into getting. 

-Lindsy

 

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Weigh in Friday

I'm pretty pleased, but looking forward to next week to see if my new diet plan is really working.

Haven't been on three underside of 235 in a while, probably since 09 when I tried this before.

Ok gotta get to work. I love rain during rush hour...except not really.

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Things I learned this morning

One. I still hate waking up to work out. It does not get better.

Two. I feel a million times better when I work out in the morning,

Three. Bosu balls are evil. So so evil. And on a related note,I have no balance.

That is all.

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Brit Does Computer Repair!

I now have 4 GB of ram in my laptop, thanks to me, youtube and microcenter! Super excited to run 50 million window without it freezing(hopefully), and extend my laptops useability (sp?) for a while since I really dont want to spend $700 bucks right now.  $60 solution is #winning

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2.4 miles

Morning run complete and all was good except no one told me it was like 75 degrees outside and mosquito-y.

Ah Houston winters...

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The Month In Review

So thats my wall calendar.  And all the X's represent the days I didnt work out.  So 12 days out of 31...and clearly every single Saturday. I flaked out on working out.  It sucks the most because it's harder to start back in the routine once youre off the wagon and it looks like I do that every Saturday.

So new rules.  I'm going to try to half my non working out days...So only 6 for Feb. That's my new goal. 

Day 2 of breaking in new running shoes, coming up tomorrow.

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The Week In Review....Ye Olde BDL style

I dont think I've updated in a week.  But work, plus working out, plus sleep, plus more work and working out have made me super sleepy and not in a posting mood.  So, the week in pictures is below....

Ok maybe my week starts with wednesday, but I did stuff monday and tuesday too...just dont remember what.

 Running at memorial. First time ever around that evil loop ( but probably not my last time sadly).  With Monica and Andrea.  Found out that my running is fueled by my hate of running, which in turn makes me run more.  Dang circular argument.

 

Should probably figure out the how to tilt that sucker...ah well.  Weight in Saturday!(Since I forgot on Friday).  Not where I want to be, but still downward. 

And Sunday morning...the Texas Independence Ride! First real bike ride since Hawaii! Sad I didnt get I pic of myself in all my spiffy bike gear, but ah well....theres time for another ride.

 First rest stop

 Biking while taking a picture...haha! Biking up to the monument

 Closer shot with Lillie of course checking emails while I'm taking pics..

And the rest of my day! Buying new spiffy running shoes, and part of my biking crap that needs to be washed now.

Ok back to washing clothes, watching movies, and perhaps icing my knee...ouch.

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