Thankgiving and the tree

My husband and I went to visit his family in Idaho for Thanksgiving. It was fun, cold, but fun. It's a Shirley family tradition to go up to the mountains for trees the day after Thanksgiving, so here's our tree. Oh, and you bet your arse I went shopping on Black Friday! I got a Kitchenaid and a bunch of clothes, it was so fun and the deals were AMAZING! Sure we left the house at 4:54 am, but it was so worth it. The finniest part is, we didn't buy a single thing for anyone but ourselves! No Christmas gifts were purchased, HA!

Christmas Challenge: Week 9 Weigh In

Nope, I'm not gonna do it. I was out of town on Friday, so I couldn't weigh, and I just know that I gained last week, so I'm not going to weigh today either! I can't do it! Although, I do have to go to the doctor this afternoon, so I will HAVE to be weighed there, although it won't really count cause I'll have all my clothes on!

So I'm back on track this week, kinda. Yesterday was my birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!! So my husband and I went to the Cheesecake Factory. So not only was Thursday a bad eating day, but Friday was bad, Saturday was not as bad, but not good and Sunday was bad too! Ah crap! And they are bringing in a pie for my birthday today at work, so today won't be as stellar, but it will be better than the last few days.

I have tons of pics to post of my weekend, but I forgot the cord for my camera, so I can't download them today. I'll try and get that tomorrow.

a few issues....

As I was at the gym last night, working my little buns off, a few issues came to my mind that I think need to be seriously discussed. If possible I would like a memo to go out to all the gym goers at the Bountiful Gold's Gym, so they will be able to correct their annoying behavior.

1. Is it really necessary for men, or women for that matter, to put on cologne, perfume OR scented lotion BEFORE a workout? I think not. I find it offensive and extremely annoying when I am running and the smell of patuolie (I can't spell that right), peppermint and just plane stank hit me in the face because mister slick decided to chose to use a treadmill TWO down from me. OK, if I can smell you from 2 treadmills away, there is a problem! Now don't get me wrong, I understand the smell of BO at the gym. I get it, I often times get a wiff of myself and hope those next to me can't smell the wretced smells coming from me, but when it's mixed with other VERY strong scents, I want to vomit. OR at least move away, which I have done in the past.

2. I understand that there is a limited amount of space to stretch at my gym, but when there isn't anyone but me there, there is NO need to sit right next to me and proceed to place your foot in my FACE while stretching. Literally this stupid chick had her foot 2 inches from my face. I was there first, there was plenty of room for her to sit an appropriate distance away from me. And WHY put your foot in my face?! Would you like me to put my foot somewhere uncomfortable for you?! Cause I would be happy too.

3. This also has to do with the aforementioned stupid chick and a few others I noticed last night... Why wear fashion tennis shoes to work out? Don't you know how you can hurt yourself without appropriate foot wear? Dummy!

4. Why come to the gym if you aren't going to actually work out? Why come and casually walk on the treadmill while wearing moccasins? Or sipping a smoothie? Huh?

I don't understand the people I saw last night and I hope I don't have to see them again.

Christmas Challenge: Week 8 Weigh In

OK, so for the official Christmas Challenge weigh in, I lost 1.2 pounds last week. For MY official weigh in, this morning, I lost 2.1 last week!!! HOLY CRAP! TWO POINT ONE POUNDS IN ONE WEEK! I haven't lost that much since I started this whole weight loss journey. I guess my secret plan to burn at least 100o cals every workout last week did me some good! Now if I had eaten as well as I worked out, maybe it would have been a little more, but I will take my 2.1 and LOVE it!!

The plan for this week... given that we have to go to Idaho (a.k.a. hell frozen over, it's freezing there!) Thursday through Saturday for Thanksgiving, I most likely won't be able to workout those days. So I'm trying to basically kill myself for the first 3 days this week. I'm shooting to burn around 1200 cals during my workouts for Monday through Wednesday. We'll see how it goes. Obviously, I'm also going to really focus on my eating, so as to not kill the hard work I do with the workouts.

What a difference a year makes

May of 2006 I finally changed my last name, and therefore got a new drivers license. I looked awful, and who knows why I chose to wear a tan colored sweater. And one last question, where did my neck go?



October of 2007, I had to change my address on my drivers license. Sure I didn't have to get an entirely new license, but I hated the above picture, so I wanted a new one. And... drum roll please..... The new and improved Tara, one year later and almost 40 pounds thinner (37.3 to be exact)!

Christmas Challenge: Week 7 Weigh In

So last week SUCKED! I had major drama at work, so what did I do, turned to food. I know it's bad, I know better, but I did it. And to top it all off, I only worked out 3 times last week, as opposed to the 5 times I normally do. So crap. I GAINED 1.4 pounds. UGH! It's ok, I'm not too worried about it. I'll get it off this week and hopefully a little bit more.

I just keep hoping that at some point this whole thing will click in my head and I won't have the strong desire to run to food for comfort. I hope that at some point my first instinct will not be to eat when things are bad. I think with time it will get easier, but who freaking knows!

Ah crap...

I've been tagged. I generally hate these things, but I feel the pull to be a part of the cool kids club, thanks to Randi AND Adora, so here, read about me.

The Rules:
1-Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog
2-Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird
3-Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs
4- Let them know they are TAGGED by leaving a comment on their blog

About me:
1. After posting how great I did with my eating this weekend, I went to Shopko and bought butter toffee peanuts just cause I wanted them. Why do I self sabotage?
2. I secretly have a desperate desire to be liked, even by people I hate. I appear strong and in control, but it really hurts my feelings when people don't like me.
3. I'm a horribly guilty person. I feel guilty if I don't make my husband dinner every night, I feel guilty if I buy something more than 5 bucks for myself, I feel guilty about a lot of stupid stuff.
4. I want Brittney Spear's new cd, and I HATE her.
5. I have a Myspace page, I'm almost 28, I shouldn't have a Myspace page. I only got it to keep track of my nieces and nephews, it's terribly embarrassing.
6. Like Randi, I'm quite educated and smart, but I speak like a valley girl sometimes and hide behind a stupid blond act.
7. I just threw away the peanuts.

OK, since the people's blogs that I regularly comment on have all been tagged, I'm only going to tag one person, and I know she probably won't do it, cause I wouldn't do it for her, but oh well.

Megan

That's all. I'm so interesting, huh?

Christmas Challenge: Week 6 Weigh In

Since the official days for the Christmas Challenge weigh in, are Fridays, I had to weigh in on Friday, and I had gained .9 with that weigh in, BUT MY official weigh ins, are now on Mondays. So as of today, I lost .5 pounds last week!

VICTORY!!!

As I mentioned earlier, I decided to change my weigh in days to Monday, in hopes that it would help me keep control of my eating over the weekend. This was the first weekend I tried this... and it worked!!! I stayed in perfect control all weekend. I ate my snacks at the appropriate times and I didn't binge or overeat once! I'm so proud of me! HA!

Christmas Challenge: Week 5 Weigh In

Oops! I forgot to post my loss from last week. Ready for this......... .1. BOOOO!!!!! I could poop and lose .1 pounds. Oh well. Hopefully this week's weigh in will be better, although there are A LOT of left over cookies in my office from a party yesterday and I can actually hear them calling my name! I hear it, I really do. "Tara, come eat me, what's the harm, you're working out almost every day and burning tons of calories..." AHHHHH!!!!! I have to say no! I already ate 3 taffy pieces this morning. Oh well.

So things are feeling kind of crappy for me right now. I'm tired. I want to sleep and eat and not worry about my weight anymore. I'm sick of it. I want to eat what I want to eat. But the only problem with that is, I also want to be healthy and thin. Hmmmm, I don't think you can do one without affecting the other. Dangit!

I decided I would change my weigh in days to Monday from now on. Now the logic behind this is, that if I have to weigh in on Monday, then I hopefully won't overeat during the weekend. In theory this sounds like a great plan, so hopefully it will work out. My weekend eating has been awful lately.