Thursday 13

What's that? I can't do a Thursday 13 since I stopped long ago? The whole point is to do them every Thursday? Details, details...today's Thursday 13 will "celebrate" or "mitigate" the 13 days it's been since I've posted.

13. I'm an all or nothing kind of girl. I started out the end of January/February running every day. I think I was up to like 10 or 11 days straight. Work got crazy busy, yet again. There were then 7 days where I didn't run or walk at all. (I mean for distance, of course I walked to the car, to my desk, to the bathroom, etc...)

12. Now I'm back, at 6 days in a row of intentional movement. I should be happy. But I still feel guilty.

11. I started off the month eating great. Work got hectic. I've yet to be able to control my eating when I'm stressed. I went nuts. It's like I go into this "Fuck it autopilot mode."

10. The first day after 7 days of no movement, I hopped on the treadmill at the gym and ran 2 miles straight. I slightly impressed myself. I know it's just 2 miles, but the fact that I didn't use it as an excuse to "take it slow, walk a bit, then run..."

9. I'm not running on my treadmill at home right now. It's acting funny, herky-jerky. That makes me sad. I'm ok to walk on it, but anything above 4.0 and it feels dangerous. Time to call the repairman.

8. I ran 4 miles on Monday for my "long run." I was ecstatic. Honestly, I'm not sure when the last time was I ran that far. Sometime last year. I could let that get me down, but I choose to see it as a positive sign. I was happy to be running, even it it was dark and cold outside and I was inside at the gym, staring at a cement wall. 4 miles, is 4 miles, and my half marathon training has officially begun.

7. I'm bucking trends this time around. I know most people do long runs on weekends. Well sometimes that doesn't work for my schedule. For these "shorter" long runs, I aim to do them at the gym in the morning. Once they get above 1.5 hours, I will switch to Thursday evenings after work...Thursdays are the ONE day I don't have to pick up the girls from school. It's like a mini-holiday. I'm free to be me! I can go grocery shopping without girls begging me for this or that! I can go get my eyebrows done! I can be late to wherever or nowhere if I want. I can stay at work if I need to. Or I can go run on the lakefront for 8 or 10 or 12 miles. :)

6. My eating is raging out of control right now, and I'm not tracking. Now that I'm starting to ramp up my running, I'm hungry, hungry HUNGRY. This is no excuse. That's what activity points are for. :(

5. I'm not sure what I weigh right now. :(

4. Does it ever get easy? Why does it have to be easy? Why can't I just do it? If the battle were just KNOWING what to do, I'd be in like Flynn.

3. I was intrigued by Dateline on Sunday. Meredith Viera (sp?) interviewed Janet Jackson, and a long part of their conversation was about her long battle with her yo-yo weight. I was fascinated, also because I've always liked Michael Jackson...and while I've NEVER been a fan of celebrity autobiographies, I ordered the book online on Tuesday.

2. My friend and I were lamenting about Borders closing all over Chicago, and "Hey! I didn't get my Borders Rewards 40% off coupon today, wth?!?!" So we're chatting and I'm seeing that Borders online has the book for $15.99, approximately 40% of the list price. Always the bargain hunter, I said "let's see what's going on at Amazon...$13.99?!" One click later (and with my Prime membership) I'd ordered the book. The irony of my wondering what was going on with Borders as I ordered from Amazon hit me a few minutes later, lol.

1. My Amazon prime membership gives me free 2-day shipping. Rockin' Amazon got me my book yesterday, though. I started reading last night, and while it's not particularly well written, I can appreciate it anyway. So far it's a lot about her body image and the roots of her odd relationship with food. Who am I to complain about how something's written? If you're still reading this snoozefest of a blog post, I should be grateful, right?!

:)

Bonus 1. I need to get back on track with my eating. I'm drawing a line in the sand. Right here. Those two cookies I just ate? (yes, at 6am.) That's it. It stops here.