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The Real Question
[ 19 ] 01/20/2011

The Real Question

Last Saturday, I was out for a 4.5 mile run. It was my first cold weather run and my longest run in a long time. I was nervous. I told Dave (my hubby) before I left that I felt physically ill because I just didn’t know what to expect. I put on my (new) cold [...]

[ 14 ] 02/08/2010

Motivation Monday: Reaching Failure

By show of hands (and I want them raised high because I can see you.  Yes I can.), how many of you are afraid to fail?  How many of you that are afraid to fail, then avoid things BECAUSE you are afraid you’ll fail?  Or give yourself a hard time for failing? It really hurts [...]

[ 32 ] 01/08/2010

Fitness Friday

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.  ~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970 “You think too much.” That’s what I heard from my husband last night while I was talking to him about my fitness woes.  I was telling him that I have all these lofty fitness goals but I condemn myself [...]

[ 6 ] 02/24/2009

For the record

I am not looking forward to tomorrow’s weigh-in. I just don’t have a good feeling and I HATE that. Lisa visited me over the past 5 days and we planned out menus and stuck with them. I felt like I did a really, really good job and only consumed a couple of adult beverages. I [...]