Met my personal trainer today

[shoerbee]

Hi OfftheGrid!
Congrats on your commitment and success, and for making the right choice about that man!
Reading your posts, i sort of feel that I am in a similar place in life, and finding soooooo much support from this forum!
If you ever want an email buddy so that we can keep each excited about all of this, I would sure love it! Actually, I could sure USE it!
Brigitte shoerbee@gmail.com

[Bikingmomof3]

Offthegrid,
You are doung an excellent job! Keep up the good work and know there will be bad days. The most difficult thing I had to overcome is forgiving myself if I induldged. I would either exercise like a mad woman the following days or wallow in junk food for a week. Now I allow myself to be human, without the guilt.

[eclectic]

Can I join the club ? ? ?

First of all I got rid of the extra male baggage about 9 years ago after hauling it around for 20 years. Congratulations for having the strength and courage to do it a lot sooner

When I was young I never had to battle excess pounds - now it is constant and I get REALLY tired of it! I can never lose weight swimming or biking which of course are my two favorite activities. I am trying to drop another 20 lbs because I thought it is cheaper to drop it off my body than to lighten up my bike But then I hear all those nummy things calling my name, then the stress hits (usually time crunches and tiredness) and all my resolve flies out the window.
Now that I live alone it is a lot easier - I control what comes into the house. DBF has INCREDIBLE will power so of course he has all the goodies at his house - but because they are his I am not tempted to eat them all

I have been doing so good since mid september and have dropped 10 lbs but the last few days I have been a poop and just SICK of it. Pizza, cake, candy bring it on.
I hope once I get my training routine established I can get an eating routine going again - it seems like I have time for one or the other, work out - no time to cook healthy, buy groceries and cook healthy no time to workout.

Once again WORKING to pay bills gets in the way of EVERYTHING

Waa waa waa - there I'm done

[rocknrollgirl]

Hi Guys....

Off the Grid....you can't quit now....you have a sprint tri this spring to do right???

I know it is hard, and when you get tired and stressed the bad food seems to do the trick, but if you start to think of yourself as an athlete in training, and not a woman on a diet, it may change your outlook.

You will bike faster, and swim faster, and the run will come. It may feel like a house of cards, but you have already built a solid foundation under the house. It may sway, but IT WILL NOT FALL......

You can so do this.....

Devilman Triathlon right?????

Ruth...
training by your side in NJ......

[eclectic]

Hi Guys....

Off the Grid....you can't quit now....you have a sprint tri this spring to do right???

I know it is hard, and when you get tired and stressed the bad food seems to do the trick, but if you start to think of yourself as an athlete in training, and not a woman on a diet, it may change your outlook.

Ruth...
training by your side in NJ......

Thanks rockinrollgirl - very good point

I am trying to reframe my thinking - Part of the problem is I don't consider myself an athlete or athletic - I think I need to start reframing that thinking too.

I don't know what it will take to do it, I logged 2049 miles on my bike this year, completed a century, swam competitively and won my age group and I still don't think I am at all athletic - just active. DUH ! ! !

[rocknrollgirl]

My whole outlook changed as soon as I started to think of myself as an athlete. I do not have a weight issue, but I am 44...oops no 45 as of Sunday, and recovery is a huge issue. I need to make sure that I train right and eat right and recover right.

I do all of those things better as an athlete than as just a woman working out.

It actually stopped me in my tracks the first time I was shopping in a store and I said to the sales person....I am a competitive athlete....

HEY WORLD!!!! I AM A COMPETITIVE ATLETE!!!!

So start treating yourselves better. You are driving a beautiful expensive human machine that only runs on good fuel.

Offthegrid, when you check back in, I have been thinking about you all day. I made a list of sprint tri's in the south jersey area this spring....I will send it to you and we can pick one.

Ruth

[KSH]

Thanks rockinrollgirl - very good point

I am trying to reframe my thinking - Part of the problem is I don't consider myself an athlete or athletic - I think I need to start reframing that thinking too.

Right there with you!

Sure, I think I'm athletic.. in the sense that I workout a lot, but I don't see myself as a true athlete.

I guess to me, to be an athlete, you have to WIN. I have never won at anything I have done. I'm not absolutely horrible, but I am just not good enough to win.

When someone says I am an athlete, I don't agree... that is for sure!

[Offthegrid]

Thanks for all the support guys! It really does mean a lot to me that people are listening and actually care.

I'm not even remotely thinking about quitting now, it's just that I fear that I will quit eventually because I always have in the past. Make sense? It's like a smoker who's quit for a month but fears failure.

Rocknroll girl, I'm still planning to do Devilman in May; Thundergeist in June; (July is open except going to Ironman Lake Placid on the 21 and 22); a tri in Oregon with a friend in August; and Danskin and City to Shore in September.

Have you done Devilman or Thundergeist? Are they friendly for newbies?

I also pretty much am trying to complete a 5K every month so that I have to keep active. I'm just so afraid of falling off the bandwagon, and if my schedule is full, then I'll always have something to train for.