5k tomorrow!\u00a0 I’m excited and a little nervous to see if I can get my 26 flat time or better, but I think I’m more excited as it’s Zliten’s first race!\u00a0 Woohoo!\u00a0 Never did I think I was going to get him to run with me but now he seems to quite like it.\u00a0 Endorphins FTW!\u00a0 I feel good and prepared – yesterday I went for a nice, easy run to keep my legs loose and I kept wanting to go fast.\u00a0 That means the legs are rested.\u00a0 Check.\u00a0 This morning, I did a nice long yoga, and the plan tonight is relaxing, and more relaxing.\u00a0 Checkity check.\u00a0 Good race prep.<\/p>\n
After the race, we are going to see my parents for a belated birthday lunch of BBQ.\u00a0 Alliterations FTW!\u00a0 Then, some shopping to procure makeup\/hair\/other stuff… it’s gonna be a busy and long day.\u00a0 I may demand a nap!<\/p>\n
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Day 1 of project: unfluffy bride:<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, my plan was to hit the top of my range today and that I did (going over by 10 calories).\u00a0 My lunch was bigger than I would have liked, but I had a pretty light dinner to compensate and only ate my 2 pieces of fruit for snax rather than digging into the nuts or seeds or whatnot.<\/p>\n I’m seeing 2 problem areas.\u00a0 One I rocked last night, one I didn’t.\u00a0 My first “shoving things in my cakehole when I shouldn’t” time was right after I got home from work.\u00a0 To put things in perspective – I had a 200 calorie breakfast, about a 650 calorie lunch, and about 100 calories in snacks, so I wasn’t starving in the least.\u00a0 I then realized it had become a habit to eat out of the pantry when I got home.\u00a0 I had the same issue after the run and before dinner.\u00a0 The conversation with myself went something like:<\/p>\n Munchy self: “Mmm, I’m a bit peckish.\u00a0 Let’s have a snack.\u00a0 These baked cheese doodles look rather tasty.”<\/p>\n Self that wants to be unfluffy: “No!\u00a0 Dinner is coming soon.\u00a0 You just had fruit.\u00a0 You are not going to faint dead if you don’t stuff your face.”<\/p>\n MS:\u00a0 “But how about some veggies and hummus *cough*andpitachips*cough*.\u00a0 That’s heatlhy, right?”<\/p>\n STWTBU: “NOT ON THE CALORIE PLAN!\u00a0 STOP IT!”<\/p>\n MS: “Ok, then fine.\u00a0 How about we go for the stir fry veggies leftover.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s veggies.\u00a0 You can’t say no to veggies, right?”<\/p>\n STWTBU: “NO!\u00a0 It’s the principal of things.\u00a0 Today it’s veggies, tomorrow I’m back to the cheese doodles dipped in cheese spread (yes, I did it, and I won’t apologize, it was FUCKING YUMMY).”<\/p>\n MS: “We can eats it with our fingerses!\u00a0 If you don’t use plates and utensils it has no calories…”<\/p>\n STWTBU: (almost believes it and has the tupperware open and then slams it shut) “Wait, NO!\u00a0 That isn’t right.\u00a0 I’m leaving the kitchen now…”<\/p>\n MS: *grumblegrumble* “Fine, we’ll discuss this later.”<\/p>\n I won the first round but lost the second.\u00a0 We had a good friend over, and we happened to have his birthday cheesecake sitting in our fridge from another friend.\u00a0 After a lovely, light, and healthy dinner, I cut them big slices and me a little slice.\u00a0 Then it just looked too sad and little so I added another sliver (but it was still about half their size).\u00a0 My Zliten went ahead and left half his cheesecake and when I took it in, MS won as I mowed down the rest of it.\u00a0 Le sigh.<\/p>\n Regardless, I’m back on it and ready to fight another battle today.\u00a0 The stats from yesterday:<\/p>\n 1560 calories.\u00a0 Only “notsogood” things eaten were a few tortilla chips at lunch and the cheesecake incident.\u00a0 Everything else was totally on plan.<\/p>\n Did a slightly less than 3 mile run and full body weights.\u00a0 My guesstimate is about 600 calories burnt.<\/p>\n Weighing in at 156.4 this morning.\u00a0 Not great, but closer to being under my freak out weight than yesterday.<\/p>\n Hair and Makeup Adventures:<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, I took the night off.\u00a0 My face was feeling kinda dry and my hair kinda dirty and frizzy, and figure it wasn’t worth it.\u00a0 I was going to try to do a look with more browns\/coppers, but I actually don’t have a lipstick that goes with those tones, and while eyeshadow under chapstick works in a pinch, it wasn’t worth it.\u00a0 I’m going to try again after I get my list o new stuff to play with.\u00a0 I’m pretty confident with my makeup after this week, and I have two weeks to figure out the hair stuff and I’ve had LOTS of great advice!\u00a0 Thanks so much!<\/p>\n I’m going out tomorrow with the intent of picking up the Got2B Smooth Operator Smoothing Luster Lotion, some bare minerals foundation\/powder\/concealer, and maybe some other fun and exciting stuff like mousse\/gel\/etc for volume.\u00a0 Anyone have any opinions on diffusers vs just using a low setting on my dryer and cupping the hair in my hands?\u00a0 I hate to spend the money on it because I rarely do my hair curly, but if it’s the one and only thing that’s going to make this work, I’ll spring for it.<\/p>\n Have a great weekend!\u00a0 Wish me luck at the race and then with figuring out the ‘do.\u00a0 Honestly, more nervous about the ‘do as there will be other races, but only ONE WEDDING.\u00a0 Geez, I sound like such a girly girl there.\u00a0 Ah, well.\u00a0 I’ll be back Monday with results on both.\u00a0 If you’d like to know more immediately, follow me on twitter<\/a> or friend me on facebook (name is Leah Ruben, and I’m the one with the vintage gymnastics profile pic).<\/p>\n And I just have to end it on this…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/static.funnyjunk.com\/pictures\/funny_pictures_3963_1_.jpg\")
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