Practice what you preach!

I just left that post about all the good stuff I've been doing, but honestly, I haven't been following any rules, doing any weekly challenges and I don't remember the last time I used my callender, other than to log my weight. Ever since I was so sick, I just can't seem to get back into the swing of things. I''m now up 7 pounds this month...why does it pile back on so fast!?! So I'm weighing myself daily until I get down the 7 pounds, this morning I was down 4 of those pounds so I think some of it was TOM and a lot of it was because I wasn't drinking water. My husband and I are going away tomorrow to celebrate our first wedding anniversary but we'll either be in the car or walking around so I doubt I'll get into too much trouble in the eating arena. I wish we were staying for more than the weekend because we have a full kitchen in our hotel room. Now that I'm doing my bike challenge and all of the summer challenges, I am super motivated. I have to wear one of those spandex biking shirts and probably spandex shorts too, and I don't want to look like a sausage....and realistically, I'm not going to be thin by September, but I'm hoping to lose 15 pounds by the race...so what motivates you to practice what you preach?

Things I do that help

These are some of the things I do that make me successful in my journey.

Summer Blog Party

Hi all!!! Just a reminder about my Summer Blog Party Challenge. See my older post for sign up information on America on the Move. Here's the gist - sign up, set your challenge to begin on June 1st and end on July 14th. I choose to do the Oregon Trail this time. Let me know if you're partipating because it doesn't tell me who's in the group. At the end of the challenge, tell me your total. The winner will get new cross training shoes by New Balance....I love the pair I bought and they feel so good when walking. Once I know who's participating, I'll post the list on my blog! Here's the shoes:



Thanks to those who are participating and those who are doing challenges!!

Thank you

Thank you so much to everyone who commented on my blog...it seems like I'm doing the right thing and I just need to be patient...my readership should increase. I'll be posting more tonight about my summer blog party challenge as well as putting up a picture of the prize. If you're planning on participating, please let me know as my challenge starts on Sunday. I also want to post some pitures of things I've found helpful in my quest to loose this weight - maybe it will spark people to share their ideas on what helps them. I'm also going to post goals for June....I'm on a role. I also want to give a HUMONGOUS shout out to Cammy who donated to me on my ride to raise funds and awareness about kidney disease....there might be another post on that in the near future too!! Thanks to everyone!!

What makes a blog a good one?

So I've been blogging pretty consistently since January. And I never really thought I'd be able to keep up with it. I never thought I'd be able to consistently make good decisions for more than 2 months, but here I am in May, and I'm still trying and most of the time, still succeding. But I feel like not many people read my blog. So I wonder, what makes a blog good? I look at some people's blogs and they have tons of comments, even if the topic isn't deep. And I want mine to be good, I want mine to help people. I want mine to help me and part of me feels like, if my blog isn't successful, I'm not successful. So feedback, Please!! And if you're a faithful reader, thank you so much!

Tour DaVita

As part of my bike ride, I need to raise $1000. Here's the website to donate for me...www.tourdavita.org/donate/lovebug6100/index.html. Please donate, it's for a great cause!!! And it's an awesome motivator for me to lose more weight. I feel like I'm failing in that department, despite making good choices, the scale keeps going up and I'm hoping next week it'll be back on track...but it's disappointing to struggle. I definately never struggled to gain weight!

I've Lost IT!!

First off, I want to thank whoever joined my Summer Blog Party Challenge. Unfortunately, it doesn't tell me who signed up...just that there's two of us. So if you're going to participate, I need to know.
So why did I lose it...I work for DaVita - it's the nation's largest dialysis provider. And they do so many neat things to raise awareness about kidney disease, which is the most horrible thing by the way and one of the things they started doing was something called Tour DaVita, like Tour de France. And one of my co-workers wanted someone she knew to do it with her, so I agreed. So now, in September, I'm doing a 240 mile bike ride in Wisconsin over 4 days. So now I have to train my butt off to be able to do this. I'm hoping to lose 15 more pounds before September when I do this...and unfortunately the scale keeps going up, despite my efforts for it to go down...but TOM showed up today so I'm hoping by the end of the weekend, to be back on track and training to ride 80 miles in one day. I'll post more about the Blog Challenge tomorrow!