Color Me Rad

I am sooo excited! I just signed up for my second race that I have ever done in my life. The first one was a 4.01k race for my bank several years ago. It was fun, but THIS one will be even better! 
Have you seen the pictures where all these people have explosions of colored powder all over themselves and wondered what sort of event this is? Well, this is one of them! It is a race where you get to throw colored corn starch all over each other! So fun! I will be doing it with my sister and her husband as well as my aunt Julie and whoever else decided to sign up for it. 

It is only a 5k, so I don't think it will kill me or anything! ;) 

November 10, 2012

10 am @ the old St George Airport. 

Helloooo...

Today is a particularly good day. I feel good! Not because I have lost any lbs or reached a major milestone, just simply because I do! I am sure keeping track of my calories and doing some strength training had something to do with it!

I LOVE a good workout. For some reason it seems so difficult to get out there, but once I do and I'm done, I feel so much better about myself! Well, I don't have much to say for now, other than here is the ab workout I did. Pretty sure I should have some sore abs tomorrow!! :) Something I am actually very excited about.

Conquering the Monsters: #1 = Sugar

I love this. It is actually a shirt. The cookie monster binge!
shirt can be found at shirt.woot.com

I do love chocolate, and cookies, and ice cream, and brownies.. but I love them a little too much! I have come to realize I have a serious sweet tooth that needs to be tamed! I tend to turn to sweets when I am extra stressed or bored or happy or sad.. basically whenever I want. Its not a good thing! My husband tells me all the time I am going to get diabetes if I keep eating sugar like I do. Even though I never tell him he's right, sometimes I really am scared that he is! So here's the thing. I am going to try to tame it. Yeah. Good luck!
When you grow up with sweets all around (I still love you mom and sisters!!) it is hard to say no. But the fact is, I don't want to end up with diabetes. It is also not contributing to my weight loss much!
So week one of getting this sugar monster conquered, I am going to track every little sweet thing I eat this week. I won't be doing that here, however. It will be on sparkpeople.com. (This is a fantastic website if you ever wanted to start keeping track of your progress, and it is 100% FREE!)
You can however look at what I am eating here:http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_tracker.asp?id=%2ACRYSTALICIOUS%2A&dte=9%2F5%2F2012

Scary! I doubt many of you would seriously want to study what I am eating, but if you want to, feel free. And tell me if you see patterns or have any suggestions... with that said. Just be nice about it.. hahaha! ;)

My hope is that I can turn this sugar/cookie/sweets monster into a healthy one! I love that there is still a cookie in this picture. :) Which also means, that yes, I am not giving them up entirely! I think it is still perfectly okay to have something sweet now and then. At least for now!