Challenges......

 

I started this blog to have a record of my weight loss journey and all my other challenges in life that I need to overcome and my dreams that I need to achieve...  

This blogging is a challenge to me...  I see other's blogs and they have a lot of neat things added to them and I do not know how to do that.  But I guess it is okay, because it is quite a step to just figure out my computer and write in this blog.  I am horrible at grammar and writing so I really hope a lot of people do not read my blog.  lol   I get overcome with anxiety if I do not do things right and I do not meet the expectations of others.  This is another challenge I need to overcome...  WORRY LESS OF WHAT OTHERS THINK!!!   

I was able to run my hill yesterday all the way TO THE TOP WITHOUT WALKING!!!!  Yeah!!!!  I was so happy and I even ran for over 5 miles...  What an accomplishment...  Plus, I now weigh 173...  I am so close to being under 170 and I haven't weighed under 170 in over a year....  

I want to exercise everyday and that is a serious goal of mine but I cannot do it for some reason.. I am sooooo tired in the morning and so tired after work... I am a mail carrier and just doing my job I walk almost 5 miles everyday... But it is not as an exercise---just doing my job...  I know I need to workout more then that... I think it is mind over matter in doing my workout...I know what I need to do but I can not motivate myself..  It is crazy to me that I can talk myself out of getting up early to go running when I know darn well it is the best thing for me...  I guess my biggest challenge is ME.... Getting a stronger mind...  I will try to go to bed earlier and get up to run because it is even more difficult to run after work.. Sometimes the mail is really a heavy day and I don't get home till after 4.  Then there is dinner and housework and so much to do that I talk myself out of my workout.  So I need to go in the morning.........

Also, I have been very determined to eat better... I have cut out as much candy as possible.  I have quit eating all breads... I never really liked drinking soda pop, so I very rarely do and I try to only eat 1400 calories...  I have been recording all my food on MY Fitness Pal's app.. I try to record it everyday and have been for over a year.  Sometimes I forget days... But I have been trying very diligently to do it..  It truly is amazing to me that I have done this and it still is soooooooo difficult for me to lose ONE pound... EXTREMELY difficult!!!!  MY body is fighting me all the way.. 

In my 20 and 30's I was running all the time and eating everything under the sun, except drinking pop... But I ate anything with no care in the world and I only weighed in the 130's... I just don't get it... I guess my metabolism just stopped.. And I guess it stopped in my 40's..  That is when I found out I have hypothyroidism..  And it really messes with your metabolism...It makes your extremely tired also...

Now my challenge is to overcome this.  I am considered borderline obese.. My BMI is almost over 30 and I weigh 173..  I will get this down for my health... I want to be able to run races again.  I want to be able to go hiking and not be out of breath.. I do not want to get diabetes or any other health problems.  I want to be able to run at least 10 miles and not walk it at all...  I love running and I need to quit making excuses to not get out there and RUN....

This is my goal for the next year!!!  To get up and go running and get back in healthy shape... To quit making excuses to not get out there... It will help in all aspects of my life.  It will help with the stresses I have in my financial difficulties and with other things in life.. So go attack your hill CINDY!!!!!

 

September

Summer is almost gone.  Beautiful days are here is Utah. I love it especially when you are a letter carrier.  When the temperature is around the 70's it is so much easier to deliver the mail.  It is always 10 to 20 degrees hotter in our vehicles while we are delivering the mail.  I can honestly say I love my job in the Fall and the Spring...

Okay on to my hill, my running hill, well actually the hill I have, as of yet, not ran the whole way up to the top.  I was able to make it to the top in under 5 minutes but barely.... Yeah..
My goal is to run it the whole way and to make it under 3 minutes. When I can run it the whole way, I want to be able to run it in fairly decent time. I think I can do that...I have always loved to run and I am trying so hard to get back into it.. It really is hard when you get in your 50's and you got completely out of running shape.. I miss being able to run 5 miles and not walk during it at any time.  I miss just wanting to go running everyday.. I hate having a low thyroid--hypothyroidism...  It causes depression, tiredness, joint aches and weight gain.  I have been on the wrong medicine for years... I finally found a better doctor who is helping me get on the right meds for my low thyroid..

I finally feel like going running at least 3 times a week.  I finally don't feel so tired all the time even after a very hard day at work..  I just found this doctor last month and I am just getting some of the blood work and the tests results done so it will take a few months to work everything out but I am on my way....

My daughter Michelle was here this weekend for her cousin's wedding.  I am so glad she came to visit.  She was only here for two days but she stayed with me and we had a blast. She went to the wedding activities all day Saturday but Sunday we hung out.  We went to the Black Bear Diner restaurant and had great food and then went to a few stores.  It was lots of fun.. She had me laughing all the time.. She's a goofball just like me at times...We sometimes speak the same language...  (inside joke)  I know I annoy her at times---I think all mother's do that to their kids but this time we had lots of fun...
   

 

I Love You Lots Michelle!!!

TIME

This blogging thing will definitely take me along time to figure out.  I have a hard enough time figuring out my iphone let alone this blog page.  I can not keep up with all the computer stuff, gadgets, electronics and all the rest.  It really is hard to keep up with everything.  So, I just have to try and let it go and do what I can.  

Example:  Over on the right side of this page are Labels, Schedule, Permalink, location, and options... What do all these mean?  I will figure all that out one day. A little at a time.  I don't even know what HTML means also... lol   If I think about all this stuff too much my head will explode.

I mainly started this blog for MyFitnessPal.. I wanted to keep a record of my weight loss journey but their page is extremely difficult for me to use.  So my daughter told me about blogger and it is a little easier to use--(well sort of--he he)  and so I am trying to cut and paste my blog to MyFitnessPal.  It drives me crazy that I can not upload pictures to MFP with a click like you can on here.  

I think it is fun learning new things along the way, challenging yourself.. Geeze I am 56 years old and learning all this new stuff.  I always thought (when I was in my 20's) that I probably wouldn't be learning anything new cause I would know everything by then.. HOW WRONG I WAS.... lol   It will be fun trying all this new stuff on here and writing about it along the way.  

One thing there is never enough TIME!!!!  Yes, I have stated the obvious... That is a problem I have.... I am a person who states the obvious too much..  But, there is always too much to do and little time.  So when I have time I will write in my blog.  I will try to set one day a week and go on my ~~little Cindy's world rant~~~  This is for me( and really only me ) but also for whoever crosses my path and decides to be bored and read my blog also. :-))   

So this week I ran more.  I was very happy for that.. I still can't run up my heart attack hill without walking...  lol But my goal is to and I will!!!!!  I love running over at the Olympic Oval park area.. I call it Cindy's playground also. There is hardly anyone ever other there and it is a beautiful place.  So much grassy area, baseball diamonds, soccer fields, playground park, an awesome view of the Wasatch Mountains... Just love it.

Another challenge of mine is being overweight.  I am almost 40 pounds overweight.  I found out I have a hypothyroid problem and it has caused me to gain a whole lot of weight.  I just found a new doctor this month and hopefully he will help me find the correct meds to get me to feel better and lose this weight.  Hypothyroid causes many, many problems including gaining weight.  Hair loss, tiredness, mood swings, joint aches, etc... are many of the other symptoms of Hypothyroid..  I was on this one medicine called synthroid but it was not helping... Now I am on something new so we shall see how it works... Hopefully great... 

Like I mentioned before, I like to write and go on rants, but I only have so much time..  There is  so much to write about but can not do it all in one sitting... I want to add a picture I took of the Olympic Oval and the mountains but I forgot to hook my phone up to my computer and download the picture before I started writing...  :-))   so I will add it later.....  See~~~~ still got lots to learn....

Here We Go.....

This is my first attempt at blogging.  I have wanted to start blogging for quite awhile but just haven't got around to it.  My daughter has been blogging for a very long time.  I have never been able to understand how she has got around to getting in her blogs when she has three kids and so many things to get done.  Her kids are very close in age and at times she has said it is like having triplets.  When they were very young it really seemed like it.  Still, she makes time to blog and I don't really have many things to get in my way of blogging so why can't I?  

 First of all, I don't know the computer as well as many others and I really don't know this site that well.  I am going to figure things out as I go along.  I will make many mistakes, grammar errors, writing errors and so forth.  But I really don't care because this blog is really for me. (Well, sort of)  :-))  This is a blog that is for my record.  It is for my challenge.  I am going to start a challenge for me.  It is a goal of mine that I have to get back in shape, to get healthy.

I want to get back in shape so that I can be able to run till I am very old.  As long as I can see, walk, and be in good mental health I want to be able to run.  I want to have a great quality of life till I die.  I want to be able to be in good enough shape to hang out and do things with my grand kids.  This is the reason for the start of my blog.  

So the reason for the title is there is this hill near my house that I have started running-walking to.  It is a very huge hill!  I have to walk & run to make it to the top.  My goal is to be able to run to the top without walking, and to be able to make it under 5 minutes.  I would like to be able to reach this goal in 6 months..   This is my hill, my obstacle, my hurdle.  

Now if I can figure out how to add pictures it will show you how steep it is.  

 The top picture is the first part of the hill---the bottom picture is the second part of the hill.  I usually start walking at the second part and then try to run again... lol

 This is looking down from the top of the hill.  And this is me with the view in the background.  You can see the beautiful Wasatch Mountains in the background.

 Okay this is me --30 pounds heavier then I have ever been in my life.  My goal is to lose this weight in a year.  I have been trying for a very long time but nothing seems to work.  I found out I have a hypothyroid problem and it has affected me in many ways including extreme weight gain.  I am on new medicine which I hope helps.. It has made me very tired and caused my joints to ache.  But hopefully, with my new doctor I can get the help I need to get back to a healthy weight.

Wow!! I did it, I wrote my first blog... I am so happy and I even added the pictures..  Yeah!!