Biggest Loser is over

I ended up losing 2.3 lbs in the biggest loser contest at work. I was on track with the diet for just about 3 weeks in preparation for the photo shoot and the biggest loser finale. I had a binge day on Sunday to post celebrate my birthday with Corley (Dave), Katrina, and Elizabeth.

The celebration consisted of watching horrible lifetime movies, gorging our faces with awful-for-you food, and making fun of the movies. I can't even list the things I ate, let's just say that I probably could have been featured on the "I eat 33,000 calories a day" show on TLC. It was extremely fun and we watched one movie that was awful movie GOLD. It was actually a soap net movie of the week from a few weeks earlier. I happened to catch the commercial and had Katrina DVR it so we could watch it. If you ever have a chance to drunkenly watch "Beautiful Girl" on SoapNet.. DO IT. Here is the IMDB information on it: Beautiful Girl and a scene shot


Yes.. she is saying "I am engaged to Mark Consuelos, he left Kelly Ripa for me!" I'm sure you get the picture of the the awful awesomeness.

Post-binge it's hard to get back on track with the diet. My mind screams for all the things I had managed to make it forget about such as pizza, ice cream, Publix chocolate overload cake, ice cream, nachos. So now I'm trying to wrangle the beast back into it's cage. I read somewhere that weekend eating can cause as much diet damage as the holidays and I believe it. It's Thursday and I'm just now getting back down to my pre-binge weight. Now it's time for the weekend again... what a vicious cycle.

This weekend is the bootcamp challenge. All of the East Shore bootcamps are going to face off against each other in a points system to see who can take home the trophy. My gym, Johnnie Dodds, is the defending champions. We plan to take it home again. I plan to run my fastest mile! Anyhoo.. witty comments just aren't flowing out this morning so I'm ending this post because it's LAME!. See you on the flip flop (my dad used to say that all the time, not that he's dead, he just doesn't say it anymore).

I have a LOT going on...

I don't even know where to start this blog. First of all I turned 33.. gross. I'm not normally bothered by age but for some reason this year it did.

The big thing I did other than turn another year older having still put off the idea of having a child (while my eggs shrivel up), was to do a triathlon. This was my first one and it was a smidgen more than a sprint but not as far as an Olympic. It took place on Isle of Palms and was a .6 mile ocean swim, a 16 mile bike, and a 4 mile run. How did I do? I finished. I expected myself to take about 2 hours and ultimately I beat that time by 6 minutes which I was proud of. However, there is always ALWAYS that not-good-enough part of me. So when I saw the results and realized that I was 5th out of 5 in my age group I had a little bit of a 'failure' moment. I was happy to see that after all that I still ran a 31:57 4 miles which is the fastest recorded 4 miles I've done to date. I've been chasing the sub 32 minute 4 miles for a couple of years now. It's crazy that when I finally do it it was after swimming and biking for the past 1.5 hours.

Here is a picture of me coming into the finish. That's my friend Nancy giving me five. She is an awesome personal trainer to boot. I don't think I could have finished as well as I did without having gone through all of the bootcamp ass kickings that her and Cissy have put me through. SHOUT OUT!HOLLA






Shout out to Sarah too, she is my triathlon buddy. I roped her into signing up and she did great. She's got tri #2 in a few weeks. I didn't have the cash for tri #2 but I plan on doing another one soon. (Augusta half ironman is $225.00! Are you kidding me??) While I'm on the subject of signing up for things I perused the Disney sight yesterday to window shop the Goofy Challenge. (That would include a half marathon on Saturday and a full marathon on Sunday). It's $310.00.. wowsers!


I once again tried to get my infamous Disney pose at this race but I guess the photographer didn't get it. He got the "flex" instead.


That race belt is not flattering to my straight-as-a-board figure, what would Stacy and Clinton say?.


My time was 1:54:05. I wasn't last (outside of my age group). I wasn't even last in the awful swim. Did I already mention that the ocean was not friendly that day? The water was extremely choppy and I couldn't see the buoys or the pier that I had planned on sighting for. Honestly, I panicked a little (or a lot) and almost called one of the kayakers to take me in. I composed myself though and did a lot of backstroking,so no, it was not the best but it got me through the panic.

Besides that my diet has been going on for two weeks. I'm down about 3 lbs so far. My focus is on watching my calories, eating whole grains, and vegetables. My weight today was 116.4 and the body fat (according to the scale) was 18%. The seems like a lot in my psycho brain. I plan to keep up the hard coreness for another month and then I figure by that time it will have just become nature and I won't miss pizza, and chocolate, ice cream, cake, and all those things I LOVE.

Anyhoo... stay tuned for my next blog which will include details about my fitness photo shoot that I did on Monday and some pictures to go along with it. If you're wondering, I have no idea what I will do with the pictures.

The Lowcountry

I've lived in Charleston (ok Goose Creek) all of my life. So forgive me if I've always wondered why people come here to vacation. Personally, I didn't find Charleston that great. I'm also a freak and hard to please but that's neither here nor there.

However, last week as I biked the race route for the upcoming Triathlon I caught a glimpse of what makes the Lowcountry a little bit special.











Sorry for the small, camera phone pictures. (I feel like I am disgracing my Android by calling it a 'camera phone'. It is a very smart phone with a camera). I realize some people don't get to see this kind of thing where they live. I guess that's why they come here.

Photo shoot

I've been dieting hardcore for about 2 days now. 2 whole days. I have a 'fitness photo shoot' coming up on the 19th which is the day after my triathlon. My biggest loser final weigh in is on the 26th so I will continue the diet at least until then.

Did you notice how I breezed over the details of the 'fitness photo shoot'. It makes me sound like some kind of fitness model, which I am not. The story behind it is that my excellent photographer friend Robbie Silver is going to take some pictures of me doing the things I love such as running, working out, and I don't know what else. What I DO know is that I need to diet, diet, diet since I'm going to be putting my body out there on film. I have 2 weeks from today. I hope that is enough time to lose 4 to 5 lbs.

I've been watching Americas Next Top Model for years (seriously I have) and now I find myself trying to think of the ridiculous advice that they give to all of those girls like 'find the light', 'know your angles', 'model from head to toe', 'don't hide your neck'. STUUUPID... I'm off to practice posing.