Trying to balance food, fitness, and fun!
Day 12, Sunday: What do you miss? 
I miss the days when I could sleep through the night. When I was in way better shape. When I didn’t have all types of weird issues.
There used to be a time when I only took a vitamin and allergy meds as needed. Now I take meds 4 different times of the day.
Granted, even with all of my dumb issues, I am still more fortunate than many in the health department, and for this I am grateful.
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Day 11, Saturday: Sell yourself in 10 words or less
An acrostic sounded like a good way to accomplish this and only in SEVEN words 
Marvelous
Enthuisiatic
Loving
Insightful
Silly
Supportive
Awesome
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Day 10, Friday: Most embarrassing momentI have many, but this one is tops.
The one and only year I have been able to run Texas Independence Relay, I was set to do 4 legs. My 3rd leg was in a really nice area on the edge of Houston. It was the shortest leg of the race, it was cold, and I was feeling GOOD. I took off and I started making “road kills” left and right. I was booking it. I was in perfect conditions and I was rocking.
When I got to the intersection where the only turn was, I went left. I couldn’t really see the markings on the ground, so I kept running and I kept seeing runners. I thought I was doing well but I began to wonder where the heck the exchange was.
WRONG!
I turned left instead of right and ran over a mile in the wrong direction. I was so pissed. Turns out those runners I saw, were just random Sunday morning runners. I ran like hell back the other way and passed a few people, but in my wrong way turn, i’d been passed by 5 teams. By time I got to the exchange, I was so mad I was crying.
So I was mad, crying, and looking around for my van. That particular exchange was manned by an Austin running store (ok it’s a chain, but the people there were from Austin). One of the guys working it, had sold me shoes a few days before, so he remembered me. So he got to see me pissed off crying and ranting, as did the rest of my team, which I will mention, were newly introduced to me 2 days before. I HATE when people cry in public. I was that girl. I couldn’t handle a simple turn or dealing with my dumb mistake.
One day I will run TIR again and I want to run that leg and get my redemption.
Day 9, Thursday: A moment in your day (this can be just a photo or both a photo and words)
Found out one of my really good work friends found out what she’s having in October today during our little lunch date!
I am the only one at work who guessed right!
Day 8, Wednesday: A piece of advice you have for others. Anything at all.
Everyone says, listen to your body. I think sometimes your body doesn’t tell you everything that is going on inside.
Get rest, solid good rest and i’m not just talking about sleep. Take Days Of Rest from working out, take them from stress, take them from work.
Do something different. If you are a runner or a cyclist, cross train, do yoga, lift weights, do some walking. (i’ve been a pretty loyal cross-trainer for almost 4 years). If you are just starting out or getting back into something, take it easy. Diving into something too hard and too fast is never a good idea.
I’ve learned many lessons the hard way. I don’t want others to have to make the same mistakes. I’m all about the stress relief and rest these days.
Day 7, Tuesday: The thing(s) you’re most afraid of…
Honestly I know this sounds shallow and selfish, but I am afraid to fail. Mostly in keeping the weight off.
I am human, I am not perfect, I don’t diet. While I know because of health reasons, I can never go back to the way I once was, I am certain that there could be other ways I could go down that ugly road again.
To be honest, with my health issues, maintaining my weight hasn’t been easy. Hormones being out of whack sucks and they really regulate quite a bit with how your body works. Not to mention I do sometimes have demons in my head. I have habits I’ve never been able to break. I won’t say that I struggle, but it’s certainly not easy.
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Day 6, Monday: If you couldn’t answer with your job, how would you answer the question, ‘what do you do’?
I care, I love, I run, I do yoga, I cook, I volunteer, I garden, I listen to live music, I procrastinate, I daydream, I spend too much time on the internet.
Oh and I’m captain planet. That’s what my full time job really is.
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Day 5, Sunday: Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends. What makes them great? Why do you love them? If you don’t have blogger friends, talk about a real-life friend or even a family member
This was a hard one, I have so many blogger friends I love. I thought quite a while on this one, but chose Heather at Where’s the Beach?
I don’t actually know Heather in real life, I’ve just been blogging friends with her for a few years. I don’t actually remember how I found her, I am sure I linked to her blog from another blog I was reading and the rest has been history.
I love Heather because she’s real. She blogs about everything. Fab food, her adorable fur-babies, her family and friends, running, fitness, life challenges, etc.
She’s a fab gal and that’s why I picked her!
Day 4, Saturday: Favorite quote (from a person, from a book, etc) and why you love it.
“Love’s a gift and truly handmade”
~Guy Clark, from lyrics to LA Freeway
This song lyric has been my favorite quote since college. It’s always just stuck out to me. Love is really a gift and it’s completely two-sided. You cultivate your love for something or someone in your own heart. It’s something you make yourself, or handmade.
Day 3 of the Challenge is “things that make you uncomfortable.”
Oh boy, where do I start?
I don’t like confrontation, conflict, drama, and unnecessary stress. All of these things make me incredibly uncomfortable.
These days I have basically minimized where I could in these areas. Whether is avoiding toxic people in my life (whenever possible), hiding people who thrive on drama on Facebook, etc. Ain’t nobody got time for that kind of crap. Especially not me. I am too old and my stress level gets too high to deal with the people and attitudes I don’t need to surround myself with.
When I was younger, my life was full of these things and maybe I could handle them a bit better back then. I was in a sorority. You cannot get girls to get along always, no matter what you try. I tried and tried and tried and finally I learned it was just nature. I saw it again in other organizations I joined later in life and found out, it’s not just women, men can be just as childish and dramatic.
At this point in my life, I am more focused on simplifying my life where I can and getting better about asking for help when I probably need it.
Here’s to less stress and worries!
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