When my uncle passed away in July, it was a combination of brain and lung cancer. My mom found a 5k to do with my sister and I in Homer's honor. We had shirts made with a fine pic of Homer on the back and a caption that says In Memory of Homer Stone 1950-2010. My dad came to the walk to take pics. Hopefully, he will be able to walk with us next year. His back would not allow him to do so this time. Mom has gout in her foot and had been lecturing Sandy and I that if we needed to walk off and leave her to do so because she didn't want to hold us up. Sandy and I spent the first two miles looking at the back of mom's shirt...she was truckin...on the last mile she slowed down a bit. It was a great time. Large turnout with over 250,000 dollars made for brain cancer research.
I came back home, picked up a grocery store list, did the grocery shopping, unloaded the groceries and then went to meet Michael at the gym. We had a rather intense workout. Which you all know I LOVE. I'm not being sarcastic. The more challenging and the more sweat involved the better for me. There were a couple of things that were really hard for me involving squats and holding weights on my back, but friends I just imagined all of the horrible, ugly things that parent said to me for 45 minutes on Friday and I pushed through most of my exercises with few problems. It's not good that I'm still angry about the Friday situation, but it was bad. Speaking of that...on Friday night I jumped on the elliptical and kept my heart rate at 172 for thirty mintues. I was really mad then. Now I'm a little anxious about going back. I'm worried about what her next plan of action might be. ENOUGH OF THAT!
Anyway, I had a great workout at the gym today because Michael couldn't have cared less that I had already completed a 5k. In the past when I've done a 5k I would come home take a nap, eat whatever I wanted and glory in the fact that I had completed a 5k. That was the old Tammy. The new and improved Tammy realizes that walking a 5k is FANTASTIC, but there is still much more to do.
Tomorrow I am going to be on Michael's diet with him for the next six weeks. It looks a little boring, but I'm going to give it a shot and see what happens. I'm ready for the new challenge in the get fit journey. Besides that he made some snide comment on my FB wall about the diet not being for the faint hearted or something...and I was like...he didn't just say that...no way...cause...now it's on! And I say I'm not a competitive person! HA! Not competitive with others...could care less about them, but I am competitive with me and when someone says something about you might not be able to handle this...then I'll nearly kill myself trying! So chicken, egg whites, protein, oatmeal, broccoli, and asaparagus here I come. GET READY!
I'm trying to add pics from the 5k but having difficulty...you'll see them sooner or later...hang tight...
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