Day one on "the wagon"

Can you say LARD ASS?!?!  I can, and so can my mirror and my - uhmm - wardrobe.  I want to wear my scrubs 24/7.  Not because they are flattering, but because they fit & I don't have to squirm around and wiggle to get into them.  It's not like I was in awesome shape at IM Lake Placid, but I have managed to put on 19 pounds in my 3month "recovery" period.  What a pig! I do this every year.  I suppose it will make the transformation into the "in shape" me appear all that much more dramatic!  I know I am getting up there in age, and every "transformation" is harder and I never manage to quite get down to the previous years "in shape" weight.  I am going to be a very fat old lady.  I have always stated that I do triathlon training to support my eating habits - this is confirmation of that.

So now I start a long/slow and painful process of getting back into shape.  I managed to run 3miles in the rain this weekend (11 min miles - ouch) and I swam 1 mile today.  I have been trying to put together a weight training program for myself - I, like my bud Shawn - need structure.  I spent today going through a years worth of exercises that I have cut out of Bicycling & Triathlete magazines and categorizing them in a notebook.  I would much rather pay someone to do this for me.... but I am trying to get inspired.  I also made my way (literally had to blaze a path) up into our attic.  I cleaned out a space to put my stabilizer ball, tubes and weights.  It was so dusty that by the time I cleared out an area I was too grossed out to actually dust/mop the floor.  HMMMM I wonder if I will actually lift tomorrow - What do you think?

As far as the "recovery" period, my leg still bothers me.  But it is bothering me without doing exercise so I may as well start exercising again and see if it gets worse.  Maybe this is just what I am going to have to live with for now.  Not sure what this year is going to bring.  I am not committing to IM Canada even though I am registered for the race.

Week 1 on the Fat Ass diet.....let's see if I can be good for one week.  I feel like am in a dieters 12step program. 
1. I admit I am powerless over my addiction to anything sweet
2. I admit that I overeat
3. I admit that the fear of Ironman training is my higher power
4. training gives me clarity
5. I have wronged my favorite jeans
6. I have wronged my knees and other weight bearing joints of my body
7. I must make ammends to my jeans & my joints
8. I will ask my bike seat and my wetsuit for forgiveness for my shortcomings
9. I will take a self inventory every week on the bathroom scale and recognize my failures and ask for forgiveness
10. I will seek out consultation in ProK as my higher Tri power person
11. I will switch from Guinness to Red wine - or at least to "cheater 'ritas"
12. I will switch from Milk Chocolate to Dark Chocolate - at least 60%  cocoa

amen