Weigh-in Wednesday: Just Plain Crazy

My Team Booblicious Wine Party event at Fleming’s Steakhouse & Wine Bar at DC Ranch raised over $3,000 for Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk. I tell you, Fleming’s sure knows how to make a girl feel special – their service is by far the best I have seen, their food tastes amazing, and the management makes you feel like you are the most important girl in the world. For the event, we had ahi tuna tartare (I’m not normally a fan, but wow, oh holy wow), with a table of overflowing food including a crudite platter, spicy calamari, cheesy spinach and artichoke dip, a green market salad and a tower of shrimp cocktail. Then there were the wines – so many bottles of wine! Without the generosity of Fleming’s DC Ranch, I would never have been able to raise $3k in the fight against breast cancer. I cannot say thank you enough. If you go into Fleming’s (any location) please thank them for me and say Team Booblicious sent you.  Let’s show them our gratitude and give them a big Thank You for supporting our community!

To go along with all of that wonderful food was this incredible decadent cake from Le Napoleon. Chef Gerard Cretton  is an international Pastry Chef and Swiss Chocolatier for over 39 years, the last 10 years have been here in Phoenix. He blew my socks off by creating this chocolate and raspberry cake with a creamy chocolate mousse filling and another layer with a sweet raspberry filling. I’m a frosting kind of girl and restrained from taking a little sample before the cake was cut. If you need truffles, a custom cake, or any scrumptious dessert, you must visit Le Napoleon in Glendale. Team Booblicious thanks him for creating such a tasteful masterpiece. I can’t wait for my next friend’s birthday, because I sure know where the cake is coming from!

After being out the last 12 nights eating all over town, drinking wine and an occasional beer, only exercising twice, one would think I would have gained weight this week. And they would be wrong. I lost 1.5 pounds!! How the heck is that possible? The weeks I eat rabbit food, drink only a glass of wine and one soda, work out like crazy I gain weight. Then when I do the exact opposite I lose. Crazy I tell you – just plain crazy!! It sure as hell doesn’t make sense to me. Not one bit. I did make it the gym yesterday and did upper body with 20 minutes of cardio and burned 475 calories – I know that thanks to my new Polar watch and heart rate monitor from @IndianaBackDoc. I just need to figure out my time management – how do I go to the gym, make it to yoga, AND train for the 3-Day which is all walking, no running – I have no effing clue!! If you have ideas, please share.

Weight Loss

Lost  1.5 lbs

What I Did Right This Week:

• Did Yoga 1 day
• Worked out at the gym 1 day
• Working on the eating 5-6x a day – this is hard to do.
• Had 1 Pepsi Way more than that
• Meditated each morning

What I Did Wrong This Week:

• Ate out every night
• Drank a crap ton of Pepsi
• Didn’t eat enough veggies
• Didn’t eat enough fruit
• Not drinking as much water as I should
• Definitely did not get enough sleep. Again. And yet Again. And yet Again. I can’t seem to catch up on my rest – I am exhausted mentally and physically.

Goals For This Week:

• Yoga 3 days
• Strength training & running at the gym 3 days
• Do an 8-mile and 11-mile training walk this weekend
• Write out a Menu for next week
• Be in the moment when I eat and workout
• Workout 3x, walk 25 miles, yoga 3x
• Meditate every morning

Goals For This Month: (this is new!)

• No Pepsi! I need something to reward myself if I can do this. Suggestions? Make ‘em good!!
• Daily intake of sugar – 25g. I have seen my friends (@skinnyjeans & @ohkatiecookies) try this, so I am going to see if I can do #SweetlessSeptember. Need to research if this includes sugar in fruit.

My intention for last week was Seize the Moment. I was able to do this a few times, but not everyday. I really wanted to do it for my event. Most times when I organize something like this, I am stressed and preoccupied. I tried to be present and enjoy the time with my friends and educate people on breast cancer and how it affects me and them. The other thing that really made me stop and think was this: I was rushing to a meeting yesterday and I looked over and saw this homeless man with a big sack of bird seed. He was feeding the pigeons and they were loving it. Here is a man who probably doesn’t have a lot of money and spent what little he had to help others. Yes, even pigeons need help. I was blown away and had to take a minute to reflect on my own actions in life. Was I giving back enough?

My intention for this week is to get Organized!! I can’t say this enough. With my inbox sitting at over 140 unread emails, 14 content calendars that need to be written, client work that has to be completed, my websites still need to have their upgrades completed, exercising and fitting in a social life – OMG I am hyperventilating just thinking about it all. I know I am a super star at times, but right now, I can’t find my cape. Do you know where I left it? I can admit I feel very overwhelmed and need to get myself organized so I can continue to grow and so that I can enjoy what I do again and not feel so stressed out.

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Weigh-in Wednesday: Booblicious

This Sunday I am hosting the Team Booblicious Wine Party at Fleming’s Steakhouse & Wine Bar at DC Ranch to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk. Wanna come? Get your tickets here: http://booblicious.eventbrite.com/  Not able to make it, you can still donate to this great cause: http://www.the3day.org/goto/kristitrimmer. Have an item you would like to donate to the Silent Auction, contact me right away! I sure hope to see you there on Sunday for a little wine + food + boobs = great time.

I am very humbled by my friends posting the event on their Facebook walls, tweeting it out, and emailing it to their networks. Trying to pull an event together in 2 weeks is mighty tough. With the help of my friends and teammates, I know we will be able to raise money to fight this deadly disease.

Do you believe in Karma? When I was at the gas station yesterday I could tell the guy at the pump in front of me was a tad stressed out. He was looking at the few dollars in his hand and trying to calculate if he could even afford a gallon of gas. He couldn’t. Even before he humbly asked if I could give him a few bucks, I had decided to fill up his gas tank. I put my debit card in his machine and I saw his girlfriend sitting in the front seat totally amazed that I was helping them out. He started to tell me his story and I told him it was ok, I understood. I told him one day I hoped he would Pay It Forward. You see, when I was broke in college, I was on the side of the road, no gas, and no cash. I was freaking out. This man stopped and offered to take me to the gas station down the road. I told him no thanks that I didn’t want him to kill me. As we were talking, he ended up being a friend of my Dad’s. This stranger filled up my tank, gave me a $100 and said one day, Pay It Forward. I finally was able to live up to that promise. I don’t have a lot of money, but giving that young couple $60 worth of gas was worth way more than money – I gave them hope.

I am so happy to say that I completed my 40-Day Yoga Challenge!! I never really thought I could and was so excited to do it. I went ahead and signed up for a month of unlimited classes so I could keep it up. I also started working with Coach @KGirlTris and am excited to see her workouts. You know that new heart rate monitor I was talking about? I had no idea that when you stepped onto a machine at the gym that it shows your heart-rate on the machine! How cool is that? This week I did a 6-mile training work, did a grueling Yoga Core workout, and about died doing Coach @KGirlTris‘ workout. And I gained 3 pounds. I’m beyond depressed about that.

I have all these events that I have to go to and all I want to do is cancel. I just don’t want people seeing me weigh my absolute heaviest. I don’t feel pretty let alone sexy. When someone flirts with me, I wonder if they are taking pity on the heavy girl. This recent weight gain over the last month or so has been really messing with my mind and my self-image.

Weight Loss

Gained 3 lbs

What I Did Right This Week:

• Did Yoga 5 days
• Went on a 6-mile training walk
• Finally got back to the gym for strength training
• Working on the eating 5-6x a day
• Had 1 Pepsi
• Meditated each morning

What I Did Wrong This Week:

• Didn’t eat enough veggies
• Didn’t eat enough fruit
• Not drinking as much water as I should
• Definitely did not get enough sleep. Again. And yet Again.

Goals For This Week:

• Yoga 4 days
• Back to the gym 3 days
• Start to run again
• Do an 8-mile and 11-mile training walk this weekend
• Write out a Menu for next week
• Be in the moment when I eat and workout
• Workout 3x, walk 25 miles, yoga 4x
• Meditate every morning

My intention for last week was Forgiveness. For some reason I think the Universe was working through me this week. I talked about this a lot with many different people. It was strangely odd and enlightening. I looked at some situations and instead of seeing the negative in them or if they were in the past, the hurt that I felt, I actually looked at it through forgiving eyes. It is quite a powerful thing to do. Try it. Forgive. Let go. Move on.

My intention for this week is Seize the Moment. Be in the moment. Live for today. Enjoy each experience as it is in that exact moment of time. I am a worrier, I always think about the future, so this intention will be hard to do. I want to seize all the moments of my life, not worry them away.

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Back to the Gym!

I had to write a special blog post, separate from Weigh-in Wednesday, because I finally talked myself into going to the gym today. I made a deal with myself that if I woke up and my back wasn’t spasming, then I would go. My reward: Getting a mani/pedi this weekend. And boy do my toes need it!

I stayed on the treadmill for 12 minutes, and ran 7 of those minutes at 4.8 mph. I didn’t think I would be able to run at all and was pleasantly surprised to be able to run in 3 minute intervals. So I didn’t start back at ground zero, because before (in December) I couldn’t even run for a minute. When I stopped working out about 2 months ago, I was up to running a full mile at around 12 minutes. I’m ok with this starting point.

Gym in my apt isn’t half bad!

Today was legs and I did 70 squats and all the lovely leg machines. Could barely do 10 lunges as my quads were screaming. I did one stretch that pulled my left hip pretty badly and it angered the low back spasming I had going on last night. Sigh. Took some Ibuprofen when I got home and will stretch it throughout the day.

Tomorrow I am going on my 1st training walk for the Breast Cancer 3-Day. My training guide says I should be at 7 miles already, we shall see. Not sure if I can walk out the day and push out 7 miles, but maybe I can. Taking bets – what do you think?

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Weigh-in Wednesday: I’m Doing It Again

4/27/2011

Did you notice that I took last week off? I tried to sit down and write and I was in the midst of one of the craziest weeks I had experienced in a long time. I hope you will forgive me. Then my dad asked me to spend time with my family and take a day off to venture down to Rocky Point to our beach house. And yes, I did say ‘YES’ because typically, I would have said no, but since I am trying to be more open, I gave into the invitation. A couple days on the beach with a Pacifico in one hand and a book in the other was just what the doctor ordered. Took one of my oldest and dearest friends Phil with me and we reminisced over all that the last 20 years has brought us. I was also very happy to get to know my niece Rhiana better and impart a little aunt wisdom to her. I guess we also pinky swore that I would take her out for her 21st birthday and properly introduce her to tequila… thankfully I have  13 years to plan that little outing.

View of our balcony – and yes- you can rent the house!

One thing I realized was how much I had missed being down in Mexico and part of the culture. I have been going down there since I was 6 and my great grandparents were from Mexico. I loved seeing how the parents bathed their children with affection, that young women knew they were beautiful and didn’t try to be a size 2, and that chivalry is not dead among Latino men. I sat back and watched the Mexican nationals (there were actually TONS on vacation there) laugh with one another, enjoy some phenomenally great tacos from Combo Tacos, and live in the moment. My favorite was when they talked to me in Spanish, and I would *try* to answer back in my absolutely horrific Spanglish. It was quite comical, but they appreciated that I was trying. All in all, it was a great trip.

Yes, I’m doing it again – I signed up for the 2011 Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure! I walked in 2008 & 2009 in support of my Aunt Debbie who battled breast cancer. She had a double mastectomy and is currently cancer free! I raised $14k during those 2 years!!! This year I walk in honor of my Aunt Areta who has Stage 3 Breast Cancer and just went through a mastectomy as well. I want to raise $6,500 to help fight this cancer that has deeply affected the women in my life. I can be honest – I am scared of the day of finding a lump in my own breast. Through your donation & support, there will be new medications and treatments to help eradicate this horrible disease. This event isn’t easy, but I promise you, I wouldn’t be doing it if I didn’t believe 100% that it was worth every muscle ache, weary night, and training walk! I’m going to walk 60 miles over 3 days – what are you going to do?

I have to raise $2300 to walk. But you know me, I never do things at a minimum effort level and want to surpass that!! My personal goal this year is $6500. I need your help to do it. My friends and family gave so generously last time around to help end breast cancer, and I hope you won’t let me down this year. If you would like to donate to my 3-Day Walk, don’t let me stop you! Donate here. If you want to walk with – sign up already! I will be training to walk these 60 miles AND to run in a couple 5Ks this year – join me if you dare

At the finish line with Team Thrivr – what an awesome day and an awesome team!

Weight Loss:

Lost 0 pounds

What I Did Right This Week:

• Drank Kombucha daily!
• Ate very healthy – even in Mexico. Woot Woot!
• Took apple cider vinegar capsules daily
• Worked out 4x – you read that right.
• Walked on the beach a lot. Seriously, my legs are so sore.
• Made green protein shake 1x
• Meditated most mornings

What I Did Wrong This Week:

• Drank enough beer that my blood is requesting more limes to go with the Pacifico
• Drank Pepsi 3x
• Been addicted to chips lately. Sigh.

Goals For This Week:

• Cook at home 3x and make healthy lunches daily
• Make my protein shake 3x
• Workout 5x and do home yoga 3x
• Drink more water
• Meditate every morning

Do you ever feel that some days that you just can’t focus? I have days when I am on fire and can conquer the world and then there are other days where I am spinning my wheels and can’t seem to focus on anything. One good thing that my mini-vacation allowed me to do was to turn my brain off for a few days. I slept. I mean I slept a lot. I actually fell asleep by 8pm on 2 nights for a solid 10 hours and then took naps during the day. I know I have to sleep a solid 8 hours a night or I am Grumpy with a capital G. I have started meditating every morning and every night to help keep me focused on my goals for the day. Keeping focused is sometimes a huge challenge because of all the directions I am pulled in on a daily basis. How do you deal with staying focused? I really need some tips on this one.

My intention for last week was To Say Yes. I said yes to new experiences, new ideas, new projects, and said yes to myself. I actually did. I didn’t turn anything or anyone down and was amazed by how liberating a three-letter word could be. I said yes to old friends, new dates, and yes to letting go. You should try it!

My intention for this week is Focus. I know I have done this one before, but I seriously need to learn how to stay focused. I have so many balls in the air that if I turn my head slightly, they will all come crashing down. That is a lot of pressure and a lot of stress. A update a spreadsheet daily thanks to my business mentor that helps me stay on track, but sometimes I need more help. Being a creative spirit, my mind likes to wander and start new projects before old ones are completed. I HAVE to manage that or things tumble out of control at an alarmingly rate and I completely lose my way. So for this week, help me stay focused!

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