Unmotivated. That pretty much sums up my feelings for today.  I don’t feel like eating clean.  I don’t feel like exercising.  I don’t feel like doing much except crawling up on the couch with a movie and washing a large pizza with extra cheese down with a pint of beer.   Despite having the motivation [...]

The other day I decided I wanted to run to my son’s school.  Okay…jog…but run just sounds so much more hardcore.  His school is only (to be exact) 3.4 miles away but it’s almost entirely a gradual uphill run.  For me, this was very difficult.  I set a goal to run it in 30 minutes [...]

I can see how a figure competition is great motivation. For me the last ten are the hardest, I have been struggling for months!!!! I guess its that they are vanity pounds and really I’m just not that vain! I keep telling myself just lose them and then you can decide what to do…but seriously [...]

Jack Lalanne, a man ahead of his time. I just saw this video for the first time a few days ago.  If you haven’t seen it yet it’s really worth watching. He is living evidence on what a healhty active lifestyle can do.  Watching this video and then going to his website, JackLanne.com, convinces me, [...]

  Stories of sadness, fear, and loss are surrounding us during this unstable time.  It seems to me that many people are walking through “valleys” right now.  I was thinking about this today.  I don’t like being in the valley. I like being on top of the mountain.  It’s a much better view.  But I [...]

I admit it.  Sometimes I look through celebrity magazines in hopes of coming across some celebrity secret fitness secret.  Gwen Stefani eats what???  I’ll also admit saying things like, “I’d look that good too if I had a chef and and trainer.”  It’s been and sometimes still is my excuse.  Don’t let anyone tell you [...]

A month ago, I started lifting weights, eating 5 meals, and doing HIIT.  I think I’ve gotten the hang of the entire combination, I feel great, I feel stronger, I’ve increased weights, etc.  I’m even enjoying it!   But when do you start to see results? I’m so happy to hear you have found a [...]

I began this blog with one goal in mind: to share my story and the knowledge I have (and will learn) in hopes that some might be encouraged and inspired.  In the first email to my friends when I was letting them know what I was up to, I said Competing to Lose was my [...]

I think this is the first year that I don’t have “lose weight” on my new year’s resolution list since I was like 10.  Yeah, I was one of those messed up little kids who thought I was fat in junior high.  I wasn’t.  Not at all. But this time last year I weighed about 16 more [...]

I was finally able to workout today after about a week and a half off.  I still haven’t regained all my strength and it felt like I had a pallet of concrete on my back when I attempted some push ups.  Seeing I didn’t workout last week I’m sticking with last week’s workout. Laying in bed [...]