Showing posts with label support. Show all posts
Showing posts with label support. Show all posts

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Learning Old Tricks (Refocusing & Getting Deep on Sunday Morning)

Listen. We all have our moments. This summer has been my "moment".

I've slacked off big time.

I run less than twice a week. (normally 5x or more)
I eat about 4 salads a week. (normally 12 or more)
My days lack, what I call 'purpose'.

I'm really struggling & I don't know why. My drive for exercise and big, leafy, green, meals has dissipated.

My weight has fluctuated like crazy and my need for a daily routine ran off about 6 weeks ago.

My sleep routine....HA. What sleep routine? I have nights where I fall asleep at 8pm and wake up at 7am. And then there were nights, like last night, where I didn't fall asleep until 1:30am but was up, chipper as a bird, at 6 am.

Ughh.

And the headaches. Before I continue...no. I haven't had any migraines...yet. And praise God for that because with the way I've been slacking off, I probably deserve one. They're just little headaches when I first wake up. I keep attributing it to my pillows, or the way I slept, which is often true because HONEEYYY, WE NEED NEW PILLOWS! (these are the same pillows I used as a 10 year old). --But let be real Lacey...it's your eating habits. And your lack of exercise. And the fact that you skip meals. Be honest with yourself.--

This is probably why I haven't blogged very much. There's nothing to write about. No new meals. No new exercise routines. No drive. No excitement. And it's really pissing me off.

So, here's the plan. I'm re-reading Eat to Live. The passion for healthy eating I felt while reading that book is indescribable. Hopefully by going back and refreshing my memory of the reason I did this in the first place I can jump back on this train to healthy-town because I really don't like this dump I'm existing in right now.

I'm also writing up a daily routine. And following it. Lists and schedules are a huge help for me and so, by creating a daily routine and sticking to it for at least 2 weeks, I should be back to my normal self.

With all of that said. Wish me luck. I need the encouragement. From what some of you have told me, I've been a huge help for you in eating better and trying to live a healthier life.  Now I need your encouragement (pleaaaseee)!  I'm begging.

I know I can do this.

And since I got way too deep on a Sunday morning, here's a ridiculously stupid video of one of my dog's trying to get her toy off the hammock. But wait for the end, because she proves she's not so stupid after all by pulling the hammock back and punching the toy with her nose to bounce it off.


Here's to you Rita, because if a dog can teach herself a new trick in 40 seconds, I can re-teach myself the same old tricks I did for over a year in a couple of weeks.

-Lacey

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Birthday Gift, Please!

To my dearest readers:

My birthday is June 12 (next Sunday...eeekk!!), and my goal is to raise $800 for an incredible organization that I have been apart of for the past 7 years, and who has been around since 1979...Spoke Folk! Please help me raise $800 as a birthday gift to support my tour in Illinois this July and to help sustain such a supporting, loving, AWESOME group.

What is Spoke Folk? SF is a 12 day bicycling tour in which up to 30 participants (ages 15-20) and up to 10 counselors (ages 21+) travel around a state from church to church.  Each church provides us dinner, the church to sleep in that night, and an opportunity to put on an awesome musical performance (live band and all!) to their congregation and anyone in the community that would like to come.  It's an awesome time of fellowship, ministry, and community between the SFers and the church.  This is 12 days of intense friendship, love, community, hard biking, and absolute fun.  Participants and counselors come from all across the country to be apart of this intentional community for these 12 days.  This uplifting experience allows each person to walk away with a new family.  To this day, I know I could go to almost any state and there would be at least one Spoke Folker who could offer up their home as a place to sleep if I wanted.  How awesome is that!? This experience is not only physically healthy (we bike soooo much), which is what this blog strives for, but it's also spiritually healthy. 

The cost for one person to tour is around $400, but I love this ministry so much that I want to double that amount to help it grow, and possibly help cover the cost for someone to tour who may not be able to afford to do so.

Click here to donate online.  All donations are submitted directly to Spoke Folk (& are tax deductible).

37 days until Illinois 2011!! Got to get my biking butt into gear...it's training time!!

Here's to training hard and raising money!
-Lacey