Mamavation

A New Badge, New Clothes, and Edited Toes {mamavation update}

November 8, 2010 22 comments

For a couple of weeks, friends have been hinting that it was time to buy new clothes.  Mine were beyond the point of too big — tops hanging and bulky . . . pants falling off with little help (something both Hubby and kidlets found amusing). Even though I could SEE and FEEL that my [...]

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Varying the Work-Out {giveaway closed}

October 25, 2010 246 comments
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On the Subject of Exercise My body is just beyond weird. Seriously. It doesn’t take long for it to adjust to my workout patterns and settle into a maintenance mode (thank you, PCOS, for that).  Even though I’m walking/running at least three times a week, I’ve maintained my weight for the past two weeks. . [...]

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The One Where I Talk About The Thing I “DON’T” Talk About…

October 18, 2010 12 comments
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It’s time to address one of the unexpected but good benefits of healthy living: p.s. There were many, many, many technical difficulties making this vlog; I’m sorry that the video is so small and that the captions are even smaller. (sigh) Don’t forget — the Mamavation Twitter Party is TONIGHT (Oct 18, 7pm central).  If [...]

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So, Running . . . Um, Yeah. {and giveaway}

October 10, 2010 609 comments
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* * * * comments are now closed for this giveaway * * * * Learning to Run As you know, for my Subway Commit to Fit goal, I have committed to running a 5K here in Houston (in January). In case you have forgotten, I am NOT a runner. Proof can be found here: [...]

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So, Run – Rachel Run, Rachel Run.

October 3, 2010 30 comments

So . . . let’s talk about my first venture into the world of running. Picture it:  Tuesday, September 22nd . . . New York City, New York. Running with Jared Fogle, of Subway, and Meb Keflezighi, winner of last year’s New York Marathon and a Silver Medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics. About 20 [...]

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Finding the Motivation to Keep Going

September 19, 2010 20 comments

Guess what? I’m STILL 190 this week. Still. I’ll be honest — I’m frustrated.  I ran every day this week in preparation for Tuesday’s run around Central Park; I made it to the gym 3 times and added new weight machines to my normal circuit (my inner thighs are STILL hurting after using some of [...]

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