Jen's Blog

I have been living with the Weight Watcher Smart Points plan for a little over three weeks now.  I shared a bit last week about my new journey.  It was hard (and a little embarrassing) but the wonderful and supportive comments I received made it worthwhile.  I know, despite how it feels sometimes, that I am not the only one who struggles with eating right, staying active and losing weight. My son  hunting eggs  So I decided to go ahead and keep sharing, if I motivate just one person it's totally worth it.  And since it's currently cold, cloudy and rainy at the end of April when I am writing this, it might just motivate myself to go down to the basement and hop on my elliptical. I weighed in Saturday, my third weigh in since joining, and was happy that I was down another 1.2 pounds, for a grand total of 7.4 pounds in three weeks.  Since it was Easter week and my goal was to stay the same I felt super happy to have a loss.  Especially since ...

As many of you know I am a reference librarian at my local library.  One of my duties, shared with the reference department, is writing blog posts for our reference blog.  I am pleased to share some of my blog posts here.  Topics range from  the personal, my life with diabetes, dieting and taking better care of myself to new authors I am falling in love with and genres that I want to share with others. Please visit my libraries webpage and take a look! Planning you Perfect Summer Vacation Beach Reads Women's Fiction Eat, Run, Live Keep Moving, Body and Soul Running Playlist Chick Lit Amish Romance

Two years after I had set out to run the half marathon I finally succeeded!  I originally had planned to run the race in 2014, but my Dad got sick and when he passed away I stopped training.  It took me awhile to get back into the swing of running, but this year when my husband announced he was going to give it a go I decided I would try again! I am not going to lie, it was maybe one of the hardest things I have ever done!  I feel like I could have trained more and I wasn't totally prepared but my goal going into the race was simply to finish.  I am happy to say that I did finish...it took me 3 hours and 28 minutes.  Two minutes short of the time goal I gave myself! My second goal was to run at least half of the marathon and I succeeded in that goal as well!  I ran to mile seven without walking.   Miles 7 and 8 I ran more than I walked, but my mile 9 my legs were starting to cramp up a little.  I mostly walked that last few miles, although I w...

It's been awhile since I posted! My goal is to run 6 races this summer...ending with a half marathon in October! This is what I have so far... April 26th, 2014 - Color Run May 4th, 2014 - 5K at the Eau Claire Marathon June 20th, 2014 - UV Color Splash by Color Dash October 19th - Half Marathon!

I am not going to lie, the last few weeks have been rough!  The cold weather, the snow and my week long cold.  I did not exercise at all last week!  And I have been dying to run outside but I just can't bring myself to do it in the cold and the snow!  Add into that the home renovations we have been doing and the fact I started graduate school in.  Crazy! I did however get back on track this week!  I restarted week 3 of my 5k to 10k program, and I could tell I took a week off!  So far this week I have been active everyday except Sunday. Monday - Ran 20 minutes, 5 minute warm up and cool down, 10 minutes arm strength Tuesday - 50 minutes yoga, abs workout Wednesday - 40 minutes elliptical Today my plan is to get in 25 minutes of running, 35 minutes total.  Friday is elliptical and maybe yoga and Saturday is my long run for this week, 40 minutes. Also this week I decided to do something about the 10 pounds I gained over the holidays and I t...