So sleepy

I am so exhausted. The birthday party that Abby was invited to today was more than 3 hours long. That is a long time. And it was at this place called Incredible Pizza - basically an arcade. So it was a long three hours.

Then, when I checked her backpack tonight from school on Friday, she has another birthday party invitation for next Saturday for Mikayla from her day care. Since she has two groups of friends (at school and at day care), we are going to birthday parties all the time. This will be her fourth in the last two months. That's half my Saturdays. And Seth refuses to go. "Mommy Work" is what he calls it. Gee, thanks.

After the party, Abby and I stopped at GNC and I bought some women's multi-vitamins as Dr. Oz had suggested. They have the 5,000 units of Vitamin A and 600 of the 1,000 units of Vitamin D that he recommended. I got the "active" formula that is supposed to have extra nutrients in it to give you energy. It's not supposed to make you shaky or anything because it's all natural. I thought it would be worth a try. I don't drink coffee and extra energy definitely would be nice. I also got more flax seed oil. I had been taking this last year when I started doing the protein shakes but just stopped for some reason. I think I just forgot to buy more at some point. Flax seed oil has the Omega 3's that Dr. Oz recommended. So those are my first two steps in trying to be healthy. Well, other than the working out and dieting.

I ran 13.2 miles this week, so I was happy about that since it was more than my goal of 12 miles. And it was about a half-mile farther than I ran the prior week and today I ran faster than I had before (5.2 base and 5.7 for my "push"). I think it's still going well and I know that working out makes me feel so much better than when I'm not.

Oh - I've lost 5.8 pounds in the first two weeks. So progress IS being made. :) I know that I've lost exactly 5.8 pounds because I bought a fancy new digital scale with the Amazon.com gift card Seth's mom got me for Christmas. (Thank you Raia!) It is awesome. It is consistent no matter where on the scale I stand and I love seeing the progress from day to day, even if it's tenths of a pound. I know you're not supposed to weigh youorself every day, but I just got a new scale so I'm going to any way.

I don't really intend to inspire anyone by writing all of this, but maybe I will. Honestly, I'm doing it to hold myself accountable to more people than just myself and Seth. Hopefully doing that will help keep my on track. I definitely feel more committed than I have been in the past.