Hey everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
We had a great Thanksgiving and I really enjoyed the long weekend. I loved getting a little more sleep and spending time as a family.
We’ve all had a hard time getting back to a “normal schedule” this week though! I’ve been singing this song to my kids every morning…
But instead of singing, “Breaking up is hard to do,” I’ve been singing “Waking up is hard to do!” Ha ha. Very, very true. I’ve been singing it to myself too. 😉
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I started my Thanksgiving off running the Human Race 5K Turkey Trot with Kev and my son. I love starting Thanksgiving off with a race! There were 5,600+ runners and it was so much fun!
Here we are on the way to the race…
Just before the race….
And after the race…
I love the energy at races and it was so much fun to run an actual “real” race again! It’s the best! The weather was absolutely perfect; in the 40s. I LOVED IT.
We weren’t super fast, we finished right around 29-30 minutes. We didn’t have an official timing chip, but Kev timed it with an app on his phone. 😉 I must say that I was the “wussiest” of the bunch. I know Kev could have gone a lot faster and my 11 year old son was a ROCK STAR! I was so proud of him. I let Kev and my son run ahead of me at the end. They finished about a minute ahead of me.
It was a hard race for me! I loved it so much and it felt SO GOOD to run, but I was discouraged that a ~30 minute 5K felt so difficult to me!
BUT, being the eternal optimist that I am, I reminded myself that a 5K should always feel hard! You should always give it your ALL and push yourself, whether that be running a 20 minute 5K or a 40 minute 5k! Right now a ~30 minute 5K is my best! As my fitness level improves and my weight decreases, I expect my running to improve as well!
I’m just happy I finished and that I can run races again. Woo hoo!
On a brighter note, I was very happy to see that I was listed as the “Team Captain” on all of our race bibs. Ha ha….
Well, look at that!! I feel so special. I made everyone call me “Cap” all day long. Ya gotta live it up, right?
After the race, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner up at my sister’s house with my parents, siblings and a bunch of my aunts, uncles and cousins. I didn’t take too many pictures though. Boo.
I love my family…
We also decided to have a second Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday night with my brother and his family! We weren’t quite ready to say goodbye to Turkey Dinner for another year, so we decided to relive it. It was great!
My cute nieces made a “special table” for “Girls Only!”
I’m so grateful my daughter has cute girl cousins since she doesn’t have any sisters. 🙁 These cute girls are just like little sisters to her.
And yes, I ate entirely too much food this weekend! It was awesome.
We also made a quick trip to downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday night with the fam. The weather here has been SO MILD and I’ve been loving it, so I decided we needed to head downtown to see the lights while the weather was so nice. BTW, it’s been in the 50s the past several days and it’s supposed to remain in the 50s the rest of this week!
SO DANG AWESOME!
Anyway, we decided to take the train into the city to make the adventure a little more fun. I, of course, embarrassed everyone by taking pictures all night long…
Check out this photo bomber. I told him I was going to share it on all of my social media, so here ya go….
I couldn’t get enough of this little cutie pie, his chubby cheeks and snow hat!
We walked around Temple Square for a bit, but it was so busy (apparently everyone else had the same “good idea” to enjoy the nice weather as well!)
We decided to walk across the street to City Creek Center, the fancy mall that I love so much!
Check out my zombie family. Eeeee….freaky.
We had such a fun evening and I’m so glad we took advantage of the nice weather!
After the Thanksgiving weekend ended, I told myself that the “madness had to end,” meaning that I needed to stop EATING so much flippin’ food.
I realized my October was pretty dang good. I ate SO well, felt lean, thin, energized and just….good.
My November……hmmmm…….
…..not so good. I was pretty much a glutenous pig. It was fun, sort of.
I really find so much more joy, satisfaction and happiness from eating well and living a healthy lifestyle! Eating my favorite crappy food is fun, but the “fun” is so short lived and it leaves me feeling blah, chubby, sluggish and unmotivated.
It is NOT worth it.
Soooo, I’ve decided that I’m going to “kill it” the month of December! I’ve decided that sugar, especially homemade baked goods, is my Kryptonite, so I’m going to steer clear of it! I’m going to try to load up on the veggies and eat as clean as possible.
Lots of veggies and clean eating are always my goal, but I’m going to make a better effort to stay committed! I am going to take Christmas Day and New Years Eve off though.
Oh, and just to recap, I lost ~8 pounds in October and ZERO pounds in November. In fact, there were days I was up a pound or two. Yay me.
Soooo, I intend to lose a few more pounds in December and then I’m going to HIT IT HARD for the New Year! Woo hoo!
Well, that pretty much sums up our weekend in a nutshell. I hope y’all had a fabulous Thanksgiving as well!