NO Halloween Candy CHALLENGE

NO Halloween Candy CHALLENGE

My commitment is to not eat Halloween Candy from today until

1 week after Halloween.
I will allow myself to have 3 pieces but none until then.
I did this challenge last year because I was eating the candy and not even thinking about it. I would think it's only once piece and that was not good thinking like that!
I need to challenge myself again this year so i don't eat uncontrollably.

Who's in it with me?
What will your commitment be?

Here is the calorie count for those little candies.
Dove Milk Chocolate Promises or wrapped squares (8 g) - 42 calories and 6 g carb
Hershey Kisses - 26 calories and 8 g carb each kiss
Hershey Kisses with Almonds - 23 calories and 2 g carb each kiss
Hershey Kisses filled with Caramel - 21 calories and 3 g carb each kiss
Hershey Candy Corn Kisses - 27 calories and 3 g carb each kiss
Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bars - Fun size (14 g) - 67 calories and 8 g carb
Hershey's Miniature Bars (mixed) - average of 42 calories and 5 g carb each bar
M&Ms, plain, Fun size (18 g) - 88 calories and 12 g carb
M&Ms, peanut Fun size (18 g) - 93 calories and 11 g carb
M&Ms, peanut 1/4 cup candy - 220 calories and 24 g carb
Miniature Bars (Milky Way, Snickers, Twix, 3 Muskateers) -
average 38 calories and 5 g carb each bar
Mr. Goodbar Snack size (17 g) - 90 calories and 9 grams carb
Nestle's Crunch Bars Fun size (10 g) 50 calories and 7 grams carb
Nestle's Crunch Caramel Bars - Fun size - 70 calories and 9 g carb
Palmer Peanut Butter cups, small - 6 g carb
Three Muskateers bar
Fun size (15 g) - 64 calories and 11 g carb
Mint, Fun size (15g) - 64 calories and 11 g carb
Tootsie Rolls
Small bar - 50 calories and 10 g carb
Midgee - 23 calories and 7 g carb
Mini-Midgees - 11 calories and 2 g carb
Peanut and Peanut Butter Candies
Pay Day - Snack size (19 g) - 90 calories and 10 g carb
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Miniature (about 9 grams each) - 44 calories and 5 g carb per cup
Snack size (17 g) - 88 calories and 10 g carb
Snack size (21 g) - 100 calories and 12 g carb
White, Snack size (21 g) - 100 calories and 11 g carb
Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins (34 g) - 180 calories and 17 g carb
Reese's Crispy Crunchy Bar, Snack size (17 g) - 95 calories and 9 g carb
Reese's Nutrageous Bars, Snack size (17 g) - 88 calories and 9 g carb
Reese's Whipps Bar, Snack size (14 g) - 60 calories and 10 g carb
Mixed Candy Bars
100 Grand Bars
Fun size (11 g) - 50 calories and 8 g carb
Fun size (21 g) - 95 calories and 15 g carb
Almond Joy Snack size (15 g) - 80 calories and 10g carb
Baby Ruth Bar, Fun size (18 g each) - 85 calories and 13 g carb
Butterfinger Bar, Fun size (18 g each) - 85 calories 14 g carb
Butterfinger Crisp Bar, Snack size (20 g) - 100 calories and 13 g carb
Heath Bar, Snack size (13 g) - 74 calories and 9 g carb
Kit Kat, Fun size (14 g) - 73 calories and 9 g carb
Milky Way bar, Fun size (17 g) - 75 calories and 12 g carb
Mounds bars, Snack size (17 g) - 83 calories and 9 g carb
Rocky Road, Snack size (10 g) - 45 calories and 6 g carb
Snickers Bars, Fun size (17 g) - 80 calories and 10 g carb
Snickers Almond Bars, Fun size (17 g) - 80 calories and 11 g carb
Snickers Creme Pumpkin (1 oz) - 150 calories and 16 g carb
Take Five bar, Fun size (15 g) - 10 g carb
Twix, Snack size (10 g) - 50 calories and 7 g carb
Taffy and Caramel
AbbaZabba, small (12 g) 50 calories and 11 g carb
Charleston Chew bar, Fun size (10 g) - 45 calories and 8 g carb
Laffy Taffy, Chocolate, small bars (8 g each) - 32 calories and 7 g carb
Milk Duds Snack size (12 g) - 54 calories and 9 g carb
Milk Maid Caramels, Brach's - 40 calories and 10 g carb per piece
Fruity and Gummy Candies
Jujyfruits - 9 pieces - 60 calories and 16 g carb
Lifesavers Gummies (2 rolls per ounce) - 52 calories and 13 g carb per roll
Mini Dots (2 small boxes per ounce) 70 calories and 17 g carb per box
Skittles
Original Fruit, Fun size (20 g) - 80 calories and 18 g carb
Chocolate Assortment, Fun size (20 g) - 80 calories and 18 g carb
Starburst, Fun size (2 pieces per stick) - 40 calories and 10 g carb
Twizzlers
Mini-bars (14 g) - 11 g carb
Strawberry Twists, Short (9 g) - 32 calories and 7 g carb
Cherry Pull-N-Peel (12 g) - 40 calories and 9 g carb
Hard Candies and Pops
Blow Pop, Junior - 50 calories and 14 g carb
Jolly Rancher
Hard Candy (6 g) - 23 calories and 6 g carb
Lollipops (17 g) - 60 calories and 16 g carb
Hard Candy Sticks, Small (11g) - 43 calories and 10 g carb
Double Blasts (4 g) - 13 calories and 3 g carb
Tootsie Pops - 60 calories and 15 g carb
Tootsie Caramel Apple Pops - 60 calories and 15 g carb
Wonka Nerds - small box (13 g) - 50 calories and 12 g carb
Other Candies
Candy Corn, Brach's - 11 pieces - 70 calories and 18 g carb
Hot Tamales - small pkg (14 g) - 50 calories and 12 g carb
Jr. Mints, Fun size (10 g) - 50 calories and 12 g carb
Mike and Ike small box (14 g) - 50 calories and 12 g carb
Pop Rocks - small packet (10 g) - 7 g carb
Raisinettes, Fun size (16 g - about 16 pieces) - 56 calories and 11 g carb
Smarties Candy, Roll - 25 calories and 6 g carb
Whoppers
1 small tube - 30 calories and 5 g carb
1 small pouch (21 g) - 100 calories and 16 g carb
York Peppermint Patties
Regular small patty (14 g) - 53 calories and 11 g carb
Pink Peppermint Patties, small (14 g) - 53 calories and 11 g carb
Peppermint Patty Pumpkins (14 g) - 50 calories and 11 g carb
List from About.com

http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/carbcounts/a/candycalories.htm
WHO'S IN? What will your commitment be?

LET's GET HEALTHY!
TIA

TEMPTATION can be overcome it has been proved.

TEMPTATION can be overcome it has been proved.

I know I can’t have only one of my moms chocolate chips cookies or her one piece of her strawberry shortcake. I definitely cannot have it in my house! FACT!

He has revealed to me what temps me and what to stay a way from. God can take the desire away! He has for me. Buffets for example are the devil’s temptation playground for me. He sits and cheers EAT EAT EAT I have prayed about it. Now I am discussed with them.

* 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. It is hard to believe but it is true. God says it is true . Claim your promises. That is why they are their. Lord I want that. I don’t want to work out. That is tempting me. Help me. Do you think that HE is going to say “NO, I am not gong to help you with this problem.
Hebrews 2:18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."

Pray not to be able to handel the temptation.

LET's GET HEALTHY

COACH TIA HURT

LAZINESS is a tool of the devil!

LAZINESS is a tool of the devil!
HE does not want us to be healthy. He wants us to be a pour witness for Christ by not taking care of our bodies.
1 When I go to bed I pray Lord help me to get enough rest and wake me up early so I can pray and get my work out in.
2 I pray not to be idle or lazy. But to rest when I need it.
3 I try and make way s that I will have No excuses.

2 Thessalonians 3:11 We hear that some among you are idling. They are not busy; they are busybodies.

TV... I will talk about this next time.

Now Get Up and MOVE!

LET's GET HEALTHY

COACH TIA HURT

FOOD is a Must for Energy

FOOD is a must for energy.
1 I cannot deny myself of food I just give myself guidelines.
2 Variety & Moderation
3 ALSORARE: Always Sometimes and Rarely
1. Sinful eating leads to disease and early death in some instances. I am sure you all know a few people who have died from the effects of obesity.
2. Guilt time, sin can lead me to over eat
3. The definition of “insanity” is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. That was me hoping that the jeans wouldn’t be tight this year that the next time I looked at my butt it wouldn’t have cottage cheese with saddle bags.
4. NOTHING wrong with having a treat! Can not have dessert every day or two days in a row
5. I need to remember food is Energy
6. Breakfast important
7. Balanced eating
8. Vitamins

Ask myself before I eat :
1. Am I hungry if not what can i do BESIDES eat.
2. If I am hungry what is the best food choice to fuel my body

EAT, IT'S A MUST FOR HEALTH.

LET's GET HEALTHY

COACH TIA HURT

PRAYER is a necessity for life changing results!

PRAYER is a necessity for life changing results!
1 I am committed to God, my husband, kids, church and job.
2 Where am “I” if I am truly committed to my family?
3 When I take care of myself then I show my daughter/ family that I am of value and set an example to follow.
o I want them to live long and healthy.
4 I ask God to change me. I truly meant it when I ask Him. Share experience with teaching the prayer class. Share prayer: I ask God to me up wake in the am to pray…and I haven’t used an alarm since.
* Romans 12:1-2 1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Step on toes * Luke 11:28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
* Luke 9:23 Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his “cross” daily and follow me.
Not a bad thing say VICTORY in Jesus!
* 1 Corinthians 6:20 …you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. Are you honoring God with your body. It is not what we think of the body but what it can do for Christ. Our bodies are temporary. But what we can do with our bodies is what is important.
Luke 9:24-25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?
Mark 1:35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.

Pray

and Let's Get Healthy,
TIA

WISDOM is a Must for Success

WISDOM is a must for success.
James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. Who gives wisdom? God gives us widom.

God speaks to us in 7 ways
Jesus
Bible
Holy Spirit
Prophets
Signs and wonders
Circumstances
Other people

* James 4:17 anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins
2 Timothy 3:16 (NLT) All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens us out and teaches us to do what is right. Ecclesiastes 11:9-10 (NLT) Young man, it's wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do. So banish grief and pain, but remember that youth, with a whole life before it, still faces the threat of meaninglessness. Psalm 25:4-5 Show me Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me,Proverbs 4:11-12 I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hindered, And when you run, you will not stumble.
1 I choose to walk in Wisdom not in ignorance
2 I examine labels. I keep a folder filled with exercise tips and healthy food choices.
3 I will eat consciously!
4 I’ll be a woman of integrity. My husband is a very integrative man and I try to follow his example.
5 Respect my body and take care of it. Feel it is of value.
6 I ask “The One Who Knows All” to reveal to me what I need to change. Then I rely on Him for strength to help me change.

Go and be Wise

and Let's Get Healthy!
Tia

Application is my responsibility!

Application is my responsibility.
God provides everything else. He gives us the ability to get the knowledge needed to get or keep us healthy. We have FREE WILL to do what we wish.
I am sure that most us know what we should and shouldn’t eat.
“X’ amount of this and that.
I couldn’t make it fit in my life style.
I failed.
I need help.
Then with much prayer and continuing pray I have found the answer

“The Magic Pill!”
More about that on my next post.

Get Responsible and

Let's Get Healthy!

Coach Tia Hurt

TIA

The Magic Pill?

"The Magic Pill" No! So stop trying and do something else!
There is a method I do I call it ALSORARE.
I stands for Always, Sometimes, Rarely.
Every time I make a decisions I use the ALSORARE pill to help with food choices and health choices.
Because we are All So rare. I ask myself the question is this an Always, Sometimes,or Rarely?
1 Always pick healthy foods (daily)
2 Sometimes eat out.
3 Rarely eat junk food and dessert and never two days in a row
4 I try to live by this simple rule and I am successful most of the time.
5 I am free to choose my choices but I am not free to choose the consequence for my actions.

Let's Get Healthy!

Coach Tia Hurt

Do You want to "Get Well?"

DO You want to "Get Well?"

* John 5:4-9 (NIV) One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
1 Jesus asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
o I would say I want to eat better/exercise etc. But I didn’t do anything about it. Well…I finally said
o DO IT! STOP MAKING EXCUSES! Get up! Pick up your mat and walk. Be made well
Many things I DON’T have control over. This I do. It is hard and not fun sometimes. But if I want to "get well" and stay well I must apply the things God reveals to you!

I challenged you to hone in on one thing and pray fervently to have it fulfilled in your life. For a changed lifestyle. Write it down when God speaks to you!

NOW GO BE MADE WELL! IN JESUS NAME!

We might need to be reminded of.

The obvious things today that we might need to be reminded of.
1 God wants me to take care of myself and He wants to help me do that.
We need to draw on His strength if we wish to have continued success.
2 We have Rules for life such as driving, taxes, bills, work, and relationships. We need recognize we also have rules for our body and the health of it.
3 We have freedom with all our choices.
4 However, we can not choose our consequences.
5 We can always improve, as long as we seek and try to.
6 We must change our thinking to change our lifestyle.

Start today!

Welcome! Hi I'm Tia

I have been a life coach for several years and now I am a Certified Personal Trainer.
My goal is to help anyone to have a healthy lifestyle.

First a little about my beliefs.
I choose what to do, not do, eat , not eat, work out, not work out. BUT I don't get to choose the consequences for my actions!
Neither do you =)

Settle with the Past! Engage in the Present!Believe in the Future!

I choose to be active!
I choose to live life and not watch it go by!
I choose not to be lazy!
With out God I would choose wrong.

"You" are one thing you have control over! Make it work for you!
SO...Stop making excuses. It won't help. The end result is the same. Poor health! JUST DO IT! =)

If you have time to watch TV, go to the movies, talk on the phone, and go shopping then you have time to work out!
If you can't do an hour then do 30 minutes. If you can't do 30
minutes then do 10 minutes. JUST DO IT! MAKE IT WORK!!!
Someone busier than you is running right now =)

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #7

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #7

PRAYER is a necessity for life changing results
1 I am committed to God, my husband, kids, church and job….
2 Where am “I” if I am truly committed to all of those?
3 When I take care of myself then I show I am of value and set an example to follow.
4 I want them to live a long and healthy life.

* Romans 12:1-2 1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
* Luke 11:28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it." That steps on my toes.
* Luke 9:23 Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his “cross” daily and follow me.
It’s not a bad thing say VICTORY in Jesus! When you walk away from something that was not healthy in you say “VICTORY IN JESUS!”
* 1 Corinthians 6:20 …you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. Are you honoring God with your body. It is not what we think of our body but what it can do for Christ. Our bodies are temporary.
Luke 9:24-25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?
Mark 1:35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.

I ask God to change me. I truly meant it when I ask Him. When my husband and I taught a prayer class I wasn’t praying regularly. I ask God to wake me up in the morning to pray…and I haven’t used an alarm since. I am not kidding! I used one everyday until that point. He wakes me at the time He wants me up. I smile almost every time I look at the clock because it reminds me that my God is good and true God!

TRI-TIA =-)

LET's GET HEALTHY

COACH TIA HURT

FYI: All of these are part of a seminar I teach "I DON'T DO DIET"

http://coachhurt.blogspot.com/2010/07/reasons-why-i-dont-do-diet-7.html

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #6

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #6

I am ALSORARE! Therefore I need to treat myself that way.
AL: Always...SO: Sometimes ... RARE: Rarely.
1 Always pick healthy foods (daily)
2 Sometimes eat out, have dessert, skip a work out.
3 Rarely eat junk food and dessert and never two days in a row.
4 I try to live by this simple rule and I am successful most of the time.
5. Write out an action plan!

Remember, I am free to choose my choices but I am not free to choose the consequence for my actions. We need to start looking at what we can eat and love to enjoy it! Not what we can’t . Focus is important. Just like Adam and Eve in the Garden. Eve focused on what she couldn’t have, not what she had.
POSITIVE!
Action Plan … Write it on on paper. I WILL DO THIS!
GOALS for success!
Then REWARD for success! Even if you are at 80%...20 % success you have had some sucess!

YOU CAN DO THIS!!

LET's GET HEALTHY

COACH TIA HURT

http://coachhurt.blogspot.com/2010/07/reasons-why-i-dont-do-diet-6.html

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #5

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #5

Application is MY responsibility and yours!
God provides everything else. He gives us the ability to get the knowledge needed to get or keep us healthy. We have the FREE WILL to do with it what we wish.

“THE MAGIC PILL” There isn’t one! And there is no Magic diet.

God might call you to eat a certain way for a period of time. For example He might tell you not to eat sugar for X amount of weeks.
That just it, we have to listen to what GOD is telling us. Not what the world tells us what we should or shouldn’t do. I know you hear this in sermons about your walk. Well you walk also includes your body.

What works for you? Why did it work for you? Does it still working for you? What doesn't work for you? Why? Write it down.
I challenge you to hone in on one thing and pray fervently to have it fulfilled in your life. I know God has spoken to us all at one point or another about our health. HE had to He is our father. He wants the best for us. Write it down when God speaks to you, then look back at it.! Do it for a changed lifestyle.

YOU CAN DO THIS!

LET's GET HEALTHY

COACH TIA HURT

http://coachhurt.blogspot.com/2010/07/reasons-why-i-dont-do-diet-5.html

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #4

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #4

We must change our THINKING to change our lifestyle.

Do You Want To Get Well?
* John 5:4-9 (NIV) One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
"Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

o Jesus asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

I would say I want to eat better/exercise etc. But I didn’t have a real plan. Well…God said to me, "DO IT! STOP MAKING EXCUSES! Get up! Pick up your mat and walk! Be made well!"

WRITE IT DOWN! Many things I DON’T have control over. This I do.

It is MY responsibility to put His action into place. YES! It is hard and not fun sometimes but just like anything it all becomes habit and part of who you are.
We have freedom with all our choices. However, we can not choose our consequences for those choices.

You must apply the things God reveals to you! Writing them down will help you remember the things He has spoken to you about and it will help you become accountable.

Now PICK UP YOUR MAT AND WALK!

LET's GET HEALTHY

COACH TIA HURT

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #3

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #3

We need to learn how to make life choices.
• We have Rules for life such as driving, taxes, bills, work, and relationships. We need recognize we also have rules for our body and the health of it to run smoothly.
• With a pour diet we pretty much know what the consequences.
What are some things? Bloating, low energy, low sex drive, many health issues, and irritability.
o This is where God’s Grace comes in. We can always improve our circumstances. He is a God of second, third, millionth chances!

If you are starting a diet thinking, "I will only have to eat this way until I reach my goal” you have already failed before you began.

Think this is my lifestyle, can I do this? How can I make this work?
You will be successful if you have a game plan!

DO IT!

LET's GET HEALTHY

COACH TIA HURT

http://coachhurt.blogspot.com/2010/07/reasons-why-i-dont-do-diet-3.html

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #2

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #2

Look at the obvious things that we might need to be reminded of.
• God wants me to take care of myself and He wants to help me in doing that.
• We need to draw on His strength if we wish to have continued success.
• God gave us this body we should not to waste it!
• HE knows what is best for us. ....Yes. You as a person.
o We are all individuals therefore we all need to ask God what He wants for US. God is the ONLY one who can know what is best for you. We might fall into a similar group with other people but we are all vastly different. Talk to your Maker and ask Him what you are, aren't suppose to do, eat, and not eat. He knows!
o That is why we have to seek Him and ask Him what we should do “today”. Everyday.

LET's GET HEALTHY

COACH TIA HURT

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Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet

The next flew blogs I will be writing will focus on a few things I teach in seminar class I have taught called " I DON'T DO DIET"

Reason's Why I Don't Do Diet #1

Being on A Diet (B.A.D.) has sometimes great results but mostly not positive or rarely long term. The long term I’m sure is everyone’s goal, as it is mine. I’ve seen what Diet does! It kills. We all have or know someone who does Diets. Looking for anything that will help them loose the weight.

What are some negatives about being on a diet? … In General
1. Not being successful
2. Low energy
3. Causes lowered self extreme
4. Feelings of failure causing you stop all healthy activity.
5. Feeling helplessness that you will never be able to get healthy or lose weight
6. Health problems because you are not eating enough or to much of something you shouldn’t eat.
7. Low energy
8. It boils down to not being very productive for a long life of living.

We have to get our minds thinking straight. Being on a diet is not for a life time of living!
We need to learn how to make life choices.

Let's get serious about a way of life.
More to follow =-)

LET's GET HEALTHY

COACH TIA HURT

TIA

http://coachhurt.blogspot.com/2010/07/reasons-why-i-dont-do-diet.html

I DON’T DO DIET

The next few weeks I am going to focus on my mind set of I DON’T DO DIET.
I’ve seen what Diet does to Myself, family member, friends, and well.. everyone to attempts and fails.
We all have someone we know who has or does Diets.
Sometimes with great temporary results but mostly not positive or rarely long term results.
The long term is what my goal is.

Let's look at the negative of Diets. We aren't going to look at any specific diet just in general.
1 Not being successful causes lowered self extreme.
2 Feeling of failure then you to stop all healthy activity.
3 Health problems.
4 Not a very productive or long life.
5 There is NO magic diet!
6 Therefore Diets don't work

LET's GET HEALTHY

COACH TIA HURT

http://coachhurt.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-dont-do-diet.html

The next blog will be positive! I always try to focus on positive!
However, we have to get our minds straight thinking about diets. They are not for a life time of living!

I DON'T DO DIET Class Starts Aug 22nd

I DON'T DO DIET Class Starts Aug 22nd

It a class that teaches Healthy Lifestyle Living.

The 16 week of topics

Week 1 Expectations

Week 2 Let’s Talk

Week 3 Goals and Action Plan

Week 4 RUN

Week 5 But I’m Hungry!

Week 6 Strength Training

Week 7 LIES! LIES! LIES!

Week 8 FOOD?

Week 9 Hurdles and Strategies

Week 10 What about YOU?

Week 11 STOP! STOP! STOP Whining!!!

Week 12 I want 2nds!

Week 13 Eat Me!

Week 14 What I Like About You

Week 15 Review Goals and Game Plan

Week 16 Pay It Forward

Come join me for the start of my 16 weeks class "I DON'T DO DIET"

at First Baptist Church Fairview Heights

Sundays starting Aug 22nd at 4:30-5:30

Have a great Monday!

Let's learn a healthy lifestyle together!

Tia

I DON'T DO DIET Class Starts Oct. 21nd

I DON'T DO DIET Class Starts Aug 22nd

It a class that teaches Healthy Lifestyle Living.

The 16 week of topics

Week 1 Expectations

Week 2 Let’s Talk

Week 3 Goals and Action Plan

Week 4 RUN

Week 5 But I’m Hungry!

Week 6 Strength Training

Week 7 LIES! LIES! LIES!

Week 8 FOOD?

Week 9 Hurdles and Strategies

Week 10 What about YOU?

Week 11 STOP! STOP! STOP Whining!!!

Week 12 I want 2nds!

Week 13 Eat Me!

Week 14 What I Like About You

Week 15 Review Goals and Game Plan

Week 16 Pay It Forward

Come join me for the start of my 16 weeks class "I DON'T DO DIET"

at First Baptist Church Fairview Heights

Sundays starting Aug 22nd at 4:30-5:30

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Let's learn a healthy lifestyle together!

Tia

My first 1/2 Marathon

Thursday, April 15, 2010

WOO HOO!!
I did my first "officially" half marathon! 13.1 miles!!!
It was the GO! STL in St. Louis Mo.
My time was 2:10:56
I was hoping for 2:10:00 and praying nothing less than 2:30:00
So i met my goal!
IT was very exciting! SO many people it was crazy. @ 12,800 people!
I started at the 8.45 pace line. I KNOW I wasn't going to run that but my girlfriends were there and they said it was so packed in past that point there wasn't any place to stand. That was at 6:30. The race didn't start for 30 more min. By the time it started we were packed in there.
The started I kept up with the 8.45 pacers (BIG MISTAKE!) for a mile or so. Then I dawned on me....I can't keep this pace or i won't make it. SO as you could guess droves of people began to pass me. I was feeling so defeated. For the rest of the race droves of groups would pass me. One pace setter group at a time.
I realized after the 9.35 pace group passed me; close to the end of the race ; that I can't let the 9:45 pass me or I won't make my time. Well my legs said WE DON'T CARE =-) It really didn't matter what my legs said my heart said I'm not gonna give up or in!
I ran almost the entire time. I walked at the water stations to drink.
OK who ever says downtown STL is not hilly has never ran it! I don't know how they managed to make the race all hills and only 3 or 4 down hills but they did. It seemed as if as soon as I would get to the top of a hill I'd think "WOO HOO! Down hill here I come" Then we would turn directions into another hill. Very creative people. I hope to never meet them =-)
I took 2 GU packs at 6 mile and 9 mile markers. I should have took 1 more. I ran out of steam at the 11 mile marker. I was headed up the hill and I almost go to the top and I HAD to take 3 steps my HR was 183. I took three steps and noticed the water station. MAN! I wish I would have seen that 3 steps ago. Oh well.... keep pushing on!
YOU ARE GONNA FINISH THIS! YOU ARE GONNA FINISH THIS! YOU ARE GONNA FINISH THIS!
Last two miles girl... here we go. Only 2 miles, only 2 miles, only 2 miles. I kept telling my self. Well it has to be less than 2 miles now... how long have i told my self that... stop thinking ! RUN!
There it is ! Is that the finish line? I don't know. It has to be right? WRONG. Everyone is turning. Where is the finish line. It has to be close! I turn... no finish line. But I hear them announcing finishers. I am close. I turn again. THERE IT IS!!! The FINISH line! I haven't seen my family the entire race but the start. Where are they? I want to see them! Where are they. There is the finish line!!! I try to push more. I am almost there...."Tia" WERE ARE YOU???? "TIA!" I look to my right and there all I see is my husband! He is beaming with pride. HE LOVES ME no matter my time!
Last push... Arms up, smile, FINISH! I AM a half marathoner!
Now let me sit down!!! they won't let me sit. My legs start to tighten up fast. They are cramping. I can't stop, I get pushed threw this troth for at least 15 minutes. Where is my family? Well I don't get to see them for a little bit. I did get to sit down and reflect on my accomplishment for a while.
OK now the part that NO ONE TOLD ME NOT TO DO!
I went home straight home (20 minute car ride) and took an hour nap. When I went to get up I COULD BARLEY MOVE! I decided to sit down and prop my feet. I thought that would be best.
It wasn't! My husband said, "I think you deserve dinner out."
Well, I could barley move at this point. I began to walked with very stiff legs. My son said it looked like I had something stuck =P. That posture would stick with me for 3 days! Man a live did it stink!
So, I talk to my marathoner friends and they all said "NEVER rest to long or sit to long after a race. Try to keep moving for a few hours after the race." OK!!! GREAT ADVICE A LITTLE TO LATE =D They gave me great tips on every thing but never did they prepare me for after the race. Never did I think to even ask.
All in all it was a wonderful experience. It has inspired many of my family and friends to do a race and get better in shape. So well worth all it!
I am praising God that He helped me with all of it. The willingness to run it, the preparation it took to do it, and the will power it took to finish. I continuously prayed during the race for my body, my friends who were running and those whom seemed to need some help in the race.
It was a great experience.
Thanks for walking threw the journey with me.
TIA

TIA's 1st Triathlon :)

Sunday, June 14, 2009

We headed for the Triathlon the night before. It was a 3 hour drive to get to the Triathlon. My hips and knees don’t do well in car rides. This time was no different. Our son and his girlfriend came to cheer us on.
We went to picked up our packet of info and ate at 7:30pm I always eat by 6. I was starving! We then drove the bike course. I was so confused. It was not an easy course to follow. They had road markings but not at some critical points. I began to get concerned. Then we looked at the run course yet another confusing course.

Side Note: There was a lot of turn a round points in the race. I can’t stand turn a rounds. They slow me down so much I can’t keep my rhythm very well. OK so I’ll chalk that one down to inexperience and lack of training.

My husband assured me that I wouldn’t get lost but if it made me feel good that I could take the map but that he was sure I wouldn’t need it. So, I didn’t take that map. Well… he was correct I didn’t need it. There were a lot of helpers on the course and I was in the middle of the pack. More about my ride later…

Triathlon started at 7:45 with a gun shot that made me head to the bathroom because I had to pee (TMI? LOL) It was so loud everyone jumped. Even after being warned it was coming and after hearing it go off for the Biathlons.

The swim was a staggered start. I got in the 9-10 min line. I warned everyone around me that was a great possibility that I might hit them in the pool if I have to pass them and I apologized a head of time. They all assured me not to be concerned.

WELL… I jumped in the pool OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH I screamed. Our son said many people found it humorous. NOT ME! The water was ridiculously cold. They just filled the outdoor pool 1 week earlier and it rained two days strait. At best the water was 60 degrees. It shocked my whole system. I couldn’t breath! I began to panic! It was awful. I couldn’t believe what was happening. I was horrified. All this training all the preparation and I can’t breath to swim. I stood up 3 or four times so much that that the swimmer behind me has caught up. I look at her and said, “I am panicking” she said, “Breath, you can do it” (I LOVE HER! Don’t know her, but love her!) I tried again and again and again. Now I am at 100 meters. I stop let her go and take a deep breath. In I go. I am headed to the next 50 meters. I am getting used to the pool’s chill. I can do this. I can do this, I can do this! Quickly I realize I can’t!  I swim anyway. Lord, help me do this! Guess what He was waiting, I should have asked earlier. Just as if I lost 100lbs right then and there. I began to feel what was going on. I found my rhythm. I passed one person, then another and another and yet anther! THANK you Lord, thank you Lord.
Most of all thank you Lord for getting “me” out of my head.

Unfortunately, I clobbered every one of those poor people on the way. Every time I hit someone I would stop, turn around and apologized to them then swim on. This happen 4 times. I bet I wasted a minute or more doing this. Our son took pictures of me passing then stopping and apologizing. FUNNY! Chalk that on up to being a newbie.

I get to the end 400 meters 10 minutes, even with all my mistakes. I got a big smile! I’m headed to T1.

Long run to T1 but not a bad time for my first transition. The fastest T1 time was .54 seconds. Off I go on the bike. I am loving it and smiling big. I cheered everyone I seen. Everyone. I was so excited and proud of everyone. I thanked all the volunteers, police officers, and spectators as I passed. I was so in the moment! I get to the point where the hills are coming. I smile big cuz’ I know I am strong on the hills. I am good at the hills. I can’t wait to do the hills. I pass 3 people while encouraging and cheering them. I grab my water bottle take a few big drinks, smile and look at the hill a head and say, “Bring it.”

OK a little cocky God reminds me when I drop my water bottle and have to head back to get it. Passing the wrong way to retrieve my water bottle, I smile at all those whom I have just passed and say, “Everything happens for a reason.” I knew someone was praying for me that very moment! Cuz’ I would have gotten mad at myself and discouraged but I didn’t. I got my water bottle and headed back up the hill. Again, I saying “bring it.” Cuz’ I know Who is on my side.

I get to the half way point, around 7 miles, and eat some beans I had taped to my bike. Take that off made my number slide down and start scratching my legs. I am ready to pull my number off my bike. It is so irritated. I remember I have tape on my beans. Yes. I tape my number and I don’t think about it again. YES!

I finish strong racing to the end with 3 other cyclist all women. We feed off each other, cheering each other to go harder faster. It is so exhilarating! I am really pushing it.
Then the down hill comes. I get so scared at down hills. I grab my breaks the ladies yell and I get disappointed in myself for not trusting that I won’t fall because now I have a steep hill to climb to the 2nd transition area, T2.

I look up there is my husband, Joe. He is on the run and he looks good. I am encouraged to see him. I cheer him on, I am so proud of him. I suck it up and push up the hill and see my son and his girlfriend there to cheer me on. I push a little harder and give a loud yell out. He gives one back  He loves me. Love is strong. I push up that hill to T2.

T2 went much faster, great time. During T2 a women asked what way we should go. I point and run this way. I hear my son yell, “NO, the other way.” I correct myself and start running the other way. I start to run down the hill. Again I hate down hills. The lady is running with me know. She says, “I am 38 years old and have 3 kids. How old are you?” I reply, “ I’m 37.” She say,“ High Five” I give it! She continues, “Look at us 3 kids later and look how good we look.” I giggle. I don’t have 3 kids I have 2 but all the same. WE continue to run together for a few more yards.

WHAT! I forgot my number. I panic! I ask the lady running with me, “I forgot my number will they disqualify me?” She says don’t worry about it. Yeah right. I do, a lot. I don’t stop thinking about it. I ask every volunteer I see. The same thing I asked her. No one knew the answer.

Up the step hill we go to a turn about. I get to the top pushing it all the way up. I look at my heart rate. This has to come down or I won’t finish. It did after taking 3 steps. I smiled, started to run and knew I would finish!

“Water?” I hear. I reach my hand out, of course I don’t stop running and you guessed it I choked. I forgot, walk and drink. No biggie I think, just keep moving. I keep moving and cheering everyone I see. I would say…’ This is it.~ You can do it.~ You’re doing great. Keep it up.~ Get after it~ Your at the end.”

I start down the hill turn and yep you guessed it. What goes down must come up. I see a big hill. I think no big deal I am good on hills. Then I realize maybe not after I swam and biked a few miles. I should have eaten some GU! Oh well, push on the first mile is always the hardest I think.

I see the first mile marker. YES, time to pick up my pace. But wait, what in the world am I running on? Grass and gravel? What I have more hills to go up? I am trying to get a faster pace. I pass one person. That made me feel good, but I just didn’t have the energy to run my pace. I just ran and cheered. I thought one foot in fort of the other and I am NOT going to stop. If I can’t do pace then I will just do!

I’m still asking every volunteer if I am going to be disqualified. Finally I get an decent answer around mile 1.5 from a volunteer. She says “ I don’t know but you have your number on your arm and your chip on your leg. Don’t worry about it.” Okay I say. I still think about it a few more times. What if…

I push back tears. It is all becoming so real, I am about to be a triathlete or am I? Tia don’t think run! I see a few people a head of me walking. Cheer them on. I say “We are almost done. Push it!” I run and think about what I just said to the other athletes. I am abut done. Push it!

I came around the corner the finishing hill. Where are they, where are they, where are they? I don’t see them. I pray my husband is okay. I know he has to be done. Lord let Joe be okay. I see people with signs clapping and cheering me on. They don’t know me but they are proud of me just the same. I know Joe is okay. Just run to the finish line, Tia. They will be at the top of the hill. I cheer all the volunteers and supporters.

There is love at the top of the hill! Get there! Go faster, faster, faster. I see them! They are waiting for me. I see them! I hear them! LOVE ~ PUSH IT! I push it! LOVE at the end! My husband is there he finished. He is a triathlete. I am proud of him. My son… Angie! I run hard. I cross the finish line, I am a triathlete. We are triathlete! We did this, together. God is good!
Hugs all around! They are all proud of me, I am proud of me and them. I feel the love. I am loved. I AM A TRIATHALETE!
Yes, you read correctly. I completed my very first triathlon and I was completive to boot

These are my times.
Swim 10:02 T1 1:43
Bike 43:02 (Rate 18.1) T2 1:05
Run 29:34 (Pace 9:31) TIME: 1:25:25

I got 3rd in my age group and 13 over all in women.

Thanks for going on this journey with me! I will am planing on doing many more.
Thanks for all your prayers.
And if you read this entire blog, you are amazing!
Thanks for all your support!
TIA