Glinda the Great and the Tin Man

Hi y'all,

Another week has passed and I finally start to feel like I am on the road and let me tell you about this week because it has been one hell of week. This week my Muscle Man, as it turns out, plays the part of the Tin Man in my journey. Why? Well as you might remember the Tin Man joined Dorothy and the Scare Crow on their journey because they all wanted a gift from the wizard. The gift the Tin Man was looking for? A heart. Now I have seen the determination in the eyes of my Muscle Man and let me tell you this. He is not at all listening to me whine when I start to mutter things like boring or ouch. He just looks at me without a word and just waits for me to do as I'm told. So you see my Muscle Man is in fact the Tin Man because when it comes to my training schedule he has no heart and he is tough as nails and the thing is....I'm actually happy about it.

Now after the first strength and core work-out under his all seeing eye, I had the second real encounter on my yellow brick road. Last Friday I met my Food Lady. The one person, next to the love of my life, that I am trusting with my daily habits concerning nutrition. Now as some of you might recall food has been my nemesis for a long long time. The past year and a half I have defeated his wicked side and now that I am confident enough and strong enough to look at myself and be proud of what my body is capable of, I am ready to embrace the soft side of food and forgive him for all his wickedness. And I'm confident that I can lose some weight without letting the dark side of food take over. Thus entered the Food Lady. 

I am quite sure after this first meeting that my Food Lady is in fact Glinda the Great because she was so spot on with her findings in my diary that I was somewhat in shock. After a long talk on my wishes and goals she explained her system to me and we agreed that I would work on it for two weeks. So when I looked at her idea/philosophy and my diary I knew the answer to my questions regarding pizza and chocolate pudding would be:

After these two huge encounters the last big challenge of this week was to synchronize all of my calendars into my cell phone planner because not only do I have my scheduled runs and work, I now also have to do a core&strength work-out 3 times a week and I do need more than just those things to get my sense of self-worth from. Guitar lessons and how about my make-up artist course? Yes well the only narly thing is....when I finally did get the darn outlook calendar to sync with all my other calendars, I freaked out. I am booked to the max until summer holiday. Luckily for me mapping out all my activities means that I am not giving up on anything and the love of my life, my knight in shining armour is my safety net. We will evaluate my goals and my schedule every two weeks. I love that man. He is so on board of my marathon and he is there every step of the way even though I am not always easy to handle. I can't stress enough how important it is to have that kind of support. Yes I am scared but at the moment I am more excited than scared and with my man riding next to me, Glinda the Great and the Tin Man on my side I am sure that my adventure will be epic. My only real enemy now? Time. Time is the wicked witch of the west. Time is Alphaba. So all I have to do now is not freak out.

And you? if you haven't already and if you would like to than you can join my adventure and contribute by donating to the cause. Help me fight ALS by clicking on these words and donate. Each and every cent counts and no amount is too small. You can track my runs and progress to if you like. How? Check out my runkeeper profile here

That's it for now. Until we read again.
As always, Love Marlies