Holy CRAP, Erin's got a BOOK DEAL!!!

You heard me right ladies and gents, Loose the Buddha is going paperback! (or hardback as the case may be). That is so fucking cool I can't EVEN explain it to you! GO ERIN GO ERIN GO ERIN!!!! And if you haven't already... pop on over there and congratulate the woman!!!

Ok... so in other news, I got my new workout today... it consists of the following: Smith Squats, Smith Bench Press, Weighted Hyperextenstions, Seated Cable Row, Walking Lunge, Kneeling - high cable - lat pull down (these were interesting), High Cable tripple crunch (that is really hard to explain but I'll try to find a picture) and high-cable reverse leg extension which I couldn't figure out at all (Alissa is still out sick) so I skipped them. Three sets of each, alternating medium, light and heavy days thru the week. This is what we'll do for March and in April she'll change it up again. Have I mentioned enough how cool Alissa is? In any case, day four of the hydroxycut experiment started off well. I really don't feel like I'm having any ill effects yet... course, I don't really feel anything yet... but I'm pretty much taking the lowest possible dose right now, so perhaps I'll get jittery or over anxious when I up the dose next week (as is recommended). Right now I'm taking one when I wake up, and then one around 9:30 to 10am and today I'll also start taking 1 at 2pm. My vitamins are giving me neon pee tho (despite hydration levels) which is a bit annoying since I often gauge my hydration levels by the color of my pee... or lack of color... but when taking vitamins that becomes a bit more difficult as you pee out so much of what you've swallowed. Oh well.

I'm already a little achy from the workout this morning... I expect I'll be feelin' it more as the day passes.

Got a Comp entry for the Shamrock Run (annual Portland St. Patricks Day thingie) on March 14th, so that will be my first official foot race of the year. Its only a 5k (I was going to do the 8k, but the 5k is earlier and MUCH smaller, and since I'm not so good with crowds, I think that will be the way to go) but it's a race and races are ALWAYS fun... (hopefully it doesn't rain). Oh... and Alissa put my pictures and "success story" up in the gym for all my coworkers to see... holy crap... that is a WEIRD experience. I have people I work with congratulating me on my weight loss/fitness improvement and that just blows my mind. I mean, its one thing for a whole bunch of anonymous folks on the internet to be reading and following along with my daily ups and downs... but now people I see EVERY DAY are emailing me... and saying hi to me... and congratulating me and patting my back and I'm wondering if this is my 15 minutes and I'd better soak it up while I've got it. :D

I don't know if I'll ever get used to getting attention for how I look now... but like Juju says... you have to learn to take a compliment... so I'm working very hard at just saying, "Thank You," "Thanks so much," "Wow, thanks!" and other such things... it's hard... I often blush and kinda try to brush it under the rug... but I'm getting better... I don't have much of a choice now, do I?

Posted by Lexy at March 3, 2004 07:56 AM