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A Cleansing Recap
January 16, 2012 by · 12 Comments
Well, we did it! đ Â We survived our 10 day cleanse! Â This was really Teal’s 3rd time doing the Advocare cleanse since as we mentioned before she is a distributor for it. Â A few years back a teacher colleague recruited a bunch of people to participate in the cleanse and that’s ultimately where Teal got started with Advocare. Â If you’d like to purchase any Advocare products you can through Teal’s website.
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There is any additional Advocare product called Spark Energy Drink that is a recommended part of the cleanse that we left off. Â As far as the pills and what not go with the cleanse it is broken up into 3 days, 4 days and 3 days. Â You start your first 3 days by drinking a fiber drink each morning, take 4 to 6 of the OmegaPlex pills with your dinner and a packet of the Herbal Cleanse tablets at bedtime. For the next 4 days, wake up and take a packet of Probiotic Restore pills, take 4 to 6 OmegaPlex pills with your dinner and packet of Herbal Cleanse tablets at bedtime. Â The last 3 days of the cleanse consist of the fiber drink in the morning, 4 to 6 OmegaPlex pills with your dinner and packet of the Herbal Cleanse tablets at bedtime.
Part of why we both wanted to do this cleanse was just to jumpstart back into eating right – you know kick off 2012 the right way! Â It was kind of rough combination of coming off marathon training and then three weeks later Christmas where it’s too easy to eat and drink too much, so we were both ready for a fresh start.
A lot of people asked what are you allowed to eat on this cleanse? Â Well, you are allowed to eat a lot of clean food! Â You can eat fruits, veggies, proteins, and clean carbs. Â So if you are a carboholic then there is a bit of a transition for you, but ultimately you eat in a way that you really should be eating regularly. Â We both ate about 5 meals a day and here’s an example of the plan Teal mainly stuck with throughout:
Beth recruited two people she is around the most to also participate in the cleanse – her fiance, Brent and her sister, Kate. Â It was definitely nice having other people who were doing the cleanse and to stay strong in not drinking and not eating anything that wasn’t on the list of approved food. Â So when it came time to eat dinner with Brent’s family at Cheesecake Factory for his sister’s Birthday it was easier to stay strong in clean choices together than alone!
One thing to be said about the cleanse and working out – Advocare does recommend that you workout every day while participating in the cleanse but in your first five days you might want to keep from pushing yourself as hard as you would like because you might experience light headedness. Â As your body adjusts to the difference in eating it will begin to adjust to your normal workout routine as well.
For Beth one aspect of the cleanse she really enjoyed was finding some healthy food options that are realistic to carry over past the cleanse. Â One such item that can be prepared for the whole week would be chicken salad using chicken boiled in chicken broth with whatever seasoning you’d like, bell pepper, celery and Kraft Mayo with Olive Oil (reduced fat).
Overall, all four of us that participated in the cleanse feel better and it doesn’t hurt that all of us combined together lost a total of 32.5 pounds! Â Teal dropped 5.5 pounds and Beth dropped 9 pounds. Â Thanks to Kate and Brent for participating too and hope that the 9 pound drop each was well worth those ten days! Â The cleanse is recommended every 90 days so in April you might hear about us cleansing again! đ
Have you done a cleanse before?  What keeps you going  back to cleansing? Or what keeps you from participating in a cleanse?
December Tweener
December 15, 2011 by · 1 Comment
Thanks to Beth’s trainer, Johnny, for the term “tweener!” đ Â At workout whenever one rotation of weights is completed he always gives a tweener before you start your second rotation. Â Tweeners are fun things like mountain climbers, cherry pickers, spider pushups…you get the idea!
Once we finished our FIRST EVER MARATHON đ Â we knew we had a few weeks before we would do the New Year’s Double race, so if we were going to keep up with the running we needed a PLAN! Â So above is the plan we devised – we knew the first week of it would be questionable since we would have done our first marathon and had no idea how we’d feel after it. Â Do you know how we are doing? Â Check back with us tomorrow to find out! đ
Thirteen Miles & Feet Problems
October 18, 2011 by · 1 Comment
Because we ran/walked Susan G. Komen 5k on Saturday, we both set out for our long training run Sunday morning. Not sure that either one of us was really in the mood to run. Our plan was to start at around 7:00 a.m., but Beth sent a tweet about 7 that said –
âI am trying to use mind control to tell @Likethecolor she should come over at 8am and we’ll run our 13 miles. Haha.”Â
It worked and we really didnât set out until after 8:15.  Luckily the weather is much better now so starting later isnât as big of a deal. Thank God!
Teal decided to try running without her camelbak for this long run. She has this thing where once she feels tired she doesnât want anything to touch her and starts to blame being tired on crap touching her. Lately it has been getting worse, all though about half way in the run, Teal wished she had it based on thirst alone. We started out fairly fast given our prior training runs, but really we both still feel kind of slow. Beth felt pretty good body wise but just lacking in speed for this run. Teal was actually hoping to feel the same, but that didnât happen.
We both had a rather scattered training week all together. According to our marathon training plan, we were supposed to run 5 on Tuesday, 8 Wednesday, and 5 Thursday and basically that didnât happen. Beth ended up with 4.71 on the treadmill which is not bad considering it was the treadmill without music. Teal made it 4.47 but literally stopped twice to walk. Then the 8 was interesting too, Beth made it 3 of 8, she said her mind was just checked out from her crazy week, and Teal made it 7.72 but it was not pretty, it took her 1:22 minutes and she walked, her mind was all over the place too. Neither one of us made the 5 and then really we walked the 5k so we lacked some miles this week. You would have figured our legs were pretty rested, but thus they were not. Beth was sore from Johnnyâs and as soon as Teal started running her knee kept popping out of place. She figured it would go away but it literally never really did. We are worried about this knee. Teal ended up stopping at about 10 miles, (shoe issues) then had to run/walk that last 3. Beth ran some circles around to stay close and asked Teal if she wanted to stop but really was like- you keep going- Iâll eventually keep moving.  Teal decided to walk up the hills (really there was one left) because that hurts the most. Teal made it 12.54, Beth made it 13.1. Slow but done, we guess thatâs what counts- or at least we hope??!!
We both went to brunch after the run with a bunch of friends and both of our significant others joined for the first time. We were both surprised they came! They usually avoid the social brunch thing, typically make fun of us in their loving way but they came! We actually think they ended up enjoying brunch more than either of us expected.
Tealâs foot was bothering her so much she could barely touch it and her hubby had to carry her to the car. Teal also b-lined it back to Lukeâs Locker who graciously helped her change shoes as well. They are so much better than buying shoes at like Academy or other places – very helpful.
 
 We both decided we needed some stretching and went to Yoga that night as well to stretch out and de-stress! Yoga actually felt really good on our sore muscles.  Teal had been contemplating the yoga thing again due to price, but decided it might actually be much better for my body then what she was currently doing â maybe save her from muscle issues. We shall see! Beth goes a lot and it seems like she has way less issues- she has some feet and knee problems, but is usually able to recover quickly.
We are hoping that this week brings a better training week altogether. I am sure you saw Bethâs post a couple weeks ago about what was happening with her work outs and Tealâs has been fairly similar. We need out of the funk!! This week we are supposed to run 5, 8, and 5 again and we had to change our long run around because Teal is leaving for San Fran Thursday and Beth to Austin so the plan is to run 12 miles alone and then 19 miles the next week Sunday night (10/30). We are actually going to make our planned 19, a 20 miler possibly inspired by fear and also reading one of our Twitter Friendâs blogsâ Courtney actually ran two 20 milers, a 22 and a 24 before her first marathon. We are slightly worried about the fact that training to 20 miles is all we have; there are still 6 more miles to cover!  Surely some of that is newbie worries – right??
The Story of Teal & Beth
September 30, 2011 by · 1 Comment
So we officially became bloggers 7 months ago and we started off with race talk immediately, the goals we had for ourselves, why we were blogging and all that fun stuff. We both realized that really you guys probably donât know much about us besides that fact that we run, run some more, brunch, and well you know indulge in the occasional adult beverage, but what you may not know is how we met and how we have actually gotten to where we are nowâFriends!
We met each other really randomly the first time through a party one our mutual friends had at the time. I had always heard about the infamous Beth Lynch and was really kind of nervous to meet her. She came to the party and we didnât talk much, but rather I just sort of stayed close to our mutual friend. In 2006, Beth and I, and our friend were all graduating from college and decided to take a beach trip! Basically to celebrate that accomplishment and it turned out later to be an annual thing⌠more about that later! I would definitely say we were âfriendsâ at this point but really didnât do much together or talk or really hang out on our own. I donât even think we even had each otherâs phone number at that point. Our beach trip was awesome, but we really never âbondedâ about much. Just talked and stuck with the people we knew most at that point.
After returning to Texas we hung out a while, went to birthdayâs, random get togethers and had even starting a âcraft nightâ to which my husband refers to as, âdrink and gossipâ night. One of Bethâs best friends, Rebekah, around this time had gotten engaged and was planning her wedding. We all gathered basically once a week and helped her prepare for her wedding- glue stuff together, address and lick envelopes- you know crazy wedding stuff!
Rebekah's wedding in Pampa, TX
As I mentioned earlier the beach trip turned into somewhat of a tradition and that next summer of 2007 we made it to Cancun again. Definitely by this time we both had grown much closer in terms of friendshipâwe had each otherâs numbers for sure đ
Rebekah, Beth, Teal & Vanessa - 2nd Annual Beach Trip!
In 2007 Teal got engaged to her long time boyfriend and really this is when things really changed.  I really wanted to have Beth be a part of my life on a more of a â yea she is my friendâ level and I asked her to be a bridesmaid in my wedding. She of course said yes and then everything just sort of went from there. Beth and I bonded big time about my wedding and the happenings involved with that. I really felt like she cared- You can tell, she makes a great deal of time and effort into her friends and really did anything and everything she could to help and support me with the wedding. I was slightly crazy (donât judge- most brides are) – but she never batted an eye- including nights where we would glue, unwrap, wrap, and make crap for hours. (Notice a pattern?) She was there! Not to mention I got to use her amazing handwriting – yes you should be jealous!
So you know how we mentioned that annual beach tripâin 2008 we decided to change things up and went to the Dominican Republic! Of course as you have probably guessed by now- more bonding and hanging out and all that fun friend type stuff. Â My wedding was in November of 2008 and basically everything went off without a hitch- minus of course a short temporary moment of panic about my bracelet, but beyond that nothing. Below you can see Beth in her running around madness at the wedding!
Dominican Republic Beach Trip
We flew to Hawai’i that next year to visit Rebekah and tour Hawai’i – Beth who has now flown with me a million times had gotten used to my routine, holds my hand, lets me cry like a 2 year old, and lets me sit by her! A task I am sure not many want! Hawai’i was probably the best trip of my life!
On our way to Pearl Harbor and our hair got stuck together
Things kind of got a little crazy after this year. I had started graduate school, had started working for my dad at MowerMedic and was also teaching. Life was insane. So insane in fact that I had no time off, ended up exhausted and ran around like a crazy person trying to get everything done. Beth always managed to stay around and was always encouraging to me. No real trip took place that year, but I did meet a girl through grad school who would but a bug in my system about running a half marathon. I had talked to this girl in my program about running a 1/2 and neither one of us really thought we could do it. We had talked about it with each other and really realized this was a goal and something we both wanted to do! By September Beth and I really started training and kind of kicked things off with the Tour de Fleurs race and basically went from there- both completing our first half marathon at White Rock.
Mary Alice (who happens to be Rebekah's sister), Teal and Beth after finishing White Rock Half
Upon finishing you could tell that neither one of us was really that satisfied. I honestly think it went something like âthatâs it?â I know for me I looked around at all the people finishing the marathon and was likeâwe have to do that! Beth of course said âif youâre in, Iâm inâ and that is how we got to where we are now.
Since finishing the first half we have spent super amounts of time together, the four of us Mandy, Rebekah, Beth and I have spent New Yearâs together, traveled to Mandyâs wedding in Cancun and hang out all the time! It is safe to say that this is a friendship I cherish with all my heart- as cheesy as it might sound. Sheâs not just my running buddy- I think you can see!
New Year's Eve 2010
We are only two short months away from this yearâs goal and I know I would never have been here without her support and out support of each other. Beth has a six sense really about the social media world and mentioned a blog- I really have no idea how to do anything technological- She is the brains behind this posting business!! I really kind of thought this blog would not be what is now! This has not only helped us running wise in terms of motivation and accountability but also to learn so much more about each other and become better friends in the process and not to mention has opened both of our eyes to the huge running community.
And a couple of goofy pictures of us to end it all:
– Teal
The Big A
August 29, 2011 by · 4 Comments
That’s right we are talking about – alcohol!
When it comes to training for races do you normally give up drinking for a certain amount of time? Or just stick to your routine and maybe just have one drink the night before a race?
I’m sure you’ve noticed on our joint twitter account that we both enjoy a good happy hour, wine night or a drink with our significant other. You might especially notice this if you follow our personal twitter accounts. đ
Right now we are 7 days away from running our next half marathon and both will refrain from alcohol this week leading up to the big race! But we’d love to hear everyone’s own take on alcohol versus training!