I met another goal. Lose, cumulatively, 20 pounds by Thanksgiving. As of today,over the past 14 weeks, I have lost 21. I am grateful for that. I feel so much better and my clothes are finally telling me I am losing weight. My goal of 20 by Thanksgiving was to help me not pig out and scrap exercise during the holidays. I don't want to mess up what has been done so far. Crossing my fingers it works. Also, I am going to try to do a calorie count on all my favorite foods. Not to say I won't have them, but if I know that one piece of toffee bar is 800 calories I won't have 6 of them at one time (I don't know how many calories they are yet and I won't be so annoying as to let the rest of my family know, unless they want to know.)
On Thanksgiving Day I am running the Turkey Trot 5k in Springfield. My goal? To run the race in 37:30. That would be about two minutes off my last race. That is a lot to ask, I know. But got to have a goal.
I have had trouble with the mid-afternoon sugar fix. Haven't figured out how to overcome except the fact I have no money to buy something. :)
Monday, November 23, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
A Little Bit of Catch Up
It's been a while since my last post. A little to bring you up to speed on.
I ran another 5k in Springfield last week. My goals were met. I wanted to be able to run the whole race and break into the 30's on my time. I did run the whole thing and my finish time was 39:36. It was pretty cool because I got to run it with my brothers and nephews. That made it fun.
Tomorrow is my second "6 week test." I had some strength goals, 15 push-ups, 10 burpees? (I think that is right). I am not worried about those. I will do them. I set a 10 pound weight loss goal. I am a little nervous about that. I feel good about losing 7-8 but might fall a few pounds short of 10. While I have made great strides in eating and exercise I still have some habits to kick. I guess I can't expect to change 15 years of bad nutritional thinking in just 12 weeks.
Thanks for all the help and support. I am still, overall, having fun. The competitive side in me really likes setting goals and working towards them. I also think I am truly addicted to running. I know, hard for me to believe too. I didn't run yesterday and all day I could do nothing but try and think of how I can make time to get a run in. I enjoy the feeling afterward.
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