The scale has budged! Somewhat. I’m down to 146, but who knows if it’s just a fluke. It’s been 2 days in a row now, so I’ll keep monitoring before declaring it officially 1 lb down. Geez, it’s sad I’m excited about a pound.

Food-wise: so-so. I have good days and bad. On the brightside, I haven’t had pizza all week!

Exercise-wise: Swimming 4x a week regularly. Ran once last week. I’m satisfied with that. I’ve realized that swimming is the cardio exercise that suits me best.

People always say that running helps them clear their heads and that’s why they love it, well for me, it’s swimming. Who knows, maybe running will become that for me as I keep building up my cardio strength, but I don’t want to beat myself up about not achieving the running goals I set.

It’s going to be a slow process for me as I try to find the balance between school, work, life and healthy living, and I just have to accept that. I won’t become a 5k runner in 9wks. But maybe, if I continue building with 1 or 2 runs a week, in the spring I’ll participate in my first 5k race.

Also, I restarted taking pilates classes to strengthen my abs. My back pain has finally begun to subside. It’s still there with painful twinges when stretching or twisting a certain way, but it’s much better than it has been in the past month. Hopefully the pilates will fix it and prevent further injuries.

I’m also going to try the 30 day shred again. 1 day done. 9 more to go! (Let’s see if I can stick with it this time, LOL!)

I took some food pics last week but haven’t uploaded them yet. I’ll try to post again soon with the pics.