The journey from fat to fit. Road trip, woo hoo!

weight: 159.0

breakfast: coffee, one slice of what toast with pbutter

lunch: healthy choice entree

snack: granola bar and grapes

fuck up: 100 pounds of Kettle chips

dinner: tba UPDATE: HAD A GREEN SALAD AND BEETS FOR DINNER. AND THAT’S IT! YAY. Also have my alarm set to get up and run in the morning. We’ll see how that goes.

Training: I need to run. But I’m not. There’s not enough time. That’s a lie. There is “time,” but then I’d need a shower etc. and there’s not enough time for all of that crap before my mom chauffering duties begin. I hate days when I work. I hate work. But I hate being fat too.

weight: 160.2 I don’t guess there is much to be said about that.

breakfast: a banana and a cup of coffee

lunch: healthy choice entree, diet coke, 100 cal bag of pretzels

dinner: UPDATE: 1/2 of a gigantic pork chop, reasonable serving of mashed potatoes, beets, a garden salad, granola bar for dessert

TRAINING: not a scheduled run day, but I should do something, what with the 10 FUCKING POUND WEIGHT GAIN.

Recap of my week: no exercise, no binging, but definitely not clean eating. fresh start, new beginning, blah blah blah

weight: have not weighed yet

breakfast: cup of coffee

UPDATE: LUNCH: went out for a friend’s birthday. I had a cup (not bowl!) of lentil soup, plus we split an antipasto platter (three ways) and bread and cheese split. Had a diet coke.

DINNER: Tacos, made at home, with super lean ground beef.

TRAINING: just ran for the first time since the last time I posted a run here. gah. I have a half marathon paid for in January and I really need to get my shit together.

RUN REPORT: drove DD10 to school and left my car in the parking lot and ran home from her school, which is a sweet downhill slope. Preplanned with a friend to drive me back to my car. Baby steps. I’ll run uphill another day, but I thought a nice all downhill run would be a perfect get back into it kind of run.

Weather was light rain and 49 degrees. Time to get the ear band out, because the wind in my ears did not feel good. At all.

I was almost home after only about 15 minutes, so I kept running. I ran for 20 minutes, then walked uphill back home for 10 minutes. Total distance 2.31 miles. 1.8 of that was 20 minutes of running, the remainder was my cool down walk.

It wasn’t pretty, but it’s done.

Weight: 158.8. Not even making that up. In my defense, I was wearing heavy pajamas. Yeah. Right. That’s the ticket. Notice that I am laughing about this instead of crying. Because? I kind of feel fine. I do not feel extra fat or heavy or whatever, the things that number would imply. My clothes fit the same way they did last week at 153 - tighter than three months ago, but not impossible. So I am thinking maybe it’s a scale fluke? I don’t know. I don’t care.

Breakfast: granola bar, two big glasses of water, post-run

Lunch/Dinner: tba LUNCH UPDATE: healthy choice entree, garden salad, bag of 100 cal pretzels and a diet coke. I have a headache and I want to eat candy. I am pretty sure candy will make me feel better.

Training: Ran 1.83 miles x 25 minutes. Then I walked for five minutes for a total of 30 minutes, 2.1 miles. TWO MILES. WOOT! Also, no walk breaks in the 25 minutes of running. Even though I think I might have died a little bit.

MONDAY RECAP: I didn’t get around to posting yesterday. Busy ass day. And I didn’t weigh in either.

breakfast: one slice of wheat toast with peanut butter, cup of coffee

lunch: was on a deposition that did not take a break until 2:30 pm. That is WAY PAST MY LUNCHTIME. I was starved, away from home and in a pissy mood so I made a run for the border. I had the Mexican pizza and one chicken soft taco fresco, an apple empanada and a diet pepsi.

dinner: Since lunch was t 3 pm and was filling, I had an apple and two slices of cheddar cheese for dinner.

dinner — again: of course an apple for dinner seemed like the STUPIDEST IDEA EVER at 9 pm, at which time I had 1/3 of a cheeseburger, a handful of sweet potato fries, one spoonful of baked beans and a garden salad. Poor DH, when he was informed that I did not cook, he stopped on his way home from work (at 9 pm) and got himself a burger, sweet potato fries and a side of baked beans. And when he got home DD10 and I devoured 1/3 of his meal. So that’s one “cheeseburger basket” divided by three people, plus DH and I each had a garden salad that I made.

Training: there was no exercise on Monday.

weight: 155.8 — whatever

breakfast: one pc. of pumpkin bread and one cup of coffee

lunch: went to a thai restaurant with DH. I had one salad roll, 1/2 an order of fried tofu appetizer and we split a lunch sized portion of drunken noodles. And? We had leftovers. Let’s hear it for SELF CONTROL.

dinner: tba UPDATE: had a large salad, with a ton of beets, 1/2 a tuna fish sandwich on wheat and a handful of kettle chips. NOT A BAG FULL BUT A HANDFUL. progress.

training: just back from a run! woot! I soooo didn’t want to go, and I just went and did it anyway. I need to take advantage of getting out there on any day that it is not raining. I ran for 16 minutes, no walking breaks, and then walked for four minutes, for a total of 20 minutes out and a distance of 1.51 miles. I’m glad I did it

Other Exercise: DD10 and I are going to a swing dance party tonight. should be fun. DH is not going, which means I’ll get to dance with some people who actually know how to dance, which will be AWESOME. DH, bless him, tries his best, and I love him for the effort, but tonight is going to be a real workout, lol. UPDATE: dance was a blast. worked up a sweat which = calories burned, right?

weight: 155.2

PM report: Happy to say I made it to bed without any snacking, binging or otherwise partaking of food between dinnertime and bedtime. Woot!

breakfast: granola bar and a cup of coffee, but I will be having more coffee and pumpkin bread as soon as my friend arrives to watch the Twilight movie. She’s never seen it, so this is how we’re spending our morning. DON’T JUDGE. LOL

LUNCH/DINNER UPDATE: I had two slices of pumpkin bread and more coffee at around 11, so I skipped lunch. And, of course, was starving by 4:00, but on the road with DD10 etc. So we had Wendys for dinner. I had a chicken sandwich, grilled, but I also did have a small fries. And I feel kind of gross.

training: rest day. Nothing hurt when I ran yesterday, but a little muscle achiness set in in my thighs and butt last night. Today I just feel like, woah, hello, you exercised. So I may try to do a stretching video that I have later today. In the future, the non run days need to become cross training days, which I haven’t really figured out how I want to handle that yet.

weight: 155.6

breakfast: two cups of coffee and a giant slab of coffee cake

lunch: a granola bar and two big glasses of water, post run

dinner: UPDATE: large green salad, beets w/ low fat feta cheese, a reasonable (i.e. normal human sized) portion of pork roast and a small portion of baked sweet potato. A diet coke and a Reese’s cup for dessert.

training: I did it! I went for a run! Mid-day, gorgeous weather. Nothing hurts, but I could feel my jiggliness. And also? My running clothes are tight. T-I-G-H-T. Just measured the milage on walkjogrun.net and I ran 1.26 miles - ran 8 minutes, walked 1 minute, ran 7 more minutes for a total of 16 minute run with a one minute walk break. Then I did a three minute cool down walk which made my total 1.45 miles, 19 minutes. BOO YAH.

After dinner last night: one Reese’s “fun-size” and A LOT of kettle chips. WARNING: MAUI ONION KETTLE CHIPS ARE THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.

Did not run yesterday because it was dark at 5 pm. Got up at 6 am to run this morning. Guess what? PITCH BLACK DARK OF NIGHT. So I went back to bed. Now it’s seven and time to start the day.

I need a new plan!!!

Weight: forgot to weigh in. d’oh!

breakfast: bowl of oatmeal, two cups of coffee

lunch: Jack in the Box low fat chicken fajita pita, diet coke

dinner: healthy choice steamer bowl, salad, diet coke

training: um, yeah, no, starting tomorrow. spent the day trapped, I mean volunteering, at DD10’s school, and did not get home until it was PITCH BLACK out at 5 pm. And I don’t run in the dark.

Weight: 159.2 - not to be too graphic, but as much as this horrifies me, I know it will be go down at least 2-3 pounds when I resolve some, a-hum-cough-cough, potty issues.

Breakfast: 2 cups of coffee, one banana and one fat free yogurt

UPDATE: LUNCH: Healthy choice entree, diet coke

UPDATE: DINNER: small pc. of tri tip steak, reasonable helping of potatoes, large green salad, slice of toast, handful of grapes

GOALS MET: All meals at home, no candy. BOO YAH.

Training: rest day. I know, right? Rest from what? But I am following a half-marathon training plan and Mondays are a rest day. Tomorrow will be a run day.

I have registered and paid for a half marathon on Jan. 24. Let the training commence.