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

weight: 154.0 it’s amazing what NOT EATING A FAMILY SIZED BAG OF NACHO CHEESE DORITOS daily x three days can do for you. Downright amazing.

breakfast: 1 slice wheat toast with pbutter and a cup of coffee

LUNCH UPDATE: healthy choice entree, diet coke, had a bottle of water while running. 100-cal cookie pack.

DINNER UPDATE: small tilapia filet with veggie topping (Trader Joe’s), steamed squash and garden tomatoes. SO DELICIOUS, why don’t I cook every day? Oh, yeah, work. Crap.

exercise: leaving now for 45 minute violin lesson with DD10 and then dropping her off at school, followed by a trip to the gym to run 5k on the treadmill. I need to run inside and “control” what I’m doing. Planning on a slow mile, then a faster mile, then a slow mile, then a .1 mile sprint. Hoping for 36 minutes or under for the whole shebang. 

RUN REPORT: Obstacle No. 1 — could not find my flipping gym card to go to the gym, so I decided to just park at DD10’s school, drop her off and then run. Obstacle No. 2 — as we are walking into the school, DD1 decides she HATES HER HAIR IN THIS HEADBAND and can’t go to school without a ponytail, so I had to take down MY ponytail and use the elastic in her hair. So now I couldn’t run because no ponytail. And not because I’m making a fashion statement but because my hair is long and I sweat profusely when I run and ick.

So I went home and decided to tear the house apart and find the blasted gym card (which I did). Got distracted and ended up sweeping and dusting the living room and dining room, polishing the table and buffet, loading the dishwasher and cleaning two bathrooms. THAT’S HOW MUCH I DID NOT WANT TO RUN. 

Went to the gym, ran on the treadmill. Did not die, though my HRM was indicating that I would keel over at any second.

Mile 1 = 5.3 mph 30 SECOND WATER WALKING BREAK Mile 2 = 1st half at 5.6 mph, 2nd half at 5.3 mph 1 MINUTE WATER WALKING BREAK Mile 3 = 9 minutes at 5.0 mph, 1 minute at 5.3 mph, 1 minute at 5.6 mph and BOOM I was at 3.11 miles and DONE. 5k in 36:04. Not dead. Boo yah.

I am running in the 2nd annual SAUSAGE FEST 5K on Saturday. Only because (a) I want another sausage fest tee shirt complete with jogging sausage and (b) a friend is peer pressuring me into it. At least today proves I (a) won’t die (b) will finish and (c) will finish in less than an hour. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

UPDATE: Forgot to include that I walked .4 of a mile to cool down so my full mileage was 3.5 miles. Also did not mention that even after walking for eight minutes at a slow pace, my heart rate was still 135. Um, what exploding artery?