Getting Complacent at the Old Normal

Well I am writing in good spirits because we're about to go visit my cousin.  I always look forward to relaxed family time.  Slightly nervous about the car ride with the kids but I know it will be fun!

Weight wise.  I really need to write a time line of my weight gain but basically since this is my old normal, I don't feel so fat anymore.  However, its setting me back a bit because I feel like I'm not focusing as much on my eating as I should.  I gained last week 1.2lbs which brings me to an even 20lbs down overall as week 19 commences.  I feel like I can't complain after having so many weeks in a row of being down.  I enjoyed Valentines and all the chocolates, plus two birthday parties last week.  Why just today I enjoyed an entire bag of Valentine mini Snickers followed by many valentine almond Hershey Kisses.  Oink! Oink!  Now, I need to settle down and bounce back.  Unfortunately, bouncing back will be difficult to do on vacation.  I will give it a go though!    Good news is that in the last several weeks I've noticed that every third week I seem to lose a little more than one pound so hopefully my luck will hold out and I'll have a good week and it will pay off big time on the scale since this is the third week.

Running has not been going so well either.  My lower legs seem so sore when I run on the treadmill that this week I just got off of it and decided to rest my legs.  I ran my long run  of 7 miles outside, most of my splits were less than 10 minute miles but I felt heavy nearly the entire time.  I'm thinking the half marathon in under 2 hours is going to be really really hard but its supposed to be a challenge so we'll see.  I used the Precore today for my short run, its sort of like the elliptical with no arms.  Anyway, the upper leg muscles were the ones I was working in an effort to let my lower legs rest.  I was limited to just under 30 minutes since I only get 75 minutes for the baby and I had to use 45 minutes of that precious babysitting time to do gymnastics class with my daughter.  I'm really getting concerned about how many runs I'm shortening or just missing.  I have no idea how I will get my runs in on vacation.  Only 5 weekends until marathon weekend!!