I am happy to report that I thoroughly enjoyed vacation. Lots of very relaxed family time on our 14 hour road trip to Atlanta. My husband and I liked it so much we want to move there! Very exciting. I was a little nervous about the weigh in today since I have not tracked my food in the last two weeks but I got good news down 1 lb, making 21 lbs overall as week 21 begins.
For most of high school I'd say I was in the 130s and occasionally as an adult for big things like my wedding day. In college I was in the low 140s and then for the rest of my 20s upper 140s. By the time I got pregnant (at 28 and then again at 30) I considered 150 to be my base. After having each child I gave myself a year to get back to 150 which I did. It definitely got harder with each baby. My second child will be three on June 1 and I know for sure that on her first birthday I was down to 150. Roughly 2 years ago something somewhat gradually happened that made my weight jump up to 170. I assumed it was my eating habits although I really couldn't put my finger on anything in particular that I was regularly over eating. I decided to train for a half marathon because a couple of friends spoke so highly of the training experience plus they both lost lots of weight. I trained and sweated all throughout the summer of '09 yet really only got down to about 165 by the time I completed the half marathon in October. I began to think that perhaps this was normal to gradually gain 5 lbs every few years, especially after having the kids. I decided to train for another half marathon because I enjoyed the challenge and wanted to lose more weight. During my training this time I got pregnant with my third child. Upon seeing the doctor this time it was determined I had a growth on my thyroid that needed to be surgically removed. I thought I was so stupid to blame myself for the weight gain when it was my body telling me something was wrong. The doctor still says my growth did not effect my hormone levels hence could not have effected my metabolism nor caused my weight gain but looking back I realize it must have. Today I am 165 only 5 months after having had my third baby. All the baby weight is gone, I am so proud of that. Next goal is to get my BMI back to normal which for my height is 155 or less. Then my ultimate goal is 145 or maybe 140 still need to decide. While I do celebrate 165 as being my old normal, I was reminded over vacation as I looked at myself in the mirror wearing my bathing suit, that there is still work to be done and I'm still over weight. Back to tracking my food!
I really did have hopes of getting my runs in over the vacation, it never happened not even one. So how is that I lost weight? We did do some walking, but the biggest thing was probably our brunch and early dinner meals (skipping the third meal). I like doing that anyway. Back to the running, when we got home I decided to do a run (the only run for that week) of not 5 but 6.5 miles! I really felt good without any soreness. It still annoys me that I still feel heavy and never really hit a stride until late in the run but I was really quite happy to be out for an hour running for that long and again my splits were mostly under 10 minutes. This week I got my first two training runs in and I have my MIL coming over to babysit tomorrow so long run will happen tomorrow. I was supposed to do 8 miles last week as a long run. Wondering if I should do the 8 miles this week or do what I'm supposed to this week which is 5 miles or third option do something in between the two? Really happy that the treadmill soreness has subsided and my time really seems to have gotten better, this week I did a 5k in 26:50!! Today I did 5 miles in exactly 45 minutes! Go me! Although I do these training runs and think, "This is the pace I'd have to keep to finish under 2 hours! There's no way!" So while I run and ponder these goals I have determined my degrees of success:
(1) I will always be happy just to finish without injury
(2) I will be even more happy to beat my old time of 2 hours 19 minutes
(3) I will be over the moon if I finish in under 2 hours because it will mean my pace is just about 9 minutes per mile.
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