The Wall

Last Week- 181.6

This Week- 180.2

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Total Lost- 1.4 Pounds!

I am pretty pleased with this, I must admit that several times over this past week I ate small handfuls of chocolate chips.......sometimes several times a day......and I ate a dozen cookies. It was one of those weeks that reminds you that you are a woman, and you need chocolate. I was afraid to weigh in, because of all the chocolate, but I bit the bullet this morning and to my surprise I lost weight. YEAH! I may have tried to kill myself with chocolate but I also followed my training schedule and did a good amount of both running and walking.

NOW- to The Wall. It has been years since I have been below 180. I want to see something below that on my scale so badly. I get close, so close, but I never seem to break through that wall. I am predicting that next week- that wall will be gone! Hopefully that goal, that prediction, will keep my hand out of the chocolate chip bag.

Sept 30th? What?

Slacker! Slacker, Slacker, Slacker!

Well the good news is- I have lost 0.4 pounds since September 30th!!! Truth is I lost 2 pounds, then gained 5, then lost 3, then gained 4 and then lost 5. So basically, over the extended Holiday Season, from October to January, I managed to maintain my weight. I also ran a 5k on Thanksgiving day. That was pretty fun. I think I will do it every year.

NOW- back to work. I must get healthy, I must run! See Kate Run is about how I run, right? So I have set some goals for myself, for this year, and possibly even next year too.

This year I am going to run a 10k and a half Marathon. While I was looking for races I noticed that South Jordan UT puts on several every year, a whole series in fact, and I had decided to run their Earth Day 10k on Earth Day- April 22nd. Now, oddly enough, that day is a Friday and so the race is in the afternoon. I was OK with this. But plans changed pretty fast when I heard about a different race the next day.

Hope for Sarah 2011 is a 5k and breakfast fundraiser to help Sarah who has been battling cancer for 4 years. Sarah is a wonderful woman. She is a wife, a mother and a friend. She and her young family live in my neighborhood and when I saw that there was a 5k, with 100% of the proceeds going to help her and her family I decided that I would much rather support her than South Jordan. Not that South Jordan is a bad place, it is just not Sarah. So I am going to run the 5k twice! (As I have been typing this and looking up the information again I noticed that it now says 5k/10k) If you live in Utah, you should come support Sarah. The race cost $15 and for non racers they are asking for a minimum $10 donation for the breakfast- this donation would cover your whole family. So come and race or come and donate $10, $20, $50 and cheer for the racers and then eat! YEAH!

Okay, so that is my 10k. In September I am going to run in the 3rd annual Temple to Temple Half Marathon. More about that later.

So how am I going to achieve these lofty goals? Well. I know I can run 6+ miles because I did it several times last year. I am not ready to go out and do it right now, not by a long shot. So I got online and googled 10k and half marathon training programs. and Hal Higdon had some. I printed out 3. The 5k intermediate, 10k novice and half Marathon novice training programs and I have already started. I figured I would start with the 5k to work my self up to the amount of running you have to do for the 10k program and time wise, with a little tweaking, I will be ready for the 10k right on time, and then I have plenty of time to prepare for the Half Marathon. I may be insane, but I am really excited about this year. It is going to be a good year!

Now, back to South Jordan and their Race Series, They have 7 races this year and you can sign up for each individually for $20-$45 a pop, or you can do 6 of them for $120 (I think) or all 7 for a little more. They have 5k's, 10k's, Challenge Course races, Trail Runs and a Marathon. IF I can (meaning If I am pregnant and get doctors permission) I am going to sign up for the 6 out of 7 series. NEXT YEAR.

So those are my goals.

Oh, and today's weight was 181.6. Have a fantastic week!

Week 8

Previous Weight- 183.6

Current Weight- 182.0

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Total Lost - 1.6

Last Friday I took a run, a ran a mile, without stopping and really without feeling like I was going to die, which was amazing to me. Considering that I hadn't run since November at least, 1 mile was pretty good. On Saturday I took another run, this time I ran 1.75 miles without stopping I felt proud. I haven't run since. But I will.

I also have to admit that sometimes I forget to eat, I get really busy with the boys and I really have to stop and say, "Now, right now I have to eat" if I don't then I realize that it is 11 am and I haven't had breakfast or 3 pm and I have not had lunch. Today I have done better, I made time today, well really I wore the baby in the sling while I made and ate breakfast and I entertained him by playing peekaboo while I ate lunch. I want to avoid accidental anorexia- that is what I have named it- I am sure that forgetting to eat will help me loose quite a bit of weight, but I am also sure that as soon as life slows down and I remember/have time to eat each meal, I would gain quite a bit of that precious weight back, and I don't want that. So I have renewed my desire to eat well and eat enough. (I type that sentence right after I finished off two chocolate mint chocolate chip cookies- they were yummy, and hey, I will probably go run today)

Week 7

Previous Weight- 186.4

Current Weight- 183.6

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Total Lost- -2.8

I may be off by .2 or but I am declaring that I have officially reached my Pre-Pregnancy weight! Now I just need to get out there, work hard and attain my next goal, which is to lose 10 more pounds, at that point I will be down to my Pre-First-Pregnancy weight. And from there I can set new goals.

Last night I did some research, figured out that I have a Medium/Average Frame and that a healthy weight for my height and frame is 139-153. I have asked for help in coming up with a final goal, after some thought of my own, I think 140-145 sounds good. Strangely it almost sounds attainable.

Week 5

Previous Weight- 187.4

Todays Weight- 186.4

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Total Lost- 1 Pound

So that is half a pound a week, nice consistent weight loss. I am secretly hoping that I can lose 2 pounds before my 6 week postpartum Doctors appointment, but I don't think that is going to happen. Why? Well it is hard to lose 2 pounds in one week when the only exercise you are approved to do is Walk. I am sure I will get the Okay to Jog or Run at that visit next week, and so I can deal with not being at my pre-pregnancy weight for a week or two, I am sure it won't take too long to get rid of that extra 2 pounds once I can jog.

Week 3

So I figured we would start counting weeks again. Let's see how many weeks it takes for me to 1- got down to my pre-baby weight (183.4) and 2- to get down to my goal weight, which we will say right now is 145- it may change once I get closer but that is what it will be for now.

So here goes.

Last weigh in- 196.6

This Week- 187.4

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Total Lost- 9.2 Pounds

I think it has been 2 weeks or so, and I have lost another 9.2 pounds. For the first week I really didn't do anything other than try my best to stay alive. Having a new baby doesn't really threaten your life, unless you go driving around while completely sleep deprived, which I haven't done. But sleep deprivation does seem to be a good diet, your body has to work overtime and it must burn calories, I make this assumption because most of this weight loss occurred last week.

I realized that my weight loss was slowing down a bit, and that I was getting a little more sleep and had some extra energy and so I decided it was time to start walking again. I put together the new double stroller and the past 3 days I have had at least a little bit of a walk, a little exercise, outside. Hopefully we will walk a little faster and a little farther each day.

For now I am pretty happy. I have 4 more pounds to loose to get to my pre-pregnancy weight. Yesterday, my Sister told me that she was jealous of me. This made me laugh. I reminded her that I may have gained less than she and I typically do during pregnancy and as such lost it more quickly, but I am still at least 40 pounds overweight and so I still had a long road ahead of me. The good news is, I have renewed desire to make sure I get healthy and lose the weight. Five years from now I want to be able to write a blog post about how I am NOT a Diabetic. I hope to write another post like that 10 years form now too. I feel like I have been given the tools to make the necessary changes and the opportunity to make those changes as well. Now I just have do do it.

A New Baby, A New Body....

Last Week- 210.8

This Week- 196.6

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Total Lost- 12.2

Well, last Tuesday night my water broke, 4 1/2 hours later there was a sweet new baby in my arms, he weighted 6# 10 oz. So that half of the weight was pretty easy to lose, painful but easier than diet and exercise. The other weight I am sure came from somewhere but I won't dwell on that, I will just say, I have had the best week of weight loss you will ever see on this blog.

Next week I am going to start walking 1 mile per day, My doctor gave me permission! She also told me I could do sit-ups if I used my yoga ball, I am not so sure about the sit-ups, never really having been a fan of sit-ups and all, but I guess it would tone the large squishy area that I have in the middle of my body right now. I will think about it some more before I decide if the sit-ups are in or out.

It has been just over a year since I started this blog, and I weigh just about the same now as I did back in July of 2009, so I am feeling pretty good about my chances of continued weight loss and more importantly, better health. I just so happened to post a weekly weight last August 11th. On that day I weighed 193 pounds. So 196. is just under 4 more pounds. I kind of think that is cool, I mean it could have been much much worse.

One other change from last year to this year is that I have 2 followers. One of you I know quite well, and I was glad to see you following my progress. The other follower, I don't know at all, but I assume you have found something in this blog worth hearing about. So to both of you I say thank you! Don't feel that you need to stay silent, if you want to cheer me on, give me some verbal support, tell me I really shouldn't have eaten those brownies, FEEL FREE!

See you next week!