Not Many Points to Eat

Yesterday was a great eating day for me. It was amazing to me to see what happens on the scale when you eat just the points you are supposed to eat. Oh Happy Scale.

Today was not bad, but I did eat over my alloted points. Only by 2. Not sure why I feel like I've eaten 2 pounds of food over my points for the day. I'm working so hard; I really hope that I am not up in numbers.

I don't have any revelations for today. Nothing glamorous to share. No major downfalls either. I do wish that I could get outside for a good walk.

Perhaps I'll have more to share when I feel a bit "better."

Love in Losing,

Jenny

Walking Around Town

In my motivation to get fit, I've signed up for a 1/2 marathon in St. Louis in April. I'm pretty excited about it. Back in the day, I used to run a lot. The thought occurred to me then that I might enjoy a race of some kind. Before I had a chance to look into training for such an event, I had a life-changing surgery. This was followed by marriage and kids. No more "me time".

Since the race is on a day when the kids are at their Dad's, I knew this was doable. NO excuses. I signed up and paid my money. This means I am now committed to the deal. I went to a site where they (for free) will give you a training schedule. Oh My Word, it is a 14 week schedule. That means I should have started in late December. Yikes, it's February already. I'm a bit late.

So, yesterday I got my butt up from the computer and went for a walk. YAY, me. I was determined to walk for an hour to see where that got me. I was cut short of that and was done in around 35 minutes.

For those of you who know where I live, you are familiar with the GIANT hill outside of my subdivision. I went down that hill, came out near Poppy's walked toward KFC and back up the huge hill. (Like the food references to the route I took?) Ironically, I got a call while at the very bottom of the hill. (This is important to know, because then I could use the clock on my phone to reference how long it took me to walk back up the hill.) It was 2:16pm. When I returned home it was just past 2:35. --YEAH, the hill SUCKS.

Part of point though is that I walked the firt leg, a bit longer than a mile, in over 10 minutes. For my first time out, I don't think that's too bad. Next time, I am going to take that hill down and come from the other direction on my way home which is a much gentler slope to conquer.

I feel pretty good about all of this. If only I hadn't eaten so many of my WPA on Sunday. No worries, it'll work itself out with excercise as it usually does.

Today's diddy: "Don't put off til tomorrow what you can walk off today."

Love in Losing,
Jenny

Ps. Thanks Tracey for inviting me and everyone else to join you in the walk.