Day #87- gym membership today

I walked this morning 4.6k and it felt great. I am experiencing some hip pain, but hopefully will subside soon. It seems to hurt when I am running. I took last week off of running due to the pain and it went away, and then last night went on a nice jog and it starting hurting again. I wasn't doing a correct heal strike and so now I am and now my hip hurts. Before I was running on my toes and everything hurt to my feet, calves, shins and now it is just my hip. Strange, eh?

I decided yesterday to go an renew my membership at the gym. My treadmill is buried downstairs and right now there is no where to put it as with the bowflex. Too much stuff downstairs with renovations.

I will post later to see my results with the gym and with my eating.

Keep it up! It's hard work. I want chocolate! Why me?

Not quite sure what day it is as I haven't been doing that great in keeping track of my meals, my exercise, my steps and my daily walking schedule along with meditation.

Here it is approaching the end of May and I have kind of slacked these last few weeks. I was doing so well in losing the weight and I lost 10 lbs and was very proud of myself. Instead of continuing down that path I started down the path of my old habits. It is hard to stay focused and to keep my hand out of the cookie jar, candy isle, ice cream and whatever else is out there trying to get me to indulge in stuff that isn't good for me. Those food companies don't care about me or what I am struggling with. If they did they would stop putting that junk on the shelves.

Day #62- What have I lost?

Okay, today is weigh in day and also time to update my body composition.

Body Composition Log
weight loss - 10 lbs
body fat loss (percentage) - 5.1%
Lean mass gained - 2.6 lbs
Body Fat loss (lbs) - 12.6

Weight - 170
Height - 5'8"
Body Fat - 34.2%
Hips - 39"
Waist - 35.5"
Chest (across) - 39.5"
Neck - 13"
Thigh - 23"L, 22.5"R
Calve(flexxed) - 16"

Running Schedule
Run Ratio - 1-2 breaks
Distance - 4.5k
Time - 39:21 (previous run 41:00)

Pedometer Log
Steps - 20, 387
km - 12.63

Day #61- (8 weeks 5 days) w/ Venice Nutrition

Well tomorrow is my weigh in date. I like to take my measurements at the beginning of each month and also weigh myself. I did weigh in today and I am .2 oz from meeting my 10 lb loss goal. Time will tell. My average at this time is 5 lbs a month. It is slow going as I am still learning and I still have thing for sweets.

Today I went on a nice 90 min. walk. I walked at a pretty good pace and when I reached the top I decided to run back down the road until I reached the trail again. It was going great until a friend I was with decided to run on the trail. I am not that coordinated yet to be trail running.

Today my son made a mii on wii and also signed me into wii fit, and once my age and weight and composition was in it said, "my wii age was "70" yikes! It also said, "I was overweight", which I already knew.

Pedometer Log
Steps 14,785
Steps into KM 10.64k

Day #60- Feeling the rush

My goal today was to beat my last running time as we do each run twice to see if we can beat the last time. It is a bit tougher run as there are lots of mini hills and not a lot of flat surfaces to run, so I find it hard to catch my breath. I made sure I didn't eat right before running. My last meal was 3 hours pre-run, so that helped alot. I found I was quite thirsty this time. I need to make sure I am well hydrated before running.

Running Schedule
Run Ratio - 12:2
Distance - 5k
Time - 34:33 (previous run 42:40)

Day #58- Never eat before you run!

Yes, I ate an hour before a run. I decided to make a blueberry protein shake and drank it an hour before I ran. Big mistake. It just sat in the bottom of my stomach. I felt awful. Not a good run today.

Running Schedule
Run Ratio - Breaks as needed - I did 10:2
Distance - 15 minutes out and back
Time - 30:27

Day #55 - Running with the husband

Once again I had plans in the evening, so I dragged along my husband to run with me. We both ran the route where we started at my friends house and ran downhill and then walked up hill and then continued on to the friends house. My husband wanted to see if he could run up the steep hill. He made it up and over the first hill, but the second hill was just too steep, so he walked up it.

Running Schedule:
Run Ratio - 1o:2
Distance - 6.5k
Time - 45 min (estimated)