Ahh I finally broke my weight stalemate at WW this morning with a 1 lb loss. It felt good. I am now 1.2 lbs away from a some new HYC bling on the sidebar there... maybe next week!

I also completed week 6 of C25K today. It was difficult, and I had to slow down towards the end, but I finished and I know it will get better through the next week! It's pretty exciting that running a mile is now not a big deal for me and now I'm closing in on 2 miles :)

Just a quick end of the week check in. Ran week 6, day 2 of c25k this morning. No more intervals! The next 4 runs are 25 minutes, then 3 runs at 28 minutes, then graduation week- 3 30 minute runs. Hooray!

Haven't slipped up on takeout or had any binges or really even any temptations recently. I even threw out some leftover pizza a few days ago- 4 new york slices! I just hadn't wanted them and they got old and then I REALLY didn't want them. Who knew there would ever be a day I didn't want a NY slice :)

Busy week coming up.

I think I'm going to set a goal not to order food in until I go home for Thanksgiving. If I was planning well and considering portions when I order out, it wouldn't be a big deal, but I'm not. I tend to order out when I'm feeling out of control and wanting to cheat.

I haven't ordered out in a week and a half-ish... I don't exactly remember. But I wanted to tonight and resisted, so I just need to keep it under control like this.

Weigh in today... guess what... no loss! Ahhh ha ha. I looked at my log and I have not lost or gained one ounce in 5 weeks. I know for absolutely sure I was within points this week, so. Yeah. Sort of disappointing but whatever. My jeans are definitely looser the past 2 weeks, and losing a jeans size would make me happier than losing 5 pounds with no noticeable waist difference, so take that scale.

Today I ran week 5 day 3... yes, the dreaded 20 minute straight run. Well, I pretty much ran 20 minutes straight. A few minutes into the run, I hit the emergency stop button (which I've done at LEAST 6 times before this run, so it wasn't new). I was probably close to 3 minutes in, but I decided to count it as 2 and run 18 more just because I don't want to cheat. Well, I looked at the clock at 17:34 and a few seconds later... hit it again! I had probably already hit 20 minutes at that point, but I had told myself I would run to 18, so I restarted again with the intention of running one last minute. 45 seconds in, you guessed it. Emergency stop. At that point I gave up and left, haha. I'm pretty sure I figured out why I keep hitting it (not actually hitting the button, but rubbing up against the string that pulls it out which is wrapped tightly against the front bar). Hopefully I can correct next time and not deal with it anymore.

Other than that it was a fine run. The hardest thing was distracting myself from looking at the clock the whole time. Once I hit 5 minutes I was able to tell myself, "You're 1/4th done... 2 more minutes and you're half done... you're over half done" and that helped.

So, that's about it for now. I'm just going to ignore the scale and keep doing what I'm doing, because I know I'm doing the right things and someday the scale will catch up to me. Or else I'll be a size 8 and weigh 260 lbs :)

I finished day 1 of week 5 on Friday. I wasn't planning to run then, but I didn't have anything else to do, so I just decided to go for it. It went really well! So much better than any day of week 4. The walking break also seemed long- I guess week 4 served its purpose (ew). I wish the rest of the week would be the same intervals, but it's not.

I'm not much of a cook but tonight I made a really easy chicken recipe off the WW site. I just sliced thin cut chicken breasts into strips, dipped them in egg white and then bread crumbs mixed with garlic powder and reduced fat parmesan and grilled them on a foreman grill. I dipped them in fat free ranch. So good!

Weigh in today- this is the 4th week in a row I've lost nothing (and gained nothing). I don't think I can call it a plateau because I haven't been following the plan. I honestly think I would have lost something had I not eaten soo much last night, so I'm hoping that will show up next week (since I WILL be on plan this week).

I ran day 3 of week 4 C25K today. I am SO happy to be done with this week- honestly, the only thing that kept me running through the whole thing was telling myself there is no way in hell I'm going to run another day of this week. I know the running increases from here on out, but for some reason this week has just been screwing with my head and I'm glad to move on to something new. Also, hearing the podcast for it was starting to make me want to scream. Not sure if I'll start week 5 Friday or Saturday... I might take an extra day after this hellish week.

That's about it for now. I'm about to go grab a hot chocolate and get some reading done for tomorrow. I also have a job interview for next summer tomorrow afternoon; wish me luck!

This week I did really well food wise... until today! Oh my gosh, I was craving everything on earth today. Considering my eating the rest of the week, WW flex points, and work outs, I am still within my WW points for the week. Still, I don't feel great now.

I'm supposed to weigh in tomorrow. No idea if today will effect the scale or not, I guess it doesn't really matter. I still have to fight the urge to skip the meeting when I think there will be a gain or no loss, but I do fight the urge. I think in 9 months I've missed like 5 meetings... only 1 or 2 when I was in NYC. Not a bad record.

I also run day 3 of week 4 of c25k tomorrow. I will be soooooooo glad when this week is over! It's kicking my butt! I remember it doing this last time I did C25K too. I have felt great both times after I finish the run, but the next day I started dreading the next one. Well, I don't care what my brain says, I'm sticking with it this time. This also means a week from tomorrow I'll be running 20 minutes straight! Seems unlikely right now, but the program hasn't failed me yet.

Oh, I haven't updated in awhile. I've been busy and... lazy. Sorry. Also, didn't have a lot to update with. I didn't eat fantastic when I was home (but not horrible either). I missed weigh in that week, and the next week, was the same weight. So basically I'm still within .8 of where I was in July. But you know what, I'll take- better than a gain.

I feel like I've finally gotten back in control of my eating and have had a pretty good week. Hopefully I will have good news on Wednesday that I've broken free of 260! We'll see.

In fitness news, tomorrow I'll be running week 4, day 2 of C25k. Week 3, Day 3 was horrible- I had eaten poorly and not had enough water, plus wasn't feeling well. Week 4, day 1 was much better physically, but it was TOUGH! In this week, you increase your running from 8-9 minutes the first three weeks to 16 minutes this week. I barely made it through the last 5 minutes, and then only by slowing down- by the end I was only running 4.6 mph! I usually run at 5 and even that is slow. I'm not trying to win a race though, just get through it, so if I have to run slowly I'll run slowly. Hoping to be able to increase those speeds a LITTLE bit in the next 2 days though. We'll see :)