Under 30 BMI!

Last WI: 214.6/At Home WI: 211.8 (wow!)

SATURDAY

Well, WI on Thursday was good if not great. I lost 0.8 lbs. I'm satisfied, even though I had hoped it'd be at least a pound. I was running around all day, however, and even though I did quit drinking/eating by 1:00 I think I might have retained some water. Whatever - the home scale keeps going down, and as long a the WW scale does to I'm ok.

Thursday night I totally didn't go out like I usually do since Erik's parents are in town. I did splurge a bit on dinner, but it wasn't totally out of the realm of where I should be. The scale showed a nice 213.4 yesterday morning. I was "ok" but not great. I had a lot of small meals, and definitely ended the day over in points. I didn't make it to the gym either because it was Erik's birthday and we had lots of family plans.

So this morning, seeing 211.8 was a shock. I'm certain it's not dehydration because I didn't drink alcohol yesterday and got lots of water in. Who knows - but I'll take it.

I "celebrated" by hitting the gym this morning and having an amazing run. I did 6.11 miles in 60 minutes, then walked another .5 miles in 10 minutes. That's almost a 10K in 60 minutes. Now, granted that's not a personal best, but it's definitely the best I've done in over a year. I'm finally getting my running fitness back.

In 2003/2004, I was in great shape and could run 6 miles 3-4 times a week at about 9 minute miles. I'm working back to that and it feels great. Today's run was long, but actually not that hard. I kicked up the speed in the end, but over all I'm so pleased with my fitness level.

Hopefully the recent drop on the scale is a reflexion of that fitness level and I'm finally boosting my metabolism.

Today I'm actually at work - on a SATURDAY. Totally unheard of with me on this job. Just a demonstration of exactly how busy I've been lately.

I'm still waiting to hear on the job I interviewed for last week. I got an email from my recruiter on Friday asking how it went and reminding me to do thank-you emails. I'd totally forgotten. So I sent an email to everyone I interviewed with last Friday. I didn't expect a response from any of them, but I got an email back from the "lateral hiring partner" that I interviewed with first on Friday. He said: "Thanks for the note. I really enjoyed meeting you. I am sure we will get back to you soon, and we appreciate you coming by to see us." Sounds promising, right? I'm very excited but really don't want to get my hopes up. This job would be a great opportunity and I really liked the people I met when I was there. *crossing fingers!!!*

Anyway - back to work. I'm trying not to eat much today but I'm starving it seems. I'm going to have to keep it in control so I can see a good loss this week!