Report Card

217.2

TUESDAY

Well I was "almost" perfect yesterday. I did go home and, after laying on the bed and whining to erik that I didn't want to do anything, I dragged my lazy ass out of bed and got on the treadmill. And - of course - I'm thrilled I did. I decided to try something different. I covered up the stats on the treadmill with a towel and just ran. I promised myself I would run for 6 songs before I looked at where I was. I roughly guesstimated that would be 20 mins or so and 2 miles or so. All went well till Erik popped in to see how it was going. So we "peaked" at about 1.14 miles (mid-way through song 4). Then song 5 was a Justin Timberlake song I downloaded that was like 7 minutes long! I got through about 3:30 then had to click next.

All in all, I peaked about mid song 6 to see I'd just crossed over the 2 mile mark. The goal was to do 3 miles straight - running - without walking. So the last mile I totally had to focus and do the countdown..."8 minutes left, 8 minutes left, 8 minutes left, 7 and a half minutes left, 7 and a half minute left," etc. You get the point. It was tough - but hell yeah I did it! 3 miles ran in 30:30. Awesome. Of course no incline, so that time would be much higher on real roads, but still. It's been a LONG while since I ran 3 miles straight.

I finished it out with a quarter mile walk for a total of 35 minutes and 557 calories burned. Very nice.

For dinner I had a success as well. After my run Erik & I were talking and he said "I want Pizza." Eww. I said. Yes, I actually said Eww to pizza. Don't know where that came from. Turns out he didn't really want pizza so much as he just wanted to stay home and not cook. So I made us both tuna fish sandwiches with light potato chips for dinner. Not bad.

I didn't have my 1200 calorie day unless you subtract the 500 calories I burned. I ended up scoring about 1750. But all was logged in sparkpeople. And I did see a little lower number on the scale today.

Still have some work to do by Thursday to avoid a gain, but we're solidly in the 217 area now, so that's better than a few weeks ago.

Here's to progress!