Going the Distance

12/18/09

It's been 13 days since I last wrote a blog post. True I was gone for 5 days traveling where I couldn't get onto the blogger site, but I still could have written it in something else and posted later. Traveling was tough on the eating part of the diet, though I did treadmill 2 of the three days that I had hoped to. Friday was a 6:00 AM flight after dinner out with the client and not getting to the hotel until about 11pm the night before so I knew that I wouldn't be exercising that morning. But I ate badly pretty much every meal with a couple exceptions with breakfast. This week hasn't been too good either, I've been eating a good breakfast, and mostly good lunches, but blowing it with dinner and snacking at night after. But I've been doing good with the treadmill and increasing my distance almost daily. I'm up to 2 minutes of walking at 4 miles/hr and running at 6 miles/hr for three minutes. Yesterday I managed to do 3.75 miles in 45 minutes. But I was just about wasted afterward and tired for quite a while that morning and afternoon. Since I'd been doing it each day of the week, I decided to take a day off today to let my body rest and recover a bit. So I'm pleased with my exercise, but need to get back on track for eating. I actually gained back 1.4 pounds on this past Monday's weigh in and expect I will have gained this week as well or best case, not lost any. Then next week is Christmas so it could be a challenging couple weeks for weigh in. I just hope I don't lose all the ground I made in the first two weeks.

The good thing is that I'm not getting too down on myself about it. I'm in it for the long haul and know there will be good times and bad and as long as I don't just completely stop exercising and trying to eat right, I feel good that I will make long term progress. I haven't completely abandoned eating well, I still have at least one good meal a day and often two since I got back from the travel. If I can stop eating out at night, I'll do much better. And I think I'll need to stop making or buying sweets as it's been really difficult to leave those alone.