Well another week has passed and a lot has changed in my little world this week. The economy finally has impacted my life and I didn't take the news real well. On Monday my husband was "let go" due to the company which he worked for downsizing. This came only six months after they had moved us to El Paso. We found ourselves in a bit of a pickle. We have moved twice already in the last year and three months and do not really have enough saving to move and start over in another city. So we are left looking at all the options out there and wondering where do we go from here. We still are looking at what we can do, want to do and what would be the costs for all of these options. I have decided that I will stay on the Jenny Craig program as long as I can, because I deserve to be thin. I want to reach my goal and we can manage the cost if we are careful in other areas. It won't be easy, but I will continue as long as I am working. That is a definite blessing in all this, I have a good job. We will move forward and be okay, of this we are both sure.
That said today was my weigh in day, I'm am happy to say I was down today. The number for this week is 176.4, for those playing along at home, this means that I have lost 30.8 pounds since starting JC two months ago. I lost 4.8 pounds this week. Today was my two month mark, I did not get to meet with Erika because she was busy doing something else for the company today. I met with another consultant she was okay, nice, but not Erika. You get used to someone and changes are always difficult. She will be back next week, so it's okay. I was increased to 1500 calories daily in prep for my 10K run the Saturday in June. Yes, I still am planning to go for this race. It may be the last organized run in another city that I get to do for a while. So we plan on just going and enjoying the trip and family. So my consultation wasn't long today and we didn't really discuss anything in particular. I did make some changes to the menu and had to smile a little when I added a new breakfast item and removed a breakfast bar. The consultant said to me "That may increase your daily calories." I simply replied, I'll just run a few extra miles that day. Getting too many calories has not been a problem for me since starting the program. But this week I will focus on getting to the 1500 mark daily and getting all the runs in I need for my training.
My training this week did suffer a little. I know most would say that a lot of runners take two rest days a week, but I am not most. I did not run on Tuesday or Wednesday of the past week and only walked on Thursday and Friday. My mileage is at 16 miles for the week I think and I did run twice on Monday just to get some "quiet" time, which means that I did 7 miles on Monday. So next week I plan to get some serious mileage in so that I can start to taper back down for the race. I just want to get one more 6.5 mile run done before the race. I also want to get in two arm days and two ab days. This is the plan let's see if we can get it in.
So this week I was reminded that life is ever changing. You can sit on the side of the road and let life pass you by or you can move forward. So I do not like the changes that life has given us this week, but we will move forward. We will take the next exit and get on another highway that leads to bigger and better things! I discovered that I can make it through a stressful time without eating anything and everything for comfort. I went for a run instead. I think means that I have made progress and I am proud of myself for this! So that's it for this week. Til next time keep moving! ~ Darcy
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