So this week's weigh in was pretty much what I expected it to be. I didn't really stay on plan much this week at all. Not that I've been on my plan for the last 30 days. So now that Eid is close, I guess I should come clean and explain what my training and eating has been like for the past 30 days. But first let's go over the numbers. Today at my weigh in I did not lose, but I did not gain anything either. So it's what I call a "push" week. My number remains the same at 154.6. Julia was back this week, I was happy to see her face. I didn't log all my foods on my bodymedia this week, so I wasn't as accountable as I should have been either with my eating. So back to explaining what I've been doing for the past thirty days..... During Ramadan Muslim fast from sunrise to sunset. There are many reasons we do so, but it means no food or drink during the day. So I have to get up by four and finish my runs by 5:30 to be able to eat before the sun came up. There were days that I did not get up on time and days when I just couldn't break fast at 8:00pm. Because Ramadan landed in the middle of summer this year it meant the fast was from about 6am to 8pm every day. Trying to train for a marathon was difficult at best. Even now on my last day of fast I did a long run this morning at 9am and I sit here so thirsty. I am not hungry, just so thirsty, but this is part of what Ramadan teaches us. There are those out there in the world that live like this everyday. Not because they want to, but because they don't have clean drinking water or food to eat. I am blessed and this is one of the lessons I remember each year at this time. So I guess next year I will be up a little earlier and maybe that will help. I don't really know. Or maybe not schedule a run so close to the season. So I will be glad to return to my complete program on Monday and hopefully start going down on the scale and up on the mileage. Trying to 1200 to 1500 calories at 8pm was NOT doable. On a happier note, I was measured again today and those numbers went down. I've lost 7.5 inches since my last measurements and that makes the total inches lost now 29.5! Next week the weigh in will be on a Thursday because I work next Saturday. That means I will have to be good after celebrating Eid tomorrow. 
So how about exercise this week? I ran six days this week, I took a day off and did nothing but study for my ACLS. (Which I passed, if you care to know.) And I struggled to get through the rest of my runs this week. I did do my long run this morning as I stated earlier a seven miler that was down right ugly. I just wanted to stop and shower around mile 4. My mind kept asking my body if maybe it was only made to run a 5K. But I will not let my mind win. I will continue to train and hopefully this coming week will be better. I also need to put my core back into the mix. I stopped doing it two weeks ago and my back has been achy a lot this week. I guess I need to sit down and work out some type of schedule that I can live with. Okay, that's this weeks post. Until Thursday, keep moving everyone! ~ Darcy
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