This time last year my husband and I were packing up everything we owned again to move. I've been thinking a lot about the trip we made to the Grand Canyon and the beauty and peace there. I can't help but want to return to this park and visit it again. Pictures just don't let you see how big and beautiful it really is. Anyway, that explains this picture. Today I went in to the Jenny Craig Center to pick up some food and talked to yet another consultant. I'm going to give it one last try and if I get passed around again, I will then decide what I want to do. I did get on the scale and that was actually good news. My number for this week is 159.4. That is actually a loss of 1.8 pounds from my last visit. I picked up on the planned menu week one and dropped two days. I really hope that new food items are added soon, because I need a food change in the menu. I know which foods I like and which ones I just want to skip. Really I am going to do my best to get back on plan. I know why I wanted to do this in the first place and it wasn't for the consultant or anyone else. I started this journey for me, because I wanted to be healthy. I wanted to be able to wear cute clothes and not look like a slob when I was out running around with my husband doing chores. I wanted to run and run better with less weight on my body. My goals have not changed, I just think I kind of ran out of steam. Now I want to make to the Prairie Fire 1/2 Marathon at a weight of 155 or less. That is my next goal. So I stepped back on the train and got my ticket punched, let's see how I do. I also found a new running mantra and I think I'm just going to make it my life mantra for the next few months. "All I need to do is manage this moment." I ordered a new ID bracelet with this engraved on it. It just seems to fit my whole life right now. I need to stop looking forward at how much farther I have to go and just think about now with everything.
This week in exercise I was really lazy for the first three days. I did nothing, but I did manage to pull myself together yesterday and got in my long run of 11.5 miles and I did 5.5 today. I think I've found that my "wall" is at 10 miles. I did really well until I hit the 110 minute mark and then it started being a struggle to finish each running segment. And by segment I mean 3:34 minutes, followed by one minute of walking. I will have to run on Saturday and Sunday to get all my miles in for this week, but I think that I can manage that. I've started to prepare for my race now. It's in about 32 days, so I went a bought a new pair of pants today, size large and new shirt, size medium. That made me smile. I still think I need a new pair of running shoes, we will have to see if I can manage it next week or not. So there is this week's post.
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