Week 39, One Month Left

It's hard to believe that November is over.  Today is the 30th of November and my cousin has officially won this month's challenge.  But we have agreed to continue on.  No strict amounts of pounds to lose again, just who will weigh the least at the end of the month.  I had my weigh in today and my new number is 165.0, which is a 2.9 pound loss for the week.  This coming week I do have my wedding anniversary as a challenge, but I will work on that day, so maybe it won't be as much of a challenge as I think.  With the holidays coming, my husband will spend a lot of time at work and on Wednesday (our anniversary date) I will work.  We will try to have a dinner together sometime time next week for sure.  I'm not ready to sum up the year yet, as we still have 31 days left in this year and I am still hopeful that I can make some changes in my numbers.   I can say I felt better this week, better than I've felt in quite a while.  We are still alternating my calorie counts daily between 1200 and 1500, other than that not much has changed.  So I plan to continue on for another week on JC and I really want to be under 160 for the new year.

As for my exercise, I did get in one mile every day this past week.  Some of them were not pretty miles, but they were done,  I also did my two days of core.  I've pledged to continue on with my one mile every day this week and have pledged to do three days of core, icky!  I am training for my 5K Jingle Bell Run, but it's only 5K and I don't feel like I'm training hard enough.  I have been in the dumps for some much of November that I really feel like I need to give this 5K a little more attention or the "hills" may come and bite me in the butt!  I am also seriously thinking of doing the Michelob Ultra 1/2 Marathon here in El Paso scheduled for February.  That would mean that on Sunday I would have to officially start my training again and really get serious with the miles.  That might just help me reach that 160 or below mark for the last day in December.  So there you have it, that's me week.  I feel a bit better this week and I'm looking forward to some running.  Til next week, keep moving everyone! ~ Darcy