Wednesday, March 31, 2010 (Day 67)

I feel AWESOME today!  I enjoyed a personal pizza last night and stayed well within my calories.  I got on the treadmill, did my 5 minute warmup at 3 mph.  I stretched and got back on at my usual 3.5 mph.  About 10 minutes in I was feeling really good and decided I’d try jogging for a few minutes.  I was able to jog at 4 mph for 5 minutes.  I decided that I would jog for 5 minutes out of each 15 minutes (4 times total during the hour).  So I jogged a total of 20 minutes.  Walked at 3.5 the rest of the time.  It was really great.  I still hate jogging.  It still sort of puts pain in my knees (mostly my left one), but it’s good to know I can do it and still breathe.  Cayden and I stayed up ‘til midnight last night doing his book report, so there was no way I was waking up at 5 to exercise this morning.  So I have to do another evening workout tonight.  I hate it.  But I feel good that I’ve been doing it even when I have to skip the morning workout.  I had weight control oatmeal this morning instead of my Slim-Fast because it is snowing like crazy this morning and I’m freezing!  I got on the scale this morning.  I know, it’s become an awful daily habit.  I was reading my first posts on here yesterday and remembered that I said I would only weigh in once every four weeks.  Yeah, so much for that!  I just can’t do it.  I can’t even go a week.  Anyway, I’m down to 192.  That’s ahead of this week’s schedule, so I might allow myself a candy or two on Easter.  We’ll see.  Right now I’m feeling so good and I’m so motivated that I don’t even want a candy.  I can smell the 180’s and I’m LOVING it!  Next is 170’s!  And 160’s!  Dare I dream?