Countdown to 2011...Day Nine

*blush* I'm not being a very good blogger right now. My reasons are good--getting tons done on my primary novel--but I also know that writing about my weight loss efforts has been key to my success in the past. Blog, I must!


I had so much catching up to do on Saturday that I literally forgot all about running until the sun was setting...I was so frustrated, but I guess I needed another day to rest. Don't want to do too much too fast when getting well, right?

What about that weigh-in though, eh?! 3.8lbs is not too shabby!! Ah, that feels good. I know some of it might come back now that I'm exercising again (water in the muscles, blah blah blah), but for now I'm loving seeing that number go down. I'm so close to being in the '40s!!

I finally went for that W8D1 run today. I really didn't want to go. At all. I talked to Bestie for a few minutes, and she was very encouraging. So I went, but I didn't want to. For one thing, it was 40 degrees, which is COLD to this Florida girl. For another, I hadn't run in a week and a half...and therefore had zero idea what to expect out of my body. Well...28 minutes DONE, and I wasn't even close to death!! Oh, man...what a rush! I did a full on Rocky double fist pump at the final chimes on my podcast. No, I'm not kidding. *double fist pump*

I am starting to feel like an actual runner now. Awesome, right? And even though I'm not a SUPER competitive person, I kind of like knowing that neither my represented-the-USA-in-junior-nationals-basketball-and-played-for-Auburn dad, nor my danced-and-cheered-through-high-school-and-college mom, nor my wants-to-be-a-real-life-super-soldier-like-Captain-America little brother, nor my pretty-much-lives-for-video-games littlest brother can run for 28 minutes without dying, but I FREAKING CAN. Yeah, it's in the plus column for sure. My college-baseball-star-turned-medical-student big brother can probably still run for that long, but he's a freak of nature and shouldn't count anyway. :D

So it's a little after 10pm now, and I'm sooooo sleepy. *yawn* Today was good. Important things happened, like my run. However, I know starting tomorrow, I'm probably going to feel hungrier than usual, so I need to be on my toes and NOT SKIP MY SUPPLEMENTS. Right.


Bonus: I've worn my new two-sizes-smaller jeans every day this week and felt AWESOME!!!!! Yay for smaller clothes!!