35 pounds :-)

I haven't been able to run in 2 weeks due to my healing foot. I also had some desserts this weekend for Easter gatherings. The other thing I really did bad on during the past two weeks is I can not resist open cookie dough. I can resist baked cookies and even cookie dough that is sealed but not open dough. I have told Doug that from now on he has to make all the cookies or throw away the left over dough.

Despite my badness these past two weeks I still lost 2 pounds :-) I am now at the 35 pound mark and I am down to 21.5% body fat. My mom gave me some birthday money so I went to the mall on Friday night. I had forgotten that shopping can be fun and not lead to a depressed state complete with crying in the fitting room. I was able to shop on the clearence racks which I never could find my old size on. My new size is half or a third of the size I was depending on how the pants are made. While the shopping trip did excite me it did give me a desire to loose more. Aeropostale's pants did not fit me very well and I would like to be able to shop anywhere, not just certain stores.

My First 5K

Ginny and I used the Couch to 5k program to train for our first 5k which was one to benefit Relay for Life in Rockmart. I would have never followed thru with the training had I not had an accountablility parnter! We only got thru Week 3 of the program but we are doing much better now than when we started. I did actually make it thru one day of week 4 one day this week so maybe we will make it to week 6 before we do another race LOL. My goal was 45 minutes and not to be last place. We finished in 39 minutes and 53 seconds and were in the middle of the group so we met my goals. We trained for a flat race and there were a few hills and the humidity was bad but we still survived. I am so thankful that I decided to loose the extra weight and work on getting healthier. The seniors at this race amazed me and inspired me to keep working on getting fit. Several of them finished under 30 minutes. I want to be a happy and active senior and I really need to get healthy now to make that a possibility.