I know, I know, I know...

Good news!  I lost 4 pounds this week!!! I have been doing this group training deal for 4 weeks now and haven't hardly lost a thing.  This week I cracked down and what would ya know....I lost 4 pounds!!! I feel like I'm actually off to a good start now!  I started paying close attention to my calories and trying to stay as close to the 1200 mark as I could.  Yesterday I finished with 1,242 calories eaten and NO exercise.  I was going to be under 1200 but then I remembered that my trainer said never to be under 1200 for the day so I had a Kashi cookie!  It was an oatmeal chocolate chip! It was FABULOUS!!! 

This morning I burned 556 calories today.  We are 4 weeks into our 12 weeks of large group training so we checked our progress on our goals.  I GUESS My goal at this point was to be able to run a mile without stopping.  We do 10 laps at our gym on the track is a mile.  4 weeks ago I jogged 2 miles of the 10.  That means I walked 8 laps.  I maybe jogged a couple spurts in there but overall-walked 8 laps.  This time, I walked 2 laps and jogged the other 8!!!   I wonder if I could have done more but there was a girl that usually doesn’t work out with us in the morning sessions and she kept pace with me the first 2 ½ laps and then she wanted to walk.  I pushed her to keep going a little further and said then we would walk a half a lap.  We continued to do that…then we would jog a lap, walk ½ briskly, the jog a lap.  She said she did WAY better that time than she did before so I’m happy I actually helped someone else.  We even sprinted the last parts of a few laps!  I didn’t cut off as much on my time as I would have liked (like 2 minutes) but I feel good about it because I helped her! 

Do you like to have a few cocktails?  If you like Margarita’s or daquri’s?  I believe it is Zilch.com…but you can order these packets…so if you want a margarita you order tequila and water at the bar and then mix a packet in with it.  It is a ZERO calorie mix so the only calories come from tequila and it isn’t very sugary so you don’t get gut rot from it!!!!  Same with daquri’s you just order rum and water.  

I was doing GREAT this morning and was all ready to have my turkey sandwich and a protein pudding for lunch but someone brought in this thin crust apple pie deal today.  It was AH-MAZING!  I did good though, I think!  I only had a small piece and even though I wanted the rest of the 1/2 of pie, I didn't.  I looked at it, I practically drooled over it, and then I got up and walked out!

Yesterday I did great eating.  Like I said, I was right around 1,200 calories.  I didn't work out because Chad FINALLY came home from being gone SEVEN DAYS and I was super excited to see him and we had some things planned.  Oh well.  I got back up and got going this morning so I know, I know, I know...life happens sometimes.  Balance your days and keep truckin!