So for whatever reason I have let almost a year slip by and have only posted maybe two times! What?? Well, I'm gonna try to be better at this blogging thing because I love reading old posts and the things that I had accomplished.
So, where to begin? Lets start with going back to mid Summer when I was training for my half marathon. It was a really hot and humid rainy Summer and it just made it hard for me to run. I did stick to my plan most of the time but was just hard. One day it has to get better right?
My compression socks I wore on my long runs and made it a lot better for me.
All in all, training again even when I swore I wasn't going to do another half marathon, it really was nice training with my Aunt Shawnda and then having my daughter Emily run it with us to 5 miles then she did the rest on her own as we pulled ahead of her. So proud of her because she really didn't train for this half marathon. I asked her what she thought and she said she was proud she did it but would definetley train better next time!
This was us right before the race!
And a few before, during and after! I loved it of course but swore that I would not train for another half marathon in 2016! I mean it too!
Here are a few pictures during my runs in December! Never thought I would be able to run outside in the middle of December! These pics were taken on December 17th and it was about 40 degrees when I ran that day!
Still took a lot of my workouts inside at Love Your Body Personal Training! This pic was after a hard HIIT workout! I felt completely worn out too!!
Just a pic to show that I do wear and love normal clothes! I think I was heading out to have lunch with my daughter!
This was the Great Pumpkin Run 5k at the end of October. It was SO cold that day too but so much fun! Lots of hills and we had to do lots of walking which was okay because I was nursing a torn glute!
Then right around the peak of the holidays I stepped on the scale and this is what it said =( To be honest, I truly was not being good with my diet at all! I was getting my workouts in but I was eating pretty much just whatever I wanted and whenever I wanted. I'm not sure how or why I let myself get so comfortable with doing this.
So, once the holidays were over and 2016 came in, I wanted to make some changes. My daughter Ashley had asked me right before Christmas if I wanted to do the Advocare 24 day challenge with her. I knew I had to do something but told her I would think about it. I'm not a big follower of Advocare or Shakeology type diets. But, I thought I needed to do something for sure though, so I decided yes we would do it together and that I would go all in. So I ordered our Advocare and we started January 2.
I also wanted to start logging my food again so I could actually see what I was putting into my mouth. I try to keep my calories between 1300 and 1600 a day and for the most part it has been all good calories. My problem was the sweets. I have a strong sweet tooth and at first I thought it would be very difficult for me to cut that out, but it really hasn't. Yes, I do have my moments where I have caved and had a bite here or there but that right there is the difference itself. I kept it at a bite or two not the whole thing. And this has only happened a couple times.
We are on day 17 and so far I have lost a solid 6 pounds! I also just feel so much better too!! Definitely keeping count of my calories and putting them into myfitnesspal has been a great tool just to see what I am actually putting in my mouth.
It also helps when I wake up and plan my day already having my meals and snacks planned out!
I'm hoping at least by the end of the challenge that I have lost at least another 2 pounds making it a total of 8 pounds lost on the challenge. But of course I won't stop there because I want to meet my goal of 145. So we shall see. So just so I can put it out there I started at 167.2 and as of now I am at 161.6!
For my running goals for 2016 I have decided to keep it to 5ks and 10ks. I just want to have fun with the runs and build on my runs. So we will see! Right now I am not on a running plan I'm just running what I feel like for that day. I have thrown in a few tempo runs of about 2-3 miles but I'm okay with that right now due to taking it easy on this glute!
My plan for the blog is to use this as my record keeping for my weight loss and running goals! Of course, there will be other things to document with family and outings and happenings.
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