So I continue to be hopeful that I'm settling into a new routine. Losing weight is always hard, but it's easiest in the early days of a diet when you break the old routines (which made you gain weight in the first place) and your body responds by dropping some of those pounds. The problem with keeping the weight off is that a specialty diet of one sort or another (Atkin's, meatless, fatless, or whatever) is usually just a change and therefore not something that really sticks as a permanent new routine. Over the last few weeks though m exercise plan has really started settling in. I have people to run with on some days of the week and the gym on others. My diet isn't particularly varied or creative but it does generally keep the total quantity of food I eat down. I've also largely avoided eating out, though not as much as I might like.
I've been here before though and it hasn't stuck. One thing going for me though is that for a change my exercise plan isn't tied to a specific event. I am training up for another half-marathon, but I'm shooting for three this year. There might be a bit of a rest after I run the next one (and I might treat myself to 5 Guys), but I'm going to be right back to training. The last few years, hitting the half meant giving up running until it was time for the next one. Hopefully this time I'll have a routine that I get right back to. I don't love running the way some friends do, but I do like it quite a bit. I would like to keep doing it.
Food today: egg and cheese (300 calories), turkey sandwich (500 calories), a mini-kit kat bar and some peanut butter (200 calories) and some lasanga and garlic toast (1000 calories). Exercise was the lunchtime walk (100 calories) and 40 minutes of outdoor running (700 calories).
Daily Point Total:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 800
Points Earned: 1800
Total Points Earned: 88469
Points to go: 111531
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