Annabelle3117's Journal, 15 March 2014

Good Morning!!! Quite a surprise on the scale for me this morning, and I can't complain about that. In my head: "Hey what do you weigh? .... 195.8.... noooo, shut up!" Me, seriously? Insanity, I say! Basking in that realization for a moment... ahhhhhhh.

Okay, yesterday... boy do I have a story to tell you! So I told you yesterday that I was going to head to the gym when my husband got home. We all got home, and I did not want to go. Every bone In my body wanted to spend the warm spring like afternoon with my husband and kids. But then I was like NO. lol My buddy mars goes after work, sacrificing time at home with the family, I can do the same. So I went to do a 5k. I started out on the treadmill slowly increasing my pace until I felt warmed up, then I increased it to a jog and set off on my merry way. I had only planned on jogging 1/2 mile, then heading back down to a walking pace, but I got to the .5 and thought.. "I can keep going, if I want to". So I did. I continued to run one full mile!! I took a break for about eight minutes, continuing on at walking pace, then I thought... "I could do that again". So I did! I didn't want to lol, there was a mental war being waged, good vs. evil...

"Just stop this is too much too fast"
"NO! I'm not dying, I CAN do this!"
"You're going to hurt yourself, running one mile is admirable enough, don't push yourself over the edge"
"I will never know what I can do if I don't try"
"You've done enough, stop at the 3/4 mark."
Jillian Michaels - "I'm tired of hearing your excuses Yolanda, Just finish the damn mile. RUN"

Yes, she lives in my head lol. So I ran for a total of 2.2 out of my 3.1 miles yesterday. Quite an accomplishment indeed. I pushed myself, never knew that I could do that. It won't be long now before I'm running it non stop. Oh, and for the record my new 5k time is 45:30min. I started at over 56min.

Then came the dinner dilemma.. oh my! We ordered subs from our favorite pizzeria. I ordered my favorite, a twelve inch Italian sub... ugh, to die for. Here is what I did different though, I split it with my kids! Whoop Whoop, no tempting leftovers and I'm saving money. I cut my half of the sandwich in half, so I had two 3inch pieces of sandwich and I thought to myself, okay I'm going to try and eat this mindfully. I'm going to eat slow, and really taste this. Here is how the first piece of the sandwich went down... "Nom Nom Nom That was really good". lol I have a tendency to 'shaggy' my food, especially overly delicious foods. (You've all seen shaggy eat on the show Scooby doo, right) Luckily I had cut the sandwich in half so I had a second opportunity to do it right. I took a break, I took some breaths... then "Nom Nom Nom, gone". I looked at my husband and told him to give me his sandwich because I needed more practice.... bahahahaha, I'm hilarious. It really was good though, and it satisfied. I will work on the mindful eating.

So today Is the day! Votes are in and I've made my decision, Lord I'm chopping off my hair and donating it! I've found some cute medium length styles that I'm hoping will look good on me but there's only one way to find out. Plugging my nose and jumping in with both feet. Here goes nothing! Today is my off day, although I've been putting an awful lot of thought into my food choices and calorie content for an off day lol. I do want to stay at my maintenance number though, not a binge fest.

I hope that everyone is feeling joyful and blessed today.

"Life is good, even when it's bad" - Me

195.8 lb Lost so far: 90.2 lb.    Still to go: 0 lb.    Diet followed reasonably well.

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2107 kcal

Fat: 105.75g | Prot: 124.32g | Carb: 130.16g.   Breakfast: Blue Bonnet Regular Margarine Sticks, Oscar Mayer Real Bacon Bits, Egg, PowerBar Triple Threat - Caramel Peanut Fusion, Coffee-Mate Original Powder Creamer. Dinner: Cheesecake Factory Skinnylicious Margarita, Perkins Restaurant Sweet Yeasty Dinner Roll, Robert Rothschild Farm Onion Blossom Horseradish Dip, Beef Top Sirloin (Lean Only, Trimmed to 1/8" Fat, Select Grade), Longhorn Steakhouse Sauteed Mushrooms & Onions, Texas Roadhouse Sweet Potato (with Butter), Texas Roadhouse House Salad. more...