Jurrious Life

Fitness Journal:   I’ve logged in 34 miles so far and today is day 34 of 2009.  My goal is to average a mile a day for 365 days.  I count my hour step class as two miles and any miles logged in on a different machine other than the treadmill counts as half (i.e. 4 miles on the elliptical = 2 miles toward my goal).  I’m averaging 14 min/mile and last night I weighed in at 122.0.  After a month my body is responding but I haven’t really changed my diet at all.  In fact, I’ve eaten at Honey Pig twice this month, had KFC during the Super Bowl, ate at CiCi’s the night before that, and I still indulge in a beer or glass of wine here and there.  If I cut that all out I’m sure I would be under 120 by now.  My diet is probably not going to change in February either since my birthday is coming up and I’m making my annual pilgrimage to NYC to feast on all the delectable deliciousness the city has to offer.  I rationalize this by telling myself that I need the extra insulation during the cold months so I’ll change my diet when the weather gets warmer.  But working out does make me eat less and now I’m keeping a food journal to document my fatgirl tendancies.

I walked/ran a little over two miles on Monday before my step class for about 35 minutes.  Yesterday I did three miles in 50 minutes.  My left calf was killing me all week.  I just found out it was because my shoe was tied too tight!  At one point I couldn’t feel my pinky toe.  

 I like doing walking/running intervals rather than jogging at a steady pace continuously.  Maybe it’s because I’m too out of shape to jog continuously!   The sucky thing is I haven’t lost any weight.  I can feel my blubber firming up so maybe I have to build some muscle first then burn the excess fat.  I’ve heard that changing my diet will drop the pounds.  My last weigh in was 123.6 lbs.  I want to go the Crescent Trail but it’s too cold outside.   I was thinking about trying a 5K this spring or fall.  We’ll see…