Week Two is 2/3rds Done!
Today is the first day of fall! I have completed the second day of the second week of Couch to 5K!
I look so worn out because this is after the run AND a session with our brutal, loving personal trainer. Plus I just have sucky hair.
My knee was causing me a bit of trouble recently. Allow me to age slightly as I say this…
My right knee is bad. It flares up every so often.
*sigh* Yeah, I know that makes me sound a million years old, but I DO have a bad knee, and it DOES flare up every so often. I’ve kept it wrapped the last two days and iced it and all of that fun stuff, and today, while it is a tiny bit stiff, it feels mucho better. I took TWO days off between my first run and my second run for week two; I was a little afraid to take THREE days off, though.
But to my extreme pleasure, I found that I missed it! I was not happy about having to miss out on my “run” last night, and I had an absolute blast hitting the neighborhood with Tina (soon-to-be Mrs. Logsdon) and Malcolm (still a rather stupid, if handsome, puppy). This one was a little tougher than some others, I’ll be honest, but it still felt great to just get out there and do it.
It may be fall here, but the weather is not exactly following suit. It’s been in the 90s around here. Fortunately, it is VERY dry, and we’re hoping that the dryness holds out until October 8th, which is our wedding day. I’m hopeful that the trees will have a little color in the leaves. We’ll see. No matter what happens, I’ll definitely be posting the pictures and video here when we return from Antigua.
And speaking of going to Antigua, I’ll be gone for a week. Even if I have internet access, I’m pretty sure I won’t be blogging. But I’d like to keep my blog going. Would anyone like to (or be willing to?) write a guest post for my honeymoon week? Please email me at jeremy@stellarpath.net if you would! I’d be very grateful!
Oh, and one quick thing to share about my diet. I made a very conscious decision to eat cleaner today, as I had come to the realization I was eating a lot of crap. Today felt like a much cleaner day, and I found that I was both less hungry and I had more energy. Why can’t I remember how I feel on days like this the next time I’m craving a Pop Tart or a bag of doritos?
The most vile junk food known to man… and the tastiest…
My biggest problem in eating is that I don’t always know what to eat, and I’ll end up grabbing the first thing I can find. That’s not always healthy. For the last two days, I have planned out my food for the next day. I’m allowed to go off track if I need to, but if I am hungry, I can just look at what I’ve planned for the day and I know what I am “supposed” to eat.
How do you keep from mindlessly snacking?
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Hey Jeremy,
I just read your post on Half of Jess… amazing! Thank you so much and I will be following your blog from now on.
I literally just had a whole lot of my weight issues put into perspective, I truly felt stress was just an excuse for my slow weight loss… and I just couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t losing weight as fast I did in high school. I thought it was just cause I was older (which likely has something to do with it)… but it’s stress.. completely stress.
I just entered the “real” world last April 2009, and it’s far more stressful than I could have imagined…. I gained like 25 pounds in a little over a year, and have only lost 6 pounds since June. I’ve been so frustrated with this slowness after such an accelerated gain.It all makes sense now. I now know that my mental health is just as important in this journey… as the food I put in my mouth and the calories I burn at the gym!
Thank you for such a valuable post.
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I’m a firm believer that stress can really muck us up. And the real world is definitely a very big source of stress for most of us. I hope my post really helps you out.