Back on Track! Running and the 5DPT- 78 pounds down

Mar 25, 2012

 I haven't written in a while and that's because I've had nothing to say. I had fallen back into old habits and stopped following the rules of the tool and as a result, was at a standstill for the past 3.5 months. I lost about 5 pounds in November and a couple in December, and since then I had been teetering up and down the same 3 pounds from 183 to 180. I did not rearrange my guts to be 180 pounds!  I'm only 5'2". That's still obese for me.  

So in February I started the Couch to 5K program. Exercise was something I hadn't been motivated to do and I thought doing so would kick start me back into weight loss.  But after 6 weeks of running 3 days per week and the scale hadn't moved, I realized it was going to take more than that. I needed to get back on program.

When I started tracking again I realized how much I was doing wrong! I was appalled at myself. I was eating too many carbs - and bad ones! I was eating candy again ("Just a little won't hurt", I convinced myself). Sure I ordered my chicken sandwich grilled, but I was eating it on the white bread roll...and sneaking a few fries with it. I would have a cookie here, a few chips there. I was drinking WITH my meals. And I was always hungry! Some days my pouch felt bottomless!  Ugh!  So I decided to do the 5 Day Pouch Test.

The first two days were so hard for me that I realized just how many carbs I had been eating. Carbs are my enemy. Oh how I love them so.  But the 5DPT really helped me rediscover my tool and now I am back on track and as a bonus - the scale started moving again!  I've lost 4 pounds in the past week. I am currently 176lbs.

So now I am 78 pounds down since surgery and 92 pounds total. Only 8 pounds away from the century club! And in 4 more pounds I will officially be at the lowest weight I have been able to achieve since I got married in 1998. I can't wait!!

Oh - And I am up to running 28 minutes straight now, and that's about 2 1/4 miles at the pace I go. I signed up for a 5K on April 21st, so I have just under a month to get up to running 3.1 miles! I know I can do it! 7 weeks ago I was dying after running for 2 minutes! Woohoo! Life is grand.

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