almost 8 weeks out

Mar 31, 2017

Today I hit my -40lb mark from early Dec.  Slowly but surely inching along.  I think I am probably eating more than I should, but I feel better at here around 1000 cals a day than I did at lower amounts.  So I will probably stay right around this intake.

I do have to watch out for unplanned snacks.  I'm still learning how far I can go between meals.  If I eat breakfast around 7-7:30 then I'm hungry by 11:30 for lunch.  Physically hungry, not head hunger.  If I eat lunch at 11:30-ish, then I have to have a snack at 3:30 to 4 or I will be an absolute crankypants.  Dinner isn't til 6:30 on most days, 7:30 or 8 on Fridays.

Today I got home from work around 6.  I had already had a small snack but there were grapes on the counter and I had a few.  That's the sort of unplanned snack I need to avoid. I wasn't physically hungry and the grapes, while delicious, were carbs not protein.

I can walk my 3 miles now in under an hour, even with traffic lights and a couple hills.  Will continue to work on both distance and speed.  Less weight is helping!

One week from Sunday is my first 5k of the year.  I have 2 scheduled this month (April) and another in mid-May.  I'm going to see if I can improve my times between each.  Then I need to start doing 10ks to prepare for that half marathon in Sept.

My jeans were super baggy and my tops looking sloppy from being too large, so I went shopping for a size down and ended up 2 sizes down!  Size 18 jeans now (in the same brand I was wearing 22s in before) and mostly 1x tops.  

My hope is to be under 200 by the end of the summer, if I can keep from sabotaging myself.

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