Hello, blog!

Hi!

So, I am here, returning to my humble blog. I am very inspired by you guys doing a tri!! That sounds fun! I am signed up for a ten K on September 22.

I live here in Lafayette with my folks now. I did take into consideration the advice from friends and family about the dangers of this, but so far it is going well. I am looking for work and selling a small book I made at a store in San Francisco.

I am down to 150-151 pounds (changes day to day for the past week!) I have a goal of getting to 140 - which is not to copy Aunt Roberta, but I want to take 1/3 of my weight off (210 to 140). To that end, I have been doing some cardio work every single day since mid July (and regularly before that) - either walking about 5-8 miles or running 3-5. (OK so twice I couldn't go because I had an abominable stomach ache all day - other than that, I went EVERY day). This has been fun and helped me deal with certain stresses - a close friend being very sick, looking for work, being apart from Derek, etc. The time to myself in the great, beautiful outdoors and the endorphins that come with it are important to me. However I think I need to challenge myself by working to beat my times and re-up my weight training routine.

I have generally been eating well. My friend and health coach Stasha Washburn is challenging all her friends/clients to eat only whole, healthy foods for the month of September. So, I'm gearing up towards that! In general I'd say I have been eating very well here. Dad is doing GREAT! at losing the weight he wants to lose, and part of what I'm doing is preparing food we can both eat. Tonight I am going to make a strawberry and spinach salad with leftover chicken breast :) There have been a few days where I went off-base food wise ... however, I have been consistently losing weight still. Heck I have lost about 60 lbs! And feeling great.

I need to manage my time in a more structured way. I have a lot of goals flying around and I need to structure my days. I know this, but I have trouble actually sticking to the plans I make for myself. So, now I need to do that for reals. I am also visiting Derek in MD from the 30th to the 4th (he has some time off for Labor Day).

... that about sums it up. I will update regularly!