Day 338: In Violet Light

Update: 209lbs

Whew! I am glad to see that number again... and I even briefly (ok... very briefly) saw the 208's. Oh well... those will have to wait until February. So it leaves me with 9lbs to get rid of in the next month for me to be on track to my goal. Frankly, it sounds a little daunting. I haven't had a huge weight loss month like that since the early months, I think. But heck, can't hurt to try.

I had a good day yesterday, including the eating of two timbits and a lower-fat, lower-sugar ice cream option from Baskin Robbins. Delicious, and it fit within my daily allotted calories. Exercise was awesome - with my elliptical training, and then I ran for 6 minutes straight, with 4 more minutes later on. I worked my arms and did a little core work, but I haven't yet developed a routine for abs (I figure you can't see them anyway yet). A lot of my class came to the gym with me to just shoot hoops in hopes to practice for the evening game. And lastly, the evening game was a lot of fun, but I will admit I didn't play very much. I am hoping to keep practicing and actually develop some skill so I won't feel so awkward on the court. All of the other teams are scrappy... but both my class teams (we had so many players we cut our huge team into two) won their games last night. It would be great to see us play each other for the finals.

Today is going a little slowly. I meant to go to the gym bright and early this morning, but my knee is feeling wonky and I was super tired. So instead I spent the extra hour and a half before class sleeping on a couch in the lounge. It was wonderful. I may go to the condo gym tonight, but right now I am at my dad's house, so who knows when I'll get in. For sure I will make the effort tomorrow. Although, tomorrow will have to be a trip to the condo gym because I get a snow day! Yay! Odd, considering right now is sunny, blue skies... but we are supposed to get a huge snowfall by tomorrow mid-morning (I have to say that I have never put much faith in the weather -people's ability to predict the weather). So we'll just have to wait and see what Mother Nature actually has in store for us.

Food has been tough today. I have been feeling quite munchy and technically have eaten most of my calories for the day already and I haven't even had dinner. It just means I'll have to be a bit careful during dinner, skip dessert and drink lots of water. No need to freak out yet, but I somewhat wish I had pushed myself to workout this morning and then this would not really be an issue. Oh well... I never planned to workout 7 days a week anyway and I am no where close to my 'maintenance calories' value of 2700 - I checked to make sure.

So in other words... all is well... (and I had to throw out the rest of the frozen cookie dough otherwise I would have ended up eating it... frozen).