I put the nikeplus photo again because I just passed my 1,000th mile mark this week. Had you told me I would exercise for 1000 miles in one year I would have laughed at you. Had you told me I would have exercised for 1,000 miles in my lifetime I would have laughed at you. Had you told me I would wake up at 5:30am and immediately run for 2 miles, I would have laughed at you.

But here we are.

I’m still not doing excellent on the food. Mostly a chocolate problem but I am going to turn things around. I plan to be better about it because I work too hard to let stupid chocolate get in the way of progress. I am also not doing the situps still. That’s from sheer laziness. I am tired and whiny at the end of the day so I just postpone it. I need to focus on it more, I know.

And this week I had a slight gain. Slight enough to not be significant but I am certainly not losing and I really do wish I were. Even if very slowly. But alas, I am still being healthy and that’s what matters most.
and here’s this week’s card:

Healthy for Life is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.

It appears I am still (very) slowly losing weight. Thankfully. I will admit that it fluctuates up and down all week and I know not to trust the Wii when the numbers are low. But I will still take what I can get. I understand that the last 10 lbs will take a long time and may never even come off. At least not without taking things up a few notches which I am not prepared to do at the moment. So there we go.

Tomorrow is the last day of my one year of exercise. I started on October 2, 2010 and if you told me then that I would be able to achieve this, I would have been very skeptical. I had absolutely no track record of bring able to keep up with any exercise routine at all. So even putting the weight-loss aside, I consider this to be a huge success for me. Life-altering success.

I’ve been thinking bout the exercise from here on out and I think I will try a few new things in the next few weeks. Maybe running for 2 miles which will keep calorie-burn similar but time will go down by half so it’s worth at least exploring. Though I will admit that the idea scares me a lot. I still feel dreadfully out of shape.

and here’s this week’s card:

Healthy for Life is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.

Another little bit of loss this week. Not amazing but not bad. After weeks of going nowhere or gaining weight I am glad for any loss. Though I will admit that I am likely not going to make my goal this year but that’s ok. I’ve lost a lot of weight. I am much fitter and can walk, run, hike much farther than I ever have in my life. So that’s big.

Now that we’re back to school, I am getting up at 5:30 to exercise. I just prefer to get it done with before the hustle and bustle of breakfast and packing lunches starts. It’s hard but also nice to do it while the whole house is sleeping and quiet. I’ve completely stopped doing my situps and leg lifts for weeks now but I will restart. I just have been feeling too lazy. I am, however, still doing the incline on the treadmill.

Food’s been okay, too. I am still off the graham crackers and coffee. Still eating mostly whole foods. I’ve been eating chocolate and snacking a bit more than usual. Nothing horrible but also not that great. I just need to not wait until I am too hungry. Sometimes I get caught up in what I am doing and forget to eat and then I get famished and eat all the wrong things. But it’s all a work in progress.

and here’s this week’s card:

Healthy for Life is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.

Even though I’ve lost no actual weight this week, I am feeling considerably more optimistic. I think that’s because I finally quit both coffee and the graham crackers. Even if they were not actually adding to my weight, they were both unhealthy to consume and I am grateful to be rid of them. I have made sort of a new routine with tea and peanuts and raisins. At least they are whole foods and have no added sugar or chemicals. With the exception of a slim bagel and cream cheese, I eat only whole foods all day long now. No chemicals for me. Everything I eat is also fresh with the exception of an Amy’s burrito which is vegan and gluten-free. So I would say my eating habits have gotten considerably healthier. Even if this doesn’t have a numerical effect on my body, it will definitely have an effect on my health.

The exercise is still going, too. I won’t lie; it’s been hard. Even though I do it, I have been dreading it and sometimes barely making it through. But I am still doing the incline and the 5K a day, etc. I am still taking walks, too. I took the week off from the sit-ups because my jaw was acting up badly and I wasn’t sure if it might be related but next week they’re coming back. So here we go. Onward.

and here’s this week’s card:

Healthy for Life is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.

Over two weeks into the new plan and I am finally showing some improvement. The wii tells me I lost 1.1 pounds this week. I am still above where I was in June but at least I am making progress in the right direction. So far so good. Let’s hope it stays this way.

The exercise is still continuing daily. I am doing an incline for a mile of it and continuing with the 3.12 miles daily. I will admit that it’s still pretty hard. Especially during the summer because the garage is so hot. But I just do it. Again and again, without fail.

I haven’t had coffee in a long time now, too. I have completely switched to tea. My plan over the next few weeks is to reduce the graham crackers as it’s one of the only non-whole things I am eating at this point. I am focusing on protein still with salads with chicken and bean burritos. Small steps of progress daily. That’s what it takes.

So on and on I go. I am truly hoping that I am back on the right path now. I have worked too hard to have this go awry now and I am determined to finish what I started.

and here’s this week’s card:

Healthy for Life is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.

So here we are with another week of weight gain with no real reason. I have been trying to figure out what’s going on and I will admit that I am at a loss. I know there were comments that I should change up my exercise but that’s not feasible at the moment and to be honest, I am eating well enough that I should just be losing weight on food alone.

So not-losing is one thing and gaining weight is altogether another thing. I am truly flabbergasted and not sure what’s going on but I am not ready to give up. I have noticed that when I feel angry about this, it becomes counter-productive and I start going to the bad place where I eat cookies or bad food because it doesn’t matter any way.

But it does. It does matter. I have been trying to make more changes here. I am still doing sit-ups and leg lifts. I’ve added a slight incline for one of the three miles I workout daily. I’ve also made some changes in my food to have more protein and less processed food. I have been ravishingly hungry lately so that’s not helping but honestly, there’s absolutely no reason for this weight gain. So for now, I chug along. I will give these changes a few weeks and see if they pay off.

and here’s this week’s card:

Healthy for Life is a weekly project for 2011. You can read more about it here.