Belly be gone!

so…i attempted running this morning, for the first time in almost 4 weeks!!!  wasn’t sure how it was going to be.  it wasn’t that bad.  then again, i didn’t try to run what i had been running before!  i told myself - ok, let’s try 1 mile (ok…really it’s .9 until my turn around) and see how that goes.  it went well!!!  and then i said - it has to be at least 10 min.  ok…well, since i’m not the world’s fastest runner, i easily did 10 minutes by the time i got to the turn around.  then i said - go until the next stop light - which is about 1.5 miles total.  and i did it!!!  then i walked the rest of the way home.  i’m already feeling it this afternoon.  while i’m not quite looking forward to building up my endurance and distance again, it did feel good to be running!

i’m not quite mentally there in regards to counting points.  i guess it’s b/c i ate decently while on vacation, and home scale didn’t move!!!  which is good, but also not good.  (still haven’t had an official WI)  so i’m trying to get back into the counting points…then again, september is going to be another crazy month for me!  i know i’ll be surrounded by several of my favorite foods during this month, as well as another weekend away, as well as several birthday celebrations this month (3 in my family!).  so if i eat well (small bites of everything and not stuffing myself) and don’t count points and get back into exercising, i’m hoping that will work for this month.  granted, i still want to lose more weight - ugh…just trying to get completely motivated.

on that front, we might be getting an eliptical machine for the house!!!  i kinda hope so!!!  i think i’d use it quite a bit…again, we’re still talking about it.  it’s definitely a “we’ll see” type of purchase.

oh…and i ate my first peach today!  yes, i’m an adult and i’ve never had a peach…not too bad.