Finally in the Right Direction

197.2 this morning for a loss of 1.6 yesterday.  Whew!  I could feel myself peeing out more yesterday than I took in, so I had a good feeling that my weight was moving in the right direction.  Except for an afternoon weigh-in the other day (those don't count), my weight hasn't broken the 200 pound line.

I did a nice, hard elliptical workout yesterday morning (only 20 minutes though), and kept the calories to around 1200.

Today I ran outside at lunch with a coworker.  It seemed really tough, and I walked a lot.  I'm going to measure the distance with a car, but I'm guessing it was less than 15 minutes of running.  Hm.  Running outside is a TON harder than the treadmill.  (But the treadmill sucks because it's boring!) Now that I know the path around the plant, I can go myself to keep practicing and getting better.  The girl I ran with is better and faster than me, so I'll bet if I go slower, I could make it all the way around.

I've got yardwork on tap for when I get home, cutting and moving branches and vines and stuff, so I think I can get the calories burned up to 200+ for the day.  I had 3 scrambled eggs with 2 ounces of capicola for breakfast (and onions and pepper and broccoli that I don't count), an orange pre-run and 3 ounces of turkey post-run.  I'm just finishing a juice that I made (3 kiwis, 2 apples, 1 cucumber and some ginger). I've got a huge deli-made stuffed pepper for dinner which should get me to about 1400 calories today, not including the exercise.

I've got beets, carrots, celery and more cucumbers for juices later this week. Plenty to make the 3 juices that I committed to.  I feel good about staying in control this week.  Sad to say, but since Dude won't be around this weekend, I'll probably have an easier time staying in control this weekend, too.  It would be pretty cool to find the fine balance line between losing and gaining.  Right now, I'll try to rack up one day at a time in the win column.  Success is the effect of small actions taken repeatedly, so I can focus on the small actions - eat the right foods in the right amounts, and exercise.  Easy, peasy - right?  Ha!