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5k – August 8

Katherine — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:40:15 +0000

Ran this morning instead of last night. Had a good run and shaved off 45 seconds from last week. I walked for 30 sec every half mile (1 minute after 2 miles) and only 30 seconds on the last 200m. Every time I do this, I have two little angels; One tells me to just quit or just walk and the other one tells me to think of you guys and keep going!

August 8, 2009
Lap 1	02:18.264
Lap 2	02:20.670
Lap 3	02:28.452
Lap 4	02:17.585
Lap 5	02:33.873
Lap 6	02:21.614
Lap 7	02:38.020
Lap 8	02:26.595
Lap 9	02:50.474
Lap 10	02:30.206
Lap 11	02:53.483
Lap 12	02:33.530
Lap 12.5	01:14.201

Total	31:26.967
Average	02:30.957

Another 5K

Katherine — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:57:02 +0000

Last night, I had to wait until the rain was over and ignored my tiredness and did another 5K. I did not eat cheezits before running and that helped. LOL Also, kept time on my iPod’s stopwatch better. Here are my times! 3 minutes faster than last time.

July 31, 2009
Lap 1	02:17.322
Lap 2	02:26.689
Lap 3	02:25.255
Lap 4	02:20.552
Lap 5	02:37.392
Lap 6	02:33.047
Lap 7	02:31.908
Lap 8	02:27.500
Lap 9	02:53.073
Lap 10	02:39.096
Lap 11	02:51.821
Lap 12	02:44.634
Lap 12.5	01:23.416

Total	32:11.705
Average	02:35.009

5K!!

Katherine — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:44:02 +0000

So after last night’s disappointment, I went to the local high school and ran on the 400m track. 12.5 laps. OR: 5K!!

I learned some things.

Have the husband and baby sit away from the beginning of the laps. I got distracted and would forget to hit the timer until a little late.
Do not eat Cheez-its before running. I just walked the entire 11th lap because I felt sick.
Stretch the back of the thighs more.
I overestimated how fast I run on the treadmill and ran my first lap a bit fast, at least for my first time on the “street”.

Despite these little shortfalls, I think I did really good for my first time.

July 24, 2009
Lap 1	02:01.307
Lap 2	02:36.406
Lap 3	02:34.747
Lap 4	02:47.086
Lap 5	02:11.469
Lap 6	03:12.596
Lap 7	02:06.827
Lap 8	02:45.228
Lap 9	03:03.098
Lap 10	03:24.104
Lap 11	04:55.616
Lap 12	02:36.169
Lap 12.5	01:14.493

Total	35:29.146
Average	02:49.511

It’s all uphill from here!

Katherine — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:40:15 +0000

Today, I have reached the halfway mark between my starting weight of 246.2 and my goal of 160 pounds.

But it will be even harder to complete this last half.

First, I will not be burning calories as fast as I could when I first started. Did you know that the amount you burn is based on your weight? At the last WW meeting, a member made copies of a table that listed the “Energy Expenditure for Selected Physical Activities.” (I found a copy here: http://tinyurl.com/mcfl3x)

Let’s take running at 5MPH. The energy expenditure is 0.070 cals/min/lb. At 246.2 pounds, I could burn 344.68 calories if I ran for 20 minutes. But now that I am 203.1, I would only burn 284.34 calories in 20 minutes. When I hit 160 pounds, it would only be 224 calories.

To overcome this, I will exercise more.

Secondly, my eating habits are routine, and the body tends to plateau when the same thing happens over and over. Nature fights to keep things in an even keel and will fight to keep it that way.

To overcome this, I will shake things up with adjusting calorie intake and exercise.

And lastly, between July 15th and April 6th are the holidays. Cookies, turkey, and potlucks, oh my! There is so much to celebrate and I should be happy. I will be faced with potluck after potluck. I will plan parties and dinners. It will get colder and I will want filling foods.

To overcome this, I will remind myself that I am NOT on a diet, I am changing my LIFEstyle and that doesn’t take a break for the holidays. I will NOT go back to my previous weight for the sake of the short-lived pleasure of mac and cheese or a cookie.

With this post, I am acknowledging that my weight-loss journey will be a bit more hilly and that I am ready to take it on.

20 pounds gone!

Katherine — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:52:00 +0000

Since I’ve been tracking weight since the beginning of the year, I should use the ticker for my bathroom scale instead of my WW’s weigh-in. I’m tired of waiting until my meeting to change the ticker. So since the first of the year, I have lost 20.5 pounds!! And since joining WW, the weight loss has accelerated.

Weight

Katherine — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:15:00 +0000

Before my girl was born in September, I was 280 pounds!! Two weeks after she was born, I lost 25 pounds. Dunno if that is normal. Been slowly falling since…

Scale

Katherine — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:06:00 +0000

Every morning, I weigh myself sans clothes. So I get a different reading than what I would get at WW, clothes on and a different scale. When I get weighed there, I’ll use that for my official tracking as seen in the ticker at the top of my blog.

But since the beginning of the year, I was keeping track on my scale at home. However, I started to only record if it was the lowest it’d been. If my weight went up, I didn’t record it.

Day	Date	Weight (lbs)
Thursday	1/1/2009	246.2
Friday	1/2/2009	245.5
Saturday	1/3/2009	244.5
Sunday	1/4/2009	244.4
Monday	1/5/2009	243
Tuesday	1/6/2009	242.8
Wednesday	1/7/2009	243.9
Thursday	1/8/2009	242
Friday	1/9/2009	242.6
Saturday	1/10/2009	241.7
Sunday	1/11/2009	240.6
Monday	1/12/2009	241.1
Tuesday	1/13/2009	241.1
Wednesday	1/14/2009	243.1
Thursday	1/15/2009	241.9
Friday	1/16/2009	240.6
Saturday	1/17/2009	241.9
Monday	1/19/2009	242.4
Tuesday	1/20/2009	245.4
Wednesday	1/21/2009	243.3
Thursday	1/22/2009	242.6
Saturday	1/24/2009	240.4
Sunday	2/1/2009	239.8
Tuesday	2/10/2009	239.4
Wednesday	2/11/2009	237.6
Saturday	2/21/2009	236.9
Sunday	2/22/2009	236.6
Thursday	3/5/2009	234.6
Friday	3/6/2009	234.4
Saturday	3/14/2009	234.2
Sunday	3/15/2009	233.2
Friday	3/20/2009	233
Saturday	4/4/2009	231.1
Monday	4/20/2009	230.6

Today, I hit a new low. Yay.