Weigh In Weds

Yep... its that day again... weigh in Weds at the gym.  And today was a pretty good day!  Down another 3lbs, so that felt good, encouraging.  Yes, even though Russell measures body fat and does calculations to tell me I'm doing well.... I sure do like seeing it on the scale.  I just need to keep this up for a stretch.... just one more pound to go to reach the -40lbs mark! 

Russell worked me HARD today.  Lots of strength training, and he increased the amount of weight I'm lifting.  And I think I surprised him by just being a "go get 'em" kind of gal today, knocking out the reps in short time -- which left extra time for extra exercises on the cable machine, but that's ok, if felt good.  And, he took time to stretch me today, which felt wonderful too.  I've had a sore right hamstring or glut or both for about a week now, and I'm still trying to get it to heal up and feel right.  Maybe it means its time for a new pair of tennies for work -- sometimes a bad shoe will throw things off, so ... I'll be shopping this weekend!

Mileage Check

I have worked hard this week to stay on track.  I'm wanting, ----- no, I'm needing ----- to see some results on the scale.  I check at home every few days, and its been teasing me with so many ups and downs that it gets mighty depressing to think I am spending all this time and money on a trainer only to have no results!  Ok.  I lied.  I'm seeing results in the form of body fat and inches, but not on the scale, and us women, we treat that scale as if its like  "The Word From God" -- without the numbers we want to see, we don't feel good about ourselves.  *sigh* 

Even knowing all that logically in my head -- I still want to see some results tomorrow!

Checked my mileage tracker - I'm at 106.6 miles for the year.  Not quite where I wanted to be, but its not easy getting in mileage on training days -- I'm a little tired out to hop on a treadmill *after* training!  But.  I did just that on Monday.  And 4 miles today.  Its a struggle to know how much to eat, and when to eat it.  Eat too much = no results on the scale.  Eat too little, the body slows the metabolism down.  No carbs after 5pm has worked very well for me in the past, and I've stuck to that this week.  I was averaging about 1600 calories a day, and have cut back to 1400 a day for this week to see if that makes a difference.  Keep your fingers crossed for me, I'll be having my weigh in tomorrow!