day 12

nothing exciting.  I ran.  1.7 miles in 25 minutes.  I am pleased.  I also while running had an epiphany and  realized running with an extra pounds of weight is like running with a toddler strapped to my body.  So I have decided to not be so hard on myself about the distance I run while I have this extra weight on.  It is what it is for the moment.  So I will continue to run.  I will continue to strive to run faster.  I will no longer beat myself up as to the speed I run.

I will now go make my grilled roasted red pepper mushroom goat cheese sandwich and have a salad.  It is so yummy.  after I finish cooling off.  Tomorrow is Superbowl Sunday.  There will be wings and good foods to enjoy and I can still stay on track.  I am going to indulge a bit.  I am going to aim for a deficit of 500 calories tomorrow.  There are too many good tummy foods to eat.

day 11

Some things get me excited.  such as when I discover with my calorie counter that my lifestyle was sent to sedentary and 1300 calories a day.  THAT was completely way off.  I reset it to very active and 1700 calories.  Needless to say my deficit has changed from 300-500 per day to 800-1000 per day which is my goal and makes more sense.  If I want to lose 2 pounds a week then I need a deficit of 1000 per day.  3500 calories= 1 pound.  however if I lose two pounds a week with an 800 deficit on some days then I will just keep doing it until I plateau.

I have also discovered fartleks.  sounds the way it is spelled.  It is bursts of increased speeds at intervals.  I was able to get close to two miles in 25 minutes yesterday.  I will see if I can do them a little longer tomorrow.  I would like to be able to run two miles in 25 min by the end of next week.  eventually I want to get to a 10 minute mile.  It will happen...just got train the body to do so.    I do like the fartleks.  However I may say not so much when I do them for longer time frames.

There are more frozen bananas to eat,  this time they have coconut on them

day 9

I have a new love.  frozen bananas.  especially when they are topped with peanut butter and chocolate.  I would totally be OK if ice cream became non existent with this new found love.  This is coming from the person who hates eating a regular banana.  It is the texture not the taste.  I love the taste but I just can't stand the texture of a regular banana.  I am making more of these tomorrow except they will have coconut on them.  here are the recipes.

chocolate bananas with coconut or peanut butter chocolate bananas

You don't need vegan chocolate chips but I am staying dairy free as much as possible and they are way more expensive and taste just as yummy.  

We also had lazy lasagna chili  and salad for dinner.  Delicious!!  the husband liked it as well which is the most important thing when making dinner because I know if I can make it again.  Filling and only 284 calories per serving.

Now for the weekly progress picture  :  total loss for the week 2 pounds.  My goal is another 2-3 this week.

week 2  170

Please excuse the lack of makeup and hair undone.  that is the main reason a picture was not taken for two days because I just could not get the time to get that done for picture taking worthiness.  You just will have to deal with the me that is just me.  I will wear the same outfit until it becomes too big to wear.  Until tomorrow...I will have the Sleepytime tea