January Update

Well, I stopped posting and the desire and the fire just drizzled out. I was hoping to keep posting daily, and perhaps get a bit of commentary going on the blog, get the sense that friends and family were following along, and that would help to keep me motivated, that didn't really materialize - not that I'm looking for excuses here, just mentioning that.

I weighed in this morning on my upstairs scale at 174, so maybe a pound or two off of where I left off at the end of November.

So I made it about 1/2 way to my goal.

An interesting point about this is how does one reflect on the results of the 'project'

If the goal was to lose 15 lbs, and I only lost 7.5, then you could say I failed. However if I'd never attempted it, I'd not have lost that 7.5 lbs, so in that sense it was a success.

The way I look at it, is I plan to be in this body for a long, long, time, and ever run I take, every good choice I make with the food I eat, this is progress.

I'm going to keep working to get this last 7 lbs off, I've been running over the holidays and haven't done too badly food wise. I'm going to sign up for the Mississauga Marathon and I'll be training for that. I'll also be getting an extra run in every week, I'll be running for 30 minutes with George's soccer team on Wednesday night, so assuming I keep my food intake at a reasonable level, I should be able to shed the extra fat within another month or so, and be lean and mean, ready to take on my next goal - to finish the Mississauga 1/2 Marathon in under 2 hours.