My little Bit of Honey

Day... 18? I think? of this challenge I'm doing and so far so good. I've had some missteps, sure, but I'm still doing very well.  I'm still logging everything and making sure my food diary matches what I'm actually eating and weighing/measuring mostly everything. I think that when I weigh in, in 12 days I will be happy with my results. Pants are looser, so that's great! It's such a nice feeling to actually have clothes to wear and not just be restricted to one pair of work pants that kind of fits!  So that's the update on the challenge.  I haven't been running nearly as much as I should be, the reason is super lame. I've been afraid of running for the full 30 minutes, I know, I know.. eye roll. Hear me out though, last year I did this program and then once I got to this point.. I just kind of..stopped. After I finished C25K (for like the 4th time) I didn't continue my training because I just didn't want to put the effort into training ...

It's been 13 days so far since I started this challenge and I have to say, I feel good. I have had two slip ups in 13 days and considering my track record before, I'd say that's pretty good! I desperately want to weigh myself, but I won't. I am going by feeling.. my pants are all looser, I was walking around yesterday and felt like they were falling off! Even my running leggings are loose, which is hard to get to that point haha. Also maybe TMI but  my undergarments are all loose as well and THAT is weird to me..but it means progress! I'm on week 8 of C210K and while I haven't run as much as I would like to I've still been doing really, really well with my training. I ran for 28 minutes on Saturday and it was hard, but I did it! I've been logging every day, even on the hard days. It's helped so much. I've even been weighing my food and measuring way more than I did before so that's great!  Now onto the Marathon.  I was really excited but ...

Today is day 5 of the 30 day challenge (technically 31, but 30 day sounds better ;) ). I've been doing very well, I've gotten 3 runs in out of 5 days, which is good! I also had very productive days on Saturday and Sunday (the two days I did not run) so I was constantly moving. My eating has been going very well, I've been SUPER conscious of what my calories are and trying to stay within range which I've done just about every day so far. These are excellent steps and I'm feeling very positive, I'm kind of playing a game with myself by saying "only 30 days, you can do this for 30 days" the hope is that by the end of the 30 days, I'll be so used to it that I can just keep going.  My running has been going well, I'm up to 25 minutes straight and it's hard but not as hard as it used to be. This morning I kept saying "If I can get to that point ahead of me, I'll take a break" then when I got to that point I just kept going. It doe...

I had a revelation of sorts today, I stepped on the scale, shook my head and stepped off. I was frustrated with it, I hate those numbers. I started thinking about it and remembering to some of my friends who had been talking about leaving the scale out of the equation and how it has helped them. I've been obsessed with the scale for as far back as I remember, the numbers meant two things to me: Fat or skinny. Happy or sad. So I started thinking of the best way to help myself and to get where I want to be and I decided to challenge myself. I've been in multiple challenge groups over the past two years and they just don't work for me. I decided to give myself a challenge instead and obviously my blog is where I'll hold myself accountable as I've done for so long.  So, here's my challenge:  1.)No scale for 1 month, I will not look at the scale until May 7th. This will be hard for me, the scale is a habit and I feel like I NEED it to validate my success or failu...

I went back to work after having my son 2 years ago in February, I had to buy new pants because all of my work pants were size 8 ( lol). I bought two pairs of pants that were a size 16. I hated those pants, every time I put them on I would cry a little because they were tight. They were the biggest size I've ever worn, even when I was pregnant, I was still between a 12-14 (those were maternity pants though and let's be honest towards the end all I wore were leggings or yoga pants anyways).  I thought I'd never get out of those pants. I thought I'd never get back on track and that I'd still be wearing them. Well,  I was looking through my memories on Facebook this morning and one of the memories from today was that I had put those pants away one year ago. It makes me happy. I put on a pair of size 14 pants this morning and they are so big that I can pull them up and down without even unbuttoning them. I'm back to a size 12 and even there it's between a size ...