Today has been really good! I was successful in my running plan this morning, although it had to be cut a little short due to part of the trail that i run was closed due to maintenance. But i felt pretty good for all of the run! i was only half a mile short so i have no doubt that i would not have succeeded. I ate pretty good today, egg tacos for breakfast and grilled chicken cesar wraps for dinner, i had a slim fast for lunch. 

My husband is off the next 2 days and i get to go running with friends in the early morning! I also have a 5k race this saturday! I am feeling really good right now and hope to keep up my attitude!

I hope writing a daily entry will keep me focused

So about a year and a half ago, I started running. I had gained about 70lbs with my pregnancy after i quit working. My friend had told me she downloaded an app called Running For Weightloss, it sounded okay so i decided to try it. Its an 8 week training program of running intervals and by the end of 8 weeks you should be able to run a 5k. Lets just say that me being extremely overweight at the start of the this, it took more like 5 months before i could run a 5k. I stuck to it, repeating each day until i successfully completed it! My weight dropped down to 165lbs but after a while i was stuck there. I decided i needed to count my calories and track everything i ate with MyFitnessPal.
I did find that i was definitely overeating but its so hard to not eat 2000 calories! I did okay for a while but now my eating has got out of hand again. I run 3-4 miles, 4days a week! But that is not enough calories burned to continue to lose weight. I basically would need to run 6-7 miles a day just to break even. My caloric goal is 1300! Do you see how depressing this is?!
I have gained back 10lbs!! I am now at 175lbs, and running has become way more difficult because of it, not to mention that i have gotten slower too! I was never a fast runner but now i am like at a 11:30 pace, when i had gotten my pace down to a 10:30 mile.
      I have been feeling so bad about myself that i decided maybe a blog would help me stay focused.
Yesterday i ran only 2.5 miles with my son in the stroller at 5:00 min running intervals and 1:00 min walking. Tomorrow my goal is to run 15 minutes straight with him, walk for 1:30, and then switch to 1:00 running/:30 walking intervals until i complete 3 miles. Right now i really feel like that is a doable plan and i am going to try my hardest not to fail!