MOSTLY ON TRACK

I know it's been a long time since I've logged in. I've been a bit preoccupied with the hole in my ceiling and then the water that came down onto my computer. To make a long story really short, the water that fell on my computer has disabled my period (also known as dot) button so every time you see one of those little punctuation marks you can be sure I had to paste it in.

I have however been keeping up with my exercising and as of this week I started the FIRST marathon training program. I know I said I'd wait until the end of the month, but I'm one of those people that need structure in their lives. Somewhere along the line I'll just repeat a couple of weeks to make up for the extra few weeks at the end. Eating and nutrition is still a problem for me so I bought a book called The Eat Clean Diet by Tosca Reno. I do a lot of reading on the Internet about working out and weight training, and one thing that keeps being mentioned is eating clean, so I decided to learn more about it and to give it a try. It seams that eating clean is basically a lot of fresh fruit and veggies, protein, whole grains, no sweets and eating about 6 times a day. I'm sure I'm oversimplifying it, but right now that's all I can tell you since I haven't actually read the book yet. I've only skimmed through it. My plan is to read it while I'm on vacation and then to grocery shop and get started when I get back.

My sister has been exercising with me and has lost 6 pounds so far. I don't know how many inches she lost but I can definitely see a change. (Woo hoo) I plan to post a new set up pictures of myself around the end of the month or early September and I really hope you guys can see a change.

We've basically been alternating between cardio and strength training, I started with five pound dumb bells then moved to seven and now I'm using the eight pound weights. Since I just started using the eight pound weights this week they're quite challenging but a challenge is good, right?

Oh yeah, how can I forget to mention that I'm down to about 180 pounds and a loose fitting size 12. Go me!

OK - it's late and tomorrow's workout is a six mile run that I'd really like to do in the morning before work so over and out folks.