Trying real hard!

I have not posted a pic, I just keep forgetting.  I may have ran twice last week.  I have run 1 time, 4.5 miles on Tuesday.  I have to change this.  My dilemmas are what time of the day to run, well my dilemma.  The kids have started school and by the time I get home it is too late because it also gets dark earlier now.  If I go in the morning, I would have to get up at 4am, when it is dark.  Not my type of hype.  I may need to get some courage though.  I do not want to be caught totally unprepared for this run. So I am calling myself doing week 7 over, but so far I have only jogged 1 day.  I have lost weight though!  Yeah!

I believe when I started I was at about 215 or 220.  I am down to 204 now!  I do not want to see that scale creep back up.  The other day when I ran the 4.5 I had only eaten fruit all day.  I felt good.  When I ran it was a little faster and everything.  The closer I get to race time, the more I will need to put healthier eating habits into practice.  Maybe only eating fruit a few days out of the week.

5 miles!

I did complete my five miles on Sunday!  It was good!  I decided how I will post my pics.  I just need a good camera or I will do a video of how I look everytime I run.  Starting next run.  Since July 24th, the day of my 5 miler.  I did 2 miles on Tuesday, July 26th and 4 miles on Thursday, July 28. Last week was a challenging in my personal life.  I didn't make it out the rest of the week.  In the training plan this week I am slated to run a 5k.  I never signed up for one so I will just do this week like a regular week.  I jogged 3 miles last night.  It was supposed to be 4.  I could have made that last mile but it is starting to get dark earlier and it was just too late.  Hopefully I will get some cross training in tonight and do 4 tomorrow night.

When I used to run in college, my digestive activites increased and got better.  Now I find my stomach hurting and I am gassed up.  My eating habits haven't changed much. 

I guess I thought, like many others that I could run and eat as much and whatever I want.  Truth be told, I really don't eat that much.  Maybe 1-2 meals a day, sometimes a snack.  I know what the culprit is. 

SUGAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In college I was jogging and working out a lot more.  Waaaayyyyy more than I do now. 

So should I up my exercise or just eat less and healthier?  We will see.