C25K Week Two and My Shins

Today is my start of C25K week two. I started having pain in my shins while running today. I've never been a big fan of jogging/running anyway, so I might end up just walking again if it is a huge continuing problem. I kind of liked the idea of doing something outside and having just a little something to add to it each week, so I'm not giving up on it yet. Here are today's stats:

• 3,575 aerobic steps
• 29 minutes
• 1.5 miles

Here's is/was this week's play list:

• Five Minute Warm-Up: Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana
• Call Me- Blondie (the rest of the songs were run 90 seconds, walk two minutes)
• Friday I'm in Love- The Cure
• Where the River Flows- Collective Soul
• Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)- the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss version
• Awful- Hole
• Baba O'Riley- The Who (five minute cool down)

I spent the rest of my day being productive around the house. I mowed the yard,

hung up the half of the frames I got painted and started on the other half,

and started weeding the flower beds in the front of the house.

You don't think that I let the weeds get a little out of control, right? Well, it is half done now and I'll probably do the other half tomorrow.

I did off and on throughout the day and evening watch TV, but it was probably a good idea to give my legs a break since my shins hurt.

Here are the eats for today (most of which are good, but once again went a little nutty on the Special K bars at night):

Breakfast

Snack

Lunch

Snack

Dinner

You can see mayo on the sandwich, but I usually scrape it off and just leave enough to get a little taste of it.

Snack: Tons of these...

May Goals and Special K Bars

New month and new goals! It is nice that I met my goal last month with a total loss of 6.4 pounds. I wish I would have made it to 8 pounds, but that is still a good number. This month my goal is another 4-8 pounds. If I could get to 7.2 pounds, I'd be down to 180 and doing a happy dance at the end of the month due to weight loss and not the start of summer break!

Some other things to work on and goals for the month are...

• walking at least 8,000 steps a day (would prefer at least 10,000)
• continue doing my stretches once a day
• do some kind of extra movement (walking, chores, etc.) for 30 minutes every weekday
• eat three healthy meals and snacks a day
• take my vitamin daily
• get used to being okay with feeling hungry again (after I've eaten everything I should, I need to learn to deal with it)
• rely less on Special K bars and granola bars to satisfy my sweet tooth

My eating has really been going well except for a little incident last night. I was craving either a chocolate candy bar or a sweet like a donut really bad. I told myself no way and didn't eat any treats. Later that night I ate a an extra Special K bar thinking it would help satisfy the craving.

Why do Special K bars have to taste so darn good? All the flavors are good, not just this one!

It didn't, so I just kept on eating the stupid things! I would have eaten less calories by just having the 250 calorie candy bar. Today I didn't want to run into that kind of trouble again, so I stopped on the way home and got one Twix bar. I ate it on the way home and have been doing much better tonight. I can't keep candy bars or other treats like that in the house, because all it takes is one bad day and I'm eating them all. I will have to stop after work or go out and just buy one at a time to keep it under control.

Some other recent eats...

Sorry for it being the wrong direction, but it doesn't want to change.