The Good, The Bad, and the not so Ugly

The Good

After my calf strain on Sunday I decided to give exercise a rest for a few days, so on Tuesday I had decided that it was time. Then a co-worker, Nate, who’d injured his knee the weekend before went for a run and managed to get 1/4 mile out before his IT band started causing him pain… maybe I’d wait another couple of days, just to make sure that my calf was better.

So last night I climbed back on the treadmill and started running, again with no knee braces. After 7.6 miles in 68:45 I stopped. No real knee pain, and over 1400 calories burnt off. Nice, because that made up for

The Bad

On Tuesday I made it out to my favorite Vietnamese restaurant - Taste of Saigon - and had their wonderful black pepper mock chicken, and was then tempted by their ginger ice-cream (it had ginger in it, how could i say no?). On Wednesday I had a client presentation close by the bakers that makes the most gorgeous ginger cookies, so I had to have one of those… before the presentation and one after.

Last night, on the way home, I was trying to decide what to have for tea, and came to the conclusion that I may as well head to the local Fosters Grill. Picking up my daughter, off we went for our Veggie burger and fries, following that up at home with a Weight Watchers eclair each (which I didn’t really enjoy, I’m not that much of a chocolate person, and the filling was like vaguely edible styrofoam).

So after all that I was concerned about the score on the scale, but after the exercise it turned out that it was

Not So Ugly

Stepping on the scale this morning I saw that for the first time in this contest I have managed to dip below the 210 mark, coming in at 209.8. This means that I’m almost at my goal weight of 205 - 208, and should easily be there next week. I knew up front that I wasn’t going to win this contest, but at least it’s given me the impetus to drop the additional weight of the last 6 months.

(oh, and since I’m not going to win, feel free to jump over to my charity and give them a donation, or if you’d like to know more about their work, the Kids Wish Network Blog has a great video that went live yesterday).