Making a slight departure

For the next two months I'm pretty much going to focus on my exercise and weight loss plan. I won't really have much else going on, anyway. This entire thing is very important to me, for reasons other than just the outcome. I want to be able to prove to myself that I can do this.

My weight is going in to it a little higher than it's been. Tuesday I took my ex-gf out to dinner before she moves to California and ended up eating a whole steak at like 9 PM, so that started the problems. I pretty much ate bad the rest of the week... without exercising.

I didn't originally intend to mostly sit this week out - it just sort of happened. I worked all day Memorial Day and didn't feel like working out - Tuesday I had other things to do with Amy, Wednesday I did manage to sneak in a 3 mile run. Thursday, I crafted my crazy schedule for June (which will be replicated in July) and decided to just relax the rest of the week.

I'm part of a weight loss challenge that runs June 1st to August 3rd and a Nike+ challenge group that requires 100 miles of running from June 1st to August 1st, so I want to be pretty focused and do well in those.

Starting out tomorrow with a 2.8 mile run at 6:30 AM and then a gym workout with 60 minutes of cardio in the evening. I have 10 workouts scheduled for next week, which is the most of any week during the month of June. Although I think some of the later weeks will be harder, especially the 8 mile run scheduled at the end of the month.

I wish I was feeling 100% but I'm not. I'm taking antibiotics and while the cyst in my back has gotten smaller (it's only about peach sized now - down from tennis ball) it's still annoying me and there have been a few issues today and yesterday with mild dizziness but I've already resigned to flipping my "crazy" switch and not missing a workout that I have penciled in under ANY circumstance.

So I'll mostly be writing about this sort of thing... mostly boring but if I end up doing what I plan on doing, people are probably going to wonder how the heck I accomplished it.

I did see Up! today and it was a beautiful film. The first ten minutes or so have nearly no dialogue whatsoever and are touching and almost heartbreaking. It's a good movie with a lot of heart and of course there are the cute characters which I always tend to love. Softie for dogs that I am, Dug was, of course, my favorite.



I was hiding underneath your porch because I love you.