Monthly Fitness Update: 1 of 6

Well, one month into my six month weight loss challenge. How's it going? Ok - I suppose.

I've lost 10.2 pounds, pretty much exclusively on the back of running 35.2 miles. I can and will do better, but not bad for a start.

Ahead of pace to complete the challenge. I've been slacking a bit, lately, and I need to do better on getting my butt on the treadmill. Let me say one thing about the treadmill... it's a gift and a curse. It's very convenient and it eliminates excuses to exercise. However, it completely sucks in comparison to running outside. I mean, not even comparable. It's just so much easier to zone out and just go when outdoors. Yet another reason why I need to live in a warmer climate.

When I was finishing my undergrad at Cornell, people were kind of hot/cold about leaving and I was like... Get me the F out of here... I'm moving to North Carolina and I'm only coming back for special occasions. A year later I was back in Ithaca. So I finish my MS and yet again I'm get me outttt of here, I'm moving back to North Carolina. Instead I get recruited and offered a job by Bristol and here I am. Since I bought a house, I put a 5 year window on living here and now I'm thinking I have about 4 1/2 years left in me. The moral of the story - don't make plans in life. Even though I clearly never planned on being in this area I'm coming up on 10 years living in Central NY, which is 6 more years then I ever expected.

But it would really be nice to run outside all year round, which was the springboard for that tangent. Last August I completed a 10 mile run and felt pretty good about it. Finishing 10 miles on the treadmill is going to require not only the physical conditioning but some serious mental conditioning.

I feel good, though, so far. Just need to get a little better in regards to exercising. I've taken care of the diet in good shape. I've not had any fastfood outside of some stuff from Wegmans in the past month. Lunch has been tough, but hopefully I've convinced my co-workers that they need to be bringing in their lunch. I usually bring it but when they say they are going out - I usually can't help myself to join in. Working on improving that, too.

So, 39.8 pounds to go in the next 5 months. Got this.