Get Fit Slowly

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I’m happy to report that I have seen a small amount of progress on the scale so far in November.  Saturday morning, the scale read 189.6–the first time I’ve seen it under 190 in a long time.  It was nice to see, needless to say.  But I ran a bunch on the treadmill the night before and was probably dehydrated because that’s been the only sub 190 reading.  But, at least I’m close.

Also, I’ve taken 3 days off from running in November and I’m still on pace to hit my 90 miles this month.  I took both Saturday and Sunday off this week, so I’ve been playing catch up the last few days.  It’s nice to have a goal in mind that is attainable.  If I get off track a little bit, I just have to work a little bit harder and then I’m all caught up.

That’s a key point for people with my mentality.  If I let my problems get out of hand, then they snowball into bigger and bigger problems.  If I catch them in the beginning, I can get a handle on them and tackle them rather quickly.  I find this to be true with maintaining a clean house, doing my family’s laundry, planning the menus and lots of other household chores that fall into my domain.

I think that part of the reason that I’m not losing weight is that I’m not gaining weight either.  I don’t see maintaining weight as a problem (even though my weight is still too high) and so therefore I’m not really working very hard to lose it.  If my weight started to creep up, I’m sure I’d hit my diet and get the trend reversed rather quickly.  Maybe Pam should adjust the scale so I’m heavier