Recent Progress

In the first few months of 2008, I put on about 10 pounds and was maintaining a weight of about 177-178. My husband and I both decided that we wanted to eat healthier and we began training for a half marathon around that same time, in July. While my husband lost about 20 pounds over the next several months, I continued to maintain my weight. I think that although I was eating healthier food, I was simply eating too much of them. In the beginning of October, as our half marathon training was stepping up, I came across a meal plan in Self magazine. We followed this plan for about 2 weeks and I saw the weight start to drop. After those 2 weeks, I continued eating healthier foods, this time in the right portions, and continued to drop weight. Early in November I injured myself running and my exercise scaled back, but I still saw weight drop, to about 164 right before Thanksgiving. Once the holidays started, I got a little sidetracked, but did not gain any weight, I lost about a pound in December.