Feeling Stuck

As usual, I'm sorry it's been so long! I swear, every time I've been at work, I just feel too tired to write a blog! And when I'm at home, I don't even think about it!:( Besides, I have no losses to write about, unfortunately!:(

Here's my calendar for November. So I exercised 24/30 days. That's not too bad. I had a long streak going on, but had to break it when Charlie was in the hospital. I did a lot of running in November, it looks like. My first 10 mile run! I'm a little proud of that:) I did a 10k and a 5k race. I was supposed to do another 5k race on the 26th but as you can see, I was sick:(

So my last weigh in was on 11/20. I've weighed myself multiple times since then, and nothing. No loss, no gain. It's seriously frustrating! I'm trying not to let it get to me, but of course it's hard to not lose weight after all the hard work I do! Plus, it's coming up on a year soon that I've been doing this, and I really wanted to get to 150! I'm not so sure if that's gonna happen now:/

Baby spinach, grilled chicken, mozzarella, egg, vinaigrette:)

Since I haven't really changed anything since I started losing weight, I decided to take a different approach!
Low carb, high protein. At first I just upped my calorie intake from 1,200 to 1,490 to see if that would help. I also started eating most of my exercise calories back. That didn't seem to do much, but I do enjoy having the extra calories!

I'm going to keep that my limit, but I'm not going to purposely eat back my exercise calories. If it happens, it happens, but I won't force myself to eat if I'm not hungry.

So when I asked for advice on MyFitnessPal, a friend on there mentioned low carb. I've done a little research on it, and so far I like the idea. There's a thing called Ketosis. It's a state your body goes into when you restrict your carbs a lot. Basically it causes your body to start using energy from fat, rather than muscle or wherever else it takes it from. That might not make sense, but you can Google it... that will explain it better!

Regardless, it made sense when I read it. So I'm going to at least aim for low carbs. I've been watching how many carbs I eat the past few days and I've tried to limit them. It's definitely harder than I thought. Especially since a lot of the food I have right now is pretty high in carbs... Bagels, Greek yogurt, bread, fruits, cereal, etc. So my plan is, once I finish eating those foods, I will stock up on some low carb stuff and not get anything like that anymore. Although I love Greek yogurt:-(

Once I get rid of all those things, I'm going to make my daily goal to stay UNDER 100 grams of carbs a day, but preferably closer to 50 grams a day. I really hope it gives my body the kick start it needs to lose weight again!! I mean come on, I'm 156. I'm 5'5. 150 is NOT asking too much! I know people that are my same height and weigh less than me, so I know it's attainable. I don't even want to be THAT skinny. I just want to be healthy and in shape. And I wouldn't mind getting rid of that stupid little pooch, either!

The Hot Chocolate 15k. Yikes. What a mess! Don't get me wrong, I did have fun. But, it was a terribly organized race. There were 20,000 people running and the National Harbor definitely couldn't handle that many people. Luckily, we made it there on time. 6:45am like they had asked, for a race that started at 8:00am. Well, it didn't start at 8:00am... it started at 9:00am!! An hour delay, which according to the race officials was due to an accident. Speculation was that really there was just a TON of traffic from people trying to make it to the race, so they waited longer for runners to get there.

That's nice of them and all, but for those of us that had been waiting there for over 2 hours, it wasn't so fun! It was about 35 degrees out. FREE-ZING COLD! Our feet and hands were numb by the time we finally started running! The course was weird. The beginning was along Indian Head Highway and it was quite dangerous!

It was very crowded and people were almost getting hit by cars! Not only that, but there were lots of hills, sharp turns, and areas where only 2 people could fit side by side! It was really tough and I wanted to give up so many times, but I never quit! I finished in 1:30! Not too bad for how hard of a course it was! The delicious fondue and hot chocolate afterwards made up for it, a little bit! It was definitely yummy:)

So now we're getting close to Christmas... *sigh* I'm really not a huge fan! It's the same thing every year, and I think it gets worse the older I get! I just can't seem to get in the Christmas spirit as much as when I was a kid! We did put up our tree, and that helps a little bit. But I'm so unmotivated! I haven't bought any gifts yet... oops!

Rayna's 16th birthday is on Thursday. I'm going over there and then we're going out to Sardi's

I'm ready to get this year over with. I just want a fresh new start! 2012 is going to be a good year! I already have so many things planned... well, races mostly! lol. Cherry Blossom 10 Miler, Columbia Iron Girl Half Marathon, Warrior Dash, ??? I'm sure many more!!

Staying on a healthy diet during the holidays is just really tough, so I'm ready to NOT have so many things messing up my good eating!:)

Ok... that's about it for now. I can't think of much else to talk about. I'm really going to try and be strict about updating this thing at least weekly! I promise, I'll try! Even if it's just a quick little update:)

Keep your fingers crossed that I lose some weight SOON!! Thanks friends:)

Anna