Baby Blues

I have been a bad blogger. I think that when a person is excited about losing weight or achieving weight loss goals it is a lot easier to blog. Excitement over something makes the words pour out! I am not sure what is going on with me these days, I just feel a little blue. I don't know if I go so far as to say I am depressed (although that is probably more accurate) so I prefer to label it as 7 months after having a baby I am still feel a little post-pardum blue-ness. Don't get me wrong, I haven't given up on losing weight, I am just in a state of appatheticness about it (is that a word?).

Anyhoo. I am still plugging along. I finally lost weight this week. I was just ready to give myself an extra cheat day (in honor of fathers day - that's a holiday, right?) because I haven't been losing much weight and I didn't see the point in being so strict with myself. But then I stepped on the scale and saw that I had lost 3 lbs, so it kicked me in the butt to keep doing what I am doing, Slow and steady is tough though...I struggle with whether I can keep going or what the point is.

I think Fridays should be my official weigh in day because it is my slow work day and I am more likely to blog :). So this morning I weighed in at 195.6. I am 5 lbs from my pre-pregnancy weight (I had slowly let 40lbs creep back up on me, it took 4 years to gain those 40lbs but come back they did).

As for exercise I am struggling with the fact that I seem to hate running, so instead of pushing myself to run a lot, I went back to the Ragnar training schedule for beginners. I need to think of myself as a beginner again. I don't plan on running a Ragnar anytime soon but it really starts out slow and works you up to a long distance. This is the training plan that I used with lots of success in 2010, so hopefully it works out again this time.