Phew! I hit 3M!

It wasn't pretty. My form was meh.

...I walked a little bit. 

But I completed 3 miles in under 30 min so I'm feeling pretty great :-)

I have GOT to find a way to get out of my head when I'm running. I feel like I'm always making little bargains with myself. "Ok, run til the next .25 miles and then you can walk for a sec." I'm 100% sure my body could have ran this non-stop, but my brain made me take breaks. Something to look into.

Run in Maine

Gotta... break... 2 miles...

Stupidly ran this:

1) after drinking a ton yesterday

2) not having ANY water today

3) 40 minutes after a two-scoop ice cream cone from Shaine's of Maine (good stuff, but not pre-run)

Tomorrow - going for 3!! I have to.

Bullet Journal

So I'm trying to get LOTS of life stuff in order these days, and work is one area where I'm struggling. I've been on LifeHacker a lot recently, and I heard about a new system of note-taking and to-do management called Bullet Journal. It seemed super easy/effective, and my favorite part was that it utilized a moleskine graphed journal :-)

So far so good!

On Another Note...

A cool project I worked on this weekend :-) I've been doing lots of projects around the house and it's really fulfilling! Tomorrow this bad boy is getting a coat of paint.

Cleared 2M

Wow - it's scary that I have the Halfie on less than 2 months and this is my biggest accomplishment. However, it's the goal I set today and I did it :-)

I ran the "cool" new route I tried last week, but it wasn't as effective. Note to self - make sure you've eaten we'll the day you're running, and pick a route with minimal stops. I had to pause almost every block in the beginning cuz of lights/cars. 

But I did it! :-)

Run, Dave! Run!

Not so impressive today. But I'm glad I got out there in my new sneakers :-)

Shiny!!

1.5 Miler in New Terrain

Short post today:

I decided to run from my Dr's appointment to rehearsal tonight. I prepped by putting all my essentials in my iPhone armband, and then I just DID it (well, I ran my 1.5, stretched, and walked the rest of the way). It felt good to run in the city - will be doing it more often :-)

Whole30

So I'm not ready for this today, but possibly in a few weeks:

The Whole30 website is REALLY resonating with my personal diet and health goals.  It also seems like a quick, supportive way to integrate paleo eating into my life.  However, I know that I'm going to be in far too many situations in the next week that I'm not prepared for paleo-ly (i.e., the housewarming party Saturday where I'm sure I'll be eating carbs and drinking alcohol).  Giving up alcohol is also a huge step, even for 30 days, but I'm ready to give it a shot.  Also, it's all so EXPENSIVE! Free-range meats, so much produce... I don't think I can afford to get 100% behind it until I get paid again!

So, here's the plan: I get paid Thursday the 15th; I will go shopping on Friday the 16th and spend the whole weekend preparing food for my first week Whole30ing.  Rich is down on the Cape the 18th through the 22nd, so it'll be good for me to test things out by myself.  It also means I can buy groceries with just myself in mind.  I'll also have to plan ahead for the following weekend when I'll be up in Maine with Rich.  But that's half the fun :-D

Meg and CTP's Wedding!

Rich and I went to our friends' wedding reception on the Cape yesterday! So much fun, but I got preeeetty drunk. Sick all night, hung over today :-P But such a good time, seriously. I'm just excited to spend this year trimming down and getting fit so I can stop looking at pictures like this and hating how chubby my face looks:

Nutritionist!!

On Thurs this week I saw a nutritionist who works in the same health clinic as my primary care. I figured it'd be good to get some professional grounding i my eating habits, since I tend to pendulum between austerity and gluttony. 

I wasn't sure what to expect, but the dualistic part of me kinda wanted her to hand me a detailed, regimented meal plan that I should follow to the letter. Something that took my specific body composition and lifestyle into account.

However, what I got was arguably much more valuable. The nutritionist listened to my story about my struggle with food and body image stuff, and started typing. She printed out an article called "Intuitive Eating," and asked me to read it. 

http://www.intuitiveeating.org/content/10-principles-intuitive-eating

The article hit on SO MANY things that really resonated with me. In short, the nutritionist encouraged me to deal with some bigger meta-issues about food rather than following a specific "diet." She also gave me permission to take my time, not expect immediate breakthroughs, and to work on suspending judging myself when I make questionable food decisions. 

Super. Helpful. We'll see how it goes!!

Another mile

Already behind this week, but I started my training program a few weeks early to make sure I gave myself room for weeks like this. I did, however, have a pretty successful *morning* run, which is new for me :-)