Run, Eat, Sleep, Repeat.

Danna again! Saturday I ran with a new 'she runs like a girl' team member for the Ogden 1/2 marathon. Amber. She is adorable. If you have a 20-30 something guy who wants a runner girl, boy do we have a sweetheart of a deal for you! We ran the Avenues- for the VERY hilly aspect. Which created a huffing aspect! Amber and K have been friends for many years. I'll need to work harder to get some dirt on K so I can post it! (Just kidding K, kinda). Kristin is in Iowa. I miss her. Poor Suz can't run right now, I miss her.

Amber and I talked about running and eating- two of my top hobbies! We talked about how we had both lost weight before, and re-gained it. I once heard Bob Greene of Oprah say that you really don't lose most of your weight from exercize, but it does put a ceiling on re-gain. I have found this to be true. When it comes to losing weight- diet trumps exercize. New years just passed, I have recently had a birthday, all the Haiti stress- I have been eating like I DID go to Haiti and came back starving. So nervously, I weighed today. STRESS!!! I braced myself as I got on the scale, but in a month of truly eating quite terribly- I only gained 1 1/2 pounds! I'm so glad my running put a ceiling on that weight gain. Of course, I have had my little (ok, huge) binge. I can be a good girl now. I think those eating episodes happen in real life, and my "diet" is all about real life eating. I call my "diet" my common sense diet. When faced with a food choice I ask myself, "Can I make this same choice for the rest of my life?" If the answer is no- then I eat it. I still go out to dinner and eat what I want once a week with Adam, I eat whatever I want. Just not as much as I want. If I want a doughnut, I eat half, and then if I still want the other half an hour later- I eat it. But, I am then mindful that I have already had a treat that day, and make other wise choices. It's all about balance.

NOW, keep in mind that I don't share all of this because I have it down. I share because I need the constant reminder and repitition to keep myself motivated. So this is my advice for the day... next time you see a piece of cake and think, maybe I shouldn't eat that... ask yourself, is that a choice I can make for the rest of my life? If the answer is no, EAT THE CAKE!! Then go for a run, and make good choices the rest of the day. Then sleep, repeat.