Thursday, July 17, 2008

First Week Thoughts...

So, I've completed the first week of cigarette detox.  Oddly, I haven't craved one yet, which I am fine with while I prepare for that first big withdrawal day...lol.

Ran again today (that's a little over 10 miles this week!) but tried a new path, running toward Manhattan and halfway over the Williamsburg Bridge and back.  Ouch!  It's a long uphill run on the bridge at first which is a good burn but dang!  At least the view was fantastic!

One bit of bad news :(  As part of doing all of this good for myself, I decided to get real with myself and bought a scale.  Bad move.  I'd hovered around the same weight (165-170) for most of my adult life, thanks to dancing, but that has come to a crashing halt.  Aside from that skirmish with not eating back in 1998 where I bottomed out at 145, this is the first time I remember not being in that weight window.  Gulp...are you ready?  185 lbs. !!!!!  At first I told myself that the added weight simply MUST  be muscle mass...then I remembered...that horrible picture of me in the dunking booth...the rolls...the horror!!

I kid, but I did immediately up the crunches.  Now I have to do 150 of those a day now, too!

Really, 185 lbs. ?  Really?  UNACCEPTABLE!!!

Hope the softball games went well!  Barb, how's the house hunt?



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