hooray!

Went to the gym last night and weighed myself again.... down 2 more lbs! Hooray! That brings me to a total of 8 lbs in about 5 or 6 weeks. It's coming off faster now that I've really got myself focused on a goal and I'm in the right frame of mind. Yay! I hope it keeps coming off!

The gym my hubby and I go to is about an 8 minute bus ride down the street, but it closes at 10:30pm. So usually what happens is I leave to go right after he gets home from work while he eats dinner with the kids. If he's home early, then I can get in 1.5-2 hours of cardio/weights. If he gets home later and I only have time for 30 min - 1 hour, then I usually focus on cardio. I have to leave the gym by 9:30pm so that he can get there before 10pm so that he has time to do his weight lifting. (Then he'll run home for his cardio... takes him about 25 min- most of it up hill!)

Last night he got home a bit later, and I had to wait forever for the bus, and so by the time I got to the gym, I knew I would only have about 45 minutes. I gave myself a really intense workout on the elliptical to make up for the short time I had. As I was about to leave, Sam sent me a text that said I could stay later because he wanted to study. Yay! So I rounded out a full hour of cardio and then did weights for a little while. After that, I still had some time left before the gym closed, so I got on a treadmill. My intention was to just walk for awhile, but I ended up running for 15 minutes. The good part? I felt like I could have run longer!! The bad part? My hips and lower back didn't like it so much. I'm a little sore this morning.

I am feeling really good now, though. Obviously because I could run for 15 minutes without getting winded (and this was a 7.7 speed), my heart and lungs are getting healthier, and I'm building up my endurance. And during my weight lifting, I can feel my upper body getting stronger, too, because it's not such a struggle anymore. I still have a long way to go, for sure, but I am really happy with the progress I am making.

And I am really, really looking forward to Zoe starting pre-school in September because that gives me 3 hours every morning that I can do whatever the heck I want... i.e. going to the gym. :)


p.s. I adjusted my ticker at the top. Embarrassed or not about my weight gain, I'm proud of getting it off!