3 miles baby (at least in our head)

We’ve (aka Missy) been a little lame about updating lately. Just alot going on. Not enough hours in the day. The brain has been convincing lately that sleep is better than blogging.

Our training is going well. We won’t be running a marathon anytime soon, but we are doing some type of exercise regularly and most importantly and most exciting is that we’ve been doing awesome with eating healthy and not eating so much (and losing weight!).

You all know that my bloggy friend Anna inspired me to start the 30 Day Shred. Well she also inspired us to use My Plate, which is part of the Livestrong website.  It keeps track of everything you eat and all the exercise you do. In the beginning you put in your current weight and what your weight loss goal is and then it calculates what your calories should be and let’s you know throughout the day how you’re doing.

Needless to say we are obsessed. It’s kinda like a game. You try to stay under enough so that you can have a snack at the end of the day. It’s been amazing to become more aware of all the little snacking we did and how much that adds up. Not to mention the calories that are consumed with soda, which we’ve almost completely given up. 

As far as actual training we’ve been running more and more lately. A few nights ago we ran around our neighborhood and Pat was certain it was 3 miles. I actually made it the entire way without stopping and even sprinted the last 2 blocks. Unfortunately when we drove the course and measured it was only 2.4 miles. Bummer! That’s ok though, it was still the longest we’ve run in a long time.  We’ve been rotating between running, biking, tennis and I’m also still doing the 30 Day Shred. I haven’t been doing it every day so I’m still on level 2.

The weight loss is going great too. I can finally start to tell that I’ve lost weight so that’s exciting and keeps me motivated. Pat is losing weight like crazy, he’s turning into this skinny little thing. Again, not fair. But he’s working hard so I’m also proud of him. Yesterday he was at 198 and I was at 146. So we’re making good progress.  Since doing the My Plate thing for 2 weeks I’m so amazed at how I’m not that hungry all that time. I think alot of it is just reminding myself to not eat everytime I get sad or mad, exercising and drinking lots of water.

I need to get to bed but I’m going to have to do a post about eating healthy. I am so surprised at how it is actually LESS expensive then how we were eating before. Seriously. It’s amazing. So we’ll share more about that next time.