49/84

I am on day 49 until Adrienne's wedding and 84 days until the race. I have stuck with my diet and have lost 3.4 pounds as of yesterday. I think the fact that I have had some wine here and there is the factor slowing my progress down and I have to eliminate that. I know that the diet is not exactly what I will do for life but for the next 49 days it is the way of life for me. I can handle it for this time frame too. I just have to stay focused and continue training... 3.4 pounds in the first 10 days isn't bad at all. It is progress. Now that my body is accustomed to the low carbohydrate intake, working out should not be as taxing.

I believe in order to make the progress I want to; I need to do 1hour of cardio training daily. For now I am striving to at least run a mile a day but with the goal of increasing my endurance so that by race day I can run continuously for the entire 1/2 marathon. So build up to running the entire hour and then on Saturdays just keep adding more time to it. On the other days stick with the hour just work on how many miles you can do in that time frame.

The more weight I lose the less trauma my  body will feel from running. You don't see many people on the track my size trying to run... NO

I know I can do this and I really am thrilled that I have finally figured out a method I can stick with. Do a count down with the promise that you can evaluate at that time what you want to do from there. I am going to be okay. I will run the St Jude's marathon and I will get my dang medal.