Biking

Part of my wanting to get healthier involves me wanting to incorporate exercise into normal activities that I like to do. Not be a slave to the treadmill. So, today I went on a 25 mile bike ride with C. It was really good. I felt pretty good the whole time and on the way back I sped it up a bit. I think that we made it back about 5-10 mins faster than we went. That is good in my book!

Another part of the wanting to get healthy is not just losing weight (which I don't feel is going well) but doing other things as well. I think that I might start to feature some of these other things once or twice a week.

I will be weighing myself tomorrow. I don't really feel like I have lost any weight this week but I have tried to pay attention to what I eat. I am wondering if the whole writing everything down deal might work best for me. I had to have to do that but if I think that I am eating well but I am not losing weight, something isn't working. Something to think about.

I did manage to exercise a lot this week. I am pretty proud of that because I got in 5 days this week! Yay me!

More tomorrow after I weight myself :-(

Progress is slow...

but it is my own fault. I had ice cream almost every day last week. I know, i know, but ever just crave something? I do and then I eat it for a while and then it is gone. I feel like since it will not be a permanent fixture and since I would crave it more if I didn't, then I should have it. Not the best way to lose weight per se, but I kept the portions small and I think that had I tried to avoid it then I would have ended up eating more actually calories trying to avoid it.

Other than that, I have been cooking a lot and even though the weight loss was not a lot this week, it was still some. I just finished reading In Defense of Food and it will really change your perspective on food. Since I have read it I have tried to really only eat fresh food. It hasn't been too difficult (and obviously ice cream is not all natural) so far. I am not sure I can do it completely and even if I did, I would have to eat out when I go out of town. I am going to do a full review on it a little later but I just wanted to post really quickly to say hi! I need to post more often but I just feel like I would be saying the same things over and over again. I guess that is the journey to get healthy though....and hence the title of the blog.