Holidays were hard.  Only my crazy active life style kept me from gaining A LOT OF WEIGHT.  Still gained a few lbs, it seems like I gained 3-4lbs, loose it, gain it, loose it.  Basically a weekend would hit and it's be socializing, drinking, eating, ect, and I'd gain, but then the week would hit and I'd be at the gym and I'd loose it again, but then the weekend would hit again and  . . . 

But Now, thank the Zumba and Diet gods, the holidays are over.  One of my gyms closed, but I'm still teaching 7 (probably 8 soon) classes a week, and I'm still trying to jog and train for a 10k or maybe even a 1/2 marathon, but jogging has been hard, seems like I have to do something on my jogging days and I never get to it.  In about an hour I plan on going and jogging 5 mi.

Had to re-adjust my calories.  I've been in a platue for a long time (pain, and surgeries, and holidays, oh my).  For a while I was trying to eat 1650 calories, but that just made me stop counting calories b/c that number felt impossibly low and even when I did manage to stay at those calories, I couldn't get below 215lbs (that's higher than my last number, but I put on a bit of muscle after surgery so although I gained 5lbs my pants got baggy on my).  Here's the raw truth, yesterday I burned about 3500 calories, today I'm going to burn 3000 calories.  1650 cals would be enough for a in-active woman trying to loose weight, but I had to realize that I'm no longer an in-active person.  So I bumped my calories up to 2000 a day.  Even I wanted to freak out at that number, it seems like SO much to eat when I've been going below that number for so long, but I'm already down to 213lbs, so it's working.  I think this is going to be what finally helps me break this rut and get out of the 200's forever.

Why am I rambling about this?  Because so many of you subscribed to my blog try to eat 500 or 800 calories a day to loose weight and you're NOT  going to be happy living that way.  Better to exercise, become your own athlete, and eat healthier, than to just starve yourself.  You'll get better results, and you'll feel better about yourself.  Just something to think about . . .

Knee is a little sore b/c of it, maybe I shouldn't have done the extra zumba class afterwards, hehe.  Friday is usually squats and lunges, but we did mat work for thighs and butt instead.  Only 1 girl stayed for toning so there were no complaints.  A friend's coming over tonight, so my Saturday jogging might have to get moved over to Sunday.  Plan to do another 8+ miles.  Forget 10k, I'm going try to be ready for a half marathon by this time next year or sooner.

Good jog today.  I had planned on only doing 5.25 miles today and waiting until Tuesday to go up to 7mi, but some jerks in a truck were shouting lewd things at me as I jogged (I don't know if they were cat calling or shouting fat jokes b/c I had my head phones turned up, but either way I was crazy pissed off) AND THEN THEY DROVE AROUND SO THEY COULD DO IT AGAIN.  After 5 miles I was still angry so I had to run another lap and make it seven, I was much calmer after 6 miles or so, lol.  

I kept thinking "What kind of idiots DRIVE laps around the park.  Everyone else is playing soccer, volleyball, baseball, jogging, walking, ect, and you're PASSENGERS!  You're not even driving your own cars, you're all piled in your friends truck and you think you're man enough to shout something at ME?  If you think your men, f*cking step out the truck and see how it feels getting your ass kicked by a white girl.  OR~ if you ever get tired of being boys and want to become REAL men, step onto this trail and run with the wolf pack.  We'll see how long the little cubs can keep up to the Alpha!"  

Oh, did I mention I ran seven miles?