peace + love + cupcakes

That's what life should be all about...

Oh yeah, I also am trying to lose weight with Weight Watchers & hope to one day be able to call myself a runner.

The Cool Kids

The week I walked a 10K, ate pancakes & lost weight

Yesterday I walked my first 10K race & I was very happy with my results. I was hoping for average pace of 17 minutes per mile however, there were two obnoxious hills during the course & they slowed me down (side note: I really need to work on hills). Instead my average pace was 17:06 for a total time of 1:46:27. I am totally ok with that time. Now I have a base to improve on.

We were given a cool medal, pancakes & beer at the end of the race. Whee! Afterwards we walked around as they had some vendors & then we had some lunch & visited some vineyards. I volunteered to be the designated driver so I didn’t drink. However, I did enjoy a nice bacon burger with bleu cheese & sweet potato fries and I did not feel guilty about it at all. I tracked my food all week & it’s very interesting to see the differences between tracking calories and points.

The past two weeks, I’ve been tracking calories & trying not to go over my daily goal. I then enter every thing into my WW app. If I was only tracking calories, Sunday looked like a good day. My goal is 1930 calories, I consumed 2931 but I burned 1153 for a net of 1778. Now this is an unusual day as you can see I don’t often consume all my calories and/or points. But on WW, I went over my daily total points & used up 29 of my weekly points & accumulated 36 activity points.

One of the reasons why I am tracking on both is to control portions. Besides that I am not sure why I am tracking. Actually I do know. Tracking on both MFP & WW has helped me lose 2.7 pounds this week so I will continue to track. Since tracking my food this way I have lost 6.1 pounds.

My goal for this week is to do what I have done the past two weeks. Track EVERYTHING & start week 11 of the half marathon training guide - 4 days of 5k’s & an easy 9 mile walk. I am beyond intimidated by the 9 miles. BEYOND. But I will try to do them & see how far I get. This week will be hard work food wise because I tend to get lazy & cocky after two successful weeks. This has been my pattern ever since I started WW. This week I will break that pattern.