Happy New Year!

Well, it's a new year and yet, I am still making the same bad choices. I don't usually make new year resolutions because...well, let's just be honest. No one ever sticks to them!! However, this year, I made one. Nope, it's not to finally get these 17 pounds off. Yep, 17 and not 10. If you're paying attention, you'd know that's a 7 pound weight gain(insert sad face here). But, we'll get to that later. Back to my resolution...I have decided to quit complaining, whining, bitching and excuse making! I'll be the first to admit, this will be very difficult for me. I'm a proud Virgo and we're known for our complaining, bitching, moaning and fussiness. Okay, maybe it's not a Virgo thing but a Tracey thing?! Lol! Anyway, I've been running with a woman from my running group and she has the best attitude ever. She never complains when she's having a bad run, she never apologizes for being 'slow' and, she doesn't make excuses. She's running for health and fun. Hmmm, I remember I used to run for those two things. Even though I've told myself a number of times that although it's a race it's not a race to win but a race to FINISH but, deep down inside I was always being hard on myself for not being faster or better or having more stamina. I'm not out there to run against anyone but myself. The only person I'm competing with is the former Tracey and so far, I'm running laps around her. :-)

Today was my first 'long' run since my car accident. Between the accident, briefly being without my car, the holidays and well laziness I hadn't done any runs longer than 4 or 5 miles. Well today, I ran 6 miles and not just any 6 miles. Six miles with 10 big hills! It was tough but I actually was loving it!! Who knew? Dare I say I now love hills? My running partner on the other hand was not loving them. She bailed at mile 5. At one point I felt like I wanted to run 2 more miles but, decided it would be better to ease back into my long runs. It wasn't the 8 miles I really wanted to run but so what, I'm not gonna complain...remember? :-)

I gained 7 pounds over the holidays! Not good! Even though it's roughly 'just' 10-25 pounds

that I've been struggling with since my big 100+ pound weight loss it's still not healthy. Going up 7 pounds down 4 pounds then up 3 pounds down 6 pounds etc...can not be good for me. I know what to do, I know how to get it off yet...I gained 7 pounds! Losing weight and maintaining that weight loss is extremely difficult. I plan to take the next couple weeks trying to get my mind set back to January of 2008 when I first joined Weight Watchers. One of the things I told myself back then is, 'it's not going to happen over night'. I'm starting to lose my patience and eating out of frustrations is a sure way to fail.