I've decided that I'm not going to give up everything I love for this diet/exercise regime. What I am going to do is enjoy them less often and in moderation. For example: If you know me, you know I love Chick-Fil-A. It's just so damn good. But that doesn't mean I have to eat it every day. The geography here does a good job preventing that anyway. But when I do go, rather than getting a regular chicken sandwich meal with large fries and a coke, I can go for the chargrilled sandwich, smaller fry (because those fries are damn good too), and a diet Dr. Pepper or water. But if I'm really craving fried, I could get the chicken strip salad with fat free honey mustard dressing.
When I feel like a treat, I'm going to have one. Sometimes it will be good for me, sometimes it won't. That's the only way this whole thing is going to work. There's an OrangeLeaf (self-serve frozen yogurt) right down the street from me, and while it's worse than eating no treat, it's better than going with full blown ice cream.
Today was my first day back out running. It snowed this week and was really freaking balls cold. Like 9 degrees cold and windy, so it felt like 4. I'm getting better about this whole running thing, but I'm not that hardcore yet.
Today's run was a slow jog. After running those 3 consecutive days, some of my leg muscles and/or tendons hurt. I'm not sure if it's the "sore from running" sore or the "sore you're injuring yourself" sore, so I decided to give it a little rest. Tonight the pain was still there a little but I was able to run through it. But I took it nice and slow. 2.48 miles in 34:45. It was my longest (time) run yet. Go Dawgs!
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