The scale has moved...

Of course it has been moving all along, but July was a month of eating out every weekend (we weren't home any of them), and thus I thought 9.8 pounds lost was the best I was going to do. After weeks of counting calories, limiting beer (gasp), exercising and eating right, I have finally lost 10.4 pounds. Since when you ask? Oh since I joined WeWa online in October of 2005. At one point I had lost 17 pounds, but that was last year. So each milestone (5 pounds) I think of the last time I was here, and today, I can say I lost 2009 vacation weight. (I use WeWa online and Sparkpeople...why both? Because WeWa has me in to pay $16.95 a month...no actually, just counting calories doesn't make me stop eating, but points do...at the same time WeWa doesn't know what to do with a person who gains 40 Activity Points a week. So I combine them).

Yesterday, D and I went for a bike ride. It has been a week since we were on our bikes and it seems like it had been 3 months. My legs were like lead. We saw 4 deer on our ride, so that was cool. I really thought we were going very slowly, but we were at my normal pace, 10.7mph. Overall there was nothing very exciting...I had trouble sitting, my shoulders felt off, and I felt slow. The one thing we noticed is that I need to work on turning. Our ride is an out and back, and when I get to the out, I actually don't pedal to turn around. So one more thing to think about. And that hill is getting way easy.

Today is a swim. It was supposed to be a run as well, but 5AM came way too early. Can you tell I'm not a morning person? I'm not crazy about the swim. With all the rain and lower temps, I'm not sure what the pool temp will be. Oh well.

Time: 56:18 (bike)
Mileage: 10.05 (10.71 MPH)
Calories: 560
Max HR 169
Avg HR 140
In Zone 10:58