Jennifer on August 14th, 2010

Well, I didn’t run the whole thing (obviously from my time) but I did complete in less than 45 minutes yesterday — 44 actually — or roughly, since I didn’t use a stop watch.  Now I just have to concentrate on improving my time.
The good news?  My muscle aches have subsided some!  I think this [...]

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Jennifer on August 10th, 2010

My first experience with working towards my new goal was awesome!  I’m already wondering if my goal wasn’t big enough.  I think the 5K portion is right on target, and the two weeks is doable.  I’m wondering if the 45 minutes part of my goal is too lax?  Anyway, long story short, at the end [...]

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Jennifer on August 9th, 2010

A few months ago you may remember me mentioning a couple of friends that were training for a 5K.  It was so motivating for me that I dusted off the treadmill in the basement and tried gradually increasing the number of jogging minutes in a 30 minute interval.  While I had gotten that number up [...]

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Jennifer on July 25th, 2010

Katie asked me recently what my goal weight was.  She asked nearly a week ago and I have found it so difficult to find the time to respond, although I’ve really given it quite a bit of thought!
If you were to look on the blog header, you think that my GW (goal weight) is 168, [...]

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Jennifer on July 2nd, 2010

Well, the good news keeps rolling in!   The scale this morning read 188, which marks another ten pounds to be rid of in the quest to lose 100.  I’m 4/5 of the way there and today had another opportunity to wear my picture-taking-progress-page-updating shirt.
I have updated my Progress Photos page with another picture.  This infamous [...]

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Jennifer on May 24th, 2010

It’s funny how my Monday weights are never as “low” as they perhaps were at a previous part of the week.  Makes me want to report my lowest weight of the week and not necessarily the weight I had on Monday.  But, as Katie said in a previous posting’s comment, reaching a weight once and [...]

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Jennifer on April 30th, 2010

I’m two months in a row for meeting my monthly goals!  At the end of March, I said I wanted to lose five pounds in April.  I knew that with two family birthdays (including mine) and Easter chocolate temptations, it would be difficult to lose much more than that.  Well, in April I lost six!
The [...]

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Jennifer on April 27th, 2010

The scale told me 203 yesterday, and 202 today.  I like the direction I’m moving, albeit ever so slowly.  I still need to eke out one more pound before the end of April to meet my monthly goal.
I started thinking at lunch today — there are 35 weeks left in the year.  I need to [...]

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Jennifer on March 31st, 2010

Yay for me!  After two months of not meeting my monthly goals, I met the one I had for March — even beat it and kept the lost pounds off!
At the beginning of March I weighed 215 and my goal was to be at 208 by the end of the month.  Well, this morning I [...]

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Jennifer on March 2nd, 2010

I have been absent for quite a while.  Sorry about leaving you hanging like that.  I hadn’t been feeling all that well, but am happy to report that I am back with a vengeance!
My goal for February was to lose six pounds.  Verily, I did it!  Unfortunately, before the end of the month was up, [...]

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