Last week I announced that I was going to run the Sea Wheeze half marathon in August and I managed to sign up today for the event before it was full. I had been walking a lot in the fall so I only have to transition over to running to make this happen.

I jumped on the scale last Monday, vowed to eat better, drink less and add a km to my walking routine this week, meaning one walk would be 5 km with 1 km full on run for 3 of my walking sessions and the other days long walks of 8ish km.

As you may or may not know I write about food, wine and beer, so I’ve got a little bit of challenge when it comes to food choices, that being I have far too many temptations in front of me. I figured I can still do some of my eating if I curb the eating on other days and upped my exercise and still loose weight.

Well maybe it was the Chinese New Year’s dinner, the Granville Island food event, the indulgent afternoon tea, the slab of sour dough bread that I smothered in butter and accidentally ate late one night, the rich Sunday brunch or the Friday and Saturday night drinks, but this week I did not loose the weight I expected – what a surprise.

After all I had a whole day juice cleanse, ate a lot of salad, and did cut back my alcohol. I actually thought before I typed the list of above weekly indulgences that I had done pretty well! Proof that you can’t really fool yourself or your body, you actually have to put in the work.

Before I throw myself into traffic I am going to try to do something I don’t usually and instead of feeling guilty I will focus on the positive and what I learned this week. Firstly I have to congratulate myself on beginning running and sticking to a juice cleanse for a whole day (don’t laugh, baby steps), eating more veggie-based meals and drinking less. Then I have to remind myself that I really am going to have to drastically change my habits if I am going to get to where I want at a speed slower than a crawl.

Focus for this week is to track my eating daily and really focus on far more healthy meals with more nutrition and less calories on the plate.  Unfortunately I already had to have a chicken wrap today that I thought wouldn’t be quite that greasy and I accidentally finished it (research) and will have to try some dessert later (I promised to write about it) so today’s goal can only be fit a salad in and only have one small bite of the ten desserts I have been sent to try; seriously. I’ll report back next week. After all being aware is the first step.

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