Mrs. Surf and I are heading North this week. I have meetings in Virginia for three days, then we are going to Atlantic City for a few days before returning home. While heading North, my weight is heading South. I've dropped over 20 pounds since the first of the year. It feels good to be losing weight. It has an effect on all aspects of my life. I have more energy all the time and I can see myself getting in shape and beginning to run again soon. I have a friend that runs almost every day, and I look forward to doing that before long. When I was in the Army, I ran about 50-70 miles a week. While I don't think I want to put that many miles in now, I would like to do maybe half that. One of my new goals is to run over 30 days in a row for maybe 150 miles or so. It will still be a while before I can do this, but I will do it.
I should be down to about 270 by summer. That will be over 40 pounds gone!! It is nice to be able to look back in this journal and see the progress. Day by day it doesn't ever seem like the weight is coming off, but when I can look back just a few months and see a 20 pound difference, I gain confidence in the upcoming months and I keep focused because I know I am going to keep losing the extra weight and reach my goals.
As an example of the attitude difference, there is no way I would have set a running goal three months ago. I am going to start logging my running in a journal. I won't be posting it here every day; I'll probably just post an update every now and then on here.
I'm looking forward to our trip this week. I'll tell you all about it when we return.
