2 Year Update:

This is a two year up date on my weight loss goal. I have ran a little short of my two year goal but I have come a really long way. Today the scale read 274 which is 7 pounds off my intended mark of 267. Over the last year I have lost an additional 38 pounds from this time last year which was 312.  I now enter the last phase of my journey...I want to lose an additional 25 pounds in the next year. So my new short term goal is to get to 250 by August 24th, 2012.  I have altered my exercise routine going forward, now I am lifting weights Monday, Wednesday and Friday while running Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.  I have also upped my calories from 2000 to 2500 per day. This upping in calories will decrease my weight loss but that is ok...I am beginning the transition from losing weight to maintaining weight...I look forward to seeing where the next leg of my journey takes me.

Running in the O.C.

It must take some sort of sickness to get up at 6:00 am and purposely run while you are on vacation. Whatever this sickness is I must have it pretty bad because I did my usual 3 mile run in 30 min this morning.  (here is a link to my route) But there was something different to this morning then to any other morning I have experienced so far.  This time last year I was forced to walk a block and then run 2 blocks...I continued this from 18th to 1st street and then I walked back to 18th street. This year it was a constant 10 minute mile from 18th street to the primary pier by the amusement part and back.  What a difference that is!  I praise the Lord for the strength he has given me to endure and to have the determination to continue on this weight loss journey, I praise him every day for this gift he has given me!

Inching my way Closer

The scale read 272 today...so I am a little bit closer to my end goal of 267 then I was at my last post.  On Tuesday I get to run on the boardwalk at Ocean City, MD...It will be really great to be a runner and not a walker this time around.  I have a nice 3.17 mile run set. http://runkeeper.com/user/derekbostick/route/748103