A goal achieved... finally... sort of

I've hit a plateau in my weight loss in the last two or three weeks. I think my metabolism got used to the calories I was eating and burning, so I wasn't losing any weight. I wasn't changing anything to keep my body guessing either, but how was I supposed to know that I needed to. Anyway, at the beginning of the year one of the goals I set for myself was to lose 30 lbs. The closest I've gotten so far was within half a pound of my goal, but the day after that my weight shot back up about 2 pounds and has stayed there ever since. That brings me to today. As usual, while waiting for the shower to heat up for my post-run cleansing I hopped on the scale to check the damage, and I hit my goal! So... YAY! Of course, that will all change by morning. First, I know that it's just water that I lost thanks to the massive amount of sweat I poured out on the Seattle streets, and I don't think I fully re-hydrated from my run yesterday. That and the half of a large, thin crust, pepperoni sausage and bacon pizza that I had for dinner tonight. Oh, and the breadsticks. As much as I want to, I can't forget the breadsticks.

Ok, so yesterday whilst on the 'mill, the Food Network cemented my love of the show "The Best Thing I Ever Ate." Last week, the evil tempters at FN did a fried food theme, and I thought "what could be better than that?" They promptly followed it up with BBQ! Yesterday, they completed the heart-attack trifecta and did a bacon episode. The best thing I ever ate... with BACON! There was a bacon cheeseburger that the chef put a bacon patty on. He wasn't skimping with just a few strips. No, this was a massive bacon patty on top of the already beautiful beef patty.... I'm hungry now. By the way, the best three-word combination in the history of ever: glazed bacon doughnut. That's all I'll say about that. Please, will someone make me some tempura fried BBQ bacon with glazed bacon doughnut on the side?

I had a fairly reasonable run on the 'mill. Nothing spectacular, although I tried to bump up the speed a little bit. I apparently suck at doing intervals, because when I'm outside I just can't force myself to speed up for any real distance. I can speed up for a little bit, but I guess I slow down without thinking about it.

Last night I rediscovered the greatness of Van Halen and AC/DC. I saw something about both of them on someone else's blog - no idea who - and when I went looking through the CD collection I found four VH and two AC/DC albums. Awesome! They all got ripped and added to my "exercise" playlist. Sadly, although I put 50-something songs on there I only heard one VH and two AC/DC's on my run today. I'll need to create a new playlist for them so that I can really dive into some classic rock.

Today I had a wonderful outdoor run. Well, wonderful may not be the best way to describe it. First, I think i was less hydrated than normal, which is definitely going to have an effect on me. I really only had about 64oz of water, which maybe caught me up from what I lost yesterday during the run, but didn't completely do the trick for hydrating me today. Also, my feet felt a little like lead at times. Normally I'd think that was a food thing, but I had PLENTY of food during the day. I actually had more today than I do on a typical day just because I'm trying to concentrate on eating more so I can bust the aforementioned plateau. Finally, I think it may have been a bit hot out there. I'm not complaining - you don't complain about a Seattle summer - but it may have been a little warm at 6:00 to do a four mile run. There's an article on coolrunning.com that talks about how you should adjust your running as temperatures climb. It looks like 65 degrees is the best temperature, from my extremely brief scan of the article. It was at least around 80 today (79.6 according to wunderground.com). So no wonder it felt like an effort. And I have the same thing to look forward to tomorrow, but at least now I know what I'm getting into.

Got a doctor's appointment tomorrow. Can't wait to talk about how much weight I've lost, and get her opinion on my marathon goal.