Check!

4 mile long run - CHECK!

Completed an entire week of tracking - CHECK!

Completed our 2nd week of 1/2 marathon training - CHECK!

Lost 2.6 pounds - DOUBLE CHECK!!

Today was another great day!

I got up and went to my meeting and was down 2.6 pounds! See what tracking gets you... :) Good thing I am on for 3 months of tracking in my new tracker...I might not need to finish the book if these types of losses keep up!!

Also our leader did something new to start off the new year, she bought a 3 month tracker to use as the traveling journal. Every week a different meeting member takes the journal and tracks in it all week. The motivation behind this is first to track all week and to be aware that everyone else that uses it will get to read what you ate! So I have it this week! I will definitely track all week again and hopefully will see another big loss next week!

Next we went to go and pick up our NEW CAR! We went and picked it up and also got the oil changed in our other car. So that was good to get out of the way. Charley stayed with my friend while we got the car since we knew we'd be sitting at a desk for a little while filling out paperwork and it is hard to have a fidget monster like her in your lap when you are filling out paperwork!

We picked Charley up and came home - she had lunch and we had a snack then we headed to the gym for our weekly long run. I finished my 4 mile run in under 40 minutes!! It felt so good afterwards. Here is my Nike+ (I told you I wouldn't forget my sensor again!!) The run details aren't in this picture, but here is what they are: Distance: 4.02 miles, Time 38m 29s, Pace 9m 34s mile average, 590 calories burned.


We also got some good news at the gym. See during the week when I am at work here is who watches Charley - Monday's either my parents or Jimmy's mom comes and watches her, Tuesday's I am home with her and sometimes I watch my friends daughter, Wednesday when I work my friend (whose daughter I watch) watches Charley, then Thursday's and every other Friday our neighbor friend watches her and we pay her.

Well our neighbor friend told us the other day that she has to get a full time job and can no longer watch Charley. Well...I freaked! I just started my new job where I had to go from working 2 days a week to 3 (he requires me to be there 3 days a week...that was a stipulation of the job) and now we only have someone to watch her 2 days a week!!

Well Charley goes to the day care at the gym while we are there and all of the ladies that work there are so nice. Well the one that was there today we have talked to before and she lives right near us and has 3 kids, so while I was running on the treadmill I was thinking, why don't I ask her if she knows of anyone, because she has kids and she lives near us. So when we went in to pick up Charley I asked her...and she said she could watch her!! I am so excited!! We love her, she lives close and has kids Charley can play with!!

Now here is where I need your opinion. Our neighbor friend that says she needs to get a full time job, told us that she is just going to start looking and when she finds a new job, she'll let us know and she will give us 2 weeks notice to fins someone else to watch Charley. Well I don't want to put off the new girl from the gym who said she could watch her, since she is helping us out, I don't want to leave her hanging on when Charley will be coming to her. So do I just flat out tell the neighbor lady that we found someone and Charley won't be coming to her anymore after this week? I feel bad, but it is something we need to have taken care of and be sure about. I don't know what to do. eh. Please give me any advice!!

After the gym, we headed to AT&T to get new phones. Jimmy currently has AT&T and I have Verizon, but with my new job I get 45% off new phones and 20% off the plans with AT&T so I am switching!! Well the phones we wanted weren't in stock, they said they'd have them in early in the week. So I am excited to get a phone that will have internet and email :)

Then we came home to shower and get ready - me to go to my friends house for the Ravens game and Jimmy to go to work at the bar.

Now I am back from the football party - at which I only had 3 mini cookies and a diet coke :)

Oh and I got some AWESOME news from Jimmy tonight. We were planning on going to Costa Rica this fall. Well Jimmy found out that his boss at the bar has a house there. Yes, a house in Costa Rica...must be nice!! Well Jimmy was going to ask him about it and where he thought we should stay etc...well he offered us his house to stay at FOR FREE!!! I am SO EXCITED!! Now we just need to decide how long we want to go and if we want to take Charley with us or not. I really want to, but there are a bunch of things we want to do while we are there that don't include a 1 year old. :( So we'll need to see what we can figure out. A bunch of my friends have offered to come and babysit! :)

Now I am off on a mission which my friend Margie is also on...the declutter mission for the new year...well mine is starting with the closet. I have been putting it off now for months, time to bite the bullet! If I don't post tomorrow, please send the search party...I might be buried under piles of clothes!!

Here is my menu from today - The next person to get the traveling journal, is going to think all I eat are sweets!! :) But I can have all the sweets I want if I count the points! Though I know they aren't the best for me all the time...but I need to to some major grocery shopping tomorrow so you will see a BIG change in my foods over the next few days!

Food	Units
fiber 1 bar	2
hostess mini muffins	1
pizza pocket	6
4 mile run	-6
1/2 buffalo chicken wrap	10
1/2 sandwich	12
kisses	1
mini cookies at a football party	3
1/4 of a piece of tiramisu that i got and am going to make it last 3 days!	2
Total:	31

Table provided by Roni's Food Tweet, Eat, Post Generator.