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ONLY ONE MORE DAY LEFT TO MAKE A DONATION… Click on the link to the right to support me in my efforts for this 5K and to help me reach my $1000 goal, I'm only a little ways away.

Ooops, I gained .2 LB's this week. That's kinda a sarcastic "ooops" cause let's face it… .2 lbs is a sip of water. I'm actually thrilled that I didn't gain more cause I've come to realize that traveling makes it very difficult to control your diet.

I just got back yesterday after 2 days in Knoxville for a regional SAMHSA Grant meeting pertaining to the grant I'm working on through my internship. It was an extremely successful trip and provided a great opportunity to understand the grant better, see an effective model of integrated health, and get to know some of the individuals that I'm working with as well.

While I was the only person in the fitness room at 5:30 on Wednesday morning (at least until someone else came in at 6am), I realized the difficulty of travel and I now understand how people who travel for work find it difficult to eat well and maintain their weight. I have a relatively consistent diet and the inability to control portions and ingredients was a challenge. For instance, yesterday morning I ordered 2 eggs scrambled (for my protein) and they took a giant spoonful of prepared scrambled eggs that probably equalled the amount of 4 eggs, if not more. That's just an example. Also, admittedly, because I don't travel all the time for work, or pleasure, I use that as an excuse to make less-than-wise food decisions, because "I don't eat like this much".

Another lesson I learned this week was that I am 100% confident that I made the right decision to do bootcamp every morning and not just a stupid gym membership. I WAS SO BORED!!! I ran on the treadmill for 10+ minutes, was bored out of my mind - even with a personal TV right in front of me, and then moved to the elliptical for 20+ minutes - STILL BORED OUT OF MY MIND!!! It wasn't until I got off of the "fancy equipment" and utilized the stability balls, weights, and exercise balls, that I became a little more interested in what I was doing and time FLEW!!!

I did make sure to use my elevator ride to my room, after working out, to text Stacy and save her the trouble of texting me!

On a personal note (non-fitness/weigh loss related), it was very refreshing to be around so many intelligent, powerful, well-spoken, successful women while I was at this regional meeting. There were also men there, but you expect to see the stereotypical business man. What was great was to see was so many women of different ages, backgrounds, races, and education, who are driven and successful. So awesome!

The 5K is next Saturday, Sept. 24 and I'm ready. Not sure if any of you saw the comments on the last post, but last Saturday I managed to run into town and 1/2 way back. Downtown Canton is 2 miles from my house (actually 2.2 miles but I stopped just short of the actual center of town). The exhausting part was all the stinkin' hills that I have to trudge up and down living out here in the foothills of the North Georgia Mountains. I'm super confident after this past weekend that I, indeed, can complete this 5K, especially since Atlantic Station is relatively flatter than where I live.

Weekly Goal: Don't get complacent!

HUGS XOXOX