I remember why I fell in love with running

I was totally in the zone today when I was on the treadmill. I am really remembering why I fell in love with running 5+ years ago. I can't wait to get out there tomorrow and do it again. If my shins will let me. They are a little sore tonight so I may have to lay off with the running and just walk it. We'll have to see how I feel.

And yes, I do plan on working out on Thanksgiving.

My shirt came that I ordered from Old Navy. I love it. I opened it and my first thought was this is not going to fit! It looks too small. But it fits and I love it! I am so freaking proud of myself for putting all this effort into working out and watching what I eat. And now I'm able to start fitting into smaller clothes again!! Yes-I still have a long way to go to get back into my size 8 jeans but I'm on my way and I feel awesome!!

I'm also 11 pounds lighter then I was a year ago. Pretty cool.

I've earned 20 AP's so far this week. I plugged my exercise into the etools on the weight watchers site and that is what it told me. I thought I was only earning 4 for each day but it turns out it's 5.

I'm going to try and not eat too much tomorrow. We'll see what happens. I made a cheesecake and pumpkin pie. Yum!!

Heart Rate Monitor

I had a lot of fun with my Mom today. I was able to finally pick up "Fall to Pieces" by Mary Forsberg Weiland the ex-wife of Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots (my favorite band). I used my gift card that I got for my Birthday. We had fun poking around Barnes and Noble for awhile. We both love to read, although my sister and I could open our own bookstore with all the books we own. We out read our Mom for sure. Ha!!

I also was able to finally show my Mom the health food store by my house that I've been telling her about for awhile. She LOVED it. She bought me some organic coffee that I can't wait to brew up tomorrow. It smells like heaven in the package let me tell you.

I'm supposed to see her again tomorrow night with my sister for some more shopping.

My Mom was happy to see my cat, the Siamese, Molly. Molly used to be her cat before she moved to Arizona in 2002.

When I got home I got in my workout. I am really enjoying my treadmill time. I'm working on my running and thinking more and more about getting a heart rate monitor. I've been looking at the Garmin 305. I know some of you have one. What do you all think? My Mom in law likes to get a big gift for Christmas and this is what I am going to ask for this year. I want something that is going to tell me how many calories I am burning off because we all know that the treadmill is LYING when it tells me I am burning 600 calories in 60 minutes (I wish). So anyway the running is coming along nicely and I'm really proud of myself.

I have pie and cheesecake to make tomorrow for Thanksgiving. Eek! I can't believe it's nearly Thanksgiving. This year has flown by!!

Off to finish watching "The Biggest Loser".