I saw 170 lb. on the scale this morning, but I think that’s just a random downward spike. I’m pretty sure I’m still holding steady at 172 for most purposes. And next week I’m adding another 200 calories per day to my diet, bringing my daily intake to 2200. If I am still losing at the same rate I was a couple of weeks ago, then I’m still 800-900 calories down from my “stable” intake, at least for this amount of exercise. So I might, in fact, be losing some more weight before I stabilize, which is OK by me.
Speaking of exercise, I ran from Duniway Park up to the Charthouse restaurant, along Terwilliger Blvd. again this morning, a round trip of about 5 miles. It was rainy, but not pouring down. I was cold at first, but warmed up nicely. I think I did it at a 10 minute pace, too; I left the gym at noon, and got back to the gym around 1:15, so, subtracting the time to walk the 10 blocks to Duniway, I did the 2.5 miles up and down in about 55 minutes. Well, OK, that’s more like an 11 minute pace. Still, pretty good for as steep as it is.
Last time I ran Terwilliger was on March 11, about a month and a week ago. I weighed 181 that morning. Means I’ve lost 11 pounds in 5 weeks, or just over 2 pounds per week.
Today brings my weekly running miles to about 13. I’m still amazed at that total. I can remember when the idea of running a mile seemed beyond me.
Also, this is the first time I’ve actually worn my iPod for the run. It did OK — only skipped two or three times, and that was after about 25 minutes of operation. The iPod is only really sensitive to jostling when nearing the end of it’s 25 minute buffer, and what will usually happen is that it will pause for longer than the normal 2-3 seconds between songs and then skip ahead to the next song in the playlist. Oh, I was playing a specific playlist, not playing on shuffle; when on shuffle mode, the hard drive will spin up after every song. Not good when working out.