Whoops, neglected the blog, not the regime.

Life update:

My shopaholism has actually been relatively in control! I'm able to resist buying clothes since I am now getting into the sizes that I used to fit into a couple years ago, and I don't want to go shopping until I am no longer planning on shrinking out of a given size. Go team!

I kept up with my running and some sightseeing when I went to visit Damien in London in mid-August (which is about when I stopped updating the blog), including some lovely views when I was in Greenwich park, and I also hit up my last Jazzercise class for a while.

I moved in to my grad dorm here at UMaine, and started up a really good schedule to keep myself working out- running on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and going to Spin on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I also have an abs class I go to on Tuesdays, and need to get my butt in gear and start up the ten minutes three times a week I need to do a little pushup program.   Occasionally, I hit up Yoga, Circuit Training or Zumba, too, but not regularly!

I ran my first 5K race in September, the 65 Roses in Portland. I had a personal record- 29:12 was the official time- which was amazing! I immediately started training up for a 10K- I signed up for one in Lowell, MA called "Thanks-4-Giving" on Thanksgiving morning- and just ran my first 10K distance this afternoon. I actually did 6.38 miles in 60 minutes, 6.4mph pace! Now I need to keep it up and figure out a new goal time for my actual race, since my goal was to do 6.2 in under an hour on race day (mile 6.25 was at 59 minutes on my run).

I've recently been pseudo-plateaued, I've lost a total of 2 pounds over the entire month of October, so I decided to go over my plan but under my maintenance last week while Damien was visiting and for Halloween, and this week I'm increasing my plan to 1 pound a week weight loss instead of 1.5.  I hope that this will help kickstart my metabolism a bit, I'm officially at the "ten pounds to go" stage of my weight loss journey, and I want to be at my goal or within one or two pounds of it by Christmas break so that I can overhaul my wardrobe appropriately!

Now let's see if I remember to update this a little bit more regularly :-)