It’s been too long between entries. Don’t worry, I haven’t “fallen off the wagon.” Just hung a leg or two off is all. After my leg injury and I noticed I slowed down my workout regimine a bit and started snacking more. I didn’t track my food intake and started snacking more. I gained a couple of pounds back that I tried so very hard to lose. Hubby and I also went on a lovely week-long road trip. My eating during our trip wasn’t too bad. I just decided to partake in some french fry consumption with almost every meal. It must have been odd for the cook to make a veggie burger with a side of greasy fries, but hey, that’s what I wanted. Now, I don’t normally eat fried foods. So the consuming of french fries during a week-long road trip did come back to haunt me in more ways than one (many of you know what I’m talking about.). My bad. My beer intake increased as well as we hit numerous craft breweries along the way. Remember, I also write a beer blog and need to keep my readers posted. BUT, it didn’t do my waistline any good. I also didn’t excercise once during my trip. Another mistake. Yes, I made numerous boo boos on this trip, but I refuse to beat myself up about them. Instead, I’m pulling my feet back into the wagon and will drive on!

So the first thing I did when I got home was made sure I jumped my butt back in the gym! It’s amazing that after only a week of being away how that can affect your strength and indurance. Luckily, Lauren (my trainer), took a small amount of pity on me and didn’t kill me during my workout. But it WAS tough.

The second thing I did was made the conscious decision to start tracking my meals again. I’m on day three of my tacking and so far so good. A bit of an eye opener! Just when I thought I had a handle on my calorie intake, my tracker showed me different. Eeeeesh!! I keep my electronic tracker up to date so Lauren can also monitor my nutrition. I log every workout on my anytimefitness.com account along with my runkeeper.com account. Lauren monitors my anytimehealth tracker and my Facebook friends see my workouts via runkeeper postings. I LOVE that! My Facebook freinds add their comments and encouragements which really helps in the motivation department.

Back on track I am!

Liz