Publicly accountable

Sedentary runner returns.  I’ve apparently been doing more sitting than running, because the impetus for this post is to publicly announce my current weight and my plan to be publicly accountable to losing at least seven pounds.  I’m not going to include the actual weight — not because I’m ashamed of it, but I just don’t want to be quite that public.  So I will convert it to a letter.  Let’s say I’m at H.  Anything over an F is a huge wake-up call for me, so it’s time to get serious and become mindful about how much I’m putting in my mouth, and how much activity I’m really doing.

I need to find my Weight Watchers lifetime membership card and see what weight is on there.   I think I’m about five pounds over, so I would have to pay for weigh-ins and I don’t want to do that.  This blog will be my public weigh-in, every Tuesday.

I don’t use the word diet.  I know what I need to do.  I have very little leeway in my calorie intake, especially at my age.  I get dizzy if I don’t eat often enough, so I just need to be careful about what I’m grazing on.  The reality is I have to eat less, but not so little that I’m short on fuel during exercise.  Or hard to live with.  I can’t use caffeine to fuel me, so it has to be food.

While I’m at it, I might as well track my exercise too.

1/26/10
Current weight:  H
Ran 5.0 miles (not sure of pace because I didn’t bring my Garmin.  Probably around 9:25 or so)

Here we go!

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