Move/make: Week 16

Weight (as of Monday morning): 171.8 pounds. 

Workouts:
Monday: Biked 20 miles
Tuesday: Ran 45 minutes
Wednesday: Ran 40 minutes
Thursday: Off
Friday: Hiked 30 minutes
Saturday: Off
Sunday: Ran 45 minutes 

Thoughts on food:
Still eating gradually healthier. I am trying to swap out Diet Coke for iced chai and Arnold Palmers. So far, I've made it one day without soda. Not that all the sugar in chai and iced tea/lemonade is healthy. It just seems better than the toxic chemicals in soda.

Otherwise, my eating has been pretty unbalanced. Not junk food, per se, but a lot of cheese, crackers, soy milk and strawberries. Not exactly healthy. I have no energy, and I'm training for a 10K at the end of August. Go figure. 

Overall reflections:
There are parts of my life that are very, very good right now. But I also have a huge mental block about two things in my life: eating/cooking, and finding a job for the fall. Those two things are really sapping my energy. And, of course, I need energy to overcome those speed bumps.

Running, as always, has been keeping me relatively calm and happy. We've had heat wave after heat wave, but I've been managing to keep going. 

Goals:
Given how I've been feeling, I owe it to myself to actually make good on some goals this week:

• Do something other than running. Go to the gym and swim or lift weights at least once. It will keep me from burning out before the 10K.
• Find two easy dishes to make for meals this week.
• Go grocery shopping and make those meals.
• Apply for jobs.

If I can do those four things, I'll be tremendously happy. And it will make my busy weekends feel better, because I won't have those things hanging over me. I owe it to my own mental health.

A bonus if I can finally get down below 170 pounds, but I'm not going to stress it. I need to start eating better, once and for all, first and foremost.

I'd like this week to be the last week I have to keep writing the same list of goals. I want to move forward!