You can not get skinny with running alone

The last day has been pretty productive.  Wed I went and weighed in and as I suspected it was a 2 lb gain and the lady at WW was very happy for me. It was kind of strange to see that reaction. She said well you haven't been here in a few weeks so a 2 lb gain isn't bad at all. I guess she sees much worse on a daily basis.  The next day I sucked it up and went to the Dr. I finally had my blood drawn for all those test that scare the crap out of me.  Now I await the every looming test results that will tell me if I am pre diabetic (which I am 99.9% sure I am w/ my family history of it) and they are testing my thyroid too.  They took 4 vile's of blood DH thinks they are just running each test twice but I wonder if they were doing more than 2 test.  I guess I'll find out when I get the results.

I put my running shoes back on & completed C210K week 3 day 1.  Wait….what???  Yep I have my first 10K 14 weeks away so I decided to not just redo the C25K but do the slightly different C210K.  So I updated my tickers and we're off!  The beginning of this is exactly the same as the C25K but then it continues until you can run a 10K. It felt good to be running again. I can really feel that it has been almost 6 weeks since I ran but it still wasn't as bad as C25K week one day one was at the beginning.  I feel it'll only take about a week to get back on track.  After I finish the 10K training we will bring on the Half Marathon training.   

I watched a Nova special about 13 people who set out to go from couch to Boston Marathon.  It was a very interesting show. I learned that a person that is at their ideal weight can have the same body fat percentage as someone 70 lbs over weight. The person that was over weight had a body fat percentage of 45% and then there was a super thin chick that was her target weight, according to the Dr.'s charts, yet she was over 40% body fat too!!!   I learned that after all these people were half way thru there marathon training they were all in amazing shape. Their fitness levels sky rocketed however no one had lost much body fat percentage.  They talked about how the only way to really lose the weight is w/ diet.  Sad panda!  I mean really???  They say running a marathon only burns about 2500 calories and in America you can make that up in one meal.  So I now start realizing that against everything I used to think; that if I am working out and not changing my diet I should lose with out dieting. I watched these people run and run and run and not lose hardly anything. The good news is this way of living is called maintenance. So once I lose the weight keeping it off should be easy as long as I am still running. But now I can look back to all the times I hired trainers and worked my butt off at the gym and get SO frustrated because I wasn't losing any weight, but I wasn't dieting either.