Today was the first day that I did 2 running days in a row. It's raining and poopy and I really didn't want to walk my happy ass down to the gym and I almost had myself talked out of if, but then I made myself do it and I'm so happy I did. I started running and had a constant stream of why the hell are you doing this, lets just quit, your legs hurt just stop, blah blah blah blah... when is this going to get easier? For real I feel like I will forever feel like I'm dying when I run I don't know how I am possibly going to go 5 miles yet alone 13! But that's down the road. I noticed today while I was running that I was doing a funny limp thing with my right leg. I think it is just because my right calf was really tight, but it started to make me nervous. I've had knee surgery once already on that puppy and I'm not ready to do it again! As I was plodding along battling with myself about whether or not I should quit and why this is still so freaking hard I had a "magic moment" I realized that I am constantly over and over running the longest I have ever run and trying to push myself further and further. And while that is all fine and dandy and maybe good for me, maybe to give myself a few easier days here and there. So I decided that I would only run 2.5 miles today, do my interval training tomorrow and then Thursday be all ready to run 3.2 miles. I don't know if it was the right choice, but it was the best workout I have had so far! I really wanted to throw in the towel at 2 miles, but I decided 2.5 was a good compromise.

 Lately after my runs I have been feeling dead tired and like all I want to do is take a nap. I haven't been doing a whole lot of strength training because I feel so tired and if I even start it most days I have been quitting part way through. Today I got in an awesome arm workout, a bunch of squats, lunges, and these are leg things I don't know how to describe AND an ab workout. So while I may in all reality just be a quitter I felt like it was a good call and I am feeling pretty good about my workout! I am actually getting to feel some endorphins instead of just feeling like I need to go crawl in bed. I followed up my awesome workout with a nice healthy dinner.

It's the first "green" smoothie I've made that actually turned out green, normally I throw in some darker berries which make it more of a brown color. I was a little nervous, but I sucked that puppy right down with no problem :-) I was feeling pretty skinny the other morning so I decided to cheat and take just one measurement to see how I was doing and my waist is down to 24 inches from 24.25 woot woot! I know it doesn't sound like much, but to me any loss makes me happy :-) My "waist has always stayed pretty small so losing there isn't one of my real concerns, but I'll take what I can get. I don't understand how my body just explodes at my hips it's totally not fair. I'm sure if/when I have children I will appreciate it, but come on can't they just suck in till then? From my true waist to my "undearwear waist" (not a real measurement, but I measure at the top of my underwear where my pants hit and that's what I call it) is a difference of 9 inches!!!! Are you freaking kidding me! They are only like 4 inches apart in my midget self I don't know how the hell I balloon out so much. Just one of the pleasures of being a girl I suppose! And here are all my measurements in all their glory taken on 3/17 womp womp..

Thighs - 20.5 ( eek!!!I had myself totally convinced that I didn't really have tree trunk legs that they just looked huge because I was short.... then I saw other people's measurements on their blogs and realized they are truly tree trunk legs and they need some slimming!)
calves- 12.75 (meh)
arms - 10.25 (biggest part of my upper arm, and are you freaking kidding me people have calves smaller than this!)
waist - 24.75 (not bad but I was pretty upset with this because 11 days before when I took it it had only been 24.25)
hips - 36.75 ( HOLY GIGANTIC!!! How did those suckers get that big! Seriously it can not be normal to have such a HUGE waist to hip ratio!)
"underwear waist" - 33.25
under bust 27.5


My goal measurements:
thighs- 17ish
calves - 11ish
arms - 9ish
waist - 24ish
hips - 31/32 (suck those puppies in!!!! I have no clue if that is even possible but I'm sure going to give it hell!!!)
"underwear waist" - 28/29
under bust - 27ish

I don't even own a scale so when it comes to setting goals it's really about losing inches not pounds for me. I know that working out I will add muscle and all that, but hopefully someday I would like to see myself a lot closer to those numbers than where I am at now. Keep in mind that I am a very short person so this is in proportion to that. I would like some day for people to see me as "petite" as opposed to stocky. Has a much better ring to it I think! I'm just going to keep running till I quit jiggling!