Check-In: Week 9

(Edit: The picture is showing correctly in my preview, so I apologize if it’s still incorrect. Also…I apparently don’t know what week I’m on…Title has been corrected to reflect it is actually week 9)

I had a blog post written. I legitimately thought I was plateauing. Then I weighed myself and recorded it. I’m not. I’m down 1.5 pounds since vacation. And then yesterday this happened when I was getting ready for work:

An extra two inches in one of my favorite skirts. Floored. So yesterday is the last time I got to wear that skirt. It’s officially too big. (Size 12 navy blue eyelet with pockets…any takers?)

And this came on the heels of an eff-it day. Wednesday was ROUGH–it was nice out but I was too sore to run, I’ve been hungry ALL. THE. TIME. And the afternoon at work was annoying. So I came home and said eff-it. Dinner was a box of gluten-free mac and cheese and a big old glass of wine. And I had a mini-breakdown because I just felt like what I’m doing isn’t working anyway, so eff-it. And then I woke up and that happened.

And for the record, I’m not starving myself. I’m eating an adequate amount, but my body is adjusting to the higher activity so I probably need to bump my calories up a bit to compensate. I’m looking at all of that this weekend, I need to adjust my training plans too since my long runs are progressing faster than expected. So time for a change-up even though I’m not actually plateauing.

Yesterday was what I needed coming off the heels of my mini-breakdown on Wednesday. The skirt thing, I bumped up calories a bit for the day and didn’t want to chew my arm off, I had a solid run after work. I’m feeling good going into this weekend.