First Day of School!

Yesterday it poured buckets.  Literally buckets of water.  Roads were unpassable and closed.  So when noone from my clinic showed up for last nights run I took myself to the mall for some shopping :)  And learned that I still can't find a pair of knee high boots that will zip up :(  I think this will be something that I deal with for the rest of my life. 

But I deperately don't want to spend another winter wearing my sneakers in the snow.  I want something that is flat, fashionable but not fancy.  As much as I want to be, I just am not.  So I want something a little more hiking but that can be worn with a dress/skirt.  I'm not asking too much, am I?

I was also tempted by a pair of jeans.  I have never spent more than $50 on a pair of jeans but I'm committed to building a good wardrobe.  It's a hard thing for me to do.  I don't think there has been a time in my adult life where I have entered a season and been able to wear all of my clothes from the last year.  I'm not interested in being that girl anymore.  I want to reach a size and stay there.  So I tried on a $100 pair of jeans.  And they buttoned but it wasn't pretty LOL.  Thankfully so.  My husband was kind enough to point out that I probably shouldn't spend $100 on a pair of jeans that I'm working towards being too big in 3 or 4 months.  Smart man, he is :)

Today was the first day of school for my oldest.  I'm so happy to start building routines for my business, my fitness and house.  Since I missed my run last night I went out at lunch time today.  It was still raining but more of a mist which was nice and cooling.  I ran a little beyond my comfortable zone and cut over a minute off my 5K time from last week WOOHOO!!  As soon as I got home I grabbed some energy chews and pressed play on 30 day shred. I could definitely feel the effect of running on my energy level.  And even after eating lunch I was starving.

I tracked and kept to mostly natural foods and ended up with a decent defecit for the day.  I changed my calorie goal to 1500 this morning.  If I am going to hit my 53 pounds I need to keep to that instead of thinking 1700 is good.  Crossing my fingers that I see 204 tomorrow morning!