Starting Week 3:

I killed it today!!  I'm flying so high right now I can hardly contain my excitement!  I woke up refreshed and ready to go.  Since today is the start of Week 3 for me I knew that I had to continue on the route that I'd walked on Saturday.  It's about 2x as long as the route that I started out on and has a LOT more hills!
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The first 3/4 of my walk was very solitary and it was really nice to just be with ME :)  I did however run across Thumper & Flower!  Haha!
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So as I hit the part of my route that is about 3 hills all in a row I was imagining what it is going to feel like when I'm running those same hills!
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It was hard going but I was going at a steady pace and I just kept pushing on!  I felt a little like the Little Engine That Could...but with a small difference:

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I was literally saying "I know I can! I know I can!" over and over to myself!  As I was pushing up the last big hill I came across about 6-7 runners coming the other way.  I just smiled and knew that soon I will be joining them! :)
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I do have a confession to make about yesterday.  I ended up not doing my resistance training.  "Life" got in the way!  This is why for me it's so important that I get my workouts done in the morning which I failed to do yesterday.  By the time I got home last night my body just felt exhausted which is unusual for me.  So I made a grilled chicken salad for dinner and went to bed.  I think it ended up being the right choice for THAT day but I will try to avoid that same thing happening in the future.  I refuse to dwell on it, especially since it'll only bring me down.  I can't go back and re-do yesterday but I can learn from it, make a new commitment today, and move forward!  So that's what I'm doing!

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One of my past posts was on my avoidance of numbers and how that works for me.  I've been thinking about that these past couple weeks and I realized that it was through that learning experience with the numbers, mainly Weight Watchers and their Points system, is what helped me figure out what works for me.  Even though I'm no longer following the WW plan I am so grateful for what it taught me.  It showed me correct portions ~ by using their points system I learned how to measure which is what I base my "eye-balling" method on now.  I learned how much I should be eating each day.  So without that experience I would probably be lost today and that makes me value the knowledge I received when I was on the plan.
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I still won't get on the scale.  I know what I weighed last time I went to the doctor.  At this point I have to admit I'm scared to weigh myself.  Because I know the evil power that thing has over me.  I don't have a specific number of pounds that I think I should have lost but what if I get on and see what it says and suddenly I don't think it's as much as it should be?  I know that something like that has a great potential to de-rail me.  I know I will weigh myself one day but for now I have to stay away.  I prefer to gauge my success by how I feel physically, mentally, and how my clothes fit.